Missed them? 2 Broke Girls’ Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs are reuniting on another show

The sitcom nostalgia machine just keeps on rolling, and this time it's served up a reunion some viewers have been quietly hoping for since 2017. Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs—yes, the two Broke Girls themselves—are properly getting back together on screen, in a new (and frankly overdue) telly collaboration.

Behrs joins the season premiere of Shifting Gears as Dr. Johnson, an ER doctor treating Dennings' character after a back injury.

Back Where It All Began

This little TV event is happening on the third season of Shifting Gears, ABC's family sitcom about classic cars, complicated dads, and grown-up daughters with a knack for disrupting the peace. Behrs will appear as a guest star, working once more alongside Dennings and backed up by Michelle Nader, the showrunner who also produced 2 Broke Girls back in the day. So, yes, they've really got the band back together for this one.

For those who, somehow, missed the original wave: Dennings and Behrs played Max Black and Caroline Channing across six seasons and 138 episodes on the CBS hit. That series wrapped up in 2017, after which Behrs stuck around at CBS as Gemma on The Neighborhood for eight entire seasons, dabbled in voice work for Monsters University, and started a podcast called Harmonics, presumably in between rescuing kittens or whatever TV stars do between jobs.

Shifting Gears season 3 is due on screens in 2027, after ABC extended the show's life in April.

How This Reunion Came Together

The specifics: Behrs steps in as a character called Dr. Johnson, described as a rather fetching emergency room doctor brought in to patch up Riley—the character played by Dennings—after a back injury. As you'd guess, the set-up is basically an excuse for the pair to bounce off one another, just like old times, but with fewer diner jokes and probably less cupcake flour stuck to their hair.

Fun trivia: Dennings and Behrs aren't the first actors to find themselves in a noughties sitcom reunion on this series. Last season, Tim Allen literally brought his Home Improvement gang back for an episode. They love a nostalgic callback on this show, clearly.

For anyone keeping track, the rest of Shifting Gears' regular line-up includes Seann William Scott, Daryl Chill Mitchell, Maxwell Simkins, and Barrett Margolis. The plot, in brief: Matt, a widower, runs a classic car shop with various headaches, then his estranged daughter Riley moves in with her kids, turning everything upside down. If you like your family sitcoms with a side of awkward living arrangements and the occasional engine rebuild, it's right up your street.