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The Reverend Jim "Iggy" Ignatowski, played by Christopher Lloyd, was a fictional character in the 1970s television series Taxi. A gentle soul, Jim was, in his own words, "the living embodiment of the sixties". His most noticeable character trait was his extreme "spaced-out" behavior as a result of extensive 1960s drug use.

Ignatowski was born James Caldwell. He claimed to have been born in Spokane, Washington, although his often-unreliable memory makes this quite open to question. However, he was definitely raised in Boston, Massachusetts as one of three children in a very well-to-do family.

Jim's mother died when he was quite young, leaving Jim's father (later played by Victor Buono) to raise the family. Being busy with his business, Mr. Caldwell left much of this task to various family servants. This seemed to affect all the Caldwell children in some way: Jim was an extremely uptight and humorless person before he became a drop-out; his brother Tom remained humorless and somewhat mean-spirited throughout his adulthood; and his sister Lila exhibited marked nymphomania.

Jim was his father's favorite child. An excellent student, he attended Harvard. Then a girl he was going out with introduced him to "funny brownies" - containing marijuana - and convinced him to partake after dismissing his concerns of marijuana being a "gateway drug" to harder narcotics/controlled substances; after describing his first drug encounter during a flashback sequence, his fellow cabbies ask if he ever saw his college girlfriend again, to which he comments, "yes, once in a grocery store, after recognizing him (and his lowly state) and without saying a word, she started sobbing incessantly and ran away from him...(implied due to apparent immense guilt)". (Upon returning to his childhood home as an adult, it was also revealed that he had used up all of his model airplane glue, leaving viewers to ponder his past use of inhalants.)

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