‘Scrubs’ Star Sarah Chalke Has Strong Opinions On Whether J.D. & Elliot Will Hook Up – Contenders TV

The bromance is back! Scrubs’ stars J.D. Turk, and Elliot — Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke — took the stage at Deadline’s Contenders Television to laugh, reminisce and make one thing clear: they want ABC to pick up a second season of the revival series as much as the fans do.

Scrubs, which streams on Hulu, has returned 16 years later, pretending like its final Season 9 was nothing more than a fever dream. Allowing for the show to pick up where Season 8, the original finale left off, the cast camaraderie is just as strong now as ever. 

Braff, who plays Dr. J.D. Dorian, admits that there was one controversial element of the revival that the fans fought back against: J.D. and Elliot’s divorce. “We’re so lucky the fans have really embraced the revival. Of the things they don’t like, the biggest thing is the divorce.” Braff admits, but explains the conflicted choice. “Fans will remember at the end of the finale of Season 8, there were all these beautiful projections of what JD thought their life would be, not what would happen. They’ve always had a very contentious relationship, and our thinking was, let’s bring back the cutest couple of all time, Turk (Faison) and Carla (Judy Reyes). Show them as an incredible couple with a healthy marriage, best tv couple ever, and as a comparison a couple, just as it happens when people reach middle age, a relationship that didn’t work out. We felt it would be more fun to write, more drama and conflict and comedy from them having to work together.”

Chalke talked about what she sees as the benefits of playing Elliot as divorced from J.D. “There’s not a lot of comedy in fine, in them just being fine. So already we got to play around with like, now they actually have figure out not only how to co-parent, but how to work together and essentially who they’re going to be to each other in this new iteration. I so hope we get to do more, and what that will look like.”

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Faison chimed in, “Do you think they’re going to hook up in Season 2 [11]?” To which Chalke replied laughing, “I mean they did for eight years!” 

Although the show hasn’t been officially renewed, the cast is just as eager to hear as any of the fans may be. Braff admitted Faison texted him just last night “When will we find out?” To which he replied, in that classic bromance tone we’ve all come to love “Is my name Hulu?” But Chalke is keeping positive. “Obviously to work with your best friends on a show that you love going to work everyday is a gift to do once in a lifetime, so to be able to do it again was insanely lucky. So yeah we’d love to do another.”

Check out the panel video above.