History Heartwarming / TheGoodPlace

* While drunk, Eleanor tells Chidi that he is a nice person.

** Michael subtly giving Eleanor a nudge in the right direction at the bar.
*** In a meta sense, whose heart didn't leap with joy at the sight of Ted Danson being a barman again? Bonus points for ''The Good Place'' airing on the same network as ''Series/{{Cheers}}''.
*** Also, the fact that the things he tells her are the [[CallBack same things she told him earlier]], showing how well it affected him.

** Doubles as a meta-example, because this was Jameela Jamil's first acting job and Ted Danson took her under his wing. Ted and Michael are both passing the torch to Jameela and Tahani.

* On a meta level, Mike Schur's vision for the finale was too big for an hour-long time slot. Realizing how important it was for the show to end on its own terms, instead of asking Schur to make cuts, NBC went out of its way to rearrange its schedule so that the episode could air as Schur intended. Because the 70-minute episode was too short for a 90-minute time slot, Seth Myers generously made room in his own busy schedule to host a brief aftershow to fill the remaining time and make the special airing possible.

* The entire portrayal of the afterlife, once our main characters are done with it. When you die, no matter how badly you messed up or how many mistakes you made, you get a fair chance to prove you're good enough for The Good Place. And if you don't? You learn from your mistakes and take the test again. And again. And again. No limits on how many times you can take the test, no threat of eternal torment -- you get to keep trying until finally, you pass the test. The tests don't even make you become a ''completely'' different person -- instead, they enhance all the positive qualities that made you ''you'', and have the negative ones washed away. You truly become the best version of yourself, and that version of yourself gets to enter the Good Place, having cast off what held you back on Earth. Even the Bad Place demons get a win: the people most thoroughly bad go through the system so many times that the Demons may never get bored, especially since they'll be hand-crafting the tests to every person ever to live. Not only do they still get to torment people, but they now have the confidence that it truly is what they deserve and for the greater good, and on top of that it will always be unique and they'll never again get bored. And when you make it through, the final Good Place is whatever you want it to be, and you can spend as much time as you like partying, seeing everything you ever wanted to see, and hanging out with your friends and family, content in the knowledge that, whatever their flaws, they'll be joining you eventually, even better than you knew them. And when you're finally content and complete, completely at peace and with nothing left you wish to do, you walk through a beautiful, tranquil forest towards a doorway. You can spend as long as you need sitting on a bench preparing yourself, and then, you walk through the door. The exact nature of what happens after that remains a mystery, but comparisons are drawn to a wave returning to the sea, what you've always been meant to become and what you've always been, with bits of your essence influencing people on Earth for the better. But until you're really, truly ready for that, something ''you'' get to decide, you get to spend eternity having fun and surrounded by who and what you love most. It's probably one of the most comforting, most merciful depictions of death ever put to television.

* The entire portrayal of the afterlife, once our main characters are done with it. When you die, no matter how badly you messed up or how many mistakes you made, you get a fair chance to prove you're good enough for The Good Place. And if you don't? You learn from your mistakes and take the test again. And again. And again. No limits on how many times you can take the test, no threat of eternal torment -- you get to keep trying until finally, you pass the test. The tests don't even make you become a ''completely'' different person -- instead, they enhance all the positive qualities that made you ''you'', and have the negative ones washed away. You truly become the best version of yourself, and that version of yourself gets to enter the Good Place, having cast off what held you back on Earth. Even the Bad Place demons get a win: the people most thoroughly bad go through the system so many times that the Demons may never get bored, especially since they'll be hand-crafting the tests to every person ever to live. But when you make it through, the final Good Place is whatever you want it to be, and you can spend as much time as you like partying, seeing everything you ever wanted to see, and hanging out with your friends and family, content in the knowledge that, whatever their flaws, they'll be joining you eventually, even better than you knew them. And when you're finally content and complete, completely at peace and with nothing left you wish to do, you walk through a beautiful, tranquil forest towards a doorway. You can spend as long as you need sitting on a bench preparing yourself, and then, you walk through the door. The exact nature of what happens after that remains a mystery, but comparisons are drawn to a wave returning to the sea, what you've always been meant to become and what you've always been, with bits of your essence influencing people on Earth for the better. But until you're really, truly ready for that, something ''you'' get to decide, you get to spend eternity having fun and surrounded by who and what you love most. It's probably one of the most comforting, most merciful depictions of death ever put to television.

** Chidi realizing that his parents stayed together not because of the cold hard facts he presented as a kid, but because him making the presentation made them realize he needed them. Michael adds it also reminded them that they did love each other.

*** In a bizarre twist, this can be even ''more'' heartwarming upon TheReveal. Michael's fascination with humanity was never part of the ruse - in fact, it was the very reason why he created the fake Good Place to begin with. Even when he was still an evil demon, Michael was intrigued and delighted by humans.