This potential Scrubs storyline is just what the doctor ordered. No, literally.
Sarah Chalke, who starred as Dr. Elliot Reid across all nine seasons of the celebrated medical sitcom, is sharing the toe-tapping plot point that she’d love to see included in the show’s forthcoming reboot.
‘I can’t tease any plot details because I don’t know any because it’s all so new,” Chalke explains while visiting Entertainment Weekly‘s San Diego Comic-Con video suite for Rick and Morty. “Someone just asked me if I have any requests for the plots and I just said, ‘Flash mob. I wanna be in the flash mob.’ So, I don’t know how that works into the storyline, but I think there’s a way.”
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After hearing Chalke’s dream storyline, her Rick and Morty costars — Chris Parnell, Ian Cardoni, Harry Belden, and Spencer Grammer — immediately jump up from their seats and begin busting a move.
“You wanted a flash mob?” Parnell, who plays Jerry, jokes. “Here we go, guys.”
But, in true Rick and Morty fashion, the well-intentioned gesture quickly goes off the rails.
“No, that’s not how we practiced it, you guys!” Belden shouts. “It was step left, then turn. Alright. Alright. Cut! Let’s go again!”
Still, Chalke can’t help but be charmed by their efforts.
“Not the flash mob I was dreaming of,” she teases, before turning back to her costars. “You guys are trying to make my dreams come true? This is why I love all of them so much.”
Earlier this month, Entertainment Weekly confirmed that Chalke and fellow Scrubs alum Donald Faison, who played Dr. Christopher Turk, would be joining Zach Braff in the upcoming revival. Chalkecelebrated the news on Instagram by posting a throwback photo of her, Braff, and Faison with the caption: “YAY!!!!”
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In addition to the trio, original series creator Bill Lawrence is also scrubbing in as an executive producer on the revival.
“Scrubs means so very much to me,” he said in a statement. “So excited for the chance to get the band back together.”
An official logline for the series reveals that it will follow Braff’s J.D. and Faison’s Turk as they “scrub in together for the first time in a long time,” adding, “medicine has changed, interns have changed, but their bromance has stood the test of time. Characters new and old navigate the waters of Sacred Heart with laughter, heart and some surprises along the way.”
The original Scrubs, which ran from 2001 until 2010, followed the trials and tribulations of J.D. and his pals as they worked at the fictional Sacred Heart Hospital.
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