345: Evil Giggle

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2017

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Rarely do we devote an episode to a television comedy, but “The Good Place” earned our love and your attention. It’s a single story told over 13 half-hour episodes, with twists and turns and a lot of laughs. Why has Eleanor been sent to heaven by mistake? Why did a 70s dude high on mushrooms figure out the secret to eternal life? Why do we keep being gently reminded of Douglas Adams? Why is there a lava man in the conference room? Why does purgatory feature warm beer and Eagles live albums? We break it all down, and leave space after the Spoiler Horn to discuss the many surprising plot developments as the season went along.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 345, March 2017.
0:11.3	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:13.0	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:14.0	We're going to change it up a little bit.
0:15.5	We're going to talk about a TV show.
0:17.0	And it's not a TV show that if you are a fan of the kinds of stuff we talk about on this podcast,
0:21.8	science fiction fantasy, genre, stuff like that, you may have skipped over this show thinking
0:26.9	it's just another broadcast television sitcom. But you know what? You were very wrong and you
0:32.8	should rectify that. And we're going to tell you why before we blow the spoiler horn in this episode.
0:36.9	But then you need to go watch The good place which aired earlier uh this year and late i guess late last year on nbc and is
0:44.3	coming back for a second season as well um short too it's uh it's a it's a very short season
0:50.4	they uh they only did what 13 episodes Joining me to talk about the good place in
0:55.8	this good place are the following fine people. David J. Lorre, hello. Hello there. Everything
1:03.3	is wonderful. Yeah, it's good. Kelly Gamont is here. Hi. Hi, everybody. And Glenn Fleischman,
1:10.3	what the fork?
1:11.5	I will be playing the devil's advocate, as usual.
1:14.0	Of course.
1:14.9	I would expect nothing less.
1:17.9	How are you going to approach this episode, Jason?
1:19.4	This is a big one.
1:21.0	And the story, backstory here is that Glenn wanted to do an episode about The Good Place so much that he was just going to go do his own rogue podcast about it.
1:27.1	And he finally just wore me down.
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