2005 Scrubs/M*A*S*H TV Guide Cover
Saturday, July 11th, 2009 at 7:23 pmBack in October of 2005, TV Guide Magazine switched from its classic digest format to a larger, more standard magazine size. The final small-size issue, published on October 9th, 2005 (Volume 53, Number 41, Issue #2741), had nine commemorative covers. In each one, popular contemporary television stars recreated classic covers from the magazine’s past. Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa dressed up as the characters from I Dream of Jeannie, for example, and Jennifer Love Hewitt recreated The Flying Nun.
One of the other covers saw Zach Braff, Donald Faison and John C. McGinley from Scrubs down bathrobes to portray Hawkeye, B.J. and Colonel Potter from a 1976 M*A*S*H cover. Andy Ryan took the cover photograph. The cover pulls out to reveal the original 1976 version as well. Inside is a lengthy article about the recreated cover that includes an interview with John C. McGinley in which he discusses watching M*A*S*H and the influence of Colonel Potter on his Scrubs character.
