History Recap / TheGoodPlaceS1E05Category55EmergencyDoomsdayCrisis

* TooSoon: Invoked by Janet, when she says Tahani's sinkhole joke is too soon after the sinkhole itself forming.

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Since moving in together, Eleanor and Chidi act like a stereotypical husband and wife but with the stereotypical gender role expectations reversed, where Chidi complains that he has to do all the chores while Eleanor is a slob.

* InsubstantialIngredients: As noted under "Freeze Frame Bonus", the list of new frozen yoghurt flavours includes many which suggest this.

* FreudianSlip: In her flashback, Tahani slips up when introducing her hated sister at the auction:

* FreudianSlip: In her flashback, Tahini slips up when introducing her hated sister at the auction:

* ParentalFavoritism: Tahani and Kamilah's parents very blatantly preferred Kamilah over Tahani. While they'd give, at best, token acknowledgment of Tahani's work, they would heap praise upon everything Kamilah did. They even misspelled Tahini's name in their will.

* ContrivedCoincidence: Brad and Nina are about the worst possible visitors for Eleanor and Chidi -- the former used to investigate identity theft, the latter a successful marriage counselor. Then it gets subverted; when Nina hosts an impromptu marriage counseling session with the two after seeing them fight, Eleanor gets a JerkassRealization where she promises to give Chidi more space.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Tahani always had to deal with this regarding her sister Kamilah, and has this insecurity come up when she sees she's the second lowest on the points scale in the neighborhood.

* ParentalFavoritism: Tahani and Kamilah's parents very blatantly preferred Kamilah over Tahani. While they'd give, at best, token acknowledgment of Tahani's work, they would heap praise upon everything Kamilah did.

* WroteTheBook: Nina claims that she wrote the book on healthy relationships. She means it literally.

* ContrivedCoincidence: Brad and Nina are about the worst possible visitors for Eleanor and Chidi -- the former used to investigate identity theft, the latter a successful marriage counselor.

* TheAce: Tahani's sister Kamilah. She was the youngest person to ever graduate from Oxford University, world-class painter, sculptor, social activist, iconoclast, Olympic archer (for which she won the gold, of course), Grammy award-winning musician, BAFTA award-winning documentarian (for a documentary she made about her own previously mentioned Grammy award-winning album), and person voted "Most Likely to Be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy Banksy]]".

Eleanor is pleased that she is learning to be considerate of others and learning about John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism, but Chidi is dissatisfied with spending all of his time teaching Eleanor. Michael protects the neighborhood from the sinkhole by quarantining all of the residents. He insists that Eleanor and Chidi host a couple who live near the sinkhole; the observant couple concludes that Chidi is hiding something. Chidi admits he never had a real relationship with a woman before; Eleanor realizes he's disappointed that she's not his true soulmate and decides to be a better friend to him by arranging the exact leisure activities he described to her. Meanwhile, Tahani reads Michael's private documents and learns that she has the second-lowest score in the neighborhood. She tries to raise it by aiding Michael, who has to save her from the sinkhole; he tells her that scores don't change after death and that she should be satisfied to be one of the best people who ever lived. The sinkhole closes after Eleanor's kind gesture and Michael informs her that she must help him uncover the cause. Tahani's flashbacks show that she lived her entire life in the shadow of her sister, Kamilah, finally deciding to live independently after their parents' deaths.

* TooSoon: Invoked by Janet, when she says Tahani's sinkhole joke is too soon after the sinkhole itself forming.

* IntangibleIngredients: As noted under "Freeze Frame Bonus", the list of new frozen yoghurt flavours includes many which suggest this.

* ParentalFavoritism: Tahani and Kamilah's parents very blatantly preferred Kamilah over Tahani. While they'd give, at best, token acknowledgment of Tahani's work, they would heap praise upon everything Kamilah did.

* ParentalFavoritism: Tahani and Kamilah's parents very blatantly preferred Kamilah over Tahani. While they'd give, at best, token acknowledgement of Tahani's work, they would heap praise upon everything Kamilah did.