Still Buffering · Sydnee McElroy, Rileigh Smirl and Teylor Smirl

Still Buffering: Scrubs (2026)

March 31, 2026·55 min·4 clips

Sydney argues the new Scrubs normalizes treating patients as customers and accepts a broken healthcare system.

A cat fact opens the door. Sydney brings Taylor a TikTok find about Abraham Lincoln loving cats, with exactly the sort of detail that makes them stop and like him more. It is very Still Buffering. The bit works because they do not try to inflate it. They just sit with the image of Lincoln making room for cats in the middle of history, which is funny enough on its own. Then the woods come in. A tangent about Appalachian stories changes the temperature fast. Sydney separates those stories from louder haunted-house stuff because the scary part is usually quieter, stranger, and harder to explain. Taylor gets the setting right away. Living near the woods makes the stories feel less like internet folklore and more like something waiting just past the greenhouse. The fear stays practical, mostly. Sydney hears voices sometimes, but she also knows there are houses nearby, so every distant sound does not get turned into a ghost story. Still, one thing sticks. When she is gardening or foraging alone, everything can go silent at the same time, and the feeling of being watched gets strong enough to send her back inside. Taylor answers that with folklore logic. The Appalachian mountains feel ancient enough that, if something uncanny belongs anywhere in the United States, those woods make a decent case. It is funny without brushing the feeling off. The episode lets the spooky idea hang there while ordinary explanations stay close by, which is where the unease works best. By the end, Scrubs returns. The closing thought is short but pointed: it is a relief that the show moved away from the Todd's constant sexual harassment and the sexism tied to that character. Nobody sands the opinion down. It feels like a casual rewatch conversation where affection for an old show has to sit next to the parts that are harder to wave away now. Cats, woods, folklore, and sitcom aging somehow fit together because Sydney and Taylor keep catching each other's turns.

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A loose Scrubs revisit with cats, Appalachian unease, and a wary look at the sitcom's dated sexism.

Still Buffering's Scrubs episode moves in the show's familiar sideways fashion, opening with Sydney and Taylor on Abraham Lincoln as an alleged cat lover, pets with grudges, and the strange intimacy of learning history from TikTok.

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You want a cross-generational chat that starts with a TikTok cat fact and drifts into Appalachian unease.

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