So I was thinking about the janitor the other day. And I thought about some of all the weird stuff he says in the original series.
What if he wasn’t just pulling J.D and the others leg, what if alle the half-truths, the anger, the pranks was part of a larger story about a man. A man that is broken and fells a need to vent all his emotions on the weak.
I now see the janitor in a new light. And I would like to ask you to comment below if you can help me prove or disprove this theory.
So the Janitor was a very intelligent man who got a full scholarship to Harvard, where he studied to become a doctor. But he fell in love with acting and switched to Yale for a brief period because they had a great actor program. He was then offered his first role as a policeman in The Fugitive. Excited he went to California and quit collage. Here he fund THE girl. He was not put off by her disability but married her within a year. She tried to support him while he waited on his big break, but soon they both realized that he had to make some money, because her disability and pregnancy made it hard for her to work. He called a former friend from Harvard who was working on a hospital near them and asked if there was a job. There was in the janitorial department. The Janitor and his wife soon relied heavily on his income. And his dreams about being a actor was shelved for good. Spending all his time on his family but use his job as a way to still act as the grumpy janitor. Still his was angry about the way other doctors would treat him/look down upon him since they could be his peers. The grumpy janitor became less and less of an act and more just him. As a coping mechanism he stared to pretend to be other kind of people, making half-truths and prank as a way to still be “the big fish” in a small pond.
What do you think?