"His Story III" Season Five, Episode Nineteen    ◄► Directed by John Inwood Written by Angela Nissel Aired April 18, 2006 on Transcript • Images Watch this episode: DVD • Amazon VOD • Netflix • iTunes • Reruns

“With Dorian taken care of, I'm not sure how I should spend my day. I suppose I could clean. Hee hee hee, God, help me, that one still makes me laugh.”— Janitor

"His Story III" is the nineteenth episode of Scrubs' fifth season. Janitor narrates the episode while J.D. is locked in a watertower. The Janitor also narrates this episode while he keeps a patient company. Meanwhile, Dr. Cox accuses Turk of not being black and Elliot cracks down on her interns.

Synopsis

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Recurring Themes 2.1 Fantasies 2.2 Janitor story 2.3 J.D.'s Girl Name 2.4 Episode Running Gags 3 Guest Stars 4 Music 5 Quotes 6 Trivia 7 Images

J.D. is absent for the majority of this episode as he is kidnapped by Janitor and detained in a water tower. When Janitor frees him at the end of the episode, he resumes narrating.

Janitor meets a patient suffering from locked-in syndrome; when his computer, his sole method of communication, breaks, Janitor decides to spend time with him to keep him company. Janitor then helps Carla hold a patient's legs down after an intern makes a mistake and the patient has a seizure. Janitor boasts the story throughout the hospital, until he overhears one doctor explaining how Janitor is telling everyone the story because he never usually makes a difference around the hospital.

Janitor confides in his new friend, the locked-in syndrome patient, that although he acknowledges his job isn't of utmost importance, he became a janitor in a hospital because felt like part of a community that helps people. Janitor tries to fix the patient's computer and breaks it further. Then, at the end of the day, the patient receives a new computer from Dr. Cox. He uses the new computer to say, "Thank you." Dr. Cox tells him, "Don't mention it." He replies, "I wasn't talking to you," as looks through the glass door at Janitor, who never realizes the difference he made for the patient.

Meanwhile, Dr. Cox accuses Turk of not truly being black, causing Turk to ponder his identity. Turk reveals to Carla that he knows he is black, based on how others treat him, but he is worried about how his life will change when his baby is born.

Elliot gets tough on her interns, believing they need to grow up on their own and stop making mistakes. Meanwhile, Carla helps these interns (specifically Lisa, who caused the seizure in the patient that the Janitor helped), much like she once helped Elliot, reminding Elliot that she once needed Carla's help to grow confident as a doctor.

Recurring Themes

Fantasies

• The Janitor invents the Hover-Hoover, a flying vaccuum cleaner which he uses to fly up to the third floor to clean a room for Elliot.
• The Janitor thinks about what would happen if he wasn't there. The only difference is, that a nurse wouldn't be impregnated by him.

Janitor story

The Janitor story in this episode is the entire main plot, which he himself narrates.

J.D.'s Girl Name

Ava {C}

“Check his vitals, Ava”— Dr. Cox

{C}Carol {C}

“Oh my God. I get it now. Carol.”— Mr. McNair

Episode Running Gags

• Janitor notes how he loves to lie.

Guest Stars

• Markie Post as Lily Reid
• Robert Beckwith as Dr. Johnson
• Kateri DeMartino as Nurse
• Michael Hobert as Lonnie
• Hunter Huston as Intern #1
• Henry LeBlanc as Eric McNair
• Kattia Ortiz as Nurse Bernice
• Bill J. Stevens as Board Member
• Jordan Zucker as Lisa
• Monte Hunter as Surgical Intern (uncredited)

Music

• "Boston" by Augustana

Quotes

“You're black? Because last time I checked you have a nerdy white best friend, you enjoy Neil Diamond, and you damn sure act like a black guy. These, my friend, are all characteristics of white guys. And, please understand, I'm a huge supporter of the NAACP and if you don't know what that stands for, it's the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...and quite frankly, I always thought they should change the "Colored People" to "African-Americans", but then of course it wouldn't be the NAACP, it would be the N Quad A or 'NAAAA', and I know, this probably sounds like a digression, but actually leads me back to my point: do I think you're black? Naaaaaaahhhhhh!”— Dr. Cox

“Dr. Turk is unaware that Lonnie used to play All-Conference at Villanova.”— Laverne

“Laverne, would you go ahead and thank what's his name for me.”— Dr. Cox

“Jesus?”

“That's him.”

Trivia

• Dr. Cox calls J.D. "Carol" for the fifth time.
• The flashback Elliot experiences should have her hair being darker and Carla's hair longer.

Images

SEASON FIVE EPISODES
1. "My Intern's Eyes" 2. "My Rite of Passage" 3. "My Day at the Races" 4. "My Jiggly Ball" 5. "My New God" 6. "My Missed Perception" 7. "My Way Home" 8. "My Big Bird"	9. "My Half-Acre" 10. "Her Story II" 11. "My Buddy's Booty" 12. "My Cabbage" 13. "My Five Stages" 14. "My Own Personal Hell" 15. "My Extra Mile" 16. "My Bright Idea"	17. "My Chopped Liver" 18. "My New Suit" 19. "His Story III" 20. "My Lunch" 21. "My Fallen Idol" 22. "My Déjà vu, My Déjà vu" 23. "My Urologist" 24. "My Transition"
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