Tidbits that have come out during the Fake Doctors, Real Friends Podcast:
When they were in their respective high schools as teenagers, both Zach and Donald would sneak into their high school auditoriums to play with the lighting board
John C McGinley always calls Zach “Zackie” - Like when he talks there is a little bit of the gruff top dog Dr Cox that comes through but he always refers to Zach as Zackie and it is the cutest thing
Donald was at the party where Biggie Smalls was murdered and Donald had spoken with him earlier that night.
During the early years of the show, Zach brought Sarah Chalke home with him for Thanksgiving one year as friends, and she hit it off with his family better than any other girlfriend he’d ever brought home. She offered to do the dishes and take the dog out and by the end of the night, Zach’s mother leaned over and whispered to him about Sarah, “I LOVE HER”.
Zach and Donald would call Sarah “soup for breakfast” because she would often eat soup for breakfast. Sarah liked to always be holding something warm because her hands were always cold (just like Elliot!)
The dog who played Dr Kelso’s dog Baxter was Ken Jenkins dog IRL; Ken had trained him himself and his real name was Pal.
When Sarah Chalke was in college, she tripped leaving a lecture and went to the student health and they put a plaster cast on her ankle because they said she had a hairline fracture. Sarah was filming Roseanne during this time and when she showed up to set, Roseanne Barr said Sarah’s character didn’t have a cast and they needed to remove it. In removing it the only set personnel found she had been misdiagnosed and had really torn some ligaments- Zach noted Roseanne’s coldness had actually served well.
Zach might actually know less about sports than JD. Zach compared directing a show you are also an actor on to being on a sports team and a player saying he wants to coach, and the other players being lie “fuck you Stan you’re forward middle”. John C McGinley just said “oh, Zackie” as Donald was beside himself laughing, after which they confirmed to Zach there isn’t a forward middle position in any sport.
Zach also referred to a mulligan in golf as a “magilla”
