The Good Place - Holy Forkin' Shirt Balls

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  1. SuckMyD

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    Having seen this first, made it even funnier when the molotov cocktail he threw at the train in season one bounced off and extinguished itself.
     
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  2. laxjoe

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    can't believe tonight is the finale :feelsgoodman:
     
  3. Mix

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    Damn, this show. I loved that.
     
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  4. Mix

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    From Ep 9 this season
    Chidi:
    I just wish we met the way normal people meet.
    Like at a philosophy conference, or after one of my philosophy lectures.
    Or you came knocking on my office door asking for help with philosophy.
     
  5. Lorne Malvo

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    Sucks the season is done. Even with the break, felt like it flew by. Interested to see how they get the band together in season 3.
     
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  6. Daniel Ocean

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    At least we have Will and Grace and Roseanne
     
  7. laxjoe

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    so are they truly back in the real world alive? or is this some other world set up specifically for situations like this? i just assumed they were all in the real world, but after reading some things and thinking about it, i'm not as sure anymore
     
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  8. laxjoe

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    also, loved Ted Danson back behind the bar, washing and trying all the glasses. only thing missing in the Cheers shoutout was him cutting lemons
     
  9. Daniel Ocean

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    Links?
     
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  10. Clown Baby

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    We would throw empty spray paint cans at flamingos
     
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  11. Clown Baby

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    I’m interested to see how Jason independently makes it back. I think the catalyst will 100% be Blake Bortles leading the Jags to the AFC championship game.
     
  12. Daniel Ocean

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    I used to do that. Once when I was 6 I hit one in the head. We celebrated by eating my father pig.
     
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  13. laxjoe

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    mostly just reviews that are throwing out that idea. the two big ones for me that point to it not being the actual real world are Michael jumping behind the bar like that and Chidi speaking english in this "real" world. he said back in season 1 that he was speaking french, but she could understand him because everyone could understand everyone in the good place.

    i get that the flashbacks have certainly downplayed that (if not ignored it completely), but it was my immediate reaction when we first "meet" him last night. no accent. no french.

    i'm not sold on it not being the actual real world, but it's an interesting idea
     
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  14. laxjoe

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    ...and *that* is the story of Kangaroo Jack :beerchug:
     
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  15. laxjoe

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    And now he's so much better

    I was already pretty good! When I was six, I hit one right on the button.
     
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  16. Mix

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    He is a prof at a university in Australia. He obviously speaks English. Now should it be accented? Probably but it isn't crazy for it not to be.

    I assume Jason gets arrested alive during the robbery plan and turns his life around from there. I would love a Bortles cameo, maybe he works as his pool boy or something.
     
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  17. Daniel Ocean

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    I am sold not the real world.

    Shit now I don’t know what to believe
     
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  18. Clown Baby

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    The real bad place is the friends we made along the way
     
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  19. dump

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    SAM MALONE IS BACK!!!!!!

    best part of the episode for me
     
  20. laxjoe

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  21. Shawn Hunter

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    Seems like The Good Place would be almost as amazing on a rewatch because of little things like that you forget about when watching it weekly but still fresh in your mind as a binge watch.
     
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    The only thing that worries me about more "real world" episodes is a lack of Janet, who I think is easily the best character.
     
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  24. TC

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    Haven't watched the show yet but saw this piece about it in Chronicle of Higher Ed about the philosophy professors they use as consultants

    Meet the Philosophers Who Give ‘The Good Place’ Its Scholarly Bona Fides
    By Chris Quintana FEBRUARY 06, 2018


    Every once in a while, Pamela Hieronymi fields a request from someone who wants to pick her brain about philosophy. The interlocutor is usually a creative type on a small project, maybe a graduate student making a movie. The email she got in October 2015 was from a TV producer who wanted to talk ethics.

    Hieronymi, a professor of philosophy at the University of California at Los Angeles, doesn’t watch a lot of TV, but she agreed to chat. Curious, she Googled the name of the producer: Michael Schur. You might not recognize the name, but you’ve probably watched one of his shows: The Office, Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He was laying the philosophical groundwork for a new sitcom for NBC, The Good Place.

    The three-hour conversation that followed apparently made quite an impression on Schur. He wrote in a Reddit forum that consulting with Hieronymi and Todd May, a professor of philosophy at Clemson University, was "no joke my favorite part of putting the show together."



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    It was the difference in perspectives, Hieronymi said, that prompted the two of them to hit it off.


    "You have to be a special sort of weird to like [philosophy] in its pure form," she said. "The way that it gets disseminated in a culture is typically through stories and narratives, so that’s probably what made the conversation so fun is that I have all this background and training in abstraction. I can’t do it by myself. But if you put me in conversation with someone who is skilled in narrative and storytelling, we can have a good time."

    The show, which went on the air in 2016, amounts to a Philosophy 101 course with a narrative arc and some jokes.

    The premise: A woman, Eleanor, dies and finds herself in "the good place," but she secretly knows she belongs in the other place. So she confides in a fellow afterlife-dweller, Chidi, who happens to have been a professor of moral philosophy. He decides to teach her to be good.



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    Ted Danson and Kristen Bell face questions of moral philosophy, often for laughs, in "The Good Place."
    In doing so, he introduces her to seminal philosophers: Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Kierkegaard. Philosophy talk — both serious and humorous — ensues. "Who died and made Aristotle the king of ethics?" Eleanor asks. "Plato," Chidi deadpans.


    Hieronymi and May don’t provide plot points or contribute writing, they told The Chronicle — they are surprised by the same plot twists as the audience is — but they did have long conversations about philosophy with Schur.

    For example, Eleanor at one point struggles with the idea of innate human goodness. That’s a topic the 18th-century philosopher David Hume addressed, and May discussed it with Schur.

    May got involved in the show’s second seasonbecause one of the writers was reading his book Death: The Art of Living (Routledge, 2014). The book was featured briefly in one episode, and May said he saw its sales climb. (Hieronymi’s name appears on a chalkboard in another scene.)

    For him, The Good Place offers a fuller view of how philosophy can function in the world.

    "Here, what we have is people grappling with some of the philosophical complexities in the context of the very rich scenario in which their lives are unfolding," he said. "That introduces the real complexities of being in moral situations that often might get lost if you’re working with a three-sentence thought experiment."

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    Hieronymi suspects that Schur reached out to her on the basis of work on her website that wrestles with the possibility of being good by trying to be good. That idea was addressed early in the show’s first season.

    She visited the set during the second season to give the writers what amounted to a seminar on "the trolley problem," a classic thought experiment in which a trolley is hurtling toward five people trapped on the main track. The subject must decide whether to turn the trolley onto a side track, where it will hit only one person.

    It’s not her favorite thought experiment, but it’s a crowd-pleaser, she said. And she was pleased with her audience there.

    "It was like having some of the smartest, most focused, sharpest students you would ever want to be in a room with asking me questions and talking through this material in a way that’s very fresh," Hieronymi said. "Again, because they’re trying to put into a narrative — and that’s not the way I think it through."

    Among the show’s fans are — surprise — philosophy professors. Steven Benko, an assistant professor of religious and ethical studies at Meredith College, in North Carolina, said he had probably seen every episode six times. The curriculum of his "Religious Ethics and Social Issues" course is heavily influenced by the 25 episodes of The Good Place, along with readings that include works by Aristotle, Camus, and Hume. (May’s book, too, makes an appearance on the syllabus.)



    Working with the show's writers was 'like having some of the smartest, most focused, sharpest students you would ever want to be in a room.'
    Fans of The Good Place will tell you that part of the show’s appeal is its numerous twists, which inflect the characters’ motivations. Benko wants his students to experience those shifts firsthand. "There will be a penalty for spoilers," he said.


    Robin Zebrowski, an associate professor of cognitive science at Beloit College, said she planned to create an introductory philosophy course that will use The Good Place as the main focus.

    In a philosophy course in the fall, she started talking about the show with a few students who asked her if she had seen it. She had, of course. Soon the enthusiasm spread among the rest of the class.

    "Every concept I would want to touch on in intro could be explored through episodes of The Good Place, and then traditional readings paired with it so easily," Zebrowski said. "It practically writes itself."

    The show’s second season was completed last Thursday, but it’s been renewed for a third. And both Hieronymi and May say they're continuing to consult with the writers.
     
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  25. laxjoe

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  26. Homo Erectus

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    I watched the first two episodes and wasnt wowed. Does it get better?
     
  27. Daniel Ocean

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    No
     
  28. laxjoe

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    No it's just one of the best reviewed and loved commedies on TV bc it sucks throughout
     
  29. Homo Erectus

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    Makes sense..Most people are fucking stupid fwiw.

    Its not terrible i just never got into tbqh
     
  30. Clown Baby

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    It’s no Big Bang Theory
     
  31. laxjoe

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    Lol at not someone getting into the good place!

    I don't have time for your pleasant ass mother fucker
     
  32. THE REAL GUBBERJK

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    right ?
    take the company view . :facepalm:.
     
  33. Clown Baby

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    Wut
     
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  34. THE REAL GUBBERJK

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    no comment take the company view point .
    thrilling.
     
  35. Clown Baby

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    Dude, this is a thread about a television show
     
  36. a.tramp

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    Yeah, but who do you thinks makes televisions and shows? That's right, companies ya shill.
     
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  37. Clown Baby

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    What if you wrote a sketch where a customer buys and is satisfied with a GE conventional oven?
     
  38. a.tramp

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    Well, I could come around to your point of view because GE makes a fine product
     
  39. duc15

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    Skipped to the end of this thread, just finished season one and it was great. However, where the fuck do I find season two?
     
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  40. Clown Baby

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    Hulu
     
  41. duc15

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    It is only episodes 8-12
     
  42. dump

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    NBC?
     
  43. Clown Baby

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    For real? Fuck that
     
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  44. duc15

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    Couldn’t find it on there
     
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  45. laxjoe

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    This truly is the bad place
     
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  46. laxjoe

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    I guess Torrance is the only option. I know I watched it on the NBC app all season, but maybe they have to take it down once the season is some? That's lame
     
  47. Shawn Hunter

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    Terrarium, Kodi
     
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  49. CF3234

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    Love this show so much
     
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  50. dahldennsull

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    hello guys, my wife and I have recently caught up thanks to the NBC app on our amazon fire.

    office led to parks which led to this... think I will have to watch Brooklyn Nine-Nine while we wait for season 3
     
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