History YMMV / TheGoodPlace

* HolyShitQuotient: Went ''way'' up after TheReveal of Chapter Thirteen. And here we thought we were watching a charmming little comedy about a celestial misunderstanding. Suffice it to say we were very, '''very''' wrong.

* HolyShitQuotient: Went ''way'' up after TheReveal of Chapter Thirteen. And here we thought we were watching a charmming little comedy about a celestial misunderstanding. Suffice it to say we were ''very'', '''very''' wrong.

* LesYay:

* RewatchBonus: The first season has a ton of it once you know [[spoiler:the gang is actually in the Bad Place, with Michael deliberately tweaking their attempts to deal with the situation so they'll stay as agitated as possible.]]
* WholePlotReference: The big twist in the first season makes it so that [[spoiler:the whole show has been one absurd, comedic retelling of JeanPaulSartre's ''[[Theatre/NoExit Huis Clos]]''. The whole point of the show becomes that the main characters were meant to be each others' hells.]]

* HarsherInHindsight: Just about everything involving [[spoiler:Michael and "Good Eleanor"]] becomes this after TheReveal; a lot of things on the Heartwarming page suddenly appear in a very different light.

* MagnificentBastard: The Season 1 finale reveals that [[spoiler:Michael is actually a demon, and everyone has been in the Bad Place all along. On his first architect job, he came up with a way to make people's eternal suffering more fun by arranging small groups of people who will torture each other entirely on their own while thinking they're in the Good Place. Only Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason are real people. And despite Eleanor figuring the whole thing out, he simply wipes their memories and starts over, with only a vague note Eleanor managed to leave behind to stop it from continuing forever.]]

** Eleanor's obsession with proving Tahani has some deep, dark secret ''really'' makes her look like a StalkerWithACrush, which combines quite nicely with Tahani's European touchy-feeliness. Eleanor even says she's "kind of turned on" after complaining about how irritatingly flawless her neighbor is. Later on, Eleanor comforts a crying Tahani, who is worried about her relationship with Jianyu, in part by telling her how attractive she is. This is followed by Tahani hugging Eleanor and Eleanor commenting that "of course" Tahani is a great hugger. Later, Eleanor states that Tahani has "legs for days" and that she "might actually be into her."

* HarsherInHindsight: Just about everything involving [[spoiler:Michael and "Good Eleanor"]] becomes this after TheReveal.

** Eleanor's obsession with proving Tahani has some deep, dark secret ''really'' makes her look like a StalkerWithACrush, which combines quite nicely with Tahani's European touchy-feeliness. Eleanor even says she's "kind of turned on" after complaining about how irritatingly flawless her neighbor is. Later on, Eleanor comforts a crying Tahani, who is worried about her relationship with Jianyu, in part by telling her how attractive she is. This is followed by Tahani hugging Eleanor and Eleanor commenting that "of course" Tahani is a great hugger. Later, Eleanor states that Tahani has "legs for days" and that she might be in to her.

* WholePlotReference: The big twist in the first season makes it so that [[spoiler:the whole show has been one absurd, comedic retelling of Jean-Paul Sartre's ''Huis Clos''. The whole point of the show becomes that the main characters were meant to be each others' hells.]]

* Whole Plot Reference: The big twist in the first season makes it so that [[spoiler:the whole show has been one absurd, comedic retelling of Jean-Paul Sartre's ''Huis Clos''. The whole point of the show becomes that the main characters were meant to be each others' hells.]]

* RewatchBonus: The first season has a ton of it once you know [[spoiler:the gang is actually in the Bad Place, with Michael deliberately tweaking their attempts to deal with the situation so they'll stay as agitated as possible.]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: A quite popular theory is that the show's setting is actually the Bad Place, with all its inhabitants doomed to an eternity of thinking they could be perfectly happy if only they could find some way to fix the problems going on. [[spoiler: Episode 13 reveals this to be somewhat true and that Eleanor, Chidi,Tahani and Jason were placed in the Bad Place designed to replicate the Good Place and get the group to torture themselves for eternity, or at least a thousand years, well until Eleanor figures it out.]]

* AuthorAvatar: Michael's name is a reference to show creator Michael Schur.

* MagnificentBastard: The Season 1 finale reveals that [[spoiler:Michael is actually a demon, and everyone has been in the Bad Place all along. On his first architect job, he came up with a way to make people's eternal suffering more fun by arranging small groups of people who will torture each other entirely on their own while thinking they're in the Good Place. Only Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason are real people. And despite Eleanor figuring the whole thing out, he simply wipes their memories and starts over, with only a vague note Eleanor managed to leave behind to stop it from continuing forever.]]

** Eleanor's obsession with proving Tahani has some deep, dark secret ''really'' makes her look like a StalkerWithACrush, which combines quite nicely with Tahani's European touchy-feeliness. Eleanor even says she's "kind of turned on" after complaining about how irritatingly flawless her neighbor is. Later on, Eleanor comforts a crying Tahani, who is worried about her relationship with Jianyu, in part by telling her how attractive she is. This is followed by Tahani hugging Eleanor and Eleanor commenting that "of course" Tahani is a great hugger.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: A quite popular theory is that the show's setting is actually the Bad Place, with all its inhabitants doomed to an eternity of thinking they could be perfectly happy if only they could find some way to fix the problems going on.

** Real Eleanor's attempt to get Eleanor to realize she's in love with Chidi gets Eleanor thinking she's hitting on her. She promptly responds that she might be up for it, as hooking up with someone with her exact same name could be a fun narcissistic thing.

* LesYay: Eleanor's obsession with proving Tahani has some deep, dark secret ''really'' makes her look like a StalkerWithACrush, which combines quite nicely with Tahani's European touchy-feeliness. Eleanor even says she's "kind of turned on" after complaining about how irritatingly flawless her neighbor is. Later on, Eleanor comforts a crying Tahani, who is worried about her relationship with Jianyu, in part by telling her how attractive she is. This is followed by Tahani hugging Eleanor and Eleanor commenting that "of course" Tahani is a great hugger.

* LesYay: Eleanor's obsession with proving Tahani has some deep, dark secret ''really'' makes her look like a StalkerWithACrush, which combines quite nicely with Tahani's European touchy-feeliness. Eleanor even says she's "kind of turned on" after complaining about how irritatingly flawless her neighbor is. Later on, Eleanor comforts a crying Tahani, who is worried about her relationship with Jianyu, in part by telling her how attractive she is. This is followed by Tahani hugging Eleanor and Eleanor commenting that "of course" Tahani is a great hugger.
* TooSoon: In Episode 5 Janet tells Tahani that it's too soon to joke about the sinkhole. By exactly nine days, to be specific.

* LesYay: Eleanor's obsession with proving Tahani has some deep, dark secret ''really'' makes her look like a StalkerWithACrush, which combines quite nicely with Tahani's European touchy-feeliness. Eleanor even says she's "kind of turned on" after complaining about how irritatingly flawless her neighbor is. Later on, Eleanor comforts a crying Tahani, who is worried about her relationship with Jianyu, in part by telling her how attractive she is. This is followed by Tahani hugging Eleanor and Eleanor commenting that "of course" Tahani is a great hugger.

* LesYay: Eleanor's obsession with proving Tahani has some deep, dark secret ''really'' makes her look like a StalkerWithACrush, which combines quite nicely with Tahani's European touchy-feeliness. Eleanor even says she's "kind of turned on" after complaining about how irritatingly flawless her neighbor is.

* LesYay: Eleanor's obsession with proving Tahani has some deep, dark secret ''really'' makes her look like a StalkerWithACrush, which combines quite nicely with Tahani's European touchy-feeliness. Eleanor even says she's "kind of turned on" after complaining about how irritating flawless her neighbor is.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: While ranting and raving that something he didn't approve of caused his carefully-balanced neighborhood to spin out of control, Michael sees a dog in the middle of the street. Believing that it doesn't belong, he ''kicks'' the dog as hard as he can. The action veers from shocking and horrific to hilarious when viewers see the dog keep going and going before disappearing in a puff of smoke when it hits the sun.