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The 'Janitor' is a fictional character played by actor Neil Flynn in the American sitcom ''Scrubs''.
Profile
In the series' pilot episode, protagonist J.D. sees the Janitor fixing a sliding door that was stuck, and suggested someone might have stuck a penny in the door. When the Janitor finds a penny in the door, he assumes J.D. put it there, and has spent the rest of the series tormenting him. It is however unclear whether he really found a penny stuck in the door, or if he just pretended having found it in order to have an excuse to torment J.D. Some of his practical jokes have been on the severe side, such as destroying J.D.'s bike and trapping him in a water tower.
Neil Flynn, the actor who plays the Janitor, has said: "I think it's possible that he doesn't hate J.D. Maybe J.D. is as close to a friend as he has. For all we know, he just has poor social skills. I think that the Janitor constantly misreads J.D.'s motives and assumes he's a rich young punk."[1]
Name
In several episodes, he calls himself "Janitor," and in at least two episodes he refers to himself as "Dr. Ján Ïtor." In another episode, he uses the screen name "Rotinaj" ("Janitor" backwards) to post a clip of J.D.'s "Dr. Acula" movie. However, in another episode, he challenges J.D. to remember his real name, quickly covering his name tag before J.D. sees it although his name tag simply reads "Janitor".
In "My Conventional Wisdom" an orderly is seen finishing a conversation with Janitor. Janitor says, "...and that is how I got my name." The orderly responds, "That's funny, you don't look Asian." The Janitor adopted three personas in the episode "My Friend the Doctor": Klaus, a dim-witted German; Ephraim, a "good-natured stutterer"; and Nigel, a British man.
It has been speculated that his name was revealed in the episode "My Buddy's Booty", when one of his friends appears to say "Nice one, Tom.". However, when listening closely, it is clear that the line is actually "Nice, you tell 'em", which is confirmed by the script. It has been further speculated that his name is Neil Flynn, after JD spots him in The Fugitive.
According to the first season DVD commentary with Neil Flynn, when the Janitor's real name is said, the show will be over. Neil admits that he had not yet picked out a name for him. Some examples he gave were Ben-Hur and Buffalo Bill.
Personality
The Janitors Office
The Janitor staff arriving for work
The Janitor's personality, and even his personal history, are hard to piece together given his penchant for lying. In fact, lying may be the only consistent aspect of the Janitor's life. At one point, J.D. lists all of the things the Janitor has told the hospital staff about his life, and many members of the staff indicate that they agree the Janitor made most of it up.
Janitor appears to be moderately insane, often mentioning rather outrageous things (like his squirrel army and the fact that as a kid his mother kept him in a pet cage during trips) as if they were normal. Janitor also doesn't seem to comprehend simple concepts of morality or simply doesn't care.
Even though he has a low-level job, Janitor is very intelligent (he speaks Spanish, Korean, Italian, and knows American sign language) and is well respected among the hospital staff. When the hospital support staff wants dental coverage, he becomes their spokesman[2]. He used to be the president of the Janitor's Union. Some of the regard that people have for him is a result of their fear of his retaliation for insults; when Chief Attending Physician Dr. Cox antagonizes him, Janitor responds by having Dr. Cox tied up and left in a morgue drawer.
He has made several attempts to move up the ladder. In one episode when the lady who does the hospital's PA announcements was injured, Janitor takes over her job[3]. Chief of Medicine Dr. Kelso is temporarily deaf for most of that episode, so for a while Janitor gets away with making joke announcements. When Kelso gets his hearing back, he fires him from that job. In another episode he becomes a security guard, but when he finds out that Dr. Kelso is causing a mild lapse in security, Janitor tackles him to prevent it, and Dr. Kelso fires him.
Several episodes show Janitor pretending to be a doctor ("Dr. Ján Ïtor") and he also greatly enjoys one occasion when he is asked to assist during a medical emergency.[4] He does, however, defend his sanitary responsibility in the hospital whenever J.D. insults him about it. In the episode "His Story III" the Janitor says he could have worked as a janitor anywhere, but he chose to work at a hospital because he wanted to make a difference.
The Janitor shows a softer side on several occasions. In the episode "His Story III" there is one patient who is unable to move, or talk without the aid of a computer. When that computer breaks down, Janitor spends the day talking to him just to keep him company. At the end of the day when Dr. Cox brought him a new computer and Janitor starts to leave the room, the patient says "thank you", then specifies that he was thanking Janitor, not Cox.
Flynn had a small role in ''The Fugitive''. The show's writers took advantage of this, placing Janitor (in his fictional role) as the real actor in ''The Fugitive''. J.D. notices this during an episode as he watches the movie. When J.D. confronts Janitor, he admits that it really was him but that 'If you tell anyone, I'll kill you'. This makes J.D. happy to think that Janitor wasn't always so bitter, but that he once had dreams of a better career. This back story is contradicted by flashbacks that imply that he became a janitor because his mother used to yell at him whenever he made a mess.
In one episode, Janitor's father is portrayed as someone who treated him the way a drill sergeant would treat a new recruit. His father is played by the actor R. Lee Ermey in a parody of Ermey's most famous role as a Drill Instructor in ''Full Metal Jacket''. However, Janitor later told J.D. (who claimed that he'd met the Janitor's father) that "[he] met a man", implying it was not actually his father.
Janitor commonly refers to people by their physical characteristics, like "Nurse Mop-Head." He also referred to Elliot Reid as "Blonde Doctor" and, as of season 4, seems to have romantic feelings for her. At one point he says the reason he likes her is that she is the only doctor in the hospital who treated him like a real person.
Janitor is friends with one of the cafeteria attendants named Troy who, in one episode, taunts J.D. when he insinuates that they are stupid. He is also friends with many other lower-level employees, such as "Crazy Eyes" Margot from housekeeping who sold her children, and Brent from parking who is gay. Janitor has a custodial closet and when J.D and Elliot walked in, they saw many other janitors hanging out with a big poster of J.D. labeled "Him" on the wall.[5]
Janitor also appears to have a much greater rapport with animals than with humans. His animal friends can be either alive (like the birds he befriends in "My Big Move" or the raven Sanchez) or dead (Rowdy, Steven, and his squirrel army). He once said, while praying, that he wishes he could speak with animals. Janitor also thought that J.D.'s new goldfish had the ghost of Bob Kelso's Vietnam squad leader, Roger Dorsey, residing in it in "My Fishbowl".
Hobbies
Janitor fancies himself an inventor, though usually his inventions are simply combinations of two existing devices. Examples include his pen-straw (which makes soda taste like ink), knife-wrench (he calls it practical and safe – so much so that he plans marketing it for kids – and then accidentally stabs himself), drill-fork (which can drill and fork, mostly fork), the Hover-Hoover ("where suction meets the sky") and a business card printer with built in paintball gun.
Janitor is obsessed with taxidermy and at one time carried around a stuffed rabbit named Bingo that doubled as a salt shaker and pepper grinder. He rids the trees by the hospital of squirrels, and maintains a bizarre "Squirrel Army" consisting of stuffed squirrels (each of whom he had given a name) and even holds "meetings" with them. Also in "His Story III", he says that he has a sixth sense of "knowing when squirrels are afraid". Although he sells them at the end of the episode "My First Kill", in order to get a new stuffed dog, Steven, to replace J.D. and Turk's stuffed dog Rowdy, it is implied that he is still attached to them, even though he says "It is not a healthy habit." But, it was later revealed, he located Rowdy, and used him to blackmail Carla.
Figment of J.D.'s imagination
As revealed in the DVD commentary on several episodes, the Janitor character was initially to be used as a figment of J.D.'s imagination if the show had been canceled during the first season or the first half of the second. This fact would have been revealed to the audience in the finale.
In the first season the Janitor seemed to be acknowledged by other characters; however, these could have been explained as coincidences. For example, in "My Two Dads" Dr. Kelso seemed to acknowledge him, saying "Ammonia is a little strong today" when he walks past him. In "My Bad" Elliot seemed to acknowledge him when she threw a coffee cup down next to him and sarcastically said "Sorry!" Finally, in "My Nickname" Janitor gave J.D. the nickname "Scooter", and later Dr. Cox referred to J.D. by that name.
The first time Janitor interacts with another major character besides J.D. is in the season two episode "My Karma", when he blackmails J.D. and Turk. From the beginning of Season 2, Neil Flynn joins the rest of the main cast appearing in the show's extended opening credits, but the credits were changed back due to objections by fans to other new elements of the credits. Because of the extended time of the new episodes, the shorter credits were put back in place. Neil Flynn has not been represented in the credits since, however he was still acknowledged as a main cast member by the producers as of the second season.
Relationship with other characters
Since the start of season two he has had encounters with most of the other regular characters and, aside from Elliot rebuffing his romantic advances, few of the others ever get the better of him, even the head of the hospital Dr. Kelso or the acerbic Dr. Cox. He has even had an entire episode devoted mostly to him4 wherein he provides narration instead of J.D., and the story revolves around a day in his life.
J.D.
Janitor's initial "war" on J.D. seems to have begun when J.D. suggested that somebody jammed a penny into a door that Janitor was trying to fix. Janitor later claimed to actually find a penny in the door frame, swearing revenge on J.D. for what he supposedly believed was an obnoxious prank on J.D.'s part. Another possible reason is revealed in "My Common Enemy" where Janitor reveals to Dr. Cox and Dr. Kelso that he victimizes one person in a group for seemingly no reason, almost spotting J.D. behind him to prove his point. Also, in "My Last Day," after congratulating J.D. on making the transition from intern to resident, he picks one of the new group of interns on their first day, and repeats the same dialogue about the door to him, except that the intern theorizes that it might be a paperclip rather than a penny. Exactly as in the first episode with J.D., Janitor tells him that if he finds a paperclip in the door frame, the intern "is going down." The implication is that Janitor always chooses one of the interns to harass. However, since his feud with J.D. continues after he becomes a resident, it seems that he does not limit himself to the interns.
From the Janitor's point of view, he is a frequent victim of J.D. In the episode "My Brother, My Keeper", J.D. innocently moves a ladder out of the way, causing the Janitor to fall to the ground from over a story up. "I don't know why you keep doing these things to me," he says to J.D. while in pain, prompting J.D. to nervously reply, "I don't know either." In "My Brother, Where Art Thou?", J.D.'s older brother slams a counter shut, breaking the Janitor's hand, and J.D. appears moments later to introduce each other, making the Janitor blame J.D.; "Oh I get it, you send him to do your dirty work." In another episode, J.D., in an attempt to make small talk, asks the janitor where he's headed, and the Janitor guiltily replies he is going to sneak out on break to see his son's school play. J.D. tries to avoid the situation, but inadvertently worsens it and causes the Janitor to miss his son's play, and later complain to J.D. that he broke his kid's heart, and that he won't eat.
The Janitor has made it his mission to terrorize J.D. on a daily basis, frequently stalking him from a distance. People who are not familiar with the Janitor will ask J.D. if he knows the man that follows him almost everywhere he goes. In "My Occurrence", when Dr. Cox's brother-in-law Ben shows J.D. the dozens of candid photographs he's taken of J.D. and the hospital staff over his stay, the Janitor can be seen hiding in the background of all of the pictures with J.D. present. The Janitor once outright told J.D. "I don't jump out and scare you. I follow you around all day. I only got about an hour and a half of work around here, and the rest of the time I track you, like an animal." The degree of malice with which Janitor interacts with J.D. varies in episodes. Sometimes he merely engages J.D. in banter intended (and often succeeding) to prove that Janitor is actually smarter or simply "better" than he is. Most times, The Janitor outright bullies J.D., wrecking his bike in one episode and in another episode, attacking him with a "knifewrench" (one of his inventions) for no apparent reason.
In "My Case Study", Janitor puts J.D. in line to get a new mop from Kelso. J.D. goes out of the line and Janitor doesn't receive a new mop. However, J.D. personally buys Janitor a new mop and Janitor then seems to soften up and he appears to nearly starts crying. Unfortunately, at the end of the episode, Janitor trips J.D. up, and while he is lying on the floor Janitor stands over him and says "I liked my old one"
In the first episode of Season 6, the Janitor is confronted by a patient who points out that although he once dreamed of becoming a lawyer, his constant obsession with chasing his JD has caused him to waste his life. The Janitor initially considers how his life might have been different if he didn't spend every waking moment trying to get his own J.D., but eventually returns to his old ways by the end of the episode; not only not learning the lesson, but actually turning J.D. into a makeshift American flag with paint.
It should be noted that on rare occasions, the Janitor is capable of showing some kindness to J.D., but these instances are few and far between. In "My Way or the Highway", Janitor agrees with J.D. on the course of action of a patient, having spent the entire episode persuading his patients to opt for surgery. In "My No Good Reason", Janitor helps JD and Turk communicate with a deaf patient. He also let him pass unharassed while sweeping a floor in "My Cake", out of sympathy for his father's recent death. In "My Road to Nowhere", Janitor falls out of Kelso's running RV thinking that it still is parked at the hospital, which caused him temporary memory loss. J.D. wants to keep going and explains that he can't miss his unborn child's ultrasound. Janitor goes up to J.D. and says: "Can I say something? I don't know this young man. I wish I did. I admire his spirit. And if he says we must continue onward, Then I say: I am in!". It can also be said, that at times, the Janitor holds a generally friendly attitude towards J.D.
J.D. has had at least one success in retaliation against Janitor in "My Own Personal Hell". J.D. tricks Janitor, via a pair of "watchie-talkies", into waiting for J.D. in a walk-in freezer. On another occasion, J.D. asks Janitor the riddle "Two coins add up to 30 cents, and one of them is not a nickel." Janitor tries to find the answer throughout the episode but is stumped when J.D. says, "One of them isn't a nickel--the other one is." However, Janitor and his friend Troy retaliate by smashing up J.D.'s bike, then Janitor says, "It's a riddle! Two guys destroyed your bike with a crowbar and a bat. One of them wasn't me!"
Janitor reveals in Season 2 that he makes more money than J.D., referring to J.D. as "food stamps". That may have changed when J.D. became co-chief resident in "My New Game", and apparently became more affluent.
In episode 22 of the first season, "My Sacrificial Clam," Janitor appears to genuinely reach out to J.D. and invites him to a baseball game, but J.D. disregards this gesture thinking it is nothing more than Janitor's usual sarcasm. Janitor says that this is the last time he will ever try to reach out to J.D. again.
Turk
Janitor's relationship with Chris Turk, J.D.'s best friend, has included some rivalry and conflict, such as in "My Karma" and "My Malpractical Decision". In those episodes, Turk pulls pranks on Janitor both for fun and in revenge for Janitor's harassment of J.D., but in "My Dirty Secret", Janitor begins preying on Turk when J.D. orders him to 'pick someone else to annoy.' Janitor responds 'I don't pick them, they pick me!' Turk plays a practical joke on the Janitor, on behalf of J.D., by putting blue hand prints all over the wall, and then blue paint on the Janitor's hands as Dr. Kelso walks past. Janitor retaliates by giving a hypochondriac patient Turk's new cell phone number. In "My Half-Acre", Turk and Janitor work together in an air band, The Cool Cats, showing that they can put their differences aside. In "My Best Friend's Baby's Baby and My Baby's Baby", Janitor helps Turk push the ice machine in which his hand is stuck to a delivery room, but not before slapping him twice in the face. Janitor also helps Turk and Dr. Cox get a lightbulb out of a patient's anus.
Dr. Kelso
Though the hospital's Chief of Medicine is technically his boss, the Janitor is one of the few characters willing to stand up to Dr. Kelso. While Kelso's fear tactics work to paralyze the majority of the staff, they are less effective on Janitor. In the fifth season episode "My Half-Acre", Turk asks Janitor how he knew that Kelso only wants respect, to which Janitor replies, "Because I know him." In another episode, the Janitor stops Dr. Kelso in the hall for a chat by holding up his cleaning rag up against Dr. Kelso's face and Dr. Kelso barely seems to notice it. In the episode "My Quarantine", he has a "double or nothing" wager with Dr. Kelso about whether he can catapult a cotton ball across the room and into a beaker. In the episode, "My Choosiest Choice of All," Janitor and Kelso collide when it is found that Kelso is disconnecting an alarmed door in order to get to his car quicker. The newly assigned "security guard" Janitor is torn between doing his job and stopping Kelso and the fear that he might lose his new job. Kelso also seems to trust Janitor more than anyone else in the hospital, as evidenced in the episode "My Urologist," when he gives Janitor the keys to his house and asks him to bring him back $400 from his personal savings (which he keeps in a jar in his kitchen) so he can bail his son out of jail. Janitor allegedly spends some of the money on a leather jacket and tells Kelso to prove if he did it; it is unclear whether or not the Janitor actually took the money. Kelso later trashes Janitor's van in retaliation and tells him to prove it, which Janitor does by showing Kelso a video of Kelso doing it. As a result, Janitor forces Kelso to tell the entire staff that he fears him and he has awesome 'fearitude'. Also, when Kelso forces Elliot Reid to look "frumpy" like the other female doctors, the Janitor deliberately leaves the floor wet to so that Kelso slips and knocks himself unconscious in retaliation as he "liked how Blonde Doctor looked." While Kelso is at a conference in Arizona, the Janitor "pretends" to take over his position as Chief of Medicine. Even though it was supposed to be a farce, the Janitor made several key decisions, such as creating a new day care program for children of hospital employees, purchasing new hospital equipment, and cutting Ted Buckland's vacation pay. Kelso sometimes refers to the Janitor as "Jumpsuit."
Dr. Cox
In early seasons, Janitor and Dr. Cox were usually engaged in some sort of conflict, ruining the outcome of sporting events or films for one another, or placing bets on a date to win the other's car. At one point, the maintenance crew locked Dr. Cox in a morgue drawer on the Janitor's orders: on another, Cox blew up Janitor's van after winning a bet with him over Elliot (My Best Laid Plans). However, in many episodes they do form alliances (usually to torment J.D), although generally on a business level, which was the case where a patient had a lightbulb stuck in his rectum in the episode "My Office". The case was highly unusual, and even more baffling since any conventional attempt would cause the glass to shatter and would require surgery. After a mental stalemate and the useless input from various health professionals, the Janitor casually gave an expert's description on the bulb's technical type and physical properties, such as its structural weakness near the thin part but noting the strength of the sphere. However, when Dr. Kelso stole the credit for their ingenious and successful procedure, they sought revenge by placing the extracted bulb in Dr. Kelso's lamp. In the episode "My Buddy's Booty", the Janitor and Dr. Cox seem to form a bond when they become drinking buddies, although Janitor largely ignores Cox at the hospital because it is considered 'uncool' for hospital staff to befriend doctors, which Cox eventually understands. At one point, the two even become roommates in season 6, although conflict between their personalities leads to them abandoning the room.
Elliot
The Janitor appears to have a soft spot for the "Blonde Doctor". He even develops romantic feelings for Elliot to the extent of buying an engagement ring and attempting several times to propose marriage in Season 4. Despite this, they seem to be friends, although Elliot still doesn't know the Janitor's real name. In one episode, she says, "I like him", after he is very nice to her, and fixes her pager. Later, in season 4 (Episode 19 - My Best Laid Plans), the Janitor makes a bet with Dr. Cox that he and Elliot will end up dating. The Janitor tells Elliot of his bet (Cox's Porsche for Janitor's van), and Elliot immediately pretends to be seeing the janitor to spite Dr. Cox. The Janitor, after receiving his Porsche, pushes his luck and takes Elliot out on a date. When his plan blows up in his face and Elliot finds out, she's angry at first but admits that she "actually had a good time." This is also the first episode the Janitor learns Elliot's name; until that point, he referred to her as 'Blonde doctor', an appellation he says almost as if it were one word.
In the season 6 finale, "My Point of No Return", after Elliot invites Janitor to her wedding, he sets himself and his "Brain Trust" on a mission to make sure that her fiancé, Keith Dudemeister, will be a good husband.
Carla
Although the two rarely interact, it is clear that nurse Carla Espinosa is one of the few people in Sacred Heart whom the Janitor fears. This is shown in an episode where Carla protects Turk from the Janitor after he is accused (correctly) of placing dozens of paint hand prints on the wall. He also refers to Carla as "scary nurse-wife" in "His Story III". Although he is not above subjecting her to his special brand of torture on certain occasions, such as when he deliberately ruins her hospital picture and when he makes her self-conscious by giving a younger nurse the nickname “Young Carla”. They are, however, able to help one another, shown in "My First Kill" when the Janitor helps Carla replace Rowdy, JD and Turk's stuffed dog. The Janitor is forced to trade his entire squirrel army for 'Steven', an almost identical albeit slightly shorter dog. He gets the upper hand somewhat in "My Scrubs"; he blackmails Carla to teach him to dance, threatening to tell Turk about his replacement dog if she refuses. Janitor also assists Carla in "My Missed Perception" by organizing Sacred Heart's staff outside the hospital for a group photo. He only does so, however, after spoiling Carla's first photo attempt, upset at not having been invited to appear. When Carla realizes the Janitor's feelings and apologizes, he uses "fear" to re-convene the staff.
Ted
The Janitor seems to like Ted Buckland, Sacred Heart's milquetoast lawyer. In one episode, however, his pretend a cappella band, Hibbleton, (invented in a ploy to impress Elliott) competes against Ted's band (The Worthless Peons). Despite never having sung together, Janitor's band wins by singing "Barbara Ann" by The Beach Boys. Janitor has also teamed with Ted on numerous occasions in later seasons, and at lunch he often sits with him, Doug Murphy and The Todd, forming an outcast group. In season three he appears to have a rivalry-friendship with Ted based around singles' nights at the Korean church. Later in season three it is revealed that the Janitor once had a relationship with Ted's wife. In the Season five episode "My Half-Acre", Ted and the Janitor are the founding members of an air band (playing guitar and bass, respectively) known as the 'Cool Cats,' which later includes Turk on vocals and Lloyd the delivery man on drums.
Brain Trust
Janitor has on occasion controlled a group of people who he refers to as his brain trust, a group which seems to exist solely to help the Janitor in certain situations. Janitor originally referred to Troy the Cafeteria Worker, Randall, and Crazy-Eyes Margot as his "Brain Trust." When he abandons them in the effort to get Elliot's attention, he replaced them with the new Brain Trust of Ted, Doug and The Todd. Most recently, Lloyd the delivery man has been auditioned as a potential replacement for Doug, though Doug claims not to know what he did to require replacement. The Brain Trust have special pagers for Janitor to call them with, and there is also a brain trust picnic.
Dubious claims
Much of Janitor's life isn't really known for certain. A well-known liar, he is notorious for telling tall tales about himself; since nobody believes him, it is difficult to determine which stories are true. The dubious claims he has made over the years include:
★ He claims to have gone to Harvard in "My Lucky Night." However, in "My Déjà vu, My Déjà vu", he says he went to Yale.
★ He has a wife who only has a "pointer" finger on her right hand and "thumb/pinky" on her left.[6]
★ He has told Elliot that he grew up believing his mother was his sister and his father was his brother; he calls them "sister-mom" and "brother-dad".[7]
★ He is a world-class hurdler and got accepted to Grambling. This appears to be another lie until later in the episode he runs 100 meters in 9.98 seconds (to attack J.D. by surprise). This makes him one of the fastest men in the world, and ''the'' fastest hurdler (in the 100m Hurdles) of all time (despite the fact that he was apparently a heavy smoker).[8]
★ He claims to have slept with Amy Carter. When confronted about this, he clarifies his statement saying, "I didn't sleep with Amy Carter. We did everything but."
★ He is the reason a nurse named Jill is pregnant, although details are withheld.4
★ When Dr. Kevin Casey mentions that he has obsessive-compulsive disorder, he says his grandfather had the disorder too. He then elaborates by saying that his grandfather used to beat him with a gym sock full of nickels, which of course doesn't have anything to do with OCD.[9]
★ He has told J.D. that he has a brother who is a stripper.[10]
★ He has told J.D. that he has an adopted brother named Clete, whom his parents adopted at the age of 46. Apparently, he and Janitor's father used to beat each other because his mother slept with Clete. This turns out to all be a lie just to distract J.D.
★ He claims to have a twin brother, but later admits it to be an attempt at tricking J.D. and Turk.[11]
★ He failed 8th grade gym because he hated the gym shorts,[12] although this may be untrue because he once came to work in shorts in a planned "Short Day" along with JD.
★ He says his great-great-great grandfather was Ambrose Burnside, prompting him to grow mutton-chop sideburns[13]', although once again, this proved to be a lie.
★ He claims to be ¼ Inuit,[14] although it is his step mother who is Inuit.
★ He claims that he was once in the military, but when asked by J.D. which branch, he quickly retracted the comment, saying "The Janitor Branch".[15]
★ He converted to the Norse religion; ("it just made sense"),[16] however, he later replaced a light bulb with a tanning bulb, saying that he was tired of being the only white guy at his mosque, though any affiliation with the Muslim religion has yet to be confirmed, and as such may also be a lie, further obscuring his actual religious affiliation.[17] He is seen at a Korean Church's singles night, and speaks Korean to Ted
★ In "My Friend the Doctor" he refers to himself as Nigel (the Brit), Klaus (the 'dimwitted' German), and Ephraim (a 'simple good-natured' stutterer).
★ He knows sign language, and at first he said that he was inspired to learn it by a gorilla at the zoo who knew only two hand signs. When asked by J.D. if any of this was true, Janitor replies "someone would have to read that back to me." Later he claims to have been taught sign language by his father so he could communicate with his deaf sister. Then when J.D. later asks if any of that was true, Janitor responds by saying "most of it." and elaborating that his father died before he was born. When J.D. says he had met Janitor's father, Janitor responds, "You met a man."[6]
Transportation
Janitor owns a black Ford E-Series van designed after the one on ''The A-Team'', bought after Dr. Cox crashed and subsequently blew up his old van (also an E-Series, albeit an older one) after winning a bet against Janitor. The old, lime-green van was used as mass transport for the entire sanitary force at Sacred Heart, in a fabled (and rarely seen) daily morning ritual called "The Arrival of the Janitors" in which a large number of people emerged from the single van, reminiscent of a clown car in a circus. It is unclear if the new van is still in use for this purpose, as Janitor is no longer the union president (having lost the election to his protégé, new janitor Randall the Crotch-Punching Dwarf). The van is damaged in the episode "My Urologist" when Dr. Kelso, believing the Janitor has stolen money from him but unable to prove it, repeatedly bashes the hood and windows with a golf club.
Miscellaneous
★ He is also often seen leading other hospital employees in various initiatives and other activities, including giving the evil eye (several times) to J.D. and Carla.
★ The Janitor claims to enjoy drawing kangaroos in "My Big Move".
★ Janitor also likes to go "Vanning", which consists of him driving long distances in his van.
★ He also enjoys "clubbing", a sport which involves going to the roof of the hospital and clubbing rats to death, once inviting Elliot to join him for a "date".
★ In "My Best Friend's Wedding", Janitor brings a date, a woman called Franny, to Turk and Carla's wedding. They steal the silverware (he says forks and ladles are where "the big money is"). Later in the episode, Franny is gone and Janitor dances with Elliot.
★ He also apparently has a tattoo of a mop, according to J.D. in the episode "My Big Move", when he gets a new uniform.
★ In "My Interpretation", J.D. sees Janitor at home naked in the shower through a first floor window, subsequently diagnosing him with a possible melanoma on his penis. After a mutually uncomfortable examination finds that the growth is benign ("benign, nine and a half"), Janitor admits to J.D. that he had been brave in confronting him.[19]
★ He is also interested in breathing underwater, or would at least like a child who has gills.
★ The Janitor is likely an alcoholic and has come to work intoxicated on several occasions. He says he is "still drunk from breakfast" in "My First Kill", is too drunk to move in "My Boss's Free Haircut", and claims he is missing an AA meeting to drink in a bar with Dr. Cox in My Fault.
★ He claimes that he looks older because of excessive drinking, smoking, working with chemicals, and sleeping on his face.
Production notes
★ Flynn is an improv comedian and, as such, ad-libs many of his lines. Although it is often stated that Flynn ad-libs all of his lines, on several parts of the Season One DVD commentaries and special features both Flynn and series creator Bill Lawrence say that it is generally a mix of ad-libbed lines and the original script, with Flynn usually building on the original lines. Lawrence has also said that the rest of the cast have followed Flynn's lead and that he will occasionally enter the rehearsal room with no idea what scene is taking place due to its lack of resemblance to the original script. Janitor's alter ego, Dr. Ján Ïtor, is a happy consequence of one such moment of inspiration. Flynn originally auditioned for the role of Dr. Cox (which ultimately went to John C. McGinley). However, Lawrence asked Flynn if he would consider another part - the mysterious custodian who makes tormenting J.D. his life's work.1. Sam Lloyd once commented on Neil's "improv"ing "I opened my script up once and it said 'Janitor: Whatever Neil says,' and I just started laughing."
★ The only episode that the Janitor does not appear in is "My Lucky Day" which suggests that part of it being J.D.'s lucky day was that there was no Janitor to harass him.
★ The role was originally devised as a one-time gag in the series' pilot episode, Lawrence admitted, "When we watched the pilot, we knew instantly we had to keep this guy around."
★ In flashback scenes of the Janitor's childhood, he is played by Brandon Waters
References
1. Mop vs. scrubs Sepinwall, Alan Interview with Neil Flynn and Bill Lawrence
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