Seems that at some point in the last week it remapped to Scrubs in the metadata that plex uses which is causing problems with having both as they are literally called the same thing but are separate shows as this is not being considered a season 10 by anyone. So now season one episodes have two file…

I created folders for these two shows in my Testing library and, at least initially, they are showing up as separate shows. You might trying adding tmdb hints to help Plex keep them distinct. Scrubs (2001) {tmdb-4556} Scrubs (2026) (tmdb-295778} Probably will need to do a Plex Dance also.

I did see that putting the id in the folder name was an option now (dont know if this was always a thing ive been a long time user but never tried to hard) I am gonna give this a shot. Thanks for reminding me of this.

Yup that worked. Notably when doing the search in plex it will now show three scrubs show. The original which i have, Scrubs (2026) which i now have due to your help, and Scrubs (but with the art for the new show) that i do not have. Seems like there is a metadata mismatch on plex’s end. but this wo…

Oh, wait, I see what you’re saying. Searching on watch.plex.tv shows 3 Scrubs. 2 for 2001 and 1 for 2026. Yeah, something is goofed up on the Plex backend

[image] stevenwashere: I did see that putting the id in the folder name was an option now (dont know if this was always a thing ive been a long time user but never tried to hard) I am gonna give this a shot. Thanks for reminding me of this. Yeah, the option to place the tvdb/tmdb/imdb id into…

I looked on TMDB and It seemed to have the correct TVDB IDs. What is odd is TMDB has an extra episode and it is throwing of the episode numbering of the episodes after it

Even after i did the plex dance it pulled the metadata - but was locked to tvdb (dvd) which it also denoted didn’t exist - i would be interested in what you guys see on your instances [image]

I’m seeing this. [Screenshot 2026-03-24 212309]

I removed both of them from my file directory and then added the new scrubs with the tmdb hit on the file name and made sure that was matched to the correct 2026 one and then i added the old scrubs, again with tmbd hint on file name and that seems to have done the job, for how long though who knows. …

I didn’t need to add the TMDB to my folders. All I had to do was go to Scrubs in the Library and select the “Split Apart” option. From there, I just used the “Fix Match” option, and it fixed it in my library.

Scrubs (2026) suddenly folded into Scrubs

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napolij March 24, 2026, 5:31pm 5

Did you just rename them or did you rename and do the plex dance? The Plex dance will clean up the database and remove any Scrubs metadata. Sounds like you might have some of the old metadata from when the two shows were combined

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Scrubs (2026) suddenly folded into Scrubs

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