9:27 Can we just appreciate the fact that Tahani chose to enter the house that way? Like everyone else in that line up is a demon acting as Eleanor's soulmate, but Tahani is just being Tahani here.
The funniest reboots: -The one where Jason figures it out -The butt reboot -The one where Eleanor overhears Michael saying it’s the bad place as he left his door open
I also like the first one, mostly because of Eleanor's 'Ya Basic' and how it matches with the snap. And like you can see the smug expression on Michael's face because he doesn't know what's coming
I wish there was a version where Michael tried so hard to make the Bad Place look like the Good Place that everyone was actually living a good life until he eventually goes "wait shirt, this completely missed the mark"
@@rizatusz8163 It may have been the one that went the longest of all those runs! And then Eleanor still figured it out because of her dislike of people who are better than she is.
Everything about the scene where Jason figures it out is pure gold. His “yo, homies check it” to Michaels terrified stare to “Jason figured it out? Jason???” And Jason having that huge smile on his face. Arguably the best scene in the show
Jason actually figured it out the first time, long before Eleanor did. He kept telling her that they were on a "prank show" because he knew they were being tortured. No one spoke Jason at the time, tho, so they didn't know what he meant.
@@TheChurchofJim Tahani is a big giveaway that they're in the bad place. Yes, she did a lot of good while on Earth but the episode where Michael leaves the neighborhood scoreboard at Tahani's and the only thing she can do is think why is she so low then all she does is try to raise it kinda gives a hint. Also Jason being in the good place is strange. Yes, Elenor's story could work (name misshap), but Jason's is if-fy. What can you say, the good place is kinda racist?
@@pkojo I mean yeah but i feel like anyone can look back and say it was easy to figure out, but i feel the reason most people didnt was because its not something most shows do, most people expected the zainy eleanor to accidently get into the good place and when they pulled the twist the show got a lot more interesting. But yeah i do see the hints they gave and i like them
0:34 I never noticed this before, but when Michael answers the question of whether Eleanor is in heaven or hell in the very first situation, watch his physical reaction. He can barely contain the joy of the lie of telling her she's in the Good Place. How forking amazing is Ted Danson's acting.
Went back and watched that moment again, and yes, there's that grin that flashes across his face, the same look he has the moment before his laugh on the first reveal. I mean yes, it's his face so it should look the same, but there's a way it flashes across both times that feels (in hindsight) perfectly foreshadowed.
Going into season 2, I fully expected most of the season to be a reboot every episode. When they instead did all the reboots in a single episode and moved past it, that was the moment I realized this was a show that completely broke my expectations, and I had no idea where they would go. Absolute genius, best writing on a comedy ever.
Definitely! The fact that they didn't bother with the whole "they figured out it's hell at the series finale" spoke volumes to me just how well story tellers everyone on that show was!
Diavolo IKKK! Literally, I'm so curious!! Esp bc in the final episode of S4, Tahani " objectifies " Eleanor and they basically have the some kind of hots for each other at certain points in the whole show! 😂
I like how after Janet says she has so much to live for as Michael approaches the plunger, he actually apologizes and then looks relieved when Janet says she doesn't actually care. I feel like Janet was the real start to Michael learning how to feel.
@@alexjewett7455 The reply above shows that I do know the episode, the scene, and the meaning. I’m on mobile accessing UA-cam through Safari and can’t edit my comment here to clarify the original comment’s wording, sorry ‘bout that.
When Eleanor first said that they were in the Bad Place, and Michael started laughing, I thought it was going to be like some kind of joke, but that twist really drove the rest of the show. Really well written comedy!
Yeah I thought Eleanor and Michael were doing a bit together to try to throw off Shawn or something. I got sad when Michael turned out to be evil but it really made things that much more cool later on.
Yeah same, I kept thinking that Michael was gonna say that he just joked with her or something, but the show kept going on and it’s clear that they were indeed in the bad place. I had to pause the show for half an hour before watching to the end XD (and then I dropped it for 2 years… let’s just say I was thoroughly shocked by that twist)
I think it's an underrated aspect of this show that the first season *is* attempt number 1. because it would have been so easy to add to the twist by going "you're in the bad place, and this is the one millionth time you've been rebooted" or something like that. the fact that we are actually there to see the start of the cycle is really good both for the story and the development of Michaels character. I just don't think I've ever seen someone mention that before
Also, in a way we got to see, for the first time, Elenor die. She always had memories from her life. Everyone else seems to carry their memories to the afterlife. But during every reboot, that afterlife version of her was getting lost. By watching the very first installment of Michael’s hell we saw “our” Elenor, from the first season, truly die/disappear, for the first time. The continuity of who she is was lost.
I think it took me quite a while after the reboots episode to put in the trust to connect with the version of Eleanor that was on the screen in later seasons.
"I have tickets to Hamilton next week! And there's a rumor that DAVEED DIGGS is coming back-" If that ain't the good place, then honestly I don't want it.
9:44 I love the sad energy of the whole concept of holding balloons in a field of cacti. We don't know the story of this reboot, but we can feel the energy 😂🌵
I would imagine it would have the same energy as having to protect a raw egg from cracking. It seems easy at first until you get paranoid about everything that could cause the egg to crack or the balloons to pop (mainly the cacti). And then your arm gets tired and you enter an endless loop of physical and mental exhaustion protecting something fragile that will inevitably break anyway.
I love the brilliance of going straight from Michael's scariest moment (his unsettling reaction to her figuring it out the first time) to the weirdly humanizing experience of watching his mounting confusion and frustration that this isn't working.
2:16 This laugh, ladies and gentlemen, is a proof of decades of skillful acting, a true example of mastery. Ted Danson is a true treasure of television.
It’s so good. It sounds simultaneously genuine and like the tropey evil laugh it needs to be, but also not so evil that it would come from satan, just from some demon in a human form.
12:50 I get the feeling the original script called for all four of them to react, but then they decided it was funnier for Eleanor to say all four reactions.
Solid Water Cress which purple ball? But I agree with above, Tahani and Eleanor as soulmates? That's interesting lmaoo but i also wanna see the questionable spinning clown one?? 😂
The twist at the end of season one was spoiled for me by a girl who was seeing the show at the place where I used to work (She wasnt wearing headphones while watching it and I just heard Eleanor shout "this is the bad place" lol) and yet it managed to surprise me on so many ways and it sucked me right in, even with that spoiled, that only shows how brilliant this show is
A good twist makes a second or spoiled viewing interesting still. Main example with the good place is seeing how every episode is hand picked torture for the main cast and knowing Michael is a lying to them.
That's because when the story is good, it doesn't matter whether or not you know what's coming next. Spoilers are a fiction your brain invents. The psychology is a bit complicated but the sooner you realise that learning the end ahead of time doesn't actually affect your enjoyment of a story, the happier you'll be.
I learned about this show's existence from UA-cam recommending me a video that spoiled it right in the title. I know the feeling of both knowing the truth but still binging the show because it's so forking good!
@@renatocorvaro6924I figured that out in my teens and indeed have been MUCH happier for it. Obviously I try not to spoil things for others, but when it comes to me learning twists in advance, I feel like I am even more satisfied with my viewing experience when I know what I'm getting into.
@@ashlee5982 The show is saying that not only would 'jazzzz opera' be awful but it's in fact _so_ truly awful that no one would want that as their idea of heaven.
@Alex Jewett Jason was very emotionally intelligent. While he was a doofus, everything he did was always with good intentions, he was the best of them all. Eleanor would do mean things, Tahani was selfish and Chidi was accidentally evil with his strict philosophy.
@sweetheart’s soul I think it would be torture for Eleanor because at the beginning she hated anyone who even tried to be good and felt insecure around good people in general, so she would always feel like the ugly duckling. Jason might hate how he can't express himself freely around all the sophisticated Tahanis and Chidis. But yeah, Chidi and Tahani would forking thrive.
sweetheart’s soul I mean it sounds like you haven't actually watched the show lol bc it is clear for why each person doesn't like it, and they were specifically chosen to torture each other etc put into uncomfortable situations and with clashing personalities
@@bwingbwinggwiyomi I think it depends, if we just leave them there without any interference whatsoever, would Chidi and Tahani really be tortured? Eleanor and Jason I can imagine. But most of the psychological torture Chidi and Tahani were subjected to was at the hands of Michael and the demons, for example Chidi's soulmate dilemma or Tahani's soulmate and house problem. Without Michael purposefully bringing up their insecurities, I think they would at least be fine.
8:59 - 9:22 Ted Danson's acting is on point here. He acts as a perfect audience surrogate for the series as a whole - we think we know exactly what we are in for, yet our expectations keep getting broken. That is groundbreaking writing right there.
Sometimes I like to come back to this video and remember how amazing this show was. Like the first time Michael tells Eleanor she’s in the Good Place and just before Ted Danson does this little restrained smirk, like Michael’s so excited to start the deception and torture but catches himself so he doesn’t give away the game. Masterful.
Can we just talk about how intelligent Eleanor had to be to figure it out the first time? This may sound stupid because a lot of you might have thought it was obvious but she may be one of the smartest characters I’ve seen recently, because it was an incredibly complicated, unusual situation and she managed to somehow see through the strange lines.
That is Eleanor’s intelligence in a nutshell: she has dealt with so many ashholes in her life that her bullshirt detector is mad strong. All four of them are intelligent, just in their own way. Chidi, of course, is the most book-smart. He possesses the most general information out of the four. He has a brilliant scientific mind (that he decided was to be used for philosophy…) Tahani is the most socially intelligent. She can function in basically any social situation and lies even better than Eleanor. It also helps that she has the most experience helping people. Jason is the most emotionally intelligent. He understands the people around him very well. So well that he knows exactly how to help them. It’s why he puts the magnets on Janet
10:18 "It's gonna be the same every time." "Yeah. Yeah, I know." Janet was definitely talking about the whole thing of she being rebooted, over and over. But for Michael's expression, he was taking that comment like a very accurate statement about his whole Good Place Neighborhood experiment.
02:21 - "I can't believe you figured it out" - Well, I can't believe Chidi as philosophy professor did not figured it out waaayyy earlier. Jean-Paul Sartre - "Huis Clos".
Kristoff B Well he didn’t expect to have gone to the Bad Place. Plus if someone says you’re in heaven, you wouldn’t dare question it out of fear. At least Chidi wouldn’t. It’s telling that only Eleanor and Jason figure it out. If Micheal hadn’t made them think they weren’t supposed to be there, it could have worked better.
@@DeathnoteBB You are correct he did not expect that, but he is a professor of moral philosophy after all and there are serious moral and philosophical questions here - e.g. could you be in heaven/paradise/good place knowing that other being are suffering (in bad place)? Could you be in heaven/paradise/good place if you are in fear of even questioning something? (Maybe those things were left like this for viewers to notice and ask themselves?) By the way - it may sound I'm nitpicking and pointing to a "plot hole" but that's not my intention. I'm not a screenwriter but for me as a viewer it worked narratively quite well.
Kristoff B I mean, it did make Chidi uncomfortable that people he asked about were in the Bad Place. Whether he “could” be in heaven when others aren’t wasn’t really an issue as he had no say in where he went and obviously he wouldn’t want to be in the Bad Place just because others are. I mean he did well on earth even though others didn’t, so that’s not an issue. It’s not logical anyway to feel the need to suffer because other people are suffering. And I guess not, as they weren’t actually in the Good Place at all and part of the reason why was because Eleanor realized first that they were all suffering, even more than just Jason and herself. I only write as a hobby but personally from my pov it made sense. (And yeah I agree it works narratively as well)
@@DeathnoteBB OK, I see a language problem. When I wrote "could you be in heaven/paradise/good place knowing that other being are suffering (in bad place)?" - I'm not talking about a choice or possibility. Other way of saying might be - "how is this place considered paradise if you while being in this place are aware of endless suffering of others in hell?" "It’s not logical anyway to feel the need to suffer because other people are suffering." - let me ask you - when you see or know that someone close to you is suffering, what do you feel?
There was no specific failure. The failure was that you can't constantly torture people without them realising that they're being tortured. If you make people miserable in paradise they're gonna realise they're not in paradise. Also I love how it was normally Eleanor that figured it out. 💓
Yes! And Eleanor was the one who pretty much always figured it out cuz she knew that she belonged in the Bad Place. Chidi and Tahani believed that they belonged in the Good Place, so they looked over all the things that made them miserable. And Jason was too dumb to put the pieces together (except that one time which was /definitely/ a new low for Michael). So… moral of the story: always believe you belong in the Bad Place.
“I had tickets to Hamilton next week and there’s a rumour that Daveed Diggs is coming back” has to be the most hard-hitting attempt from Janet to prevent her reset.
Honestly I love this show but how funny would it have been for Eleanor to say all confidently "This is the Bad Place!" and Michael to go "Okay that's really hurtful, I am TRYING MY BEST!"
I think its because if elener knows they are in the bad place the whole point of the experiment would be pointless since she knows this is unpurposely torture
I wonder what would've happened if he admitted that they were in the bad place and just left them there, as they were. He and the other demons could've tortured them more openly, even if the original plan had to change.
@@dejotate the whole point of the experiment and the neighborhood is to preform physiological torture . Once they figure it out it’s supposed to be on purpose then it makes no different if they where just being tortured regularly. Then it wouldn’t be innovative and Michael wouldn’t get the recognition he wants
@@kaei193 no but I feel like being psychologically tortured by just leaving them there and them still living their lives but being stuck there would still really suck. Just being forced to live that life would kind of be like the actual good place where your brain just becomes mush
After seeing all these reboots all together like this, something occurred to me. The reason they keep figuring it out, is because the place is SO bad, they eventually HAVE to figure it out. Micheal is actually doing a good job at torturing them. He really could have just continued to reboot them, and torture them for eternity. 🤷🏻♀️🤗
That's exactly what I was thinking. You couldn't get them to torture each other forever, someone would always figure it out eventually. But wiping their memories and having them do it over and over again? That sounds like hell. Especially when you consider the times they go to Mindi's house and learn how many times they failed to escape, hammering in how hopeless it was (before Micheal gave up and joined them). It actually runs into the same problem as the Good Place, in that even if they don't figure it out, they will eventually just get used to it, making it lose all impact. There either has to be an ending point or a reboot.
@@joinsidekethis is very late but what if they could just willingly reboot the good place like wipe their memories so the experiences are never getting old
I love the way the music (and its key changes mainly) in the montage of reboots. Especially the key change when Jason figured it out adding to the weirdness of that situation
i think the magic of some of mike schur's shows is that the storyline progresses quickly. you never know precisely every second of anything that happened- for example, Chidi in the purple ball, Eleanor and Tahani being soulmates. that's what makes it so intriguing- it's just a glimpse into this crazy world
As a data scientist and coder. This hits different. Especially when you get down to the whiskey and sweatpants. I feel you Fam, my experiments often end the same way
9:27 Can we just appreciate the fact that Tahani chose to enter the house that way? Like everyone else in that line up is a demon acting as Eleanor's soulmate, but Tahani is just being Tahani here.
I wonder if the Golden Retriever is also a demon dressed as a dog. I'd love a spinoff series of that reboot.
@@spooniesagas The Retriever is obviously the most diabolical demon of that bunch (though Glenn's in there so not saying much).
I mean, she could **try** not to look effortlessly glamorous but she'd still be a smokeshow so she might as well just lean in.
@@telectronix1368 She is a sexy skyscraper
@@spooniesagas Plot twist, Soul Mates are a real thing, and Michael paired her with her real soulmate by accident.
The funniest reboots:
-The one where Jason figures it out
-The butt reboot
-The one where Eleanor overhears Michael saying it’s the bad place as he left his door open
I also like the first one, mostly because of Eleanor's 'Ya Basic' and how it matches with the snap. And like you can see the smug expression on Michael's face because he doesn't know what's coming
Yazhini and Tahani being Eleanor's soulmate!! 😂👀
-The one where Michael has a breakdown and reboots just to ask Eleanor why she's so difficult to torture
you missed the oportunity to call it a rebutt
Bees
You can basically sum up Michaels storyline with the saying: "Well if you cant beat them. Join them"
The Greendalewitch thing is though, he still tried to torture them with the Trolley Problem lmaoo
Loathing. Pure unadulterated loathing
@@bwingbwinggwiyomi I didn't say he was perfect.
Holy forking shirtballs, you figured it out!
Or its his bad place.
I wish there was a version where Michael tried so hard to make the Bad Place look like the Good Place that everyone was actually living a good life until he eventually goes "wait shirt, this completely missed the mark"
That would be hilarious!
That definitely would’ve been hilarious
Among the 800+ attempts of his, I believe at least one was like that.
@@rizatusz8163 It may have been the one that went the longest of all those runs! And then Eleanor still figured it out because of her dislike of people who are better than she is.
I think that was the golden retriever version
Everything about the scene where Jason figures it out is pure gold. His “yo, homies check it” to Michaels terrified stare to “Jason figured it out? Jason???” And Jason having that huge smile on his face. Arguably the best scene in the show
Also when Michael says "This one hurts" 😂
Best scene for me was when Michael explains how time works in the afterlife. Chidi’s “this dot broke me” killed me
“This is a real low point this one hurts”😂
I think this is Michael's lowest point in the show. How bad was this reboot?
Jason actually figured it out the first time, long before Eleanor did.
He kept telling her that they were on a "prank show" because he knew they were being tortured.
No one spoke Jason at the time, tho, so they didn't know what he meant.
Of all stuff that goes on in the actual Bad Place, Michael’s laugh when Eleanor first figured it out is the most evil of them all.
Yes! His laugh at 6:32, getting excited about the bees with teeth, is also very pleasant
OMFG yesss it so is it's hilarious tho
His first evil laugh legitimately scared me lmfao
Facts
Don’t forget the one when they do it together with Eleanor, so perfect
I wish I could erase my memory of watching this show, just so I could see the big reveal again for the first time. I seriously had no clue.
Yeah i just finished the final season and first of all I’m not ok and second of all I wish I could rewatch it over and over again for the first time
ikr. though not gonna lie, i thought season 1 was pretty boring up until the plot twist. then it got better
Same, i heard that literally nobody guessed it, but my uncle watched like the first episode or 2 and immediately guessed what was going on
@@TheChurchofJim Tahani is a big giveaway that they're in the bad place. Yes, she did a lot of good while on Earth but the episode where Michael leaves the neighborhood scoreboard at Tahani's and the only thing she can do is think why is she so low then all she does is try to raise it kinda gives a hint. Also Jason being in the good place is strange. Yes, Elenor's story could work (name misshap), but Jason's is if-fy. What can you say, the good place is kinda racist?
@@pkojo I mean yeah but i feel like anyone can look back and say it was easy to figure out, but i feel the reason most people didnt was because its not something most shows do, most people expected the zainy eleanor to accidently get into the good place and when they pulled the twist the show got a lot more interesting. But yeah i do see the hints they gave and i like them
I love when Janet says "And its your baby" Micheal is even faster in pressing the button
😂
Would you expect any less from Sam lol
Justikman Lmao that is totally something Sam would do-
S M A S H
Hahsghehejaj
Two reboots I really wanted to see:
Tahani and Eleanor being soulmates
The one where Jason figured it out
You think 9:44 was part of the first one?
I really wanted to see tahani and Eleonor as soulmates since Eleanor seems to fancy tahani in all scenarios
Tahani and chidi being soulmates too
id give anything to see the one with eleanor and tahani
I genuinely wanted to watch the one where tahani and Eleanor were soulmates. It would be so cool
0:34 I never noticed this before, but when Michael answers the question of whether Eleanor is in heaven or hell in the very first situation, watch his physical reaction. He can barely contain the joy of the lie of telling her she's in the Good Place. How forking amazing is Ted Danson's acting.
Ted Danson is a treasure
Especially since out of all the cast, only Ted and Kristen knew the twist from the start.
Went back and watched that moment again, and yes, there's that grin that flashes across his face, the same look he has the moment before his laugh on the first reveal. I mean yes, it's his face so it should look the same, but there's a way it flashes across both times that feels (in hindsight) perfectly foreshadowed.
yeah, i re-watch the show and second time u see a lot of moments like this one
Going into season 2, I fully expected most of the season to be a reboot every episode. When they instead did all the reboots in a single episode and moved past it, that was the moment I realized this was a show that completely broke my expectations, and I had no idea where they would go. Absolute genius, best writing on a comedy ever.
David Cervera they planned alot of things ahead of time.
Ameha K it doesn’t take away from how genius it was?
Definitely! The fact that they didn't bother with the whole "they figured out it's hell at the series finale" spoke volumes to me just how well story tellers everyone on that show was!
Best writing on a comedy ever
#facts
Max Levine it adds to it.
"IM TOO YOUNG TO DIE, AND TOO OLD TO ORDER OFF THE KIDS MENU! WHAT A STUPID AGE I AM
B B Y mood
lmao I love jason
This line is DIVINE! Who wrote those lines?
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Finish your quotes mate
Too bad we never saw the episode where Tahani and Eleanor were soulmates
Yeah, I would ship that.
Diavolo IKKK! Literally, I'm so curious!! Esp bc in the final episode of S4, Tahani " objectifies " Eleanor and they basically have the some kind of hots for each other at certain points in the whole show! 😂
Eleanor talks about how hot Tahani is. She seems like a girl that would go both ways.
@@RabbitsInBlack Eleanor has actually been confirmed to be bisexual
I wish
Imagine waking up with no memory, and walking into a room where someone says, “It doesn’t matter, this one doesn’t count.”
Not no memory, but no memory of everything after you died.
I like how after Janet says she has so much to live for as Michael approaches the plunger, he actually apologizes and then looks relieved when Janet says she doesn't actually care. I feel like Janet was the real start to Michael learning how to feel.
She is, there was even a whole episode in season two about it
Yep, I remember! “There’s- there’s reasons, there are reasons!” “But what are they?” “The reason, is, friends!”
That's exactly what it is. In season 2 after she starts glitching and she asks him to destroy her, he can't do it because she's his closest friend.
@@alexjewett7455 The reply above shows that I do know the episode, the scene, and the meaning. I’m on mobile accessing UA-cam through Safari and can’t edit my comment here to clarify the original comment’s wording, sorry ‘bout that.
@@stasis168 that's OK.
I remember being so triggered at Michael for not letting Eleanor finish “Ya basic”
Burco Presents I know. It was so annoying
That was a power move 😁
@Samara Hamilton Sorry, she doesn't. All she gets out is "Ya basi...."
@@GopherBaroque61 I agree
Micheal avenged ya basic. He put his words Into power and with his devasting words he spoke....ya basic
"THIS is is the Bad Place!"
"The pig's getting angry!"
"THIS is the Bad Place!"
"BEES! BEES! BEES! BEES!"
this is my favorite moment of the entire season probably
"Ohh this is the Bad Place."
"SSSSSSHHHHHHH."
I love how Jason figured it out.
bees with teeth
😂😂😂😂
When Eleanor first said that they were in the Bad Place, and Michael started laughing, I thought it was going to be like some kind of joke, but that twist really drove the rest of the show. Really well written comedy!
Yeah I thought Eleanor and Michael were doing a bit together to try to throw off Shawn or something. I got sad when Michael turned out to be evil but it really made things that much more cool later on.
Sadly the twist was ruined for me. But it's also the reason I started watching the show so lose = win I guess
I expected him to turn into a raging fire demon
For real I never expected that plot twist!!!
Yeah same, I kept thinking that Michael was gonna say that he just joked with her or something, but the show kept going on and it’s clear that they were indeed in the bad place. I had to pause the show for half an hour before watching to the end XD
(and then I dropped it for 2 years… let’s just say I was thoroughly shocked by that twist)
I think it's an underrated aspect of this show that the first season *is* attempt number 1. because it would have been so easy to add to the twist by going "you're in the bad place, and this is the one millionth time you've been rebooted" or something like that. the fact that we are actually there to see the start of the cycle is really good both for the story and the development of Michaels character.
I just don't think I've ever seen someone mention that before
Also, in a way we got to see, for the first time, Elenor die.
She always had memories from her life. Everyone else seems to carry their memories to the afterlife. But during every reboot, that afterlife version of her was getting lost.
By watching the very first installment of Michael’s hell we saw “our” Elenor, from the first season, truly die/disappear, for the first time. The continuity of who she is was lost.
I think it took me quite a while after the reboots episode to put in the trust to connect with the version of Eleanor that was on the screen in later seasons.
@@piotrrywczak No it wasn't. They all get all their memories back from all their reboots.
"THIS is the bad place!"
"The pigs getting angry!"
"THIS is the bad place"
"Bees! bees! bees! bees!"
I love Chidi
Ive rewatched “the pigs getting angry” more than the number of reboots there was.
I love chilli
“The pig’s getting angry!”
The pig: *innocent snuffling*
The fact that they could've made the storyline the reboots but didn't is when we all knew this show was something else.
Same
YES
IKR!
Kinda sad they didn’t. The one time I don’t want an American show to have a plot and just create endless seasons based on an idea.
Someone could potentially make a spin-off series of all the reboots if the directors give them permission
“What the fork is a Chidi?”
THERE IT IS! ELEANOR IS THE BEST CHARACTER EVER!!!
Evop Fx did u watch the live stream? xD
Evop Fx I meant the live stream of Chidi making the soup xD (the one on repeat)
"Why can't I say fork?"
I KNEW YOU WEREN'T A SOUP
My favorite Eleanor moment is when Chidi asks what country is he from and Eleanor replies with “is it racist if I say africa”
"I have tickets to Hamilton next week! And there's a rumor that DAVEED DIGGS is coming back-"
If that ain't the good place, then honestly I don't want it.
Same, I love Daveed Diggs and it wouldn’t be the good place without him.
honestly my good place is me watching the proshot of Hamilton that’s coming out next year over and over again
Retipuj Ilipac you could say Micheal didn’t have to wait for it
my freaking Hamilton tickets are canceled because of covid,
I’ll probably never get to see it
Isabella Greene same 😭
9:44 I love the sad energy of the whole concept of holding balloons in a field of cacti. We don't know the story of this reboot, but we can feel the energy 😂🌵
I would imagine it would have the same energy as having to protect a raw egg from cracking. It seems easy at first until you get paranoid about everything that could cause the egg to crack or the balloons to pop (mainly the cacti). And then your arm gets tired and you enter an endless loop of physical and mental exhaustion protecting something fragile that will inevitably break anyway.
Maybe she had to carry them for some annoying entitled kid and try to be good by not either intentionally or accidentally popping them
”I never even got to play my stupid TRIANGLE"
Lmao Vicky is so Underrated
Tahani and Vicky should remake the afterlife together.
Thanos has the greatest finger snap of all-time.
Michael: hold my Jeremy Bearimy...
Hold my time?
99# joke about the MCU
One does not simply hold a jeremy bearimy
Shouldn't it be hold my spoon? Or paperclip?
Hold my shrimps
0:38 That smirk. It was so subtle when this series started that it's pretty obvious watching it back after finishing the series.
I never even noticed that!
Good detail but apparently the crew didn't know about S1's twist until the day of filming.
@@rashaanburns8876 Elanor and Michael were the only ones who knew
@@Samgotboredd exactly, which is why that smirk is highly been intentioned by Ted himself.
I've never noticed that, That's awesome acting
“They should take Eleanor she’s a pear shape she’d fit right in!”
“Oh excuse me you wish you could have a bite of this pear!”
omg entrapta pfp! hi fellow spop fan 😼
YEAH I DO
and a few tries later they were soulmates
@@aidenfurry471 yep
@@aidenfurry471 YES😂
I love the brilliance of going straight from Michael's scariest moment (his unsettling reaction to her figuring it out the first time) to the weirdly humanizing experience of watching his mounting confusion and frustration that this isn't working.
The way Janet falls down when she gets rebooted is HILARIOUS. 😂
I was thinking about the snap Michael does to reboot the neighborhood...y’all Michael walked so THANOS CAN RUN
I appreciate that Analogy, you have earned a like!👍
Tom Lovett I know, it was a joke. None of that information is new to me.
Yes!!
@@puddlel1ama327 r/woooosh
Actually the thanos snap was in a comic in the 90s. The Infinity Gauntlet.
2:16 This laugh, ladies and gentlemen, is a proof of decades of skillful acting, a true example of mastery. Ted Danson is a true treasure of television.
the first time i saw it, i genuinely got so scared. he’s incredible.
I know!
Nah that’s Matthew Modine
Reminds me of Ron Swanson
It’s so good. It sounds simultaneously genuine and like the tropey evil laugh it needs to be, but also not so evil that it would come from satan, just from some demon in a human form.
"JASON? JASON figured it out? "
Edit:Dang thanks for the likes!
Man, that stings.
Abby Morrison real low 😂👀
Literally one of my favorite moments of the series
Oh man this hurts
11:30
1:42 Kristen's delivery in the first loop still gives me goosebumps. She's such an amazing actress. Ted's laugh is also iconic!
Those two were the only ones in the cast who knew the twist all along
12:50 I get the feeling the original script called for all four of them to react, but then they decided it was funnier for Eleanor to say all four reactions.
Lmaooo
She could have written ''This is the bad place'' instead of ''Find Chidi''
yes, but she knows that united they can reach the goal
And ya know storyline
true, but i guess since michael had just said the problem was them being together she just thought about chidi and how he helped her
She was panik
Then she might not believe the note she had written.
Earth needs a reboot honestly
It really does. Seriously, everyday just seems to get worst. We need a reboot bad!
obviously, earth is cancelled
Gonna erase the eeeearth
The judge was about to do that, and Team Cockroach/Soul Squad put a stop to it.
I feel like south park and one other show covered this already
I forgot how happy Janet looked wearing shades and playing on percussion.
Not gunna lie, I would watch a series dedicated to every single one of the 600 plus reboots. From start to finish. Each and every one of them.
Same
Same
Though apparently thats 300 years lol.
Especially the one where tahani is Elenor’s soulmate, I really wanna know how that one went
@@humanperson2480 YES T-T
I'm sorry but my favourite moment in this entire video is Eleanor saying "what the fork is a Chidi" 😂😂😂
Same
Well, it's definitely not a soup 🤣
If my soul mate was a golden retriever, I wouldn’t even care if I was in the bad place.
Micheal would eventually kick him into the sun anyways
@@davidkonevky7372 DIJFEJFU
dogs are just vessels incapable of love, idiot.
i'm allergic to shedding dogs, but it's kind of worth it
@@GhostW1thTheMost wait....teacup doesn't love me?
That 1 dislike is probably a demon who never had a role in Michael’s reboots...
No, that dislike is from vicky bc she never got to her rol in all of the reboots😂
No it's from from someone who didn't like the video but has no tie with it.
@Evop Fx yes, of course! I have watched the new episodes within a day😂
@Evop Fx I know😉
From that demon who only wants to bite
We need a spin-off of some of the other attempts, I need to know what led to 9:38 or how chidi got trapped in the purple ball
Solid Water Cress which purple ball? But I agree with above, Tahani and Eleanor as soulmates? That's interesting lmaoo but i also wanna see the questionable spinning clown one?? 😂
@@bwingbwinggwiyomi the purple ball is from one of the flashbacks Michael shows Eleanor in season 3
RIGHT I feel with all those brown hoods, it's a cult of some kind.
And I'd PAY to see a cult in the fake Good Place.
SAMMEE I WANNA SEE WHAT HAPPENED TO CHIDI
I want to know about the pigs!😂😂
The twist at the end of season one was spoiled for me by a girl who was seeing the show at the place where I used to work (She wasnt wearing headphones while watching it and I just heard Eleanor shout "this is the bad place" lol) and yet it managed to surprise me on so many ways and it sucked me right in, even with that spoiled, that only shows how brilliant this show is
Thats a negative 4000 points for that girl.
A good twist makes a second or spoiled viewing interesting still. Main example with the good place is seeing how every episode is hand picked torture for the main cast and knowing Michael is a lying to them.
That's because when the story is good, it doesn't matter whether or not you know what's coming next. Spoilers are a fiction your brain invents. The psychology is a bit complicated but the sooner you realise that learning the end ahead of time doesn't actually affect your enjoyment of a story, the happier you'll be.
I learned about this show's existence from UA-cam recommending me a video that spoiled it right in the title. I know the feeling of both knowing the truth but still binging the show because it's so forking good!
@@renatocorvaro6924I figured that out in my teens and indeed have been MUCH happier for it. Obviously I try not to spoil things for others, but when it comes to me learning twists in advance, I feel like I am even more satisfied with my viewing experience when I know what I'm getting into.
I just laughed my butt off at the "3 hour spoken word jazz-opera" bit 😂😂😂😂.
This show was GENIUS.
Can u Explain that joke 🌚🙂...plz
Eleanor hated jazz music!
@@ashlee5982 Eleanor hates jazz
@@ashlee5982 The show is saying that not only would 'jazzzz opera' be awful but it's in fact _so_ truly awful that no one would want that as their idea of heaven.
And I can't believe I could have probably been fooled by it
11:36 Michael's stare is like: No...no don't you dare.
11:46 His stare intensifies
11:51: True pain.
Yeah, his acting is perfect
He should have received Emmys
11:51: A feeling of disappointment in the other humans (Mostly Eleanor) for Jason beating them to the realization.
Just how bad was this reboot that Jason of all people figured it out first?
@Alex Jewett Jason was very emotionally intelligent. While he was a doofus, everything he did was always with good intentions, he was the best of them all. Eleanor would do mean things, Tahani was selfish and Chidi was accidentally evil with his strict philosophy.
11:52
Michael: Jason figured it out? Jason? This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts. Ow. *snap*
Even before that, you can see the horror in his eyes at 11:36.
The best way to torture them is to leave them all alone; just being in the Bad Place thinking they’re in the Good Place makes it torture already.
But they are also trying to not to broke them completely. So it can continue 1000 years
@sweetheart’s soul I think it would be torture for Eleanor because at the beginning she hated anyone who even tried to be good and felt insecure around good people in general, so she would always feel like the ugly duckling. Jason might hate how he can't express himself freely around all the sophisticated Tahanis and Chidis.
But yeah, Chidi and Tahani would forking thrive.
sweetheart’s soul I mean it sounds like you haven't actually watched the show lol bc it is clear for why each person doesn't like it, and they were specifically chosen to torture each other etc put into uncomfortable situations and with clashing personalities
@@bwingbwinggwiyomi I think it depends, if we just leave them there without any interference whatsoever, would Chidi and Tahani really be tortured? Eleanor and Jason I can imagine. But most of the psychological torture Chidi and Tahani were subjected to was at the hands of Michael and the demons, for example Chidi's soulmate dilemma or Tahani's soulmate and house problem. Without Michael purposefully bringing up their insecurities, I think they would at least be fine.
Just quarantine them 😭
11:37 Michael’s face when he realizes Jason’s about to say he figured it out 😂
His face is like "Oh no."
Yes I like to call it the "you got to be shirting me" look
"That was a real trip for biscuits and now we're all wet daddio" is possibly one of the best lines in television history
Jason's smile when he figures it out is great. And I kinda wanna see that reboot where Tahani was Eleanor's soulmate
8:59 - 9:22 Ted Danson's acting is on point here. He acts as a perfect audience surrogate for the series as a whole - we think we know exactly what we are in for, yet our expectations keep getting broken. That is groundbreaking writing right there.
6:00 tahani walked so Karens could RUN
Yeah, but Tahani’s got class
@@theydontcallmeanything yeouchie!
Sometimes I like to come back to this video and remember how amazing this show was. Like the first time Michael tells Eleanor she’s in the Good Place and just before Ted Danson does this little restrained smirk, like Michael’s so excited to start the deception and torture but catches himself so he doesn’t give away the game. Masterful.
Can we just talk about how intelligent Eleanor had to be to figure it out the first time? This may sound stupid because a lot of you might have thought it was obvious but she may be one of the smartest characters I’ve seen recently, because it was an incredibly complicated, unusual situation and she managed to somehow see through the strange lines.
That is Eleanor’s intelligence in a nutshell: she has dealt with so many ashholes in her life that her bullshirt detector is mad strong. All four of them are intelligent, just in their own way.
Chidi, of course, is the most book-smart. He possesses the most general information out of the four. He has a brilliant scientific mind (that he decided was to be used for philosophy…)
Tahani is the most socially intelligent. She can function in basically any social situation and lies even better than Eleanor. It also helps that she has the most experience helping people.
Jason is the most emotionally intelligent. He understands the people around him very well. So well that he knows exactly how to help them. It’s why he puts the magnets on Janet
5:24 Michael finally loosing when Janet and Jason say hi always cracks me up.
10:18
"It's gonna be the same every time."
"Yeah. Yeah, I know."
Janet was definitely talking about the whole thing of she being rebooted, over and over. But for Michael's expression, he was taking that comment like a very accurate statement about his whole Good Place Neighborhood experiment.
Can we please have a spin-off entitled "The Good Place: Attempt Number 218 In Full" thank you in advance
I’d even settle for a 15 minute short. Or a five minute short. I need some Tahani/Eleanor content. And I’m an extreme Chidi/Eleanor shipper
Which one’s number 218?
@@artemisfowldragon tahani and eleanor are soulmates in attempt 218
or whatever one it is where Eleanor and Chidi confess their love to eachother.
I also want the one with Glenn
I'm gutted they left out Eleanor telling Bambajan to get lost when he bursts in. That was hilarious.
And the look on his face as he is a little confused and starts losing his mojo lol
I always laugh when Michael says “Jason figured it out? Jason!? Wow, this is a real low point for us” I mean the acting is SO SO SO good
I love all the names of the shops like sushi and the banshees lol makes me want to watch from the beginning again
Chris Buchaniec " Beignet and the Jets " 😂
I originally watched the show with my ex and now everytime I try Nd start again it's not the best time, anyway have a good one aye
Chris Buchaniec there’s so many Easter eggs on this show
@@domenicfieldhouse5644 god mood
hot dog on a stick on a stick
02:21 - "I can't believe you figured it out" - Well, I can't believe Chidi as philosophy professor did not figured it out waaayyy earlier. Jean-Paul Sartre - "Huis Clos".
Kristoff B Well he didn’t expect to have gone to the Bad Place. Plus if someone says you’re in heaven, you wouldn’t dare question it out of fear. At least Chidi wouldn’t.
It’s telling that only Eleanor and Jason figure it out. If Micheal hadn’t made them think they weren’t supposed to be there, it could have worked better.
@@DeathnoteBB You are correct he did not expect that, but he is a professor of moral philosophy after all and there are serious moral and philosophical questions here - e.g. could you be in heaven/paradise/good place knowing that other being are suffering (in bad place)? Could you be in heaven/paradise/good place if you are in fear of even questioning something? (Maybe those things were left like this for viewers to notice and ask themselves?)
By the way - it may sound I'm nitpicking and pointing to a "plot hole" but that's not my intention. I'm not a screenwriter but for me as a viewer it worked narratively quite well.
Kristoff B I mean, it did make Chidi uncomfortable that people he asked about were in the Bad Place. Whether he “could” be in heaven when others aren’t wasn’t really an issue as he had no say in where he went and obviously he wouldn’t want to be in the Bad Place just because others are.
I mean he did well on earth even though others didn’t, so that’s not an issue. It’s not logical anyway to feel the need to suffer because other people are suffering.
And I guess not, as they weren’t actually in the Good Place at all and part of the reason why was because Eleanor realized first that they were all suffering, even more than just Jason and herself.
I only write as a hobby but personally from my pov it made sense. (And yeah I agree it works narratively as well)
@@DeathnoteBB OK, I see a language problem. When I wrote "could you be in heaven/paradise/good place knowing that other being are suffering (in bad place)?" - I'm not talking about a choice or possibility. Other way of saying might be - "how is this place considered paradise if you while being in this place are aware of endless suffering of others in hell?"
"It’s not logical anyway to feel the need to suffer because other people are suffering." - let me ask you - when you see or know that someone close to you is suffering, what do you feel?
Chidi actually believed he belonged in the Good Place, so there was nothing that would make him question if he was in the Bad Place..
There was no specific failure. The failure was that you can't constantly torture people without them realising that they're being tortured. If you make people miserable in paradise they're gonna realise they're not in paradise. Also I love how it was normally Eleanor that figured it out. 💓
I think that Eleanor figured out all 802 times, except by the one whom was Jason
This is the twist of Season 4. The Good Place isn’t perfect because humans have a sense of continuity.
Yes! And Eleanor was the one who pretty much always figured it out cuz she knew that she belonged in the Bad Place. Chidi and Tahani believed that they belonged in the Good Place, so they looked over all the things that made them miserable. And Jason was too dumb to put the pieces together (except that one time which was /definitely/ a new low for Michael). So… moral of the story: always believe you belong in the Bad Place.
“I had tickets to Hamilton next week and there’s a rumour that Daveed Diggs is coming back” has to be the most hard-hitting attempt from Janet to prevent her reset.
0:35 I love the attention to detail so early on in this show, the way Michael does that little smile before he lies.
Attemps # 218.
We know everybody want to see when Eleanor and Tahani are soulmates.
The lesbian show we never got 😩
We didn't that show because we are actually in The Bad Place.
Can we ask Michael to reboot 2020?
@asdjsdkjd jsjdifjsd how did you find out so soon?
@asdjsdkjd jsjdifjsd the final door
10:18
You want to keep doing it over and over again??
@@XaneDaniel AHahahahah- yeah NO WAY
Janet. The best jazz drummer and the best not a girl also not a robot ever.
true
Nothing will ever make me angrier than the fact that my friend described this show by including the plot twist
11:30
“Jason figured it out?! Jason? Yeah, this one hurts...”
His look of just pain had me dying
@@baileeharding8886 yes, he looked like he has ulcer, or gastritis
i already loved the show before, but the big reveal and continued triumph of the humans completely elevated it for me
“new best friends? :)”
" I'm too young to die and too old to eat of the kids menu , what a stupid age I am " 😂
Micheal's evil laughter still scares the forkin shirtballs outta me 2:16
Honestly I love this show but how funny would it have been for Eleanor to say all confidently "This is the Bad Place!" and Michael to go "Okay that's really hurtful, I am TRYING MY BEST!"
Michael is such a good character. Ted Danson goes from adorable to vicious on a whim and its incredible
I forgot that Tahani once was Eleanor's soulmate
I
SHIP
IT
I need a spinoff of that version
She got peared with each of them 😉
Honestly the tickets to Hamilton and the rumor Daveed was coming back was the most convincing version of Janet ever, I was SOLD
NotQuiteSam *janet*
The look on Jason’s face when he realizes that he’s right is the look on my face when I miraculously get a hundred on a math test.
Michaels laughter at 2:17 was just incredible! Perfect for the scene!!
This video actually made me to watch the whole series. I did it in three days. And I regret nothing.
We all NEED a full version of attempt #218!
rosih emerim 😂😂😂 legit, I need to see my Tahani and Eleanor fantasies play out lool
You mean attempt #291
#Lerf !
That attempt obviously failed because the two of them were far too happy and emotional tourture was impossible.
@@MrCompassionate01 Chidi almost certainly figured out they were in the bad place that go around 😂😂😂
@@MrCompassionate01 Eleanor kept on mocking Tahani and therefore Tahani figured out it was the Bad Place.
Attempts 108, 218 and 649 were the funniest. Attempts 1 and 802 were the best.
I have to ask....did Michael never consider just denying, they were in the bad place?
Eleanor: "This is the Bad Place!" Michael: "Well geez, Eleanor, I know it's not great but I'm trying my best here!"
I think its because if elener knows they are in the bad place the whole point of the experiment would be pointless since she knows this is unpurposely torture
I wonder what would've happened if he admitted that they were in the bad place and just left them there, as they were. He and the other demons could've tortured them more openly, even if the original plan had to change.
@@dejotate the whole point of the experiment and the neighborhood is to preform physiological torture . Once they figure it out it’s supposed to be on purpose then it makes no different if they where just being tortured regularly. Then it wouldn’t be innovative and Michael wouldn’t get the recognition he wants
@@kaei193 no but I feel like being psychologically tortured by just leaving them there and them still living their lives but being stuck there would still really suck. Just being forced to live that life would kind of be like the actual good place where your brain just becomes mush
Eleanor really should’ve written more on the note, including “do not ever mention that you know you’re in the bad place”
Realistically, she probably did that too in another reboot. An Michael just found out after 5 years.
No time.
@@josephwodarczyk977 longest one was something like over a year
After seeing all these reboots all together like this, something occurred to me. The reason they keep figuring it out, is because the place is SO bad, they eventually HAVE to figure it out. Micheal is actually doing a good job at torturing them. He really could have just continued to reboot them, and torture them for eternity. 🤷🏻♀️🤗
That's exactly what I was thinking. You couldn't get them to torture each other forever, someone would always figure it out eventually. But wiping their memories and having them do it over and over again? That sounds like hell. Especially when you consider the times they go to Mindi's house and learn how many times they failed to escape, hammering in how hopeless it was (before Micheal gave up and joined them).
It actually runs into the same problem as the Good Place, in that even if they don't figure it out, they will eventually just get used to it, making it lose all impact. There either has to be an ending point or a reboot.
@@joinsidekethis is very late but what if they could just willingly reboot the good place like wipe their memories so the experiences are never getting old
I need the Tahani x Eleanor soulmate reboot played out also i *need an explanation* for the spinning CLOWN reboot? 😂💀
it's horrifying 😭
In hindsight at 00:38 you can kinda tell he’s lying. What a show.
Hold on. The full name of the neighborhood is 12358W: the Good Place. He is misleading her.
Oh my god, I never noticed he had a slight laugh. Woooow, god tier writing.
Yup, and some other moments of the first season you can see him having a slight smile whenever the characters are suffering. Superb acting
"We know everything. Well, I don't understand it, but I know"
Story of my life.
Chidi’s “bees, bees, bees, bees!” always gets me.
At 11:37 I love the look of horror on Michaels face when he first realizes that Jason figured it out
His voice is so soothing! In most of the scenarios at least lmao ("YOU! in here.")
So is hers when she starts playing architect.
Ranking the moments when they figured it out, Jason's is still the best for me, by far
2:15 that laugh sends chills down my spine... so sinister...
''In the afterlife, there's a good place, and a bad place...''
*Smiles knowing he will torture them''
'' *You're in the Good Place.* ''
I love the way the music (and its key changes mainly) in the montage of reboots. Especially the key change when Jason figured it out adding to the weirdness of that situation
"what the fork is a chidi?!"
I'm dying.
i think the magic of some of mike schur's shows is that the storyline progresses quickly. you never know precisely every second of anything that happened- for example, Chidi in the purple ball, Eleanor and Tahani being soulmates. that's what makes it so intriguing- it's just a glimpse into this crazy world
As a data scientist and coder. This hits different. Especially when you get down to the whiskey and sweatpants.
I feel you Fam, my experiments often end the same way
9:13 OMG HIS FACE I'M DYING
(Ted Danson is just amazing)
Can we just take a minute to appreciate Janet's costume changes? She's fab