Zach Braff & Donald Faison Wonder What Happened To 'Play-Doh Pants'

Zach Braff and Donald Faison are no strangers to Internet haters and trolls. Sometimes, Donald gets upset about an angry comment on Twitter, and Zach will remind him how many other comments were nice and how he shouldn’t get hung up on the bad stuff. But this time, it’s Zach who’s getting hung up on maybe seven angry Instagram comments about how much time he and Donald spend not talking about Scrubs. So this episode of Fake Doctors, Real Friends “is for the seven haters out there!” They get into the season four episode “My New Game,” covering as much territory as possible (unlike Rob Maschio’s banana hammock) and trying not to go off on tangents (although a comment about In and Of Itself kicks off a conversation about magic ranging from Neil Patrick Harris to The Prestige to Penn and Teller). Then a fan named Anthony calls in with a very thought-provoking question about how much say, if any, a fan base should have on creative content. 

If it’s more detail they want, the seven haters will love how long Zach and Donald linger on the shape and scope of Rob’s contribution to the banana hammock, remarking that to show that much detail of a man’s body was really surprising for primetime television. Plus, the guy playing a politician on meth handcuffed to a bench outside the hospital, was one of the Scrubs writers, Garrett Donovan. And Zach actually wrote the joke about Sam Lloyd, who played Ted, getting so drunk that he yelled out, “You owe me money!” before passing out at the bar. He says it was inspired by the time he and Donald were hanging out with a bunch of friends and one guy got so hammered that he started pointing at everyone in the room individually, saying, “I have more money than you. I have more money than you….” until he passed out. “And then someone said, ‘I wonder what he’s dreaming about,’” Donald remembers, laughing.  

They also wonder about the “You Got Graveled” game and why “Play-Doh Pants” became “all about the money.” Both are funny, but neither game is ever mentioned again. Zach also found it random that J.D. gets tackled in the end for no reason. And he laughs about Elliott on the tandem bike all alone, saying it would have looked even lonelier if she were to “ride the tandem bike alone from the back. That would be so funny to watch.” When Anthony joins them, they talk about how actors and directors have been bullied off of social media because fans were upset that stories didn’t end up the way they wanted them to, getting into how much ownership fans should have over content, when it goes too far, and the merits of fan fiction. Listen to the whole hilarious conversation on this episode of Fake Doctors, Real Friends.

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