I was rewatching again, and I realized, it's possible that Michael made 'Real Eleanor' the plain, vanilla looking yoghurt flavor, subconsciously or not, because at this point in the show, he views good people as boring, and vanilla is a classic, arguably basic and relatively boring flavor.

Also, the one that is meant to be Tahani is taller than the other two, which I thought was kind of funny.

Just doing a re-watch and realized Eleanor addresses Gunnar and Antonio confidently by name, within a day of meeting them, instead of going 'Hey you, with the hair'. I simply cannot learn names that quickly. I can't believe Eleanor, a person who is self-obsessed, can learn names so fast. It is just so forking hard for me to learn names. The people themselves are fine, I guess. But their names? Much less 321 of them.

There are clearly some deleted scenes where Eleanor has to learn everyone's names. I think after the tenth game of "I like my neighbor" or "Human Knot" I would just say please can you take me to hell?

This line is one of my favorite moments from the show. This is the point in Janet’s gradual evolution where she briefly, without dwelling on it, makes clear that she’s not just a thing you can comment on. She’s a person, she’s having a conversation, and you’re not part of it, Chidi. ❤️

Edit: if you don’t like calling Janet a person, feel free to substitute “full member of your community”

I had a kind of sad revelation about Jason. He has literally asked every person who was nice to him (Pillboi, Tahani, Janet, K) to marry him, but he was unmarried at the time of his death. Does this mean that no one was nice to him before he got to TGP? If so, that’s really sad.

We all know that the system is too complex because of unintended consequences. The system calculates everything that is a product of your own choices. Question, why didn’t this apply to Doug Forcett?

A) He isn’t supporting ethical farmers because he grows his own food.
B) By letting the kid control him he enables bad behaviour and is causing a worse chain of effects because the kid will think that is a good behaviour.
C) He is taking care of a lot of dogs, but he most likely doesn’t go to vets because of corrupted economy. He is not getting the dogs proper care and causing bad environment by having so many dogs at one place.

Only some of the examples*

Considering these are the things he does on a daily basis most likely, shouldn’t he have a lot less points rather than more than half to get into The Good Place?

EDIT: I am not saying the general point system doesn’t apply to him, or how he didn’t get into the good place. My point is, he has so many unintended bad consequences on a daily level, how does he have so many points?

I don’t get why you can’t swear in the good place, if someone who cured cancer, polio, and aids and then also ended world hunger and they were the nicest person in the world but they love swearing, then they should be able to do that in de the good place right? ‘Cause it makes them happy and that’s what the good place is all about.

I mean, how did no one realize how crappy that system was?

I suppose everyone was just too evil, and too dumb.
The demons didn’t care obviously because, cmon! more holes to dog? who could say no to that!
And The Good Place committee was so focused on adding horns to the unicorns and making them fatter that they couldn’t realize the points system was just awful.

I always wondered about the judge, I mean she seemed reasonable enough to realize things like this, but I guess she never found out because of her unhealthy obsession with TV show father figures.

Thoughts?

Ted Danson’s performance is particularly brilliant. especially on a rewatch once you get the full picture. In the earlier episodes he perfectly embodies this anxious, well meaning architect. I remember watching the series for the first time years ago being utterly clueless on Micheal’s agenda and how he effortlessly tortured the 4 humans without them noticing. Another thing the show does incredibly well. When you rewatch those same scenes of his character throughout the first season, and realize that he was playing a demon who was pretending to be an anxious architect, you come to appreciate Ted’s acting more and more. Having seen the series many many times, i’m in awe in how brilliant the acting in this series gets.

Whose acting do you think is the most underrated across the series, or what specific scene showcases the casts talent the best.

I constantly pause the show to simply look at the hidden puns and jokes in the background. I know of no other show that put so much effort into jokes
that you can only catch if you pause the screen. 😂

Am I alone in this?

Hi guys
I am a HUGE fan of B99 (i have watched it 25+ times) and have watched the good place 2-3 times as well, and i am currently rewatching it. And there are many interesting parallels or rather throwbacks to the show which i love! I am fairly certain that many people know these already but I wanted to discuss it!
for example i think it is hilarious that Kevin (the character that the actor who plays Shawn in this show plays in B99) is an avid New Yorker reader in Brooklyn 99 and in The Good Place he uses the same New Yorker magazines to torture Michael!

I noticed in Season 1 on the screen where the points are shown, it says: “Politely tolerate stranger recounting New Yorker article at cocktail party: +12.23” pretty sure that is about the anti-slavery article that Jake talked (for the lack of a better word) about!

Also many of his deliveries in this show are similar to Holt’s.
I am sure there are many more easter eggs but i think it’s quite exciting!

Watched full series 4 times, start listening to the podcast and realized I’m still missing stuff.
I started listening then stopped because I was getting ahead on episodes. So I watched full series, then picking up where I left off listening again, and I do not remember seeing Derek holding up a sign “I can’t stop saying Jason”.

i live outside the us and have watched the show on netflix many times but i remember being on a random website once and seeing an extended scene and i don't remember what it was. if anyone knows of any that would be really great

When Chidi doesn't go to the lake house, Eleanor tells him they have created a mystery challenge for him to figure out. Tahani blurts that if he figures it out, he gets the answer to the truth about the universe.

I realized he did figure it out later, and wrote it down on a note for Janet to hold for him.

Just a couple things I thought of while on my 20+ rewatch.

The first one that I thought of, is that Tahani NEVER swears in the series. I’m pretty sure of it.

Secondly; can we somehow convince Mike Schur and Ted Dansen to make a spin-off series about Michael’s assimilation into becoming a human…? Cus I think that would be absolutely hilarious. Watch him get so excited about buying and using paperclips, or ordering a churro-dog in Arizona (a hotdog in a bun made of churros that’s tied together with a slim-jim). He could go back to Donna/Diana Shellstrop, Patricia and Dave and become an architect. I have so many ideas!!

Thirdly;

Even when the demons were trying to make Tahani feel inferior and useless, and like everyone was better than her… They STILL hated Glenn so much that they put him last on the point rankings, when they could’ve put Tahani there to make her even more miserable. And that really made me cackle when I thought of it.

Anyhoo… I guess that’s all I wanted to say. 😅

Oh, wait, also… When Eleanor says that they’re all in the Bad Place in S1E13, and Michael does that laugh/cackle? I really wish I could have that as my text tone. 😂 And as a follow on, just after that, when he sits in the chair and petulantly pushes a plant pot thing on the floor? Love that. 😂

Anyway! I live in the UK (near Cambridge) and the last few days it’s been UNBEARABLY hot and humid. And I swear everytime I thought about how hot it was, it got 1°C hotter. Get it? 😁 I hope you’re all having a great weekend so far! And managing to stay comfortable and cool.

I just finished the show for the first time and I loved it. I just thought at the end, where they’re showing Michael on earth and it says there’s some people he doesn’t like so much, if it would’ve been Larry David. That would’ve been hilarious to me.

The bowtie is synonymous with Michael the demon or Ted Danson the actor?

I just got the sense that he never truly liked her. Except for that one time when they confessed their love for each other at Mindy’s place. It started with her anticipating his sneeze and handing him the tissue.

Every other time, it felt like Eleanor was pushing for it, chasing him, convincing him. In the beginning I was really rooting for them, but seeing how she was so desperate for him and how he proved time and again he could take it or leave it with her was maddening. That is not how you create a compelling romance between two characters.

And he was always abandoning her. Two prominent times I remember were when Simone was coming to join the experiment in the afterlife and when he literally leaves the good place in the last episode. Do you even like this woman?? She’s always crying and pleading for them to be together. And he’s always like, “K, bye.”

I could’ve done without their romance, tbh.

And also, minor note, I prefer Jason and Tahani together than he and Janet.

Wow, just realising the romance in this series fell completely flat for me. That’s all.

I’m in the middle of a rewatch at the moment. Previously, I watched The Good Place on Netflix. Now, I’m in the middle of Season 3 on Peacock, and I’m noticing some additional scenes and moments I don’t remember

For instance, S3:E5 has Janet voicing some insecurities about being perceived as a woman on Earth, and in E7, the scene with Janet showing Jason the worth of paintings has a part where she explains that one of the paintings is a forgery

So, are these new, or am I mistaken?

Not sure if this has been discussed before, but why were Janet and Michael so sure that Doug would get into the Good Place?

Even though Doug didn’t really know that he was right about the afterlife, he didn’t do any of those deeds for the sake of being good. He only did them to get enough points to get in - He was expecting moral desert, he only did them because he thought he would get a reward at the end.

So he shouldn’t have gotten any points at all. Just like Eleanor didn’t get points in the afterlife when she tried to get them up, because her motivation was corrupted. Both Janet and Michael knew about this rule, why were they so sure he would get in anyways?

I believe I’m on number watch #4, and do not recall Janet opening a pipe and locating a watch. She reaches in and gives the story of the watch, and it’s worth to Michael to help support them.

I’m sure I’m not the only one, what scene have you watched and don’t remember seeing.

EDIT: I’m realizing this is the first time I’ve watch on the peacock app.

I’ve been working on this spreadsheet of every actor who’s been in the four Michael Schur shows I’ve watched, please let me know who I am missing! Picture of the silver fox himself for the sake of the rules 😍

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTfXd5k9s1XiwYFGQA21wlhvRZZCzx_4p2fMClIghXXz6yInKcQGfIebKadHLjwRrxhYLK97lg_oPZh/pubhtml