History Recap / TheGoodPlaceS4E13WheneverYoureReady

--->'''Bobby:''' Haha I'm good, thanks

** Eleanor has come a long way from her roots as an Arizona trashbag, as it does not take long for her to realize that forcing Chidi to stay with her in the afterlife is selfish and lets him leave.

** A freeze frame of Michael looking at the poster for guitar lessons reveals Creator/MarySteenburgen's {{Cameo}} character of Michael's guitar teacher goes by "[[TheDanza Guitar Mary]]".

** The setting of Michael's new life on Earth turns out to be Eleanor's stomping grounds in Phoenix, Arizona.

* ForegoneConclusion: Because it's a DistantFinale, presumably everyone that the main cast knows is currently dead (sans Michael in the epilogue), since almost every supporting character is in the Good Place by the time the episode rolls around.
** Because of just how Distant a Finale it is, this trope even extends to real-life figures currently living, including philosophers Todd May and Pamela Hieronymi, and Nick Offerman, all of whom appear [[AsHimself As Themselves]].
* TheFunInFuneral: Of a sort; Jason's going away party is just that - a party. It's filled with DJ music, his sixty person dance crew, strobe lights, and everything else Jason loved in his life and afterlife. Jason is there for the whole thing, and remarks that it's a night he'll never forget (well, until he walks through the Door and dissolves into the universe, but you know what he means). Chidi and Tahani's going-away gatherings are much more tame in comparison.

* TimeyWimeyBall: The "Jeremy Bearimy" timeline the afterlife exists in comes seriously into play here -- the characters have experienced a TimeAbyss that can't be measured in human units (only in Bearimies) that has given them enough time to become sated with the afterlife's delights, achieve as much maturity as they're capable of under their current identity, and choose to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence. Along the way ''everyone they knew on Earth'' has died and gone through the Bad Place's purgatory. (This also includes real people who are currently alive in RealLife, such as the show's philosophy consultants Drs. Todd May and Pamela Hieronymi.) And yet when Michael returns to Earth to begin his life as a human, it's Earth in the recognizable present day -- indeed, the show's ending implies that in the present day of the real world, Michael is still alive and well in Arizona. We also get to see what an afterlife calendar looks like, and some of the days are shown as irregular, non-rectangular shapes that don't fit into a regular grid. The clock is also a twisted and strange contraption with multiple hands and gears twirling around.

** Those who walk through the door leading out of the Good Place meet an ending something like this -- no one, not Janet, knows what they experience, only that it's an end to their conscious identity as themselves. The ending sequence implies they scatter as particles throughout the universe to merge with other souls and make them just a tiny bit better.

** Defied for Brent, who is up to Attempt #15,734 of his trials and still getting stuck on elementary stuff like not telling a woman to smile. Actual ''felons'' such as Pillboi and Donkey Doug got through far earlier.

* TheFunInFuneral: Of a sort; Jason's going away party is just that - a party. It's filled with DJ music, his sixty person dance crew, strobe lights, and everything else Jason loved in his life and afterlife. Jason is there for the whole thing, and remarks that it's a night he'll never forget (well, until he walks through the Door and dissolves into the universe, but you know what he means). Chidi and Tahani's going-away gatherings are much more tame in comparsion.

* KillEmAll: Because it's a DistantFinale, presumably everyone that the main cast knows is currently dead (sans Michael in the epilogue), since almost every supporting character is in the Good Place by the time the episode rolls around.
** Because of just how Distant a Finale it is, this trope even extends to real-life figures currently living, including philosophers Todd May and Pamela Hieronymi, and Nick Offerman, all of whom appear [[AsHimself As Themselves]].

* DrivenToSuicide: When the council meetings have finished and he no longer has a purpose in life, Michael tries walking through the doorway, clearly more upset than content. It doesn't work because he isn't human, [[PinocchioSyndrome which gives Eleanor an idea]].

* PinocchioSyndrome: Michael's fascination and desire to understand humanity come to full fruition here, as he accepts an offer from the Judge to become a human and live on Earth. He has all of his memories of the afterlife, but he will live, die and go through the trials. Janet sets up a bank account and a life for him, but she warns him he can't have salty food and needs to schedule a doctor's appointment.

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Although Brent seemed to be having an absolute last minute reformation last time we saw him, this time he's so bad at self improvement that the Demons have resorted to flat out telling him how to be a good person and he still doesn't get it.

Feeling whole and complete, Eleanor shares a last margarita and chat with Janet before she goes through the Last Door. Her soul is scattered into the fabric of the cosmos as thousands of little sparks of light. One spark goes to Earth, touching the soul of a man getting his mail at his apartment. He's about to throw away something that was wrongly delivered to him, but Eleanor's soul fragment inspires him to deliver it to the proper address instead. It's addressed to Michael, who is giddy upon seeing the grocery store rewards card he'd applied for has come. Michael thanks his neighbor, tells him to "take it sleazy", and, with a smile, [[OpenClosesEnding closes the door.]]

* AmicableExes: Simone and Chidi have become this in the afterlife as she's seen among Elanor and Chidi's friends.

Feeling whole and complete, Eleanor shares a last margarita and chat with Janet before she goes through the Last Door. Her soul is scattered into the fabric of the cosmos as thousands of little sparks of light. One spark goes to Earth, touching the soul of a man getting his mail at his apartment. He's about to throw away something that was wrongly delivered to him, but Eleanor's soul fragment inspires him to deliver it to the proper address instead. It's addressed to Michael, who is giddy upon seeing the grocery store rewards card he'd applied for has come. Michael thanks his neighbor and tells him to "take it sleazy".

* DemonOfHumanOrigin: Inversed. Michael chooses to become human, making him the first and only demon/immortal being to do so.

** Also 12358, the numerical part of the original Good Place neighborhood's designation (12358W), which is also the number of passing yards Jason gets in his perfect game of Madden, and is the house number for Michael's apartment building.

->''"I'll say this to you, my friend, with all the joy in my heart, and all the wisdom in the universe: Take it sleazy."''
-->-'''Michael'''

* TheFunInFuneral: Of a sort; Jason's going away party is just that - a party. It's filled with DJ music, his sixty person dance crew, strobe lights, and everything else Jason loved in his life and afterlife. Jason is there for the whole thing, and remarks that it's a night he'll never forget (well, until he walks through the Door and dissolves into the universe, but you know what he means).

** Chidi says he's read every book on morality and philosophy so he's begun to look into mainstream fare like ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode'' but declares it to be garbage. This is the first hint that he's reached the end of his time in the Good Place.

* NeverFoundTheBody: When Janet first drops Jason off at the Door, the last we see of him is him sitting on the bench. We never actually see him walk through the Door. When Janet comes back to the Door with Chidi a thousand Bearimies later, it's revealed that ''Jason is still there''. He had been waiting for Janet to return the entire time so he could give her his necklace, and it's only then when he finally goes through.

* ProphecyTwist: Shawn ended up being correct when he said in Season 3 that all of the Soul Squad's friends, family and acquaintances will end up in the Bad Place... but only as a part of their ongoing test so that they can shake off their corruption in Earth and become better versions of themselves so that they are eligible for the Good Place, ''not'' eternal torture as Shawn implied.