While on the handcar with Jason, Michael mentions having restored all of the other’s (Eleanor and Tahani) afterlife memories. Other than the brief memory replay on earth with Eleanor (which allowed her to recognize demons when they entered the bar in Canada), has this been mentioned before?
Wow, you guys are really into this. I don’t pay that much attention to detail with shows that make sense 
Nope.
Well, it was amusing to see the Janet-babies breakdown. And I loved that nobody at DemonCon grasped that it wasn’t all just part of the show. Just wear is Mindy St Claire in all this? The neighborhood is literally in her backyard and the gang is using her house as a home base.
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She’s in the bath, masturbating. Constantly.
Did the sign to the Bad Place say “Population: Your Mom”? It went by rather quickly.
I stopped and went back, and indeed it did.
Well, that is where your mother knits socks.
While Michael and Jason were literally going to hell in a handcart…
Episode 6: A Chip Driver Mystery
Were we, the audience, supposed to be assuming that they were going to marble Bad Janet, because the thought never occurred to me, even though the last scenes play off as though they’re confounding audience expectations as well as BJ’s?
My guess is that Brent is indeed irredeemable, but the case will be made and eventually accepted, that although some humans are complete arseholes and can’t be changed it’s still unfair that 100% of humans are sent to Bad Place, (and probably that even jerks like Brent don’t deserve penis flattening, penis reinflation, penis reflattening and mouth bees.)
I don’t know, I think they made some progress with Brent - not that he’s actually improved, but I think they got some insight into why he’s such an insufferable ash-hole. Insight into why doesn’t excuse the fact that he’s a whiny, entitled jerk (and I love that Simone didn’t back down one inch when Eleanor asked her to make nice - her “Why, here in the Good Place, am I still being expected to deal with this?” was perfect), but how proud he was of accomplishing something (even if was the shittiest-ever ripoff of Tom Clancy’s oeuvre, and even if he couldn’t bring himself to believe how shitty it was) makes me think that’s actually the first time he ever accomplished anything on his own. Even all his golf in the experiment was with the assistance filter on, and all his time on earth, he had a pretty good assistance filter too. And that angry, denied-child reaction…I think Brent knows, deep down, that Simone was right. I don’t think he’s going to actually apologise or anything…but I think he’ll be slightly less shitty. A tiny bit.
And Bad Janet was actually engaging with Michael, not just rolling her eyes and farting. That plus Glenn having doubts - I think they might miss with Brent (though I don’t recall there being any minimum target for improvement, so a teeny tiny bit better might actually be enough), but they improved a demon and a Bad Janet in six months. Between the Team Cockroach improving, Michael improving, some demons getting better and some humans…cockroaches for the win.
What I want to know is: What really is/is in the book Michael handed to Bad Janet at the very end? It felt like the point of the episode was to set up that handoff.
I think the book is exactly what Michael said it was; it doesn’t seem like it’s a trick or anything. Bad Janet really does seem to have evolved. If nothing else she’s self-aware now and probably it’s going to accept being a tool of Shawn’s.
What I’ve been noticing is that not only does Simone not seem to be improving - her valid complaints about Brent’s book and behavior notwithstanding, she doesn’t come across as a particularly nice person - but Chidi is barely progressing apart from his brief dancing session with Jason.
That said, I actually thought him punching Brent was a positive sign - it’s the first time we’ve seen him (post-reboot) not be a complete weenie about something physical and challenging.
Those are good complos.
Plot and character developments aside, I found this to be the funniest episode of the season:
Starting with Bad Janet’s gas, then the intro, then the completion of Bad Janet’s gas. Jason’s nickname (The Defendant) and the store front sign that said “The Good Plates.”
Tahani being described as having “an accent like the Queen of England but without all the old gross face parts.”
I was laughing the entire time!
I dunno. I found the last one funnier.
Not as funny as:
Jason: “Listen, Michael, it’s okay to feel or plead guilty about bad things you used to do.”
Not as funny as:
Tahani: “I’d never serve finger-sandwiches at a lake house. I mean, what am I, Welsh?”
Eleanor: “Are you?? I don’t know. No… right?”
This is the Bad Janet that was rebooted a jillion times, not a factory stock model. Maybe she (like Good Place Janet) has developed emotions and empathy?
I’m starting to think that the real purpose of the judge’s experiment is to see if demons can improve - that Michael wasn’t just a fluke.
That would be an interesting twist.
Honestly, the show has twisted so much that I’m halfway - or more - expecting something to pop up that indicates the entire thing has been an experiment on the afterlife itself. Maybe the judge? Someone else? It’s hard for me to believe that the show would introduce a new, omnipotent character this late in the game. But there’s a lot of moving parts that are still moving unpredictably, here.
I just figured out how the show will end. Ted Danson will wake up in bed, turn on the light. Shelley Long will sit up and Ted will say, “Diane, I just had the craziest dream…”
Sorry to ruin it for the rest of you.
Something really bugged me about Eleanor’s “hottest employee of the week” scheme. Can you imagine an employer doing that right here and now?
Especially since Brent (rightly) gets skewered over his sexist attitude in the same episode. I think the writers are too smart for this to be an oversight.