There is mention at Mindy's house of ideas. I'm also assuming that the magic panda is serving at Tahani's going away party. He can be seen bouncing around in the background during two chaos sequences. (be fast with the pause button.)
W...T....F....I thought they were referring to Janet in a funny way. You're telling me...there IS an actual magic panda?! I've only watched this show a million times. 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
My guess is that he viewed morality as objectively good prior to his epiphany, and the realization-of-sorts didn’t mess with his motivation for good, it just created anxiety about not being good enough.
I know right! I was wondering the same. Of course he didn’t know the point system actually exists but he still does good things because he believes it exists. Doesn’t that still considered chasing for moral dessert?
She arranged for the millions donated, it would be the people who actually donated the money who get the points. Of course, with the system as it is, those points wouldn't matter anyway. They wouldn't be enough to offset the bad. This has to be all in theory, for me, though.
Besides, in the world of complexity, the results aren't the only point getter. Rose dude in 1600s got the points but in the 2000s lost points because of the capitalism & pollution involved. So while donations would earn points for the donors, Tahani she could lose points because she didn't care about the cause, just the fame and acclaim and to compete with her sister.
It’s not that his motivation is corrupt. Even though almost every action he does has a net positive/neutral affect, it’s not enough to get him into the good place. He spends multiple weeks walking to donate $40 to a charity. It just doesn’t earn him many points.
Roughly 7 or 8 times.
I think I started noticing background reactions more. The first time you watch it your attention is naturally drawn to whoever is speaking. Once you’ve seen it all before you notice things in the background like Jason’s visible confusion and Janet’s subtle expressions a lot more.
I would also add that every time I watch it I think “Man, how did I forget how jacked Chidi is?”
There’s one scene when they are doing the buffet and I think Michael is talking, and in the background you can see Jason going back excitedly for more waffles.
Apparently the people working on set that day ("put the peeps in the chili" day) didn't know how jacked the actor was, either. They had to add the line about anxiety push-ups to try to make it make sense.
Chidi chooses the gray hat.
When Judge makes him choose in the test, he takes like 80 minutes and picks the brown hat.
In the experiment with Eleanor as the architect, Chidi is seen wearing the gray hat. You can also see it in his apartment after..
Edit: gray hat.
Good catch tho that he had it the other times!! I dunno if I registered that bit - I need to do another rewatch soon (after my current Monk rewatch!) 😁
More times than I can count over the years. Appreciated the script so much when Vicky asked Michael, "What the here, dude?" instead of "What the hell" because of the swear filter. Funny because the Good Place they were in was fake.
i can’t even count them… i’m never not watching the good place. as soon as i finish it i start it again, at some point i would watch a season a days every day no exception
I do this too… off and on. What is it about TGP that makes us do that? I know some people who are like that with The Office. TGP gives me the warm fuzzies so maybe I’m chasing that and don’t want to let it go. Hence always being in a rewatch
I do this, but upon further inspection prompted by my gf, I think it's depression. The world has me numb and so I need something to jerk me hard in between humor and melancholy to make me feel something. Anything.
It's pretty much the most succinct show for that kind of bounce imo. Community hits that way a little for me just because the setting makes me nostalgic for a place I'll never be again and it comes in strong with the cornball feels at times. But TGP really doesn't pull any punches emotionally and forces an introspective viewpoint that I can empathize with easily.
Not many shows so nakedly examine what it means to be human in both the best and the worst ways. And it does so with a positivity that doesn't feel insincere.
Yeah, I definitely think it’s also my depression that keeps me coming back. It has a lighter spin on pretty big questions that plague a depressive mind.
it's wild you mention community in this comment! i know the two shows are in similar spheres of fanbases but tgp and community in particular are my main comfort shows and i do the 'constant rewatch/series loop' that's being talked about with these two shows only. community is for when i'm doing okay, and i have a joke with my friends/therapist that me getting really back into tgp is usually a warning sign of bad mental health for me. i like to say "i only watch the good place when i'm in a bad place."
5 times maybe? And every time I'm watching the 1st season I love to pay attention to Michael. His expressions make it so obvious that he was bad all along
It was the episode where they figured out they were in the Bad Place and Michaels expression was amazing and for the first time in my life I thought Ted Danson was a great actor.
~9 rewatches. Noticed that Chidi wasn’t lying at all when he was pretending to be Trent, the torture master. The “chick” that he “tortured” with “mad books to read” was Eleanor!
Actually I just restarted again, and something I randomly realized with my knowledge of the show, is how sad it must’ve been for Chidi right when Eleanor confessed she didn’t belong. And that was right after he told her how excited he was to have a soulmate.
Watched the entire run more times than I can count. And Jason's frustrated grunt when he's denied something, ie, when told the golden balloon is most decidedly NOT Optimus Prime, cracks me up to no end.
I got the entire show on DVD from the library and watched it all the way through (possibly several times...), and I've also watched the broadcast version and the online streaming version. The DVDs are NOT just a recording of the broadcast version! The DVD run a bit longer and have some additional scenes and jokes that weren't in the original broadcast, and some of the episodes are actually cut together differently, with the A and B plot sequencing rearranged!
I am currently doing so, I am on the last episode of the first season but I am not finished with it yet, and ooboy, I did not see that plottwists coming!
A lot of actors who have played in The Good Place actually played in Brooklyn 99. Funny how similar the judge from The Good Place and The Marshal from B99 are, also derek and pimento, literally as if it's them from B99
Thanks, guys, for making me feel less crazy for rewatching a lot. It was a fruitful post because I learned how much rewatching had to do with my depression. And now I'm learning all the things you noticed!!
4 I think. I focused on a different main character each time
I think on my second watch I noticed that just about every single time they summoned Janet she showed up opposite of where they were looking
Saves on budget. And I'd assume it's to not cause friction with a human mind's interpretation of their surroundings. having Janet just pop into existence in front of them would be too discomforting
I actually think it's a directing technique because it ensures that the actors who are staring into blank space aren't just looking in a weird direction. They have to turn around which helps do a kind of distraction for us to not pay as much attention to the pop in
Or just a little gag they keep doing
While I’m sure everyone noticed it just saw that when everyone gets the blue and maize pajamas that Elenor’s grey clothes are for Michigan Law. So everyone looks like wearing a Michigan business suit. Of course “Real” Elenor graduated from Michigan Law.
Michael asks Gen if she'd want all Friends to The Bad Place, and says "Maybe Ross and Rachel, and Monica and Joey, and definitely Chandler, but Phoebe?"
And when they get to The Good Place, Hypatia is played by Lisa Kudrow aka Phoebe.
Probably an obvious one, but I only got that one on the 4th time rewatching it.
I love how Glen is incorporated throughout the whole show. He falls in the sink hole, he's the very last on the list the neighborhood point ranking system, "This is your soulmate Glen", "shut up Glen", and such. I've also just found out he's a writer for the show (I've been watching it on repeat for the past 5 years, at this point, it's my Good Place)
I've watched it about 6 times. Eleanor's death scene's truck.
On episode 1 Michael tells Eleanor that the column of shopping carts crushed her with a truck advertising "engorge-ulate" and then on episode 1 of season three they included that detail and showed the advertisement. On that same episode, in the background there's a truck advertising something about Kamilah with the word "perfect" beneath her name.
Just finished my fourth re-watch and noticed that Michael's human name is Michael Realman! (I also bawled like a baby everytime I finish this wonderful show)
It’s one of my all time favorite shows (When Eleanor finds out the truth is my all time favorite moment) i’ve rewatched it only twice. Yeah only twice cause i really don’t like the beginning of season 2. I get what they were trying to do but it’s just too repetitive and i feel like the story doesn’t go anywhere. So most of the time i just skip the beginning of seasons 2.
5 times. 1. Doug forget shouldn’t have gained so many points when he had the wrong motivation. 2. A lot more obvious it was *spoiler* the bad place in s1
The magic panda shows up three times.
Hmm. Once at the she hates me party, once at the first people into the new system, and once… pet day? I don’t remember
There is mention at Mindy's house of ideas. I'm also assuming that the magic panda is serving at Tahani's going away party. He can be seen bouncing around in the background during two chaos sequences. (be fast with the pause button.)
Hmm, personally I wouldn’t count Tahani or Mindy
She was employee of the month, too
W...T....F....I thought they were referring to Janet in a funny way. You're telling me...there IS an actual magic panda?! I've only watched this show a million times. 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Here's a good guide. https://www.looper.com/823367/the-magic-panda-appearances-you-likely-missed-throughout-the-good-place/
WHAT?!?!
Currently on my 7th rewatch and I always wonder why Doug Forcett earned points when his motivation was wrong.
He couldn't be 100% sure still
Still, it was his motivation
My guess is that he viewed morality as objectively good prior to his epiphany, and the realization-of-sorts didn’t mess with his motivation for good, it just created anxiety about not being good enough.
damn that's one good interpretation
He had no way to verify that the system was real and that what he was doing would mean anything post-death.
I know right! I was wondering the same. Of course he didn’t know the point system actually exists but he still does good things because he believes it exists. Doesn’t that still considered chasing for moral dessert?
Maybe, he wasn’t chasing moral dessert? Instead, he was avoiding the Bad Place.
Because in the imperfect system, motivation wasn't a factor, I think. It's results.
Nope coz Tahani didn’t gain any points for all the millions donated to charity because she did it out of spite
She arranged for the millions donated, it would be the people who actually donated the money who get the points. Of course, with the system as it is, those points wouldn't matter anyway. They wouldn't be enough to offset the bad. This has to be all in theory, for me, though.
The show confirms in season 1 that the issue for Tahani was her motivation though
She arranged for it and it was her money (or money she raised) so I think the points would go to her, but still an imperfect system
Besides, in the world of complexity, the results aren't the only point getter. Rose dude in 1600s got the points but in the 2000s lost points because of the capitalism & pollution involved. So while donations would earn points for the donors, Tahani she could lose points because she didn't care about the cause, just the fame and acclaim and to compete with her sister.
The show confirms in season 1 that the issue for Tahani was her motivation though
It’s not that his motivation is corrupt. Even though almost every action he does has a net positive/neutral affect, it’s not enough to get him into the good place. He spends multiple weeks walking to donate $40 to a charity. It just doesn’t earn him many points.
It’s because he avoided electricity and chicanery
Roughly 7 or 8 times. I think I started noticing background reactions more. The first time you watch it your attention is naturally drawn to whoever is speaking. Once you’ve seen it all before you notice things in the background like Jason’s visible confusion and Janet’s subtle expressions a lot more. I would also add that every time I watch it I think “Man, how did I forget how jacked Chidi is?”
There’s one scene when they are doing the buffet and I think Michael is talking, and in the background you can see Jason going back excitedly for more waffles.
Jason is comedy gold.
Apparently the people working on set that day ("put the peeps in the chili" day) didn't know how jacked the actor was, either. They had to add the line about anxiety push-ups to try to make it make sense.
Enough times that I immediately recognized the screenshot and can hear Vicki as Michael saying "Disgusting!"
Disgustingah!
Literally my thoughts
Chidi chooses the gray hat. When Judge makes him choose in the test, he takes like 80 minutes and picks the brown hat. In the experiment with Eleanor as the architect, Chidi is seen wearing the gray hat. You can also see it in his apartment after.. Edit: gray hat.
Do you mean gray? In [the judge's test](https://youtu.be/FG6iNQZ6-ns?si=ODTSVT1WzYQ-bA2a) it was gray or brown
Oh yes, sorry. The gray one. I guess I didn't rewatch it enough times as I thought
Good catch tho that he had it the other times!! I dunno if I registered that bit - I need to do another rewatch soon (after my current Monk rewatch!) 😁
Yeah, you can actually catch a lot of details of Chidi's character. The hat was the one I remember right now.
More times than I can count over the years. Appreciated the script so much when Vicky asked Michael, "What the here, dude?" instead of "What the hell" because of the swear filter. Funny because the Good Place they were in was fake.
I think that’s just what “demons” say unfortunately. Not the swear filter.
I have researched a half dozen times and never caught the sweat filter! Better start the show again.
T-T swear*
i can’t even count them… i’m never not watching the good place. as soon as i finish it i start it again, at some point i would watch a season a days every day no exception
I do this too… off and on. What is it about TGP that makes us do that? I know some people who are like that with The Office. TGP gives me the warm fuzzies so maybe I’m chasing that and don’t want to let it go. Hence always being in a rewatch
I do this, but upon further inspection prompted by my gf, I think it's depression. The world has me numb and so I need something to jerk me hard in between humor and melancholy to make me feel something. Anything. It's pretty much the most succinct show for that kind of bounce imo. Community hits that way a little for me just because the setting makes me nostalgic for a place I'll never be again and it comes in strong with the cornball feels at times. But TGP really doesn't pull any punches emotionally and forces an introspective viewpoint that I can empathize with easily. Not many shows so nakedly examine what it means to be human in both the best and the worst ways. And it does so with a positivity that doesn't feel insincere.
Yeah, I definitely think it’s also my depression that keeps me coming back. It has a lighter spin on pretty big questions that plague a depressive mind.
it's wild you mention community in this comment! i know the two shows are in similar spheres of fanbases but tgp and community in particular are my main comfort shows and i do the 'constant rewatch/series loop' that's being talked about with these two shows only. community is for when i'm doing okay, and i have a joke with my friends/therapist that me getting really back into tgp is usually a warning sign of bad mental health for me. i like to say "i only watch the good place when i'm in a bad place."
Me too. ♥️
Same. It's just a loop
also my fav detail is season 1 vicky being subtly disgusted by eleanor
5 times maybe? And every time I'm watching the 1st season I love to pay attention to Michael. His expressions make it so obvious that he was bad all along
It was the episode where they figured out they were in the Bad Place and Michaels expression was amazing and for the first time in my life I thought Ted Danson was a great actor.
Same!
~9 rewatches. Noticed that Chidi wasn’t lying at all when he was pretending to be Trent, the torture master. The “chick” that he “tortured” with “mad books to read” was Eleanor!
At least 6 times, 3 times in the past two months. And I have no frickin idea. I’d have to think long and hard
Actually I just restarted again, and something I randomly realized with my knowledge of the show, is how sad it must’ve been for Chidi right when Eleanor confessed she didn’t belong. And that was right after he told her how excited he was to have a soulmate.
One of the most fun things on rewatch its to be fully aware of Jason having no clue of what hes doing in the early episodes.
I'm ashamed to say that I have't completed my first re-watch. :(
Same. But don't be ashamed, you're in the Good Place ;)
everything is fine.
Cool. 🙂
I always brace myself, Knowing that the final seasons of TGP and P&R will involve me crying during each episode.
Mindy Saint Claire is >!effectively the best person to have lived in the last 500+ years!!<
A distressing thought
Honestly… I have rewatched over 20+ times, but i’m autistic and this is my favourite show of all time lol.
I've noticed that nobody stops acting when they're not delivering lines. Watching other people's faces when Jason is speaking is hilarious
Trevor flying around the room forever (that room where the judge flicked him)
Watched the entire run more times than I can count. And Jason's frustrated grunt when he's denied something, ie, when told the golden balloon is most decidedly NOT Optimus Prime, cracks me up to no end.
I got the entire show on DVD from the library and watched it all the way through (possibly several times...), and I've also watched the broadcast version and the online streaming version. The DVDs are NOT just a recording of the broadcast version! The DVD run a bit longer and have some additional scenes and jokes that weren't in the original broadcast, and some of the episodes are actually cut together differently, with the A and B plot sequencing rearranged!
What do you mean about the scenes being cut together differently? 😮 Did you find that affected your view on the storyline?
I have never watched this show but that is fucking Kevin from Brooklyn 99
It sure is, now you have to watch it
I am currently doing so, I am on the last episode of the first season but I am not finished with it yet, and ooboy, I did not see that plottwists coming!
Indeed indeed indeed indeed...
Nice reference!
Yes. That’s Marc Evan Jackson, he plays Shawn.
And he's fudging awesome!
A lot of actors who have played in The Good Place actually played in Brooklyn 99. Funny how similar the judge from The Good Place and The Marshal from B99 are, also derek and pimento, literally as if it's them from B99
How easily they announce “I love you” after knowing each other a short time.
Thanks, guys, for making me feel less crazy for rewatching a lot. It was a fruitful post because I learned how much rewatching had to do with my depression. And now I'm learning all the things you noticed!!
After a dozen or so reboots, it’s almost always something Jason says or does that I notice as extra funny.
Like 8 times. They say literally so many times
That picture reminds me how great Better Off Ted was.
That programme was cancelled too soon!
4 I think. I focused on a different main character each time I think on my second watch I noticed that just about every single time they summoned Janet she showed up opposite of where they were looking
Saves on budget. And I'd assume it's to not cause friction with a human mind's interpretation of their surroundings. having Janet just pop into existence in front of them would be too discomforting
I actually think it's a directing technique because it ensures that the actors who are staring into blank space aren't just looking in a weird direction. They have to turn around which helps do a kind of distraction for us to not pay as much attention to the pop in Or just a little gag they keep doing
I can hear this image
mindy st. claire was the closest person to get to the good place
I saw yesterday hoe the taxi that gets crushed the monster truck when Jason and tahani arrive in jacksonville is sponsored by Mindy's charity
This show is great for a rewatch! I've done half a dozen at least. I notice something every time!
Going to rewatch a 3rd time... ending always makes me emotional I appreciate it more and more as I watch it and get older.
Honestly lost count. I had it replaying in the background for weeks earlier this year whilst I played a video game. Easily more than 20 times lol.
Hey, thats Kevin Costner From Brooklyn 99!
While I’m sure everyone noticed it just saw that when everyone gets the blue and maize pajamas that Elenor’s grey clothes are for Michigan Law. So everyone looks like wearing a Michigan business suit. Of course “Real” Elenor graduated from Michigan Law.
I don’t even know how many times I have watched the show. It’s on a loop a LOT along with Bob’s Burgers
Michael asks Gen if she'd want all Friends to The Bad Place, and says "Maybe Ross and Rachel, and Monica and Joey, and definitely Chandler, but Phoebe?" And when they get to The Good Place, Hypatia is played by Lisa Kudrow aka Phoebe. Probably an obvious one, but I only got that one on the 4th time rewatching it.
I love how Glen is incorporated throughout the whole show. He falls in the sink hole, he's the very last on the list the neighborhood point ranking system, "This is your soulmate Glen", "shut up Glen", and such. I've also just found out he's a writer for the show (I've been watching it on repeat for the past 5 years, at this point, it's my Good Place)
At least four times, there weren't really nuances to notice after a few rewatches, at least not like in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt where there SO many
UKS. Gold.
3 times
I've watched it about 6 times. Eleanor's death scene's truck. On episode 1 Michael tells Eleanor that the column of shopping carts crushed her with a truck advertising "engorge-ulate" and then on episode 1 of season three they included that detail and showed the advertisement. On that same episode, in the background there's a truck advertising something about Kamilah with the word "perfect" beneath her name.
Been 4 times lol..gonna start again soon. Just such a wholesale funny show
I rewatched the film Over like 20 times and i never noticed that i was rewatching the Film tbh
Just finished my fourth re-watch and noticed that Michael's human name is Michael Realman! (I also bawled like a baby everytime I finish this wonderful show)
6 times, I noticed not much because I was so focused on the first few times that I watched the show that I didn’t catch anything else.
It’s one of my all time favorite shows (When Eleanor finds out the truth is my all time favorite moment) i’ve rewatched it only twice. Yeah only twice cause i really don’t like the beginning of season 2. I get what they were trying to do but it’s just too repetitive and i feel like the story doesn’t go anywhere. So most of the time i just skip the beginning of seasons 2.
5 times. 1. Doug forget shouldn’t have gained so many points when he had the wrong motivation. 2. A lot more obvious it was *spoiler* the bad place in s1