"Mike Seaver"

Okay, I have seen this episode of Scrubs twice now, and both times it really bothered me. Over all it was a great show, but they put a pop-culture re fence in there that was flat out wrong. Sadly, I knew this with having to look it up.


JD (Zack Braff) for whatever reason is trying to make his late 2oish brother not look as sad living at home with his mom, so he talked about the mid 80's to early 90's sitcom Growing Pains.

He said that in the last season that Mike (Kirk Cameron) moved above the garage of his parents house, with his friend Boner. His friends didn't remember Boner, so JD just got strange looks.

Okay couple of things wrong here.


1. Mike moved into the apartment disconnected from his parents house many seasons before the final season.
2. I don't think it was actually supposed to be a garage. Because they would always play basketball in the drive way where there was a garage door. The door was not where Mike lived it was perpendicular to where he lived.
3. Boner and Mike never lived together anywhere
4. Boner left for the army the season after him and Mike graduated highschool which was in the middle of the series run. Not only did they never live together at any point, but Boner was never seen again after leaving for the army. Or even mentioned from what I recall.
5. There could be no confusion here, Mike never had anyone live there with him at any point. So, it is not like they confused characters. We all know Leo came in the final season, but he lived in the house with the rest of the family, and I pretty sure he got Mike's old room.


What is the point on doing this when you are way off? They could have made the joke work, instead of making me remove myself from the show for so long both times that I watched it that writers didn't bother to brush up on the Growing Pains before making the reference. Whatever....