This show is one of my favorites, some high level giggles and memorable moments.
The guy who played Pillboi is in everything. And he’ll always be Pillboi to me.
Yeah, he does a ton of VO work too. But he’ll also just pop up all over the place in live action shows and I’ll see him and invariably say, "it’s Pillboi!"out loud.
Jason was one hot chick lecturing him on class solidarity away from being a true comrade
Yo, Jason, mah boi! Got a big brain buster to tell you about. You know when you’re working at a company, and the work you do makes the company money? And you know how they give you a paycheck at the end of the week? Well get this: The paycheck they give you is ALWAYS worth less than the work you did for them! That’s what profit is! It’s the money you made for them that they didn’t pay you for. Profit is just stealing from employees!
That show ended at the perfect time. Didn’t drag it out, and left you wanting more. The opposite of the walking dead.
I like to think of Chidi’s wave line when I’m feeling down. We’re all just riding that wave until we’re back to being part of the ocean.
Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it’s there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It’s a wave.
And then it crashes in the shore and it’s gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be, for a little while. You know it’s one conception of death for Buddhists: the wave returns to the ocean, where it came from and where it’s supposed to be.
Thanks for that! I need more of the good lines distilled. People miss that there’s a ton of legit philosophy in the show (I mean beyond the scenes where Chidi is directly teaching of course). It’s not just a side bit to use here and there where it helps the jokes or the narrative or whatever. I really fell in love with that, like not only was the show hilarious and FULL of interesting and likeable characters, they really made it kind of a class in (or “love letter” about?) the strengths/weaknesses/clashes to different approaches to existential philosophy.
And they did it in a way that wasn’t ham-fisted, ya know? If you already knew some, you’d pick up on it, if not, maybe you’d pick up a few tidbits here and there but otherwise, just a great show without any of that! That’s so hard to do well, idk, I’m just so impressed lol.
This is why The Good Place is my comfort show. Chidi’s monologue both brakes me and puts me back together. Every moment in the finale is a work of art but that scene on the couch, there just aren’t words.
Every time someone I know passes I watch that whole episode and it helps me find peace.
That wasn’t fun at all.
Spoiler below: (I cannot get spoiler text to work for me for the life of me)
I mean as true as that is, saying he’s in the bad place doesn’t really matter much considering everyone goes to the bad place in the show
Can confirm, I have spent a lot of time in Columbus Ohio.
