I always get nervous when I hear that one of my favorite television shows is doing a musical episode. Don't get me wrong --- I love musicals. It's just that sometimes the musical episode is a signifier that the writers have run out of material and it often goes horribly wrong. But, on rare occasion the stars align and the show can be absolutely hilarious, as in the case of the "Scrubs: My Musical" episode last night. Not since the musical episode of "Buffy" (pure genius) has a show so cleverly pulled it off.

The producers made the right choice by hiring Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx to write the music and lyrics. These are the guys behind the Tony Award-winning musical "Avenue Q" (the one where the puppets sing dirty songs). Their contribution became glaringly obvious as the song "Everything Comes Down to Poo" started to play, sung by JD (Zach Braff) and Turk (Donald Faison), a song about stool samples (yes, you read that right). In most cases, a song about poo could only be bad --- really bad --- but somehow they pulled it off and I was laughing hysterically as they recited every poo clich� in the book.

Sure, some of the actors can't sing; Elliot (Sarah Chalke) was particularly bad. But somehow it just didn't ruin the moment. On the other hand, Faison is quite good and Braff holds his own, so their number "Guy Love" is that much better. With the way Broadway seems to be popping out musicals of everything under the sun (including "Legally Blonde: The musical" --- seriously, it's coming), I wouldn't be surprised if "Scrubs: The Musical" pops up on a marquee someday.