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Lose your shirt with Chidi! (Hide all memes, show only thoughtful discussions worthy of Chidi’s attention and pecs.)
Chidi-approved through S1 S1
Chidi-approved through S2 S2 S1
Chidi-approved through S3 S3 S2 S1

Season One

1 Everything Is Fine
2 Flying
3 Tahani Al-Jamil
4 Jason Mendoza
5 Category 55 Doomsday Crisis
6 What We Owe To Each Other
7 The Eternal Shriek
8 Most Improved Player
9 Someone Like Me As A Member
10 Chidi’s Choice
11 What’s My Motivation
12 Mindy St. Claire
13 Michael’s Gambit

Season Two

1 Everything Is Great! (Part One)
2 Everything Is Great! (Part Two)
3 Dance Dance Resolution
4 Team Cockroach
5 Existential Crisis
6 The Trolley Problem
7 Janet And Michael
8 Derek
9 Leap To Faith
10 Best Self
11 Rhonda, Diana, Jake, And Trent
12 The Burrito
13 Somewhere Else

Season Three

1 Everything Is Bonzer! (Part One)
2 Everything Is Bonzer! (Part Two)
3 The Brainy Bunch
4 The Snowplow
5 Jeremy Bearimy
6 The Ballad Of Donkey Doug
7 A Fractured Inheritance
8 The Worst Possible Use Of Free Will
9 Don’t Let The Good Life Pass You By
10 Janet(s)
11 The Book Of Dougs
12 Chidi Sees The Time-Knife
13 Pandemonium

Season Four

1 A Girl From Arizona (Part One)
2 A Girl From Arizona (Part Two)
3 Chillaxing
4 Tinker, Tailor, Demon, Spy
5 Employee Of The Bearimy
6 A Chip Driver Mystery
7 Help Is Other People
8 The Funeral To End All Funerals
9 The Answer
10 You’ve Changed, Man
11 Mondays, Am I Right?
12 Patty
13 Whenever You’re Ready

Rules

Besides Reddiquette these are our rules:

0. Where’s Ted?

Every post should feature Ted Danson looking sexy, or this isn’t the Good Place!

1. No title spoilers.

Do not give away the plot in your title.

The main page should be safe for everyone to read, even if they’ve only seen the pilot.

2. Flair your post.

Season Number anything up to that season (preferred choice)
Shirtpost ¹ ² free-for-all: memes and jokes (spoilers are everywhere)

¹ Since they can reference any episode we do not police Shirtpost comments for spoilers.

² Shirtposts that are low-effort or barely relevant to the show may be removed.

3. Hide comment spoilers.

Hide plot that happens after the OP.

>!spoiler tag!< spoiler tag

Don’t put spaces by the exclamation points.

4. No off-topic politics.

Any political discussion must be

about an episode of the show.

5. No reposts.

Memes that have been posted

within six months will be removed.


Wiki

Reading List
Creator Credits
Emoji Markdown
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The Good Links

AMA Michael Schur
Webisodes The Selection
NBC The Good Place Podcast
NBC The Good Place YouTube
NBC The Good Place Twitter
Schur Reading List
Scripts Springfield! Springfield!
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Watching Schur shows in reverse order is trippy!

So obviously, I’m obsessed with The Good Place and have watched it dozens of times. I finally decided to take the plunge, and I’m in the middle of watching Parks and Rec, as well as Brooklyn 99. It’s almost impossible for me to see Trevor has Ben Wyatt. Did anyone have that problem in the other order on the first watch of The Good Place? Any other hard to believe transitions? (Ps this is not an attack on anyone’s acting. Adam Scott is phenomenal. I’ve just watched the Good Place too many times.)

11 Comments
2024/09/24
21:55 UTC

48

Does anyone know if there's a Blu-ray box/set that has NO extended episodes or provides them as bonus features?

3 Comments
2024/09/22
19:33 UTC

523

The good place: Lie detector cube (Possible Spoilers)

Currently I am watching the Good place for like a millionth time.... And I just noticed. When Michael is interrogation Eleanor, Tahani, Chdi and Jason, about who "murdered" Janet, he has a cube that brights blue when a truth is said, and red when a lie it's said..... He pulls it out for Eleanor and has it ready for Tahani, however, when he is interrogatiolng Jianyu (Jason), the cube is hidden away. Probably, cause he knows Jianyu is a fake, and whatever he says, like he is a monk, like he is wise or whatever, the cube will immediately turn red, cause it's gonna be a lie. It's just when Michael "finds out" about Jianyu (Jason) that he pulls it out.... I feel that's a nice detail I did not notice before.

36 Comments
2024/09/22
05:31 UTC

111

You are part of the cockroach alliance!

3 Comments
2024/09/19
04:13 UTC

1,137

I just finished The Good Place again... It ends in peace but It's so sad to see it end.

32 Comments
2024/09/18
10:06 UTC

11,498

Which part of the script that made you think deeply?

244 Comments
2024/09/18
00:22 UTC

928

Why Didn’t Michael Just Restore Chidi’s Afterlife Memories?

In The Last Episode of Season 3 (and the rest of season 4) Chidi asks Michael to erase all his memories so he doesn’t ruin the experiment with Simone. But that would mean forgetting Eleanor and Co.

But, why not just give him all his afterlife memories back and erase the ones of him in the ALTERNATE TIMELINE of Earth.

This way he never meets Simone but still has 812 YEARS worth of memories with the rest of the gang. The last thing he would remember would be being in the Judge’s chamber so just catch him up to speed real quick with a few white lies (or omissions of truth) and you’re all good.

9 Comments
2024/09/16
18:16 UTC

532

Just finished and I have never cried so much during a finale.

25 Comments
2024/09/14
18:52 UTC

1,872

Did The Good Place Get Anyone into Philosophy IRL?

I'm curious... did The Good Place inspire anyone to dive deeper into philosophy? Between the trolley problem, Aristotle, and all the ethical dilemmas, it felt like a crash course in moral philosophy wrapped in comedy. Did the show spark anyone’s interest to read actual philosophy books or explore ethical theories outside the show? Or was it just a fun ride without much impact?

101 Comments
2024/09/14
01:27 UTC

1,310

What would be your good bad place?

My parents and I love the show, and we were discussing what our Good-Bad place would be.

My dads would be the beach and it’s always spring break (he loves the mountains and solitude)

Mine is living in a huge modern house with multiple roommates (I love small 70s houses and being alone)

What would be yours?

211 Comments
2024/09/13
15:06 UTC

240

How many times have you watched The Good Place?

I only this year watched the good place for the first time this year, and after losing my mom in January, this show has hit me hard - in a good way - and has become my new repeat watch. I have a handful of “comfort shows” that are almost like white noise - the office, friends, broad city - but I have never in my life had a show on repeat in the background the way I do this one, and I’m starting to feel like a total forking weirdo.

I am so curious - watch # rewatch are you on?

70 Comments
2024/09/13
02:27 UTC

63

Where’s Michael?

I don’t know if I missed this detail, but on my rewatch I started wondering about Michael’s house/living situation in The Neighborhood, the Bad Place or the Good Place.

-Do we only see his office? -If you had to guess, what is his house like in the original neighborhood? -What do you think the demon neighborhoods are like in the Bad Place? Would Michael’s be all fire squids?

Any details I missed to hint at this?

9 Comments
2024/09/13
04:00 UTC

1,034

On a rewatch, and just bawling my eyes out over this, don't mind me.

You can see the fear in his eyes, but he still chooses to save his friends. This is the moment he becomes truly human—putting others first, despite knowing the cost. He just knows that's the thing to do; that's the solution to the trolley problem.

I always cry so much on this scene.

44 Comments
2024/09/12
18:10 UTC

277

Chidi’s trauma talk

Hey there, I know it’s been discussed before, but I would really like it to talk about Chidi’s undiscussed or under discussed relationship with his family. (Or maybe I forgot it and it has been done before). I say this because I deeply identify with Chidi and I’ve been in therapy. I see that a lot of my problems are because of extremely conflicting messages I received from my parents. I’m not just talking about things being inscrutable or no-win but about having both parents being incomplete opposition to each other and in front of a kid. Is it possible that that’s what he went through?

13 Comments
2024/09/11
00:55 UTC

1,344

I did NOT expect Jason Mantzoukas as Janet's boyfriend 😭

99 Comments
2024/09/10
21:15 UTC

510

Rewatching Bored To Death and came across a funny coincidence.

9 Comments
2024/09/09
22:31 UTC

1,361

TPG is a great metaphor for intergenerational trauma

TGP is a great metaphor for overcoming intergenerational trauma

I have just recently started EMDR therapy and investigation into my share of intergenerational trauma. I felt a pull to rewatch TGP after the 2nd session. Here are some of my insights so far:

  • When Eleanor is “born” in the afterlife at the beginning of season 1, you can read on the wall of Micheal’s waiting room “Welcome! Everything is fine.” To me, that mirrors the lies and pretending in dysfunctional families trying to “hide” intergenerational trauma related issues.

  • When she meets Micheal for the first time, he recalls all the great things she’s done in her [previous] life and tries to “convince” her that she was so great and she has nothing to worry about.

  • Eleanor, convinced that she is the only problem in there, feels like an imposteur. She feels the need to pretend to be someone she’s not to avoid being unmasked for the monster she is.

  • She is presented with a “soulmate” that turns out to be exactly the right match to blow all of her triggers, and vice versa. Classic cycle repetition when marrying into a trauma bond. He even “swears to never say anything bad against her and to protect her” or whatever, mimicking marriage vows.

  • While her intuition is telling her that something’s off and those people aren’t “really better than her”, her self-esteem takes a hit during the first party with the other “good people”.

  • Triggered, she rebels: gets drunk, steals some stuff and behaves like a narcissist towards her caring soulmate. She even starts to see some of the stuff she said become true overnight, as she had “predicted” or “dictated”. She fears being ostracized for that; classic scapegoat pattern.

  • By caring for herself, healing her nervous system, learning about morals and ethics, she grows in character enough to finally “unmask” her own personal hell and metaphorically “break the cycle”.

That’s what I’ve gotten from S1 x 01 so far! If you’re interested in these types of topics too, I’d love to have your input🌞

43 Comments
2024/09/09
10:49 UTC

2,105

I just realized

When micheal tells the guy I'll do you one better take it sleezy and then he closes the door. He's telling the audience take it sleezy and then closing the door on the show. It's just so beautiful and one of the reasons I love this show (or I'm looking to much into it)

78 Comments
2024/09/08
06:04 UTC

37

Post-timeline-reboot point totals?

In season 3, Michael suggests simply killing the four humans and hoping that their progress over the course of the psych study was enough to get them into the Good Place. Of course, we know that in the past 500 years, no human’s point total has been sufficient, but do we ever find out the humans’ point totals in the rebooted timeline? Did they make any progress toward being better people in the eyes of the point system?

8 Comments
2024/09/07
05:53 UTC

899

What are some shows similar to the good place?

I just finished watching the good place and I loved it so much. I’m not ready for it to be over but it is.

I watched the good Place based on a recommendation I found on Reddit. Hoping maybe you guys have some tips for other shows that I might enjoy.

223 Comments
2024/09/06
01:30 UTC

106

S4E2 - why "25 Or 6 To 4"?

During the chaos sequence for Brent, why does the song 25 Or 6 To 4 by Chicago play? I got the other references, but can't figure this one out.

20 Comments
2024/09/04
18:18 UTC

1,366

I'm bipolar and traumatized and have done shitty things as a result. Currently at one of my lowest points. Nothing makes me feel better. Nothing except The Good Place.

30 Comments
2024/09/03
21:03 UTC

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