What would be in a Hell masquerading as Heaven?

I wouldn’t anymore. The reveal is one of the best twists in TV history, but I think the show is only like 6.5/10 otherwise.

I for one thought it was great from start to finish.

For me it would be: I get to be a student forever, studying anything I like for as long as I want, but I would never be graded.

But what if I’m not a Backstreet Boys fan?

Your hell is not being graded?!

Maybe you could bribe him with a frog keychain?

Yeah, definitely a top-ten all time TV show for me.

Let’s just say I was a bit academically competitive.

My husband enjoys grading me for everyday things I do, usually assigning me an A- or B+ just to get under my skin. But I think not knowing how well I was doing would be so much worse.

More broadly you can sum up my existential angst as: “Am I doing this right?”

Coffee breaks during the tour

A rather bad man dies and meets Satan in a room with three doors. Satan explains, “I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that you have to spend eternity behind one of these doors. But, the good news is that you can take a peek behind each and take your choice.”
So, the man opened the first door and saw a room full of people, standing on their heads on a concrete floor. Not very nice, he thought.

Opening the second door, he saw a room full of people standing on their heads on a wooden floor. Better, he thought, but best to check the last door.

Upon opening the last door, he saw a room full of people, standing waist-deep in excrement and sipping coffee.

“Of the three, this one looks best,” he said and waded in to get something to drink while Satan closed the door.

A few minutes later the door opened, Satan stuck his head in and said, “Ok, coffee break’s over, back on your heads!”

You post the right answer for every question, query, and debate on the Straight Dope, but no one else there believes you.

Plus you can only eat the crackers in bed. And you never get to brush the crumbs out.

Any televangelist. :neutral_face:

It’s like the genie who distorts wishes, you get everything you ever want, but they misunderstand the request just enough to disappoint you. A beautiful lover who always does that one move that’s awkward, slightly painful, and not at all pleasurable. All the ice cream you want, but it’s a flavor you don’t like. Thousands of new books to read, which are all third-rate derivative ripoffs of better novels. TV shows with bad lighting and weird sound balance. Music that is all covers of your favorite songs, but changed just enough to make them worse. Your favorite meals, that are always overcooked, undercooked, too spicy or too bland.

AKA, the ongoing process of “enshittification,” as outlined by Cory Doctorow.

Being a perpetual student would be heaven for me; my time in college was one of the best times of my life. I was never academically competitive in terms of needing for my work to be graded. I found satisfaction in researching facts, analyzing things, and preparing reports. An occasional “Good job!” from a teacher was nice, particularly if it was accompanied by being presented to others as an example of how to do something.

No, I don’t believe it
:grin: :ogre:

I knew it! I just knew it! Darn you all to heck!

A 79 year old virgin.

That was a Twilight Zone episode, “The Hunt”, with Arthur Hunnicutt.

Preachers.