"Scrubs" - "Grey's Anatomy" Reference

J.D.: "Oh, I do love that show. It's like they've been watching our
lives and then just...put it on TV."

I haven't seen "Grey's Anatomy," but I assume that this is an
implication that the series has imitated portions of the "Scrubs"
formula. Of course, "The Simpsons" made the same joke (almost
word-for-word) about "Dinosaurs" back in 1992:

Bart: "It's like they saw our lives and put it right up on screen!"

So who's imitating whom?

Zombie Elvis...

I noticed similarities with the Grey's Anatomy pilot. The episode was
narrated by Grey just like J.D. narrates every episode of Scrubs. Also
several of the some of the characters were initially very similar to
characters on Scrubs (for example "the Nazi" reminded me of a female
version of Dr. Cox). I wouldn't call it so much a matter of either
show imitating the other so much as both shows playing on certain
cliches of the medical drama.

archang...

Bill Lawrence (Scrubs creator and showrunner) has said he wanted
his show to be kind of like a live-action Simpsons in certain ways...
(The example he usually uses in this context is how both shows have a
large cast of secondary characters.)

record.hunter...

Alex even called George "Bambi" on Sun.