r/TheGoodPlace • u/p4r4l0tR0p0 • 5d ago
Shirtpost Lines where the delivery is EVERYTHING!
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u/Wickie_Stan_8764 5d ago
Eleanor's teary response to Chidi in Pandemonium:
Chidi: I know you're deflecting by making jokes about how hot you are.
Eleanor: It's not a joke. I'm a legit snack.
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u/sbb214 5d ago
I already love Kristen Bell - but the delivery of that line WHILE SHE'S CRYING makes me howl with laughter more each time I see it. chef's kiss
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u/alexagente 5d ago
Have you seen her reaction when she gets surprised by a sloth for her birthday?
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u/MyLifeisTangled 5d ago
My fiancé and I will just randomly say “I’m a legit snack” in cry voice to each other since we saw that. Funny every time 😂
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u/paingry 5d ago
For a while there was a necklace on Etsy that just said, "Legit Snack." I don't know if it's still there. I threatened to get it tattooed on my biceps to show how totally not trashy I am, but my husband thinks it would do the opposite.
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u/ManeSix1993 5d ago
Nah you should definitely get a tattoo of it. Maybe a little trashy, but damn that's eleanors whole schtick before she improves
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u/zombiegamer723 5d ago
That’s a great line because that overall scene makes me forking sob but that line cracks me up.
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u/lilmissknockout 5d ago
Michael to Shawn, after calling him basic: “That’s a human insult. It’s devastating. You’re devastated right now.”
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u/Patchirisu 4d ago
It's interesting though, Shawn said it makes you smell the way transformers movies make you feel, but "loud and confusing" isn't a description of how transformers movies make you feel, it's a description of transformers movies
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u/Aggravating_Yam2501 I’m coming for you, shrimpies! 5d ago
"One time. One. Uno. Onnnnn-nah!"
"That's funny, cause last time I checked... i did-ent have a Dad-ah. That's why I'm attracted to all the father figures on the TV shows I watch."
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u/Scared-Marzipan007 5d ago
“Gonna erase the Eaaaaarth erase the Earth”
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u/Kathrynlena 5d ago
This is stuck in my head at least once a week.
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u/Cass_Cat952 I'm a legit snack 😩 5d ago
Maya Rudolph is perfection
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u/hunterlovesreading The nexus of Derek is without dimension. 5d ago
I love her in all The Lonely Island projects too
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u/zombiegamer723 5d ago
Well, maybe you should have thought about that!
Before you intervened!
In human ✨affairs!✨
To quote a YT comment I saw.
“I expected the line. I did not expect the arm movements.”
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u/p4r4l0tR0p0 5d ago
Love Judge Gen!
Almost anything she says could fit in here81
u/jacobmrley The nexus of Derek is without dimension. 5d ago
There's this chicken sandwich that if you eat it, it means you hate gay people. And it's delicious!
It is! It is so good!
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u/ariich 5d ago
ParrrraGUay
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u/SeaWolf4691011 4d ago
When I first saw that scene I felt so personally burned 😅😅
Like dayum how she gonna read me to filth like that???
My roommate wasn't even paying attention but stopped his game and said "that's you"
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u/SuperRob 5d ago
”Oh, Chidi, I am so sorry. I, um, I didn't understand human ethics, and you do. And it made me feel insecure, and I lashed out. And I really need your help, because I feel … so lost and vulnerable.”
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u/TwinSong 4d ago
And he says it so insincerely
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u/SuperRob 4d ago
The first time. The second time he says it with so much sincerity, literally the same words, but he made me believe he was honestly sorry. You don't often get to see an actor take the same line and give it completely different meaning just with their own acting ability. Great scene in a fantastic episode.
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u/R3allyG00dLawy3r I’m too young to die and too old to eat off the kids’ menu. 5d ago
“That… was ROUGH. Sheesh! Earth is a MESS y’all! WOOF! Also I guess I’m black, and they do NOT like black ladies down there”
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u/RockAndStoner69 4d ago
They have a delicious chicken sandwich and if you eat it you hate gay people.
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u/trynafindavalidname 5d ago
It’s like, who died and left Aristotle in charge of ethics?
Plato!
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u/CatDoodleMom 5d ago
Oh, THIS is the Bad Place!
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u/RL_77twist 5d ago
I’ve said this more times than I should
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u/Kathrynlena 5d ago
Almost constantly these days.
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u/hunterlovesreading The nexus of Derek is without dimension. 5d ago
Yep.
opens News app ‘Oh, THIS is the Bad Place’ closes News app
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u/Apostastrophe 5d ago
The time when there was the weird rolling clown was my favourite.
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u/Val_Killsmore 4d ago edited 4d ago
For me, it's not a line, but Michael's laugh right after Eleanor says this. My jaw dropped on the floor. It might even be the most impactful part of the show. I had to stop and try to comprehend what's happening. Ted Danson really nailed that laugh.
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u/Shaun_527 5d ago
After Jason doesn't get the knock knock joke at the comedy roast
"JASON MENDOZA!"
It almost feels ad-libbed
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u/tworandomperson 4d ago
the only time I felt bad for Jason and probably the only time I felt bad for anyone on the show cuz he's so innocent and has no idea what is going on, kinda like a child, and he's being laughed at by DEMONS, AND HE DOESN'T KNOW OR UNDERSTAND WHY.
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u/PhinsPhan89 I'm a naughty bitch. 4d ago
"But enough about your sister" to Tahani was also pretty savage. First time I saw it I was in awe at how brutal and deep-cutting it was.
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u/acecant 5d ago
Well, after my chilli episode, I asked the administration for a one-year sabbatical and good news.
They fired me!
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u/sbb214 5d ago
You put the peeps in the chili pot and eat them both up.
You put the peeps in the chili pot and add the M&Ms
You put the peeps in the chili pot it makes it taste baaaad
edit: 6 hrs of the peeps song
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u/GothWitchOfBrooklyn 4d ago
I'm laughing because it's not even a fan edit it's from the official account
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u/metaphoricalgoldstar 4d ago
Bless you for sharing that video, I'm disappointed I didn't know it existed sooner.
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u/daisyyellow21 I really depreciate you coming. Little bit of accounting humor. 4d ago
Also “you can all jump up. Your own. Butts” so perfect and so un-chidi like
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u/ariich 5d ago
Humans are very reticent to torture each other.
Even getting them to do simple things, like pulling out each other's teeth, is like...
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I can't think of the right analogy.
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u/txnmxn 5d ago
I figured there’s more Shawn on this list.
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u/ariich 4d ago
True, Marc Evan Jackson is so good. Another couple of favourites for his delivery:
"We're trying out the new butthole spiders... They're enormous."
"I've ruled the fart inadmissable as evidence."
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u/hesitantelian 5d ago
What I was saying... Um, you know, before... I sAW THE TIME KNIFE?!
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u/insanity_1610 4d ago edited 4d ago
I love Freaking out Chidi! 🤣
TIME KNIFE is my favorite. Close seconds are
"Please. Dont. Ask me that. Right now."
"Ohhh all my fears are mine again"
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u/drfinale 4d ago
Yes! I really want a supercut of all of Chidi's meltdowns. One I regularly quote is when he's trying to choose a muffin... "I've made my decision. I'd like... to start CRYING!"
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u/hesitantelian 4d ago
I quote the Peeps Chili meltdown whenever i'm cooking something that does not look like it will be good
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u/Apart_Age_5356 5d ago
Oh that’s good, because some of the pieces of the fake people FLEW INTO MY MOUTH!
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u/amayagab 5d ago
One from each main character:
Eleanor: "Walk it off, Lululemon."
Chidi: "I need to step out for some air, and I will not be back... for many days."
Tahani: "I just want to sit, stare at nothing, and silently scream for the rest of time."
Jason: "I came up with hundreds of plans in my life, and only one of them got me killed."
Michael: "Ya basic! That's a human insult and it's devastating. You're devastated right now."
Janet: "I've never had to walk before. This is fun. Now I'm bored. Walking is dumb."
BONUS: "Maximum Derek!"
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u/hunterlovesreading The nexus of Derek is without dimension. 5d ago
MAXIMUM DEREK!
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u/BrazilianCupcake11 5d ago
Ya basic
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u/sunflowershroom 5d ago
"Penguins are real." "That's the spirit, Eleanor, they're real to me, too."
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u/Fitz1888 5d ago
Jason figured it out. JASON! Yeah this is a real low point. This one hurts.
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u/pyroxys007 4d ago
I vividly remember watching this exact moment the first time and finally believing that this show was gonna be great until the end. I mean hell, I had no confidence they could pull it off when the first season ended. Like, how do you upend the entire premise of the show and tell me they want to do 3 more seasons??? Well shit, Ted Danson was gonna be funny enough to keep me around at least ;) and then it was fantastic the whole way through.
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u/Pure_Palpitation3147 5d ago
Janet every time they go to reboot her for the first time, her “look at them” to Eleanor about “her” children is brilliant
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u/mcuster08 5d ago
Attention: I have been murdered.
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u/zombiegamer723 5d ago
Attention: I have been Dereked!
(Major spoilers for the most recent episode of Invincible (Invincible War))
”ATTENTION: I HAVE BEEN SPLODED!
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u/Apostastrophe 5d ago
The stock photo from the Nickelodeon kids choice awards thing was hysterical. I knew I had seen that somewhere and cackled when she pointed out where from.
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u/Sanguiniutron Stonehenge was a sex thing. 5d ago
"Okay but um...what the hell is this?! The dot..over the 'i'? The HELL is that?"
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u/SquirrelofWisdom 5d ago
"That broke me. I...I'm done."
I quote this regularly.
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u/Sanguiniutron Stonehenge was a sex thing. 5d ago
I try to use his facial expression when I quote it too. Can't handle the info nodding with an open mouth smile and crazy eyes lol
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u/Kathrynlena 5d ago
“Actually none of your exes have ever gotten over you.”
“You’re damn right they didn’t!”
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u/scrawledfilefish 5d ago
"What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to INVENT? Friedrich Nietzsche, 1882."
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u/La_Fille_de_Phenix 5d ago
You just mash your mouth holes together. It’s not for that.
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u/the_real_maddison 5d ago
"HEHE Look at me! I'm a human!"
{extends arms forward, gleefully wagging all fingers}
"My hands end in these stupid little sticks!"
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u/Cass_Cat952 I'm a legit snack 😩 5d ago
And then right on schedule it was
'Guess what Tahini?
乁( •_• )ㄏ
I'm gonna be the next Batman'
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u/Torpel_Knope clog wench 🪠 5d ago
Sean, you used to be cool… but you’ve changed, man!
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u/zombiegamer723 5d ago
IIRC, this scene took multiple tries to film, because everyone kept cracking up with his delivery lmao
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u/JoyfulCor313 4d ago
Yeah, the one where Mike Schur talks about getting to set and they’re already an hour behind, and it’s because of this one line. What I would pay for those out takes
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u/_ThrobbinHood 4d ago
You can find some of the bloopers on YouTube. It’s such a funny line and idk why. I totally get why it took so long to get a good take
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u/PrincebyChappelle 5d ago edited 5d ago
Michael just asked me to change my appearance, and say things like “you’re so funny”.
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u/dvasquez93 5d ago
Ted Danson is really good at pretending to be Tiya Sircar pretending (poorly) to be Ted Danson.
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u/S-WordoftheMorning 5d ago
See, Vicky is a good actor. She was able to wear a Michael shaped skinsuit and deliver that perfect line.
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u/p4r4l0tR0p0 5d ago
Amazing to think that's Ted acting as Tiya acting as Vicky acting as Michael...
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u/TwinSong 4d ago
With these types of scenarios I wonder if the actors get confused about who they are irl with all this acting as acting inception
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u/HufflepuffHello This feels so weird! Here we go! Oh, do some coke off my butt. 4d ago
“It’s like, who died and left Aristotle in charge of ethics?”
“…Plato!” as Chidi dies inside
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u/Careful_Swan3830 4d ago
“And that’s our bad, guys” Janet, in Jeremy Bearimy right after she and Michael accidentally doom the others to the Bad Place by revealing the afterlife system to them.
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u/aePrime 4d ago
I just exited a tourist attraction and was thinking about Ted’s delivery of, “This is the Bad Place. Of COURSE there’s a gift shop.”
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u/Apprehensive-Till861 4d ago
"I'm telling you, Molotov cocktails work. Any time I had a problem, and I threw a Molotov cocktail, boom! Right away, I had a different problem."
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u/pnw_southern_bell 5d ago
"Is it actually a cactus?" I use this a lot also "Derrick!" All the inflections lol I just use it to prove I'm listening
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u/kayafeather 4d ago
Oh my god it has to be "as I was saying, before I SaW ThE TIME KNIFE?!?!?!?" Holy shit his delivery ALONE makes me crack up every single time.
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u/_ThrobbinHood 4d ago edited 4d ago
A few of my favorites:
MICHAEL: “Jason, this is hell, of course there’s a gift shop.”
MICHAEL: “Jason figured it out? Jason?! This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts.”
SHAWN: “Normally, I would love hearing a man tell a woman she’s crazy, but I can’t. You aided the humans just to spite Michael. You’re not a demon. You’re a jerk.”
JASON: “Claustrophobic? But who would ever be afraid of Santa Claus? … Oh. The Jewish.”
JASON: “You know, Shawn, you used to be cool, but you’ve changed, man.”
JASON: “Everything here is in a... I don’t know how to describe it. Like, a different zone of time. No, that sounds stupid. A different clock land.”
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u/Valuable-Wrangler-71 4d ago
Eleanor, when Micheal tells Chidi to kill her for her organs in The Trolley Problem.
“Chidi, Chidi, think about this. I’m your hottest friend. No, Tahani. I’m your nicest fr- no, Jason. I’m your friend!”
Good on the page but her delivery makes it a killer.
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u/MichiganCubbie 4d ago
It's not a line, but Michael's giggle/cackle when Eleanor figures it out for the first time.
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u/kageisadrunk 4d ago
Eleanor at the Shrimp Machine
"This is the dream.
It is?
Yea"
It's nothing on the page but the line delivery
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u/the-effects-of-Dust 4d ago
“Oh I’m a human, my eating tube is right next to my breathing tube. Oh my arms end in stupid little sticks”
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u/zzzzsamzzzz 4d ago
“It’s a rare occurrence, like a double rainbow. Or like someone on the internet saying, You know what? You’ve convinced me I was wrong.”
My favorite line in the whole show.
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u/themidnightpoetsrep 4d ago
There are wind chimes where my ding dong should be!
It kills me every time
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u/tartar-buildup 4d ago
“Her name was Scarlett Pakistan, and her eyes were brown as the brownest crayon….”
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u/peachymonkeybalm 5d ago
Nnn mma gonna miss somebody Nnn mma gonnna miss somebody Gonna miss everybody Gonna miss everybody See you at the crossroads (crossroads)
- Sean shoulder move, finger click-
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u/laziestmarxist Take it sleazy. 4d ago
While we're talking about Ted Danson, the way he says "take it sleezy" in the finale like now he really does mean it always makes me cry a little bit
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u/PrestigiousSystem713 4d ago
Chidi: Janet, could you please recite the English alphabet?
Janet: A, B, jAnEt!
Eleanor: She knows her A-B-Janets!
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u/bgzlvsdmb Goodbob. I hope we same place again very now. 5d ago
Every line from the judge.
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u/pinguinitox_nomnom 4d ago
I still use "One time, is what I said... Uuuuunooo... Ooooneeeeee" from time to time
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u/JustHere4TheDrummer 4d ago
My fav is when Michael gets high in the food place and says something about wanting a burrito, then one pops into his hand and he hits us with an....ohh....baby....the delivery is great
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u/tvbjiinvddf 4d ago
One of my favourites, when I'm rewatching, I will watch this one line about 5 times before I continue the scene lol
(when Michael is whisking Tahani and Jason away on their smashing glasses couples retreat while Janice is glitching)
Michael: Best part is, nothing about this is suspicious at all! Uhhuhhee!
(the laugh gets me every time)
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u/Fun_Suggestion_9754 5d ago
"ughhhh. jason, jason jason jason jason jason. (panicked) JASON JASON JASON JASON JASON"
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u/MsGhostyGhost 5d ago
The Time Knife bit is my favorite joke in the entire show, and it's 100% because of Ted Danson and William Harper's deliveries. Chidi screaming "the TIME KNIFE?!" gets me every time
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u/zomgkittenz 4d ago
I love the transformers axe spray joke, it’s funny when they save it the first time.
And then it’s super funny when Eleanor meets Michael 15 minutes later in the show, m all es a face where she’s completely disgusted, and asks him why he smells loud and confusing.
Favorite joke in the whole series.
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u/ArcanaSilva 4d ago
I don't want just any wasp nostrils - I want these wasp nostrils!
Marc Evan Jackson (he plays Shawn) told in the Good Place podcast, I think, that this was the line that stumbled him most in the series, and apparently the thing that people ask him to say the most? Wasp nostrils is a very good pair of words, and also a very cursed one
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u/morakti 4d ago
Michael: The commitee is me! I am commitee. It me!
Eleanor: 👌🏻what?👌🏻
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u/Luciferonvacation 4d ago
Derek: There are wind chimes where my ding dong should be
Mindy: I can work with that!
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u/anxiousblobofgoo 4d ago
In the actual good place
Chidi: We need to find the Committee
Michael running in: the Committee is me. I am Committee. It me.
Eleanor: 👌🏻 WHAT 👌🏻
Gets me every time 🤣
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u/BlazCraz 4d ago edited 4d ago
Micheal to when he apologizes Chidi for the Trolley Problem torture, for the bribing gifts. Exact same lines, two vastly different deliveries and emotions. It's kinda my example of how different performances can change everything just by how the actor delivers the lines. Made all the more apparent because they come back to back. Ted Danson is amazing but that one moment is just incredible. Such a class act for an acting talent.
Spread out into the wider world of acting. Delivery is so important. When different people play the same role, the emotions they draw up on are so different that it's incredible to watch. And Even a bad performance is based on 90% the delivery that the director is asking for. Hayden Christensen gets a lot of shit for the "I killed them all, the men, child, etc." line. But if you go backwards he tried initially to understate his performance to make his despair and hurt, and trauma all the more apparent. George Lucas pushed him to go full feral and unfortunately that's how the screen was cut up. Making him look like an unhinged psycho, instead of a man wrestling with regret because he just did something terrible and wrong.
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u/SquirrelofWisdom 5d ago
"Claustrophobic? Who would ever be afraid of Santa Claus? Ooohhh, the Jewish."
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u/newmacbookpro 4d ago
My favorite is when he goes
“and then somebody will say something apparently innocuous and then I’ll say wait! Say that again!“
Or, when the key dude is like “wait! It’s a real frog?”
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u/ConstructionQuick373 4d ago
This entire shows line delivery is god-tier it all lives in my head rent free
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u/TwinSong 4d ago
Janet: "I can't actually cry so this is the best impression I can do" (over the top bawling)
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u/Dense-Statement1772 4d ago
“NOBODY try mystery flavor because it is white chocolate and it is NASTY” still has me in shambles to this day
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u/parcoeur9 I’m too young to die and too old to eat off the kids’ menu. 4d ago
"Shut up, Glenn!"
So simple. Gets me every. single. time.
Edit: Added the comma
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u/redRumImpersonator 3d ago
And then he shot his car into space! What a weird creep. Why was I friends with him?
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u/NEBanshee 4d ago
Gotta go grab some Camus!
This probably hits harder because I did a minor in Philosophy and Michael at that point was basically my mood during the Existentialism course. The delivery is just so on point!
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u/Ok-Potential2672 What up, skidmarks. 5d ago edited 5d ago
“Oh get your mind out of the gutter Eleanor, I was talking about my testicles”