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'Wouldn't you eventually get used to it, like in a hot tub?' - Bart Simpson
Telling herself to find Chidi played on her emotions, which would be more likely to persuade her something was up than a simple contradictory statement to what Michael was asserting.

But the point is that the fact that it's known as The Good Place is what makes it The Bad Place, because the belief that they are in TGP tortures the characters when contrasted against the threat of the idea of TBP.

Mindy's views make more sense when you consider that what Eleanor had escaped from was the Bad Place.

Hell is missing out on full narrative integrity.

I think Michael would account for that. He may be evil (or at least sadistic/self-righteous) but he's not bigoted.

It's not a love triangle, it's a love fourth-dimensional shape wherein they, being in a different dimension, can all connect to each other if they wish geometrically, as well as being able to do it romantically like anyone can in our universe.

Swearing is stress relief. Stephen Fry proved that when he did the TV experiment where swearing let him keep his hand in an ice bucket longer than not swearing. No way the Architects would want their subjects to relieve their own stress.

That was one of the last clues: why didn't he take off his glasses after she pointed out he shouldn't need them? Also, he's an idiot for not realising after that.

Can do, smartre etc.

If hell is other people, then maybe Mindy is the only one in heaven. So maybe heaven sucks too and the only natural afterlife is oblivion.

We…were not supposed to leave (on a train, because this IS the Bad Place).

Slow clapping could be interpreted as sarcasm. I want to hold up a lighter and sway a little.

Ain't nothing I'd rather do, going down, party time, my friends are gonna be there too…

Isn't that line just the sort of thing that a philistine like at-time-of-death Eleanor would want to hear about the nature of the Good Place?

Fork Kant. He believed that if you're in your house with your parents in your back garden and an angry guy with an axe shows up and asks you if you know your parents' whereabouts, it would be wrong of you not to tell him the truth. As far as I'm concerned, Chidi is in TBP because he didn't live his life enough, and

That would provide a non-meta explanation for why supporting the Cleveland Browns was on the list of major minus-points in episode 1, and would also make Schur even more of a genius for incorporating his own personal meta jokes into being actually part of the in-universe plot, not to mention make a nonsense of the

I also love how in hindsight it's really, really obvious that Chidi and Tahani belong in the Bad Place just as much as Eleanor.

For a moment I was worried by that comment as I suddenly thought that maybe all those people I've been connecting with through my TV screen are actually just actors and not real. But then I relaxed, because I remembered that it's you people who are all fake.

The Good Place is a Dark Tower in and of itself. What appears to be eternal repetition (SK has said on multiple occasions that his idea of hell is repetition - not just TDT but also That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is In French, plus he said it explicitly in the foreword for the latter as I recall) is actually

Also if she were to be legit in love with 2 people it would strike a blow against monoganormativity and subvert another Good Place construct - soul mates.