Jason Mendoza’s best friend in The Good Place is nicknamed “Pillboi.”
Pillboi is Jason’s longtime friend and partner in crime from Jacksonville. The character is played by Eugene Cordero and works in elder care, a career that becomes important when the afterlife characters try to help Jason’s friends live more ethically. His nickname is a reference to his connection with medication and his job, rather than to Jason’s family.
Jason initially hides his identity in the afterlife by pretending to be Jianyu Li, a silent Taiwanese Buddhist monk. That deception makes his earthly relationships easy to overlook at first, but Pillboi helps reveal who Jason was before arriving in the supposedly Good Place. Their friendship is affectionate, chaotic, and rooted in the pair’s history of petty criminal schemes.
Pillboi is often confused with Donkey Doug, but they are different characters. Donkey Doug is Jason’s father and another partner in crime, while Pillboi is his best friend. The name “Pillboi,” not a formal first name, is the show’s consistently used nickname and the canonical quiz answer.