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The Good Place

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The Good Place	comment	The Good Place is a 2016-2020 NBC philosophical Fantastic Comedy series created by Michael Schur (who wrote for The Office (US) and co-created both Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine), starring Kristen Bell and Ted Danson.After being killed by an oncoming truck, Eleanor Shellstrop (played by Bell) wakes up in an unfamiliar and idyllic world. She is greeted by Michael (played by Danson), the "architect" of this world, who tells her that as a reward for her exceptionally virtuous life, she will now spend eternity within "The Good Place" along with the rest of the best of the best of humanity.There's only one problem: Eleanor is not a nice person at all. She has been confused with someone else.Eleanor confides in her system-designated "perfect soulmate" Chidi Anagonye (William Jackson Harper), a neurotic ethics and moral philosophy professor, and emotionally blackmails him into teaching her to become a good person who deserves to stay in The Good Place, lest her rottenness be discovered, which would result in her being tortured for eternity in "The Bad Place".Complicating matters are Eleanor and Chidi's next-door neighbors: humanitarian socialite Tahani Al-Jamil (Jameela Jamil) and her soulmate, the silent Buddhist monk Jianyu Li (Manny Jacinto). Finally, there's Janet (D'Arcy Carden), a humanoid resource interface containing all of the information in the universe designed to provide anything that the residents desire.The show is also available on Netflix, and as such is labeled as a Netflix Original in some countries. Episodes aired on NBC first, then on Netflix the following day. On June 7, 2019, it was announced that the fourth season◊ would be the show's last. A six-episode web series titled The Selection was released as a bridge to the end of the third season and the beginning of the fourth season. The series ended on January 30, 2020 with a 75-minute Grand Finale.Despite being a comedy, the show is highly serialized and each episode directly follows from the one before. Therefore, beware of spoilers that may be unmarked.
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The Good Place / int_106f1a77	comment	A Form You Are Comfortable With: All the demons wear "skin suits", which are basically costumes they wear to look like normal humans. Underneath their costumes are their natural, true forms, which are described as horrific monsters, ranging from 6000-foot tall fire squids to acid snakes. Humorously, one particular Bad Place demon, Todd the lava monster, dislikes his skin suit the most because they're "really itchy" and is never seen with his on. Although it's never stated, it's possible this applies to all other afterlife entities, such as the Judge and the Good Place committee.
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The Good Place / int_1206dd74	type	Victory Is Boring
The Good Place / int_1206dd74	comment	In the final season, this also turns out to be the case with the real Good Place. The group finally arrives there, only to discover that all of its inhabitants eventually turn into jaded, apathetic zombies due to having all of their needs and desires magically fulfilled for all eternity. In short, as their lives have no challenge, they have no reason to care about anything. That being said, Team Cockroach manages to fix this by adding in an option for being Deader than Dead, which actually gives their actions weight again.
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The Good Place / int_124d7bce	type	Intimate Hair Brushing
The Good Place / int_124d7bce	comment	Intimate Hair Brushing: Eleanor and Tahani become friends despite their initial distrust. Eleanor suggests they take their bonding to "the next level" by braiding Tahani's hair. She braids a blond streak of fake hair in Tahani's gorgeous black hair. It looks tacky, but Tahani is good-natured enough and lets her. She even seems to enjoy Eleanor's attention.
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The Good Place / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
The Good Place / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Acid Cat, an EDM musician/DJ who performs in a helmet-mask shaped like a cat's head, is a pretty blatant reference to deadmau5. John Wheaton is an unflattering parody of the infamous celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton. Brent Norwalk is a thinly-veiled Take That! towards U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, complete with Brent listing a long string of ludicrous nicknames for his friends.
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The Good Place / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Good Place / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Eleanor and Chidi each experience one in "Jeremy Bearimy" after learning the truth about the afterlife (again-ish). His is worse; she goes and has a few drinks, he freaks out, goes on a shopping spree, rants at his students about the pointlessness of existence, and binges on really truly terrible chili made with peeps and jelly beans.
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The Good Place / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
The Good Place / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: Light example, but the NBC website's thumbnail for the season 2 finale "Somewhere Else" shows Michael as the bartender when he goes to Earth to talk to Eleanor.
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The Good Place / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
The Good Place / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: The Reveal behind the points system being completely incompatible with modern life, as globalization has resulted in every seemingly good action having a myriad of negative bad results, can be seen as a reflection of the socialist argument that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Janet "making people" for the new Good Place experiment, which includes strenuous grunting akin to being in labor. And then Derek enthusiastically offers to help her, while Jason watches on awkwardly as he smugly "gets down to business" with her...
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The Good Place / int_16b7dccd	type	You Never Did That for Me
The Good Place / int_16b7dccd	comment	You Never Did That for Me: Eleanor discovers that her mother she thought was dead is actually alive and now has a new family and another daughter. Though she's there to help make sure her mother is reformed and wants to be happy that she is so much kinder than Eleanor remembered, she can't help but feel resentful that her mother never treated her the way she treated her new child.
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The Good Place / int_16bf5630	type	Secretly Selfish
The Good Place / int_16bf5630	comment	Secretly Selfish: It's revealed that good actions and deeds can be negated if they're performed for less-than-altruistic reasons. Hence why Tahani is in the Bad Place - she may have raised a lot of money for charity and humanitarian causes, but only because she wanted to one-up her sister and get everyone's attention. Overlaps a bit with Wants a Prize for Basic Decency, as the Judge herself says that being good is meaningless if it's being done with the expectation/desire for a reward at the end.
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The Good Place / int_170128e9	type	Right Behind Me
The Good Place / int_170128e9	comment	Right Behind Me: A fairly brutal example when Tahani gets to hear what her parents really think of her. She overhears them discussing how much they prefer her sister, and when they see her, they cheerful repeat exactly the same thing to her face.
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The Good Place / int_19209d54	type	Sibling Rivalry
The Good Place / int_19209d54	comment	Sibling Rivalry: Tahani had this with her sister Kamilah, feeling she was always second best in comparison. Her desire to prove herself came up again when she learned she was second to last ranked in the Good Place neighborhood.
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The Good Place / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
The Good Place / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Michael's first attempt at making his own version of a Good Place worked a tad too well. He makes Eleanor feel so guilty that she decides to just confess to everyone. Michael's second attempt ended up applying the lessons from the first failure a little too well. The humans end up being truly miserable right away which quickly makes them suspicious of why the Good Place feels so bad. Eleanor's Batman Gambit from the Season 1 finale works brilliantly and she figures out the true nature of the Good Place within a day of the second iteration. It also means that when she ends up in the situation again, she will lack a crucial advantage. Subverted in the next episode when we find out that she'd have figured it out eventually anyway; the only advantages she really got were speed and the knowledge that they'd already been through it all before. The reason Michael's Good Place was always a disaster. For a while, he would succeed in torturing them. However, the torture eventually culminated into the humans noticing that they feel as if they're being tortured. They then question why the hell the "Good Place" feels so miserable, which makes them finally catch onto the ruse. In the third season, Michael comes to believe that the Bad Place is tampering with the point system to keep all humans out of the Good Place. He eventually realizes that, mechanically speaking, the system is working precisely as intended; the Bad Place is just the only faction who pay enough attention to notice that the increasingly interconnected nature of modern life leads to too many unintended consequences, making it much easier to lose points than it is to gain them. In Season 4, the group, despite less-than-perfect results from their experiment, manages to convince the Judge that the points system is inadequate for judging human behavior. Unfortunately, her approach to the problem is to start Earth and humanity all over again rather than fix the system, and the gang has to keep the reboot device out of her hands so they can try to come up with an alternate solution.
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The Good Place / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
The Good Place / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The show's sizzle reel made it seem like a quirky comedy where Eleanor gets to enjoy the Good Place with little consequence while trying to keep her secret. The actual show, while quirky and humorous, has Eleanor's mere presence in the Good Place causing far-reaching chaos and sets up a greater mystery to play out over its run. For fork's sake, even the title of the show itself is unreliable after The Reveal. It's accurate only in the sense that it's the name of Michael's pet project. Official descriptions of the show's premise cast Michael as Eleanor's "mentor" in her quest to become a better person. That's actually Chidi's role. Michael is actually more of an antagonist to her desire to stay undercover and cheat her way into belonging in the Good Place.
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The Good Place / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The Good Place / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Nick Offerman in the Grand Finale has a brief scene where he commends Tahani on her craftsmanship on a wooden chair.
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The Good Place / int_1bc282d1	type	Everyone Is a Tomato
The Good Place / int_1bc282d1	comment	Everyone Is a Tomato: Michael: He is the architect, but he works for the Bad Place, and he's been orchestrating all of the "disasters" that have been plaguing the neighborhood. Janet: She's actually what she appears to be, although Michael did steal her, and like the humans, she wasn't aware of where she was or who she was surrounded by. All the residents of Neighborhood 12358W: They're demons acting out the roles of "good people." The main four: They're all "bad people."
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The Good Place / int_1c81c658	type	Paranoia Gambit
The Good Place / int_1c81c658	comment	Paranoia Gambit: The entire first season is one for Eleanor and Jason. Both are so afraid of being found out and sent to the Bad Place, they torture themselves by acting counter to their natures. The finale reveals they were already in the Bad Place and that was how they were being tortured.
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The Good Place / int_1d9af117	type	Gender-Equal Ensemble
The Good Place / int_1d9af117	comment	Gender-Equal Ensemble: The Soul Squad consists of three men (Chidi, Jason, and Michael) and three women (Eleanor, Tahani, and Janetnote Janet technically isn't a woman, but she closely resembles and presents as one).
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The Good Place / int_1dacdb4f	type	Senseless Sacrifice
The Good Place / int_1dacdb4f	comment	Senseless Sacrifice: Though not a fatal one: Chidi breaks up with Simone because if he doesn't, he might inadvertently sentence her to the Bad Place. But then it turns out that every human is going to the Bad Place anyway, as nobody's gotten into the Good Place for over 500 years.
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The Good Place / int_1e39757d	type	Servant Race
The Good Place / int_1e39757d	comment	Servant Race: All variants of Janets are designed to hold all knowledge, provide assistance, and obey any order given to them.
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The Good Place / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Good Place / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Each of the main four characters suffered pretty nasty fates on Earth to get them into the afterlife, though each are also played for as much Black Comedy as possible. Eleanor: Drops a bottle of Lonely Gal Margarita Mix For One, gets shoved by a runaway row of shopping carts while picking it up out into a busy street and is then hit by a billboard truck advertising boner pills called Engorgulate, and the first EMT is her ex-boyfriend. Chidi: Has his skull crushed by his own air conditioner falling out of his window a few minutes after he thumped it — giving him enough time to leave his apartment, stand on the sidewalk under it, and take forever trying to decide where to have lunch. Jason: Suffocates to death inside of a safe trying to rob a restaurant while wearing a snorkle because he thinks it will help him breathe. Tahani: Crushed to death when she lassos a golden statue of her younger sister and inadvertently brings it down right on top of herself.
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The Good Place / int_1ec3eb0a	type	Take Our Word for It
The Good Place / int_1ec3eb0a	comment	Take Our Word for It: Being a network sitcom, the series cannot show the Bad Place Demons' horrific torturing as doing so would be too graphic. As such, the tortures in the Bad Place can only be described and reacted to by the characters and the Bad Place demons come across more like Evil Is Petty Jerkasses.
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The Good Place / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
The Good Place / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: The show leaves the final fate of anyone going through the door vague, saving some mysteries at the finale.
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The Good Place / int_2073b86a	type	Reasonable Request Rejected
The Good Place / int_2073b86a	comment	Reasonable Request Rejected: The humans and Michael race against the clock as the Judge aims to reset Earth and humanity as a solution to the dysfunctional points system. They manage to come up with an alternate plan for the afterlife to avoid this outcome, but need Shawn's approval. Despite Shawn admitting their plan is sound and benefits all parties, he rejects it since he'd rather wait around for millions of years than let Michael have his way. Luckily, they are able to convince him when Shawn realizes that fighting Michael made him happy and it would come to an end if the Earth was reset.
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The Good Place / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
The Good Place / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: invoked The afterlife works as a sort of Celestial Bureaucracy, with its own Mooks. These include the other residents of the "Good" Place, most of whom don't share Michael's new vision of an Ironic Hell and find it an in-universe case of They Changed It, Now It Sucks!.
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The Good Place / int_20e1cb81	type	Weird World, Weird Food
The Good Place / int_20e1cb81	comment	Weird World, Weird Food: It's common for the denizens of the afterlife to eat things that are closer to concepts than food. Janet's frozen yogurt store features such flavours as "full cell-phone battery". Gen likes to season her burritos with envy. The Bad Place demons enjoy eating food that humans would consider toxic, disgusting, or inedible, such as teeth, babies, and scalding-hot expired New England clam chowder. The architects of the afterlife, in both the Good and Bad Places, drink antimatter, their equivalent of coffee.
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The Good Place / int_211eedd	type	All Crimes Are Equal
The Good Place / int_211eedd	comment	All Crimes Are Equal: In the eyes of the Bad Place, everyone there merits being tortured regardless of exactly how minor their transgressions were on Earth, or if they were just jerks instead of actually being evil: Jason was a petty criminal who dealt drugs and would frequently burn things down with Molotov Cocktails to avenge himself against those who "wronged" him, and died trying to rob a restaurant. Eleanor was unbelievably rude and selfish as well as conning sick, elderly people out of their money. Chidi, while a decent fellow, made everyone around him miserable with his indecisiveness. And Tahani did good things, but not for altruistic reasons - it was her way of proving to her parents she was just as good, if not better, than her sister. It's implied that the demons don't really care about a person's actions at all, they just take pleasure in torturing whoever the system sends their way, and it seems to fuel commentary about the harshness of the way humans have judged actions throughout history.
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The Good Place / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
The Good Place / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good is Not Nice: Eleanor is convinced the other residents in the Good Place can't be as great as they seem. It turns out that they are, all dedicating themselves to great deeds in life. However, Eleanor claims that many of them were doing such deeds for recognition and Tahani is rather self-absorbed and condescending, intentionally or otherwise. Eleanor's dead-on about Tahani, but misses that it's a sign they're all in the Bad Place unawares.
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The Good Place / int_222969af	type	All There in the Script
The Good Place / int_222969af	comment	All There in the Script: Almost every speaking character, however minor, has a name though many only appear in the end credits.
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The Good Place / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Good Place / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: So many examples, what with the series being literally set in the afterlife and all. Generally speaking, the series mines a lot of dark humor out of the implied acts of torture going on in the Bad Place, which are often so absurdly over the top (i.e., people being mauled by "butthole spiders," "bees with teeth," and angry bears with two mouths) that one can't help but laugh at it.
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The Good Place / int_22cf50f9	type	Chekhov's Gag
The Good Place / int_22cf50f9	comment	Chekhov's Gag: The sexy mailman picture Eleanor wants to hang up to replace one of her clown paintings. Her new "soulmate" is also a sexy mailman, or rather that's who he pretends to be. Later, in Season 3, Chidi tries to fulfill Eleanor's mailman fantasy, and while overwhelmed by her current circumstances, she appreciates it. In the series finale, Chidi gifts her a sexy calendar of himself as all her favorite things, including professional wrestler and mailman... and just a picture of himself. In Season 2, there are a couple of times when Tahani tries to get out of Michael's torture schemes by saying "I demand to speak to your manager". Talking to the manager ends up being the only way to get out of the Bad Place.
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The Good Place / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Good Place / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Early in the first episode, Michael explains that memories of particularly traumatic deaths are erased for the sake of easier transition into the afterlife. Michael's control over the memories of the heroes becomes an enormous obstacle that takes hundreds of years for them to overcome, and later recurs in a tragic one-two punch at the end of Season 3.
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The Good Place / int_231e8193	type	Mistaken Identity
The Good Place / int_231e8193	comment	Mistaken Identity: Somehow Eleanor's past got mixed up with someone much nicer - Michael got her name right, but not much else. However, this was all a fake story to make Eleanor feel like she was placed in the Good Place by mistake, when she's actually been in the Bad Place. The "good" Eleanor is a demon in a role.
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The Good Place / int_237569e4	comment	Ironic Hell: The Bad Place seems to be a combination of Fire and Brimstone Hell and this. As beside the torture and attacks by dangerous animals like flying bears with multiple mouths and swarms of bees or natural disasters like erupting volcanoes and tornadoes, more "mundane" punishments are mentioned, such as having to organize a baby shower or attend a test you didn't study for. In the ending of Season 1, when Michael's neighborhood turns out to be an experimental type of torture in the Bad Place, invoking this. In Eleanor's case, Michael is tricking her into thinking she's the sole bad person among good people, and creating "problems" in the neighborhood based on her bad behavior to make her feel guilty and scared that she'll be found out and sent to the Bad Place. For example, when Eleanor steals shrimp from Tahani's party, giant shrimp go flying through the air the next day, and when Eleanor fails to help clean up, there's a trash storm. In a more general way, the manner in which the 'Good Place' is set up to torture Eleanor. We find out early on that she responds badly when she perceives that someone either is, or simply thinks, they're a better person than her. She'll convince herself that the other person is bad in some other way, and thereby absolve herself of the guilt of being confronted with her moral failings. In 'The Good Place', she can't do this - the other residents are empirically better than her, and she can't lash out like she usually does, because this would expose the fact that she isn't supposed to be there. "Everything is Great", the first episode of Season 2, gives us a few examples. Michael has Tahani live the "humble life" she claimed to want, living in a crappy small house with a short "soulmate", dressed in cargo pants and finding out why Crocs have holes. He then butters her up by claiming that this reflects her true spirit before casually mentioning that he'll have plenty of time to handle any requests she might have since everybody else is perfectly satisfied with what they've been given, pressuring her to smile and bear it because she doesn't want to admit that she's selfish, shallow, and ungrateful. Chidi's ironic hell is just as miserable: Since making decisions is torturous for him, he is forced to choose between two women to be his soulmate. Then, when he finally forces himself to make a decision, Michael steps in and decides for him anyway, even though the other choice is obviously supposed to be Chidi's actual soulmate. Chidi must now watch in lovesick agony from afar, struggling against his own paralysis. Social, friendly, outgoing Jason still has to pretend to be stoic and silent Jianyu the monk. Only this time, he's stuck with his "soulmate's" constant company, without the refuge of his Season 1 "bud hole".
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The Good Place / int_23a0f25f	type	Easy Road to Hell
The Good Place / int_23a0f25f	comment	Easy Road to Hell: The Good Place only takes the very best; even Florence Nightingale wasn't good enough to make the cut apparently. It becomes explicit in the season finale when we learn that none of the Main Characters earned a spot in the Good Place. Tahani did extraordinary amounts of good deeds, but her motivations were selfish. Meanwhile, Chidi's motivations were pure, but he caused the people in his life a lot of pain through his inability to make decisions. Starting in Season 2, Michael starts to realize that the entire judgment process is fundamentally flawed, which is likely a major contributor. In Season 3, it's revealed that no human has made it into the Good Place in the last 521 years. It turns out the reason why is that the point system never took into account how interconnected the world would become via technology. For an example, in the 16th century, giving a bouquet of flowers to your grandmother got you 145 points because you had to go outside, pick the flowers from a field and hand-deliver them to her yourself. In 2018, you'd lose points because you ordered that bouquet with a phone made in a sweatshop from a company run by a corrupt CEO who sexually harasses his female employees, the flowers themselves were grown with toxic pesticides and picked by exploited and underpaid workers, and the delivery method dumped a bunch of pollution into the atmosphere. Even the tiniest acts now have widespread consequences and ramifications that didn't exist when the world was a smaller place.
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The Good Place / int_23e32a30	type	Genre Deconstruction
The Good Place / int_23e32a30	comment	Genre Deconstruction: The first season is one for hackneyed misunderstanding-based sitcoms. Michael (who has the same name as the show's own creator) is forcing together a chosen few people specifically so they'll constantly get on each other's nerves, all for the amusement of himself and other demons, and occasionally directly stepping in to provide situations that will make them even more uncomfortable. After all, one of the first rules of comedy is that the characters don't find any of it funny.
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The Good Place / int_2411d5fb	type	Parody Sue
The Good Place / int_2411d5fb	comment	Parody Sue: Eleanor is quick to find out that everyone else in the Good Place is absurdly kind and selfless, to the point that nearly every detail we hear about them is some selfless, successful humanitarian act. Invoked as it turns out they're all demons who are pretending to be Good Place inhabitants to make Eleanor miserable.
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The Good Place / int_24a045cd	type	Wants a Prize for Basic Decency
The Good Place / int_24a045cd	comment	Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: A Discussed Trope with the concept of the 'moral desert' — one mustn't do good things because they expect a reward for doing them.
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The Good Place / int_25c60be7	type	Only in Florida
The Good Place / int_25c60be7	comment	Only in Florida: Jason's stories of his life in Florida tend to match the trope.
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The Good Place / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
The Good Place / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: After the Time Skip in "Mondays, Am I Right?", when demons are arriving in the fake Neighborhood, you can briefly spot a certain magic panda appear in the crowd.
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The Good Place / int_26ec9be2	type	Cheerful Funeral
The Good Place / int_26ec9be2	comment	Cheerful Funeral: The Soul Squad decide to throw these for each other in Season 4, after wondering how people back on Earth would have handled their deaths. And seeing as how they're already dead, none of them focus on mourning so much as celebrating each other's (after)lives and what they love about each other.
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The Good Place / int_28b2f93a	type	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil
The Good Place / int_28b2f93a	comment	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Abraham Lincoln is the only U.S President to have made it to the Good Place according to Michael, heavily implied to be due to the Emancipation Declaration as "ending slavery" is shown as one of the biggest possible ways to gain "points" for entrance to the Good Place. This is revealed to be a lie after The Reveal. Lincoln, along with every other President, as well as every single U.S citizen to have ever lived are all in the bad place, due to the flawed Points system not letting anyone into the Good Place for longer than the U.S has existed as a nation. That said, this trope still applies as it's revealed that several famous ancient philosophers are all in the Bad Place because they supported slavery as part of their writing. Hypatia of Alexandria is one of the few who made it to the Good Place.
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The Good Place / int_2905fbec	type	Your Magic's No Good Here
The Good Place / int_2905fbec	comment	Your Magic's No Good Here: Most afterlife magic does not work on Earth. When Janet and Michael go down to Earth, Janet has a hard time adjusting to not being able to teleport and instantly conjure items.
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The Good Place / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Good Place / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: In "Mindy St. Claire", a flashback of Eleanor's last moments on Earth sees her buy a bottle of tequila, with the brand being "Basurero"... which is Spanish for "garbage dump". In "A Fractured Inheritance": Tahani visits her sister who's having an exhibition in Budapest, Hungary, at a museum called "A Fontos MÅ±vÃ©szeti MÃºzeum" — which literally translates to "The Important Museum of Art". Later in the same episode, Chidi reads an article written by LÃ¡szlÃ³ ÃšjsÃ¡gÃrÃ³, literally "Leslie Journalist".
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The Good Place / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
The Good Place / int_2a090d00	comment	Jason, due to his... unique way of thinking frequently embodies this trope but perhaps the most obvious example comes after he nearly suffocates to death in the safe during his attempted robbery with Pillboi and he declares he needs to "change his life." He immediately looks to a nearby transformer box plastered with fliers, including one for a local community college declaring that it can "change your life." He promptly proceeds to instead grab a flier advertising a dance competition and declares that winning it is the thing that will "change his life." To top it off this is recounted in a flashback to an astounded Michael, asking if he really didn't see ANY other poster in that moment
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The Good Place / int_2b2c66c3	type	Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor
The Good Place / int_2b2c66c3	comment	Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Bad Place workers think that juvenile insults are the height of sophisticated comedy.
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The Good Place / int_2b7d29e1	type	Artifact Title
The Good Place / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: The title of the series becomes this after the season finale in which it's revealed they're actually in the Bad Place. It isn't until the second to last episode of the entire series where the characters finally enter the actual Good Place.
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The Good Place / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
The Good Place / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Michael's idea of the Good Place. It requires literally hundreds of demons all working together to torture just four people, and the torture that is produced is ultimately less satisfying for most demons than the traditional methods. Really, the only thing Michael's plan has going for it is its novelty. In the end, the novelty of it is why it works to fix the afterlife.
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The Good Place / int_2cd22076	type	Fantastic Drug
The Good Place / int_2cd22076	comment	Fantastic Drug: The demons from the Bad Place snort time... in cocaine form. They also consider snorting ground-up unicorn horn. To a lesser extent, all the celestial beings drink antimatter like coffee. If you make it to the Good Place, you get milkshakes made of starstuff. The Judge uses the concept of envy as a condiment on her Mexican food.
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The Good Place / int_2dd7023a	type	Death as Comedy
The Good Place / int_2dd7023a	comment	Death as Comedy: All of the Cruel and Unusual Deaths that the four main characters suffer through are Played for Laughs.
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The Good Place / int_2dd7a113	type	French Jerk
The Good Place / int_2dd7a113	comment	French Jerk: Apparently, being French is an automatic ticket to the Bad Place.
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The Good Place / int_2e0cb5	type	Rhyming Names
The Good Place / int_2e0cb5	comment	Rhyming Names: Jason used to go to a school called Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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The Good Place / int_2eac5753	type	Narrative Profanity Filter
The Good Place / int_2eac5753	comment	Narrative Profanity Filter: It's forking impossible for anybody to swear in the Good Place, which Eleanor finds out for herself in the series premiere:
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The Good Place / int_2f329e3c	type	Tomato in the Mirror
The Good Place / int_2f329e3c	comment	The main four: They're all "bad people."
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The Good Place / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
The Good Place / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: All the non-human inhabitants of both the Good and Bad places, since they're just wearing random human bodies to disguise their true appearances. Even the ones like Shawn or Michael, who look like humans in late middle-age are eons older than they appear.
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The Good Place / int_2f5790f5	type	I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine
The Good Place / int_2f5790f5	comment	I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: The Good place stars Kristen Bell and Ted Danson, reuniting the two after they previously worked together on Big Miracle.
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The Good Place / int_308a5ff0	type	Strange Minds Think Alike
The Good Place / int_308a5ff0	comment	Strange Minds Think Alike: "Hot diggity dog!" is both Eleanor's immediate reaction when Chidi kisses her and Michael's immediate reaction upon learning that Chidi kissed her.
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The Good Place / int_316e9da2	type	Memetic Mutation
The Good Place / int_316e9da2	comment	Memetic Mutation: What Team Cockroach believe ethics are. They argue that being taught ideas about ethics can transform you into a more ethical person.
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The Good Place / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Good Place / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Shawn is not happy when Vicky is implicated in sabotaging Michael's neighbourhood experiment, imprisoning her in a cocoon.
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The Good Place / int_3322dd48	type	Hollywood Law
The Good Place / int_3322dd48	comment	Hollywood Law: In the third season, a police officer announces that Jason has "admitted to the robbery." However, a "robbery" means stealing something directly from a victim by force, threats or intimidation, such as holding up a bank or mugging someone. Given the fact that he's free within a year, the show obviously meant "larceny," which is stealing things without these means. In a flashback scene showing how Jason had died in a failed robbery, a police officer is seen explaining to Pillboi that he would likely get off with probation. In fact, because Jason died in the commission of a felony, Pillboi would likely be charged with felony murder and potentially face the death penalty.
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The Good Place / int_3504dcd8	type	Perfection Is Static
The Good Place / int_3504dcd8	comment	Perfection Is Static: The real Good Place is a place where you have everything you could ever want, but since it lasts for an eternity, the few people who have gotten in have all lost their minds from torturous boredom because there's nothing new to do. Eleanor and the gang come up with the idea of a door through which people can pass and go through Cessation of Existence, once they've enjoyed the Good Place enough and decide it's time to end things.
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The Good Place / int_35499a79	type	Title-Only Opening
The Good Place / int_35499a79	comment	Title-Only Opening: No theme song, just the title in unassuming font over a green background.
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The Good Place / int_355e858b	type	Clothing Reflects Personality
The Good Place / int_355e858b	comment	Clothing Reflects Personality: The demons of the Bad Place either wear really trashy clothing or 50s clothing with incredibly sharp lines. They're all dedicated to being the worst in any way they can, whether that means the lowest common denominator douchebags of each decade or the worst kind of corporate asshole. The Neutral Accountants wear short sleeved shirts, but still insist on slacks and ties, putting them somewhere between business attire (which would require long sleeves) and business casual (which would allow polos), showing they're not excessively formal but they're not willing to actually ever have any fun. The angels of the Good Place wear loose casual clothing, warm knits, and vests, showing their warm, loving... and ultimately absurdly unprofessional and detached personalities. Michael grows into wearing more modern suits with looser lines and warmer patterns, befitting a demon growing into humanity and being worthy of the Good Place himself. He always preferred bowties, showing his dorkier personality. Chidi consistently wears tightly fitted slacks and button down shirts, albeit without the collar unbuttoned. He's tightly wound, but he's willing to open up. When he's not dressed as Jianyu the monk, Jason dresses exclusively in the comfortable layered style you'd expect to find in a trash dude from Jacksonville, with the sleeves cut off, tank tops, vests, patterned jackets, untied shoes... All the sorts of things that would work for a professional amateur street dancer who can grow into the sort of Buddha figure who can spend a few Bearimies sitting under a tree. Eleanor only wears fancy clothes when given a lot of warning that she'll be at a special occasion. Otherwise, she wears affordable clothing that finds the middle ground between comfortable and flattering (typically tight pants, more comfortable and colorful tops). She never had money, but always knew what her clothes were for. Tahani wears nothing but the most gorgeous of haute couture. Initially it's because she's obsessed with apperance, with always having to be the best. In the end, it's out of a genuine appreciation for craftsmanship and a love of the best that humanity can produce when they really care. Of the four variants of Janet, three of them wear outfits akin to flight attendants. This reflects how they're made to provide assistance. The fact that all Janets wear similar or identical outfits also symbolizes how they're mass produced. Bad Janet, the only Janet who deviates from the flight attendant uniform, does so because she... doesn't provide the best assistance. Her leather jacket and dyed blonde hair reflect her insufferable personality like the other Bad Place residents. Good Janet (AKA the Soul Squad Janet) wears a pretty, welcoming purple vest and an undershirt patterned with light blue symbols, reflecting her kind behavior. Neutral Janet's outfit is beige, because that's as exciting as her personality. Disco Janet's vest, pants, and fingernails have a design similar to a disco ball. She has 1970s-style poofy hair and undershirt, along with roller skates.
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The Good Place / int_363f94c9	type	Awful Truth
The Good Place / int_363f94c9	comment	Awful Truth: The Good Place has been the Bad Place all along. No human has entered the actual Good Place for 521 years. Everyone in the REAL Good Place is actually miserable, having become dulled by an eternity of paradise.
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The Good Place / int_3722d66c	type	Hold Your Hippogriffs
The Good Place / int_3722d66c	comment	Hold Your Hippogriffs: Demons in the Bad Place say "what the here?" instead of "what the hell?".
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The Good Place / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Good Place / int_38d02d44	comment	Eleanor's Batman Gambit from the Season 1 finale works brilliantly and she figures out the true nature of the Good Place within a day of the second iteration. It also means that when she ends up in the situation again, she will lack a crucial advantage. Subverted in the next episode when we find out that she'd have figured it out eventually anyway; the only advantages she really got were speed and the knowledge that they'd already been through it all before.
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The Good Place / int_38d12399	type	Teens Are Monsters
The Good Place / int_38d12399	comment	Teens Are Monsters: The kid who bullies Doug Forcett around is referred to as "a local sociopath".
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The Good Place / int_38dbef5	type	Intentional Mess Making
The Good Place / int_38dbef5	comment	Intentional Mess Making: In the Season 1 finale, Michael is revealed to be a Bad Place Architect. After this bombshell is dropped, he vents some frustration by deliberately knocking a vase off a table for absolutely no reason than to be a dick.
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The Good Place / int_38f1a7ed	type	Defector from Decadence
The Good Place / int_38f1a7ed	comment	Defector from Decadence: Michael defects from the Bad Place in season two, but more surprisingly, near the end of the fourth season the beings in charge of the Good Place defect and leave Michael holding the bag for what turns out to be an incomprehensible nightmare of a "paradise".
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The Good Place / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Good Place / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Michael's brief appearance as a bartender alludes to Ted Danson's role of Sam in Cheers, complete with plaid shirt and signature bar towel sling. Ted Danson hosting a roast during season 2 is also likely an allusion to one of his biggest career controversies, a particularly ribald roast of his (now) ex, Whoopi Goldberg.
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The Good Place / int_3a4ec6e8	type	Afterlife Angst
The Good Place / int_3a4ec6e8	comment	Afterlife Angst: In the first episode, our protagonist finds herself in a generic but comfortable waiting room, complete with a reassuring banner that everything is fine. She then has an interview with "Michael", who reveals she has died and gone to "the good place." She takes a few moments to adjust to this information.
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The Good Place / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
The Good Place / int_3b113b7	comment	Jianyu Li/Jason Mendoza is the Scarecrow, being a dumb but lovable imp in desperate need of a brain. Part of his Character Development is him learning greater impulse control and showing off how he's wise, not clever (much like how the Scarecrow was ultimately revealed to have had a brain all along).
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The Good Place / int_3b23e81	type	Plot Twist
The Good Place / int_3b23e81	comment	Plot Twist: Eleanor reveals her secret - that she's not supposed to be there - in order to protect the rest of the crew after a season of trying to be better. Which is all well and good except the actual plot twist is that they're actually in the Bad Place.
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The Good Place / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
The Good Place / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: The Good Place is very beautiful on the surface and looks like paradise, but it's very easy to mess things up and it has the same drama problems and interpersonal/intrapersonal conflict as Earth, perhaps even moreso. This is revealed at the end of Season 1 to be the plan all along as they find they're really in The Bad Place and in a simulation designed to torture them psychologically go through tons of reboots in Season 2. However when push comes to shove, the four of them would MUCH rather be in the crapsaccharine fake Good Place, flaws and all, than the explicit torture of the more traditional Bad Place beyond. In the final season, this also turns out to be the case with the real Good Place. The group finally arrives there, only to discover that all of its inhabitants eventually turn into jaded, apathetic zombies due to having all of their needs and desires magically fulfilled for all eternity. In short, as their lives have no challenge, they have no reason to care about anything. That being said, Team Cockroach manages to fix this by adding in an option for being Deader than Dead, which actually gives their actions weight again.
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The Good Place / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Many are present in the show, most of them concerning the stuff the main humans did before dying. These include: Eleanor being banned from Build-a-Bear for life. Neil deGrasse Tyson considers Eleanor an enemy. Tahani inspired Elon Musk to send his car into space. Donkey Doug is banned from Disneyworld for biting Buzz Lightyear Several of the resets in "Dance Dance Resolution" fit this model, showing out-of-context situations like Chidi being chased by a swarm of bees and the gang dressed like European monks. At one point, Elenaor started teaching Chidi about the Kardashian-Jenner family tree
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The Good Place / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
The Good Place / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: Michael and Janet monitor the humans' progress during "Somewhere Else" using a ticker tape recorder, instead of, say, visual monitors or even audio recordings. The Bad Placers use clunky and chunky 1980s-style computers in their search for the humans. Everything in Accounting seems to be 70s themed (except their books), down to Neutral Janet having a very old style computer you have to plug a big tape drive into. The Judge's Reset Button is a garage door opener. The way in and out of 12385W is via coal-powered locomotive.
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The Good Place / int_3c628a94	type	Exercise Excuse
The Good Place / int_3c628a94	comment	Exercise Excuse: In early Season 2, Eleanor's new soulmate (actually a demon helping to torture her) keeps saying "I'm going to the gym!" and ripping his shirt off whenever she tries to bring up the subject of her identity. Michael told him this as an example of the type of thing he could say, and assumed he'd know not to use it nine times in one day.
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The Good Place / int_3c88d6c2	type	Flat "What"
The Good Place / int_3c88d6c2	comment	Flat "What": Chidi, especially in Season 1, gets to deliver some spectacularly bewildered 'whats'.
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The Good Place / int_3c9a1e4a	type	Purgatory and Limbo
The Good Place / int_3c9a1e4a	comment	Purgatory and Limbo: The simple view taken in the series of goodness, though progressively getting more complex, is also applied to the names of various afterlives — the Good Place and the Bad Place. Originally, the architects' system was so cut-throat that it was one or the other, no matter how bad or good, until Mindy St. Claire died with a perfectly neutral score and so they invented the Medium Place. Here she lives the most solidly average life all alone. A different version is applied when the main characters, who are in the Bad Place at the start, have become good enough that had they died then, they'd be in the Good Place. This shakes the architects' simple belief that people can't inherently change, which could break their entire system. So the Judge sends the group back to Earth the moment they died as a holding situation to allow them more time — they'd all died young — to prove that they can be good people and that change can happen if you let it. Eventually, the main cast discovers a serious problem: the interconnected nature of the world has inadvertently created a situation where — due to the rippling unforeseeable consequences of almost any action — no one has qualified for the Good Place in more than 500 years no matter how "good" they might have been in life. This, combined with the aforementioned issue of people being able to improve even in the afterlife, ultimately results in them convincing the Judge to fully reform the system in a way that turns the Bad Place into a sort of makeshift Purgatory: those condemned to the Bad Place will be subjected to certain forms of torment based upon the more negative attributes of their personalities and they will be periodically tested in exams overseen by both Bad and Good Place Architects to both determine if they have changed for the better and encourage them to improve as people. If and when they do so — and the series' philosophy is that pretty much everyone's capable of this kind of improvement — they are allowed to enter the Good Place.
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The Good Place / int_3d226e02	type	Pineapple Ruins Pizza
The Good Place / int_3d226e02	comment	Pineapple Ruins Pizza: In "Most Improved Player", the various Demons from the Bad Place prank Michael by ordering dozens of Hawaiian Pizzas — "the worst pizza" — and leaving them in Michael's office. In "Rhonda, Diana, Jake, and Trent", Hawaiian Pizza is used as one of the confections at a Bad Place party in the Museum of Low-Grade Crappiness. In Version 2 of Michael's neighborhood in "Everything Is Great!", all of the restaurants that were Frozen Yogurt places in the first season are replaced with pizza parlors that only serve Hawaiian pizza.
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The Good Place / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
The Good Place / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: According to Michael, only very few people rack up enough points to make it to the Good Place, with the great majority of humanity being subject to eternal damnation in the Bad Place. It turns out that Michael was exploiting this trope with his vision for a new kind of Bad Place, where humans just make each other miserable for all eternity. Subverted though as it's shown that the standard is so high, and more importantly, nearly every action that results in a positive points gain is tied to a net loss of points, due to numerous factors that extend far beyond the actor's knowledge or control, even renowned philanthropists like Florence Nightingale went to the Bad Place, along with a vast number of "sins" like "being French", etc. So unsurprisingly many people destined for there like the main cast are really not that bad and definitely capable of doing good. Shawn and the rest of the Bad Place residents believe this unequivocally. Glenn, being one of the demons, starts out believing this, but after he thinks he finds out Vicky was impersonating Michael using a Michael suit since the second Good Place experiment started, he becomes skeptical and does a Heelâ€“Face Turn.
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The Good Place / int_3ec27f76	type	Costume Porn
The Good Place / int_3ec27f76	comment	Costume Porn: A lot of the dresses, jewelry, and accessories the costumers put Tahani in are simply gorgeous, as befitting her status as a wealthy socialite.
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The Good Place / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
The Good Place / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: Chidi speculates Eleanor being sent to the Good Place is one of these, and that she'll be allowed to stay if she admits she shouldn't be here. Eleanor's too afraid of being sent to the Bad Place to try. He was partially right. She was picked just for him... but to torment him for eternity instead. A flashback reveals Chidi's friend Uzo subjected him to one of these before Chidi died. Chidi insisted he could handle the pressure of being Uzo's best man, so Uzo pretended to accept and gave him a date one month earlier than the actual wedding. Sadly, Chidi completely bombed the fake appointment, letting Uzo know he wasn't a good choice after all. The Judge outright says that she will test all of them, but Jason, who had to beat Madden against his favorite team using their bitter rival, still "figures" out that it was a test. Eleanor's test zigzags this, as she goes through a door just to return to the lobby and be told there is no test and she can go straight to the good place. She figures out that she's still really in the test and refuses to leave without the others, in part because the false Chidi says to forget about ethics for a minute.
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The Good Place / int_4028c4e	type	Off to See the Wizard
The Good Place / int_4028c4e	comment	Off to See the Wizard: The main cast of characters all have several parallels with the main characters of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Eleanor Shellstrop is Dorothy Gale, a young female protagonist serving as the primary POV character who is whisked off to a faraway, foreign land that operates at least partway on dream logic (the Good Place and Oz). It's made very clear that she's a stranger in a strange land, and Dorothy's struggle to return home is contrasted with Eleanor's struggle to stay in the Good Place (and later find a way into the real Good Place). Additionally, Eleanor never really had a family, having had to basically raise herself due to being saddled with two completely incompetent Abusive Parents, and so her Character Development is centered around her learning to let herself be vulnerable as part of her quest to find a family and home (in this case, Team Cockroach and the Good Place, respectively). Chidi Anagonye is the Cowardly Lion, having spent basically his entire life constantly terrified of making the wrong ethical choice to the point where he made everyone around him miserable. His Character Development is centered around him gaining the courage necessary to be more decisive and outspoken, not just serving as a dithering Extreme Doormat. Tahani Al-Jamil is a gender-flipped version of the Tin Woodsman, having a noticeable (albeit unintentional) Lack of Empathy and ending up in the Bad Place because all of her supposed good deeds were done out of a selfish desire to one-up her sister and gain fame and attention. Her Character Development involves her getting a heart — or, in this case, becoming a more loving, kind, and empathetic person towards others along with striving to make the world a better place out of genuine selflessness and not just the attention. Jianyu Li/Jason Mendoza is the Scarecrow, being a dumb but lovable imp in desperate need of a brain. Part of his Character Development is him learning greater impulse control and showing off how he's wise, not clever (much like how the Scarecrow was ultimately revealed to have had a brain all along). Michael is the Wizard, being the leader of Oz/Good Place Neighborhood 12358W who is a benevolent demigod/wizard who in reality isn't at all what he seems. Additionally, behind the proverbial curtain he's shown to actually be a pretty pathetic loser and No-Respect Guy, and Michael's Character Development driving him into a Heelâ€“Face Turn results in him (much like the Wizard of Oz) actually assisting the Soul Squad in resolving their character flaws and finding their way back to where they really belong (as in, the real Good Place). Janet is Glinda the Good Witch of the North, being a benevolent and friendly demigoddess with incredible magical power who helps guide and assist the protagonists on their journey into the Good Place.
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The Good Place / int_407d3e6d	type	Morton's Fork
The Good Place / int_407d3e6d	comment	Morton's Fork: Eleanor promises to help Michael find what is disrupting the neighborhood, knowing full well that she herself is the root cause. However, reneging on her promise would cause further disruptions which would likely be traced back to her. She desperately searches for a way to Take a Third Option. In a much, much more serious example, it's revealed the afterlife itself runs on this. Either accidentally/intentionally do bad things (which means in the 21st Century, interact with anything at all) and be sent to the Bad Place, or mull over the ethical consequences of the interaction, trouble everyone around you, and get sent to the Bad Place anyways.
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The Good Place / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
The Good Place / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: Despite being able to produce a perfect fake Good Place with perfect fake residents, Michael and Vicky are terrible actors, and Michael can't produce a training video to save his unlife, nor can he write a guitar song. His terrible attempt plays over the end credits for the finale.
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The Good Place / int_4168491	type	No Such Thing as Alien Pop Culture
The Good Place / int_4168491	comment	No Such Thing as Alien Pop Culture: The Judge, the Bad Place demons, and apparently even the occupants of the actual Good Place itself seem to derive their pop culture entirely from late 20th century and early 21st century America. The lack of any pop culture of their own may partly explain why Michael is so obsessed with trying to understand humans.
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The Good Place / int_421a2df5	type	Mysterious Note
The Good Place / int_421a2df5	comment	Mysterious Note: Jason's note to Eleanor saying that she doesn't belong in The Good Place. In Chapter 13, Eleanor writes herself a note telling her to find Chidi after Michael erases her memories, which of course confuses the rebooted Eleanor during the second attempt.
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The Good Place / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
The Good Place / int_424c9a9b	comment	Trevor and the other representatives of the Bad Place never miss a chance to be unnecessarily unpleasant, and the torments of the Bad Place involve a lot of persistent nagging inconveniences (e.g., the train going there makes a million unnecessary stops, the restaurant car is always closed and only serves one terrible meal anyway) along with more traditional forms of Cold-Blooded Torture.
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The Good Place / int_4330f7eb	type	Sitcom Character Archetypes
The Good Place / int_4330f7eb	comment	Sitcom Character Archetypes: The main cast initially fits into these, but the show plays with them when it's revealed that besides Michael, the main four were specifically picked to clash with each other for eternity. Michael is the Square. While not the protagonist, he's the hapless but sincere boss of The Good Place trying to keep all the antics caused by the other main characters under control. Subverted when it's revealed that it was all an act, and he was just playing the role of the clueless boss while manipulating everyone else. Then double-subverted in that his actual personality isn't that far off from the one he was playing at. Eleanor is the Wisecracker. Cynical and bitter, she can barely resist cracking a side comment or two at the expense of other characters, and is an actual thorn in the side of the Good Place, as her presence causes it to go haywire. Tahani is a mix of the Bully and the Bigmouth. Although an accomplished philanthropist, it's clear that she thinks very highly of herself, expresses disdain for those that don't meet her standards, and gleefully lords her life experiences over others. She and Eleanor even get off on the wrong foot, although it's subverted when Eleanor realizes that Tahani is a genuinely kind person despite her ego and has self-esteem issues due to her absurdly accomplished sister. Chidi is the Dork. A neurotic, indecisive nerd and the group's loyal and intelligent teacher. His kindness and dithering often makes him the Butt-Monkey. He also has some traits of the Square, as he's often the voice of reason and reacts with shock and disbelief to everyone else's antics. Jason is the Goofball. A childish, stupid man who is nonetheless optimistic and nice.
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The Good Place / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
The Good Place / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: William Jackson Harper tries, but Chidi's French is...not what any native speaker of French, including from sub-Saharan Africa, sounds like. Beyond the accent, his word choice is very obviously a literal translation from English; when telling his colleague he'll be with him shortly, he says "je serai lÃ " (literally, "I will be there"), when the far more idiomatic and natural phrase would be "j'arrive."
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The Good Place / int_4506c7cc	type	Reel Torture
The Good Place / int_4506c7cc	comment	Reel Torture: After Shawn is caught in his attempt to sabotage the second neighborhood, The Judge threatens him with being forced to watch heartwarming videos of soldiers returning home to their dogs. This actually freaks out Shawn.
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The Good Place / int_4510b368	type	Ambiguous Gender
The Good Place / int_4510b368	comment	Ambiguous Gender: Strictly speaking, we know nothing about the gender of any non-human character, or if afterlife beings even have such a thing as gender. Janet even frequently specifies that she is not a girl. And the Bad Place demons are merely wearing skin suits that resemble human bodies to familiarize themselves with humans' weaknesses; the bodies don't necessarily correspond to whatever gender identity the demons might have. Plus, Beadie, a Good Place angel, states that it wouldn't be possible for her to be pregnant, which definitely means they aren't male or female by biological standards.
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The Good Place / int_46cd696	type	Eye Open
The Good Place / int_46cd696	comment	Eye Open: Used repeatedly when people awaken in the Good Place. Also used to show Eleanor being rebooted to Earth at the end of season 2. Her squint in the Arizona sun shows that this is not the typical Good Place reboot.
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The Good Place / int_47198ac4	type	You Do NOT Want to Know
The Good Place / int_47198ac4	comment	You Do Not Want To Know: What the Bad Place in general is like, to the point that people are forbidden to access information about it. Some Bad Placers reveal that there's also various forms of twisting, burning, and butthole spiders. The most a resident of the Good Place can get is live audio of what's going on - which invariably involves wails and screams of terror. The main characters do get to see one part of the Bad Place - The Museum Of Torture's Hall Of Low-Grade Crappiness; an exhibit of the people who committed a minor obnoxious sin first, such as the first unsolicited dick photo or the first white guy to have dreads (he also invented ultimate frisbee). Michael tells them to not under any circumstances look into any of the other halls, because the things they might see there would literally haunt them for eternity.
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The Good Place / int_47c01afd	type	Designated Driver
The Good Place / int_47c01afd	comment	Designated Driver: Flashbacks show that Eleanor usually conned her way out of being a group's designated driver. When her friends figured it out and forced her to be the evening's designated driver, she hooked up with a good-looking bartender and ditched the group after they were already too drunk to drive home themselves.
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The Good Place / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Good Place / int_47fea76b	comment	Chidi is the Dork. A neurotic, indecisive nerd and the group's loyal and intelligent teacher. His kindness and dithering often makes him the Butt-Monkey. He also has some traits of the Square, as he's often the voice of reason and reacts with shock and disbelief to everyone else's antics.
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The Good Place / int_4814d132	type	Big Fancy House
The Good Place / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: Tahani and Jianyu live in a huge, very fancy European-style mansion. It is big enough to house most of the neighborhood during a lockdown crisis and apparently has thirty-six tennis courts. Given that she lives in a far smaller house, Eleanor is rather unsubtle about her jealousy regarding it. The situation is flipped in Version 2, with Tahani assigned a claustrophobically small cottage. The same fancy mansion is given to another resident and Tahani jealously demands that it be given to her when she gets drunk at the welcome party.
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The Good Place / int_48ae3596	type	File Mixup
The Good Place / int_48ae3596	comment	File Mixup: Eleanor and Jason were sent to the Good Place because their files were mixed up with those of other people who actually deserved to go there. At least this is why they are told they are in the Good Place...it's actually the setup for their torture in the Bad Place, which from the get-go, makes them feel like they're outlaws in the "Good Place" they're told they're in.
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The Good Place / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Good Place / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The Good Place is very pretty, with everyone living in designer houses in a neighborhood that looks like a pleasant American town surrounded by lush nature. Justified, as it's supposed to be paradise.
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The Good Place / int_4a0f839d	type	Cessation of Existence
The Good Place / int_4a0f839d	comment	Cessation of Existence: Averted, as there is an explicit afterlife in this series' universe, so this trope is only brought up to be considered in some way. Michael is an immortal who cannot die under normal circumstances, although it's a possible punishment for a sufficiently disastrous screw-up. In the aptly titled episode "Existential Crisis", he completely freaks out at the idea he might cease to exist someday, reducing him to a near-catatonia at first and then has the equivalent of a mid-life crisis over it, having never feared the supernatural equivalent to death before. Simone, being a neurologist and presumably an atheist as well, seems to believe this is what happens to people when they die. When she dies and is chosen as one of the test subjects for the Good Place experiment, she refuses to believe she's in the afterlife and thinks everything and everyone she's seeing is just an intense Dying Dream. Michael mentions having seen a few people that seemed to believe this as well; they usually began to realize the truth of their situation after a good few torture routines. In "The Funeral to End All Funerals", the threat of this hangs over all of humanity, living and dead alike, when the Judge decides to reboot all of existence because the world and humans in general have become too complex for the points system to judge effectively rather than find some way to fix the system itself. In "Existential Crisis", Eleanor says that, while most people go through life a bit afraid of death, it gives them an incentive to care about things and make use of the time which they have, contrasting this finality with how (as revealed in "Patty") eternal pleasure has turned the Good Place residents into bored and mindless hedonists over time. The solution to that problem is to give the inhabitants of the Good Place a way to leave when they're content to do so. In the Series Finale, the process is shown to end the person's conscious identity, but the way their soul scatters actually implies something closer to Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence mixed with The Lifestream in practice.
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The Good Place / int_4ae72307	type	Be Yourself
The Good Place / int_4ae72307	comment	Be Yourself: Deconstructed with Jason and Eleanor, but also Reconstructed as the series goes on and Character Development sets in. They both dislike pretending to be different people, but, as Eleanor points out, who they really are kind of suck. Eleanor decides to try and change for the better, with Chidi's help, and attempts to learn how to be good. Jason, however, isn't interested in improving himself, even when whether or not he gets tortured for eternity depends on it - at least, not until Eleanor hits him with a well-placed "The Reason You Suck" Speech. Then we find out, none of the main characters were good enough for the Good Place, and they could all do with some improvement. Even Michael starts to try and become better! So it's not so much "just be yourself" or "don't be yourself," but rather, "be the absolute best version of yourself you can be, and push yourself to become better, even if it's hard."
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The Good Place / int_4bc2095b	type	One Head Taller
The Good Place / int_4bc2095b	comment	One Head Taller: Tahani is exactly this to Eleanor, as seen while they hug in the last episode. Eleanor's head literally is right up to Tahani's chin.
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The Good Place / int_4caa1d4b	type	Parental Savings Splurge
The Good Place / int_4caa1d4b	comment	Parental Savings Splurge: One of the reasons Eleanor became an Emancipated Child is because her father blew half of her college fund trying to frame her mother's boyfriend, while her mother spent the other half bailing him out of jail.
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The Good Place / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Good Place / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: "Pandemonium", the Season 3 finale. In order to make sure he doesn't jeopardize the experiment around Simone, who had her memory wiped of the season's events, Chidi decides to have his memories erased as well, causing him to forget about his past relationships with Eleanor - and by extension, everything that happened throughout the series up to that point. Add that to Tahani being forced to cope with John Wheaton, who made her life miserable on Earth, Jason struggling with his feelings for Janet, and Michael trying to work through his involuntary new role in the experiment indirectly caused by Shawn, and you have one of the worst season endings to a comedy sitcom in a long time.
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The Good Place / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Good Place / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "I've been waiting for you." A wham line because it's said by Jianyu who follows it up by saying "I'm not supposed to be here, either!" One in the form of an Internal Reveal: "The problem in the Neighborhood is me. I was brought to the Good Place by mistake. I'm not supposed to be here." "Most Improved Player" ends with a number of them. Including: "Hi, I'm Eleanor Shellstrop." "Someone Like Me For A Member" ends with Jason entering his "bud hole" only to find Tahani waiting with "So, let's chat, shall we?" "Michael's Gambit" has Eleanor having a revelation and silencing everyone by saying: "This is the Bad Place!" "521 years." The amount of time since any human has been admitted to the Good Place. Suddenly, the main cast's problems are part of a much larger issue. "As for how we proceed from here, obviously, Earth is cancelled." Said by Judge Gen, after judging that humanity and not the points system is flawed. In "Patty", when the gang finally makes it to the Good Place, and are meeting Hypatia of Alexandria (Patty for short), one of Chidi's philosophical heroes, she tells them, "Listen carefully before I forget how to say this: you gotta help us. We are so screwed!"
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The Good Place / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
The Good Place / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: At the end of Chapter 2, somebody slides a note under Eleanor's door saying "You Don't Belong Here", meaning somebody else knows her secret. In Chapter 4, Michael mentioned that the Good Place repairs itself in due time so he's not worried about the Sinkhole Eleanor created. However, at the very end of the episode, Tahani hears a sound coming from where the sinkhole was created. She goes to investigate, only to discover the hole is growing rather than shrinking. In Chapter 13, after being confronted by Eleanor, Michael's normally kind face suddenly splits open into a Slasher Smile as he reveals his true evil self. The neighborhood disintegrating into nothingness as the train pulls away at the end of Chapter 23. In Chapter 39, Eleanor opens the door to the waiting area and reveals that the next test subject being added to the new neighborhood is Simone. This happens again at the end of the episode, only this time, the person sitting on the couch is the freshly-rebooted Chidi.
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The Good Place / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Good Place / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Chidi mentions in the first episode that he is apparently always speaking French in the Good Place and the language filter automatically translates it. This fact is never substantially brought up again besides the first episode, and in season three when they go to Earth, Chidi never speaks French again. All his flashbacks to his life on Earth showcase Chidi speaking perfect English, and it seems the writers basically just dropped it. In the second episode, Michael is perplexed by the fact that he's sweating and claims it's because he's "not used to being in a human body." This would imply Michael having a human body is a recent thing, or that it's something he only started doing to interact with the humans, but all future depictions would go against this: In the season one finale Flashback B-Plot, Michael is shown wearing his human skin suit well before the events of the series even began when he's in his headquarters, a place with zero humans in sight. And even in that depiction, he certainly seems to have gotten past the point of "getting used to" his human form. It's also later established that wearing a skin suit is standard practice for immortal beings, with only a handful having been shown not wearing their skin suit. Future depictions also establish that immortal beings, even while wearing their skin suit, can't/don't need to perform any human bodily functions (such as defecation or sneezing), so the fact that Michael was even involuntarily sweating in the first place is a bit weird. Early depictions of the Bad Place had its demons wear more stereotypical "trashy" clothes, such as leather jackets and poofy faux fur coats. All other depictions give them more of a cold business attire, with the men wearing suits and the women wearing work dresses. Bad Janet, with her black leather clothes and dyed blond hair, is a remnant of the Bad Place's original attire. However, their original clothing choice could have been part of the pseudo-Good Place ruse, as it might have been suspicious if Michael and the Bad Place demons wore the same type of clothing. In season one, flashbacks were frequently included, to the point where every episode pretty much had its own Flashback B-Plot. Eleanor was the most common, obviously, but Tahani, Chidi, Jason, and even Michael all got one as well. This pretty much stopped after season one. In the first season of the show, it was heavily implied that people were going to the Good Place, even though in season three it would be revealed no one had gone to the Good Place in over 500 years. Michael mentions that Abraham Lincoln made it in the Good Place despite dying less than 200 years ago, and his map showcasing which humans go to the Good and Bad Place featured relatively few, but still numerous, green dots. This could be handwaved as being part of Michael's ruse, but less deniable ones are Mindy St. Claire (where it's heavily implied that, if she had made her charity herself, she would have gone to the Good Place), and Tahani and Chidi's flaws that are cited as being why they were sent to the Bad Place (which, again, implies that, if they hadn't had those flaws, they would have made it to the Good Place).
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The Good Place / int_4fa05fd3	type	Overly Pre-Prepared Gag
The Good Place / int_4fa05fd3	comment	Overly Pre-Prepared Gag: When William Jackson Harper was asked in an interview for hints to what happens in Season 2, his response was "acupuncture and pigs". Both are references to throwaway visual gags that took ages to set up for seconds of screen time.
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The Good Place / int_4fdd0d29	type	Place Worse Than Death
The Good Place / int_4fdd0d29	comment	Tahani's reaction to learning how she died (being crushed by the golden statue of her sister that she was trying to topple). She's more appalled that she died in Cleveland than anything else.
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The Good Place / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
The Good Place / int_504a1991	comment	When Eleanor and Chidi are played an audio clip of what is currently going on in the Bad Place, they hear one of the damned screaming about being menaced by a bear with two mouths. Later on, there is a mention of bears with four heads that fly.
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The Good Place / int_50ed1af4	type	Our Demons Are Different
The Good Place / int_50ed1af4	comment	Our Demons Are Different: Michael says that it's not exactly correct (and "a little racist") to call denizens of the Bad Place "demons," but it's close enough. Their true forms seem to vary, but are often horrible monsters or giants made out of lava. They can make themselves look like humans, which is apparently done by getting inside suits of skin that are often much smaller than their true form. They behave mostly like regular humans, with some behaving like standard office drones and many others like frat boy assholes. Michael recruits a number of them to act in his experiment, which some of them hate doing.
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The Good Place / int_52c0c7cf	type	Motive Decay
The Good Place / int_52c0c7cf	comment	Motive Decay: A significant aspect of the points system is your motivation for doing good. Therefore, if you are doing good deeds for the purpose of scoring points, you won't get any points.
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The Good Place / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Good Place / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Season 1 begins and ends with Michael greeting Eleanor in his office, welcoming her to "the Good Place", and introducing her to his Neighborhood. Season 2: The season begins with Eleanor being given the note she'd written to herself to find Chidi before she got her memories erased of piece of a page torn from the philosophical book What We Owe to Each Other. In the Season 2 finale, Michael puts special emphasis on the phrase "what we owe to each other" in order to prompt Eleanor to Google it, which leads her to find Chidi. Michael both begins and ends the season with the same line: "Okay. Here we go." Season 3 begins with Eleanor walking into Chidi's office. In the Season 3 finale, Chidi walks into Eleanor's office. Like season one, season 4 once again involves four humans being in a pseudo-Good Place neighborhood, which is actually an experiment to test a new way to run the afterlife. Several elements from season one return, such as frozen yogurt shops and Jason pretending to be a Buddhist monk named Jianyu, and the experiment once again ends with the humans Spotting the Thread and concluding they're in the Bad Place (they're incorrect this time, but Michael and Eleanor don't tell them that). The Season 4 premiere has Michael freak out and force Eleanor to take over his role as the Architect. In the finale he freaks out again and tries to follow her into nonexistence, but instead becomes human (which was her entire thing) so he can someday enter the gate for himself. The entire series. The first episode begins with Michael opening a door, and the Series Finale ends with Michael closing one. The series also begins with Eleanor's very first moment in the afterlife, and ended with her very last moment in it, in which her fragmented soul impacted someone on Earth.
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The Good Place / int_553c910e	type	This Isn't Heaven
The Good Place / int_553c910e	comment	This Isn't Heaven: The Season 1 finale reveals that the main characters have actually been in the Bad Place the entire time and the whole scenario was designed to get them all to drive each other nuts.
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The Good Place / int_55940b68	type	Doorstopper
The Good Place / int_55940b68	comment	Doorstopper: Chidi's life's work is a 3,600 pages long book that tries to encompass the entirety of Ethics. For reference, Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, considered one of the definitive works on the subject, doesn't even clear 200 and the only other books of any genres that are longer are all series with multiple volumes. Michael, who's near-omniscient, had given up partway through because it was so convoluted that it made no sense, and Michael's boss, who is omniscient, can't understand it either. It even got a tenured professor at the Sorbonne to simply get up and walk away from his prestigious profession.
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The Good Place / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
The Good Place / int_5640e2c9	comment	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: This seems to be the problem with the Good Place for some residents. With everything they want at their command, true fulfillment and purpose are both steadily dissolved over time until they're left in a mindless pleasurable haze. After all, they can get everything they could ever want, but they can never leave or find any challenge in any of it, since they're stuck there for eternity. The employees of the Bad Place don't have it much better. Yes, Evil Feels Good to the demons who run the Bad Place, but there's really no point to endlessly torturing humans besides inflicting pain for its own sake. Even though the demons might want to inflict pain and misery, such satisfaction has its limits when there's no end goal for it. The reformation to the point system at the end of the series means that it turns into a Karmic Reform Hell, which gives the demons humans to torture while also giving it a reason, which improves their moods about the whole thing quite a bit.
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The Good Place / int_57239e21	type	Archangel Michael
The Good Place / int_57239e21	comment	Michael is the name of a Biblical archangel and is the Hebrew name meaning "who is like God". Archangel Michael leads the war of the good angels against the bad and is commonly prayed for to "defend us in battle" against fallen angels. Becomes an Ironic Name after the twist. In Season 3, it cycles back around into being a straight example, since Michael has not only been trying to help humans get into the Good Place, but he also decides to reveal and fix the corruption that has affected the afterlife's judgement process. It may also be a reference to his behind-the-scenes nature likening him to Mike Schur, the show's creator.
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The Good Place / int_5769a98e	type	Heaven's Devils
The Good Place / int_5769a98e	comment	Heaven's Devils: Employees of the Good Place and the Bad Place might regard each other with disdain, but they're all part of the same system and aren't really enemies.
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The Good Place / int_57b74bd4	type	Achievements in Ignorance
The Good Place / int_57b74bd4	comment	Achievements in Ignorance: "The Good Place" was designed by Michael to be a cunning place of torture where rather than physical pain, the demons are perpetually putting these unredeemable humans through psychological and emotional torture. He hoped it would last at least a thousand years, but Eleanor figured it out after about six months. Through resetting the experiment and wiping their memories, Michael proceeded to make countless minor variations hoping to perpetuate this emotional torture but found them always improving their moral compass, even if only a little. This was something the entire afterlife system deemed impossible and through numerous other types of experiments the Good Place / Bad Place system became redefined, with Michael leading the revolution.
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The Good Place / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
The Good Place / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: A minor example. When Eleanor asks if she could use the word demon to refer to Michael and his species, he responds saying that "it's not really accurate, and we consider it a little bit racist, but alright".
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The Good Place / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
The Good Place / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: In Season 2 Michael realizes that the situation has gone completely out of his control and the only thing that might save him is to team up with Eleanor and the other humans.
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The Good Place / int_59fe174d	type	Devil, but No God
The Good Place / int_59fe174d	comment	Devil, but No God: Remarkably for a show that's focused on the afterlife and morality, nobody ever raises the question of whether or not there's a Big Good in charge of everything. Shawn capably fills the role of the devil, but on the flip side, the Judge has limits on her role and powers that put her on a (slightly) sub-deity level (She didn't create the universe, and she explicitly denies being omniscient). As the show goes on, it piles up subtle but consistent evidence that it doesn't have a God as we commonly understand it. The more we learn about the Afterlife system, the more broken it looks — and it's getting worse over time. This is not a situation that a worship-worthy deity would tolerate.
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The Good Place / int_5ad71806	type	"Truman Show" Plot
The Good Place / int_5ad71806	comment	"Truman Show" Plot: Michael as demonic director to an entire neighborhood full of "actors" designed with the specific goal of fooling four humans.
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The Good Place / int_5ad80bf8	type	It's All My Fault
The Good Place / int_5ad80bf8	comment	It's All My Fault: Michael goes through this a couple of times. Halfway through the first season, Michael wrongly concludes that the thing causing the neighborhood to go haywire is himself, as he was never supposed to live in the neighborhood he designed. Subverted after Janet is rebooted/murdered. When Janet starts glitching in Season 2, Michael determines that the glitches are caused by her "processing or disseminating information that it is incompatible with objective truth", i.e. lies. Michael then sadly declares that this is caused by all the lies he told to make Janet help him torture the humans.
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The Good Place / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
The Good Place / int_5c1d5030	comment	Janet helpfully pointing out that she isn't whatever she was just described as - e.g., she is not a "girl," a "woman" or even a "person," nor is she a "robot" or a "computer." Towards the end of Season 2, she even denies being a "Janet" anymore, saying she's not sure herself what it is that she's become. This becomes important in Season 4 when Jason spots the fake Janet when he calls her 'girl' and she doesn't say that she isn't one.
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The Good Place / int_5c1ec068	type	Big Red Button
The Good Place / int_5c1ec068	comment	Big Red Button: There's a Big Red Button situated in a remote corner of the Good Place that is used as an emergency shut-off switch for Janet. As a measure of last resort, Janet is designed to tearfully beg for her life whenever someone goes to press it, hopefully psychologically disturbing the would-be saboteur with her impassioned pleas.
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The Good Place / int_5c5ac0e2	type	Really 700 Years Old
The Good Place / int_5c5ac0e2	comment	Really 700 Years Old: The immortal beings in every realm have existed since the beginning of time, yet they all look like normal adult humans. Justified as those aren't their real forms and they're all wearing skin suits.
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The Good Place / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
The Good Place / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: What does it mean to be a good person? Also, Humans Are Flawed.
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The Good Place / int_5e323fa8	type	The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life
The Good Place / int_5e323fa8	comment	The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life: In Season 3, keeping the secret of the truth about the afterlife leads to Chidi having to break up with Simone, since Simone is alive and has no idea about the Good Place and Bad Place, but if she were to find out, she would automatically go to the Bad Place since her motivations would no longer be innocent and organic.
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The Good Place / int_5e34c0c8	type	Ninja Prop
The Good Place / int_5e34c0c8	comment	Ninja Prop: In this case, the use of sitcom conventions redirects attention from why everyone is having such a bad time in what is supposedly Heaven.
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The Good Place / int_5f3bb274	type	Late-Arrival Spoiler
The Good Place / int_5f3bb274	comment	Late-Arrival Spoiler: The ads for Season 2 quite clearly showed Michael scheming about how to make the main cast miserable, spoiling the reveal that the characters are actually in the Bad Place and that Michael is a demon. Jianyu the monk is actually a Floridan named Jason (revealed in the third episode).
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The Good Place / int_5fc117f5	type	Fantastic Measurement System
The Good Place / int_5fc117f5	comment	Fantastic Measurement System: The time in the afterlife isn't linear like it is on Earth, instead constantly looping back on itself in a twirling scribble. It's known as "Jeremy Bearimy", because it happens to sort of look like the name Jeremy Bearimy written in cursive English. The dot over the "i", which is separate from the rest of the timeline, is sometimes July, and sometimes Tuesday, and sometimes never. As a result, you can spend a very, very long time in the afterlife with no time at all passing on Earth.
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The Good Place / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
The Good Place / int_5fcedca	comment	The finale reveals in the Good Place, humans can look different from how they died, with Doug choosing to appear as he did in his twenties despite dying an elderly man. Chidi notes that, given his new Big Eater habits, this was probably a good choice.
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The Good Place / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
The Good Place / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Eleanor is this to Neighborhood 12358W. Her selfishness causes the Empathic Environment to go haywire - leading Chidi to compare the other residents to a Swiss watch, and Eleanor to a hammer smashing the works. Double subverted. In the season finale, we discover that the chaos was planned by Michael, but there was an actual spanner — Chidi's lessons being more effective than the Bad Place thought they would be, causing Eleanor to confess her identity as the "mistake." That broke Michael's Batman Gambit down and caused him to have to improvise everything afterward. Eleanor's note to herself in the beginning of Season 2 totally derailed Michael's second attempt at torturing the group within the first day. Because the note told her to look for Chidi, Eleanor spent most of the party focused on doing that instead of getting drunk like she was supposed to. Instead, she gave the drinks she was going to have to Tahani, who wound up giving the drunken speech Eleanor was meant to delivernote Which was unusable for Michael's planned "chaos sequence" the next day anyway because, unlike Eleanor, Tahani believed she belonged in the Good Place and wouldn't be guilt-tripped by it, creating a huge distraction that Eleanor, Chidi and Jason used to slip away from their demon minders. From there, it all spiraled out of control, culminating in Jason "breaking character" early to complain about his "soulmate", making it impossible for Michael to continue the ruse and forcing another reset. Neighborhood 12358W ultimately wound up becoming this for the Bad Place, Shawn in particular. Michael's experimental new torture method went so poorly that he was driven to work with the humans to stave off a mutiny by the other demons. During the process, he built a genuine friendship with the main four humans to the point that he pulled a Heelâ€“Face Turn and started trying to help them and eventually other humans gain entry into the real Good Place. This put him on the path of discovering that no human has made it to the Good Place since 1497 due to a bunch of problems inherent to the afterlife's point system. Shawn knew of this the whole time and gleefully enabled it because it gave the Bad Place a near infinite supply of fresh new humans to torture, and when the Judge is made aware of the problem and proposes an experimental solution, he wastes no time trying to find any way that he can to make sure it fails because he absolutely will not let anything threaten the status quo he's maintained for over 500 years.
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The Good Place / int_6040801a	type	Self-Inflicted Hell
The Good Place / int_6040801a	comment	Self-Inflicted Hell: Discussed multiple times throughout the series. However, demons just don't understand humans, so the tortures we see/hear are just painful and scary, and an Ironic Hell is only ever described.
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The Good Place / int_605cf3f	type	Something Only They Would Say
The Good Place / int_605cf3f	comment	Something Only They Would Say: In Season 4, Michael is put under serious suspicion of actually being Vicky in a Michael suit after things have taken a suspicious downturn, with it being possible he was swapped out during an incident where a demon impostor had to be taken back to the Bad Place. Part of Michael's frustration is that there's no specific thing he can say to prove he's the real deal...but Jason spots an inversion of this- an absence of something the real person should always say when Janet doesn't correct him by saying "not a girl" when he says "I love you, girl". Because of this omission, Jason correctly deduces that she's the saboteur who got swapped over: a Bad Janet pretending to be the good one. Michael's talk of this trope was what made Jason realize how suspicious Janet's omission was.
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The Good Place / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Good Place / int_617f0563	comment	Neighborhood 12358W ultimately wound up becoming this for the Bad Place, Shawn in particular. Michael's experimental new torture method went so poorly that he was driven to work with the humans to stave off a mutiny by the other demons. During the process, he built a genuine friendship with the main four humans to the point that he pulled a Heelâ€“Face Turn and started trying to help them and eventually other humans gain entry into the real Good Place. This put him on the path of discovering that no human has made it to the Good Place since 1497 due to a bunch of problems inherent to the afterlife's point system. Shawn knew of this the whole time and gleefully enabled it because it gave the Bad Place a near infinite supply of fresh new humans to torture, and when the Judge is made aware of the problem and proposes an experimental solution, he wastes no time trying to find any way that he can to make sure it fails because he absolutely will not let anything threaten the status quo he's maintained for over 500 years.
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The Good Place / int_620475f4	type	Tastes Like Purple
The Good Place / int_620475f4	comment	Tastes Like Purple: Food and drink can taste like concepts and colors, demons can snort time, the Judge uses the concept of envy as a hot sauce, and the Good Place smells like whatever makes you happiest, including absolute moral truth. The Bad Place also gives us Ax Body Spray that smells like how the Transformers movies make you feel. Then there's the color pleurigloss, which looks the way a soldier feels when he comes home and sees his dog for the first time.
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The Good Place / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
The Good Place / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: Subverted with "Category 55 Emergency Doomsday Crisis", despite Michael enforcing that nobody should leave their homes, it uses several sets, and much of the supporting cast appears. Downplayed in "Michael's Gambit". It takes place almost entirely in Eleanor's living room, with most of the plot being focused alone on the six leads, but it also has Michael's flashbacks and a few supporting cast, as well as Shawn being a prominent character. "Team Cockroach" is a fairly straight example. Almost entirely in Eleanor's living room, with a few scenes at the backyard and no relevant action from anyone but the main cast, though there is Tahani's flashback of how she died in a party at Cleveland. "Best Self" is another example, uses mostly the park set (and briefly the train), and nobody but the main six has any appearances or speaking lines. "The Book of Dougs" takes place entirely within The Good Place mailroom. "Janet(s)" only has two real sets: the accounting office and Janet's void, a blank white space where anything can appear.
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The Good Place / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
The Good Place / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: The orientation video has a ton of stuff that counts for or against your getting into the Good Place, flashing by so fast that it's impossible to catch it all in one viewing. In "Category 55 Doomsday Crisis", Michael adds a truly improbable number of new ice-cream flavors (full list). They range from the standard (like grape, cherry, and Neapolitan) to the technically-edible but bizarre (such as lobster and ham) to the more esoteric (a mother's love, candlelight, a second kiss after an awkward first kiss). In the flashback at the beginning of "Michael's Gambit", right before Dave drops the "Project No. 12358W" file on Michael's desk, you can just catch the title of the file he was working on beforehand: "Flesh Ripping Lightning", a big sign that he doesn't really work for the Good Place. In "Dance Dance Resolution", all the different resets seem to have different themed signs. In the same episode, there is the poster of all the plans they've tried, including "Stab with small knife", "Find Doug Forcett," "Stab with large knife," and "Try to stuff Michael back into his magic lamp". In "Everything is Bonzer!", Tahani starts deleting the contact info of people from her phone, and you can see the long list of celebrities there if you look fast enough. When Eleanor Googles the phrase "what do we owe to each other" in "Somewhere Else", her briefly seen search results include gems like 'wedding fail nip slip', 'what's a good excuse to skip a baby shower?', 'what is this gross thing on my foot?', 'what time is it?', 'what do weasels eat?', 'what does Trump eat?' 'what do white people do for fun?' and 'what do we say to the god of death?'
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The Good Place / int_642594ea	type	Pygmalion Plot
The Good Place / int_642594ea	comment	Pygmalion Plot: When Jason and Tahani start sleeping together, Janet feels sad since she was married to Jason before. On the advice of Eleanor, she gets a new boyfriend by creating one in her void.
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The Good Place / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Good Place / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: In a throwaway line, Tahani reveals this is how she died. Subverted, "Team Cockroach" reveals that she didn't die this way, dying instead in an ironic, humiliating fashion. Eleanor has no reservations about returning to face Shawn's judgement if it means Chidi and Tahani are spared. Pity they're all in the Bad Place anyway. Michael of all "people" pulls the first proper legit one in the entire series by giving his portal access pin to Eleanor and pushing her through, ensuring her safety, but dooming himself in the process. He does so without hesitation. At the end of Season 3, things are running smoothly as Michael's experiment is being repeated with new subjects for non-malicious reasons to evaluate if people are being unfairly sent to the Bad Place. A lot rides on the results, which Gen will judge. Unfortunately, Shawn has chosen the subjects to torture the leads, and for Chidi, sent in Simone, his ex. Knowing he can't be around her without compromising the experiment, even after her memory was wiped, Chidi asks to be rebooted, knowing he'll lose his relationship with Eleanor and his friendships with the others. His request is fulfilled, as there are no other options.
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The Good Place / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
The Good Place / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Playing a set for a bunch of celebrities is Jason's dream, but it's Acid Cat's Tuesday.
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The Good Place / int_6547474e	type	Subverted Sitcom
The Good Place / int_6547474e	comment	Subverted Sitcom: The first season is a straightforward sitcom with philosophical aspects (given they are in the afterlife): six Sitcom Character Archetypes mesh in a brightly colored world. However, the finale reveals it to be a Genre Deconstruction: all the hijinks have just been Michael pitting the main four characters against each other in various cruel situations as a form of torture.
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The Good Place / int_664bc28f	type	British Brevity
The Good Place / int_664bc28f	comment	British Brevity: Unusually for a US network TV show, creator Michael Schur placed a firm 13-episode cap for each season, due to the show's heavily serialized format. The show also stuck to a planned ending with season four, meaning that there will only ever be 52note technically 53, as the finale is double length, although the show labels it as the singular final chapter episodes in the entire series.note It's also written into Kristen Bell's contract that NBC can only extend a season up to 16 episodes. A standard 22-episode season is out of the question. Parodied by Deirdre and Margaret, a British sitcom that Tahani enjoys. It ran for 16 years on the BBC and broadcast nearly 30 episodes during that time.
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The Good Place / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
The Good Place / int_68068108	comment	Evil Laugh: Michael lets out a deliciously wicked one during The Reveal in the Season 1 finale.
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The Good Place / int_69906c41	type	Menacing Museum
The Good Place / int_69906c41	comment	Menacing Museum: the Bad Place has a torture museum where people who commit an infraction (such as flossing in an open plan office or calling ultimate frisbee "ultimate") are displayed. We only see "The Chamber of Low Grade Crappiness". According to Michael, other rooms have exhibits with potential to traumatize the humans for life.
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The Good Place / int_6994b346	type	Human Outside, Alien Inside
The Good Place / int_6994b346	comment	Human Outside, Alien Inside: Janets and the Immortal Beings in the show look identical to average humans, but it's made clear that their human appearance is just skin deep. They don't have any human organs such as hearts, and they can't or don't have to perform any biological functions such as defecation and eating. With the demons, it's even stated that their human forms are fake and underneath their skin suits they have real forms that definitely don't look human.
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The Good Place / int_6a3a1dda	type	A Tale Told by an Idiot
The Good Place / int_6a3a1dda	comment	A Tale Told by an Idiot: It's a Running Gag throughout the show that Jason will often tell a personal anecdote in which the general message actually is pretty relevant to the conversation. But the thing is, all the "personal anecdotes" from Jason's life are so utterly bonkers that you eventually get so caught up in the craziness it's impossible to keep track of whatever point he's trying to make. It also doesn't help that Jason typically gives way more details than are necessary to understand his argument. A notable example is when Jason was supplying an example of utilitarianism. He recounted a story in which Shelia (who was a black market alligator dealer with a pierced jawbone) tried to marry his boy Donkey Doug and get him to move to Sarasota. But Donkey Doug was a part of Jason's sixty person dance crew (he was the best pop-and-locker) and him leaving would have ruined the whole thing. So he hid a bunch of stolen boogie boards in Shelia's garage and called the cops. So, in other words, he framed one innocent person to benefit sixty people.
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The Good Place / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Good Place / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: The first season finale shows that this has been the Bad Place all along, designed solely for Eleanor, Chidi, Jason and Tahani as (emotional) torture. Except for Janet, everyone else in the neighborhood is part of the scheme and Michael is a demon who's been planning this all along. Tahani's cause of death is revealed in "Team Cockroach" - having been upstaged by her sister yet again, she gatecrashes her sister's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and tries to tear down the statue of her sister - which does come down, but straight onto Tahani. "Janet(s)" reveals that nobody's gotten into the Good Place in over 500 years.
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The Good Place / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
The Good Place / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: Chidi at one point describes his constant inner turmoil to Eleanor as feeling like the sound of a fork caught in a sink's garbage disposal. In "The Answer", when his girlfriend breaks up with him and leaves him at his most confused, he drops a fork in the garbage disposal and then turns it on and watches it grind. Eleanor's hypotheses for what happens when you walk through the final door in the afterlife include the possibility of becoming the little voice for goodness people hear in their heads. When she walks through herself, we see a piece of her essence touch someone on Earth to make him reconsider a bad action, proving her partially correct.
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The Good Place / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Good Place / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Chidi is an Igbo name that means "God Exists". Eleanor had no real exposure to the concept of a person living life focused on trying to do what was good, with Chidi introducing her to it. Eleanor is most likely derived from the Occitan phrase "alia Aenor", "the other Aenor" (a nickname for Eleanor of Aquitaine, to distinguish her from her mother also named Aenor). She is referred to as the other/fake Eleanor at the end of Season 1, and it could also be said that by trying to improve herself, she's trying to become another, better version of herself. Janet is the feminine form of John, meaning "God is Gracious". She literally bestows upon the residents of the Good Place whatever they desire. Ultimately, she and all the other Janets are key to tranforming the nature of reality, because even a Bad Janet is a Good Janet. Jianyu is a Chinese name meaning either "Building the Universe" or prison, depending on the tone. Jason means "the lord is salvation". Jason is the childlike aspect of the typical presentation of the Buddha, and he's one of the four aspects of salvation. Michael is the name of a Biblical archangel and is the Hebrew name meaning "who is like God". Archangel Michael leads the war of the good angels against the bad and is commonly prayed for to "defend us in battle" against fallen angels. Becomes an Ironic Name after the twist. In Season 3, it cycles back around into being a straight example, since Michael has not only been trying to help humans get into the Good Place, but he also decides to reveal and fix the corruption that has affected the afterlife's judgement process. It may also be a reference to his behind-the-scenes nature likening him to Mike Schur, the show's creator. Tahani Al-Jamil is an Arabic name that means "Congratulations Beautiful." Lampshaded by herself (as a beautiful, accomplished socialite). It's also meaningful in another way — said accomplishments were merely self-congratulatory and a way of making herself feel good. Of the four humans, she is the one to become an Architect and sheperd the rest of humanity to their best selves. She will get to tell every other human, "Congratulations, beautiful." for as long as she wishes. Her sister, Kamilah? That's Arabic for "Perfect". It also has implications of completeness, which completely shuns Tahani's existence. It holds this meaning in at least four languages and the Holy Qur'an, too. However, it is mentioned only twice in the Qur'an, the first of which describing how people will be weighted by their sins in death. Norovirus - also known as Norwalk virus - causes nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea within a day or two of exposure. Brent Norwalk is a deeply unpleasant man who everyone rapidly becomes sick of. Even the neighborhood name, 12358W, is loaded: 12358 is a Fibonacci sequence, correlating with the Golden Ratio. In other words, 12358W is code for Perfect World.
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The Good Place / int_6bfc52a3	type	A Wizard Did It
The Good Place / int_6bfc52a3	comment	A Wizard Did It: Jeremy Bearimy (the timeline by which the afterlife operates by) pretty much allows the show to do whatever the hell it wants with the timeline. It functions so differently from our earthly, human perception of time, and trying to wrap your head around it is pointless because the entire joke is how INSANELY confusing and nonsensical it is. It allowed Michael to go down to Earth and save the lives of the main four even though their deaths had occurred three hundred years prior.
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The Good Place / int_6c51e9e1	type	Fisher King
The Good Place / int_6c51e9e1	comment	Fisher King: Invoked. The first few hundred iterations of Neighborhood 12358's bad occurrences are passed off as a direct result of there being people there who don't belong.
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The Good Place / int_6c833efe	type	Jerks Use Body Spray
The Good Place / int_6c833efe	comment	Jerks Use Body Spray: While infiltrating the demons in The Bad Place, Shawn tosses newly reformed Michael (who's pretending to still be evil) a can of body spray and tells him to "Axe up" for their next openly evil act.
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The Good Place / int_6ca339ed	type	Born as an Adult
The Good Place / int_6ca339ed	comment	Born as an Adult: Janets are created already fully formed with the appearance of adult human women. Derek is also created as a fully grown man, albeit one who is far less functional than any Janet.
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The Good Place / int_6ec3e83	type	The Journey Through Death
The Good Place / int_6ec3e83	comment	The Journey Through Death: The protagonists journey throughout the afterlife during the series. In the end, they create a new system in which a deceased person must endure torture, which is personally tailored to cause the subject to improve as a person until they have improved enough to enter paradise. Once they have had enough of paradise, they are allowed to end their existence and their essence returns to the universe.
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The Good Place / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
The Good Place / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: Invoked in the season finale, with Michael erasing the memories of the main four, rebooting Janet again, and resetting things to day one â€” with the one tweak that the four of them will be kept separate this time, influencing each other's lives less directly â€” in the hopes that this time it will work better.
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The Good Place / int_6eeba1f2	type	"Shut Up" Kiss
The Good Place / int_6eeba1f2	comment	The montage Michael plays for them before wiping Chidi's memory at the end of season three shows that they have a habit of this, with one planting a kiss on the other, usually a "Shut Up" Kiss. And then they just keep doing that in season four.
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The Good Place / int_7043a964	type	Grammar Nazi
The Good Place / int_7043a964	comment	Grammar Nazi: Eleanor notes that Chidi makes a particular groan when someone says "from whence it came" instead of the correct "whence it came."
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The Good Place / int_705d2ccf	type	Unseen No More
The Good Place / int_705d2ccf	comment	Unseen No More: In the first episode, Michael mentions Doug Forcett, the only man who has figured out how the afterlife actually works. He finally appears in Season 3. The Judge is mentioned several times before she makes her proper first appearance in the Season 2 episode "The Burrito". Early on, there is a brief mention of a Disco Janet, who appears in "The Funeral to End All Funerals" as part of the army of Janets who come to stop the Judge from rebooting all of existence.
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The Good Place / int_711714da	type	Opposites Attract
The Good Place / int_711714da	comment	Opposites Attract: Every major relationship and Ship Tease in the series so far falls into this: Eleanor, who's flighty, somewhat impulsive, and (at least in her backstory and at the start of the series) amoral, and Chidi, who's terribly indecisive and gets stomachaches over doing anything wrong. Eleanor also crushes on Tahani, who is substantially more gregarious and altruistic, but also very proud and pompous (whereas Eleanor, if nothing else, is aware of her moral failings and relatively humble). Tahani â€” who is, again, gregarious, proud, and status-obsessed â€” and her attraction to/fascination with Jianyu, a simple, silent, and presumably poor-while-alive monk. Subverted when she finds out about who "Jianyu" really is; Tahani, a rich and well-educated woman with significant artistic skill and loads of celebrity connections, shows little to no interest in Jason Mendoza, the less-than-intelligent failed DJ who seems to have burned every bridge he ever crossed. But it's Double Subverted in "Existential Crisis." She knows who Jason really is, but because he consoles her after her failed party, she has sex with him. Jason and Janet: (an always-enthusiastic dimbulb gets married to what is essentially a nigh-omniscient magic computer.)
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The Good Place / int_72b0dfd2	type	Being Good Sucks
The Good Place / int_72b0dfd2	comment	Being Good Sucks: A central theme. The Good Place may have its perks and it is easy to want to be a good person, but it is far more difficult to actually be one, especially considering taking the bad route is often much easier. Even good deeds done in the name of selfish motives don't count for anything. Eleanor often finds herself at odds with Chidi's teachings, considering she's used to being a self-centered loner; Michael also has difficulty adjusting to ethics class, considering his demonic background and all. In "Somewhere Else," Eleanor talks about how being good is difficult because people don't care and she got slapped with additional hardships for trying. Michael, of all people, asks if she's looking for a reward, or a "moral desert". In Season 3, the cast eventually realizes that the points system is completely incompatible with modern life and that almost all positive actions are unwittingly outweighed by the myriad possible negative effects they might tap into (like the act of buying flowers indirectly fueling child labor in a foreign country), meaning it is literally impossible to even try "being good" in the first place.
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The Good Place / int_735b3587	type	Naked First Impression
The Good Place / int_735b3587	comment	Naked First Impression: When Eleanor, Jason, and Janet encounter Mindy St. Claire for the first time in the episode of the same name, they find her gardening naked, which they all appropriately freak out over (except Janet, who just introduces herself like she would to anyone else).
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The Good Place / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
The Good Place / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: In Chapters 14 and 15, we basically follow the day of each of the main characters separately, with the times they interact having an out-of-context predicament also going on. This is done after the Season 1 reveal of Michael creating a fake Good Place to torture the main 4 humans, showing how he knew what multiple characters were up to all along and showing him conspiring with the other residents to make the 4 miserable.
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The Good Place / int_73f7975f	type	Jerkass Gods
The Good Place / int_73f7975f	comment	Jerkass Gods: Gen "The Judge" is shown to be a bit of a jerk who is a bit vain and egocentric. She is willing to destroy humanity and restart the universe on a whim which the group has to stop, and later still continues to not like the group at the end of the show even after they have made a better system for the afterlife. "The Good Place" Committee trick Michael into taking charge of the Good Place and run away, washing their hands of the responsibility and disappear before Michael can do anything to stop them and they aren't seen again...
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The Good Place / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
The Good Place / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: In the first season, flashbacks to Eleanor's life on Earth has a muted, grayish color palette in contrast to the Good Place's pastel colors. The Bad Place is dim, dark grays. The Medium Place is earth tones befitting of the late 80s/early 90s. Accounting is taupe, and so is Neutral Janet.
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The Good Place / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Good Place / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "What We Owe To Each Other". It's the title of one of the books from Chidi's philosophy collection, is the name of a first season episode, Eleanor rips out a page from that book to write a note to herself, and in the second season finale, Michael brings it up to Eleanor when she's seeking motivation to be good after her death was turned into a near-death experience. In the series finale, Eleanor cites the final passage of the book to finally accept that she needs to allow Chidi to walk through the final door as she realizes it's what she owes to him after countless Bearimies of time together. "[Character name]? Come on in." Told by Michael to Eleanor, it's the very first line in the series, and it reappears multiple times being told to multiple different characters. "Welcome! Everything is fine." It's written on Michael's wall and is the first thing the humans see when they wake up after their deaths. The first episodes of the first three seasons are titled after the phrase. In season four where they run the experiment, Michael once again writes it on the wall. When, after all their strife, the Soul Squad finally enters the actual Good Place, Eleanor tells Michael that, at the end of the day, he was right: everything is fine.
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The Good Place / int_75979171	type	The Cuckoolander Was Right
The Good Place / int_75979171	comment	The Cuckoolander Was Right: An obscure early moment from episode 4 was the truth all along. Jason says that the "good place" might actually be an alien zoo, or a prank show. Well, as it turns out, he was right. The entire thing, everything that has ever happened in the show, was a giant prank in the Bad Place set up by Michael to torture Eleanor, Jason, Tahani, and Chidi for a thousand years by getting them to torture each other. He's also right about the "alien zoo" part, as the Good Place is essentially a zoo for Michael and the Architects. This is even lampshaded by Jason when everything is revealed. Not long after that, the cuckoolander has another idea. He also suggests stealing Michael's phone and using the secrets contained within to blackmail him. There are a few steps missing in his plan, but he's dead right about Michael having some very compromising secrets. And it's Vicky who does this! He also figured it out in "Best Self" in season two. The pattern on the baloon is green-green-green-red, so just remember that. He's right; Michael is just stalling because he has no idea how to get to the Good Place and the balloon is a fake. The pilot reveals that each of the world's major religions got the afterlife about 5% right...and then there was Doug Forcett, a random Canadian who guessed a whopping 92% while he was high on shrooms in 1972. This turns out to be one of the only things Michael told the truth about.
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The Good Place / int_76db0ef5	type	Slobs Versus Snobs
The Good Place / int_76db0ef5	comment	Slobs Versus Snobs: Of the main four humans, Eleanor and Jason are the lowerclass American slobs, while Tahani (and to a lesser extent Chidi) are the snobs. It's even an Invoked Trope as Michael had chosen them to torture each other specifically because of their wildly differing social and economic backgrounds. Eleanor being the slob to Tahani's snob is a plot point. Eleanor was born to a pair of Lower Class Louts and had to claw her way through life to get a comfortable living while Tahani was born to a rich family and enjoyed all the perks of being a socialite. Eleanor is also the slob to Chidi's snob, although Chidi is much more patient about it. Eleanor is a boorish ladette scammer who doesn't do chores, Chidi is a professor who picks up after her. Jason is the slob to Tahani's snob. When she discovers that her supposed soulmate Jianyu is really the immature petty criminal Jason, she's horrified. However, later on in the show they turn this into something of an Uptight Loves Wild relationship.
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The Good Place / int_777baed3	comment	The Judge outright says that she will test all of them, but Jason, who had to beat Madden against his favorite team using their bitter rival, still "figures" out that it was a test. Eleanor's test zigzags this, as she goes through a door just to return to the lobby and be told there is no test and she can go straight to the good place. She figures out that she's still really in the test and refuses to leave without the others, in part because the false Chidi says to forget about ethics for a minute.
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The Good Place / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
The Good Place / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: While Bad Janet was pretending to be our Janet, she tortured Jason by not only breaking up with him, but informing him that Blake Bortles was cut from the Jacksonville Jaguars immediately afterward. It's a bit of Foreshadowing that could have never been done if Bortles wasn't actually cut from the team in real life, as having Janet make such a blatant and cruel lie would have been a dead giveaway.
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The Good Place / int_79729e6d	type	Uptight Loves Wild
The Good Place / int_79729e6d	comment	Jason is the slob to Tahani's snob. When she discovers that her supposed soulmate Jianyu is really the immature petty criminal Jason, she's horrified. However, later on in the show they turn this into something of an Uptight Loves Wild relationship.
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The Good Place / int_7a265daa	type	Eagleland
The Good Place / int_7a265daa	comment	Eagleland: Played for Laughs with the show leaning towards Type 2 (aka The Boorish Flavor) for the most part, but more benign examples can have more of the Mixed Flavor going on. It really says something that of the main cast, the only two that realize every time they don't belong in the Good Place from the start are both American. Eleanor is a selfish cynic who believes in a dog-eat-dog mentality while Jason is a complete idiot and a petty criminal. However, both are fundamentally decent people; they just needed a push in the right direction. In the very first episode, it is mentioned in passing that every single American president is in the Bad Place, except for Abraham Lincoln, and even then it's implied he only made it because he ended slavery in the USA. Come season 3, it turns out that Michael was wrong: Not even Lincoln made it. In fact not a single American has actually made it into the Good Place, because the United States of America was founded after every person started going to the Bad Place because morality became too complex due to the unforeseen negative consequences of human life. Phoenix, Arizona, from what the audience sees through Eleanor, is a Mixed Flavor. It does have some pretty terrible people (Eleanor's parents, her coworkers at the telemarketing scam firm, etc.), but everyone else (Eleanor's ex-boyfriend Sam, the nice customer service guy at the Bed, Bath & Beyond store, the environmentalist recruiter, and a few others) is pretty decent. Justified since pre-mortem Eleanor would have no one to play off otherwise. On the other hand, no one uses the library there, the only sex education in the state is from The Bible, and apparently, a lot of porn is made there. Jacksonville, Florida, meanwhile, plays the Boorish Flavor straight as an arrow. In Jason's flashbacks, most of the people in his social circle are jerks and idiots, and every other supporting character is a criminal. Jason himself zigzags this: He's not really that bad of a guy, personality-wise, but his multiple misadventures (onscreen or otherwise) always involve some sort of excess, or crime, or both, like the profoundly idiotic scheme that got him killed ("I'm just a dope who died in a safe with a snorkel... who's only now realizing why that didn't work!"). The Type 2 Flavor is exemplified with the Cowboy Skyscraper Buffet America-themed restaurant seen in "The Brainy Bunch": it's got a tacky Wild Western design complemented with trashy pop culture decor, a "Manifest Destiny" package where you can kick the current occupant of a table off, a Florida table that smells like a swamp, and seating being announced by guns going off. Even Eleanor calls it the world's worst restaurant. However, the restaurant is in Australia, and the setpiece serves as a joke on how other countries perceive the U.S. It is also likely a parody of certain restaurants in the U.S. that have an Australian theme. Eleanor also expresses this sentiment in "Jeremy Bearimy", describing America as the result of a society of selfish people.
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The Good Place / int_7aa989ea	type	Token Evil Teammate
The Good Place / int_7aa989ea	comment	Token Evil Teammate: Ostensibly Jason and/or Eleanor, given that they're not supposed to be in the Good Place. Except not really since they're all in the Bad Place and, cosmically speaking, they're all technically bad. By Season 2, it's Michael when he teams up with the humans to avoid retirement, though by Season 3, he's progressed and is pretty much the Michael he pretended to be in Season 1.
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The Good Place / int_7b21ef92	type	Later-Installment Weirdness
The Good Place / int_7b21ef92	comment	Later-Installment Weirdness: Midway through season one, Janet is murdered, and reboots with a new lavender and dark green outfit. The second half of season one is the only time she wears a different outfit for a significant period of time, because in season two, she returns to her traditional dark purple, light blue spotted clothes.
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The Good Place / int_7b3ebb57	type	Buxom Beauty Standard
The Good Place / int_7b3ebb57	comment	Buxom Beauty Standard: Tahani notes that her bosom is large more than once approvingly. Eleanor for her part calls Janet "busty Alexa" and notes her "rockin' bod".
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The Good Place / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
The Good Place / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: Two resulting from Michael mentioning having watched the entirety of Friends: Firstly, for Michael himself, as one episode of Friends features Chandler watching Cheers, Ted Danson's breakout sitcom. Then, in the penultimate episode, Lisa Kudrow portrays Hypatia. Coincidentally, Michael mentioned a few episodes earlier that of the 6 main characters, Phoebe is the least deserving to go to the Bad Place. The episode "Janets" includes a reference to John Travolta's infamous mispronouncing of Idina Menzel's name at the Oscars, implying that the movie Frozen exists in this universe, despite also starring Kristen Bell.
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The Good Place / int_7c4fdf65	type	Red Is Violent
The Good Place / int_7c4fdf65	comment	Red Is Violent: In contrast to the lively green of the series title card, the Bad Place is frequently associated with red. Negative points, dots symbolizing people going to the Bad Place, and the introductory sign to the Bad Place is all red.
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The Good Place / int_7ccd3698	type	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever
The Good Place / int_7ccd3698	comment	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Among the things that go wrong the first time the neighborhood goes haywire is the appearance of giant ladybirds and frogs.
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The Good Place / int_7d3f1d63	type	The Ending Changes Everything
The Good Place / int_7d3f1d63	comment	The Ending Changes Everything: The entire show changes after the Season 1 finale reveals that everything took place in the Bad Place from the start, and that the main four characters are all just being manipulated by Bad Place staffers who make up every other character we meet, except Janet and Mindy. An extreme example in the series finale. The main characters quite literally change how the universe and afterlife system works, ensuring that most people eventually have a shot of getting into the Good Place, even after being tortured for a bit in the Bad Place. On top of that, people now have the ability to relinquish their consciousnesses to the universe if they've had enough of paradise, which Eleanor, Chidi, and Jason do, while Michael is made a human and lives on Earth.
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The Good Place / int_7e3cd89	type	Love Transcends Spacetime
The Good Place / int_7e3cd89	comment	Love Transcends Spacetime: Seasons 3 and 4 show that sparks flew between Eleanor and Chidi in quite a few of the reboots, hence their becoming an Official Couple.
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The Good Place / int_7f298d3d	type	Lame Comeback
The Good Place / int_7f298d3d	comment	Lame Comeback: After Shawn insults Michael in "The Funeral to End All Funerals": He also at one point mimics Eleanor's "Ya basic!"
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The Good Place / int_7fb70f7d	type	God and Satan Are Both Jerks
The Good Place / int_7fb70f7d	comment	God and Satan Are Both Jerks: There's apparently no version of the traditional God, but the closest thing in the show, The Judge, has complete jurisdiction over both physical reality and all three afterlives. She considers herself True Neutral, but takes it to an extreme, refuses to consider things like extenuating circumstances or motivation, and changing her mind is incredibly difficult. Even once it's been comprehensively proven to her how flawed the Points System is and how complex human existence is, she decides to completely reboot the universe, wiping out every human soul in the process, rather than try to fix what's wrong with the system. There doesn't seem to be a Lucifer either, but Shawn, who runs the Bad Place, is basically Satan in all but name. He not only takes delight in torturing human souls, but is a perfect example of Evil Is Petty too.
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The Good Place / int_805de9df	type	Divine Misfile
The Good Place / int_805de9df	comment	Divine Misfile: What appears to have happened to Eleanor in the first season, as she got confused with another Eleanor Shellstrop who died at the same time. Until the first season finale where it turns out to be part of the ruse. Season 3 eventually reveals that the points system wasn't built to take into account of the interconnected nature of the modern world and because of it, nobody has gotten into the Good Place in 521 years.
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The Good Place / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
The Good Place / int_808cbaeb	comment	Tahani tried to pull down a statue of her sister during a party being thrown for the latter by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, only for the statue to come crashing down on Tahani herself. And to make it more embarrassing (for Tahani anyway), she died in Cleveland. Tahani also had to disguise herself as a waitress to get in, which she explicitly calls out as embarrassing while talking to afterlife simulations of her parents: "I died dressed as someone in the service industry."
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The Good Place / int_81dd0c45	type	Bizarre Dream Rationalization
The Good Place / int_81dd0c45	comment	Bizarre Dream Rationalization: Being a rationalist, when Simone arrives to "The Good Place", Simone assumes the afterlife is simply her brain processing her death, and acts bizarrely for her own amusement. Eventually, Chidi convinces her to take things seriously, in case the setting truly is real.
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The Good Place / int_82b4f38e	type	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist
The Good Place / int_82b4f38e	comment	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Eleanor was not a good person in her life, and once she finds herself in the Good Place she is fully aware she does not belong with the other people. This sets her up as being one of the more naturally flawed characters, if only because she recognizes her flaws and seeks to improve even if she struggles against her nature. Flashbacks to her life show that while she could be selfish and meanspirited it never reached true cruelty, Michael even goes down a list of truly bad things (which includes getting a vanity license plate) and she didn't do any one. When it's revealed that Chidi, Tahani and Jason are all with her in the Bad Place, Chidi remains the more morally sensible one but Tahani is actually an Upper-Class Twit ignorant of her selfishness and Jason, despite seeming the most likable and laid back character, has probably done the more objectionable actions including drug smuggling (and a vanity license plate).
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The Good Place / int_83997339	type	Accent Interest
The Good Place / int_83997339	comment	Accent Interest: In "The Burrito", Judge Gen agrees to help the heroes in part because she's amused by Tahani's British accent.
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The Good Place / int_83a8d697	type	Oblivious Guilt Slinging
The Good Place / int_83a8d697	comment	Oblivious Guilt Slinging: Michael's effusive praise for Eleanor's noble life on Earth and her generous help in fixing the Good Place's glitches cause Eleanor much grief. And as it turns out, Michael's not actually oblivious to the guilt tripping at all.
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The Good Place / int_83fb6177	type	First-Episode Twist
The Good Place / int_83fb6177	comment	First-Episode Twist: The basic premise of the series is laid out without much issue in the first episode, but over the course of the first season layers and layers of the setting are revealed until it reaches the finale. All subsequent seasons are built on this revelation, which makes anything past the first season difficult to discuss without spoiling that development. The first episode has Eleanor being shown around the neighborhood with sickeningly sweet and wholesome environment and people. At the very end of the episode, Eleanor turns to Chidi and confesses that she doesn't belong here, as her backstory given by Michael did not belong to her and she has just been playing along the entire time. "Jianyu Li" not actually being a silent Buddhist monk and instead the pre-successful Floridan DJ Jason Mendoza is hard to avoid considering The Reveal happens in the third episode and Jason becomes one of the four main characters. In a Mid-Season Twist Eleanor confesses to Michael and the neighborhood that she doesn't belong there. This turns the story into a scramble for her and Michael to figure out what happened and how she can possibly earn enough points to earn her place there. In the season one finale, it's revealed that the Good Place we've seen in has actually been the Bad Place the whole time. Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani and Jason were all carefully selected by Michael to annoy and infuriate each other for a millennia. All other people in the neighborhood were demons playing a role. It is then revealed that Michael can reset their memories at a whim, and makes plans to start the system over again with some differences. This revelation shatters the status quo, and becomes the key to the tone of later seasons.
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The Good Place / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Good Place / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: It was never explained who the douchebag demons that accompanied Trevor in Chapters 8 & 9 were. And we never see anybody like them in the actual Bad Place.
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The Good Place / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
The Good Place / int_87504252	comment	The Big Board: Played with. Michael has one but it looks like a small desk-sized map of the neighborhood. However, since he sees in nine dimensions, it's apparently much much bigger and messier to him.
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The Good Place / int_87646020	type	Memory Gambit
The Good Place / int_87646020	comment	Memory Gambit: Chidi erases his own memories so he won't give away the truth about the second neighborhood through his reaction to Simone being there.
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The Good Place / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The Good Place / int_8774fb47	comment	You can see the horribly-drawn pony return in the background of one of the Janets' voids.
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The Good Place / int_88933ad4	type	Parental Favoritism
The Good Place / int_88933ad4	comment	Tahani's parents constantly compared their two daughters' achievements to their faces, always favoring her sister, Kamilah. They would typically hold contests between the two, judging the results and condemning the loser, again, to her face. The worst incident occurs at the reading of their parents' will.
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The Good Place / int_88a97dd4	type	Stiff Upper Lip
The Good Place / int_88a97dd4	comment	Stiff Upper Lip: Tahani mentions a British "saying" about not letting anyone know when you're sad.
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The Good Place / int_88ac3e84	type	Karmic Reform Hell
The Good Place / int_88ac3e84	comment	Karmic Reform Hell: The solution they come up with in the end. The traditional Heaven and Hell remain, but Hell presents inhabitants with tests that they can pass to go to Heaven.
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The Good Place / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
The Good Place / int_890d4ef2	comment	Brent, one of the humans chosen for the new Fake Good Place experiment, constantly refused to stop and think about how his general obliviousness and lack of self-awareness hurt everyone else around him. It's not until the episode "Help is Other People" where he undergoes a Humiliation Conga, is made to believe that he's in the Bad Place and gets a "The Reason You Suck" Speech from Chidi that he finally realizes what a jerk he is.
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The Good Place / int_89434320	type	Protagonist-Centered Morality
The Good Place / int_89434320	comment	Protagonist-Centered Morality: In season three, Michael and Janet interfere to prevent Tahani and Jason from getting together on Earth on the dubious grounds that it might tear the group apart. Setting aside the fact that this is likely untrue, given that it did no such thing when they were together in the previous season, it also comes across as being motivated by selfish motives on Janet's part, as she had previously argued against interfering when it came to Chidi and Simone starting a romantic relationship.
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The Good Place / int_8984e5d1	type	Commonality Connection
The Good Place / int_8984e5d1	comment	John and Tahani. John was a gossip blogger who often wrote degrading things about Tahani on his blog and he was chosen by the Bad Place as one of the test subjects for the new experiment specifically to torment her. However, Tahani is determined to not let the past get in the way of the experiment (which is justified, considering the stakes at hand), and extends an olive branch out to John. After an initially bumpy start, they find they a Commonality Connection and become friends.
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The Good Place / int_8a07e085	type	Denser and Wackier
The Good Place / int_8a07e085	comment	Denser and Wackier: An in-universe example occurs during the montage of reboots of the Fake Good Place experiment in the Season 2 episode "Dance Dance Resolution". Eleanor's assigned soulmates change, eventually cycling through Tahani and a golden retriever, a mysterious glowing obelisk is seen, and there are several shots of Eleanor and Chidi in bizarre circumstances when she makes the revelation.
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The Good Place / int_8acbc572	type	Fire and Brimstone Hell
The Good Place / int_8acbc572	comment	The Bad Place seems to be a combination of Fire and Brimstone Hell and this. As beside the torture and attacks by dangerous animals like flying bears with multiple mouths and swarms of bees or natural disasters like erupting volcanoes and tornadoes, more "mundane" punishments are mentioned, such as having to organize a baby shower or attend a test you didn't study for.
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The Good Place / int_8becc5c5	type	Existential Horror
The Good Place / int_8becc5c5	comment	Existential Horror: Chidi has an existential crisis over learning that the eternal now, and also Tuesdays, are separate from the rest of time. Everyone else just runs with Jeremy Bearimy, but Chidi, who has spent his life honing his ability to overthink everything as a moral philosophy professor, is broken by it.
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The Good Place / int_8cf6aa	type	Literal Metaphor
The Good Place / int_8cf6aa	comment	Literal Metaphor: When Michael and the humans go the Judge, Michael says the humans might be able to improve if they were given "a push in the right direction." This inspires the Judge to allow Michael to go down to Earth and give the humans a second chance at their lives, which, in the case of Eleanor, Chidi, and Tahani, means literally giving them a push in the right direction that prevents them from dying.
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The Good Place / int_8d23f3a7	type	Timey-Wimey Ball
The Good Place / int_8d23f3a7	comment	Timey-Wimey Ball: While time on Earth is linear, time in the afterlife loops around and winds up looking like the name "Jeremy Bearimy" in English cursive. The dot of the "i" is both Tuesdays and July, and sometimes never. This concept causes a Heroic BSD for Chidi. He states that the dot "broke him", and he proceeds to spend the next little while having a massive freakout, including making chili with M&Ms and Peeps. Several title cards in the fourth season run with this, announcing that some number of Bearimies has passed.
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The Good Place / int_8d4799d1	type	Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl
The Good Place / int_8d4799d1	comment	Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Anxious philosophy professor Chidi acts as the brain of the group (at least at the start), while bouncy, self-professed Arizona Dirtbag Eleanor acts as the emotional driver.
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The Good Place / int_8d718b9e	type	Bears Are Bad News
The Good Place / int_8d718b9e	comment	Bears Are Bad News: When Eleanor and Chidi are played an audio clip of what is currently going on in the Bad Place, they hear one of the damned screaming about being menaced by a bear with two mouths. Later on, there is a mention of bears with four heads that fly. When the demons trying to learn how to make a fake Good Place in Season 4 one of them creates a chainsaw bear, a bear with chainsaws for arms who shouts its own name.
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The Good Place / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
The Good Place / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Chapter 7. Overlapping with Mid-Season Twist, at the end of the episode, Eleanor confesses to everyone that she doesn't belong in The Good Place. Chapter 13. We've been in the Bad Place the entire time! Michael is actually a demonic architect who specifically designed his neighborhood to be a never-ending torture chamber for Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason. In fact, the four of them were carefully chosen because they would get on each other's nerves and aside from them, every other resident is actually a member of the evil Celestial Bureaucracy going along with Michael's plan to torture the four Main Characters. And the "good" Eleanor is also a part of Michael's Evil Plan and is actually named Vicky. Chapter 26, the Season 2 finale. Michael and Gen agree to a plan to test the idea that people can change, if given a push. That plan? The main four are brought back to Earth, where their deaths are narrowly averted. However, Michael decides to break the rules and encourage the humans to meet up once they begin regressing. Chapter 38. Michael and Team Cockroach successfully manage to convince Gen that the sorting system is flawed, so she brings in Shawn so they can all discuss how to fix the system. They decide to build a new neighborhood in Mindy St. Claire's Medium Place, similar to the one from Season 1, and bring in four recently-dead humans to test and see if they can become better people. However, before the test subjects arrive, Michael learns that Shawn is planning to torture Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason with a clone of himself if the new neighborhood fails. As a result, Michael freaks out and collapses, leaving Eleanor to take care of the first test subject. Chapter 39, the Season 3 finale. Michael's anxiety forces Eleanor to take over as "the Architect" of the neighborhood. Shawn attempts to sabotage the experiment by sending humans who would be ideal for making things as miserable as possible for the Soul Squad, including Simone, who has died off-screen. This causes Chidi to freak out and request to be rebooted, fearing that he'll let something slip and ruin the experiment, ending his relationship with Eleanor. His request is granted because there's no other solution.
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The Good Place / int_8e647ba9	type	Undercover as Lovers
The Good Place / int_8e647ba9	comment	Undercover as Lovers: Eleanor and Chidi have to pose not only as a couple but as soulmates to hide the fact that Eleanor is not supposed to be in the Good Place.
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The Good Place / int_8eb654e4	type	Firing Day
The Good Place / int_8eb654e4	comment	Firing Day: Michael's description of what happens when Architects "retire" is absolutely hellish (something people would literally describe as like hell), and it is looming over his head from the middle of the first season when he can't figure out what's wrong with his system design. When his boss, Shawn, shows up, he threatens that retirement is "on the table" if they can't resolve the situation. Michael wasn't actually at risk of being retired at the start of the season, he was just trying to make the main characters feel bad by putting his pain on them. When things begin to really fall apart, Shawn puts the threat in play for real.
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The Good Place / int_8ee72ccd	type	Sickeningly Sweet
The Good Place / int_8ee72ccd	comment	Sickeningly Sweet: Everyone else has done so many inhumanly good things before they died that Eleanor gets wasted just to cope.
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The Good Place / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
The Good Place / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled In Space: The first season is Sartre's No Exit... as a wacky American sitcom!
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The Good Place / int_9075ac17	type	Just a Machine
The Good Place / int_9075ac17	comment	Just a Machine: Janet has absolutely no self-preservation (except briefly simulated whenever someone approaches her self-destruct), and repeatedly encourages the characters to treat her as an emotionless tool, even though she's not a machine or person... technically? She still develops emotions over the course of the show, as she does get rebooted, which seems to come with a supernatural "software update" each time. Celestial beings can also create facsimiles of people and animals that act exactly like the real thing, but are just hollow copies... probably.
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The Good Place / int_90b330ab	type	No-Respect Guy
The Good Place / int_90b330ab	comment	Michael is the Wizard, being the leader of Oz/Good Place Neighborhood 12358W who is a benevolent demigod/wizard who in reality isn't at all what he seems. Additionally, behind the proverbial curtain he's shown to actually be a pretty pathetic loser and No-Respect Guy, and Michael's Character Development driving him into a Heelâ€“Face Turn results in him (much like the Wizard of Oz) actually assisting the Soul Squad in resolving their character flaws and finding their way back to where they really belong (as in, the real Good Place).
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The Good Place / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
The Good Place / int_90c018ac	comment	Justified Trope: The wedding clichÃ© of the bride and groom smearing each other with the wedding cake when feeding each other the first slice is justified by the fact that Janet doesn't eat so just stands there while Jason tries to figure out how to feed her and ends up just mashing it around her mouth. Doubles as a Call-Back to her saying when she gets rebooted, she smears cake around where her mouth is.
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The Good Place / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
The Good Place / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: We are never shown where dead children go, and none of the characters ever ask. Possibly their actions are not being scored.
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The Good Place / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
The Good Place / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: Trevor makes a return in the final moments of the Season 3 premiere, and sticks around for most of the following episode.
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The Good Place / int_931fc523	type	Back for the Finale
The Good Place / int_931fc523	comment	Back for the Finale: Several characters previously exclusively seen in flashbacks of the main characters' lives show up in person at various points in the series finale, having died and gotten into the Good Place, including Eleanor's old friends Brittany and Madison, Tahani's sister Kamilah and both their parents, and Chidi's childhood best friend Uzo.
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The Good Place / int_9438e550	type	The Big Damn Kiss
The Good Place / int_9438e550	comment	The Big Damn Kiss: In Chapter 26, Chidi finally lays one on Eleanor. Since they've hooked up in previous reboots (not that they can remember), they've obviously kissed before, but this is the first one in this reboot and the first time the audience gets to see it. Also occurs in Chapter 32, where we see the timeline Mindy told Eleanor about in Chapter 15. Eleanor quietly declares that Chidi's "amazing" before laying one on him. Happens again in Chapter 36, where Chidi decides to embrace his past self's romance with Eleanor and snap her out of her Heroic BSoD at the same time. The montage Michael plays for them before wiping Chidi's memory at the end of season three shows that they have a habit of this, with one planting a kiss on the other, usually a "Shut Up" Kiss. And then they just keep doing that in season four.
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The Good Place / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
The Good Place / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Eleanor was so self-absorbed that she never realized just how much of a jerk she was and thought of herself as a mildly good person. When she is confronted with her past actions, she finally realizes just how nasty and selfish she was. In Chapter 13, Tahani realizes that all the good acts she's performed were meaningless, because she only did them for praise and recognition, rather than because they were good deeds. Shortly afterwards, Chidi realizes how much his obsession and indecisiveness over doing the right thing led to him hurting everyone in his life and got him sent to the Bad Place. She has another extended one in Season 2 when she realizes that the Bad Place's method of torturing her is through ordeals around event mismanagement, and it's working, which means she's a shallow, frivolous and arrogant person. Brent, one of the humans chosen for the new Fake Good Place experiment, constantly refused to stop and think about how his general obliviousness and lack of self-awareness hurt everyone else around him. It's not until the episode "Help is Other People" where he undergoes a Humiliation Conga, is made to believe that he's in the Bad Place and gets a "The Reason You Suck" Speech from Chidi that he finally realizes what a jerk he is.
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The Good Place / int_96b89043	type	Not So Above It All
The Good Place / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All: By the second episode, Eleanor's neighbor Tahani is clearly (to the viewers, anyway) starting to get frustrated that her soulmate Jianyu is continuing his vow of silence even in the afterlife.
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The Good Place / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Good Place / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Michael in Season 1 and the start of Season 2. After he performs his Heelâ€“Face Turn, this role is passed on to Shawn for the rest of the series.
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The Good Place / int_979f41a	type	Continuity Reboot
The Good Place / int_979f41a	comment	Continuity Reboot: Played with in-universe: The events of Season 1 still happened in the show's continuity, but Michael has wiped the main characters' memories so many times that for the most part, those events don't really matter and the Character Development that resulted from them is negated. However, there are exceptions: Even after over 800 reboots, Janet still feels the attraction to Jason that she developed in Season 1, which becomes a source of conflict in "Janet and Michael", since Janet's attempts to cover up her jealousy of Jason and Tahani is causing her to glitch out and pose a danger to the neighborhood.
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The Good Place / int_985e118a	type	Odd Couple
The Good Place / int_985e118a	comment	Odd Couple: Jason and Tahani have a brief - though loving and meaningful - relationship.
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The Good Place / int_985f0a0f	type	Production Throwback
The Good Place / int_985f0a0f	comment	Production Throwback: In "Somewhere Else", the back cover of Celebrity Baby Plastic Surgery Disasters magazine has an ad for a champagne produced by Jean-Ralphio Saperstein from Parks and Recreation. Although Jean-Ralphio's move into champagne took place offscreen, a bottle was seen in Craig and Typhoon's flashforward in the Parks & Rec Grand Finale. Among the pile of objects that Janet tried to summon in "The Brainy Bunch" is a "Paunch Burger" brand bucket of soda, a popular fast-food chain in Pawnee. When the failure of the point system is examined, an example act shown on-screen is buying a tomato from "Food and Stuff" in Indiana (but not in Pawnee). Apparently Ron's favorite store has expanded into a chain. Additionally, Shawn planning on torturing Michael by leaving him alone in a room for the rest of eternity with only continually-arriving copies of The New Yorker (despite the fact that he'll never read them) is likely a reference to Kevin torturing Jake in Brooklyn Nine-Nine by discussing the same magazine. Overlapping with both Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Parks and Recreation, in The Good Place acupuncture is only viewed as a form of torture and which only increases stress rather than relieving it.
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The Good Place / int_991af300	type	Poke the Poodle
The Good Place / int_991af300	comment	Poke the Poodle: The entire concept of the fake Good Place neighborhood is built on Michael's theory that an eternity of this trope will cause humans just as much misery as traditional torture, albeit emotional misery instead of physical.
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The Good Place / int_999b994b	type	Dead to Begin With
The Good Place / int_999b994b	comment	Dead to Begin With: Eleanor is dead in the first episode, launching the show's plot, and every other human in the Good Place is deceased as well. The only nondeceased main characters are Michael and Janet, but they're both immortal beings, so it doesn't apply.
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The Good Place / int_99dfd4fc	type	Nothing Is the Same Anymore
The Good Place / int_99dfd4fc	comment	Nothing Is the Same Anymore: The show is famously the antithesis of Status Quo Is God, regularly introducing massive shakeups to its premise and setting: Eleanor publicly admits that she doesn't belong in the Good Place seven episodes into Season 1 and ends up inadvertently playing Spanner in the Works for Michael's designs. At the end of Season 1, it's revealed that the "Good Place" is actually the Bad Place, and the characters are meant to torture each other for all eternity. In Season 2, the neighborhood is destroyed and the human characters are given a second chance to earn their spot in the Good Place by being brought back to life. Midway through Season 3, the humans learn the truth about their past with Michael and Janet, thereby losing the opportunity to earn afterlife points. After two seasons of trying to improve themselves, they accept that they're destined for the Bad Place and decide to use their knowledge to make other people better instead. But then the newly christened Soul Squad discover that the points system itself is massively broken and no human has gotten into the Good Place in 521 years, leading them to find a way to fix it. They present their case to the Judge, who comes up with an experiment to see how well humans can continue improving in the afterlife without the pressures of modern life compromising their progress. The Bad Placers, determined to undermine the experiment in whatever way they can, send in Chidi's deceased ex-girlfriend Simone as one of the test subjects, forcing Chidi to erase his own memories so he won't compromise things. Season 4 revolves around the Soul Squad trying to run the experiment with varying degrees of success on each subject. Once it's over, the Judge agrees that the system is flawed and humans are too complex to be judged effectively by it. Unfortunately, her solution to the problem is to wipe the slate clean and reboot existence, forcing the Soul Squad to find another solution. After the finale, the entire afterlife system had been completely overhauled. Staffers of both the Good Place and the Bad Place work together to ensure that all humans can eventually get into the Good Place after becoming better people. Some people may go to the Bad Place at first, but after psychological and emotional tortureâ€”rather than the crude physical methods the demons usually favoredâ€”they're forced to confront their flaws and overcome them. People in the Good Place may then decide that they've gotten their fill of paradise and exit through a door that Michael built, that allows them to dismantle their consciousness and return to the universe. And Eleanor, Chidi, and Jason do just that, while Tahani becomes a Good Place architect and Michael becomes a human and lives on Earth.
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The Good Place / int_99e14f05	type	All-Loving Hero
The Good Place / int_99e14f05	comment	All-Loving Hero: The first episode mentions that Florence Nightingale, who is usually considered an example of this trope, ended up going to The Bad Place, which serves as the first clue that something is seriously wrong with the way the afterlife works. Much later, we meet Doug Forcett, who found out about the point system during a drug trip, and is deliberately trying to be this trope to earn enough points. The Soul Squad then finds out that in spite of all this, Doug hasn't earned nearly enough points and is almost certain to go to the Bad Place as well. This discovery leads to them realizing the whole system is broken and culminates in the afterlife being redesigned in the final season.
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The Good Place / int_9a3b7208	type	The Needs of the Many
The Good Place / int_9a3b7208	comment	The Needs of the Many: Chidi gives Eleanor a lecture about utilitarianism, and the issues which it faces, such as if torturing one person to death so a hundred more are saved is moral. Jason puts in his own more selfish scenario - framing an innocent person who would otherwise break up a band and cause more (supposed) unhappiness.
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The Good Place / int_9b55df1f	type	No Animosity in the Afterlife
The Good Place / int_9b55df1f	comment	No Animosity in the Afterlife: John and Tahani. John was a gossip blogger who often wrote degrading things about Tahani on his blog and he was chosen by the Bad Place as one of the test subjects for the new experiment specifically to torment her. However, Tahani is determined to not let the past get in the way of the experiment (which is justified, considering the stakes at hand), and extends an olive branch out to John. After an initially bumpy start, they find they a Commonality Connection and become friends. Present in the final episode. Since you can only reach heaven once you have cleared out all your emotional baggage, virtually all animosity is wiped out by default. The biggest case is definitely Tahani and her family who all become very close with each other. Eleanor and her mother also count.
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The Good Place / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
The Good Place / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: The eponymous Good Place, built by beings with nine-dimensional vision, that sells frozen yogurt in flavors that are literally abstract concepts (as well as regular flavors), and can be seriously warped by people's actions while there. Then it's subverted when it turns out the main characters were actually in the Bad Place all along, and the weird things going on were supposed to be unique punishments meant to make Eleanor feel bad. The dimension making up the afterlife and the Celestial Bureaucracy running it has weird things like Alien Geometries and a very loopy Timey-Wimey Ball way of how time passes. The Interdimensional Hole Of Pancakes as revealed in "Chidi Sees The Time Knife" is an Acid-Trip Dimension Portal Crossroad World with portals to every dimension that vaguely resembles pancakes flying around constantly, Alien Geometries, and strange creatures. Chidi falls through a portal at one point and witnesses every dimension folding upon each other like the layers of a blade. This is the titular Time Knife; all the non-humans have already seen it.
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The Good Place / int_9c1e591e	type	Unfortunate Search Results
The Good Place / int_9c1e591e	comment	Unfortunate Search Results: To prove the points system is flawed, Michael uses the example that even buying tomatoes can lose someone a chunk of points due to all the unintended consequences. The Judge is unsympathetic and argues that people should just do the research before purchasing. When she goes to Earth herself, the first thing she does is look up "big, juicy, natural tomatoes", only to find herself on a porn site for people with a sunburn fetish. It helps convince her human life is far more complicated and difficult than she had believed.
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The Good Place / int_9c4003a1	type	One True Love
The Good Place / int_9c4003a1	comment	One True Love: Everyone has one, and in the Good Place you get to be with that person forever. In theory. Michael made it up as part of his plan to torture the main four; soulmates aren't a thing.
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The Good Place / int_9c495599	type	Hide Your Children
The Good Place / int_9c495599	comment	Hide Your Children: There are no children shown in this afterlife. Absolutely none anywhere whatsoever. At any point in the series. So you don't need to worry about children being tortured in the Bad Place!
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The Good Place / int_9cd35798	type	Love Revelation Epiphany
The Good Place / int_9cd35798	comment	Love Revelation Epiphany: Happens in Season 3. Eleanor learns from Michael that she and Chidi were together in one of the multiple reboots, which causes her to develop nebulous feelings for him, although she resists accepting this at first. When Chidi finds out, he is also in denial about it, but later reciprocates. When Jason finds out that he and Janet were once married and that Janet is in love with him, he starts to want to date her as well.
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The Good Place / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Good Place / int_9d12bbc1	comment	In the flashback at the beginning of "Michael's Gambit", right before Dave drops the "Project No. 12358W" file on Michael's desk, you can just catch the title of the file he was working on beforehand: "Flesh Ripping Lightning", a big sign that he doesn't really work for the Good Place.
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The Good Place / int_9dd0f9bf	type	Acid-Trip Dimension
The Good Place / int_9dd0f9bf	comment	The Interdimensional Hole Of Pancakes as revealed in "Chidi Sees The Time Knife" is an Acid-Trip Dimension Portal Crossroad World with portals to every dimension that vaguely resembles pancakes flying around constantly, Alien Geometries, and strange creatures. Chidi falls through a portal at one point and witnesses every dimension folding upon each other like the layers of a blade. This is the titular Time Knife; all the non-humans have already seen it.
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The Good Place / int_9e8487d2	type	Weaker in the Real World
The Good Place / int_9e8487d2	comment	Weaker in the Real World: In Season 3, Michael and Janet lose their otherworldly powers when on Earth, though Janet still knows everything up to the point when she left due to the nature of her existence.
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The Good Place / int_9e9203e1	type	Dramatically Missing the Point
The Good Place / int_9e9203e1	comment	"As for how we proceed from here, obviously, Earth is cancelled." Said by Judge Gen, after judging that humanity and not the points system is flawed.
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The Good Place / int_9eca61c8	type	Production Foreshadowing
The Good Place / int_9eca61c8	comment	Production Foreshadowing: An episode of The Good Place Podcast mentioned an on-set visit by the guy who "played" Doug Forcett, with Ted Danson acting in-character as Michael and treating him as a hero. Season 3 has exactly that happen, with Michael believing Doug to be an exemplary human and visiting him.
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The Good Place / int_9f970427	type	Secret-Keeper
The Good Place / int_9f970427	comment	Secret-Keeper: This is a fundamental staple for much of the series. Initially it's Chidi hiding the fact that Eleanor doesn't belong in the Good Place, later they add that Jason doesn't belong there either. In the second season, it all gets turned around when Michael joins the team and they all try to figure out how to get to the Good Place. Then it gets inverted in the fourth season when Chidi is the only one of the team who doesn't know anything, having gotten most of his memories erased.
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The Good Place / int_a10f3840	type	Heaven
The Good Place / int_a10f3840	comment	Heaven: The Good Place is effectively this. While the real one still qualifies, the first season finale reveals that the one the characters have been living in definitely isn't.
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The Good Place / int_a15af1f3	type	Sugar Bowl
The Good Place / int_a15af1f3	comment	Sugar Bowl: Played with. The setting is clearly intended to be one, what with its exaggeratedly pleasant smalltown America vibe filled with ridiculously good people, but it starts to fall apart almost immediately.
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The Good Place / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
The Good Place / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: A variation. Right as Brent apologizes to Chidi after he finally has a My God, What Have I Done? moment, the experiment ends and the subjects get placed into stasis by Janet.
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The Good Place / int_a3121d7	comment	Socially Scored Society: Everyone on Earth is observed at all times by the Celestial Bureaucracy, and in theory, every single action is graded according to Good Behavior Points. Once you die, your score is totaled to decide where you go. The best people end up in The Good Place, a saccharine paradise. Most people end up tortured for eternity in the Bad Place. It turns out that the 'algorithm' that scores one's actions hasn't accounted for how interconnected modern-day humanity is, leading to ostensibly good actions harming other people indirectly — the system is so broken that even someone who knows exactly how it works and is trying to game it to get the best score possible still doesn't qualify for heaven.
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The Good Place / int_a3ff1ef1	type	Flashback B-Plot
The Good Place / int_a3ff1ef1	comment	Flashback B-Plot: Used in the first two seasons, but eventually dropped. While the A-story would show what was happening to the characters in the afterlife, the B-story would use flashbacks to show what the characters were like while they were still alive.
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The Good Place / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
The Good Place / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: Downplayed as it's just the Tagline, but for season three the Tagline was "What on Earth?" This is an obvious reference to the common saying, along with the fact that the characters are once again literally on Earth since their deaths were reversed.
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The Good Place / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
The Good Place / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: Eleanor's parents. They forgot her birthday, her mom blew half her college fund on bailing out her new boyfriend, her father blew the rest trying to frame said boyfriend, and were incredibly self-absorbed jerks who left Eleanor to fend for herself.
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The Good Place / int_a55ab01e	type	Jerkass Realization
The Good Place / int_a55ab01e	comment	Morality is complicated, and judging it in a black and white context means you get a forked up view of the world and people while harming them in turn. This eventually becomes the overarching aesop of the series. The Judge gets a Jerkass Realization when she spends thirty years as a human and understands that it is hard to live a moral life when you are on Earth with a lot of mitigating factors. What's more, thanks to the black and white system imposed on a gray world, no one has gotten into the real Good Place for 521 years. Chidi's rigid adherence to Kant's equally rigid ethics frequently causes real trouble and emotional distress for himself and the people around him. The show provides a good example of the arguments for why Kant's categorical imperative works better as a general principle than as a strict rule for every action.
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The Good Place / int_a5a24920	type	Big Breast Pride
The Good Place / int_a5a24920	comment	Tahani notes that her bosom is large more than once approvingly.
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The Good Place / int_a60e3252	type	Rule of Funny
The Good Place / int_a60e3252	comment	Rule of Funny: Michael claims that "demon" is a somewhat offensive term that the Bad Place beings consider to be inaccurate and "a little racist". This notion is never addressed or alluded to anywhere else in the show. Demons refer to themselves as demons all the time, even in more "formal" settings, so it's not being used as slang. No other label for what to call Bad Place residents besides demon is ever mentioned in the show. It honestly seems the only reason that line was even included was solely to make that joke.
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The Good Place / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Good Place / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: In the end, when the afterlife is redesigned and the Bad Place is abolished, the demons don't face any punishment aside from being unable to torture people any more. While it's true that they were basically punch clock villains, considering how much they enjoyed torturing people, and how they brought unimaginable amounts of sufferings to billions of human souls, it still seems rather odd that nothing bad happens to them.
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The Good Place / int_a777acd4	type	Dreamville
The Good Place / int_a777acd4	comment	Dreamville: Mindy St. Clair's neighbourhood in The Medium Place appears to be quiet and idyllic from the outside, as a 1980-styled house in the middle of an empty grassland, however, everything in it is perfectly mediocre, not being either torture or gift. It is an extremely boring place to be, with Mindy St. Clair being initially desperate for human contact (and some cocaine). Neighbourhood 12358W seems like an idyllic Good Place neighbourhood, but is actually an experiment by the Bad Place to determine whether it would be possible to make a bunch of humans torture each other for all eternity.
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The Good Place / int_a808063f	type	Black-and-White Insanity
The Good Place / int_a808063f	comment	Black-and-White Insanity: This seems to be the criteria for judging people into the afterlife, there is no "grey"; when Michael reads Les MisÃ©rables he concludes all the characters are going to the Bad Place. Jean Valjean stealing bread to feed his family? Stealing the bread outweighs the reasons he stole it for. There's also the matter that being French automatically sends you to the Bad Place ...even Victor Hugo is there (and if the bread you steal is a baguette, you get more negative points because it makes you more French). It becomes a plot point in Season 3, where Shawn does some Evil Gloating on how he expects to see the main four's friends and families and even Doug Forcett in the Bad Place, even though they're still living and he shouldn't know their fates in advance; this clues Michael in that something is very wrong. Further investigation reveals that no human has made it to the Good Place in 521 years precisely because the system operates on an extremely rigid system that has no room for nuance or grey areas.
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The Good Place / int_a9c7258a	type	Absent Aliens
The Good Place / int_a9c7258a	comment	Absent Aliens: There's no mention of any intelligent life aside from humanity and the inhabitants of the afterlife, all of whom have randomized human bodies despite their true inhuman nature. Even the Judge, the personification of Hydrogen, who was the first thing to ever exist, makes no mention of any sort of life beyond Earth. Could be that it doesn't exist, could be that there's no intelligent life, could be that all or most lifeforms that evolve an understanding of ethics are essentially higher primates on every planet, or maybe aliens just have their own afterlives.
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The Good Place / int_aa88f109	type	Humanity Is Infectious
The Good Place / int_aa88f109	comment	Humanity Is Infectious: This is explicitly the case for Michael, but it's also implied with other supernatural figures like Shawn, the Judge, and the Doorman over the course of the show.
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The Good Place / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
The Good Place / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The first three season premiers start with "Everything is...". In Season 1 it's "Fine", in Season 2 it's "Great" and Season 3 has "Bonzer". This is based on the "Welcome! Everything is fine." message in Michael's Good Place waiting room. The final season premiere, "A Girl From Arizona," subverts this convention, possibly because Eleanor has taken Michael's place in the new Good Place experiment.
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The Good Place / int_ace24b2c	type	Halfway Plot Switch
The Good Place / int_ace24b2c	comment	Halfway Plot Switch: Each season has its initial premise be radically altered near the midway point. Season one's initial premise was Eleanor having to hide that she had been sent here by mistake. Episode seven has her confess she doesn't belong, and the rest of the season is devoted to avoiding her being sent to the Bad Place. Season two's initial premise was the humans banding together with Michael in secret while Vicky runs the neighborhood. Episode eight has Shawn arrive, subsequently scrapping the neighborhood concept. Season three's initial premise was the humans being back on Earth after their deaths were reversed. Episode eight has them die again, returning to the afterlife. Season four's initial premise was the main group running an experiment to base the afterlife system off of. By episode seven, the experiment has already ended, and the rest of the season focuses on the aftermath.
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The Good Place / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Good Place / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Although Michael only got the best out of Janet when he himself Took a Level in Kindness in Season 2, he dooms his own plan to failure by bringing a Good Place Janet into The Bad Place. Janet rescues the four humans so many times over the course of the show, but the clearest example of this trope in action for Michael and Janet specifically is when Janet holds onto Eleanor's note and finds Eleanor again telling her to "Find Chidi" after Michael wipes Eleanor's memory and resets the Good Place. This enables Eleanor to find Chidi and (slowly) discover the truth again. At the end of "Don't Let the Good Life Pass You By", Shawn gloats to the Soul Squad that he expects to see their friends and family members in the Bad Place when their time comes in spite of the improvements they made to themselves and even Doug Forcett himself. This clues Michael in that the problems with the points system run deeper than he originally thought, a suspicion that turns out to be true and gets the Soul Squad to successfully appeal their case to the Judge, ultimately threatening the status quo that Shawn enables for more than five centuries. In "Tinker, Tailor, Demon, Spy" Jason figures out that Janet was replaced with a Bad Janet right as the second experiment started, which is why she was egging Tahani to be more aggressive towards John in getting him to come to Chidi's ethics class. However, if Bad Janet hadn't been there, Tahani would've never realized how much she and John actually had in common, and therefore wouldn't have made any progress with him.
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The Good Place / int_ad17a1ac	type	Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse
The Good Place / int_ad17a1ac	comment	Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Although Eleanor's parents sucked, and she has blamed their neglect for her shitty behaviour all her life, she says in "Mindy St. Claire" that this wasn't good:
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The Good Place / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Good Place / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The Soul Squad have a major one in the first season finale, after Michael reacts to Eleanor realising the truth by saying that he knows what to change for next time, and that he's going to erase their memories. A demon gets one when fighting Janet on Earth and trying to push her through a door to Hell. The moment Janet's head touches the portal, she notes her powers come back then. One of the demons pushing her exclaims "They do?!" before being thrown across the room by a shockwave generated by Janet.
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The Good Place / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
The Good Place / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: Eleanor loves shrimp, to the point that Michael gave her an Infinte Shrimp Bar (with several different sauces in soda dispensers) as an apology gift at one point. Chidi enjoys almond milk, which causes him anxiety because of its negative environmental impact. There's actually a Running Gag that Chidi thinks it's the reason he's in the Bad Place. Due to the afterlife points system, he's partially right — it had an effect, but nowhere near the main reason he's down there. Jason's favorite food is jalapeno poppers.
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The Good Place / int_aeec99a9	type	Immediate Sequel
The Good Place / int_aeec99a9	comment	Immediate Sequel: Most of the episodes follow immediately on the heels of the episode before.
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The Good Place / int_affdffd9	type	Stupid Good
The Good Place / int_affdffd9	comment	Stupid Good: The inhabitants of the Good Place. They're too good for their own good, much less anyone else's, being naÃ¯ve and trusting to an idiotic extent (leaving the Good Janet warehouse unlocked because they don't believe anyone would steal a Janet), and are unable to even take a stance against things they consider horrific because they don't want to upset others. This is later complicated after it's revealed that the Good Place is actually a hellish Crapsaccharine World thanks to being too perfect (it basically suffers from the issue that Victory Is Boring lasts for all eternity), and so the inhabitants of the Good Place were invoking this trope because they had long since run out of any ideas for how to make the Good Place worthwhile again and were trying to help prevent more people from coming in.
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The Good Place / int_b0ac233d	type	Heaven Above
The Good Place / int_b0ac233d	comment	Heaven Above: Not three minutes into the show, recently deceased Eleanor distinguishes between Heaven and Hell by pointing upwards to indicate Heaven and downwards to indicate Hell.
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The Good Place / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Good Place / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Eleanor Shellstrop is Dorothy Gale, a young female protagonist serving as the primary POV character who is whisked off to a faraway, foreign land that operates at least partway on dream logic (the Good Place and Oz). It's made very clear that she's a stranger in a strange land, and Dorothy's struggle to return home is contrasted with Eleanor's struggle to stay in the Good Place (and later find a way into the real Good Place). Additionally, Eleanor never really had a family, having had to basically raise herself due to being saddled with two completely incompetent Abusive Parents, and so her Character Development is centered around her learning to let herself be vulnerable as part of her quest to find a family and home (in this case, Team Cockroach and the Good Place, respectively).
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The Good Place / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
The Good Place / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: "Retirement" isn't a pleasant experience for architects.
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The Good Place / int_b15b6a35	type	Cosmic Plaything
The Good Place / int_b15b6a35	comment	Cosmic Plaything: Michael designs "The Good Place" so that he and the other architects can be entertained by the four humans who will torture each other simply by their presence.
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The Good Place / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
The Good Place / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: A minor one. In Chapter 13, Michael tells Shawn he has stolen a Good Place Janet and explains his idea. In "Michael and Janet", it shows that Michael had already shown the Good Place Janet to Shawn and he knew the details of the project, meaning he stole her after the meeting. "A Fractured Inheritance" reframes the dynamics of the al Jamil family by painting Tahani's parents as being equally cold to both their children and pitting them against each other. Before, it had been shown repeatedly that they much preferred Kamilah, offering her effusive praise and barely acknowledging Tahani's existence. Similarly, Kamilah went from being portrayed as a spoiled daughter to equally damaged. Kamilah's coping mechanism might have been her superiority over Tahani masking a pain even she wanted to deny.
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The Good Place / int_b26477dc	type	Reactive Continuous Scream
The Good Place / int_b26477dc	comment	Reactive Continuous Scream: Eleanor and Jason do this with Mindy St. Claire when the former two find her gardening naked.
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The Good Place / int_b2e5a4f3	type	Virtuous Vegetarianism
The Good Place / int_b2e5a4f3	comment	Virtuous Vegetarianism: Invoked. Being a vegan gives you points to enter The Good Place. Not bragging about it gives you even more points.
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The Good Place / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Good Place / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Now with a page.
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The Good Place / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Good Place / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Jason lives and dies this trope, quite literally. He died attempting to rob a Mexican restaurant by hiding in a safe which didn't have airholes.
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The Good Place / int_b5ac90ac	type	"Groundhog Day" Loop
The Good Place / int_b5ac90ac	comment	"Groundhog Day" Loop: In "Dance Dance Resolution", Michael does various attempts at do-overs with his experiment, each time ending with Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani and Jason finding each other, and someone (usually Eleanor, but, at one point, Jason, bewildering even Michael) deducing that they are actually in the Bad Place the whole time.
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The Good Place / int_b6f6226	type	Snobby Hobbies
The Good Place / int_b6f6226	comment	Snobby Hobbies: Tahani is a British socialite from the highest of upper classes. She got into the Good Place by hosting several posh fundraising events, which raised a lot of charity money. She also mentions an interest in art, playing croquet, and watching dressage growing up. This is in contrast to her supposed "best friend" Eleanor and "soulmate" Jason, who are Lower Class Louts with trashy hobbies and who initially find it difficult to relate to her.
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The Good Place / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
The Good Place / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: In a flashback, Jason says that he wants to show everyone what a beautiful soul he has, then firebombs Acid Cat's speedboat. Michael claims humans are really dense, such as when he claims to have dropped 1200 clues but is glad the humans caught four or five of them, as though demons are super-perceptive, although they tend to miss really obvious things, such as the humans they are looking for walking around at a party they're throwing.
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The Good Place / int_b790a174	type	Metaphorical Marriage
The Good Place / int_b790a174	comment	Metaphorical Marriage: In "Chidi's Choice", Jason and Janet decide to get married. Janet is a walking talking user interface for the celestial mainframe and Jason is a guy who died. Eleanor and Tahani attend the wedding and voice both their concerns and objections, as well as appreciation of their unusual romance. The two exchange marriage promises, and Janet declares them married. In a later episode, Janet says it was not a legal ceremony, but they consider themselves married.
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The Good Place / int_b7e74b77	type	Five-Token Band
The Good Place / int_b7e74b77	comment	Five-Token Band: The main foursome. Eleanor is a white American, Tahani is British-Pakistani, Chidi is Senegalese-Australian, and Jason is Filipino-American.
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The Good Place / int_b8cbdffb	type	Celestial Bureaucracy
The Good Place / int_b8cbdffb	comment	Chapter 13. We've been in the Bad Place the entire time! Michael is actually a demonic architect who specifically designed his neighborhood to be a never-ending torture chamber for Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason. In fact, the four of them were carefully chosen because they would get on each other's nerves and aside from them, every other resident is actually a member of the evil Celestial Bureaucracy going along with Michael's plan to torture the four Main Characters. And the "good" Eleanor is also a part of Michael's Evil Plan and is actually named Vicky.
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The Good Place / int_b9e02354	type	Themed Wedding
The Good Place / int_b9e02354	comment	Themed Wedding: The higher-ups in the Celestial Bureaucracy seem to have a distaste for this trope. A couple gets negative points for having a themed wedding, and are apparently given so many negative points that they're basically doomed if the wedding's The Lord of the Rings-themed.
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The Good Place / int_b9fc31d3	type	Victoria's Secret Compartment
The Good Place / int_b9fc31d3	comment	Victoria's Secret Compartment: Eleanor's mom keeps cash hidden in her bra. Eleanor herself stuffed cocktail shrimp down hers.
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The Good Place / int_ba0791de	type	First Girl Wins
The Good Place / int_ba0791de	comment	First Girl Wins: Eleanor and Chidi are paired as soulmates in the first attempt of Michael's fake Good Place. Despite a few bumps along the road and various reboots, they end up staying together. Janet was the first (not a) girl Jason showed legitimate interest in under his real identity. While he did have multiple flings with Tahani after his memory of his and Janet's relationship was erased, he eventually decides Janet to be the better fit for him and they remain a couple for the rest of Jason's existence.
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The Good Place / int_ba5bbda5	type	Mirror Character
The Good Place / int_ba5bbda5	comment	Mirror Character: Eleanor notes that Michael screwing with Chidi when he's struggling in Chidi's ethics class during Season 2 is exactly the same way she'd react when feeling inadequate. Then she wonders what it says about her that she's so similar to an actual Demon.
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The Good Place / int_bafbff8f	type	Tom the Dark Lord
The Good Place / int_bafbff8f	comment	Tom the Dark Lord: The celestial beings seen so far all have rather mundane names like Michael, Trevor, Shawn, and Todd. The Judge is a slight aversion. Her name is Gen, short for "hydrogen" but it sounds like "Jen", short for "Jennifer".
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The Good Place / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The Good Place / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Eleanor is unbelievably selfish, which is her main flaw. Characters can be sent to the Bad Place because their good deeds were out of selfish motives rather than genuine compassion and altruism. Another character (that is, Chidi ended up in the Bad Place thanks to a narrow focus on his own personal morality and a disregard for how his hair-splitting and indecision affected those around him. Jason is also laser-focused on himself. Even Tahani qualifies. Despite raising billions of dollars for charity, she didn't actually care about the people she was helping and was only doing it to boost her own image.
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The Good Place / int_bbc77bb5	type	Hard Truth Aesop
The Good Place / int_bbc77bb5	comment	Hard Truth Aesop: From "The Snowplow": You can't force people to stay together, even if they are good friends. Everyone has their own life and want to live it outside of a group. Michael's attempts to keep the four humans together on Earth ends up exposing them to the truth about the universe and condemning them to the Bad Place. Morality is complicated, and judging it in a black and white context means you get a forked up view of the world and people while harming them in turn. This eventually becomes the overarching aesop of the series. The Judge gets a Jerkass Realization when she spends thirty years as a human and understands that it is hard to live a moral life when you are on Earth with a lot of mitigating factors. What's more, thanks to the black and white system imposed on a gray world, no one has gotten into the real Good Place for 521 years. Chidi's rigid adherence to Kant's equally rigid ethics frequently causes real trouble and emotional distress for himself and the people around him. The show provides a good example of the arguments for why Kant's categorical imperative works better as a general principle than as a strict rule for every action. Courtesy of season three's "A Fractured Inheritance": acknowledging the damage that your parents did to you if they were emotionally abusive is healthier than pretending it didn't happen or that you were to blame. Eleanor gets closure if not happiness when she confronts her mother about the latter being a better parent to another girl, and Tahani realizes she can't get through to her sister if she apologizes for their rivalry; acknowledging their parents were "wankers" is the only thing that makes Kamilah embrace Tahani in turn. Courtesy of the episode "A Chip Driver Mystery". People of color can't be expected to excuse mediocre white men's feeble attempts to become a better person when the men in question are racists and sexists who put in the bare minimum for basic decency. Doing so is insulting to the POC in question, especially when they have accomplished a lot. Simone says as much when Eleanor asks her to try and make peace with Brent. Meanwhile, Tahani, as an accomplished writer who wrote a great book, takes offense at how racist and sexist Brent's book is, and at his refusal to realize it. It says something that Chidi, an anxiety-ridden Nice Guy who sometimes borders on being an Extreme Doormat, punches out Brent for calling Simone a "bench" and then shoving him for knocking a book into him by accident.
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The Good Place / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Good Place / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: They can't actually swear, but the point still gets across. Michael lands one on Trevor in Chapter 8. Chidi lays one on Michael in "The Trolley Problem."
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The Good Place / int_bc103f8b	type	Subverted
The Good Place / int_bc103f8b	comment	According to Michael, only very few people rack up enough points to make it to the Good Place, with the great majority of humanity being subject to eternal damnation in the Bad Place. It turns out that Michael was exploiting this trope with his vision for a new kind of Bad Place, where humans just make each other miserable for all eternity. Subverted though as it's shown that the standard is so high, and more importantly, nearly every action that results in a positive points gain is tied to a net loss of points, due to numerous factors that extend far beyond the actor's knowledge or control, even renowned philanthropists like Florence Nightingale went to the Bad Place, along with a vast number of "sins" like "being French", etc. So unsurprisingly many people destined for there like the main cast are really not that bad and definitely capable of doing good.
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The Good Place / int_bd2812b5	type	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
The Good Place / int_bd2812b5	comment	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: What lies beyond the Final Door...sort of. We never do learn exactly what walking through it entails for a person's consciousness, and even Janet doesn't know, but it involves a person's soul dissolving into golden particles that positively influence others on Earth. Chidi's theory invokes the Buddhist concept of the wave returning to the ocean.
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The Good Place / int_bd3b726e	type	Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad
The Good Place / int_bd3b726e	comment	Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: The demons of the Bad Place run on this trope. However, because they don't really understand humans, they're all kind of lame about it (especially Michael).
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The Good Place / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
The Good Place / int_bd4264a3	comment	In Chapter 13, after being confronted by Eleanor, Michael's normally kind face suddenly splits open into a Slasher Smile as he reveals his true evil self.
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The Good Place / int_bd7d0416	type	Beleaguered Bureaucrat
The Good Place / int_bd7d0416	comment	Beleaguered Bureaucrat: When Eleanor unintentionally throws the Good Place into chaos, Michael ends up working himself into a frenzy as he tries to figure out what has caused his carefully balanced neighborhood to go off-kilter. It later turns out that Michael was orchestrating this all along, but he's still the Beleaguered Bureaucrat in his dealings with Shawn.
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The Good Place / int_be30e493	type	Undignified Death
The Good Place / int_be30e493	comment	Undignified Death: If a person's death is particularly humiliating, the celestial beings erase it to make the transition easier. Eleanor's memory of her own death was erased because it was "traumatic and embarrassing". She bent over to pick up a bottle of "Lonely Gal" Margarita Mix for One in a parking lot, and a long column of shopping carts plowed into her. She was carried into the street and struck by a billboard truck advertising an erectile dysfunction pill. Funnily enough, the first EMT to arrive was an ex-boyfriend of hers... However, it's possible her memory was really erased to hide the fact that the "Real" Eleanor (who supposedly was trying to save her) wasn't really there, because she's really a demon from the Bad Place named Vicky, and Eleanor remembering her death could have given that away. And indeed, when she dreams of her death on her way to the Medium Place, we don't see "Real" Eleanor and in fact, barring the initial details, there's little to confirm Michael's version. Chidi was crushed by a falling air conditioner while being distracted by his utter inability to make a single decision about even which bar to go to with his friend. Jason tried to stage an extremely poorly-thought-out robbery that ended with him suffocating to death in a fake safe because neither he nor his accomplice thought to put air holes in it. And he did a bunch of whippets in there, which couldn't have helped. Tahani tried to pull down a statue of her sister during a party being thrown for the latter by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, only for the statue to come crashing down on Tahani herself. And to make it more embarrassing (for Tahani anyway), she died in Cleveland. Tahani also had to disguise herself as a waitress to get in, which she explicitly calls out as embarrassing while talking to afterlife simulations of her parents: "I died dressed as someone in the service industry."
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The Good Place / int_bf016fce	type	Judgement of the Dead
The Good Place / int_bf016fce	comment	Judgement of the Dead: While there is no singular 'judgment' that happens per individual, the idea of judging people based on the good or bad they did on Earth and sending them to an appropriate afterlife is an essential part of the premise. Each action has a positive (good) or negative (bad) point value. Only the people with the highest positive scores get into the titular Good Place, with everyone else save one person sent to the Bad Place. Season 3 reveals the process has somehow become corrupted to the point where nobody has made it into the Good Place in over 500 years.
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The Good Place / int_c00462c7	type	Amnesia Loop
The Good Place / int_c00462c7	comment	Amnesia Loop: In Season 2, no matter how many times the four humans have their memories erased, somebody (almost always Eleanor) always manages to figure out that they are actually in the Bad Place. It takes 802 iterations before Vicky forces Michael to give up. As she threatens to overthrow him, he decides to let the four humans retain their memory in order to work with them for their mutual survival.
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The Good Place / int_c0c4b1e8	type	Writing Lines
The Good Place / int_c0c4b1e8	comment	Writing Lines: In "The Trolley Problem", when Chidi is teaching the gang about ethics, he forces Michael to write "People = Good" on the other side of the blackboard every time Michael acts as if humans are evil by expressing a desire to torture and/or kill them.
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The Good Place / int_c1cef253	type	Nice, Mean, and In-Between
The Good Place / int_c1cef253	comment	Nice Mean And In Between: The three realms in the afterlife are the Good Place (which is for pleasing and rewarding humanity), the Bad Place (which is for punishing humanity), and the Neutral Zone (which tries to judge humanity from an unbiased and purely objective standpoint). The personalities of the beings from each realm also generally adhere to being "nice, mean, and in-between."
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The Good Place / int_c2145582	type	Short Title: Long, Elaborate Subtitle
The Good Place / int_c2145582	comment	Short Title: Long, Elaborate Subtitle: The book Chidi spent his life writing. Its title starts: Who We Are and Who We Are Not: Practical Ethics and Their Application in the Modern World; a Treatise on the..., and then Michael interrupts Chidi before he can finish it.
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The Good Place / int_c253697	type	Good Behavior Points
The Good Place / int_c253697	comment	Good Behavior Points: The entire afterlife is dictated by a system based on this principle. Performing a high enough number of good deeds in life will land you a spot in the Good Place, an eternal paradise for only the most righteous humans, while everyone else will end up in the Bad Place to be tortured for eternity. The series later explores just how flawed and needlessly cruel this system actually is, especially once it's revealed that no human has made it to the Good Place in centuries, as the interconnectedness of humanity in the modern age means that even actions intended to be good will end up harming somebody else.
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The Good Place / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Good Place / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Michael reboots the neighborhood over and over again so he can find a way to effectively torture the humans without being found out... but in the end, this ends up being torture for him. When Vicky threatens mutiny, he's forced to team up with the humans just to break out of what would otherwise be an eternal stalemate.
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The Good Place / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
The Good Place / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Michael and the four humans are forced to team up after 802 failed iterations. Michael needs the humans to pretend the experiment is working so Shawn won't find out about the 801 unauthorised attempts and force him into retirement. In return, the humans avoid going to a traditional Bad Place, plus Michael promises to try to get them all into the real Good Place.
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The Good Place / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Good Place / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: The final ten minutes of the last episode of season 1 have quite a few pop up that could save one or more people from being shipped to the Bad Place to balance things out. They range from "Real" Eleanor stating she would take one of the two spots condemning someone to the bad place, to one lawyer resident who might have found an obscure precedent that could save everyone, to "Real" Eleanor coming back pleading her love to Chidi and for them to remain together. Actually invoked, as each one is a staged moment meant to up the anxiety as the four humans and Janet debate who should be sent to the Bad Place in place of the others...since this argument is meant to carry on forever, since they're already in the Bad Place, being tortured. The second season penultimate episode is full of them, as they keep thinking they're going to get into the Good Place, only to have another curve ball thrown at them. The Season 2 finale has a large hope spot where it looks like Eleanor is going to turn her life around, but then things go poorly and she reverts to her old ways... until another push in the right direction steers her back right. Early on in Season 3, it appears as if Michael's nudges successfully manage to reunite the four humans and set them on the path towards self-improvement. Then a variety of obstacles threaten to break the group up. Michael and Janet manage to subtly manipulate events to help the gang stay together, but they eventually push things too far and get discovered, forcing them to reveal the truth of the situation, which permanently ruins any chances of them ever getting into the Good Place. Towards the end of Season 3, the gang decides to use Doug Forcett as a role model to help other people into the Good Place. Unfortunately, Doug's lifestyle is making him miserable, and an ambush by Shawn and some other demons ends up sending the group on a mission that reveals that not only is Doug almost certainly going to the Bad Place anyways, but nobody has made it into the Good Place in over 500 years. In the Season 3 finale, Chidi is convinced that he should have his memories be erased, losing his relationships with the cast, after Simone is brought into the experiment to torture him. The group tries to think of things, and Michael even tries to strike up a brainstorming session with the express goal to find something that can prevent them from needing to reboot Chidi, but nothing comes up.
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The Good Place / int_c435ec5d	type	Aesop Amnesia
The Good Place / int_c435ec5d	comment	Aesop Amnesia: A rare justified example, since actual memory loss is involved. Every time the experiment gets rebooted, the Main Characters' memories get reset, wiping out any lessons they may have learned in the most recent iteration. It's even lampshaded by Chidi, who points out they're literally living a philosophical dilemma; they're being punished for their sins, but they have no ability to learn from the punishment since their memories are being erased. This is revisited by Timothy Olyphant near the end of the series when he asks how people can learn and grow if they keep getting rebooted under the new system; the lessons will remain buried in their subconcious.
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The Good Place / int_c45c9fcd	type	Ass Shove
The Good Place / int_c45c9fcd	comment	Ass Shove: In Season 2, the Bad Place is said to have started testing "Butthole Spiders". They're enormous. This is apparently one of their go-to tortures, there's several jokes about various things they like doing this with to the damned, such as hot dogs on vegans.
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The Good Place / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
The Good Place / int_c5249b29	comment	Courtesy of the episode "A Chip Driver Mystery". People of color can't be expected to excuse mediocre white men's feeble attempts to become a better person when the men in question are racists and sexists who put in the bare minimum for basic decency. Doing so is insulting to the POC in question, especially when they have accomplished a lot. Simone says as much when Eleanor asks her to try and make peace with Brent. Meanwhile, Tahani, as an accomplished writer who wrote a great book, takes offense at how racist and sexist Brent's book is, and at his refusal to realize it. It says something that Chidi, an anxiety-ridden Nice Guy who sometimes borders on being an Extreme Doormat, punches out Brent for calling Simone a "bench" and then shoving him for knocking a book into him by accident.
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The Good Place / int_c59cfa2e	type	Felony Misdemeanor
The Good Place / int_c59cfa2e	comment	Felony Misdemeanor: The objective moral standard of the universe apparently considers a number of fairly minor obnoxious habits to be sins. Sometimes justified in that sins are weighted, so you have to jaywalk a very large number of times before it becomes as bad as a single murder, but other times it seems to be fully this trope - for instance, if you've ever taken off both your shoes and socks on a public airplane, it is considered very likely that you're an irredeemably bad person, and the simple fact of being from either Florida or France earns you an automatic sentence to the Bad Place.
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The Good Place / int_c5ccf60f	type	Internal Reveal
The Good Place / int_c5ccf60f	comment	One in the form of an Internal Reveal: "The problem in the Neighborhood is me. I was brought to the Good Place by mistake. I'm not supposed to be here."
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The Good Place / int_c62aee4c	type	From Zero to Hero
The Good Place / int_c62aee4c	comment	From Zero to Hero: This is the arc of at least the first two seasons. Eleanor starts off as a scrappy scammer in telemarketing (she specifically had the job of scaring old people into buying fake medicine), with no interest in academia or helping others. When she dies, Chidi has to help her learn philosophy so that she can improve herself and deserve a spot in the Good Place. She eventually becomes good enough by the Judge's standards to get into the Good Place (but opts not to go without her friends, who didn't pass their tests), the leader of the team that figured out nobody had entered the Good Place in over five centuries, and convinced the Judge to reevaluate the judgment system.
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The Good Place / int_c6e0455d	type	Afterlife Express
The Good Place / int_c6e0455d	comment	Afterlife Express: A variant. In the afterlife, trains are used to travel to and from the Good, Bad, and Medium Places.
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The Good Place / int_c6e067dc	type	Dating Do-Si-Do
The Good Place / int_c6e067dc	comment	Dating Do-Si-Do: Throughout the show, a lot of the major characters have been paired together in some way. Tahani and Jason were paired together as soulmates, and get more seriously involved with each other in season two and three. Chidi and Eleanor are paired as soulmates, but they end up always finding each other and sticking together. Since Eleanor was there by mistake, Chidi has to reconsider who his soulmate truly is, with him believing it may be Tahani. Very briefly in season one, Eleanor considers for a moment that her and Jason are actually soulmates. Jason manages to get with Janet, the neighborhood's antrhopormorphic database system, and they actually end up sticking together.
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The Good Place / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Good Place / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Has its own page.
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The Good Place / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
The Good Place / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Deconstructed. Eleanor attempts to blame her parents' neglect of her and their divorce for her own terrible behavior, but Real Eleanor had an even worse Trauma Conga Line background and was a better person. Later, a flashback gives the audience a more serious look at the way Eleanor's parents' neglect and dysfunction affected her, but it's used to explain her behavior, not excuse it; she still must take responsibility for her actions.
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The Good Place / int_c9a33c23	type	Mundane Afterlife
The Good Place / int_c9a33c23	comment	Mundane Afterlife: Michael made his section of the Good Place look like a pleasant Everytown, America. Other sections are implied to have varying degrees of quirkiness, depending on the tastes of their caretakers and residents. The Medium Place is intentionally built to be "just okay", which means it's a nice house in the desert filled with lukewarm beer, old magazines and a VHS copy of Cannonball Run 2. There is a second VHS tape in Mindy's Medium Place: The Making of Cannonball Run 2.
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The Good Place / int_cb4c72d8	type	Rerouted from Heaven
The Good Place / int_cb4c72d8	comment	Rerouted from Heaven: Zig-zagged. Initially inverted with Eleanor and Jason, who were meant to go to The Bad Place but were mistakenly taken to the Good Place instead. Because of this, however, the trope is played straight with the other Eleanor Shellstrop, who was sent to The Bad Place. Subverted as the first season finale reveals that this has been the Bad Place all along and except for the four main characters and Janet, everyone else (including "real" Eleanor) have been part of the Bad Place group. Season 3 eventually reveals that because of the increasing complexity of the modern world, literally no one has gotten into the Good Place in the past 521 years.
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The Good Place / int_cbd5e848	type	Smug Straight Edge
The Good Place / int_cbd5e848	comment	Smug Straight Edge: Being vegan gives you good points. Not bragging about it gives you even more.
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The Good Place / int_cc7fae30	type	Outside-Context Problem
The Good Place / int_cc7fae30	comment	Outside-Context Problem: Eleanor's presence in The Good Place. When she reveals the mistake, Michael panics because there is no system to deal with it - a mistake like this has never happened in the history of the universe. Played with later as while Eleanor is actually in the Bad Place, her selfless act completely threw cynical, evil Michael's machinations for a loop. Mindy St. Claire presented such a unique problem that The Good Place and The Bad Place wrangled over her fate and eventually created The Medium Place just for her.
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The Good Place / int_cd8ca67a	type	DoubleSubverted
The Good Place / int_cd8ca67a	comment	Tahani â€” who is, again, gregarious, proud, and status-obsessed â€” and her attraction to/fascination with Jianyu, a simple, silent, and presumably poor-while-alive monk. Subverted when she finds out about who "Jianyu" really is; Tahani, a rich and well-educated woman with significant artistic skill and loads of celebrity connections, shows little to no interest in Jason Mendoza, the less-than-intelligent failed DJ who seems to have burned every bridge he ever crossed. But it's Double Subverted in "Existential Crisis." She knows who Jason really is, but because he consoles her after her failed party, she has sex with him.
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The Good Place / int_cdad4b25	type	Toxic Friend Influence
The Good Place / int_cdad4b25	comment	Toxic Friend Influence: Played with, especially with Eleanor. Eleanor's old friends on Earth were truly vile. (Seriously, she was the nicest of the lot, even at her worst.) Once she starts hanging around the rest of Team Cockroach, however, she improves exponentially, and she even comments that, if she'd known them all along, she might've gotten into the Good Place for real. It's also shown that Chidi, Jason, Tahani, and even Michael are significantly better people due to hanging out with each other. Tellingly, when the gang is sent back to Earth in Chapter 26, Michael nudges Eleanor towards Chidi in order to help her keep improving.
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The Good Place / int_cf1b706e	type	Flat-Earth Atheist
The Good Place / int_cf1b706e	comment	Flat-Earth Atheist: Upon entering the afterlife, Simone initially believes that she's suffering from an intense hallucination as her brain is shutting down and everyone else is a figment of her imagination. Michael relates that some people sent to the Bad Place would also claim this, although they eventually realized the truth of their situation after a few torture sessions. Her refusal to recognize the reality in front of her unfortunately results in her acting like a Jerkass Cloudcuckoolander For the Lulz, endangering the experiment's chances and her (and the rest of humanity) being forever condemned to Hell. However, Simone gradually accepts that it's real over time after Chidi gives her a pep talk... though she does later figure out that the "Good Place" they're in is really an experiment (though she seems to be of the belief that they're really in the Bad Place).
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The Good Place / int_cfb5c5ad	type	Magical Profanity Filter
The Good Place / int_cfb5c5ad	comment	Magical Profanity Filter: Anyone who attempts to curse in The Good Place will find themselves saying words like "fork" and "shirt."
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The Good Place / int_d07e8fde	type	Ghost Amnesia
The Good Place / int_d07e8fde	comment	Ghost Amnesia: The afterlife erases memories of deaths that were traumatic and/or embarrassing. When Eleanor asks how she died, it turns out she was hit by a line of grocery carts that pushed her into the path of a truck carrying a billboard for male enhancement drugs, while reaching for a dropped bottle of "Lonely Gal Margarita Mix for One." The kicker was the EMT to first find her corpse was an ex-boyfriend. Not quite death, but after Janet's kill switch is pressed, she "dies", then reboots shortly afterwards, but with no memories. Until her memory backup is downloaded in a few days, all she is able to do is say "Hello, I'm Janet".
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The Good Place / int_d0b60f23	type	GoshDangItToHeck
The Good Place / int_d0b60f23	comment	Gosh Dang It to Heck!: It's a forking physical law of the subsection of The Good Place where Eleanor lives. Any attempt to swear results in a bowdlerized version being said instead; for example, a person might be invited to go fork themselves. This ends up being true of the real Good Place as well, and it's what convinces Eleanor that they actually made it there towards the end of Season 3, recognizing the swear filter from the memories of past reboots Michael showed her.
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The Good Place / int_d0c563ad	type	Religion Is Wrong
The Good Place / int_d0c563ad	comment	Religion Is Wrong: Michael explains that the major religions only get the afterlife about 5% right. The closest anyone got to getting the whole truth was when a Canadian stoner got high on mushrooms and accidentally got it 92% right. His portrait is in Michael's office; he's quite proud of it.
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The Good Place / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
The Good Place / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: In the first season finale, everyone is arguing as to which two go to the Bad Place. Eleanor sighs and think on how it feels like torture... and then it hits her that they've been in the Bad Place all along. Michael has one in the flashbacks to him designing the neighborhood. He wants to do something more fun, but his coworker tells him "Don't worry about making it interesting, just do a good job." That gives him the idea to throw out his old design and make a Bad Place neighborhood where the residents think they're in the Good Place. "Dance Dance Resolution" gives us a montage of those as Michael keeps putting Eleanor into different scenarios and yet each time she realizes that she is actually in the Bad Place. Apart from the time it was Jason who figured it out. That one really hurt Michael. In "The Book of Dougs", Tahani complains that no matter what she does or says in a talk with Jason and Janet, she just makes them both feel worse. Michael instantly realizes this is the problem with the entire point system—any decision has massive ramifications and consequences due to how interconnected the modern world is. Discussed in "Pandemonium", where Michael suggests that everyone have one of those brainstorming sessions where someone finally comes up with a brilliant idea to prevent Chidi from having to be rebooted, which would erase his memories of everyone. Unfortunately, there is no eureka to be had, and the hard solution is the only one, and is carried out.
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The Good Place / int_d165034	type	Badass Fingersnap
The Good Place / int_d165034	comment	Badass Finger Snap: In "Michael's Gambit", once Eleanor figures out that she and the humans are actually in the Bad Place and Michael, "Real Eleanor", Shawn, and the other residents are really demons who've been running a new experiment in subtly torturing them, Michael proceeds to snap his fingers to erase the humans' memories and restart the experiment.
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The Good Place / int_d243518d	type	In Spite of a Nail
The Good Place / int_d243518d	comment	In Spite of a Nail: No matter what Michael tried, in every version of the Neighborhood, Eleanor always found Chidi and he always helped her.
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The Good Place / int_d32cb089	type	Inappropriate Pride
The Good Place / int_d32cb089	comment	Inappropriate Pride: In the first episode, Eleanor describes her old job to Chidi, which was to market bunk medicine to elderly people. Eleanor boasts that she was the top salesperson five years in a row. Chidi lampshades that she shouldn't be so proud:
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The Good Place / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Good Place / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: In Chapter 35, Shawn gloats that the gang's efforts to help their friends and family won't get the latter into the Good Place, and even Doug Forcett is bound for the Bad Place despite all the good he does. This tips Michael off that something's wrong with the judgment process, prompting him to investigate the accounting department where he learns that nobody has gotten into the Good Place for over 500 years.
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The Good Place / int_d50e7e13	type	White Void Room
The Good Place / int_d50e7e13	comment	White Void Room: The Good Place's storage room for Janets, called the 'Janet Warehouse', as revealed in "Michael and Janet". Michael calls it a "neutral pocket dimension beneath a shapeless time void." It's right next to Accounting. Michael accesses the bright white void room through a door. All Janets also have a "void" inside them, which is also depicted as a white void room.
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The Good Place / int_d5a060a8	type	Interchangeable Asian Cultures
The Good Place / int_d5a060a8	comment	Interchangeable Asian Cultures: Jason notes that he's actually Filipino, not Taiwanese like the Buddhist monk he's been mistaken for, and says it's racist people assumed that he was. This is actually Foreshadowing for the Neighborhood really being the Bad Place.
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The Good Place / int_d5cdf8ae	type	Infernal Fugitives
The Good Place / int_d5cdf8ae	comment	Infernal Fugitives: Multiple times throughout the series, Team Cockroach had escaped Michael's neighborhood via the train to the Medium Place. Later in the series, Shawn has his demons hunt for the humans on Earth.
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The Good Place / int_d6512064	type	De-aged in Death
The Good Place / int_d6512064	comment	De-aged in Death: Michael has a picture of Doug Forcett in his office. Doug was a human who got high and figured out how the afterlife really worked. When Michael visited Doug on Earth he was an old man. After Doug died he was seen in the afterlife, looking the way he did in the picture. The finale reveals in the Good Place, humans can look different from how they died, with Doug choosing to appear as he did in his twenties despite dying an elderly man. Chidi notes that, given his new Big Eater habits, this was probably a good choice.
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The Good Place / int_d6f4f589	type	FictionalColor
The Good Place / int_d6f4f589	comment	Fictional Color: Michael's favorite color is "pleurigloss," which is imperceptible to humans and defined as "the color of when a soldier comes home from war and sees his dog for the first time." As this was in the first, deceptive iteration, we don't know whether pleurigloss is real or if Michael made it up to be as unhelpful as possible — Tahani was just looking for decorating guidance.
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The Good Place / int_d7117f01	type	Angst? What Angst?
The Good Place / int_d7117f01	comment	Angst? What Angst?: The "Real" Eleanor is surprisingly chill about having been wrongly sent to The Bad Place and being tortured with electrocution and flying piranhas. This all gets justified at the end of the season, when it's revealed that everything "Real" Eleanor said was a lie. invoked
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The Good Place / int_d7d53f8e	type	Blank White Void
The Good Place / int_d7d53f8e	comment	Blank White Void: Every Janet has her own personal void with no boundaries and limits. For Good Janets, they are all white, empty, and brightly lit.
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The Good Place / int_d8afec40	type	â€¦But He Sounds Handsome
The Good Place / int_d8afec40	comment	â€¦But He Sounds Handsome: In "The Book of Dougs," one of the Good Place employees refers to all Bad Place employees as disgusting monsters. Michael argues that they aren't all bad, and some of them may actually be cool, handsome, man-about-town types.
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The Good Place / int_d90ab0d2	type	Big, Stupid Doodoo-Head
The Good Place / int_d90ab0d2	comment	Big, Stupid Doodoo-Head: Demons tend to be bad at insulting humans, especially Michael.
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The Good Place / int_d92f1f2f	type	Immortal Genius
The Good Place / int_d92f1f2f	comment	Immortal Genius: Most the beings in the afterlife are far more intelligent than the humans they oversee, and the closest they come to death is Retirement, which is more akin to eternal torture. They are also nearly omniscient and can perform almost any task perfectly, but unfortunately, this gap in ability means they don't understand humans and can't comprehend the passage of time as humans do. This results in the points system gradually becoming outdated as human life becomes more complicated, leading to every person who has died in the past five hundred years being sent to the Bad Place for punishment.
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The Good Place / int_d93c5989	type	Stepford Suburbia
The Good Place / int_d93c5989	comment	Stepford Suburbia: Very subtle, but even before Eleanor starts wrecking things there are hints things aren't as perfect as they seem. Jianyu really seems to find Tahani insufferable, but is too polite to say anything. Given what we later learn, it might have been Jianyu/Jason just trying to avoid giving himself away.
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The Good Place / int_d9c4365c	type	Reset Button
The Good Place / int_d9c4365c	comment	The Judge's Reset Button is a garage door opener.
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The Good Place / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
The Good Place / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: The way that people end up going to the wrong place. It's implied that part of the problem is Michael's inexperience, and that a more veteran architect would have been able to catch the mistakes. "...Someone Like Me As A Member" reveals that the whole plot of the show is based on one: Two people with the exact same name, in the exact same place at the exact same time, both killed when one makes a desperate attempt to save the other's life. What are the odds of that? Michael and Trevor imply that this is the first time this has ever happened. Definitely the first time they've ever seen it, and possibly the first time it has happened in the history of the universe. Subverted when it is revealed that "Real" Eleanor turns out to be a Bad Place demon merely playing the role of Eleanor's name-doppelganger, leaving it unclear whether such a situation has actually ever happened before. "What's My Motivation" reveals that Jason got in through a similar coincidence. Jianyu entered a meditative trance so deep that the system thought he died. At that exact moment, Jason (who had the same IQ as Jianyu) died, and the system accidentally took him since Jianyu wasn't available (due to still being alive). The end of Season 1 reveals the coincidences are contrived In-Universe, by Michael; they are stories he made up to trick them into thinking they're in the Good Place. They have actually been in an experimental ground in the Bad Place all along, with Michael pulling the strings to ensure they spend eternity driving each other crazy.
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The Good Place / int_ddb233c1	type	Mid-Season Twist
The Good Place / int_ddb233c1	comment	Chapter 7. Overlapping with Mid-Season Twist, at the end of the episode, Eleanor confesses to everyone that she doesn't belong in The Good Place.
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The Good Place / int_de763115	type	Hollywood Board Games
The Good Place / int_de763115	comment	Hollywood Board Games: In "Tinker, Tailor, Demon, Spy", Janet having been replaced by an evil doppelganger is foreshadowed not by giving life to a terribly-drawn horse in a Pictionary game, but by the way she gives life to it. Normally, Janet would recognize the intent behind the illustration and materialize a normal horse. Bad Janet, however, materializes as-is, creeping everyone. Also, she gruesomely kills it off-screen afterward — Janet wouldn't have been that messy with her powers nor tried to describe the deed.
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The Good Place / int_dff5d1c5	type	First Installment Wins
The Good Place / int_dff5d1c5	comment	First Installment Wins: In-universe, the demons preferred Attempt #1 of Michael's Good Place to all the others that followed. When a disgruntled Vicky takes charge via blackmail, she tells Michael to set everything similar to the original attempt.
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The Good Place / int_e0207930	type	Humans Are Special
The Good Place / int_e0207930	comment	Humans Are Special: For all their faults (and there are many), humans can change, improve, and uplift each other. Michael surprisingly comes to believe this over the course of Season 2 after seeing the main four humans do just that, and uses it to argue on their behalf in front of the Judge.
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The Good Place / int_e052ae34	type	Gagging on Your Words
The Good Place / int_e052ae34	comment	Gagging on Your Words: In "Mondays, Am I Right?", Shawn has trouble admitting that he and Michael are about to work together on the new afterlife system in front of the demons they plan to make the first Bad Place architects.
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The Good Place / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
The Good Place / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: The Good Place automatically translates the various languages spoken by its inhabitants so that the listener will hear the language they are most comfortable with. For example, Eleanor hears everything in English while Chidi hears everything in French. One side effect is that Chidi has to ask if Eleanor is trying to swear, as it just sounds like nonsense to him.
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The Good Place / int_e3226029	type	Bag of Holding
The Good Place / int_e3226029	comment	Bag of Holding: The demons' human suits seem to work this way. No matter how large the demons are in their true form, they fit into a human-sized suit.
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The Good Place / int_e3bc8409	type	Steamrolled Smart Guy
The Good Place / int_e3bc8409	comment	Steamrolled Smart Guy: Chidi overthinks every decision. Whenever he suggests a logical course of action, Eleanor or Jason act impulsively instead, leaving Chidi with a stomachache.
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The Good Place / int_e3cd6ed7	type	Rejecting the Inheritance
The Good Place / int_e3cd6ed7	comment	Rejecting the Inheritance: Tahani rejects her half of the inheritance upon finding out that her parents didn't care enough about her to spell her name right on their will.
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The Good Place / int_e3cee2e7	type	Empathic Environment
The Good Place / int_e3cee2e7	comment	Eleanor is this to Neighborhood 12358W. Her selfishness causes the Empathic Environment to go haywire - leading Chidi to compare the other residents to a Swiss watch, and Eleanor to a hammer smashing the works. Double subverted. In the season finale, we discover that the chaos was planned by Michael, but there was an actual spanner — Chidi's lessons being more effective than the Bad Place thought they would be, causing Eleanor to confess her identity as the "mistake." That broke Michael's Batman Gambit down and caused him to have to improvise everything afterward.
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The Good Place / int_e4f48a7f	type	The "Fun" in "Funeral"
The Good Place / int_e4f48a7f	comment	The "Fun" in "Funeral": In a flashback, we see Eleanor's garbage mother showing up drunk to her ex-husband's funeral and hitting on her own daughter's boyfriend.
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The Good Place / int_e4fc9fbc	type	A Glitch in the Matrix
The Good Place / int_e4fc9fbc	comment	A Glitch in the Matrix: Eleanor's presence causes things to go haywire whenever she does something really selfish. Then it turns out that it was all actually happening by design. Janets have a tendency to cause these effects in their neighborhoods whenever they glitch out. Dealing with heartbreak over Jason and then lying to yourself and everyone else about it would do the trick.
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The Good Place / int_e54326a2	type	Hell
The Good Place / int_e54326a2	comment	Hell: The Bad Place, which is apparently full of people screaming in torment. Except the "Good Place" we see is also a part of the Bad Place — a part far more clever in its torments.
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The Good Place / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
The Good Place / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology : It's still a little nebulous what Janet is, but she's quick to correct anyone using the wrong terminology. "Fake" Eleanor to distinguish our misanthropic protagonist from "Real" Eleanor, the human rights attorney.
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The Good Place / int_e58e0124	type	PokÃ©mon Speak
The Good Place / int_e58e0124	comment	When the demons trying to learn how to make a fake Good Place in Season 4 one of them creates a chainsaw bear, a bear with chainsaws for arms who shouts its own name.
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The Good Place / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
The Good Place / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Most of the demons are bad guys you love to hate; they're over the top, ridiculous stereotypes of villainy. Enter our fourth season character, Brent. Nope. This guy has no redeeming qualities. He's just a racist, sexist, entitled asshole who "was born on second base thinking he invented baseball". Even All-Loving Hero Chidi hates him. This is deliberately set up by the demons of the Bad Place to fork with the experiment and is a defining feature of the final season. In the series finale, we learn that he's had more than 15,000 attempts and is still struggling with basic concepts... but even he isn't irredeemable. He may need a few dozen thousand more attempts, but the new system will keep plugging away.
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The Good Place / int_e7466f83	type	Hell of a Heaven
The Good Place / int_e7466f83	comment	Hell of a Heaven: It turns out that some people in the Good Place find it's this way for some. Hypatia of Alexandria, for instance, a brilliant mathematician and philosopher while alive, can hardly remember what either was now. It turns out that being given whatever you want for centuries will turn them into dull, mindless hedonists with no drive or purpose. In a jarring moment of lucidity, Hypatia desperately begs Chidi to help her escape.
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The Good Place / int_e784bb8c	type	Accidental Truth
The Good Place / int_e784bb8c	comment	Accidental Truth: In the first episode, Eleanor states how unfair it is that a select few get to the Good Place while everyone else gets tortured for eternity, even if their "sins" were just being slightly selfish and anti-social, and there should be a Medium Place for everyone who weren't saints or straight up evil. There is a Medium Place, but due to how the afterlife works, it only exists due to a unique circumstance of its sole inhabitant, Mindy St. Clair, having her positive and negative actions completely cancel each other out, meaning that neither the Good Place or the Bad Place had a definitive claim to her. It doesn't actually have anything to do with being a "medium" person. Eleanor is also right that the afterlife is unfair, because the complexity of the modern world means that even positive actions have unintended negative consequences, which the points system wasn't designed to take into account, meaning that it's effectively impossible to be good enough for the Good Place, and has been for centuries. Michael pairs Eleanor with Chidi as soulmates. Over the course of the series they come together over and over. Eleanor always seeks him out for help and Chidi always helps. In the end, "There is no answer. But Eleanor is the answer.".
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The Good Place / int_e8b49369	type	Lie Detector
The Good Place / int_e8b49369	comment	Lie Detector: Michael uses a cube which flashes green when someone tells the truth and red when they lie when investigating Eleanor. Tahani is so good with Double Speak that she confuses the Celestial Lie Detector. When asked if Tahani thinks Eleanor should be kicked out of the Good Place, Tahani's answer straddles the fence so well, the poor machine can only make a strange grinding noise. Then:
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The Good Place / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
The Good Place / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: Occasionally played for comedy in the way the Good Place judges morality. "Staying loyal to the Cleveland Browns" gives you quite a lot of points, but enjoying the California funk-rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers gives you negative points. Also, being vegan is good and gives out a handful of points, but never discussing your veganism without being asked gives triple as many points. How the Good Place itself operates. Swearing is forking impossible, but accessing porn is just fine. Though that appears to be a personal preference of the neighborhood, not a universal rule. Being French is automatically bad, for no adequately explained reason.
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The Good Place / int_e8f2d4f2	type	The Devil Is a Loser
The Good Place / int_e8f2d4f2	comment	The Devil Is a Loser.: While not particularly weak, most demons are often annoying, obnoxious jerks with bad senses of humor and an over-inflated sense of their own importance. Michael himself goes through a long Humiliation Conga trying to make an innovative Bad Place section where the humans torture each other, only for said humans to end up Spotting the Thread repeatedly and forcing him to reboot his experiments again. When he and the humans pull an Enemy Mine to keep the other demons from revolting, they're easily able to fool everyone.
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The Good Place / int_e993da98	type	Equal-Opportunity Evil
The Good Place / int_e993da98	comment	Equal-Opportunity Evil: The Bad Place doesn't seem to discriminate regarding the ethnicities of its employees (or at least the human forms they present as), as shown by the diversity in Neighborhood 12358W. The demons seen include several people of color and at least one interracial gay couple.
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The Good Place / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
The Good Place / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: When Eleanor comes clean about her mistaken presence in the Good Place, Michael panics and says that this kind of problem is unprecedented. He's telling the truth... except he's not talking about Eleanor being there—he's talking about Eleanor developing a sense of decency and confessing to the error, which completely derails his plans for the phony Good Place and forces him to hastily throw together solutions that end up with everyone learning what's really going on, ruining the entire facade. This is also how Michael communicates his Leap of Faith plan to everyone else when Shawn comes a-calling. That said, he also apparently dropped 11,996 other non-verbal clues.
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The Good Place / int_ea39d156	type	Who Wants to Live Forever?
The Good Place / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: Toward the end of the fourth season, we learn the Good Place is soul-crushingly boring, and everyone there is desperately happy for the possibility to leave. This even applies to some of the beings in the Afterlife. Shawn and other demons indicate that an eternity of torturing people is boring and actually want a change, too, with Shawn confessing that struggling against Team Cockroach is the first time he's had fun in ages. Michael gets this on his own, with a monologue comparing himself to Sisyphus and terrified at no longer having purpose, and ultimately being granted the same escape clause as humans. We see hints of this throughout the series. Shawn: His response to Michael's proposal is interest, and his response to its failure is extreme. He finally admits that this weird cat and mouse with Michael is the most fun he's had in an eternity of torture. Vicki and the other demons on her level: They are all far too invested for it to be a personal grudge with Michael. Vicki genuinely wants to express herself. Trevor seriously wants to punish people. Gen: She's entirely checked out, has no idea what's going on with Earth except for the invention of the burrito. Team Cockroach showing up and providing her something to do is a delight. She's a little unacceptably weird about expressing that delight... The Doorman: He's spent an eternity loving frogs. He just likes frogs. It's not until Team Cockroach shows up and starts giving him gifts that he finally gets to experience joy. He was just sitting there. Alone. Thinking about frogs. The Angels: They spent an eternity of Jeremy Bearimy-s trying desperately to keep the good people happy, and failing. They were lost in a nightmare as infinite as the people they were supposed to be rewarding. They handed the keys to Michael and ran away because infinity is a math everyone struggles with. In the end, the show gives us an answer. The wave returns to the ocean.
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The Good Place / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
The Good Place / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: The Bad Place apparently has a device called the Penis Flattener. Denizens of the Bad Place apparently love to "ball tap" each other as a prank, as part of the series' demons being a parody of stereotypical frat-bro culture. Chidi uses it to enforce his bluff.
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The Good Place / int_eb2195d9	type	Rousseau Was Right
The Good Place / int_eb2195d9	comment	Rousseau Was Right: Essentially the show's premise, having a person completely unworthy of the Good Place actively working to earn it. The core cast consistently shows that they always will come together, and bring out the best in each other, no matter how they are muddled about. Season 3 runs with this, as the humans get a second chance on Earth to prove that they were capable of realizing the good inside themselves, and eventually extend that chance to others. Season 4 is set up with the idea of Eleanor and the others proving the same is true of most humans, by having Michael's neighborhood experiment be repeated with new subjects to show that the leads' situation can happen again. This turns out to be true of the villains, who Heelâ€“Face Turn one by one. By Season 4, Vicky, Bad Janet, and even Shawn are working to build a better afterlife. When the last episode rolls around, the show has fully embraced A No Antagonist status.
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The Good Place / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
The Good Place / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Like you wouldn't believe. The morality points system is on Black-and-White Morality, but, of course, that's not how the world works. The world has become so complicated and interconnected that nearly every action has an unintended, often negative, consequence. For example, buying flowers for your grandma might cost you points because you ordered the flowers from a company that uses exploited migrant laborers and is run by a Corrupt Corporate Executive using a cellphone that was made in a sweatshop and the delivery process to ship the flowers to Grandma's home left behind a carbon footprint. In other words, the road to Hell is literally paved with good intentions.
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The Good Place / int_eb9e6184	type	Stupid Sexy Flanders
The Good Place / int_eb9e6184	comment	Stupid Sexy Flanders: Whenever Eleanor is complaining about Tahani, it tends to devolve into going on about how hot she is.
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The Good Place / int_ec0ce986	type	Spotting the Thread
The Good Place / int_ec0ce986	comment	Spotting the Thread: In "Someone Like Me as a Member..." Tahani sees how Jianyu knows how to pump a keg and then leaves snack bags all over the house. It makes her suspicious and she breaks into his "meditation room" to finally discover his secret. In "Michael's Gambit", Eleanor realizes that everything that has happened to her, Chidi, Tahani and Jason is a form of psychological torture and that they are actually in the Bad Place. "Dance Dance Resolution" reveals that Eleanor is extremely good at this and she is able figure out the truth in over 800 different scenarios Michael puts her through. This is probably due to her extremely cynical nature and belief that people are always hiding something. "Tinker, Tailor, Demon, Spy" has Jason outing Janet as the spy impostor despite Michael being the one under suspicion because she didn't correct him with her customary "not a girl" when he said "I love you, girl."
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The Good Place / int_ec1ec2dc	type	Non-Protagonist Resolver
The Good Place / int_ec1ec2dc	comment	Non-Protagonist Resolver: Downplayed at the start of Season 2 - Eleanor is directly responsible for ruining almost all of Michael's torture attempts, but she is never able to do anything to stop him from rebooting everything and trying again. It ends up being Vicky who puts an end to the cycle.
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The Good Place / int_ee045685	type	Council of Angels
The Good Place / int_ee045685	comment	Council of Angels: Both the Good Place and Bad Place have been run by something like angels (The Good Place Committee) and demons (The High Council) for millennia if not longer. The closest being there is to God seems like the Judge, who's largely content letting the two sides keep running things on their own, though she eventually intervenes when the system has been shown as wholly messed up. Strangely, unlike the Committee, the Council never actually appears, and Shawn is shown to have near-total authority over the Bad Place, especially during season 3 and 4. He's also the only demon who is invited to the discussion about how to fix the Points System.
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The Good Place / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
The Good Place / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted and a central plot point. The pilot establishes that Eleanor Shellstrop, the protagonist, was mistaken for a different, much nicer Eleanor Shellstrop. The latter appears in "Most Improved Player", having been sent to The Bad Place. And then played straight, as it turns out there never was another Eleanor Shellstrop at all, and that real Eleanor was a demon playing a part in an elaborate Bad Place torture scenario. Averted with the name Doug. We have Doug Forcett, a stoner who turned hermit when he gave the most accurate description of the afterlife in human history. Doug is also the name of both Eleanor's and Jason's fathers.note Jason's father is his oft-mentioned breakdancing buddy "Donkey Doug". The Doug situation is later taken up to eleven when the cast gets their hands on "The Book of Dougs", which describes the afterlife status of every person who has ever been named Doug. There have also been two one-scene characters named Gloria, two Todds, two Daves, two Patricias plus a "Patty", and two Jessicas.
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The Good Place / int_efd11fe3	type	A Dog Named "Dog"
The Good Place / int_efd11fe3	comment	A Dog Named "Dog": Janets are all called "Janet." There are also Bad Janets from the Bad Place, Neutral Janets in Accounting, and for a few years Disco Janets were popular.
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The Good Place / int_f01a54f1	type	Evil Feels Good
The Good Place / int_f01a54f1	comment	The employees of the Bad Place don't have it much better. Yes, Evil Feels Good to the demons who run the Bad Place, but there's really no point to endlessly torturing humans besides inflicting pain for its own sake. Even though the demons might want to inflict pain and misery, such satisfaction has its limits when there's no end goal for it. The reformation to the point system at the end of the series means that it turns into a Karmic Reform Hell, which gives the demons humans to torture while also giving it a reason, which improves their moods about the whole thing quite a bit.
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The Good Place / int_f06cdd2d	type	Sequel Reset
The Good Place / int_f06cdd2d	comment	Sequel Reset: Each season features the main human cast getting their memories wiped and continuing from roughly the same point of their lives (right before their deaths), but with some alteration to the underlying Status Quo of the show. This means the characters don't retain any knowledge of previous seasons, but through the different variations there is still fundamental aspects to their personalities and relationships that remain consistent, even though each season basically has the characters meeting for the first time in different circumstances.
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The Good Place / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
The Good Place / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Mindy St. Claire was a cocaine addict and a pretty nasty person in life. However, she had an epiphany on how she could help people and actually tried to follow up on it by withdrawing all her money in order to form a charity. Right after that, she died in an accident. She then crossed into Death Equals Redemption since her sister found out what Mindy's plan was and was so inspired that she actually founded the charity in Mindy's name and helped millions of people. If she stayed alive, Mindy would have likely failed in her plan and backslid back into being a bad person. By dying when she did, she accidentally accomplished a lot of good.
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The Good Place / int_f19b5fcf	type	Died on Their Birthday
The Good Place / int_f19b5fcf	comment	Died on Their Birthday: In the episode "Somewhere Else", it's revealed that Eleanor had died on her birthday. This becomes a running gag of sorts because Eleanor always claims it's her birthday when she goes to a bar in hopes of scoring a free drink. So almost any day she died could have subverted this trope.
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The Good Place / int_f2dadf81	type	Evil Twin
The Good Place / int_f2dadf81	comment	Evil Twin: Bad Janet from the Bad Place. While Good Janet's helpful and kind with a wardrobe reminiscent of a 60's flight attendant, Bad Janet's unhelpful and rude and wears a leather jacket and tight black pants.
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The Good Place / int_f332d990	type	Too Much Information
The Good Place / int_f332d990	comment	Eleanor's memory of her own death was erased because it was "traumatic and embarrassing". She bent over to pick up a bottle of "Lonely Gal" Margarita Mix for One in a parking lot, and a long column of shopping carts plowed into her. She was carried into the street and struck by a billboard truck advertising an erectile dysfunction pill. Funnily enough, the first EMT to arrive was an ex-boyfriend of hers... However, it's possible her memory was really erased to hide the fact that the "Real" Eleanor (who supposedly was trying to save her) wasn't really there, because she's really a demon from the Bad Place named Vicky, and Eleanor remembering her death could have given that away. And indeed, when she dreams of her death on her way to the Medium Place, we don't see "Real" Eleanor and in fact, barring the initial details, there's little to confirm Michael's version.
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The Good Place / int_f34a4c1e	type	Lower-Class Lout
The Good Place / int_f34a4c1e	comment	Eleanor being the slob to Tahani's snob is a plot point. Eleanor was born to a pair of Lower Class Louts and had to claw her way through life to get a comfortable living while Tahani was born to a rich family and enjoyed all the perks of being a socialite.
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The Good Place / int_f360fc33	type	Dumbass Has a Point
The Good Place / int_f360fc33	comment	Dumbass Has a Point: Jason will frequently come up with an insane Jacksonville story that ends with a moral surprisingly perfectly suited to the situation at hand.
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The Good Place / int_f5c92fe0	type	Amnesiac Lover
The Good Place / int_f5c92fe0	comment	Amnesiac Lover: In the season 3 finale, Chidi decides to have his memories of Simone erased so that he won't ruin the experiment by being awkward around her. Unfortunately, this also erases his entire relationship with Eleanor.
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The Good Place / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
The Good Place / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: For the main cast, at the very end of the series. After all the danger, strife, heartbreak, and intense revelations they go throughâ€”including: discovering that they were in the Bad Place early on; constantly being mindwiped and put through torture over and over again; being brought back to Earth only to be condemned to the Bad Place again and being killed yet again; discovering that the point system was flawed and they never had a chance at The Good Place; stopping all of humanity from being wiped from existence; and making it to the real Good Place and saving everyone from living as a joyless husk for all of eternityâ€”our heroes finally get to enjoy a peaceful, blissful existence. And when each of them decides that they've had enough, in one form or another for one reason or another, they finally get to rest easy. Eleanor, Chidi, and Jason return their essence to the universe, while Tahani works to become a Good Place architect, Michael lives as an actual human, and Janet watches over everyone as best as she can with new perspective and understanding.
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The Good Place / int_f792bc7b	type	Dying Dream
The Good Place / int_f792bc7b	comment	Simone, being a neurologist and presumably an atheist as well, seems to believe this is what happens to people when they die. When she dies and is chosen as one of the test subjects for the Good Place experiment, she refuses to believe she's in the afterlife and thinks everything and everyone she's seeing is just an intense Dying Dream. Michael mentions having seen a few people that seemed to believe this as well; they usually began to realize the truth of their situation after a good few torture routines.
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The Good Place / int_f7d4f121	type	Mushroom Samba
The Good Place / int_f7d4f121	comment	Mushroom Samba: Doug Forcett, a stoner from Canada, once took a handful of hallucinogenic mushrooms and got so high that he managed to make a guess about the afterlife that was 92% accurate. By comparison, most of the world's religions are about 5% accurate about it. The feat was so impressive that the keepers of the Good Place have enshrined him for all eternity. Michael is downright proud just to have a portrait of the guy in his office.
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The Good Place / int_f8e010ce	type	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
The Good Place / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: When dealing with humans, the Bad Place crew routinely fails to account for people having basic decency, or being able to do the right thing against their own self-interest. For example, it never occurred to Michael that the four humans he chose specifically to torture each other might become friends and take care of each other, despite their differences. He is genuinely dumbstruck when Eleanor voluntarily gives herself up.
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The Good Place / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
The Good Place / int_f9f2c33	comment	Chidi enjoys almond milk, which causes him anxiety because of its negative environmental impact. There's actually a Running Gag that Chidi thinks it's the reason he's in the Bad Place. Due to the afterlife points system, he's partially right — it had an effect, but nowhere near the main reason he's down there.
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The Good Place / int_fabd6906	type	Everytown, America
The Good Place / int_fabd6906	comment	Michael made his section of the Good Place look like a pleasant Everytown, America. Other sections are implied to have varying degrees of quirkiness, depending on the tastes of their caretakers and residents.
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The Good Place / int_fb4c41b4	type	"Friends" Rent Control
The Good Place / int_fb4c41b4	comment	"Friends" Rent Control: Conversed by Michael and Eleanor, the latter relating that in preparation to meet all of them he watched the entire run of Friends, while noting how it made no sense that they could afford the apartment, which Eleanor agrees was confusing.
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The Good Place / int_fb76b6ec	type	Kiss Me, I'm Virtual
The Good Place / int_fb76b6ec	comment	Kiss Me, I'm Virtual: Jason and Janet get married towards the end of Season 1. A surprisingly sweet example, as both parties are so clueless it comes across as a sort of Puppy Love.
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The Good Place / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
The Good Place / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Every time a mind-wiped Chidi discovers that he's actually in the Bad Place, he immediately blames an incredibly minor vice: continuing to drink almond milk despite knowing it's bad for the environment. In truth, it's this exact obsession with minutiae, and the indecision arising from that, that led him to the Bad Place to begin with. But then it's subverted in that these little "vices" really did play a role in him ending up in the Bad Place and why no human has gotten into the Good Place for 521 years - basically, even the most seemingly minor actions have all kinds of hidden negative consequences. Tahani's reaction to learning how she died (being crushed by the golden statue of her sister that she was trying to topple). She's more appalled that she died in Cleveland than anything else. Jason, due to his... unique way of thinking frequently embodies this trope but perhaps the most obvious example comes after he nearly suffocates to death in the safe during his attempted robbery with Pillboi and he declares he needs to "change his life." He immediately looks to a nearby transformer box plastered with fliers, including one for a local community college declaring that it can "change your life." He promptly proceeds to instead grab a flier advertising a dance competition and declares that winning it is the thing that will "change his life." To top it off this is recounted in a flashback to an astounded Michael, asking if he really didn't see ANY other poster in that moment This hits Janet in one instance, when Eleanor asks if anyone can access her 'search history' of what Janet has provided her to make sure her questions won't tip Michael off that she does not belong there.
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The Good Place / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
The Good Place / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: Shawn in "The Funerals to End All Funerals"
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The Good Place / int_fd9763d3	type	Non-Ironic Clown
The Good Place / int_fd9763d3	comment	Non-Ironic Clown: Played with. The other Eleanor (the one who was supposed to come to The Good Place) really liked clowns, presumably seeing them in a lighthearted and innocent way, and the house is decorated to reflect her tastes. However, both Eleanor and Chidi (as well as a couple other residents) find this element of the decor creepy and disturbing. Given that this is actually the Bad Place, they really were meant to be disturbing.
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The Good Place / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
The Good Place / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Janet mentions that she doesn't really eat so when she reboots, which she considers to be as close to a birthday as she's got, she'll just smash cake around where her mouth is. When she and Jason get married, he does just that when cutting their wedding cake. Eleanor is exasperated in the first episode by the lack of stairs to her bedroom. In episode 9, Real Eleanor arrives at the house and immediately knows where the button to move the stairs in place is. The reveal of the stairs is also an effective little bit of the ongoing Bad Place torture. The large clown print on the sliding door to Eleanor's bedroom makes a second appearance at a somber moment in the Season 1 finale. In episode 2, Michael is forced to ban flying for 1000 years after a trash-storm unknowingly caused by Eleanor's lies leads to a flyer crashing into a turkey. In episode 11, when Eleanor hosts a focus group to address complaints against her, the first woman to speak up complains about the incident in graphic detail using exactly the same words Michael had. Pillboi's nickname is introduced long before we learn its origin. It's set up to sound related to street drugs at first...but when we see more of his life, it turns out the nickname comes from his job distributing meds at a nursing home, with the suggestion that the elderly patients were the ones who first nicknamed him!
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The Good Place / int_fe64d5a1	type	Evil Is Petty
The Good Place / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: Trevor and the other representatives of the Bad Place never miss a chance to be unnecessarily unpleasant, and the torments of the Bad Place involve a lot of persistent nagging inconveniences (e.g., the train going there makes a million unnecessary stops, the restaurant car is always closed and only serves one terrible meal anyway) along with more traditional forms of Cold-Blooded Torture. After Michael is revealed to be evil, he deliberately knocks over a small potted plant. It is a completely unnecessary action that was done simply to make a bit of a mess. The entire basis of the series is that Michael thought it would be more fun to trick humans into torturing each other by making them think they're in the Good Place. The demonic inhabitants of the Bad Place even do this to each other, shown when the main characters go there in disguise on their way to see the Judge, and they arrive at the train station. The conductor announces that all the trains are delayed for no reason, then calls all the passengers fat losers and says she hates them. In the official The Good Place The Podcast, the show's writers explicitly state that this seeming pettiness is specifically a tenet of Michael's (and by extension the Bad Place's) central philosophy: "No torture too small." Shawn continues to meddle with the Medium Place experiment in Season 4 and tries to damn the main cast despite being personally warned by the Judge and his plans all repeatedly blowing up in his face.
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The Good Place / int_fef0037b	comment	Unnaturally Looping Location: While being tested by Judge Hydrogen, Eleanor keeps walking through a door in one wall only to stride into the same room she started in.
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The Good Place / int_ff17ccf1	comment	Tahani Al-Jamil is a gender-flipped version of the Tin Woodsman, having a noticeable (albeit unintentional) Lack of Empathy and ending up in the Bad Place because all of her supposed good deeds were done out of a selfish desire to one-up her sister and gain fame and attention. Her Character Development involves her getting a heart — or, in this case, becoming a more loving, kind, and empathetic person towards others along with striving to make the world a better place out of genuine selflessness and not just the attention.
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The Good Place / int_ff555c8f	comment	Cross-Referenced Titles: Season 1's first episode is titled "Everything is Fine". Season 2's first episode is titled "Everything is Great". Season 3's premiere is titled "Everything is Bonzer!"
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The Good Place	hasFeature	A Form You Are Comfortable With / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	A Gift for Themselves / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	A.I. Getting High / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	A Rotten Time to Revert / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Abstract Eater / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Accent Interest / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Achievements in Ignorance / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Acid-Trip Dimension / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Acting in the Dark / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Advanced Civilization, Hollow Imagination / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Affectionate Gesture to the Nose / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Africa Is a Country / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Afterlife Angst / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Afterlife Express / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Afterlife Welcome / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Ain't Too Proud to Beg / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Alien Catnip / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Ambiguous Criminal History / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Ambiguous Gender Identity / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Ambiguous Robots / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Ambiguous Time Period / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Ambiguously Absent Parent / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Ambiguously Brown / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Amnesia Loop / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Amnesiac Lover / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Anachronic Order / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Angry Chef / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Angry White Man / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Angst? What Angst? / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Annoying Laugh / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Annoying Pop-Up Ad / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Anti-Humor / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Apathetic Teacher / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Apathy Killed the Cat / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Apology Gift / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Artifact Alias / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Artificial Insolence / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Artistic License – Awards / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Ascended Demon / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Asian Airhead / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Attending Your Own Funeral / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Auteur License / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Backhanded Apology / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Bad News in a Good Way / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Bar Brawl / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Bathos / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Beautiful Slave Girl / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Become a Real Boy / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Been There, Shaped History / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Big Red Button / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Bizarre Alien Senses / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Blank White Void / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Blunt Metaphors Trauma / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Book Smart / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Boulder Bludgeon / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	British Brevity / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Broken-System Dogmatist / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Business of Generic Importance / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	But Not Too Bi / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Butlerspace / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Buxom Beauty Standard / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Buxom Is Better / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Call a Human a "Meatbag" / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Calling Parents by Their Name / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Caught Monologuing / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Celeb Crush / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Celestial Bureaucracy / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Character Name Alias / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Character Title / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Clark Kent Outfit / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Coconut Superpowers / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Colbert Bump / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Comedic Sociopathy / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Cordon Bleugh Chef / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Council of Angels / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Cue Card / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Dinner and a Breakup / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Divine Misfile / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Domain Holder / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Doorstopper / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Double Vision / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Dumbass Has a Point / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Early Personality Signs / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Eternal Recurrence / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Everyone Is a Tomato / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Everything Is Racist / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Evil Cannot Stand Cuteness / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Evil Former Friend / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Exercise Excuse / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Extremely Easy Exam / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Eye Open / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Face Death with Despair / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Failure Montage / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Fake Australian / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Fake Static / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	False Soulmate / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	False Utopia / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Fantastic Aesop / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Fantastic Comedy / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Fantastic Measurement System / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Faux Horrific / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Fictional Colour / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Fictional Fan, Real Celebrity / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Finale Season / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	First-Episode Spoiler / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	First World Problems / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Fitness Nut / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Five-Second Foreshadowing / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Flashback Cut / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Fling a Light into the Future / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	For Happiness / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	420, Blaze It / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	"Friends" Rent Control / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Friendship Denial / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	From Zero to Hero / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Frozen Dinner of Loneliness / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Full-Body Disguise / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Fully Automatic Clip Show / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Fun with Homophones / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Game Changer / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Geek Physiques / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Gender-Equal Ensemble / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Get Your Mind Out of the Gutter / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Giftedly Bad / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Gilded Cage / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Go-to Alias / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Godly Sidestep / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Goodness Exam / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Gorgeous Greek / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Happy Circus Music / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Harmless Liquefaction / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Harpo Does Something Funny / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Has Two Thumbs and... / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Heaven / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Heaven Above / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Heaven Seeker / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Heaven's Devils / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Hell / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Hell of a Heaven / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Hidden Villain / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Hide Your Children / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Hide Your Pregnancy / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	High-Five Left Hanging / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Higher Understanding Through Drugs / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Hired to Hunt Yourself / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Historical Character's Fictional Relative / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	History with Celebrity / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Hollywood Board Games / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Hollywood Mid-Life Crisis / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Home Nudist / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Home Porn Movie / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Hookers and Blow / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Hurl It into the Sun / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	I Am Very British / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	I Resemble That Remark! / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	I Think You Broke Him / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Immortal Genius / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Immortals Fear Death / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Imposter Forgot One Detail / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Improv Comedy Is Inane / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	In Love with Your Carnage / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Inappropriate Pride / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Indubitably Uninteresting Individual / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Infernal Fugitives / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Inherently Attractive Profession / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Inn Between the Worlds / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Inventional Wisdom / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Is It Something You Eat? / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	It Only Works Once / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Jealous Romantic Witness / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Jerk Justifications / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Judgement of the Dead / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Judicial Wig / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Karaoke Bonding Scene / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Karma Meter / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Karmic Misfire / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Kindhearted Simpleton / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Lame Last Words / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Magma Man / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Menacing Museum / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Ninja Prop / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Note to Self / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	One True Love / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Only in Florida / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Only One Afterlife / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Oscar Bait / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Outhumbling Each Other / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Parody Sue / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Personalized Afterlife / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Phone Number Jingle / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Place Worse Than Death / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Plot-Driving Secret / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	PokÃ©mon Speak / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Portal Door / int_9d7ec380
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The Good Place	hasFeature	Proportional Article Importance / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Proxy Breakup / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Pull the Thread / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Purgatory and Limbo / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Rainbow Lens / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Rapid-Fire Descriptors / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Real Award, Fictional Character / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Reasonable Request Rejected / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Reconstruction / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Recursive Creators / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Reel Torture / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Refusing Paradise / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Rejecting the Inheritance / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Relationship Reset Button / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Renaissance Man / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Rerouted from Heaven / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Restart the World / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Resurrection/Death Loop / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Rhyming Names / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Rich Kid Turned Social Activist / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Ridiculous Future Sequelisation / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Robot Girl / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Robot Maid / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Robotic Spouse / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Romantic Fakeâ€“Real Turn / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Romantic Rain / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Rousseau Was Right / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Russian Reversal / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Samaritan Relationship Starter / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Sarcastic Title / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Save the Jerk / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Scary Stinging Swarm / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Secret Handshake / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Secretly Selfish / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	See You in Hell / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Seemingly Profound Fool / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Seen-It-All Suicide / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Self-Inflicted Hell / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Separated by a Common Language / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Serendipitous Survival / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Series of the 2020s / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Servant Race / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Sibling Rivalry / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Sickly Neurotic Geek / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Signature Line / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Significant Name Overlap / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Free Will vs. Fate / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Realistic vs. Fantastic / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Slobs Versus Snobs / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Smug Straight Edge / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Smurfing / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Snake Oil Salesman / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Snobby Hobbies / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Snooty Sports / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	So Unfunny, It's Funny / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Soapbox Sadie / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Socially Scored Society / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Soft Reboot / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Someone Has to Die / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Special Person, Normal Name / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Spiritual Antithesis / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Spousal Privilege / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Square Race, Round Class / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Starbucks Skin Scale / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Statuesque Stunner / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Steamrolled Smart Guy / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Stereotype Flip / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Stern Old Judge / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Stop Trick / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Story Arc / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Straw Nihilist / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Strong Family Resemblance / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Strongly Worded Letter / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Stupid Crooks / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Stupid Sexy Flanders / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Stupid Sexy Friend / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Stylish Sunhats / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Subverted Punchline / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Subverted Sitcom / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Subverted Suspicion Aesop / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Successful Sibling Syndrome / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Suddenly Shouting / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Sugar Bowl / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Surrounded by Idiots / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Taking Advantage of Generosity / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Talking with Signs / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Tastes Like Purple / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Tentacled Terror / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	That Russian Squat Dance / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	The Afterafterlife / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	The Anti-Nihilist / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	The Danza / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	The Ditherer / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	The Ditz / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	The Gods Must Be Lazy / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	The Internet Is for Porn / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	The Journey Through Death / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	The Lad-ette / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	The Maiden Name Debate / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	The Needs of the Many / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	The Omniscient / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	The One Where Everyone Dies / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	The Oner / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	The Only One / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	The Pearly Gates / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	The Philosopher / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	The Place / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	The Roast / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	The Rule of First Adopters / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	The Voiceless / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Themed Wedding / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	There Are No Therapists / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	This Isn't Heaven / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Thought They Knew Already / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Title, Please! / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Token Robot / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Tom the Dark Lord / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Too Many Halves / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	"Too Young to Die" Lamentation / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Top God / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Torn Apart by the Mob / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Town Girls / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Translator Microbes / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Trivial Title / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Trivially Obvious / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	True Art Is Angsty / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	True Craftsman / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	"Truman Show" Plot / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Tuckerization / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Two Lines, Different Times / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	"Ugly American" Stereotype / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Unaccustomed as I Am to Public Speaking... / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Uncoffee / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Unconventional Learning Experience / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Understatement / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Undignified Death / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Undiscriminating Addict / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Unfeeling Heavens / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Unfortunate Search Results / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Unnaturally Looping Location / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Unseen No More / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Unwanted Gift Plot / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Upper-Class Equestrian / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Upper-Class Twit / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Vanity License Plate / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Victoria's Secret Compartment / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Victory Is Boring / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Virtual Sidekick / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Virtuous Vegetarianism / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Wacky Parent, Serious Child / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Wanting Is Better Than Having / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	We Named the Monkey "Jack" / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Weaker in the Real World / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Weakness Turns Her On / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Wealthy Philanthropist / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Weird World, Weird Food / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	What Would X Do? / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Where Do You Think You Are? / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	White Void Room / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Who Shot JFK? / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Whole Episode Flashback / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Why Won't You Die? / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Wide-Eyed Idealist / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Will Not Tell a Lie / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Win-Win Ending / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Woobie of the Week / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Word of Saint Paul / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Wrote the Book / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	X Called; They Want Their Y Back / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	You Are Fat / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	You Are Worth Hell / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	You Never Did That for Me / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	You Wake Up in a Room / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	All Crimes Are Equal / int_9d7ec380
The Good Place	hasFeature	Late to the Punchline / int_9d7ec380

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