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Lifeless Husk
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Your point regarding Cece's passivity would be better taken if it weren't for the fact that the show has demonstrated that this is the dynamic of everyone in the loft—everyone makes collective decisions for everyone else. When you're out of the room, you're being decided for—always.

Ah but you can always ask Janet which is the right yogurt to choose. Or, you could, until Chidi killed her.
A choice he undoubtedly regrets deeply.
Wheels within wheels, my friend.

It only occurred to me tonight, watching this episode, that part of why Chidi was sent to this version of "The Good Place" was because it's a world that precludes choice. Remembering Michael's introduction of Eleanor—sorry, Fake Eleanor to her home: Everything had been pre-chosen, pre-designated, pre-presented—and

I think we’re not supposed to make wild assumptions about black people based on what we have in our pockets.

At most—at most—I am misvaluing the transitive property of the word "salad." (Checks pocket protector, readjusts glasses.)

Did the right chef go home?

Not gonna pretend I'm gonna miss what this show became after that impressive first year.

I will sleep tonight. You do God's work.

Was Doug Forcett's portrait a photo of a bewigged Michael Schur?

Hyperbole But I Don't Care:

Comment from me to the wife at the last shot of Mike sitting in his new office: "That window was specifically designed to be too small to jump out of."

Pretty sure hallucination-man at the beginning was Werner Erhard, founder of est.

The Lifespring Seminar is this season's Fireworks Factory. We live in hope, but anything that doesn't end with Peggy returning to her home planet will be ahead of the game.

Parker and Stone seem to be going after the One Sin fallacy (a term I just coined, which no doubt already exists in another form elsewhere, but fuck it), namely:

Epitaph for Joe Bulo: "Don't act like you've won, until you've won."

Epitaph for Joe Bulo: "Don't act like you've won, until you've won."

Epitaph for Joe Bulo: "Don't act like you've won, until you've won."

Epitaph for Joe Bulo: "Don't act like you've won, until you've won."

Epitaph for Joe Bulo: "Don't act like you've won, until you've won."

I don't think Peggy's an enigma. I think she's a creature of her time. Peggy strikes me as the forerunner of the culture that Reagan would be the evangelist of: The Evil of Entitlement. She believes—as the whole country was encouraged to believe—that simply by existing, she was/we were deserving. And when you really