Series Forking Finale, Part 1: Mike Schur, Creator | Drew Goddard, Executive Producer
The Good Place: The Podcast
NBC Entertainment Podcast Network
4.9 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2020
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
The Good Place: The Podcast’s host Marc Evan Jackson sits down with creator Mike Schur and executive producer Drew Goddard to shoot the shirt about the series forking finale, “Whenever You’re Ready.” In Part 1 of this two-part podcast finale episode, they discuss the finale in depth, including Michael’s (Ted Danson) groovy songwriting origin, getting the huge guest cast together, Mike Schur’s penchant for numbers, young Doug Forcett’s appearance in the real Good Place, Mike’s belief in the benevolent nature of the universe and much, much (seriously) more! Be sure to subscribe for more behind-the-scenes stories, performance notes and a shirt-ton more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello Janet. Welcome everyone to season four of The Good Place, The Podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | Janet and I are thrilled to bring you this new episode. |
| 0:15.0 | Psych, it's bad Janet, you fecal flumes. |
| 0:19.0 | Guys, why do you keep giving me bad Janet for these intro? I really feel like this is more in good Janet's wheelhouse. |
| 0:26.0 | Guys, guys, Mark. |
| 0:29.0 | They're podcast producers Michael, they don't care. |
| 0:32.0 | They'll make you do the most humiliating things imaginable as long as they get their sweet, sweet downloads. |
| 0:39.0 | Fine, fine, let's just keep moving. |
| 0:42.0 | This episode is brought to you by Skidmarks. |
| 0:47.0 | No, no, it's not. Let's just start the show. |
| 0:56.0 | Welcome to The Good Place, The Podcast. I'm Mark Evan Jackson. I play Sean. |
| 1:05.0 | Today we're talking about the series finale of NBC's The Good Place. |
| 1:09.0 | The final chapter, season four, episodes 13 and 14, whenever you're ready. |
| 1:14.0 | Written by Mike Shore, directed by Mike Shore, including guest cast Pamela Heranami, Todd May, Tom Yee, Melly Ahara, Noah Garfinkle, Josh Siegel, Andrew Law, Kurt Brownhuller, |
| 1:25.0 | Merrill Hathaway, Angela Trimber, Kestin John, Anna Kaja, Ajay Mehta, Rebecca Hazelwood, Eugene Cordero, Mitch Naredo, Jason Manzucas, Mary Beth Monroe, Ben Koldijk, Kirby Hall, Beptiste, Brandon Scott Jones, Mary Steenbergen, Nick Offerman, Michael Malley, Tia Sircar, and Maya Rudolph. |
| 1:47.0 | Jason finally plays the perfect game of Madden and decides he's ready to walk through the door. He gathers the gang back together for one last rager, and Janet takes him to the door. |
| 1:56.0 | Tahani completes all the skills that she wanted to master in the afterlife. Her parents get through the system and apologize to her and Camilla. |
| 2:03.0 | Tahani decides she wants to train to be an afterlife architect, starting at the bottom. |
| 2:07.0 | Eleanor senses that Chidi is ready to leave and she takes a monogernie around the world to get him to change his mind. They talk about it and he agrees to stay, but then she realizes it's selfish. |
| 2:16.0 | They say goodbye and Chidi walks through the door. |
| 2:19.0 | Janet realizes Jason has been waiting for her for an eternity to come back in order to give her a locket. Then he goes through the door. |
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