History Foreshadowing / TheGoodPlace

* Mindy got a massive points boost right before she died, which made everyone doubt whether she deserved either fate –- Good Place ''or'' Bad Place. This foreshadows the same thing happening to Brent, who improved greatly in the last ten seconds before his second attempt was over. It happening a second time is what convinced the afterlife admins that the points system ''is'' flawed, and humans ''can'' improve, and maybe they shouldn't be judged by how many selfish things they had done at their time of death, which seems to be arbitrary and not a matter of "their time running out".

* Michael explains that the two Eleanors got mixed up because, for the first time ever, two people with the same name died at the same time and place - but later he doesn't seem surprised when Jason gets confused with someone who had a different name, was in a different country, who ''didn't even die''.

* In "Most Improved Player", Trevor meets Chidi and offhandedly mocks how he tried to make her a good person. Chidi confesses the same thing to Michael, but only near the ''end'' of the episode -- meaning Trevor shouldn't be able to logically know about that just yet.

* The fact that not one, but ''two'' people were incorrectly sent to same neighborhood in the Good Place seems almost impossibly unlikely considering Michael's claim that this has never happened before in all of recorded history. Until TheReveal, which states Eleanor and Jason belonged in the neighborhood after all.

* During [[TheRoast the roast]] for the four humans in "Leap Into Faith", Michael wonders if Chidi wishes he was under the train during the Trolley Problem demonstration. Michael's solution to the Trolley Problem is doing exactly that, putting himself in harm's way to protect everyone else.

In the show's [[Podcast/TheGoodPlaceThePodcast companion podcast]], one of the Season 4 cold opens involves Michael talking to someone who he believes to be Janet, before she reveals herself to be Bad Janet messing with him.

* It's been a recurring theme throughout the show that other immortals in the celestial bureaucracy (the Bad Place's demons, the Accounting Department, and the Judge) have major blind spots regarding human nature, which prevent them from doing their jobs properly and fairly. In retrospect, perhaps it should have been obvious that the ones running The Good place were no exception to that rule.

* [[invoked]] Relatedly, all of the demons in Michael's Fake Good Place pretend to be over-the-top {{Purity Sue}}s based on what they understand is required to access the Good Place. Their good deeds being all so ridiculously positive and humanitarian - particularly in contrast to the lives lived by Team Cockroach - turns out to be an early indication for the impossibly high standards set by the points system to access the Good Place. If the only people who seem to have gotten access to the Good Place in the modern day are in reality just faking, than it all but says that no one has come to the Good Place any time soon.

* Michael explains that the two Eleanors got mixed up because, for the first time ever, two people with the same name died at the same time and place - but later he doesn't seem surprised when Jason gets confused with someone who had a different name, was in a different place, who ''didn't even die''.