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- Hi. I'm Ted Danson.
- And I'm Kristen Bell.
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And tonight, we are on the
set of "The Good Place"
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to share some of the
unforgettable times we had
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while making this show.
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I'm embarrassed to tell you I've
just seen three store names
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that I hadn't seen before.
The Italian restaurant.
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"Lasagne Come Out Tomorrow"?
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- Yeah.
- It's a good one. It's a good one.
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This one's great.
"Dr. Carl Emerson DDDS.
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Dental Services. Just Kidding! Puppies!"
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There are so many good jokes hidden
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even in the set deck here.
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I've loved working on
this show with you.
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- Me too.
- I think...
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- Me too.
- Me too!
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When we started, I had
confidence it would be good
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and that I would enjoy your company,
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but I don't think I anticipated
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how proud we'd be to tell this story
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and how much of a
family we would become.
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Yeah, yeah. I agree.
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I feel like we're having a conversation
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that's really important nowadays.
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It's about decency.
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It's about the consequences
to your actions,
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and yet instead of
tasting like medicine,
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they sprinkle it with
9-year-old fart humor
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and lots of visual magic.
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- Yeah.
- It's really special.
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It's special. It's special.
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And as we get ready for our
fourth and final season,
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we hope you enjoy the
behind-the-scenes stories
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and some of our favorite clips
from the first three seasons.
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Welcome to The Good Place.
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Everything's fine.
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B mark.
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With the fourth and final season
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of "The Good Place" on the way,
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it's time to celebrate the
critically acclaimed series.
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How do you pump your fists again?
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- Is this it?
- So let's go back to the beginning...
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They were looking for an overly tall,
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annoying Pakistani Englishwoman,
which is basically me.
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... share some of the
secrets from set...
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Barely any work happens here.
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Cobblestones suck!
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It's mostly just snacking and playing.
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- ... make a few immature jokes...
- Ball test!
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- Yes!
- This is my bud hole.
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It's just like a hole where
me and my buds can hang out.
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... and explain once and for all
what happens in the afterlife.
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Whoo!
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Welcome to "The Paley Center
Salutes 'The Good Place.'"
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You, Eleanor Shellstrop, are dead.
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Your life on Earth has
ended, and you are now
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in the next phase of your
existence in the universe.
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Cool. Cool. I have some questions.
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I love all the questions the show poses.
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I love just being able
to ask those questions.
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How do we all share Earth?
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How are we supposed to live
together? Are there rules?
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Are there always consequences
to your actions or not?
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During your time on Earth,
every one of your actions
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had a positive or a negative value
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depending on how much good or bad
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that action put into the universe.
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Every sandwich you ate,
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every time you bought a magazine,
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every single thing you did
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had an effect that rippled out over time
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and ultimately created some
amount of good or bad.
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Only the people with the
very highest scores,
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the true cream of the crop,
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get to come here, to The Good Place.
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What happens to everyone else, you ask?
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Don't worry about it.
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It's designed so that everything
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they could possibly want is right there,
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and they're all perfectly
matched soul mates
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so that everybody, when they
come there, has a soul mate.
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Come on in!
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Eleanor, I'm Chidi Anagonye,
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and you are my soul mate.
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Cool! Bring it in, man!
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Chidi, the ethics professor
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who his entire life has
tried to do the right thing
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and find the right answer
to literally everything,
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upon meeting his soul mate,
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she confesses that she's really
not supposed to be there.
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Somebody royally forked up.
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Somebody forked up.
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Why can't I say "fork"?
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If you're trying to
curse, you can't here.
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I guess a lot of people in this
neighborhood don't like it,
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- so it's prohibited.
- That's bull-shirt.
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There is no profanity in The Good Place,
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which I have my own
personal issues with,
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but people in The Good Place
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don't want to be offended. I get it.
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Things only started getting crazy
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after I was an ash-hole
to everyone at the party.
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Ugh! You know I'm trying
to say "ash-hole"
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and not "ash-hole," right?
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I really passionately love
cursing, 'cause I'm English,
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and so to have found a way to curse
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so prolifically on NBC prime
time is so thrilling.
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And, also, it's allowed the
show to then be something
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that can be watched by the whole family.
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Where the fork are we?
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Fork.
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Shirt. Ash-hole.
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Holy forking shirt balls.
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We're in The Good Place.
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When I was trying to think
about what the afterlife,
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what "heaven" would actually mean,
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one of the things that you would want
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is to be able to answer any question
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you could ever have about
anything that's ever happened.
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- Hey, Janet?
- Hi, there!
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- Ah!
- How can I help you?
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What the fork?! Who are you?
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I'm Janet.
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I'm the informational assistant
here in The Good Place.
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She's like this walking database.
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You can ask her about the creation
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of the universe or history or...
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Oh, there was a guy who lived
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in Avondale, Arizona, around 2002.
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His name was Kevin Paltonic. Is he gay?
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- No.
- Really? Huh.
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I guess he just didn't
want to have sex with me.
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- That's correct.
- Well, that's fine.
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- I wasn't that into him anyway.
- Yes, you were.
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Before they had fully
written the script,
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they were thinking that Janet
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almost like a kiosk or,
like, an ATM or a computer,
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but then they thought
it might be more fun
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to have an actual human attached to it.
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And to Janet, the best robot.
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- Not a robot.
- Girl.
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- Not a girl.
- And straight-up hottie.
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I am attractive, yes.
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The four humans all died
in very different ways
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and largely in ways
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that sort of, in a comedic
way, reflect who they were.
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Tahani, for example, died when
she was so jealous of her sister
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being inducted into the
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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that she snuck into the
party the night before,
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had a fight with her sister,
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threw a rope around a giant
golden statue of her sister
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to try to yank it over,
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and it fell over and crushed her.
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Aah!
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She died crushed by a giant
golden statue of her sister,
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who she lived in the shadow of
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and felt jealous of her whole life,
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and it kind of dictated her personality
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and is the driving force
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behind what made her
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Chidi on Earth was incredibly smart,
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incredibly indecisive.
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Thirty minutes, Chidi?!
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What's the harm in taking
a few extra minutes
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to find the perfect...
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Chidi?
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The air conditioner comes down
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and that's a wrap.
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So, apparently Jason died, you know,
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in the most normal way possible.
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He locked himself inside a safe
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because he wanted to rob
a Mexican restaurant.
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What if it doesn't work?
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Hey, we thought of everything
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except for an alibi and an escape route,
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but we'll figure it out as we go.
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We don't want to overthink these things.
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You can call him basically
a criminal but a lovable
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and, you know, I think,
an innocent criminal.
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Jason's dead. He
suffocated in that safe.
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There were no air holes.
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Plus, he did a bunch of whippets
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while he was in there, which
couldn't have helped.
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At least he died doing what he loved...
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a bunch of whippets.
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Those were the three deaths that
we conceived of after the pilot,
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and they all were obviously
very specifically designed
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to reflect the life that each
of those three people led.
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Eleanor's death is a
little less metaphorical.
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How did I die? I-I don't remember.
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The day Eleanor died, she
was at the grocery store
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buying herself a bottle
of Lonely Gal Tequila,
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her favorite drink,
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and a do-gooder in the
parking lot made her angry.
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Hi, there! You have a second
to talk about the environment?
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No. Buzz off, whale humper.
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And the bottle slipped out of her hand.
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She reached down to pick it up.
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Look what you made me do, jagoff.
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Oh, my God. Look out!
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Uh-oh.
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A group of shopping
carts knocked her over.
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- That's how I died.
- No. Sorry. There's more.
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You were able to grab onto the front
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of the column of shopping carts,
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but it swept you right
out into the street
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where you were struck and killed
by a mobile billboard truck
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advertising an erectile-dysfunction pill
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called Engorgilate.
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Funnily enough, the first EMT to arrive
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was an ex-boyfriend of yours.
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Okay, that's... I get it. Thank you.
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Okay.
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Coming up...
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Edward Bridge Danson,
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you can't tell everyone the plot twist!
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All of us felt genuinely a
need to reevaluate our lives
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from what happens at the
very end of the series.
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Fore!
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... when "The Paley Center Salutes
'The Good Place'" returns.
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This is the almighty judge
on high of all beings
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living and dead for all eternity.
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My name's Shawn. I'm a naughty bitch.
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Who taught you how to
turn a human inside out
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by reaching down their throat
and grabbing their butt
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- from the inside?
- You did.
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Just in the middle of
torturing William Shakespeare
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by describing the plot to
the "Entourage" movie.
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Eat butt, you ding-dongs.
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Welcome to The Good Place.
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I'm Marc Evan Jackson. I play Shawn.
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Why don't we take a
look behind the scenes
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at some stuff people rarely get to see?
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This is Kirston Mann,
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the costume designer
for "The Good Place."
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- Hello.
- Hello.
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- Where are we right now?
- We're in our costume trailer.
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In season three, we saw Kristen
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wearing a lot of stripy
things as Eleanor.
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Were those symbolic?
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Kristen did wear a lot of kind
of rainbow-type clothing,
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but it's also collegiate.
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Season three really is about
her being back in school,
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and I know that you're hoping that I say
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- it's a stripe for each character.
- I don't need you to say that.
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- But I'm going to say it.
- I know it's true.
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It's a stripe for each character.
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- What's in this sacred...
- What?!
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This is the magical bow
tie that started it all.
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When we were in Ted's first fitting,
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we had this bow tie,
and once we put it on,
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we knew exactly where we were
going with his character.
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In the afterlife, there's a Good Place,
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and there's a Bad Place.
258
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You're in The Good Place.
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It's made of peacock
feathers, which we felt like
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was sort of heavenly and beautiful.
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And it turned out all to be a lie.
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Well, thank you so much.
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- Thank you so much.
- This has been delightful.
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- I adore you.
- I adore you.
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Cut!
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_
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When I first had the idea,
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I thought, "Well, this
is not an easy sell."
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Dead people who read moral
philosophy isn't a good pitch
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for a network TV show,
so I sort of felt like
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I owed it to the studio and the network
272
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to really understand what
I was about to embark on.
273
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We have to start somewhere.
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- So how about Socrates?
- All right.
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All right. Let me just get
into the mind-set of a human.
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Ohh!
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Ohh. I'm a human!
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And my breathing tube is
next to my eating tube!
279
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Oh, and look! My arms end
in stupid little sticks!
280
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Okay. Proceed.
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So, before I pitched it to
anyone at NBC or Universal,
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I knew what the entire
season, first season, was,
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and I think that really helped
in terms of having them
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understand the idea and get on board.
285
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The other thing that
really helped was getting
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Ted Danson and Kristen Bell to sign on
287
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because once you have Ted Danson
and Kristen Bell in your show,
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you can do whatever you want.
289
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Thank you for being a friend.
You're a pal and a confidant.
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After you watched "Friends,"
did you also watch
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- "Golden Girls"?
- Yes, I did!
292
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They love cheesecake, and one
of them loves intercourse.
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I went into his office,
sat down for a...
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what was supposed to
be a one-hour meeting,
295
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and we must have talked
for almost three hours.
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Every bit of my being wanted to say yes.
297
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And Ted was just icing on the cake.
298
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I know it sounds crazy,
but if it weren't crazy,
299
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they wouldn't call it a leap of faith!
300
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They would call it... a sit of doubting.
301
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So, I met Mike on another project,
302
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and then it didn't really work out.
303
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I asked him if he had anything else,
304
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and about a week later,
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he came in and pitched "The Good Place."
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And I knew that Kristen
Bell was interested,
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so literally off of
that one-hour meeting,
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never saw a script, I said yes.
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- We're in.
- We're... All right. You go.
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- We're in!
- We're in!
311
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- We're just so excited!
- We're in.
312
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It was a weird audition process
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because this show was so secretive.
314
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I didn't really know who was
going to be a part of it
315
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or who was going to star in it,
which is probably a good thing
316
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because that would have probably
put a lot more pressure.
317
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The audition piece that we
had, it was a fake piece.
318
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It wasn't about "The Good Place."
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Mine was about a hotline operator
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for broken dolls.
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We recommend that you give
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the one-eyed doll to your daughter
323
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and use it to teach her
an important lesson
324
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about tolerance and superficial beauty.
325
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- Nope, that's insane.
- Okay.
326
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Eleanor, I swear I am your friend,
327
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and I will never cause you any harm.
328
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You can hear Mike just giggling
329
00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:06,907
in the background
throughout these auditions,
330
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but you never really know
until you get on set
331
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and you start shooting and
actually see the result, right?
332
00:14:14,020 --> 00:14:16,539
You just don't really know.
333
00:14:16,540 --> 00:14:18,159
They were looking for an overly tall,
334
00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:21,710
annoying Pakistani Englishwoman,
which is basically me.
335
00:14:21,715 --> 00:14:24,969
We've decided to have a
silly-hat competition,
336
00:14:24,970 --> 00:14:28,179
so whoever makes the
silliest hat wins a prize,
337
00:14:28,180 --> 00:14:31,049
but the prize is an even sillier hat!
338
00:14:31,050 --> 00:14:32,919
I didn't have any acting experience,
339
00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:35,899
so it felt really ridiculous
to come to the king of comedy
340
00:14:35,900 --> 00:14:37,439
and act in front of him.
341
00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:39,449
I can't imagine anything
more mortifying.
342
00:14:39,450 --> 00:14:43,019
But I was told I had to go,
and so I went, and I thought,
343
00:14:43,020 --> 00:14:46,110
"Well, at least I get to meet
Mike Schur, one of my heroes."
344
00:14:46,114 --> 00:14:47,919
Something has come to my attention,
345
00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:50,179
and I have to accuse you
with an accusation,
346
00:14:50,180 --> 00:14:52,419
but you know I wouldn't
do that unless I was,
347
00:14:52,420 --> 00:14:54,699
like, 150% sure that I had to.
348
00:14:54,700 --> 00:14:58,999
There's a line in the
scene where Jason says,
349
00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:00,300
"Do you think this is a good idea?"
350
00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:01,999
And the other character off-camera says,
351
00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,640
"Yes, of course I do,"
and Manny's response is,
352
00:15:04,650 --> 00:15:06,092
"Then why you got to talk bad about it?"
353
00:15:06,093 --> 00:15:08,679
And all of the guys we saw,
who were all funny and good,
354
00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:11,470
said it the way that we'd sort
of imagined you would say it,
355
00:15:11,473 --> 00:15:13,799
and when Manny did that scene,
356
00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:16,889
Manny, like, started
crying a little bit.
357
00:15:16,890 --> 00:15:17,979
I have yet to see it.
358
00:15:17,980 --> 00:15:20,119
Are we going to air that in
this, like, special thing?
359
00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:22,309
Hopefully I get to see it if we ever do.
360
00:15:22,310 --> 00:15:23,619
I love "Double Trouble."
361
00:15:23,620 --> 00:15:25,719
You know that. I've always
said it was genius.
362
00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:27,822
Then why you got to talk bad about it?
363
00:15:27,823 --> 00:15:29,489
When you see Manny Jacinto do it
364
00:15:29,490 --> 00:15:31,359
and he has that sort of vulnerability
365
00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:32,701
and that sweetness to him,
366
00:15:32,702 --> 00:15:35,621
he taught me what my own character was.
367
00:15:35,622 --> 00:15:38,374
We essentially cast him
from that one line.
368
00:15:38,375 --> 00:15:39,875
Jason Mendoza.
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00:15:39,876 --> 00:15:42,939
A failed deejay from
Jacksonville, Florida.
370
00:15:42,940 --> 00:15:47,007
I wasn't a failed deejay.
I was pre-successful.
371
00:15:47,008 --> 00:15:49,009
Hopefully none of you is claustrophobic.
372
00:15:49,010 --> 00:15:50,329
Claustrophobic?
373
00:15:50,330 --> 00:15:52,379
Who would ever be scared of Santa Claus?
374
00:15:52,380 --> 00:15:55,439
Oh, the Jewish.
375
00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:56,889
You from Florida?
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00:15:56,890 --> 00:15:58,395
- Jacksonville.
- Yeah.
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00:15:58,396 --> 00:16:01,479
Fore!
378
00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:02,730
Well done!
379
00:16:02,732 --> 00:16:05,776
_
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00:16:05,777 --> 00:16:07,759
I knew it was going to
be something special
381
00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:09,979
from the first shot, quite honestly.
382
00:16:09,980 --> 00:16:12,599
The first thing we shot was Ted Danson
383
00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:17,410
introducing Eleanor and
Chidi to Tahani and Jianyu.
384
00:16:17,414 --> 00:16:20,179
I got to walk on with Ted Danson,
385
00:16:20,180 --> 00:16:22,619
and that was so intimidating.
386
00:16:22,620 --> 00:16:25,619
That's my first time
ever properly acting.
387
00:16:25,620 --> 00:16:27,160
Ted was wonderful. He kept on,
388
00:16:27,170 --> 00:16:29,859
I think, pretending to fart
on me just to relax me
389
00:16:29,860 --> 00:16:32,089
'cause he could tell that
I was very in awe of him.
390
00:16:32,090 --> 00:16:34,219
The second they all walked
out in their costumes
391
00:16:34,220 --> 00:16:36,259
and we saw Ted Danson
introduce everyone,
392
00:16:36,260 --> 00:16:37,600
I thought, "Look, there's our family."
393
00:16:37,601 --> 00:16:41,312
Eleanor, Chidi, I would like
you to meet Tahani and Jianyu.
394
00:16:41,313 --> 00:16:44,563
They are soul mates and
your next-door neighbors.
395
00:16:44,564 --> 00:16:46,460
I felt chills go up the back of my neck.
396
00:16:46,470 --> 00:16:49,319
Like, I just knew. I knew
we had something special.
397
00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:50,359
This is a really special group.
398
00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:52,239
I think that we're all spoiled rotten.
399
00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:53,859
Truly, barely any work happens here.
400
00:16:53,860 --> 00:16:56,459
- Oh, my God.
- I mean, barely any work.
401
00:16:56,460 --> 00:16:59,450
It's mostly just snacking and playing.
402
00:16:59,456 --> 00:17:02,119
I've come to work for
four years with people
403
00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:05,960
that I genuinely love and
want to hang out with.
404
00:17:10,190 --> 00:17:12,139
Yeah, we can't be bought!
405
00:17:12,140 --> 00:17:14,009
- ... just barely giving yourself the...
- Yes.
406
00:17:14,010 --> 00:17:19,299
Today, on the set, I was
playing Bad Michael,
407
00:17:19,300 --> 00:17:20,719
and they said,
408
00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:25,509
"Please pronounce 'Eleanor'
the way you do in real life,
409
00:17:25,510 --> 00:17:27,109
which is 'El-a-nur.'"
410
00:17:27,110 --> 00:17:29,079
And I went, "Wait. What?"
411
00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:31,139
The entire three seasons,
412
00:17:31,140 --> 00:17:34,379
I've been mispronouncing "Eleanor"
413
00:17:34,380 --> 00:17:36,239
by calling her "El-a-nur."
414
00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:38,059
Eleanor. Eleanor. Eleanor.
415
00:17:38,060 --> 00:17:41,206
I was trying something,
Eleanor. Give me a break.
416
00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:45,659
- Coming up...
- Hollywood, baby.
417
00:17:45,660 --> 00:17:47,711
You know me. Janet!
418
00:17:47,712 --> 00:17:49,588
Everyone was behaving very strangely.
419
00:17:49,589 --> 00:17:51,429
Yeah, I just wasn't sure
what we were going to hear.
420
00:17:51,430 --> 00:17:52,739
Ohh!
421
00:17:52,740 --> 00:17:56,870
... when "The Paley Center Salutes
'The Good Place'" returns.
422
00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:04,989
_
423
00:18:04,990 --> 00:18:09,399
Mike told the twist to
obviously the writers
424
00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:12,639
and Kristen Bell and myself.
425
00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:14,447
Probably, that was it.
426
00:18:14,460 --> 00:18:19,369
I'm a very good secret keeper.
I didn't tell anyone.
427
00:18:19,370 --> 00:18:20,869
I didn't even tell my husband.
428
00:18:20,870 --> 00:18:24,299
I had a real ironically moral dilemma
429
00:18:24,300 --> 00:18:26,917
about whether I should tell
the other four actors.
430
00:18:26,918 --> 00:18:29,639
It is so easy to live with a lie!
431
00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:32,309
I once pretended to have a
terminal illness to meet
432
00:18:32,310 --> 00:18:34,342
Scott Wolf at a Sunglass Hut.
433
00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,262
A victimless crime.
434
00:18:37,270 --> 00:18:39,139
"If they didn't know about the twist,"
435
00:18:39,140 --> 00:18:43,559
I reasoned, "They would give a
completely honest performance."
436
00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:46,199
I was playing the secret.
437
00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:50,399
I had to be Michael, who was supposedly
438
00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:53,319
running The Good Place and
was a bit high-strung
439
00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:54,959
because everything was falling apart,
440
00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:58,449
and he wanted to make everything perfect
441
00:18:58,450 --> 00:19:01,035
for his humans that he loved so much.
442
00:19:01,036 --> 00:19:04,279
It's my duty to be calm and in control,
443
00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:06,332
- and I'm falling apart.
- No!
444
00:19:06,333 --> 00:19:08,919
Michael, you are a paragon of fortitude.
445
00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:10,712
You're a mountain of strength.
446
00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:14,210
I'm not a mountain of strength.
447
00:19:14,215 --> 00:19:16,159
I'm a canyon.
448
00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:18,719
Full of poo-poo.
449
00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:22,099
I was a demon torturing them,
but that couldn't come out
450
00:19:22,100 --> 00:19:25,529
until the, you know, end
of season one, so...
451
00:19:25,530 --> 00:19:27,359
How well did you keep that secret, Ted?
452
00:19:27,360 --> 00:19:29,060
Uh, I'll get to that.
453
00:19:29,070 --> 00:19:30,769
- Okay.
- I'll get to that.
454
00:19:30,770 --> 00:19:33,193
Not well, to answer her question.
455
00:19:33,210 --> 00:19:35,219
I was hearing from mutual friends,
456
00:19:35,220 --> 00:19:37,479
"Heard about the show
you and Ted are doing.
457
00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:39,509
Such a cool twist at the end."
458
00:19:39,510 --> 00:19:42,499
And I was like, "Edward Bridge Danson,
459
00:19:42,500 --> 00:19:48,320
you can't tell everyone the plot twist."
460
00:19:48,340 --> 00:19:51,929
But he's chatty. What can you do?
461
00:19:51,930 --> 00:19:56,382
I can't keep a secret,
is basically the truth.
462
00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:06,226
Holy mother-forking shirt balls.
463
00:20:06,990 --> 00:20:07,999
What?
464
00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,179
Wow!
465
00:20:10,180 --> 00:20:11,779
Will and Manny and Jameela and I,
466
00:20:11,780 --> 00:20:13,709
the babies, we didn't know the twist,
467
00:20:13,710 --> 00:20:15,902
and Mike wanted to kind of keep
it a secret from everybody.
468
00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:18,119
It was a tough call, but I
decided not to tell them.
469
00:20:18,120 --> 00:20:20,899
I'm very glad I didn't because
when we actually did tell them,
470
00:20:20,900 --> 00:20:22,529
it was really fun.
471
00:20:22,530 --> 00:20:24,479
I think it was after a table read.
472
00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:27,459
He asked the four of us
to join him in a room,
473
00:20:27,460 --> 00:20:29,619
which was a little intimidating.
474
00:20:29,620 --> 00:20:30,799
I think we were all sort of concerned
475
00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:34,919
that maybe we were getting the
news that the show was over.
476
00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:36,464
Yeah, I just wasn't sure
what we were going to hear.
477
00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:38,239
So I thought we were going to
get some sort of promotion
478
00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:40,715
or something, but, no,
that wasn't the case.
479
00:20:40,716 --> 00:20:42,499
Everyone was behaving very strangely,
480
00:20:42,500 --> 00:20:44,709
and we hadn't been given any information
481
00:20:44,710 --> 00:20:46,599
about what was happening,
and then we walked in,
482
00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:50,540
and Kristen pulled up her mobile
phone and started filming us,
483
00:20:50,550 --> 00:20:53,106
and she had this really
devious grin on her face,
484
00:20:53,107 --> 00:20:54,640
and it was terrifying,
485
00:20:54,650 --> 00:20:57,815
and Mike then broke down to us
how the show was going to end.
486
00:20:57,816 --> 00:20:59,859
"They're never going to call a train
487
00:20:59,860 --> 00:21:01,499
to send us to The Bad Place.
488
00:21:01,500 --> 00:21:04,699
They can't. Because we're already here.
489
00:21:04,700 --> 00:21:06,529
This is The Bad Place."
490
00:21:06,530 --> 00:21:08,239
Oh!
491
00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:10,596
Once we found out, it was, like,
492
00:21:10,597 --> 00:21:12,659
mind-blowing for all of us.
493
00:21:12,660 --> 00:21:14,139
We're not stupid people,
494
00:21:14,140 --> 00:21:16,019
but we never saw that ending coming,
495
00:21:16,020 --> 00:21:17,409
and to be honest, nor did anyone else.
496
00:21:17,410 --> 00:21:20,174
I think there was one person
on Reddit who figured it out
497
00:21:20,175 --> 00:21:22,349
in the whole world, but no one else,
498
00:21:22,350 --> 00:21:23,719
and I think that's really cool.
499
00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:25,519
And then it hit me.
500
00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:27,719
They're never going to call a train
501
00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:29,769
to take us to The Bad Place.
502
00:21:29,770 --> 00:21:31,219
They can't.
503
00:21:31,220 --> 00:21:33,563
Because we're already here.
504
00:21:34,647 --> 00:21:37,059
A lot of people didn't
know, until the very...
505
00:21:37,060 --> 00:21:40,299
they got that last script,
what was going to happen,
506
00:21:40,300 --> 00:21:43,819
and even then, we didn't really
know until we were on set,
507
00:21:43,820 --> 00:21:46,560
and Ted Danson does that laugh.
508
00:21:46,570 --> 00:21:48,870
This is The Bad Place.
509
00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,560
Oh, man!
510
00:22:03,570 --> 00:22:06,009
I can't believe you figured it out.
511
00:22:08,220 --> 00:22:10,139
Oh, gah!
512
00:22:10,140 --> 00:22:12,435
You ruined everything. You know that?
513
00:22:14,100 --> 00:22:17,520
_
514
00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:21,400
I did teach Ted Danson how to floss.
515
00:22:21,402 --> 00:22:23,199
He needed to know for an episode,
516
00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,909
and he was trying his hardest
to do it on his own,
517
00:22:26,910 --> 00:22:29,279
but he couldn't help but
thrust his hips forward
518
00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:32,639
in a very provocative manner,
and I had to, like, you know,
519
00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,160
sort of make it a little
bit more G-rated for him,
520
00:22:35,170 --> 00:22:37,239
and he would just, you
know, lateral movement,
521
00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:39,040
just sort of, like, guide
him into that and...
522
00:22:44,170 --> 00:22:45,319
Coming up...
523
00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,000
Don't put me behind a bar, please.
524
00:22:48,620 --> 00:22:51,389
I ate stage blood and some foam.
525
00:22:51,390 --> 00:22:55,359
Some of the parts of the fake
people flew into my mouth!
526
00:22:55,360 --> 00:22:58,970
... when "The Paley Center Salutes
'The Good Place'" returns.
527
00:23:07,115 --> 00:23:08,259
Why don't we take a look at some things
528
00:23:08,260 --> 00:23:10,709
that most people don't get to see?
529
00:23:10,710 --> 00:23:13,849
Each and every morning, we start
in the hair and makeup trailer.
530
00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:18,939
- Oh, look, it's D'Arcy Carden...
- Oh, hello!
531
00:23:18,940 --> 00:23:22,259
- ... in the makeup trailer.
- Marc Evan Jackson.
532
00:23:22,260 --> 00:23:23,729
- How are you?
- My, my, my.
533
00:23:23,730 --> 00:23:25,440
- My, my, my. Hi.
- Hi.
534
00:23:25,490 --> 00:23:28,379
Let's talk about the hair and
makeup trailer a little bit.
535
00:23:28,380 --> 00:23:30,919
It's probably the first place
that you'll meet a guest star.
536
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:31,931
It's the first place I met you.
537
00:23:31,932 --> 00:23:33,279
- It's about friendship.
- True.
538
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:35,779
It's about running your lines,
getting ready for the day,
539
00:23:35,780 --> 00:23:36,919
preparing as an actor.
540
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:38,229
Hearing any hot gossip from yesterday...
541
00:23:38,230 --> 00:23:40,849
Gossip, oh. And the day before.
542
00:23:40,850 --> 00:23:42,119
It's hair and makeup that are the ones,
543
00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:44,579
makeup specifically, that
will come to you and say,
544
00:23:44,580 --> 00:23:46,959
"You have a booger in your nose,
and we can see it on camera.
545
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,060
I'm going to use this Q-tip
to get it from you."
546
00:23:49,070 --> 00:23:51,099
- Never happened to me.
- Never happened to me!
547
00:23:51,100 --> 00:23:52,320
- But it is...
- I've read about it.
548
00:23:52,327 --> 00:23:55,959
One time, Autumn, our makeup,
she put a mask on me, like,
549
00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:58,460
a nice cleansing mask, and it was white,
550
00:23:58,470 --> 00:24:00,205
and she... and there was...
551
00:24:00,206 --> 00:24:02,239
When we walked out of the trailer,
552
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:05,499
there just happened to be
the entire studio audience
553
00:24:05,500 --> 00:24:08,639
of "Family Feud" out there,
just in line, waiting to go in.
554
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:10,669
- Because Hollywood is weird.
- Right. Hollywood is weird.
555
00:24:10,670 --> 00:24:11,859
- You drove home in a mask?
- Yeah.
556
00:24:11,860 --> 00:24:14,139
- What if you got pulled over?
- I would just be like,
557
00:24:14,140 --> 00:24:17,517
"Hollywood, baby. You know me. Janet!"
558
00:24:17,518 --> 00:24:19,949
What takes longer? Becoming
Janet or becoming Bad Janet?
559
00:24:19,950 --> 00:24:21,809
- Oh, that's a great question.
- Thank you.
560
00:24:21,810 --> 00:24:23,858
Becoming Bad Janet takes longer.
561
00:24:23,859 --> 00:24:27,339
Bad Janet, uh, where
is the nearest café?
562
00:24:27,340 --> 00:24:29,299
Oh, um, that's a good question.
563
00:24:29,300 --> 00:24:33,158
It's up your mom's butt, you fat dink.
564
00:24:33,159 --> 00:24:35,559
The hair and makeup
trailer is very special,
565
00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:38,538
a big part of being an actor
in television or movies.
566
00:24:38,539 --> 00:24:42,039
And thank you for visiting.
567
00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,379
- Thank you, D'Arcy.
- Thank you, Marc.
568
00:24:44,380 --> 00:24:45,719
And now there's nothing you don't know
569
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:47,419
about hair and makeup.
570
00:24:47,420 --> 00:24:50,460
_
571
00:24:50,470 --> 00:24:53,553
Sounds like you had a pretty crazy year.
572
00:24:53,554 --> 00:24:55,509
- Hmm.
- Want to talk about it?
573
00:24:55,510 --> 00:24:57,479
When I did "Cheers," it took me a while
574
00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:01,219
to be comfortable playing that part.
575
00:25:01,220 --> 00:25:03,980
You know, never hang out in bars.
576
00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:07,539
If a woman kissed me, we got married.
577
00:25:07,540 --> 00:25:09,109
You know, I was that guy.
578
00:25:09,110 --> 00:25:12,679
That is the plot to the
movie "Kangaroo Jack."
579
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:15,699
- Why did I tell you that?
- It's unclear.
580
00:25:15,700 --> 00:25:19,913
So going back, standing behind
a bar, is my nightmare.
581
00:25:19,914 --> 00:25:24,001
It was like... I was all
thumbs and sweaty and nervous.
582
00:25:24,002 --> 00:25:27,289
And don't put me behind a bar, please.
583
00:25:27,290 --> 00:25:29,632
- What do I owe ya?
- The real question, Eleanor,
584
00:25:31,220 --> 00:25:32,719
is, what do we owe to each other?
585
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,219
What? Did I sell you a drink?
586
00:25:36,220 --> 00:25:38,340
Am I a bartender?
587
00:25:38,349 --> 00:25:40,100
Drinks are on me.
588
00:25:40,101 --> 00:25:43,099
_
589
00:25:43,100 --> 00:25:46,099
If you're doing a TV show
about moral philosophy,
590
00:25:46,100 --> 00:25:48,899
it's kind of like you got
to go all-in, right?
591
00:25:48,900 --> 00:25:51,446
Who died and left Aristotle
in charge of ethics?
592
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:54,114
Plato.
593
00:25:54,115 --> 00:25:56,139
As far as philosophy and ethics,
594
00:25:56,140 --> 00:25:58,479
the writers usually call
me into the writers' room
595
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:00,439
and just say, like, "Tell
us everything you know,"
596
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:02,289
and I teach them all about it.
597
00:26:02,290 --> 00:26:03,439
I will try to help you.
598
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,419
I am going to need some
time to read every book
599
00:26:06,420 --> 00:26:08,599
ever written about human psychotherapy.
600
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:10,673
And now I've done that, so let's begin.
601
00:26:10,674 --> 00:26:14,679
Okay. So I haven't
read any of the books,
602
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:16,840
or I don't really know who
all the philosophers are.
603
00:26:16,846 --> 00:26:20,265
I did try to read one
book, and it was hard.
604
00:26:20,266 --> 00:26:22,933
This is the Mike Schur part that I love.
605
00:26:22,934 --> 00:26:27,065
They have, like, three ethics
professors on speed dial.
606
00:26:28,066 --> 00:26:30,979
I am here to learn about ethnics.
607
00:26:30,980 --> 00:26:32,959
Well, Mike Schur had
specifically asked me
608
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:35,406
to come and speak to them
about the trolley problem
609
00:26:35,407 --> 00:26:39,059
that intuitively makes people realize
610
00:26:39,060 --> 00:26:41,939
that their own moral sense or intuitions
611
00:26:41,940 --> 00:26:44,873
are in conflict with one another.
612
00:26:44,874 --> 00:26:46,449
We are going to tackle
613
00:26:46,450 --> 00:26:49,359
one of the most famous ethical dilemmas:
614
00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:51,000
the trolley problem.
615
00:26:51,005 --> 00:26:53,256
Is this a game?!
I go first! I call blue!
616
00:26:53,257 --> 00:26:56,010
There's no... No. This is... No.
617
00:26:56,030 --> 00:26:59,100
This is a thought
experiment first introduced
618
00:26:59,110 --> 00:27:03,141
by British philosopher
Philippa Foot in 1967.
619
00:27:03,142 --> 00:27:05,239
You're on a trolley.
620
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:09,022
You're headed for a group
of, say, five people.
621
00:27:09,023 --> 00:27:12,151
If you can pull the lever,
you only hit one person.
622
00:27:12,152 --> 00:27:13,899
I'm trying to explain this to the class.
623
00:27:13,900 --> 00:27:15,139
Michael thinks it would be funny
624
00:27:15,140 --> 00:27:19,239
to actually make it
very real and visceral.
625
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:23,359
Maybe there's a more concrete approach.
626
00:27:23,360 --> 00:27:25,539
Here. Let's try this.
627
00:27:26,740 --> 00:27:30,369
Oh, God! Michael, what did you do?!
628
00:27:30,370 --> 00:27:32,699
I made the trolley problem real
629
00:27:32,700 --> 00:27:35,799
so we could see how the ethics
would actually play out!
630
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,844
There are five workers on this
track and one over there.
631
00:27:38,845 --> 00:27:42,139
Here are the levers to switch
the tracks. Make a choice.
632
00:27:42,140 --> 00:27:43,640
The thing is, I mean,
ethically speaking...
633
00:27:43,650 --> 00:27:45,142
No time, dude! Make a decision!
634
00:27:45,143 --> 00:27:47,039
Well, it's tricky! I mean,
on the one hand,
635
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,630
if you ascribe to a purely
utilitarian world, you...
636
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:58,900
Okay. So... what did we learn?
637
00:27:59,900 --> 00:28:02,940
To shoot this, we had a trolley,
638
00:28:02,950 --> 00:28:05,913
and it was attached to a truck
639
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:10,000
upon which was mounted a blood cannon.
640
00:28:10,001 --> 00:28:13,503
Wait! Ohh! Oh, my God!
641
00:28:14,790 --> 00:28:18,879
The blood came out of the
cannon with such velocity
642
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,303
that I ate stage blood and some foam.
643
00:28:21,304 --> 00:28:22,549
It's just a simulation.
644
00:28:22,550 --> 00:28:24,848
I would never make you kill real people.
645
00:28:24,849 --> 00:28:27,889
Oh, well, that's reassuring
because some of the parts
646
00:28:27,890 --> 00:28:31,396
of the fake people flew into my mouth!
647
00:28:31,397 --> 00:28:33,429
I think that these ideas
from philosophy give us
648
00:28:33,430 --> 00:28:37,277
a very clear, very academic,
very quantifiable backbone
649
00:28:37,278 --> 00:28:41,072
on which to sort of base our
comedy and our arguments.
650
00:28:41,073 --> 00:28:44,534
The basis of this whole
show is this points system,
651
00:28:44,535 --> 00:28:47,499
and eventually, in season
three, it's revealed,
652
00:28:47,500 --> 00:28:49,989
like, it's screwed up
in a very specific way.
653
00:28:49,990 --> 00:28:52,799
Life now is so complicated.
654
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:57,249
It's impossible for anyone to be
good enough for The Good Place.
655
00:28:57,250 --> 00:29:00,760
Your big revelation is
"Life is complicated"?
656
00:29:00,770 --> 00:29:02,261
That's not a revelation.
657
00:29:02,262 --> 00:29:04,930
That's a divorced woman's throw pillow.
658
00:29:04,931 --> 00:29:06,429
What else you got?
659
00:29:06,430 --> 00:29:09,469
_
660
00:29:09,470 --> 00:29:11,640
It had so many guest stars
who were so phenomenal.
661
00:29:11,650 --> 00:29:13,499
Like, we had Stephen Merchant,
662
00:29:13,500 --> 00:29:15,565
who, in England,
is our national treasure.
663
00:29:15,566 --> 00:29:17,499
Gotta run. We're having a little thing
664
00:29:17,500 --> 00:29:19,620
in the break room for
Marisol's birthday.
665
00:29:19,630 --> 00:29:22,359
She's turning 39 million. Again.
666
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:23,849
Don't think I've ever
been creepier with anyone
667
00:29:23,850 --> 00:29:26,179
than I was with Maya Rudolph.
Just followed her around set
668
00:29:26,180 --> 00:29:28,453
just trying to absorb her genius.
669
00:29:28,454 --> 00:29:31,349
Your Honor, please hear our case.
670
00:29:31,350 --> 00:29:32,819
You frankly wouldn't believe
671
00:29:32,820 --> 00:29:35,049
what we've been through
just to be here today.
672
00:29:35,050 --> 00:29:36,839
I mean, I would because
673
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,599
I just learned everything
about you, but keep talking.
674
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:43,499
I am, like, obsessed with your accent.
675
00:29:43,500 --> 00:29:45,499
We have made so much progress,
676
00:29:45,500 --> 00:29:48,599
and all we ask is an audience
with you to prove it.
677
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,059
- Say "aluminum."
- Aluminium.
678
00:29:51,060 --> 00:29:53,603
"Nium"! I love that!
679
00:29:53,604 --> 00:29:56,231
Every single take of hers
is different and unique.
680
00:29:56,232 --> 00:29:58,108
- Idiot says "what."
- What?
681
00:29:59,580 --> 00:30:00,939
Idiot says "hmm."
682
00:30:00,940 --> 00:30:01,949
Hmm?
683
00:30:01,950 --> 00:30:04,948
You heard me. Did I st-st-stutter?
684
00:30:04,949 --> 00:30:07,289
You stuttered the second time, yeah.
685
00:30:07,290 --> 00:30:08,599
The guest stars are amazing.
686
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:12,080
Mike really chose people who had
chemistry on and off-screen.
687
00:30:12,081 --> 00:30:13,559
We got to get back for "The Bachelor."
688
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:15,834
I'm going to be pissed if
I miss the rose ceremony.
689
00:30:15,835 --> 00:30:18,461
And what's the significance
of the key chain?
690
00:30:18,462 --> 00:30:21,715
Nothing. I just like frogs.
I'm a frog guy.
691
00:30:21,716 --> 00:30:24,279
Hi, snail. I don't name them in case
692
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:25,840
they already have a name they prefer.
693
00:30:25,845 --> 00:30:28,469
- Huh.
- Ah! Good-bob!
694
00:30:28,470 --> 00:30:31,099
I hope we same place again very now.
695
00:30:32,220 --> 00:30:34,145
- His brain is wrong.
- Ha-ha!
696
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:37,539
- Coming up...
- The visual effects
697
00:30:37,540 --> 00:30:39,399
on this show is, like,
a huge part of the world.
698
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,479
It really was like on the show.
699
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,987
It devastated me.
700
00:30:43,988 --> 00:30:46,459
It's devastating. You're
devastated right now.
701
00:30:46,460 --> 00:30:50,270
... when "The Paley Center Salutes
'The Good Place'" returns.
702
00:30:55,940 --> 00:30:58,089
_
703
00:30:58,090 --> 00:30:59,669
One of the writers on the show,
704
00:30:59,670 --> 00:31:02,979
the genius Jen Statsky, who
also is one of my best friends,
705
00:31:02,980 --> 00:31:05,109
we went to a Beyoncé concert.
706
00:31:05,110 --> 00:31:09,209
It was during the writing
process of season one,
707
00:31:09,210 --> 00:31:10,839
and we were enjoying ourselves,
708
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:12,819
and so was everybody else in the stadium
709
00:31:12,820 --> 00:31:14,159
except for the one guy next to us,
710
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:15,810
who was really not having a good time,
711
00:31:15,811 --> 00:31:18,099
and we sort of gently said, "You know,
712
00:31:18,100 --> 00:31:20,779
if you're not enjoying yourself,
you should just, like, go.
713
00:31:20,780 --> 00:31:24,939
Just go." And he looked at me,
and he really took me in.
714
00:31:24,940 --> 00:31:29,029
He looked me up and down and
just went, "You're basic."
715
00:31:29,030 --> 00:31:31,679
And it really was like on the show.
716
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,239
It devastated me.
717
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,199
Face it, dude! I'm the best thing
that ever happened to you.
718
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,335
Because guess what, Chidi. Ya basic!
719
00:31:40,336 --> 00:31:42,459
- Eleanor.
- Yeah, I know.
720
00:31:42,460 --> 00:31:44,999
You want to do that thing where
we're arguing and fighting,
721
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,079
but then suddenly it's
like, "Whoa, this is hot,"
722
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:48,139
and we start making out.
723
00:31:48,140 --> 00:31:50,679
Dream on! Or whatever.
Fine. Let's just do it.
724
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,799
Eleanor likes to get to
the point real quick.
725
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:55,659
She likes to cut to the chase,
726
00:31:55,660 --> 00:31:58,959
and she likes to cut hard and deep.
727
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:03,499
And "ya basic" just
sums up Eleanor's way
728
00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:06,419
of saying, "I'm better than you,"
729
00:32:06,420 --> 00:32:11,069
which is a feeling that she has
to hang onto in order to survive
730
00:32:11,070 --> 00:32:13,910
before she starts to evolve as a person.
731
00:32:13,911 --> 00:32:17,163
I am not basic. Ya basic!
732
00:32:17,164 --> 00:32:20,329
No, Mom. Ya basic.
733
00:32:20,330 --> 00:32:22,999
Luckily, we had the last laugh,
734
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,479
and Jen put it in the show,
and now it's a thing
735
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,091
that has been said many times
on this show, which I love.
736
00:32:28,092 --> 00:32:31,345
In the words of one of my
actual friends, ya basic.
737
00:32:31,346 --> 00:32:34,829
It's a human insult. It's devastating.
738
00:32:34,830 --> 00:32:36,517
You're devastated right now.
739
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:40,560
_
740
00:32:40,580 --> 00:32:42,779
The visual effects on the show is,
like, a huge part of the world.
741
00:32:42,780 --> 00:32:44,499
The world itself is magical.
742
00:32:44,500 --> 00:32:45,840
- Anything can happen.
- Whoo!
743
00:32:45,850 --> 00:32:49,679
And so you need to actually
have that represented.
744
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,199
We hired this guy named David Niednagel,
745
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:56,419
who has been our sort
of in-house effects guy
746
00:32:56,420 --> 00:32:58,869
supervisor designer everything.
747
00:32:58,870 --> 00:33:00,470
The first episode was very difficult
748
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:02,629
because you didn't know what it
was supposed to be, you know?
749
00:33:02,630 --> 00:33:05,460
Like, you're just kind of handed
a script, and you didn't know
750
00:33:05,470 --> 00:33:08,506
what the whole vibe of
the whole show was.
751
00:33:08,507 --> 00:33:10,592
Pretty much everything was very bizarre.
752
00:33:10,593 --> 00:33:12,465
You had flying shrimp and a giant frog
753
00:33:12,466 --> 00:33:14,620
eating shrimp out of the sky.
754
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:19,419
And a giant ladybug cruising
through the neighborhood,
755
00:33:19,420 --> 00:33:22,099
and people were jumping out of the way.
756
00:33:22,100 --> 00:33:24,440
Kicking a puppy into the sun.
757
00:33:28,740 --> 00:33:31,319
There were so many weird,
bizarre things that,
758
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,820
after doing the pilot, it
became very obvious, like,
759
00:33:33,824 --> 00:33:36,034
"Oh, this is what 'The Good Place' is."
760
00:33:36,035 --> 00:33:39,259
For every episode, we'd try
to put things into the plot
761
00:33:39,260 --> 00:33:41,160
that could not be in any other show,
762
00:33:41,170 --> 00:33:44,043
whether that's a giant ladybug or, like,
763
00:33:44,060 --> 00:33:47,739
a sinkhole opening up magically
in the middle of dinner.
764
00:33:47,740 --> 00:33:50,279
We wanted to, like, fully take advantage
765
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,459
of everything the world
we'd set it in offered.
766
00:33:53,460 --> 00:33:55,721
Nuts. Thank you. Oh!
767
00:33:56,810 --> 00:34:02,239
David Niednagel is our guy
who is a one-man band.
768
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:06,479
He literally does 95% of
everything that we shoot,
769
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:08,059
and he practices at home.
770
00:34:08,060 --> 00:34:09,984
You'll have to get him to show...
771
00:34:09,985 --> 00:34:11,689
Oh, I hope you can include it.
772
00:34:11,690 --> 00:34:14,329
His kids are his, like, you know,
773
00:34:14,330 --> 00:34:16,449
stand-ins for the real thing.
774
00:34:16,450 --> 00:34:21,719
He'll show us the renderings
of the visual-effects moments,
775
00:34:21,720 --> 00:34:24,040
and his kids will be
doing it, and it's...
776
00:34:24,041 --> 00:34:25,875
They're... And they're adorable.
777
00:34:32,550 --> 00:34:34,919
So he always comes in and
says to the actors and says,
778
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,302
"Here's what it's going to look like.
779
00:34:37,303 --> 00:34:40,219
I know you're just going to
open your mouth right now
780
00:34:40,220 --> 00:34:41,739
and pretend pennies are coming out,
781
00:34:41,740 --> 00:34:43,079
but this is what it'll look like."
782
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:44,599
It's just astounding.
783
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:53,139
Ahh...
784
00:34:56,570 --> 00:34:59,459
I think this show is
pretty demanding for me,
785
00:34:59,460 --> 00:35:01,269
and so it's nice that I
can kind of combine that
786
00:35:01,270 --> 00:35:03,959
with my family life and
just have my kids,
787
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:05,582
you know, helping me out,
788
00:35:05,583 --> 00:35:08,379
and it's something that I think
we'll look back at for years,
789
00:35:08,380 --> 00:35:11,519
and it's nice to see the
clip of what we did,
790
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,048
you know, as a family next
to what was on the show.
791
00:35:16,750 --> 00:35:18,019
All right. Good.
792
00:35:18,020 --> 00:35:19,589
My favorite joke in the visual effects?
793
00:35:19,590 --> 00:35:21,223
I really like the lava monster.
794
00:35:21,224 --> 00:35:23,499
We're goin' streaking!
795
00:35:23,500 --> 00:35:24,809
Aaah!
796
00:35:24,810 --> 00:35:28,299
It wasn't planned in the script.
We kind of showed up,
797
00:35:28,300 --> 00:35:31,060
and Mike and Drew Goddard,
798
00:35:31,066 --> 00:35:32,326
they're like, "Hey, we got an idea.
799
00:35:32,327 --> 00:35:33,739
We want this lava monster to come in."
800
00:35:33,740 --> 00:35:35,359
And I'm like, "All right. Well,
that's a little bit bigger
801
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:37,689
than what we were planning,
but we'll see what we can do."
802
00:35:37,690 --> 00:35:41,299
- Got a light?
- Uh, yeah, obviously, I have a light.
803
00:35:41,300 --> 00:35:43,449
You know, you guys aren't
supposed to be smoking.
804
00:35:43,450 --> 00:35:45,179
You're supposed to keep
your human suit on.
805
00:35:45,180 --> 00:35:47,248
Those suits are really itchy for us.
806
00:35:47,249 --> 00:35:48,899
And Joe Mande was on set that day,
807
00:35:48,900 --> 00:35:53,039
so we had Joe Mande dress
in the green-screen suit.
808
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:54,465
Hey, Todd, got a light?
809
00:35:54,470 --> 00:35:57,379
Uh, yeah, obviously, I have a light.
810
00:35:57,380 --> 00:35:59,511
You know, you guys aren't
supposed to be smoking.
811
00:35:59,512 --> 00:36:01,019
It was completely unnecessary,
812
00:36:01,020 --> 00:36:02,799
and so it was fun just
to see him do that,
813
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:04,179
and we got him to do it another time,
814
00:36:04,180 --> 00:36:05,659
but I think after that, he figured out
815
00:36:05,660 --> 00:36:07,430
that he didn't need to
wear the green suit.
816
00:36:07,436 --> 00:36:09,729
Uh. Oh, sorry.
817
00:36:09,730 --> 00:36:12,106
I thought we reserved
the conference room.
818
00:36:12,107 --> 00:36:13,900
No, Todd. We have it until 3:00.
819
00:36:13,901 --> 00:36:15,859
Sorry. Sorry, everyone.
820
00:36:15,860 --> 00:36:17,237
It wasn't necessary.
821
00:36:18,050 --> 00:36:23,199
Niednagel is just constantly
making our imaginations
822
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:24,799
come to life over and over again,
823
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,889
and we genuinely cannot
make the show without him.
824
00:36:27,890 --> 00:36:32,619
- Coming up...
- Season four is just lovely.
825
00:36:32,620 --> 00:36:35,712
I had a lot of fun directing.
I had more fun than I thought.
826
00:36:35,713 --> 00:36:37,999
- So you're in my shot.
- Then they'll have to use mine.
827
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:44,790
... when "The Paley Center Salutes
'The Good Place'" returns.
828
00:36:55,490 --> 00:36:57,299
And now we're inside the actual engine
829
00:36:57,300 --> 00:37:00,029
of any motion-picture operation.
We're at Craft Service.
830
00:37:00,030 --> 00:37:02,629
This is the first team
PA, Johnathon Johnson.
831
00:37:02,630 --> 00:37:04,829
- "First Team" is code for what?
- Cast.
832
00:37:04,830 --> 00:37:07,578
That's right.
You babysit us, I feel like?
833
00:37:07,579 --> 00:37:10,199
I would say it's more like
shepherding and corralling.
834
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:12,459
- Babysitting. Got it.
- Babysitting is a bit demeaning.
835
00:37:12,460 --> 00:37:13,859
Sure. Yeah. But accurate?
836
00:37:13,860 --> 00:37:15,509
- Eh.
- A little bit.
837
00:37:15,510 --> 00:37:17,079
What's available on this table?
838
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:18,795
- And the answer is everything?
- I mean,
839
00:37:18,796 --> 00:37:21,039
this table specifically, on this show,
840
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:22,469
literally everything.
841
00:37:22,470 --> 00:37:24,519
This is Craft Services.
This is my happy place.
842
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:26,979
- This is the true Good Place.
- This is Max Cohen.
843
00:37:26,980 --> 00:37:28,849
He is the Sustainability PA.
844
00:37:28,850 --> 00:37:31,819
We realized in season three
that we used a shocking
845
00:37:31,820 --> 00:37:34,772
and sad number of water bottles.
How many was that?
846
00:37:34,773 --> 00:37:36,734
Yes. We used 30,000 water bottles.
847
00:37:36,740 --> 00:37:38,399
That's too many. How many
are we using this year?
848
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:39,919
- Zero.
- How do we do that?
849
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:42,029
We have set up water dispensers,
850
00:37:42,030 --> 00:37:44,239
and we've issued everybody
their own bottle.
851
00:37:44,240 --> 00:37:46,639
They can reuse this,
refill it all season,
852
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:47,999
and it cuts down on the waste.
853
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:49,419
30,000 bottles.
854
00:37:49,420 --> 00:37:52,623
"The Good Place" is a very good place.
855
00:37:52,624 --> 00:37:55,001
Are there specific cast members
that have favorite snacks?
856
00:37:55,002 --> 00:37:57,319
- I do know Jameela likes chips.
- Jameela likes chips?
857
00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:59,179
She does like to stop and
grab a bag of chips.
858
00:37:59,180 --> 00:38:01,239
Mm-hmm. Jameela likes snacks.
859
00:38:01,240 --> 00:38:02,739
I'll say it. And I don't
think she'd be...
860
00:38:02,740 --> 00:38:04,010
I don't think she'd argue with me.
861
00:38:04,011 --> 00:38:06,959
These are pancakes stuffed
with meat and cheese
862
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,189
that we then pour oil over,
863
00:38:09,190 --> 00:38:13,619
so, um, at some point, my heart
will probably stop beating,
864
00:38:13,620 --> 00:38:15,359
and it will be because
of "The Good Place,"
865
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:18,639
but when I die, I hope to
end up right back here,
866
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:20,611
in "The Good Place" Craft Services.
867
00:38:20,612 --> 00:38:21,909
Now that you have the munchies,
868
00:38:21,910 --> 00:38:23,739
this has been Craft Service.
869
00:38:23,740 --> 00:38:25,657
Thanks for doing this.
870
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:31,162
_
871
00:38:37,190 --> 00:38:43,340
It feels harder to wrap this
show than most shows I've done
872
00:38:43,350 --> 00:38:47,449
because of...
873
00:38:47,450 --> 00:38:49,699
the family that we've created here
874
00:38:49,700 --> 00:38:51,339
wasn't just a work family.
875
00:38:51,340 --> 00:38:53,559
It was like a family that felt
876
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:57,269
that we were actually doing
something important.
877
00:38:57,270 --> 00:38:59,009
We're obviously not saving lives,
878
00:38:59,010 --> 00:39:00,817
but I think we are affecting people.
879
00:39:00,818 --> 00:39:03,459
Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and
Jason all look at each other
880
00:39:03,460 --> 00:39:05,899
as the clock ticks down,
and we end the show.
881
00:39:09,110 --> 00:39:10,939
You know, I'm sad to be
wrapping up the show,
882
00:39:10,940 --> 00:39:12,200
but it feels right.
883
00:39:12,204 --> 00:39:14,459
We've run out of track,
you know? This is...
884
00:39:14,460 --> 00:39:16,707
You know, this is the story
that we wanted to tell.
885
00:39:16,708 --> 00:39:20,002
It's a very rare thing to be
able to do it exactly the way
886
00:39:20,003 --> 00:39:22,399
you wanted to and end it
exactly the way you wanted to,
887
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:26,419
so I'm trying to focus on the rare joy
888
00:39:26,420 --> 00:39:28,399
of that experience
instead of the sadness
889
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,680
that I feel from the
fact that it's ending.
890
00:39:30,681 --> 00:39:35,643
We have signed up to be
part of Mike Schur's brain,
891
00:39:35,644 --> 00:39:39,049
and I so respect that
he decided to stop it
892
00:39:39,050 --> 00:39:41,819
when he finished the story,
that he didn't pad it
893
00:39:41,820 --> 00:39:46,189
and all of a sudden start
writing, you know,
894
00:39:46,190 --> 00:39:48,299
"And the gang get caught in a snowstorm
895
00:39:48,300 --> 00:39:50,560
and sing a musical," you know?
896
00:39:50,570 --> 00:39:52,489
That there's none of
that, that there is,
897
00:39:52,490 --> 00:39:54,129
"Here is my morality tale.
898
00:39:54,130 --> 00:39:56,529
This is how I think the universe works,
899
00:39:56,530 --> 00:39:59,409
and now it's over."
900
00:39:59,410 --> 00:40:02,479
I hate to see you go,
901
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:06,339
but I love to watch you walk away.
902
00:40:06,340 --> 00:40:08,779
I really needed to hear that. Thanks.
903
00:40:08,780 --> 00:40:10,629
Kristen Bell directed
an episode this season,
904
00:40:10,630 --> 00:40:12,019
and I think people are going
to be really impressed
905
00:40:12,020 --> 00:40:13,339
when they see what she did.
906
00:40:13,340 --> 00:40:15,439
One of the things that
she does as an actor
907
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:17,789
that is remarkable is, she...
908
00:40:17,790 --> 00:40:19,889
I've never seen any other actor do this.
909
00:40:19,890 --> 00:40:21,895
She corrects her own camera blocking.
910
00:40:21,896 --> 00:40:23,899
- Don't lean so far forward.
- Why?
911
00:40:23,900 --> 00:40:25,659
Because I have a camera right there.
912
00:40:25,660 --> 00:40:27,570
- So?
- So you're in my shot.
913
00:40:27,571 --> 00:40:30,197
Then they'll have to use mine.
914
00:40:30,198 --> 00:40:31,759
I had a lot of fun directing.
915
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:34,369
I had more fun than I thought
I was going to have.
916
00:40:34,370 --> 00:40:38,569
I was also really grateful that
I was able to direct this cast
917
00:40:38,570 --> 00:40:41,179
because they're all so perfect
918
00:40:41,180 --> 00:40:43,920
and unique and wonderful
in their own right.
919
00:40:43,921 --> 00:40:47,131
There's something very special
about this particular show,
920
00:40:47,132 --> 00:40:49,884
this particular set,
the crew, the writers,
921
00:40:49,885 --> 00:40:54,847
Mike Schur. It's like a perfect
mix, a perfect little...
922
00:40:54,848 --> 00:40:57,224
It's too dreamy. It's
too good to be true.
923
00:40:57,225 --> 00:40:59,977
It's The Good Place.
924
00:40:59,978 --> 00:41:02,659
All of us felt genuinely a need
925
00:41:02,660 --> 00:41:05,429
to reevaluate our lives
from what happens
926
00:41:05,430 --> 00:41:09,159
at the very end of this
series, and so I'm sorry.
927
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:10,769
That's a frustrating answer
'cause you don't know
928
00:41:10,770 --> 00:41:13,741
what happens, but you will.
929
00:41:13,742 --> 00:41:15,239
The cast and I joke
about it all the time.
930
00:41:15,240 --> 00:41:17,411
It's like, "Does it really
get any better than this?"
931
00:41:17,412 --> 00:41:20,149
It's just such a great family of people
932
00:41:20,150 --> 00:41:22,625
and such a great story to be a part of.
933
00:41:22,626 --> 00:41:24,999
We're planting seeds in people's brains.
934
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,672
We're planting conversations
at dinner tables.
935
00:41:27,673 --> 00:41:29,289
There's a huge demographic
936
00:41:29,290 --> 00:41:30,899
of young people that watch our show.
937
00:41:30,900 --> 00:41:33,844
There's 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12-year-olds
938
00:41:33,845 --> 00:41:36,847
that are watching the show and
digesting philosophy lessons.
939
00:41:36,848 --> 00:41:38,269
But we are talking about decency.
940
00:41:38,270 --> 00:41:40,199
We are talking about what it means
941
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:43,019
to lead a good life,
942
00:41:43,020 --> 00:41:46,219
that there are consequences
to our actions.
943
00:41:46,220 --> 00:41:49,179
There are ripple effects, and
you put out a certain amount
944
00:41:49,180 --> 00:41:51,809
of good or a certain amount
of bad into the universe,
945
00:41:51,810 --> 00:41:54,379
and someone is watching.
946
00:41:54,380 --> 00:41:55,949
I love that.
947
00:41:55,950 --> 00:41:59,940
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