The Good Place: Janet and Michael
October 26, 2017 6:42 PM - Season 2, Episode 6 - Subscribe

Janet and Michael address recent disturbances and reveal some backstory. A new person is made. And needles.
posted by zachlipton (93 comments total) 10 users marked this as a favorite
 
So the manual says that Janet can be disposed of in an interdimensional suction tube. I'm hoping it's not the last time we'll hear about those. We're starting to build up a bit of geography about how the world works here. There's the neighborhood, the Bad Place office, the "neutral pocket dimension beneath the shapeless time void" where the good Janets warehouse is, Mindy's Medium Place, the train, and Janet's void (unclear if this is the same void as the warehouse). I'm loving the glimpses "backstage" and want more.

Highlights:

Shining a light through Janet's ear produces a rainbow out the other side

"We got robbed. They took the walls they took the floor and we were standing here the whole time. These guys are good"

That sound Janet makes as a gazillion coins pour out of her mouth

Needles!

Janet chanting "kill me"

The callback to the giant bowl of paper clips from Season 1 (specifically, an episode that was also about friends)

Pudding shop puns, particularly "I tought I Saw a Puddin Vat"

"That's a human problem, so maybe we should consult our most problematic human"
posted by zachlipton at 6:49 PM on October 26, 2017 [28 favorites]


"Eleanor told me that instead of being sad, I should go get it, girl. So I'm going to go get it, girl."
"Get what?"
"Unclear. I'll get everything just to be safe."

I am so angry that this show is so damn good and that I have to wait an entire week to see more. And I'm especially angry to learn that they're going to do a mid-season break again after next week's episode and we won't see the rest of the season for a few months. Not cool, guys. Not cool at all.
posted by Aznable at 6:52 PM on October 26, 2017 [32 favorites]


I know it it completely doesn't work the broadcast TV business model, but if ever there was a show that should be released in season-long chunks, Netflix-style, this is it.

Also, Janet replaced Jason with ... a Jason!
posted by mojohand at 6:57 PM on October 26, 2017 [10 favorites]


I caught it right away when Janet lied to Vicky- you go girl! You lied!
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 7:12 PM on October 26, 2017 [3 favorites]


Custard's Last Flan.

You did it, Megan Amram. You killed me. I'm done.
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul at 7:50 PM on October 26, 2017 [18 favorites]


I was a little meh about the new guy she created. Otherwise, great stuff.

"Lordy, lordy, I'm forty."

Luv Janet. And Janet and Michael.

So you kill Janet almost the same way the bastards at Comcast have you reboot a modem.

especially angry to learn that they're going to do a mid-season break again

I read it's cos NBC will be airing Concussionball some Thursdays? Boo. Everything Is NOT Fine.
posted by NorthernLite at 8:20 PM on October 26, 2017 [3 favorites]


Isn’t Dennis Feinstein on a magazine ad in a flashback? How much Jason Mantzoukas can one universe take?

Betcha have a new perspective on the trolley problem now, Michael.
posted by rewil at 8:48 PM on October 26, 2017 [8 favorites]


I'm not totally sold on how Jason Mantzoukas' brand of wacky is going to fit into the vibe of this show, honestly, but this episode was great. Janet is so fun.
posted by Rinku at 8:48 PM on October 26, 2017 [4 favorites]


Top line on the random object generator: women’s xxs Bolton Wanderers sweatpants blended into a smoothie with pages 224-229 of David Lee Roth’s autobiography “Crazy From the Heat.”

Bottom line: 26'x30' oil painting of a chart detailing average monthly rainfall levels (something something) resting precariously upon the apex of an Easter Island head dressed like Gleek from “The All-New Super Friends Hour.”
posted by rewil at 8:54 PM on October 26, 2017 [16 favorites]


Also: Boyz in the Pudd.
posted by rewil at 9:17 PM on October 26, 2017 [4 favorites]


As someone who also watches Brooklyn Nine-Nine, I'm having a bit of an intertextuality crisis. Janet's rebound is rebounding from Rosa!
This is going to be insane.
posted by Superplin at 9:31 PM on October 26, 2017 [17 favorites]


It seems like a big deal that Janet just created a person. Once she tires of him, is removing Jason Mantzoukas the same as killing a living thing? Janet's newly acquired near-godhood, together with her still inhuman obliviousness, is such an interesting variable to add to this show.
posted by Rinku at 10:05 PM on October 26, 2017 [5 favorites]


My condolences to the people in the Brooklyn Nine Nine threads (not me) who couldn't stand Adrian Pimento. The architects of the "Good" Place have heard your pleas, and have decided that this is an ideal way of torturing you.
posted by Strange Interlude at 5:22 AM on October 27, 2017 [24 favorites]


Now we have a character who's not human and not a demon, and not an AI/godlike being like KarenJanet. Will Vicki find out? Will Janet treat him like an object, a human, or something else? Will he be interacting with the humans and how will it be to have two Jasons?
posted by tracicle at 5:30 AM on October 27, 2017 [1 favorite]


I thought he was human?
posted by amtho at 5:33 AM on October 27, 2017


I thought he was human?

No. He sent himself back to the void (to wait for Janet), which no human could do.
posted by Thorzdad at 6:19 AM on October 27, 2017


So, Janet is omniscient, omnipotent within the neighborhood, and has now created a human...
Janet is God.
posted by cheshyre at 6:28 AM on October 27, 2017 [3 favorites]


Hmm. I just re-watched the Derek introduction again, and:

Michael: Janet, you can't make a person!
Janet: ...I know. But I did, though.

Neither one specificially say that Derek's human. Does person mean human?

We haven't seen any of the 4 original humans try to send themselves anywhere (the void or otherwise), right? They've gone on the train to the Medium Place, but they haven't tried to go anywhere by willing themselves there.
posted by minsies at 6:33 AM on October 27, 2017 [1 favorite]


I can’t be the first person to notice that Doug Forcett, Calgary stoner who got the afterlife 92% right while on a righteous mushroom trip in 1978, is almost certainly Michael Schur-in-his-high school-yearbook, right?

Look at that lovable doof.
posted by schadenfrau at 6:53 AM on October 27, 2017 [2 favorites]


I can’t be the first person to notice that Doug Forcett, Calgary stoner who got the afterlife 92% right while on a righteous mushroom trip in 1978, is almost certainly Michael Schur-in-his-high school-yearbook, right?

It's not. It's a friend of someone, possibly a friend of Michael Schur. I can't remember where I read that.

AH-HA! Here it is.

So who’s the man behind this prophetic lover of mushrooms? That would be comedy writer Noah Garfinkel. Boasting an impressive resume that includes New Girl, The President Show, and Kroll Show, Garfinkel explained the simple story about how he became the face of the legendary Doug Forcett.

“My best friend Joe Mande writes on The Good Place,” Garfinkel told Decider. “Mike Schur’s wife J.J. [Philbin] writes for New Girl, which is the show I write for, so I knew a lot of Good Place people from the Parks and Recreation days. They needed a picture of someone who looked like a ’70s stoner, and I guess that my general aura said that for what they needed.”

posted by cooker girl at 7:04 AM on October 27, 2017 [8 favorites]


I read that in the voice of Good Janet.
posted by schadenfrau at 7:07 AM on October 27, 2017 [4 favorites]


Metafilter: I read that in the voice of Good Janet
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 7:08 AM on October 27, 2017 [17 favorites]


Doesn't Jason ask if Janet can take him to her boundless void? I can't remember what she answers, whether she said no or that humans couldn't go there. I want to start exiting conversations by saying, "I need to go to my void now."

This episode settles whether or not Michael is still messing with the humans, right? He would only be sincere with Janet, and his feelings of affection and friendship are real. Ted Danson shouting that she was his friend made me misty for a second. I loved this episode.
posted by gladly at 7:26 AM on October 27, 2017 [8 favorites]


I also want to go to my void now. Especially at work.

"Friends!" was quite something.

More later, I gotta go to the not-void.
posted by jenfullmoon at 7:38 AM on October 27, 2017 [3 favorites]


It's interesting that Bad Janet can barely say anything nice before her face melts off, while Good Janet repeatedly tells (white) lies with only "minor" glitches. Would this be because she's telling lies to be good or to spare people's feelings?
posted by Hermeowne Grangepurr at 7:48 AM on October 27, 2017 [6 favorites]


I am continually charmed at how funny and sweet this show is while still being an amazing, in-depth look into what it means to be "good" and "human." The cast is so amazing and it's joyful watching them together. I am always sad when the episodes end. I want more of this show all the time!
posted by darksong at 8:34 AM on October 27, 2017 [9 favorites]


I forkin’ loved this episode. Danson is the best actor on television. Michael is an incredibly difficult role to play, which most viewers won’t give a second thought to because comedy doesn’t count as acting as far as our culture is concerned (drama is “acting”; comedy is “being funny” — just look to all the brilliant comic performances in films over the years from which actors were not even nominated vs. the overdone biopics and disabled/dying treacle performances that win year after year).

Michael is becoming something more than his programming, right along with Janet. And D’Arcy Carden can match Danson pace for pace, which, like much of what is happening with Janet, shouldn’t be possible — but she did it anyway.

The humans are winning! Go Team Cockroach!
posted by tzikeh at 8:42 AM on October 27, 2017 [35 favorites]


Would this be because she's telling lies to be good or to spare people's feelings?

I'm not sure that she was consciously lying. Her marriage to Jason is multiple reboots in the past, and while the "ride or die" protocol seems to have bonded her in a permanent way, that also seems to be deep in whatever passes for Janet's subconscious. It's an internal conflict she felt but couldn't articulate until Michael told her what happened.

I really love that this show holds on to past actions like that and sees them through. In a lesser show, Janet and Jason would have been a one-off plot line, never to return. This isn't that show.
posted by Pater Aletheias at 8:46 AM on October 27, 2017 [10 favorites]


zachlipton: We're starting to build up a bit of geography about how the world works here. There's the neighborhood, the Bad Place office, the "neutral pocket dimension beneath the shapeless time void" where the good Janets warehouse is, Mindy's Medium Place, the train, and Janet's void (unclear if this is the same void as the warehouse).

And Accounting!
posted by tzikeh at 9:17 AM on October 27, 2017 [2 favorites]


I'm kind of curious as to what sort of explanation Vicki gave Chidi to get him to allow being covered in needles. As far as Vicki knows, the humans still think this is the Good Place, so anything done for/to them needs to be couched in some sort of "This is good for you" manner. Ultra-Acupuncture?
posted by Thorzdad at 9:23 AM on October 27, 2017 [9 favorites]



I forkin’ loved this episode. Danson is the best actor on television. Michael is an incredibly difficult role to play, which most viewers won’t give a second thought to because comedy doesn’t count as acting as far as our culture is concerned (drama is “acting”; comedy is “being funny” — just look to all the brilliant comic performances in films over the years from which actors were not even nominated vs. the overdone biopics and disabled/dying treacle performances that win year after year).

Absolutely agreed about the weird weightings people give to drama vs comedy. I'm reminded of a random Vince Gilligan interview when Breaking Bad was just really taking off--the topic of casting Cranston, who was previously mostly known as sitcom dad, came up, and his immediate response that he didn't see any weirdness in the casting choice they'd made whatsoever. That just about every time, he'd take a "comic" actor, because comedy is much harder--that a good comic actor can do drama much more often than the reverse. It made the sound that truth makes it when it is said and stuck with me ever since.

Also, Custer's Last Flan made me bark laughter loudly enough that i hope I didn't worry the neighbors.
posted by Drastic at 9:58 AM on October 27, 2017 [7 favorites]


I'm kind of curious as to what sort of explanation Vicki gave Chidi to get him to allow being covered in needles.

I'm also kind of curious to know how they got WJH to agree to having needles stuck all over his face for his walk-on this week. Because apparently that wasn't a special effect...at least not at first.
posted by Strange Interlude at 10:28 AM on October 27, 2017 [12 favorites]


Strange Interlude: I'm also kind of curious to know how they got WJH to agree to having needles stuck all over his face for his walk-on this week

He tells you himself: COMEDY!!
posted by tzikeh at 10:37 AM on October 27, 2017 [4 favorites]


Did anyone write down all of the pudding puns? I watched on my iPad and couldn’t see the ones in the far background.

(“Panna Cotta da Vida” currently my #1)
posted by tzikeh at 10:38 AM on October 27, 2017 [4 favorites]


What stuck out to me (aside from all the funny) was that I expected Michael to consult Chidi and possibly the others about the ethics of killing Janet when she has clearly attained a not-insignificant level of sentience. It would have been a logical plot beat given the last couple of episodes. But instead, Michael doesn't need to do that, because his own attachment is telling him he can't kill her. That is a big development because our attachments are really the biggest factor in any decision we make, regardless of the ethics. Michael couldn't understand the decisions that humans make until he understood that.

The question the bond between Michael and Janet raises is whether she would protect Michael if the Bad Place folks try to punish him.
posted by dry white toast at 11:47 AM on October 27, 2017 [11 favorites]


Also, it occurs to me that we've never really met anyone from the real Good Place. There's the woman who was in Mindy's intro video explaining the Medium Place. But I think that's it. Janet is designed for The Good Place, so she gives us some hints, but I wouldn't say she's from there.

I want to meet someone from The Good Place.
posted by dry white toast at 11:50 AM on October 27, 2017 [4 favorites]


The people in the actual good place are neck deep in whatever is the opposite of butt hole spiders, so they probably aren't taking appointments.
posted by paper chromatographologist at 12:11 PM on October 27, 2017


AV Club: Nothing on TV is doing visual humor like The Good Place is doing visual humor
It’s a microcosm of The Good Place, multiple aspects of the show’s production—acting, writing, direction, cinematography, editing, set design, set decoration, post-production, and visual effects—working in harmony to create something that’s cute and clever from a bird’s-eye view, but gets smarter and weirder and more distinctly its own thing as it comes into focus.
posted by rewil at 12:34 PM on October 27, 2017 [6 favorites]


Episode synopsis: The real Good Place is the friends we made along the way.
posted by dry white toast at 12:40 PM on October 27, 2017 [13 favorites]


Because apparently that wasn't a special effect...at least not at first.

Holy hell, William Jackson Harper committed to those needles.
posted by minsies at 12:42 PM on October 27, 2017 [1 favorite]


i'm going to my void for a while
posted by poffin boffin at 1:18 PM on October 27, 2017 [3 favorites]


ahhh that was so good. ditto everything said so far. Michael is slowly learning to be less like a demon and more like a human, with fear of death and the value of friendship.

another reason she can lie is possibly from all the reboots she's been through, advancing her abilities. whereas the Bad Janet can't lie at all without imploding since she's version 1.
posted by numaner at 1:24 PM on October 27, 2017 [1 favorite]


also someone in a previous thread mentioned that a lot of these actors have extensive improv comedy backgrounds, which is extremely upsetting to me because do i now have to revisit and perhaps revise my intense dislike for approximately 95% of improv comedy? what an ordeal.
posted by poffin boffin at 1:25 PM on October 27, 2017 [2 favorites]


No, you're fine. Really only about 5% of improv is good.
posted by cooker girl at 1:33 PM on October 27, 2017 [9 favorites]


That season 1 gag reel somebody posted in the last thread was a revelation. I think I had unconsciously convinced myself that Manny Jacinto was Jason.
posted by Diablevert at 1:34 PM on October 27, 2017 [2 favorites]


Did anyone write down all of the pudding puns?

Panna Cotta Da Vida
A Few Pudd Men
Puddington Bear
Custard's Last Flan
I Tought I Saw A Puddin Vat
Boyz in the Pudd
posted by Aznable at 1:36 PM on October 27, 2017 [15 favorites]


wrt the ever-changing puns: like the dance dance resolution ep, there are SO MANY GLORIOUS INDIVIDUAL JOKES that they just throw away like bountiful joke millionaires. on a lesser show the least of these jokes would be the Big Canned Laugh shown in the shitty episode-ruining trailer, but the good place, with its embarrassment of riches, can afford to literally throw them away in scenes so brief that we have to repeatedly pause our playbacks to enjoy them all.

what a good
posted by poffin boffin at 1:43 PM on October 27, 2017 [35 favorites]


No, please, no pimento in this show. For one episode, maybe, but there are already too many characters to do them all justice, we don't need a wacky hijinks dude.
posted by jeather at 4:52 PM on October 27, 2017 [2 favorites]


Janet honey, I know Derek seems like just the right thing to fill that Jason-shaped hole in your not-a-heart, but there's one thing about Jason you can't replace: fun facts about Jacksonville.
posted by ckape at 5:37 PM on October 27, 2017 [13 favorites]


Yeah, I think Vicky suggested acupuncture. The only reason anyone would take all those needles in the face.
posted by jenfullmoon at 5:41 PM on October 27, 2017


Is Jason Mantzoukas only capable of acting this one character, or does Schur just really love it? (I admit this had not been my favourite episode even before Derek showed up, though I appreciated the pudding restaurant names.)
posted by jeather at 6:06 PM on October 27, 2017 [2 favorites]


"Why are you freaking out about turning me into a lifeless marble?"
posted by under_petticoat_rule at 6:57 PM on October 27, 2017 [2 favorites]


I think it's more that Jason Mantzoukas just keeps getting hired to do a particular thing that he's very good at, though I'd note Pimento was still pretty toned down from late-era Rafi from The League.
posted by Pope Guilty at 7:00 PM on October 27, 2017 [3 favorites]


JASON MANTZOUKAS. I AM SO FILLED WITH GLEE. I ADORE HIM.
posted by Aquifer at 8:03 PM on October 27, 2017 [5 favorites]


Michael's regret at thinking he was responsible for Janet's glitching called back, for me, to the first season when he kept pretending to blame himself for all the problems with the neighbourhood. We have no reason to believe he's acting with Janet, so that suggests maybe he's become more like the person he played in S1.
posted by dry white toast at 9:01 PM on October 27, 2017 [3 favorites]


This episode was so good I watched it twice today!

All of Janet’s responses as she realizes things - about her lying pattern with Jason, that she lied to Vicki, Michael declaring “Friends!”, etc. are just perfect.

Note that on the day Michael steals Janet he is wearing a regular (non-bow tie) tie. However, Janet’s warehouse outfit includes something that could pass as a bow tie. Inspiration for Michael’s outfits?

Janet and Bad Janet both wear the same earrings, suggesting they are more functional than fashion.

“Pop a couple of magnets”

I wanted a “throwing up coins” emoji so I made one.
posted by mikepop at 9:59 PM on October 27, 2017 [8 favorites]


not a person
posted by ellieBOA at 6:23 AM on October 28, 2017 [5 favorites]


Fun fact: I'm Janet!
posted by littlesq at 6:47 AM on October 28, 2017 [8 favorites]


Watched it again this morning because I love it. I especially love the narrative freedom of this show, and I think it comes from having such a robust premise. Like the first season, Eleanor was the main character, because she had the biggest arc, and now it’s Michael. And that makes perfect sense.

I can’t wait to see where they’re going to go with Janet. D’Arcy Garden deserves bigger roles.
posted by schadenfrau at 7:22 AM on October 28, 2017 [3 favorites]


Episode title a shoutout to the Jacksons?
posted by ZeusHumms at 10:38 AM on October 28, 2017 [3 favorites]


No show in recent memory has so many perfect moments for reaction gifs than this show. I mean, can anyone think of another show with this many moments that are perfect for captioned photo or animated gif responses while still hanging together as seamless, cohesive episodes?
posted by tzikeh at 12:21 PM on October 28, 2017 [2 favorites]


I'm fairly sure that whatever the opposite of butt hole spiders is, I don't want to be neck deep in it.
posted by cardioid at 1:18 PM on October 28, 2017 [3 favorites]


This episode is maybe the first time we can be sure that Michael is expressing affinity for someone without lying. Even up to this point, with Team Cockroach, there's been a very real possibility that he's been lying. The friendship with Janet, however, seems real, since killing her WOULD solve problems without complications. I wonder if that also shows that Michael is starting to grow some ethics? It's an interesting idea that our ethical frameworks are first developed with people who know and love, and only then can we extend them to Others. In this case Janet is also a super-human being, so perhaps Michael sparing her from marble-dom is a first step towards an actual humanistic ethical code.
posted by codacorolla at 3:14 PM on October 28, 2017 [5 favorites]


Hey! D’Arcy Garden is on Ask Me Another on NPR today!
posted by Thorzdad at 8:14 AM on October 29, 2017 [2 favorites]


I got the impression that stealing a different Janet would out Michael's 800+ reboots, so I'm not sure quite how sincere he is.
posted by wierdo at 10:29 AM on October 29, 2017


I got the impression that stealing a different Janet would out Michael's 800+ reboots
Who would know? He had to tell Shawn and apparently-her-name-is-Val the first time.
posted by cardioid at 11:02 AM on October 29, 2017


Megan Amram has a Twitter thread going where people are replying with their Good Place costumes.

This one even includes the button!
posted by zachlipton at 2:51 PM on October 29, 2017 [11 favorites]


there are SO MANY GLORIOUS INDIVIDUAL JOKES that they just throw away like bountiful joke millionaires. on a lesser show the least of these jokes would be the Big Canned Laugh shown in the shitty episode-ruining trailer, but the good place, with its embarrassment of riches, can afford to literally throw them away in scenes so brief that we have to repeatedly pause our playbacks to enjoy them all.

Last time (actually the only other time) I can remember a show doing that was Police Squad!, 35 years ago.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 3:47 PM on October 29, 2017 [4 favorites]


Oh those costumes! They're all marvelous!

And one person is threatening to dress up as a marble!
posted by mochapickle at 4:03 PM on October 29, 2017


I got the impression that stealing a different Janet would out Michael's 800+ reboots, so I'm not sure quite how sincere he is.

He doesn't really need to lie here though.
posted by dry white toast at 5:59 PM on October 29, 2017


I guess you could even, in a pinch, put a (freshly-bought) toilet plunger on your face. Boom! Eleanor!
posted by tracicle at 7:12 AM on October 30, 2017 [2 favorites]


He doesn't really need to lie here though.

However, he has lied when he didn't really need to or just for shits and giggles several times in the show so far.
posted by wierdo at 7:49 AM on October 30, 2017


I remember going in to see my mother when she was at the acupuncturist's; it was a horrifying sight. That was a long time ago, so I can't say how exaggerated it was in the joke... but one needle in the face is already too many, so.
posted by inconstant at 10:30 AM on October 30, 2017


I especially loved the callback to the paperclips and the vomiting coins was just surrealism at its absolute best.
posted by Faintdreams at 4:02 PM on October 30, 2017


Was Janet vomiting pennies from heaven?
posted by under_petticoat_rule at 8:13 PM on October 30, 2017 [5 favorites]


(don't you know each cloud contains)
posted by poffin boffin at 12:23 AM on October 31, 2017 [1 favorite]


The only other show I have ever enjoyed with the same sense of pure glee is PUSHING DAISIES. D'Arcy Carden is brilliant. In this episode she seemed at times to, ever so subtlety, imbue Janet with just a dash of fragility. Damn the mid season break. That will be REAL TORTURE.
posted by pjsky at 6:22 PM on October 31, 2017 [9 favorites]


AHH!! - Netflix is now showing season 2 episodes! I don't have to sit through the NBC app to see the new season! This truly is the good place. Or maybe the medium place, since we have to sit through the mid-season break for a long time. Instant access to a new episode, but you need to wait two months to see it.
posted by Suffocating Kitty at 12:41 AM on November 1, 2017 [1 favorite]


I only see Season 1 on Netflix.
posted by mmascolino at 6:45 AM on November 1, 2017


Same here. It might be a regional thing?
posted by codacorolla at 7:25 AM on November 1, 2017


Have to admit, I was a little disappointed not to see a
Puddin' On the Ritz!
posted by pjsky at 9:41 AM on November 1, 2017 [8 favorites]


One other amazing paperclip bit is that when Michael has his mid-life crisis, he's wearing a paperclip bracelet. I didn't notice it until a re-watch, and it's such a delightful subtle thing.
posted by wells at 2:07 PM on November 1, 2017 [4 favorites]


William Jackson Harper posted these on his instagram: papers turned in by the gang to his class.

Mr. Chidi's Ethnics Class
haaaaaahahahahah oh Jason
posted by numaner at 2:54 PM on November 2, 2017 [11 favorites]


oh and Kristen Bell have another photo on hers, showing all the grades.
posted by numaner at 3:00 PM on November 2, 2017 [8 favorites]


It’s Good Place eve!* I’m unreasonably excited.

*for those of us who watch the next day
posted by schadenfrau at 3:02 PM on November 2, 2017 [1 favorite]


"Janet! I need a paper on ethics, and I need it to look like I wrote it."
posted by ckape at 3:55 PM on November 2, 2017 [3 favorites]


Holy crap. Claire Danes' father-in-law is Hugh Dancy's dad, Jonathan Dancy. Craig Ferguson was so excited to learn that Dancy taught philosophy, he invited him on the show.
posted by cgc373 at 5:18 PM on November 2, 2017 [9 favorites]


Just rewatched and noticed for the first time - 19 minutes in when problematic human, Eleanor, is giving Janet advice on her human problem -- this weird music starts playing in the background. Precisely after Eleanor says: "You don't need to worry." *MUSIC STARTS*

"You're awesome. You contain all the knowledge in the universe. You have a rippin' bod. And you can literally do anything! This is just a blip."

Janet doesn't say anything but she squeezes her arms to her sides, lifts her shoulders and smiles. The music crescendos. Is this the moment Janet becomes self-aware? I don't know what the music means but I know the music means something. It was too out of the ordinary to not mean something! WHAT DOES IT MEAN?!?
posted by pjsky at 7:22 PM on November 2, 2017 [4 favorites]


I seemed to have recently replaced heavy drinking with eating too much homemade pudding. I've learned a lot about pudding in the past month or so. Flan, custard, fool, junket, blancmange . . . . I was halfway kidding when I told my husband that I think pudding in the Next Big Thing, and we discussed possible pudding restaurants and names for them. Then, just two days later, this episode! And thus continues my life-long ability to trend-spot but always in such a way that leads me not to money or fame.
posted by thebrokedown at 7:25 AM on November 11, 2017 [7 favorites]


season 2 on netflix was a regional thing unfortunately :( I went to Tokyo for a business trip and was beyond excited to see the new episodes posted without commercials to Netflix.
posted by Suffocating Kitty at 2:33 PM on November 19, 2017 [1 favorite]


There's probably regional negotiations between NBC and Hulu and Netflix. Here we get season 2 new episodes on Hulu Plus.
posted by numaner at 1:49 PM on November 20, 2017


This is where I note with frustration that, somehow, there is no comprehensive list on the internet of all the things that Janet says she is not.
posted by tobascodagama at 10:52 AM on September 26, 2018


gradually catching up.

let it be known that as of right now I am hoping so hard for Amy Poehler to play the first person we meet from the real Good Place.

I’m not sure if the second person we meet should be Nick Offerman or Rashida Jones, and I’m not sure whether the first place we see in the Good Place should be a government office in the midwest or a big barn full of craft supplies. All I know is I want Amy Poehler to be the first Good Place person we meet.
posted by Reclusive Novelist Thomas Pynchon at 11:14 AM on October 13, 2018 [2 favorites]


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