Zach Braff and Donald Faison’s friendship has never been smooth.
But Braff said the longtime friends have had a “big fight” since they first met on “Scrubs” in 2001.
On Thursday’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Braff recalled the time Faison arrived late to a taping of the “Scrubs” rewatch podcast and didn’t apologize.
“He was about 30 minutes late. We were on Zoom and he showed up. He never said, ‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry.’ He said, ‘Oh, are you all mad?'” the 50-year-old actor said.
Braff explained that Faison, 51, is “often late to things.”
The “Clueless” alum, who also appeared on the late-night talk show, interjected, saying he was only “three minutes late.”
“That’s not true at all,” Braff replied to applause. “Then we got into a huge fight and the engineer recorded the whole thing and we were like, ‘No way. We’ve got to cut work and regroup tomorrow.'” So we told the fans, but we didn’t show the fight. And our podcast fans were always saying, “Release the fight.” Release the fight. ”
“Well, they should know that the fight was over me being three minutes late. That’s the problem,” Faison interjected, before Kimmel, 58, urged the pair to “absolutely” release the behind-the-scenes recording.
But Mr Faison and Mr Braff made it clear they would “never” resolve their dispute.
As Braff says, “Words said, Jimmy, you can’t take them back. They’re hot.”
“We said a few things,” Faison agreed.
When Kimmel asked if he could listen to the recording, Faison jokingly replied, “Of course.”
But he added that the argument was “completely trivial.”
Braff himself thinks the fight is “funny, like a married couple fighting.” Braff said that’s understandable, considering Faison “hasn’t apologized for anything in 25 years.”
Braff and Faison launched the podcast in 2020 to revisit the original show, which originally aired for nine seasons and 182 episodes from 2001 to 2010.
After a 16-year hiatus, “Scrubs” returned with its 10th season, which premiered on February 25.
All of the medical comedy’s original characters have been brought back to life, including J.D. (Bluff), Christopher Turk (Faison), Elliot Reed (Sarah Chalke), Carla Espinosa (Judy Reyes), and Jordan Sullivan (Christa Miller).
Newcomers Vanessa Bayer, Joel Kim Booster, David Gridley, Eva Bang, Jacob Dudman, Leila Mohammadi and Amanda Morrow also joined the lineup.
In December, the 37-year-old booster reflected on being part of the iconic show.
“I think there’s a lot of pressure on Zack and the rest of the OG staff and the OG writers and producers who came back for this one because the fan base is loud and strong and they know what they want to see,” the comedian told the Post at the time.
“They want the show to go back to its roots, and I think we really accomplished that.”
“What I really liked about this show in its early seasons is that they’re really coming back and finding new ways to tell the story while also staying true to the tone of the original,” Booster continued. “I think they’ve struck the perfect balance of keeping all the old elements that fans fell in love with in the first place, while also introducing a lot of new elements that make the show feel fresh and current.”
“Scrubs” received 17 Emmy nominations and four Golden Globe nominations during its original run.
The NBC sitcom, which moved to ABC after seven seasons, won an Emmy Award in 2005 for Outstanding Multi-Camera Video Editing for a Series and again in 2007 for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series.
“Zack has said that comedy has to be important to him, but comedy has to be based in real life, and that’s the strength of this show,” Booster continued. “That there’s a sentimentality to it. There’s an absurdist humor to it.”
Reflecting on the show’s iconic fantasy sequences, the “Loot” actor shared, “They’re all rooted in real emotions, real desires, a real sense of grounded humanity, and every character at the center of it, even the biggest, craziest characters, has something that roots them in real, recognizable humanity.”
These pearls of wisdom are what he “gained from this experience.”
“Yeah, we want to tell really good jokes,” Booster said. “But for that to get to us, it has to be clearly authentic.”
New episodes of “Scrubs” air Wednesdays at 8pm ET/PT on ABC. You can also stream episodes on Hulu the next day.
