How exactly does Scrubs copy MITM :confused1: ?
"Single camera" shot style with different camera angles and lenses. Fast paced plot and lines with actors proceeding in a realistic conversation pace. Action is actually shown. Scenes move quickly from one to the next. It uses unconventional plot devices like you can hear what people think sometimes, or flashbacks, soliloqueys, sometimes the audience is decieved with either more or less knowlege then what the characters actually have and all kinds of other things like this.
Look at any comedy from the 80s or 90s before Malcolm came out in Jan 2000. Seinfeld, Friends, Cheers, Frasier, Married with Children ect ect they are nothing like this. They are setup more like a stage play where you can almost see the set is 3 walls. Not many camera angles, you mostly just have a view of the room they are in, not many closeups or other shots. Shots outside are rare. There are long pauses between jokes and lines in which the laugh track drags on. Scenes tend to be long conversations and move slowly from one to the next. Very little if any music. THe story usually proceeds in a simple linear narrative ussually without any special literary devices. There is very little action of any kind, it is mostly talking. Often the characters sit around and talk about and allude to some interesting events and nothing of the sort is ever actually shown on film.
This change in the way it TV comedy is done is maybe becoming more common now but it is all pretty much copied from Malcolm. Malcolm didnt necesarilly invent all that stuff, most of it was used in movies but not television. It is just the only TV show that tied all those together and alot of pieces of its style have since been copied.
You know writing that got me thinking. This newer style is superior to the older one, but most of the new shows all totally suck anyway, mostly because of bad writing I think. IMHO Malcolm is the only show that had good writing and this good style. It would be interesting see one of the older shows with good writing, like Seinfeld, refilmed in the Single Camera style similiar to Malcolm. Then, instead of always being in Jerry's apartment talking about fun things that happened to them, we would actually get to see them.