diff --git a/src/main/java/rx/Observable.java b/src/main/java/rx/Observable.java
index 1faddbb819..a09da42012 100644
--- a/src/main/java/rx/Observable.java
+++ b/src/main/java/rx/Observable.java
@@ -5175,6 +5175,9 @@ public final Observable<T> mergeWith(Observable<? extends T> t1) {
      * @see #subscribeOn
      */
     public final Observable<T> observeOn(Scheduler scheduler) {
+        if (this instanceof ScalarSynchronousObservable) {
+            return ((ScalarSynchronousObservable<T>)this).scalarScheduleOn(scheduler);
+        }
         return lift(new OperatorObserveOn<T>(scheduler));
     }
 
@@ -7597,6 +7600,9 @@ public final Subscription subscribe(Subscriber<? super T> subscriber) {
      * @see #observeOn
      */
     public final Observable<T> subscribeOn(Scheduler scheduler) {
+        if (this instanceof ScalarSynchronousObservable) {
+            return ((ScalarSynchronousObservable<T>)this).scalarScheduleOn(scheduler);
+        }
         return nest().lift(new OperatorSubscribeOn<T>(scheduler));
     }
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/rx/schedulers/EventLoopsScheduler.java b/src/main/java/rx/internal/schedulers/EventLoopsScheduler.java
similarity index 88%
rename from src/main/java/rx/schedulers/EventLoopsScheduler.java
rename to src/main/java/rx/internal/schedulers/EventLoopsScheduler.java
index a674dfbc22..91a5440227 100644
--- a/src/main/java/rx/schedulers/EventLoopsScheduler.java
+++ b/src/main/java/rx/internal/schedulers/EventLoopsScheduler.java
@@ -13,13 +13,11 @@
  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  * limitations under the License.
  */
-package rx.schedulers;
+package rx.internal.schedulers;
 
 import rx.Scheduler;
 import rx.Subscription;
 import rx.functions.Action0;
-import rx.internal.schedulers.NewThreadWorker;
-import rx.internal.schedulers.ScheduledAction;
 import rx.internal.util.RxThreadFactory;
 import rx.subscriptions.CompositeSubscription;
 import rx.subscriptions.Subscriptions;
@@ -27,7 +25,7 @@
 import java.util.concurrent.ThreadFactory;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 
-/* package */class EventLoopsScheduler extends Scheduler {
+public class EventLoopsScheduler extends Scheduler {
     /** Manages a fixed number of workers. */
     private static final String THREAD_NAME_PREFIX = "RxComputationThreadPool-";
     private static final RxThreadFactory THREAD_FACTORY = new RxThreadFactory(THREAD_NAME_PREFIX);
@@ -76,7 +74,7 @@ public PoolWorker getEventLoop() {
      * Create a scheduler with pool size equal to the available processor
      * count and using least-recent worker selection policy.
      */
-    EventLoopsScheduler() {
+    public EventLoopsScheduler() {
         pool = new FixedSchedulerPool();
     }
     
@@ -84,6 +82,17 @@ public PoolWorker getEventLoop() {
     public Worker createWorker() {
         return new EventLoopWorker(pool.getEventLoop());
     }
+    
+    /**
+     * Schedules the action directly on one of the event loop workers
+     * without the additional infrastructure and checking.
+     * @param action the action to schedule
+     * @return the subscription
+     */
+    public Subscription scheduleDirect(Action0 action) {
+       PoolWorker pw = pool.getEventLoop();
+       return pw.scheduleActual(action, -1, TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS);
+    }
 
     private static class EventLoopWorker extends Scheduler.Worker {
         private final CompositeSubscription innerSubscription = new CompositeSubscription();
diff --git a/src/main/java/rx/internal/util/ScalarSynchronousObservable.java b/src/main/java/rx/internal/util/ScalarSynchronousObservable.java
index e145349b42..c350c895c4 100644
--- a/src/main/java/rx/internal/util/ScalarSynchronousObservable.java
+++ b/src/main/java/rx/internal/util/ScalarSynchronousObservable.java
@@ -15,8 +15,10 @@
  */
 package rx.internal.util;
 
-import rx.Observable;
-import rx.Subscriber;
+import rx.*;
+import rx.Scheduler.Worker;
+import rx.functions.Action0;
+import rx.internal.schedulers.EventLoopsScheduler;
 
 public final class ScalarSynchronousObservable<T> extends Observable<T> {
 
@@ -49,5 +51,70 @@ public void call(Subscriber<? super T> s) {
     public T get() {
         return t;
     }
+    /**
+     * Customized observeOn/subscribeOn implementation which emits the scalar
+     * value directly or with less overhead on the specified scheduler.
+     * @param scheduler the target scheduler
+     * @return the new observable
+     */
+    public Observable<T> scalarScheduleOn(Scheduler scheduler) {
+        if (scheduler instanceof EventLoopsScheduler) {
+            EventLoopsScheduler es = (EventLoopsScheduler) scheduler;
+            return create(new DirectScheduledEmission<T>(es, t));
+        }
+        return create(new NormalScheduledEmission<T>(scheduler, t));
+    }
+    
+    /** Optimized observeOn for scalar value observed on the EventLoopsScheduler. */
+    static final class DirectScheduledEmission<T> implements OnSubscribe<T> {
+        private final EventLoopsScheduler es;
+        private final T value;
+        DirectScheduledEmission(EventLoopsScheduler es, T value) {
+            this.es = es;
+            this.value = value;
+        }
+        @Override
+        public void call(final Subscriber<? super T> child) {
+            child.add(es.scheduleDirect(new ScalarSynchronousAction<T>(child, value)));
+        }
+    }
+    /** Emits a scalar value on a general scheduler. */
+    static final class NormalScheduledEmission<T> implements OnSubscribe<T> {
+        private final Scheduler scheduler;
+        private final T value;
+
+        NormalScheduledEmission(Scheduler scheduler, T value) {
+            this.scheduler = scheduler;
+            this.value = value;
+        }
+        
+        @Override
+        public void call(final Subscriber<? super T> subscriber) {
+            Worker worker = scheduler.createWorker();
+            subscriber.add(worker);
+            worker.schedule(new ScalarSynchronousAction<T>(subscriber, value));
+        }
+    }
+    /** Action that emits a single value when called. */
+    static final class ScalarSynchronousAction<T> implements Action0 {
+        private final Subscriber<? super T> subscriber;
+        private final T value;
 
+        private ScalarSynchronousAction(Subscriber<? super T> subscriber,
+                T value) {
+            this.subscriber = subscriber;
+            this.value = value;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void call() {
+            try {
+                subscriber.onNext(value);
+            } catch (Throwable t) {
+                subscriber.onError(t);
+                return;
+            }
+            subscriber.onCompleted();
+        }
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/rx/schedulers/Schedulers.java b/src/main/java/rx/schedulers/Schedulers.java
index 374448d695..8ded001e0e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/rx/schedulers/Schedulers.java
+++ b/src/main/java/rx/schedulers/Schedulers.java
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 package rx.schedulers;
 
 import rx.Scheduler;
+import rx.internal.schedulers.EventLoopsScheduler;
 import rx.plugins.RxJavaPlugins;
 
 import java.util.concurrent.Executor;