Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles greetings mother factors my name is Sam and congratulations you've made it to the good place everything is fine and by the good place I mean the goodest place in the internet right now the 101 facts YouTube channel I'll be providing you with 101 cactuses I mean fact sorry about arguably the most underrated show on TV I am of course referring to the good place the only show that brings together the usually very separate Kristen Bell and Ted Danson fandoms lovely but is the good place actually a good place is Eleanor really that bad is anyone really impressed by hearing me pose ridiculously open-ended existential and ethical dilemmas are they too light or three those questions are going to be answered so hand me the cactus grab your soul mate and let's ask Janet about 101 facts about the good place we're gonna have a good time on the time knife number one the good place is a fantasy comedy originally created by Michael Shure that was marketed for Netflix in 2016 and is due to hit its finale in its fourth and final season which is set to premiere on September 26th 2019 number 2 in case you haven't heard of it before the good place is a heavenly utopia that provides an eternal happiness to all the good people in it how lovely it's run by its architect Michael who oversees all of the inhabitants of the good place and ensures that everything is fine sounds like all you can ask for if you ask me though in the States for jennifer lawrence's would be great number three the bad place is as you can imagine the polar opposite of the good place entry into the bad place is pretty easy and here's how it works the decisions you make in life are tated up to an overall rating taking into account things like your motivations and the consequences of your actions upon the universe I'm sure most of us would qualify for a spot in the bad place as the name suggests the bad place ensures a hellish existence for the people who inhabit it as they are tortured non-stop by mortal beings and bad janet's who seem to enjoy their roles a little too much number for right and wrong yin and yang red and green everything has an opposite and the self-proclaimed goal of the show is to find out what that middle ground is and if there is a middle ground after all or does it even matter it's a pretty heavy sitcom it's what I'm saying and it deals with big philosophical questions number 5 Michael sure came up with the show's concept based on his cynical habit of berating people with points cause when they annoyed him if people did bad things like cut him off in traffic or I don't know throw trash on the floor he would give them negative points inside his own head I imagine not out loud because that I mean Samak a maniac number six prior to creating the show Michael sure discussed the world-building aspect with Damon Lindelof the exact producer of lost is if there's one guy you want to ask about building a world that people love with an ending people enjoy it's the maker of lost number 7 as you may have already guessed Michael Schur was an English major and took only three philosophy classes something which he now regrets as he now has a keen interest in the topic like cheating in the build-up to the show he research will adjust understandings of the afterlife but came to the conclusion that the show would be about ethics and not religion sauce Jesus number eight the show that leftovers was a huge inspiration for sure when creating the show so much so that he occasionally leaves Easter eggs in the good place to pay homage to it however sure delights in telling us that he won't actually tell us where those Easter eggs are so get looking folks number nine Michael Schur admitted that the good place also share similarities to another dystopian show West world the robots in worst of all develop an understanding of their own consciousness in a similar way to how Janet slowly discovers hers I doubt there was any copycat tree here though public catch was definitely a word right as the good place finished shooting before Westworld aired number 10 the Shia ain't your normal sitcom it's highly serialized with strong story arcs and cliff hangers at the end of each episode as well as one big overarching story sure had initially mentioned in interviews that he has a seven season arc planned out for the show however this turned out to be untrue number eleven in other interviews the creators of the show said they've always known there would be a four season arc they played us guys they played us number twelve Ted Danson's character Michael is apparently named after an arc angel in an interview with vulture the brain box behind the show sure said the character's name was inspired by a walk he took around the not true diamond Paris and not a form of intentional meta commentary about Tim being the curator of the show because his name is Michael as well keep up guys number 13 in the original casting announcements the character of tehani was actually named tester just think well a different show would have number fourteen Janet actually started life as a kiosk Asher imagined her to be in all-knowing box information Bharti changed his mind and then believed and all-knowing humanoid not a robot would fit the role better that's a weird coincidence I'd started my life as an ATM until Michael sure gave me this body damn you Michael number 15 Berlin Danson were attached to the project at a very early stage and at interviews they'd mentioned the prospect of working with each other and of course Michael sure was a major reason for signing up in the first place number 16 William Jackson Harper who plays Cheney put all his cactuses into one basket for this show in fact he was very very close to quitting acting all together and so considered the pilot season four when the good place audition came around as his last one he says this made him far more relaxed because he could just enjoy it as the stakes were comparatively low ironically for the guy who played GD I guess he said his relaxed attitude helped get him the part number 17 William Jackson Harper had no idea what he was auditioning for in an interview with GQ he said he was given fake scripts by sher and the other producers and played a guy called Chris which and let me check my literature here it's not the same as Chiddy number 18 Jameela Jamil plays to Hani and she by the way is hot all English people are actually like him your life here's something to consider though she got her role on the good place without any prior acting experience at all which hey so be like about that but it's good news for me I can finally share a set with my love number 19 before suddenly lurching into acting Jamil was actually an experienced london-based DJ in fact she probably still is she hosted on BBC Radio 1 for a number of years before being dropped into the deep end of Hollywood acting number 20 indeed Jamil is actually a history maker having become the very first solo female radio one host on their chart show mazelTov smashed them ceilings Jamil number 21 in what's quite a weird move when you've been chosen for a job - Mila begged Michael Schur to reconsider her casting according to Digital Spy she says it's because and I quote here she didn't want to make an absolute o can't say that word breast of herself that's what happened when I started yet Here I am a veritable of online fact-based YouTube personalities fear me number 22 Oh Jamil took a long time to warm to her character of to Hani in an interview with build she says that she finds the character entirely insufferable and baited it from someone she knows in England be fair tunneling meiyan appears morgan would drive me crazy to number 23 mani Jacinto who plays Jason was a hip hop dancer before becoming an actor so many career shifts from this cast I wonder if I'll become an actor or an acting astronauts number 24 mani Jacinto stated that the role of Jason was actually much more appealing on the basis that it broke Asian stereotypes of Asian characters always being super intelligence which I don't have spoil anything but Jason is quite the opposites I think we're in the bad place number 25 Jacinto told the New York Times that he based the character on some guy he met in high school as well as an unknown YouTube video that he doesn't want to mention but I won't be talking about me because we are pretty similar number 26 Darcy Cardin plays Janet on the good place and as she may expect her audition was pretty weird there was no mention of her being an all-powerful omniscient omnipresent afterlife based robot but instead in the audition she had to be a kind helpful woman who worked a hotline for people calling up with broken dolls number 27 despite Janet having a singular name like send a UPS or seal or share or Bob Darcy Cardin is sometimes referred to as Janet dela D'Annunzio the reason for that is because when the show was first announced the press release claimed that Darcy Cardinal would be playing Janet della DiNunzio a violin salesperson with a checkered past well that's an out to be a huge lied in there number 28 sure kept the cast in the dark with much of the storyline with the original announcements giving away little as to what the series would consist of it's a good thing too it's a well-known fact of one of the best ways to improve an actor's performance is to provide them with barely any information about their job and play mind games with them number 29 the series is filmed at the Universal Studios in Hollywood and the village exteriors were primarily shot in the little Europe back lot other locations including the Chinese garden and the beach scenes were filmed at leo carrillo state beach in Malibu and at the Huntington collection in batana gardens in San Marino California that's where I assumed that Janet stores her never-ending supply of gym no collosseum Bieri in him or cacti to me in you number 30 Michael may seem all Ted Danson II but he is not to be trifled with Michael has multiple powers and is an immortal being he just can't die the only feasible way he could be killed is by what's called the eternal shriek he can also see in nine different dimensions can erase memories of any deceased humans alter reality and construct any kind of simulation he wants I wonder if he could come and alter our reality cos he could really do with it number 31 Michael makes things happen by clicking his fingers you know all Faneuil style similar to cue from the show sci-fi counterpart Star Trek The Next Generation Q is also innominate immortal that's been around since the beginning of time let me try something hang on that'll work one day number 32 the first episode of the show attracted 8.0 four million viewers to put that in perspective that's roughly double the population of Moldova that's a two-in-one fact you just received there and no need to thank me actually maybe you could by clicking that like button number 33 there's a hell of a lot of Froyo in heaven apparently which is good news for those who like to brew and ice cream but bad news for those who are lactose intolerant sorry gang but the sheer variety of flavors is worth mentioning here as if you look very carefully you can see a big list which includes raspberry sorbet Maine lobster the perfect high five potato chip canceled plans skinny dipping empty inbox Stardust and a full cellphone battery I like mine with sprinkles number 34 the show has plenty of catchphrases and curse alterations that are used frequently in everyday life by fans your mother-fucking right they are however what some don't realize is when Eleanor says pobody's nerfect burnt actually of reference to the Simpsons specifically episode 16 of season 6 so have that shirt number 35 in the safe which Jason suffocated in spoiler alert there ish well we know he's dead anyway there's a direct nod to what it mike shirts other successful shows Parks and Recreation you can see the safe is a Swanson safe a reference to Ron Swanson acara 2 from Parks and Rec who has in the past made safes number 36 mark Evan Jackson and Meredith Monroe who plays Sean and Mindy respectively both have very small roles in Jumanji welcome to the jungle Monroy who plays the teacher who puts Bethany in detention and Jackson plays the principal apparently the casting team at the good place really appreciate actors who give good dickish teacher number 37 according to sure the flashback to Eleanor walking through the grocery store that we see in the penultimate episode of the first series had Frank Sinatra's my way playing in the background to present touristy most selfish person in the world not so coincidentally the show aired the night before the inauguration of he-who-must-not-be-named to which his first dance was you guessed it my way sometimes those coincidences hit real hard number 38 particular perceptive viewers of the episode would have noticed that Donnie was on the cover of a magazine seen just before and Anna massively over shares to the checkout worker prior to her untimely demise aren't references fun it's like a little in joke between you in the show come by having friends but not quite number 39 Lesley Grossman who plays Eleanor's mother in the show it's actually only nine years older than Kristen Bell ah the magic of TV and also the crushing lack of access to roles for all the women it's a real problem guys I mean people my part of the problem number forty the only people who knew about the big old twistarooni at the end of season one were dancin and bell and spoiler alerts here in case you haven't seen it but i imagine you have seen it which is why you're watching this so last chance to get off the fact that the finales big reveal didn't get leaked is somewhat of a miracle as Danson apparently did a horrific job of keeping a secret he since admitted that he divulged the twist to family friends and the office star John Krasinski for some reason going so far as to state that he literally told anyone who asked who knew actors were such blabbermouth I'm gonna make a mental note of that in case I'm ever in a compromising position with Ted Danson number 41 the debut season of the good place was welcomed with critical acclaim eliciting a hefty score of 92 percent on Rotten Tomatoes praise was heaped more specifically upon Danson embel whose charming performance is an on-screen chemistry left you all foaming at the mouth for more like the shuddering insatiable TV addicts you know you are the meaning of life in season 2 episode 2 dance dance resolution Aaron of refers to Janet as busty Alexa a nod to the virtual and frankly condescending assistant created by Amazon number 43 I can attempt to reboot 802 times in the third episode of season two so much so that he ends up making the minions forget their roles that's happened in the 101 office here a few times in fact what what are we doing again number 44 at one point in season two Michael puts on an expression reflective of the screen painting by Edvard Munch that tends to be my reaction whenever I get on the team at 9 a.m. it's awful number 45 Janet can alter her own appearance which usually happens when she's rebooted with O she apparently has the ability to do so at any time in season 2 episode 5 she temporarily appears in different clothes and blonde hair in a form Michael calls Jeanette sometimes I come into work as a blonde haired bruising enzyme but that's only on a good day number 46 do you recall the scene where GD has to choose who dies in the infamous trolley problem it wasn't just difficult for treating himself it was pretty bad for the actor too as a piece of foam that was used to make up the fake blood flew right down the back of his throat which is number 47 in the episode Janet and Michael it's said that in case of continued malfunction holding down Janet's nose in inserting a paper clip into a small hole behind her left ear will cause her to rapidly collapse in on herself until she's a marble and then she can be either launched through an interdimensional suction tube or eaten as a midday snack I mean this surely must be a reference as to how to reset an iPhone but this is actually shown in chapter 23 best self when Michael turns bad Janet into a marble number 48 mark Evan Jackson and Jason Mantzoukas who played Sean and Derek on the show are both from Brooklyn nine-nine as Kevin Costner and Adrian pimento respectively Michael Schur was also the creator of these two shows number 49 similarly Jason Mantzoukas and Adam Scott who plays Trevor the torturer have also both appeared in Parks and Rec men soukous plays a shady fragrance maker Dennis Feinstein and Scott portrays Ben Wyatt one of the show's main characters number 50 Dax Shepard also stars as a demon in the second episode of the second season and hey get this about Dax Shepard he's up to be married to Kristen Bell in real life what a coincidence he must have been quite a surprise when they turned up both on the same day number 51 interestingly enough Nick Offerman was offered the role of Sean but rejected it although he did make a brief and uncut eight-second cameo is the voice of Lance the demon number 52 the cocoons Shawn manifests at various points in the show were inspired by the humble armadillo good to see armadillo he's finally getting there dude on mainstream American TV number 53 way back in the season two premiere - honey voice her strong dislike of cargo pants but where's them anyway in an attempt to bond with our casual dressing soulmate in the season 3 premiere though she's seen wearing them while visiting a monastery when she's back on earth and attempting to pick up a better person certain sartorial degenerates would have you believe that cargo pants at an acceptable in polite society but believe them at your peril the more pockets on your trousers the deeper you descend through hell the Dalai Lama just texted me that number 50 for the 582 question segment made by the International sophisticate magazine is a hilarious send-up of those ridiculous 73 questions a cool and fascinating yet pretentious and sycophantic video series in which celebrities are bombarded for the number of quickfire questions while they saw - around a variety of high-class locales just to make all the poor people feel extra sad about their miserable little lives sorry I have a lot of pent-up anger about that series number 55 due to his inability to make simple choices cheney made the lives of those around him miserable earning him a spot in the bad place this is best exemplified in the scene where cheating missed out on cutting puppies and ended up with an owl instead and fucker could deal to me Harry Potter number 56 on the 4th of January 2019 between the broadcast of the 10th and 11th episodes of season 3 a video appeared on the good place YouTube feed entitled Janet's void what actually happens when Bing this video is 5 hours of Janet standing around in her void occasionally disappearing commentators soon caught on that have disappearances lasted 22 minutes long which is the same as the length of the episodes that's pretty much how I operate in fairness except my void is filled with endless fact piles kind of like a storage room for meaningless knowledge I'm a good laughs number 57 the void by the way is the place where Janet resides if described as a boundless barren nothingness not confused with certain politicians brains Janet can move between the void and her assigned neighborhood at will but does not have the power to move directly between the void and other locations like the medium place good to know how it all works snip number 58 in the episode where everyone is Janet and episode 4 which Darcy Cardin get you know all the awards ever she apparently found it's incredibly difficult to capture everyone's mannerisms in the episode but thankfully she did have the support of her co-stars who were on call to help her out to have pretending to be the people they were pretending to be just another day at the office I'll pick up the good place not the office that's something else number 59 the multiple Janet's were partially inspired by orphan black a Canadian show that examines the moral and ethical implications of human cloning and constitutes yet another critically acclaimed visual masterpiece within the current Golden Age of TV that you may not have seen because there's way too much TV right now number 60 Michael Schur said that the show had to pay 50 grand to pay for the rights to use a clip of Cher's hit single believe sorry Mike but have you ever heard of something called royalty free comm number 61 Danson and Belle both know how the series will end after season for sure only told them to avoid any acting alterations from the other four main characters so that the show would be as organic as possible number 62 janitor stated that there have been 25 versions of Janet this means that she gets upgraded similar to a computer program and addresses herself in the third person which confirms her identity as an object lady we took her download updates for myself that I'd finally be able to fix my innocence and sense of decency which were corrupted by the internet of every long time ago number 63 despite it being strongly implied that Janet instantly materializes anytime someone calls her name you never actually see her do so her materializations are actually implemented as a cut shot without her to a shot for the noticeably different angle with Janet place interview it's also accompanied by a plink sound are the magic of the movies Nintendo 64 it's possible that tehani may have unknowingly cross paths with Gd before while she was studying at Sorbonne when cheney was a tutor during that same period not a 65 the and on the back of alumnus favorite magazine celebrity baby is for glide a perfume by parks and recreations perfumer Dennis Feinstein who as mentioned earlier is played by Jason Mantzoukas who plays Derek in the good place in Adrian pimento and Brooklyn nine-nine sure her stress though that this Easter Egg a particular it's not evidence that the good place in Parks and Rec are in the same universe number 66 okay Michael yeah sure it's not because on the back of another issue of celebrity baby there's an ad for some champagne by jean Ralphy oh I hate that guy so yeah it definitely means they're in the same universe number 67 Ted Danson has been mispronouncing Kristen Bell's character's name for the entire three seasons in the day of the life video posted on the good place YouTube channel he explained that rather than saying Eleanor he's been saying Eleanor to be fair that's how we say it here in Blighty so in many ways you had it right the first time Ted number 68 if it wasn't obvious by now it will be after this fact the philosophy notes on Chilly's blackboard are all researched and accurate and were checked by professional academic advisors who know all about metaphysics and ethical dilemmas and whatnot I too have dabbled in the realm of philosophy specializing in existentialism oh sorry existential dread I mean I'm really really good at that number 69 the frozen-yogurt or yoga I guess they use in the show is actually mashed potatoes we're just used instead of the real thing you did the fact that actual frozen yogurt melts far too quickly in the Sun I'm sure a big tub of mash is exactly what the actors have in the mood for when filming in the blaze in California hate sounds or delightful number 70 Cheney once mentions that he suffers from a condition called directional insanity and once got lost on an escalator although that isn't a real condition because it obviously isn't there is a condition called directional dyslexia whereby the burden struggles to know left from right and has difficulty memorizing short term directions number 71 both Ted Danson and Kristen Bell of Egan's in real life as well as on the show well okay Helena tries to be a vegan for a bit to be good and Michael doesn't really eat anything but anyway that's super interesting because it means you found out about someone being a vegan without them telling you themselves first number 72 when Eleanor removes our Hani's diary the bottom of it reads forward mama llama your sub-site and Kylie Minogue in case you've been living in the wilderness for the past few years like the feral beast you are yes after I is a Nobel Peace Prize winning Pakistani activist and Minogue is the Australian pop star sort of similar I guess they go to what the same parties I assume number 73 on the little you're upset at universal studios where much of the show is filmed the all chocolate everything store is actually the restrooms of the VIP tour - no well that does that mean that the number 74 Janet is neither human nor an eternal being rather an anthropomorphize vessel of knowledge basically AI furthermore she's not a robot and politely points this out whenever anyone mistakes her for one number 75 it strongly implied that eleanor might be bisexual she slept with GD in eight of the 802 reboots and has admitted attraction towards the Hani and Vicki number 76 Ted Danson has stated that his ideal good place would be somewhere where people have to take mandatory naps he's even admitted that he sets alarm so that he can wake up early enough to fit in a small nap later in the day and that's some next-level nap strategy I'm impressed and I run a fact-based YouTube channel it's very hard to impress me number 77 Michael Schur also helped write the black mirror episode nosedive this revolves a societal system which makes the highest-rated people the most powerful it's a concept which as previously mentioned is pretty similar to some of the ideas that are integral to the good place number 78 ellen is primary form of torture was to be placed in the neighborhood where her existence is destroying it therefore proving her empathy despite the apparent lack of it when she was alive my perfectly personalized torture would involve a fishbowl a jet skiing a large multicolored wall but I don't want to talk about it number 79 Ella not also hates jazz music and there are several moments in the show where this is proven as she cringes and dance danced for a solution as well as in the Ballad of donkey Doug oh what a music snob although jazzy jazz is hot number 18 everyone has had an episode named after their character except for Eleanor I guess that's what you get for being a bad person although she's right about jazz I'm very strong opinions on freeform jazz it is horrible number 81 the name of the primary neighborhood in the show is neighborhood 1 2 3 5 8 w these numbers correspond with the Fibonacci sequence in which every number is found by adding the two previous ones except the W obviously and now you know more about the good place and mathematics what other entertainment YouTube channels gonna give you that huh number 82 journeys is also the name of the air service that takes people to area 51 and supposedly sounds for just another non-existent terminal which is in a whimsical sort of way pretty much watch on it is number 83 tehani means congratulations and her name al Jamil means beautiful - Hani myalgia mil subscribers you're the best number 84 the show has been praised which equal and diverse cast in the comic-con panel Darcy Cardin and Jameela Jamil thanks sure for creating the diverse workplace vice even noted that the show helped normalize interracial relationships number 85 Darcy Cardon's real name is actually Darcy she added said apostrophe when she was in junior high school because she was obsessed with the band the Smashing Pumpkins and the bassist had an apostrophe in her name maybe I'll change mine to Siam and a little edge to my life number 86 Eleanor is almost always the one who figures up a bear in the bad place except for one time where Jason was the first to figure it out so good for him Jason figured hopefully he can keep it and graduate from the manchild circus at some point in the future number 87 Jameela Jamil was manager Santos seventh kiss ever gay moving on from that number 88 mani Jacinto was also Jameela Jamil 's seventh kiss ever I mean that's delightful that's a really delightful coincidence but who on earth keeps track of that stuff number 89 the picture of Doug vortex hanging in Michaels office is actually a picture of the writer and actor Noah Garfinkel who was a friend and colleague of Joe man a writer and producer on the good place a media medium will initially thought that it was an old photo of Michael Schur number 90 Michael's childhood pet was called cause of a ten-headed dog spider I wonder if it's the short haired and lesser spotted 10 head dog spider a person who had a pedigree lesser spotted but that's just me number 91 during their stay at the medium place Janet and chases attempt to have relations but they are very unsuccessful this strongly implies that although Janet appears to be shaped like a human she may not have the same biology as a human enjoy that visual as we've moved hastily on to the next fact here we go number 92 however are we're still on the subject great okay when Michael asked Janet for a personality change to be friendlier Janet slipped into overt sexuality she then says the cheetah had gone yay as a reference to Mike was wording I got something you can slip into implying that she does indeed to have human biology say right now stay all the most likely explanation is that she was simply being you know rude rather than her ability to number 93 Ted Danson described his favorite version of Michael as when he's not a demon in an interview with Vanity Fair he said when he's overwhelmed by human emotion he's almost like a toddler ah that's busy is number 94 William Jackson Harper's character cheetah Gagne is always being tormented by the writers and in collateral he too suffers he stated during interview with Conan O'Brien that he had a blood cannon shot in his face he had 50 needles in the face for an acupuncture scene and he had to get his bare body out which apparently for the guy's a top five fear number 95 from jeebies point of view everyone around him speaking French because the neighborhood Michael created translate everything into the language each individual person is most comfortable with he doesn't need to do that though as he evidently spoke English well enough to teach at an english-speaking university though communicating with other neighborhood residents may be a different matter number 96 unlike Jason Eleanor never made any serious offenses like major crime or having a vanity license plate Anna law was mainly just mean rude and dismissive all those around her she was basically just a mass of ash coal ash number 97 the reboot button was a complex issue that the writers had to work around a sure stated that it runs the risk of putting the audience in a position where they literally feel like nothing matters so they have to use it very very carefully indeed Oh farts number 98 apparently Belle now uses ethics when it comes to debating people's you talk to Los Angeles Times ethics mythix on my right comments section number 99 Michael sure didn't want any slip-ups looking at you Ted Danson when it came to giving out the script for the final series so he decided against giving it to any of them before their Comic Con panel mainly for that reason but also because apparent he didn't want to tears on the stage number on Druid the show has two Golden Globe nominations and four Emmy nominations will show in the cast win with the upcoming series or will they be the subject of being eternal almost winners along with fat little Smith none but a hundred and one there's actually a podcast about the behind the scenes of the show called the good place the podcast I know entirely original the host is actually one of the characters mark Evan Jackson are you Sean the demon the podcast itself many consists of interviewing cast and crew members maybe we should saleh pakka oh no wait we tried that and no one watched it anyway that was one one facts about the good place who's your favorite character where do you think you deserve to be the good place old bad place also what would you like to see next on 101 facts so many questions that need to be answered by you so stick them down in the comment section below and one I'll turn some extra good points by giving this video a thumbs up and clicking the subscribe button but own if you really mean it in the meantime though for here's your own good place to videos that been signed sealed delivered they're yours so click on them and I'll see you there I River dirge motherfuckers
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