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From the trailers, I thought this show looked incredibly stupid. My wife was determined to watch this show, though, so we gave it a chance, and I have to say, it seems to work. Usually, the disparity between trailers and the actual show works the other way around. But not here. This show is pretty funny. I bet $3.29 that nobody is supposed to be there, and that they are, in fact, being surreptitiously rehabilitated into good people so they can go to the real good place.
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Ernie. posted:An ethics professor who has to solve the ultimate ethics question while finishing his thesis... Ergo, they are in purgatory, vis-ŕ-vis their former sins and shortcomings. Concordantly, an building up of their souls is what they must strive for, even if their self-improvement is handled surreptitiously in a place that is only ostensibly "the Good Place." This is my impression, too, because I'm sorry, but that party planner chick with the mansion? That's just not very heaveny, you know?
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Oct 5, 2016 05:28
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ElScorcho posted:That season 8 Friends joke made me laugh way more than it should have. It vaguely felt like a Family Guy joke.
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Oct 14, 2016 04:47
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This show really does make you want to see the next episode, and it doesn't feel like it's being cheap about it. I love it.
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Oct 28, 2016 05:06
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So with Janet being all cactusy and stuff because she's still rebuilding her database, was anyone else waiting for someone to say, "Dammit, Janet!" Then smash cut to another character saying to someone else, "I love you!"
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Oct 28, 2016 16:45
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karrethuun posted:The whole sequence with the cactus absolutely slayed me. Each one just kept getting better, especially when Michael kept asking if it was a cactus she was holding behind her back, and she kept denying it. I knew, I knew, that it would be a cactus. But, they dragged it out just long enough that even though I'd predicted the punchline, I still laughed. The only thing that could have made it better was if that was the file... with pictures of cacti in it.
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Oct 28, 2016 18:11
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Arist posted:How can you not like cheese pizza Cheese pizza should be called "incomplete pizza." Pizza should have meat. "Oh, come on," some say, "a supreme pizza with lots of vegetables but no meat isn't a pizza?" No. Not a good one, anyway. "But I have a wonderful vegan pizza recipe!" No, you don't. Edit: Cheese pizza without sauce is called cheesy bread. (In case some of you who order that with your pizza wondered what it was, it's pizza dough they would have thrown away, but instead they tossed cheese on it and baked it.) tarlibone fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Oct 29, 2016 |
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Oct 29, 2016 21:22
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xbilkis posted:I am excited by a role that allows Adam Scott to play a giant douche. The delivery of the "You should smile more" line killed me He was wonderful in Step Brothers.
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Oct 30, 2016 22:44
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Not just calzones. But mini-calzones. The kind that would ensicken Ron Swanson to the point that his bowel movements would crack a toilet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip0HaEnsFwQ
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Oct 31, 2016 16:01
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Toplowtech posted:I kinda hope the journos who created the brexit portmanteau (because politics needed brangolina-like portmanteau) will end up in the bad place. I'll take political portmanteaus like "Brexit" every single day, and twice on Sundays, if it means we can stop using "-gate" as a suffix for political stories. I mean, for gently caress's sake.
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Oct 31, 2016 19:41
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I love that the jig is up for Bonehead McFakemunk. I wonder how it's going to play out. And yes, I second the booooooo on the two month break. Fork the network execs who made that decision. Fork 'em right in the icehole.
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Nov 4, 2016 03:03
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joebuddah posted:I was thinking that James Roday as Shawn. Or Dulé Hill as Jazz Hands.
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Nov 30, 2016 06:16
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Yes, Janet's sort-of bemused expression as he mashes the cake over her mouth, which is kind-of a tradition in and of itself (but you just know it was unintentional; he never thought about whether Janet knew she should eat cake or not), made it all work. So cheerfully clueless while knowing literally everything in the world. I really like her performance. This was a pretty good episode to get people re-acquainted with what all is going on. It wasn't terribly funny all the way through, but I feel like I'm ready for more after such a long break.
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Jan 6, 2017 07:23
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Wasn't it almost 30 episodes? As in, there were actually 29, maximum. I love that a show in the UK might only have one episode per season. Sorry, I mean, one episode per series.
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Jan 6, 2017 23:28
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PotatoJudge posted:The Eleanors were hit by a bus, Chidi got smooshed by an air conditioner. Have they shown what killed Tahani? Is getting flattened like a pancake a prerequisite for getting into the Good Place? Maybe not a prerequisite, but I bet you get a ton of points for getting offed by surprise. Think of it like extra credit. Or, maybe that's just insane, but the system was programmed incorrectly and it awarded huge points for surprise deaths involving being smooshed by things. That neighborhood might be filled with really good people and bad people who were crushed by various things.
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Jan 7, 2017 04:48
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Pan Dulce posted:I'm convinced Chidi's in the Good Place because he did nothing. Like, he's absolute neutral from Futurama. He sought enlightenment, at the very least. And he sought the hell out of it, spending so much time seeking it. The enlightenment he sought was in the area of ethics, so... well, seeking the light is worth some points, I'm sure. Besides, I think you have to have a high score to get into The Good Place. I don't think it's as simple as coming out above zero.
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Jan 9, 2017 03:42
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Tiggum posted:That's not even a joke, it's just a thing that actually happens. Jonathan Creek has had season lengths of 5, 6, 1, 6, 1, 6, 1, 1, 1, 3 and 1 episodes respectively, spaced out over almost twenty years, including a five year gap between 2004 and 2009. So, it's like the Venture Bros., except with shorter breaks between seasons.
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Jan 10, 2017 02:39
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muscles like this! posted:I really like that they went into the fact that Eleanor doing good because she expected a reward wasn't actually doing good. My only complaint about that was that it took longer than 7.32 seconds for any of the main characters to realize this. Of course, most of the other people apparently deserve their place in the Good... uhm, place. So, maybe they're just so unaccustomed to selfishness that they can't easily discern selfish motives from noble ones. That, and since they weren't all that selfish in real life, they don't know from experience that it can ruin the spirit of good deeds.
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Jan 13, 2017 07:19
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I looked up my posts in this thread to see if I saw this development coming... and my first couple seem to be headed in the right direction, but then the wool was pulled fully over my eyes. This was a great way to end the season and shift the entire series. It's just a shame that we're not likely to see Adam Scott as Douche, King of the Demons again.
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Jan 20, 2017 04:55
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I just realized that I'm going to have to hang up my farging Johnny Dangerously fake curses because of this forking show. I'll try not to be too much of an icehole or a bastage about it.
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Jan 21, 2017 03:16
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I think I was assuming that all Good Places, and by extension Bad Places, are roughly the same in population: a hundred or so people are present. In that context, this particular Bad Place would seem immensely inefficient, taking care of only four people. But, maybe Bad Places only have a small number of people. There's no reason to think that there's a mirror universe Good Place where a hundred or so bad people are tortured for eternity, because the only Good Place we've ever seen is really a Bad Place, and everything we know about Good and Bad Places was told to us by a lying liar who lies. So maybe Michael's bold new plan for a Bad Place--a fake Good Place--is handling the right number of people, and the inclusion of so many extras was done just to provide some recreation for the architects who otherwise spend all of eternity planning the eternity of bad people. Even if the population of 4 is too small, it could be a proof-of-concept project, something to be scaled up later.
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Jan 22, 2017 20:29
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Azhais posted:The boss commented on a few occasions that all that work for 4 people seemed wasteful. This was just for fun True. But maybe the waste wasn't so much about the number of people tortured, but the fact that instead of just designing a quick, efficient, and otherwise standard torture chamber, he was engineering an entire fake Good Place that required the participation of dozens of architects (or whatever they are). Regular Bad Places might only take a handful of demons to manage four people, or even just one.
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pwn posted:Huh. I've heard that phrase all my life and had no idea it came from Ted Danson. Well, I don't think he invented it. I heard one of my uncles make that reference once when I was a kid, and that was well before Mr. Danson thought it'd be a good idea to show up at a public event (roasting his girlfriend Whoopie Goldberg) after asking his makeup artist to give him the "Full Jolson."
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