Hey, you don’t have to be fancy to have good manners and excellent passive aggressive skills. I just grew up in the south.

Loved the episode. Except. . . at the beginning, in the judge’s room, Eleanor has her shoes on the couch. That actually made me cringe, so deeply is that rule engrained in my soul.

Hey, if there is one thing this show can teach you, it’s that you should never underrate the idea of basic decency.

How much people pick up the accent of the place they live varies a lot. I’m an American who has lived in Ireland for nearly a decade now. I currently sound mostly American, with some slightly odd vowels and fairly Irish syntax. On the other hand, I have English friends who have lived here since childhood, and still…

Yeah, I have no clue about football. Most sports I can at least learn enough of the rules to understand what is happening if I find myself watching a game, but football is baffling. I was even able to learn to follow a game of hurling, so I’m pretty sure this is football’s fault.

Depends on how you cook, I think. I’m pretty sure my mircowave keeps me from getting takeout too often. I just make a big pot of something—soup, stew, casserole, pasta—and then heat it up over the week. If re-heating was hard, I doubt I’d cook every day instead, so I’d probably eat less at home.

Her good intentions led to good actions, as her sister found the trust plans and set it up, and it worked (also a hint to how time works in this place). Chidi is all good intentions, and that didn’t save him.

Janet has stated several times that the bad place is real. While Janet can lie, she only does so with great difficulty, and we’ve been given no reason to disbelieve her.

What about the thing that holds snail shells so you can get the sleep snail out? I saw one in a French cafe once.

My favorite thing about that list is that the London Monster is under “M”, as if Monster was his last name.

Well, there was no mention of kids being in the good place, and it seems unlikely that many kids would have had the time to rack up enough points to qualify for the Good Place, given how high the standard appears to be. So either kids don’t have an afterlife (going back to classical Greek philosophy, there was an idea…

It’s a Netflix orginal outside of the US, but still has to conform to US broadcast standards, as it’s on TV there.

I can’t believe Chidi is so hung up on Kant. If I was going to pick a single philosopher to live by, Kant wouldn’t be bottom of the list, but he’d be pretty far down there. Moral absolutism has never made sense to me.

You have to transport a bag of grain, a chicken, and a demon across a river. Your boat will only hold 2 things, plus yourself. Left unsupervised, the chicken will eat the grain, and the demon will devour everything and set the river on fire. What do you do?

I think Michael said that the longest reboot lasted 11 months (the shortest was a “butt reboot”), so they never really aged. Also, they’re dead, so they wouldn’t age anyway, I would assume.

Hey!

True, although Michael might have lied about soul mates (he doesn’t know himself if they exist) and was apparently willing to risk someone asking Janet about that. On the other hand, Janet has talked a fair bit about how many people are in the bad place, so it seems likely that that part is true.

Yeah, the show pretty much has to be about how unfair the system is. According to Michael in the beginning (so, grain of salt), you have to be, like, a one in a million kind of person to make it to the Good Place. That means a huge number of fundamentally decent people get tortured forever. I can’t believe the show…

Improper Fraction Arena is clearly a better title for a video game. I’m thinking twin stick shooter.

Clickspring is an Australian guy who builds clockwork stuff. I like his channel because it’s all well explained and watching machining tools is relaxing.