2026 has been a year full of ups and downs for Chris Pratt so far, who starred in one of the first box office misfires of the year with Mercy. The film co-stars Rebecca Ferguson, but despite their combined star power, it wasn’t able to recuperate its $60 million budget at the box office, leaving it well short of its break-even point. Pratt has since turned things around thanks to the release of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which is angling to be the first film of the year to reach $1 billion at the box office. The film has already eclipsed over $800 million globally, so it wouldn’t be a surprise to see it hit $1 billion in the coming weeks. It could be yet another $1 billion hit for Pratt, who has seen plenty with his work in the Marvel and Jurassic franchises.
Pratt has become something of a blockbuster mega star in the last 10 years or so, but he wasn’t always the chiseled action adonis that many fans have come to know him as. In fact, one of his earlier famous roles came from playing Andy Dwyer in Parks and Recreation, the hit sitcom starring Amy Poehler and Rashida Jones that ran for seven seasons between 2009 and 2015. Pratt had the chance to show off his comedic chops with his performance as Andy, and still to this day, even though he’s one of Hollywood’s biggest action stars, you can always count on a good laugh when you sit down for any project he’s in. Over 10 years after going off the air, Parks and Recreation is still one of the most popular shows in the world — though it’s streaming exclusively on Peacock in America.
Collider Exclusive · TV Medicine Quiz Which Fictional Hospital Would You Work Best In? The Pitt · ER · Grey’s Anatomy · House · Scrubs
Five hospitals. Five completely different ways medicine goes sideways on television — brutal, chaotic, romantic, brilliant, and ridiculous. Only one of them is the ward your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out exactly where you belong.
🚨The Pitt
🏥ER
💉Grey’s
🔬House
🩺Scrubs
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A critical patient comes through the door. What’s your first instinct? Medicine under pressure reveals who you actually are.
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Why did you go into medicine in the first place? The honest answer says more about you than the one you’d give in an interview.
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What do you actually want from the people you work with? Who you want beside you under pressure is who you are.
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You lose a patient you fought hard to save. How do you carry it? Every doctor who’s worked a long shift has had to answer this question.
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How would your colleagues describe the way you work? Your reputation on the floor is usually more accurate than your self-image.
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How do you feel about hospital protocol and procedure? Every institution has rules. What you do with them is a choice.
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What does this job cost you personally? Nobody works in medicine without paying a price. What’s yours?
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At the end of a long shift, what keeps you coming back? The answer to this question is the most honest thing about you.
Your Assignment Has Been Made You Belong In…
Your answers have pointed to one fictional hospital above all others. This is the ward your instincts, your temperament, and your particular brand of dysfunction were built for.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center
The Pitt
You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has ever shown — one that puts you inside a single fifteen-hour shift and doesn’t let you look away.
You need your work to be real, not romanticised — meaning over drama, honesty over aesthetics.
You find purpose inside the work itself, not in the chaos surrounding it.
You’ve made peace with the fact that this job takes from you constantly, and gives back in ways that are harder to name.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center demands exactly that kind of person — and you would not want to be anywhere else.
County General Hospital, Chicago
ER
You are the person who keeps the whole floor running — not the most brilliant in the room, but possibly the most essential.
You show up, do the work, absorb the losses, and come back the next day without needing the job to be anything other than what it is.
You care about patients as individual human beings, not as cases to solve or dramas to live through.
You believe in the system even when it fails you — and you understand that emergency medicine is about holding the line just long enough.
ER is television about endurance. You have it.
Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, Seattle
Grey’s Anatomy
You came to medicine with your whole self — your ambition, your emotions, your relationships, your history — and you have never quite managed to leave any of it at the door.
You feel things fully and form deep attachments to the people you work with.
Your personal and professional lives are permanently, chaotically entangled — and that entanglement drives both your greatest disasters and your most remarkable saves.
You understand that extraordinary medicine often happens at the intersection of clinical skill and profound human connection.
It’s messy at Grey Sloan. You would not have it any other way.
Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, NJ
House
You are drawn to the problem above everything else — the symptom that doesn’t fit, the diagnosis hiding underneath the obvious one.
You’re not primarily motivated by the patient as a person — though you are capable of caring, even if you’d deny it.
You work best when the stakes are highest and the standard answer is wrong.
Princeton-Plainsboro exists to house one extraordinary, impossible mind — and everyone around that mind is there because they’re smart enough to keep up.
The only way forward here is to think harder than everyone else in the room. That is exactly what you do.
Sacred Heart Hospital, California
Scrubs
You understand that medicine is tragic and absurd in almost equal measure — and that the only sane response is to hold both of those things at the same time.
You are warm, self-aware, and funnier than most people in your field.
You use humour to get through terrible moments — and at Sacred Heart, that’s not a flaw, it’s a survival strategy.
You lean on the people around you and let them lean back. The laughter and the grief are genuinely inseparable here.
Scrubs is a show about learning to become someone worthy of the job. You are still very much in the middle of that process — which is exactly right.
What Is ‘Parks and Recreation’ About?
The official synopsis for Parks and Recreation reads as follows:
“Parks and Recreation follows the absurd antics of an Indiana town’s public officials as they pursue sundry projects to make their city a better place.”
Parks and Recreation was written and created for TV by Greg Daniels, who is also famous for writing the hit sitcom starring Steve Carell and John Krasinski, The Office. Daniels is also responsible for writing The Office reboot, The Paper, which aired last year and has already been picked up for another season.
Check out all seven seasons of Parks & Recreation on Peacock in America, and stay tuned to Collider for more streaming updates and coverage of Pratt’s future projects.
