The version of The Twelve Days of Christmas that plays when Turk is in the On-Call room goes as follows: Twelve beaten children, Eleven drive-by shootings, Ten frozen homeless, Nine amputations, Eight burn victims, Seven strangled shoppers, Six random knifings, Five suicides, Four beaten wives, Three O.D.'s, Two shattered skulls, and a drunk who drove into a tree.
Second time somebody besides J.D. notices the presence of Janitor. He is smacked in the groin by a little girl during the Christmas party.
Title most likely inspired by the Depeche Mode song of the same name, which was released in 1989.
First Christmas themed episode.