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That was excellent. Epic storyline for South Park, cutting social satire, and a number of really funny lines. They can let this sit or come back to it as they see fit, and there will probably be some fun to be had in the future with Satan being in heaven.

I find it difficult to rank any of them. Several felt just felt incomplete or forgettable. It's easier for me to pair them. Clip Show and Makes Paddy's Great Again were my top two. Both had some real creativity and kept it going to the end. Escapes and Bathroom Problem were solid to me. Formulaic but in a good way. Both were very true to character but also added to them. New Wheels was a notch below - relying on formula but not really delivering. Time's Up and Ladies Reboot were both hitting the same joke heavily: that none of them are self-aware enough to be ashamed of their sexism. Fine individually but repetitive together. Home Alone and Big Game go together narratively but suffered from having to be split. The Charlie parts were stretched out too much and everyone else could have used more time. Also I didn't watch the Super Bowl this year so any work they did to match the story with actual events was wasted on me. However I appreciate the epicness of what they went for. Mac Finds His Pride wasn't an episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I don't know what it was so I can't judge it at all. That doesn't make it bad, it just makes it something else.

She does have that "Go home and stop this, you're awful" message that Kevin liked to deliver. But Kevin was the self-proclaimed expert in all things and Vince is closer than Manjit in that role.

Crickets as food are a tough sell people have been working on for years. But selling it for pets is pretty clever. I liked their pitch a lot. I said that Lane reminded me a bit of former-dragon David. Vince is maybe competing for the Kevin role.

Alright, The Good Place is back! This is the kind of unpredictable supernatural philosophical comedy this season has been missing! And filled with excellent Eleanor/Michael interaction.

So that was hilarious and satirical. Even tops last week in terms of laughs for me.

Well that was an interesting show. I wonder why it was on in the It's Always Sunny timeslot. They clearly worked very hard in every way except getting the cast together in a single scene. And I don't blame Rob for wanting to give Mac a serious plot. But overall it didn't work for me. Frank being weird pulled attention from the serious stuff but wasn't nearly funny enough to carry the episode. I think if they had to do something like this, Charlie would have been a better partner than Frank. He's much better at putting serious emotions in a ridiculous setting and is more likely to pal around with Mac too. No offense to Danny DeVito, but Frank's just not the guy who would get Mac to go for it.

It's one of my favorites too. I never thought of that before but I love your comparison.

I thought cooking pitas over a fire pit was a fun turn at a very non-traditional technical challenge. To test the fundamentals you might as well get truly back to basics. But maybe not for finale week. Still I liked it better than the other two rounds. Congrats to Rahul. I can't say I was rooting for him but I wasn't against him either.

Yay quickfires are back! Surgically implanting a dome in your head to pull the skin back is a new competitor for dumbest pitch they've ever had.

I'm finding it hard to simply enjoy the show when I'm constantly thinking "Where is this going?" That's especially true for this episode, because the podcast indicated that s03e07 would be pivotal. So I kept trying to figure out why. (Which I now guess is because of Eleanor/Chidi.) I don't think it's bad, because I still like all the characters and the plot and dialogue seems consistent for them. But I can't help but feel like overall we're being jerked around a bit. BTW the lack of special effects - something they used to deliberately put in every show to show off the otherworldliness - sort of demonstrates how different the show is now from where it started. I liked the visual joke at the school but it's no herd of galloping giraffes.

Yup, I totally thought that. Nice that they didn't though, and I'm totally game with Mackey getting a bigger role.

Lane's really growing on me. He reminds me a bit of David Chilton in that he's very down-to-earth and ready to speak his mind skeptically, yet also willing to go in on interesting stuff and happy to split deals.

The podcast answered both of these. In S03E01, ‎the writers knew where they were going and Manny Jacinto (Jason) was told, but Mitch Narito (Donkey Doug) was not. Also yes you are right to shudder. According to Mike Schur, it means what you think.

Oh I like that idea. It takes what was hinting at "doesn't exist" to me and makes it more sensible. Then there are complications like @companionenvy points out with Lincoln. But if the actual words were "not in the Bad Place" that's different from "in the Good Place".

Sure, but those aren't examples of people I'd expect to have made it to The Good Place. Everyone considers themself a good person. But someone who was externally validated to have lived selflessly just doesn't seem likely to accept being privileged. I mean consider Fake Eleanor. We know now she was a character, but would someone like that ever rationalize that 95% of humanity deserves torture? One weird theory I haven't vetted is that there is no Good Place. We haven't seen it or met anyone from it. We did see a representative in the Mindy St. Clair explanation (and Mindy herself makes less sense) but that could all be part of an elaborate ruse. The biggest evidence is that Janet exists. And presumably if Michael knew where to get Janet then he must have met good place "angels". But if Janet can be explained then I could imagine it all being a trick that even the demons aren't in on.

That's one of the two things that bugged me since season one. Why would good people not be constantly horrified by the existence of a place full of torture and working to change it? Of course then the twist did pretty much explain it at least for that neighborhood. The other thing is that no one in the afterlife seems very concerned with the people they left on Earth. It seems like "I wonder how friends are doing and if I'll ever see them again is something most people would go through. I understand it's not great for TV but Chidi should have at least once asked about them.

I get that. But he has been pretty minimal in most episodes for the last season and a half so I think it's fair to give him half the plot for this one. On another note, Tahani and Chidi had relationships for the last year but Eleanor is in dire need of one.

The beginning was interesting though. Doing a parody and setting up all the traps was funny. And that had me excited because I thought it would be another creative and detailed episode like "Charlie Work". Then the rest just dragged out in a slow and fairly predictable way. I'm also wondering if at some point they wanted this to go at the beginning of the season. Having the waiter already reference it was weird, and telling us this was 1 year earlier doesn't add any value (yet?). It's very plausible that someone went "Superbowl episode? That's going to save the season. Put it at the end." In which case I'm even more disappointed.

I can't wait to go pitch my app. It rounds up your spending and puts the money toward a subscription box where you leverage group discounts to get interchangeable parts for customizable shoes. It's like Uber for feet! Honestly Bitcoin became such a self-parody I can't out-snark it even with all that. Kevin knows it probably won't go anywhere but I think he didn't want to be the last Shark without a pay-by-mobile app. And then the last pitch went and softened my cynical heart anyway. What really annoys me is that this is exactly the kind of sob story ABC loves and they finally found a case where it was appropriate.

I'd like to take it even one step further: at this point Chidi was actively giving his students bad advice. Yeah, for him he's in a bad spot so nothing matters. But for his students, this was the first time in his life Chidi knew for a fact that good deeds do matter, and yet he told them they don't. Obviously it's quite forgivable because he was having a breakdown after having just received the worst news possible. But in terms of doing good for good's sake, on that one day he was the furthest away of the four.

Just getting into this now so forgive me being late. My instinct is that they don't get a lot of modeling chocolate on this show so that made them an easy audience for it. On another show, say a Food Network endless parade of season baking, I think the decision would have gone a different way.

Nope. He says "Tahani I thought I heard your voice" (which doesn't make sense because she wasn't the one speaking, but I'm nitpicking). Then asks her "Ready to go?" and the episode ends with everyone realizing that they had totally forgotten about him.

The Canadian Senate only voted 56-30, which is plenty of opposition. And of course in the US marijuana is still on Schedule 1 under Federal law. So outdated as it is, we can't be too surprised people are sticking to their old prejudices. When I'm 77 I'll probably have a couple things I'm stubborn about too.

Episode 5, "Up in Smoke" special: I predicted Jim wouldn't be comfortable in a marijuana pitch, but I was a little surprised Vince had the same issue. (not sure why he didn't want in on the impairment detection device though). Amateurish pitches but that's ok - I like the goofy stuff. The voiceovers enjoyed their puns a bit too much, but I admit I did laugh seeing Jim in a gas mask at the end.