These things are rarely as straightforward as they seem, and so of course I'll have to say "it depends."

It depends on whether you're an old-school NBC fan or if you stuck with it to the bitter end and so have your memories attached to the final season, which aired on ABC.

For its first eight seasons, the show opened with "Superman" by the alt rock band Lazlo Bane, taken from their self-released second album, "All the Time in the World."

However, for the ninth and final season, the song was covered by a young singer/songwriter going by the name WAZ. He may have only gotten a season of exposure for that, but it introduced him to "Scrubs" showrunner Bill Lawrence, who later used some of WAZ's own music for his next show, "Cougar Town."

The soundtrack to "Scrubs" always earned as much acclaim as the writing and acting, and that's something of which the producers and stars were quite proud. Lawrence has said he encouraged the stars to recommend songs to use in the show, which is how "Superman" came about in the first place.

Series star Braff told the Boston Globe that he got a copy of Lazlo Bane's CD from a friend at a party.

"I finally heard the lyric: 'I can't do it all on my own / I'm no Superman,' which is so appropriate to these young doctors. Everyone thinks they're superheroes but they're not. They're just people. It was so perfect, it was almost like they wrote it for the show. So I took it to Bill, and he loved it."

The network loved it, too. It was released as the first single from the "Scrubs" soundtrack when it came out in 2002. Both the album and the song were hits, helped in part by the "Superman" video, directed by Braff himself on the show's set.

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