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Creepy Old Janitor
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
On a stormy night in the school library, kid detectives Austin and Peter pore over yearbooks and clippings about a deadly 1932 school fire. A grizzled janitor looms out of the shadows promising answers, and every one of his sinister pronouncements arrives with a thunderclap, but each turns out to be about toilet maintenance, a harmless mole removal or a suspicious resemblance he immediately denies. As the pair piece together a lead on a vanished teacher, the janitor keeps trying to join the team, gets sent off to clean up after a sick kid, and is left behind mid-tip about kitty litter.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 4
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
A creepy old janitor! They always know something.
I had a mole on my face. My dermatologist removed it with a laser. Turns out, it was benign!
Guess I'm just a normal janitor that just wants to help with the mystery.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.

Austin Williams
Writer

Paul Rugg
Director
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Guest star Bryson Brunson appears as the winner of BYUtv's teen comedy competition Wayne Brady's Comedy IQ, as the episode listing and the sketch's closing segment note.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:09
Austin
be kid detectives but we're so close to cracking the mystery of the school fire of 1932
- 00:14
Peter
the newspaper clippings the old yearbooks but we're missing something
- 00:17
Janitor
I might be able to help you kids out
- 00:20
Peter
a creepy old janitor they always know something
- 00:24
Janitor
I know all the mysteries about this school
- 00:31
Austin
do you know anything about the fire 1932
- 00:34
Janitor
the what now
- 00:36
Peter ?
the mysterious school fire you know like Like, what started it? Who survived?
- 00:43
Janitor
No. I mean, I know a lot of janitor stuff like, which toilets work best?
- 00:51
Peter
Okay, well, we're sort of investigating a mystery.
- 00:54
Janitor
A toilet mystery?
- 00:56
Peter
Nope. It's about a fire. I don't think we need your help.
- 00:59
Janitor
You sure? Because I also know how to get rust off enamel. Baking soda!
- 01:06
Peter
Nah, we're good.
- 01:07
Janitor
Fine. Good luck with your dumb mystery figures.
- 01:12
Peter
We need to find some new clues.
- 01:15
Austin
Wait, what if we check medical records for burn victims at this time? Maybe then we could find a survivor and interview them.
- 01:21
Janitor
You mean a burn like this?
- 01:23
Austin
So you were at the fire!
- 01:27
Janitor
No. I had a mole on my face. My dermatologist removed it with a laser. Turns out it was benign!
- 01:35
Peter
What does that have to do with the fire?
- 01:38
Janitor
Right, the fire.
- 01:39
Austin
Look, if you don't know anything, you can't help us.
- 01:42
Janitor
You kids are mean. Guess I'm just a normal janitor that just wants to help with the mystery.
- 01:49
Peter
There's something we're missing. Wait a second. What's this? How did I not see this before?
- 01:55
Austin
Who's that man in the photo?
- 01:57
Janitor
Does he look familiar?
- 02:00
Austin
Is that you? You're some type of...
- 02:05
Janitor
No, that's not me and you can tell by the facial structure. He has higher cheekbone
- 02:12
Peter
You're not helping
- 02:16
Janitor
Shoot that is me.
- 02:18
Peter
No, it isn't
- 02:19
Austin
Information about this case or not.
- 02:22
Janitor
I wanna say yes.
- 02:24
Librarian
Hey Randy some kid vomited in the fiction section
- 02:27
Janitor
Oh vomit you want to come see?
- 02:30
No
- 02:31
Janitor
Tonight stinks. Just want to help with the mystery
- 02:36
Austin
Wait, look what I just found in the record book. It says, after the fire, Mrs. Clackett, a widowed teacher at that school, went missing.
- 02:44
Peter
Mrs. Clackett? Why does that name ring a bell?
- 02:47
Janitor
If you want to know more, go to aisle 17.
- 02:51
Peter
What's in aisle 17?
- 02:53
Janitor
Well, that's where the kid barfed.
- 02:54
Peter
We don't care about the barf!
- 02:56
Janitor
Neither do I, but I think he had carrots!
- 03:00
Peter
So?
- 03:01
Janitor
Oh, come on. I want to do the mystery team thing with y'all.
- 03:04
Austin
Mrs. Clackett. I know why we recognize that name! It's because Mrs. Clackett was our third grade teacher at Brown Elementary!
- 03:12
Janitor
Brown Elementary!
- 03:13
Peter
Dude, you did not know that!
- 03:15
Janitor
Yes I did, she just said it faster!
- 03:16
Austin
Please, just leave us alone!
- 03:18
Janitor ?
If you want to help with the mystery, I'm going to find you.
- 03:22
Peter ?
Okay, so Mrs. Clackett was our third grade teacher and the man in the photo has...
- 03:29
Austin
Janitor, are you okay?
- 03:30
Janitor
Ah, cleaning up the vomit is gross! You think it's related to the case?
- 03:34
No!
- 03:34
Austin
Do you just want to work for my dad's place?
- 03:38
Peter
Yeah, let's go.
- 03:39
Janitor
Hey! Oh, it's gross. I stepped in it. Kids! Kids! Oh, I was just going to show him how we use kitty litter for its absorbent property. Thanks for watching this spooky Studio C sketch. Don't forget to like and share this sketch. And download the BYUtv app for exclusive content. And thank you to the winner of Wayne Brady's Comedy IQ, Bryson Brunson. Thanks for joining us today.
- 04:20
Peter
Thanks for having me.
- 04:23
Janitor
Ah, these darn lights keep flickering. I better go fix them before I get fired.
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