Donald Faison is leveling up his fake doctor credentials from MD to PhD.

Faison, who played Murray in both the theatrical and television versions of Clueless, Dr. Christopher Turk in Scrubs and was the voice of Hype Fazon on Star Wars: The Clone Wars will be taking on another iconic role: that of Professor Utonium on The CW’s upcoming live-action update of Cartoon Network’s Powerpuff Girls.

Scripted by Diablo Cody (who won an Oscar for penning Juno) and Heather Regnier (Veronica Mars, iZombie, Sleepy Hollow), Powerpuff (as the new show will be dubbed) has a pilot order from The CW.

The show focuses on Blossom (Chloe Bennet), Bubbles (Dove Cameron) and Buttercup (Yana Perreault), who grew up as America’s pint-sized superheroes but now are disillusioned twenty-somethings who resent having lost their childhood to crimefighting. After a new crisis emerges, will they agree to reunite now that the world needs them more than ever?

Described by Variety as quirky, debonair and a pinch narcissistic, Faison’s Professor Drake Utonium (he has a first name!) is a scientific genius who is immensely proud of the three extraordinary girls he created in his lab. Staring down a midlife crisis, he is determined to repair his relationships with his now-adult daughters.

In the cartoon, the professor created the tiny crimefighters in his lab when he combined sugar, spice, and everything nice with an accidental pinch of the mysterious CHEMICAL X.

Faison and his former co-star Zach Braff recently teamed for a Scrubs rewatch podcast called Fake Doctors, Real Friends With Zach + Donald, at iHeartRadio, where he teased his new role (although the podcast bleeped out the Powerpuff name as it was in advance of the official casting announcement.) Faison’s other previous credits include Remember the Titans, Waiting to Exhale, Big Fat Liar, Emergence, Kick-Ass 2 and Generation Q. 

Powerpuff is executive produced by Berlanti Productions and Greg Berlanti, the creator/showrunner of a majority of the CW’s content. Original series creator Craig McCracken’s involvement (beyond getting a credit for coming up with the characters) is unknown.

If the pilot is picked up, it will likely be announced at the network’s Upfront presentation in mid-May.