Future Opponents, Offensive Line Investment & More

@emilioctru asks, “I know you’re a fellow Bill Lawrence fan. Best show of his out of the following three, in your opinion: Ted Lasso, Scrubs or Shrinking?” @VDOOZER, aka, Mr. Lawrence himself then weighed in to suggest we also consider his newest show, Bad Monkey, in addition to those three.

A: First off, thanks for joining the conversation, Bill, always knew you were a big Seahawks mailbag fan. For those who aren’t familiar with Bill Lawrence, well first of all, you’re missing out, but secondly, he is the very funny man who created several successful comedy series including Spin City, Scrubs and Cougar Town, and who co-created Ted Lasso, which won pretty much all the awards, as well as Shrinking, and most recently, and he chimed in to point out, Bad Monkey, with those last three shows all appearing on Apple TV.

Full disclosure, I’m not yet caught up on season two of Shrinking, so I don’t feel like I can make a fair assessment there, but the first season was great and I’ve heard the next season was even better. So to me this will come down to Scrubs and Ted Lasso, which is pretty much an impossible choice. Scrubs is one of my all-time favorite comedy series, one I’ve re-watched multiple times, and it pulled off the very difficult feat of nailing the series finale (Season 8, that is, we won’t talk about the spinoff-ish Season 9). In many ways, I feel like Ted Lasso was even better, and I think it helped that it came along at a time, during the COVID-19 pandemic when the show’s combination of humor and heart—a staple in every Lawrence series—was very, very needed. But at the same time, Scrubs was so funny for so long, which is an incredibly tough thing to pull off, it had a fantastic ensemble cast, and one of the best on-screen bromances of all time between Zach Braff and Donald Faison, who become real-life best friends (and who have a very funny podcast called Fake Doctors, Real Friends, that you should all be listening to).

Anyway, Scrubs and Ted Lasso are too different, and of different times, for me to feel good about ranking them, but if I have to pick, and maybe this is just nostalgia talking, I might give the slightest edge to Scrubs, though it sounds like we may have more Ted Lasso in the future, so maybe I’ll change my mind in the future.