Chapter 44: Employee Of The Bearimy is the 5th episode of Season 4 of The Good Place.
Plot[]
Michael and Jason create a plan. Eleanor learns firsthand the difficulties of running the neighborhood.
Summary[]
In the bad place, Vicky (in a Michael suit) is torturing good Janet by discussing actions while Demon Con starts up. Meanwhile, Jason and Michael make it into the Bad Place where, upon learning about Demon Con, decide to sneak in by disguising themselves, although in a somewhat ingenious fashion: Shawn is having Vicky demonstrate the Michael suit disguise, so they pretend Michael is Vicky in a Michael suit and Jason is Glenn in a Jason suit and take the stage. The plan works at first, and only Janet realizes who they are due to Jason prompting her to say "not a girl." However, the plan is complicated when Vicky arrives in the Michael suit. Shawn tries to have Rufus arrest them, only for Michael to explode him into goo using the device Bad Janet made. Michael implores the gathered demons to realize that torture is wrong and humans can get better, as can the demons themselves. Vicky taunts Michael in response, claiming being bad is in his nature as a demon and the only place he really belongs is the Bad Place: she is promptly gooed by Michael, and the three manage to make a clean getaway. On the way back to the Medium Place, Jason and Michael bring Janet up to date on everything that happened while she was gone, with Jason remarking Bad Janet lied that Blake Bortles was cut from the Jacksonville Jaguars. Janet relucantly reveals this was actually true, and that he was replaced by Nick Foles. Jason is ecstatic, as Foles won a Super Bowl, and the three start to celebrate... until Janet receives word that Nick Foles broke his clavicle and is out of the season, much to Jason's misery.
Meanwhile, back in The Medium Place, Derek struggles to keep the neighbourhood and all the Janet babies functioning without Janet. Eleanor and Tahani attempt to corral the four humans, to distract them from the glitching-out neighbourhood. Tahani tries to prove that she can do more than throw parties and convinces Derek to reboot himself, which causes all the Janet babies to collapse. Eleanor reassures Tahani that her skillset is vitally important in their mission.
Cast[]
- Kristen Bell as Eleanor Shellstrop
- William Jackson Harper as Chidi Anagonye
- Jameela Jamil as Tahani Al-Jamil
- D'Arcy Carden as Janet/Bad Janet
- Manny Jacinto as Jason Mendoza
- and Ted Danson as Michael/Vicky as Michael
Recurring Cast
- Marc Evan Jackson as Shawn
- Jason Mantzoukas as Derek
- Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Simone Garnett
- Brandon Scott Jones as John Wheaton
- Ben Koldyke as Brent Norwalk
Guest Starring
- Tiya Sircar as Vicky
Co-Starring
- Patrick Cox as Rufus
- Joe Mande as Toddrick Hemple
- Deb Hiett as Wanda
- Chad Guerrero as Phil
Trivia[]
- The production code number for this episode of The Good Place is #TGP-405.
- Many of the photos displayed on the Employee of the Bearimy wall are also featured in Parks and Rec as the wall of former city council members. Both shows were created/written by Michael Schur.
- The sign at the entrance to the bad place reads "You are now entering the bad place. Population your Mom."
- Shawn, the most evil of demonic torturers in hell, disparagingly refers to the tone-deaf video by Kevin Spacey of Christmas Eve 2018 - since then, two further such self-serving messages have followed, for the 2019 & 2020 festivities.
- The episode's ending gag regarding Nick Foles breaking his clavicle was dubbed in during post-production: the real-life Nick Foles' injury occurred after filming ended.[1]
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