Janis Goblin
Janis Goblin was a singing goblin (PROSE: A Message from Janis Goblin [+]Loading...["A Message from Janis Goblin (short story)"]) in a band in the Goblin ship. The Fifteenth Doctor, unaware of her name, called her "Janice". (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"], PROSE: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (novelisation)"])
Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]
Janis once thanked a number of humans for listening to "The Goblin Song", as all the proceeds would go to Children in Need, and that would mean that she would get to eat more children. When she realised that this was not, in fact, the case, she briefly considered promising to not eat any more children if people continued to support "The Goblin Song", then decided against it, and asked somebody to pass her some twins, which she ate. (PROSE: A Message from Janis Goblin [+]Loading...["A Message from Janis Goblin (short story)"])
While the Goblin band sang the song in preparation of feeding Lulubelle to the Goblin King, the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday fell on to their conveyor belt. Needing a distraction, the Doctor implored "Janice", as he called her, to restart as he and Ruby took over her vocals until they escaped with Lulubelle. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])
Personality[[edit] | [edit source]]
Janis claimed to have bile in her heart. (PROSE: A Message from Janis Goblin [+]Loading...["A Message from Janis Goblin (short story)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Janis Goblin's name, as depicted in A Message from Janis Goblin [+]Loading...["A Message from Janis Goblin (short story)"], is a play on Janis Joplin, a singer-songwriter.
- Russell T Davies later clarified on Instagram that he had named the character "Janice", at odds with the short story, as her name was a reference to the Muppet of the same name, the lead guitarist and singer in The Electric Mayhem, due to the similarity in hairstyles. However, he found the pun "Janis Goblin" was a funnier joke, so he pretended it was his.[1]
- Her singing voice for "The Goblin Song" was performed by an uncredited Christina Rotondo.
- In response to the song's popularity, Rotondo named her Twitter account "The Real Janis Goblin".
- In an interview with Radio Times, Rotondo revealed that she was originally unsure of what the song would be used for, and that fan reaction to the song had been mixed. She said she enjoyed all the theories about how it could fit among the fans, and that she "saw Janis Goblin the same time everyone else did".[2]
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For Smashed Bits, Elven Starbush conducted an exclusive interview with Janis. Janis refused to reveal the secrets of her "golden locks" for free, threatened those who accused her of only being successful due to her close personal relationship with the Goblin King to be fed to the King, that she only bathed "once in a blue moon" to preserve her aroma, that she got along well with the rest of her band so long as they remembered she was in charge, that she relaxed like any other goblin girl, and that her heart was a "ka-zillion" times better than the readers of the magazine. (PROSE: Smashed Bits [+]Loading...["Smashed Bits (short story)"])
