r/TheGoodPlace • u/WandersFar Change can be scary but I’m an artist. It’s my job to be scared. • Oct 11 '19
Season Four S4E3 Chillaxing
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Today we broke 100,000 cockroaches!
Look at our magnificent swarm! We could conquer the bees with teeth and penis bees!
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u/CVance1 Oct 26 '19
Kristen Bell deserves an Emmy for her trying desperately not to cry but crying anyways
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u/FiveTwoThreeSixOne Oct 16 '19
Remind me... Why don't Simone and Chidi remember each other?
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u/Zelda_Galadriel Oct 16 '19
They erased the memories of both of them.
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u/FiveTwoThreeSixOne Oct 16 '19
Their earth memories? So the last memory is the one Chidi came to the Good Place with in S1, not the S3 reboot??
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u/greentea1985 Oct 16 '19
When did Janet get the red streaks in her hair? Those are a bit weird.
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Oct 16 '19
It was a joke. At the beginning she said something like "I researched that this is how many humans deal with a breakup"
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u/old-father Oct 15 '19
I have an unusual hypothesis after this episode. My hypothesis is that all of the events that have occurred since Michael decided to help the group is just a farce. She is still in the bad place and being tortured. The whole idea that the accounting system is broken and the Fab four is going to save humanity is just part of the plan to punish Eleanor.
I am probably not right since it would anger many viewers to know that she is doomed to heck but that's my hypothesis. On the other hand, maybe she figures it out again and manages to save herself this time.
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u/nichinichisou Oct 16 '19
Then why would the part where the humans aren’t there necessary? Why would Michale fake having an argument with fake judge? Why would Shawn fake torture Michale? I feel like you guys want a plot twist so much you stopped thinking
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u/VeryHappyYoungGirl Oct 17 '19 edited Oct 18 '19
Well...One could argue that making Eleanor fall in love then be forced to watch her love fall for another is a terrible torture, and something they couldn’t do until she actually loved someone.Edit: I either misunderstood the comment or responded to the wrong one. Apologies.
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u/old-father Oct 16 '19
Why so negative, friend? It's a forkin' TV show for goodness sake. It's fun to imagine different scenarios.
I agree with you about the scenes without humans present, though they also have to fool us. The other stuff is just part of the trickery.
I think my hypothesis isn't possible because it would make too many viewers angry.
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u/FlyinPurplePartyPony Oct 15 '19
What if the person being tested is Eleanor? She has to prove by her actions that one person can selflessly lead others to salvation
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u/greentea1985 Oct 15 '19
That’s become my theory as well. Think about it, the original “good place” was a test to see if you could have people in hell and torture them without them realizing it. Every time the humans worked it out, there was a reset. Even after escaping “the good place” was there ever a moment where the humans were not being tortured psychologically or physically? Even when they visited the official Good Place, the inhabitants felt like caricatures, the way the Bad Place views the denizens of the Good Place. I’m really leaning towards Michael not actually have turned and is still torturing the main 4 without them even realizing it.
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u/globalboba Oct 14 '19 edited Oct 15 '19
We're all working so hard to find the twist. I think that's because there isn't much to say about the plot or the characters. It's very tame and few sparks are flying.
... I'm really not liking this season, so far. I think I'm so used to watching it in longer form (i.e. a couple few episodes back-to-back) that these short episodes do nothing for me. If they were better written or more interesting, then they could stand on their own. But so far I'm not feeling it at all.
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Oct 16 '19
Yeah season 1 and 2 were great. Season 3 was a damn drag for the first half and this one is just...the same issues. I dont really care about you trying to be better people
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u/mayarudolphofficial Oct 15 '19
Same. I sorta forgot what I liked about it in the first place..
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Oct 15 '19
it feels like a chore to watch since somewhere in season 3. i don't really care about the characters anymore, similar to watching Arrested Development Season 5. I keep asking myself why am I watching this?
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u/LDubs9876 Oct 14 '19
Jumping in on the, "who was switched" train!
I'm firmly of the opinion that Janet was the one that was switched out. I'm unsure if it was Gen or Shawn, but she's not our usual Janet.
Has anyone considered that the Janet interacting with Team Cockroach right now is a Medium Janet? She's not overtly awful like Bad Janet, but is a lot more flexible with moral decisions than "our" Janet. It would explain the mediocre behavior and random negative outbursts.
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u/notofuhkinkay Oct 14 '19
Remember that janet runs the neighborhood and most of the people that are there. She said on the previous episodes that she is really stressed because of the neighborhood, and this stress might change he behavior, because janets are not meant to control the people that live in the neighborhoods.
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Oct 14 '19
I didn't think so before, but her behavior in this episode (culminating in those boxing gloves) changed my mind. The tell is her shift from a harried tone of voice & body language to a calm one.
Could she... Could she even be Derek in disguise? (Have we seen Derek since the train left the station? Or Derek and Janet in the same place at the same time?)
Holy fork!
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u/boinkdan Oct 13 '19
WHAT ABOUT THE SEX TAPES OF CHIDI AND ELEANOR !!!
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u/Scherazade Oct 14 '19
"God has a lot of self-insert porn involving me. That's a... hm. I have a stomachache."
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u/ExtremeResource4 Oct 13 '19 edited Oct 13 '19
I strongly believe that the figure at the end is Glenn for the following reasons;
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Throughout the series, we have seen Glenn to be somewhat disconnected from the rest of the demons at the Bad Place. In "The Selection" we seen a clear disapproval from Glenn at them "cheating" and we can also see that Glenn feels excluded from the others.
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If Micheal and Janet were kidnapped, it seems very unlikely that the figure at the end would be "real Michael" returning. Micheal has a strong connection with Janet and surely wouldn't abandon Janet in The Bad Place whilst he fled. It also seems unlikely that this figure was fake Micheal, if fake Micheal arrived with "real Micheal" already being there, it would be quite obvious that something was amiss and the Judge would no doubt notice this and Shawn would be punished.
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At the end of episode 3, we can see that Glenn is credited as a starring guest when not clearly seen in any other part of the episode.
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u/AdhesivenessOk7573 Sep 28 '25
Tahani: "Anyone interested in a status report? ... I win! I - I mean, I'll start"
Her cuteness always sneaks up on me lol