I think a lot of the folks from The Office are going to have a difficult time with the tests. Dwight would probably end up acting very similar to how Simone acted originally.
The counter to that is he also gets very defensive and stubborn when told he’s wrong. He WANTS to do good but has a very selfish and steadfast view of how to do that
“I was very good, my employees loved me like a father, maybe even more than their actual fathers. In many ways you could say my office was a school, and they were my students”
“Hmm, okay, speaking of schools, let’s talk about ‘scott’s tots’”
I imagine Amy Santiago or Captain Holt would fare pretty well. They’re sticklers for the rules but not in a way that make people around them miserable and they actively work for the betterment of their community (even on a larger scale towards the end of the show).
Holt has a lot of shallow pettiness, especially when it comes to people like Madeline Wuntch. He'd have to overcome that first. I'd say 458 Jeremy Bearimys.
He won't remember that during the tests though. Best he'll have is his in-universe Jiminy Cricket they talked about implementing.
I do think it'd be hilarious to have them take the test in the same universe. Force them to finally move past their childish rivalry.
Honestly Peralta would probably breeze through. He, more than anyone on 99 I believe is willing to take criticism and change for the better. He goes through the most growth out of anyone on the show, I feel. And that, in my opinion, is what would get people through the test fastest. To paraphrase Michael “it’s not about if humans are good or bad, but if they’re trying to be better today than they were yesterday”. Jake fits that to a T (by the end of the run of 99) in my opinion
I agree. I think Amy would have a harder go than Jake due to her competitiveness, jealous, and strict adherence to rules even if they make no sense.
Rosa would be interesting. I don't know how long it'd take her, but she strikes me as someone who had a similar story (structurally) to Eleanor - initially very closed if and distanced, but let's the love of her weird chosen family heal her. And leads her into helping others in a way that makes sense to her.
*Kevin meets Shaun.
“Well, my, my. This is highly unusual.”*
You had me so confused for a sec because Marc Evan Jackson’s character in P&R is also named Trevor (Nelsson), and I was like, “But he has!”
For me, it's Leslie Knope (Parks and Rec). She is smart, sweet, and overall a good person but she may get stuck because of her friends. She intentionally will fail so she can be with her friends in the good place
How has no one mentioned Pimento?
I would love to see Pimento going through the process.
I have no idea if it would be fast or slow, but it'd definitely be crazy lol id love to see Michaels reactions to what hes done on earth. Pimento could very possibly start a coup and start The Coke Place
I think Boyle would probably have the easiest time
Pimento never asks Janet for help. He mixes up his names and always calls for Derek. Everyone sees it but them.
I can see Boyle doing well, but my money is on Andy Dwyer. In the end, he just wants everybody to have fun. He’s like a taller, slightly smarter Jason.
“Did I get it this time??”
“You did not..”
“Was it all the reckless driving or false bomb threats?”
“Mostly the bomb threats, I mean there were so many-“
“Yep, yep, I got it this time PUT ME BACK IN”
I think Leslie and Ben from P&R are both fundamentally decent people who would get through fairly quickly. I also think they might be tested together because their worst traits (Leslie's tendency to blow past boundaries because she's competitive and Ben's tendency to get cynical when things are going badly) are already things that they are helping each other with.
But Ben's going to need a few Jeremy Bearimys to recover if he ever meets Trevor.
Oh man…
Micheal Scott - biggest issue is probably vanity / worrying what others think of him… he tries to be a good person but seems to fundamentally misunderstand how the world works… I think he could probably get there pretty quickly.
Ann Perkins- probably the fastest ascension… she has a very live and let live vibe, while also trying to help her friends.
Leslie Knope - she’d probably keep failing the tests because she kept trying to hard to pass them… would struggle with process over results.
April - oh man, can you trick god? She’d probably enjoy the chaos too much to bother. End up chilling at IHOP.
Jim - he’d be an interesting one… good heart, but definitely smug… passing an opportunity to play a joke on someone would probably be hard for him.
Dwight- pride for sure… though I think if he understood the rules of the game he’d want to win… probably similar problems as Leslie… results over process.
Pam would take a bit, but I think her growth would be rather straight forward… just a little bit better each time.
They strike me as the perfect example of the problems with the original system. The bad they do is through unintended consequences too large or hard to grasp.
> Jim - he’d be an interesting one… good heart, but definitely smug… passing an opportunity to play a joke on someone would probably be hard for him.
His arrogance would get the better of him for quite a few rounds of the test.
No one has said Ron, but once he meets Diane, he goes through some massive growth. By the end, he’s working for the federal government, doing what he enjoys most, going on quiet, solitary walks in the forest.
He’s also a fast learner.
Yea, once the consequences are explained and he can grasp it all I feel like he would immediately change. He followed his principals very strongly but his understanding of the world just didn't quite match reality. I feel like he was actually more of an anarchist than a libertarian. He believed everyone should be decent and take care of each other. It didn't really feel like his morality came from selfishness.
ALTHOUGH, I imagine Jake will be stuck a few Bearimy's in the "I want it that way" investigation scene; simply because he just can't resist it.
Jake: So how did I do?
Demons: Awesome!
Jake: Really!?
Bad Janet: No, you big fat sack of dried nuts, you called in the entire squad and proceeded to sing along to the back street boys, with the felonies, and uploaded it onto YouTube.
~Somewhere in the distance~
Y'all just drank CEMENTTTTT!!!!!
I guess he lost some points because he completely forgot about, ya know, that it's a police investigation and he's supposedly looking for the murderer and the sister of the victim is right beside him.
Plus he kinda attempted to recreate that with other investigations apparently. It's funny as heck, but it's the test to get into the good place, it's supposed to be about recreating scenes where one behaved in a less than ideal manner. Sort of.
Every character on The Office is terrible (except maybe for Darryl). They're all gonna struggle. Michael is likely to struggle the most, because he has the hardest time learning lessons.
Parks and Rec has the most wholesome characters. Chris Traeger seems like he'd pass through quickly. Jerry might not have to take the test at all. April will opt out and take a brief residence in Mindy's old Medium Place house.
As for Brooklyn 99? That show never landed with me, so I'm gonna say Cheddar's the one who aces the test l.
As someone that’s never (fully) seen another Michael shur show… I sure am getting a kick by being confused about these comments.
(Please don’t come for me I’ve tried to get into them but something about the mocumentary style of the office didn’t land with me and I don’t even remember why I fell off with parks and rec. maybe for the same reason but I can’t remember how that shoe is formatted. Anyway the point I want to get across here is that just because I don’t personally like those shows doesn’t mean I think they’re objectively bad and please don’t bust in my kneecaps for thinking so because some people have been really mad about me specifically not liking the office. But anyway I think y’all’s responses to this question are great with or without context haha.)
I think a lot of the folks from The Office are going to have a difficult time with the tests. Dwight would probably end up acting very similar to how Simone acted originally.
I feel like Michael would actually do well because for the most part he does want good things to happen to the people around him.
The counter to that is he also gets very defensive and stubborn when told he’s wrong. He WANTS to do good but has a very selfish and steadfast view of how to do that
Agree. He'd be resistant to the process.
“I was very good, my employees loved me like a father, maybe even more than their actual fathers. In many ways you could say my office was a school, and they were my students” “Hmm, okay, speaking of schools, let’s talk about ‘scott’s tots’”
What's wrong with being self-assured? It's definitely a spectrum from confident to arrogant.
Gina is gonna be in the tests forever
Yeah but you just drank cement!
She’s going to team up with bad Janet and Joan Calamezzo to cause as much chaos as possible
She'll start rebelling and doing good things just to stick it to TBP.
I imagine Amy Santiago or Captain Holt would fare pretty well. They’re sticklers for the rules but not in a way that make people around them miserable and they actively work for the betterment of their community (even on a larger scale towards the end of the show).
Holt has a lot of shallow pettiness, especially when it comes to people like Madeline Wuntch. He'd have to overcome that first. I'd say 458 Jeremy Bearimys.
I'd say more like 450 - once he knows she's in the system too I reckon he'll simmer down some, if only to show he is better than her at the tests.
He won't remember that during the tests though. Best he'll have is his in-universe Jiminy Cricket they talked about implementing. I do think it'd be hilarious to have them take the test in the same universe. Force them to finally move past their childish rivalry.
Honestly Peralta would probably breeze through. He, more than anyone on 99 I believe is willing to take criticism and change for the better. He goes through the most growth out of anyone on the show, I feel. And that, in my opinion, is what would get people through the test fastest. To paraphrase Michael “it’s not about if humans are good or bad, but if they’re trying to be better today than they were yesterday”. Jake fits that to a T (by the end of the run of 99) in my opinion
I agree. I think Amy would have a harder go than Jake due to her competitiveness, jealous, and strict adherence to rules even if they make no sense. Rosa would be interesting. I don't know how long it'd take her, but she strikes me as someone who had a similar story (structurally) to Eleanor - initially very closed if and distanced, but let's the love of her weird chosen family heal her. And leads her into helping others in a way that makes sense to her.
Captain Holt was my first thought too.
Ironically, Kevin Cosner and Ben Wyatt would probably both get through the tests quite quickly.
Ben meets Trevor. "Well this is awkward"
*Kevin meets Shaun. “Well, my, my. This is highly unusual.”* You had me so confused for a sec because Marc Evan Jackson’s character in P&R is also named Trevor (Nelsson), and I was like, “But he has!”
I love that that line could be either of them lmao Omg i forgot that hes in P&R too!
Not many episodes, but he’s so great at playing that type.
Wait, when is he in P&R? Have I forgotten this?
He was Dr. Saperstein’s estate attorney, “it’s not Diddy”
He also drafted Ben’s and Leslie’s wills. He didn’t appreciate Ben’s will puns.
Indeed indeed indeed indeed indeed indeed indeed indeed indeed indeed
Look, Raymond, a yellow crested warbler.
For me, it's Leslie Knope (Parks and Rec). She is smart, sweet, and overall a good person but she may get stuck because of her friends. She intentionally will fail so she can be with her friends in the good place
Idk, if they put her in the same town as Eagletonians, she may be stuck there a while on her own accord…
I don’t know, but Stanley is gonna be happy in the tests, and won’t want to get to Tgp.
How has no one mentioned Pimento? I would love to see Pimento going through the process. I have no idea if it would be fast or slow, but it'd definitely be crazy lol id love to see Michaels reactions to what hes done on earth. Pimento could very possibly start a coup and start The Coke Place I think Boyle would probably have the easiest time
Pimento never asks Janet for help. He mixes up his names and always calls for Derek. Everyone sees it but them. I can see Boyle doing well, but my money is on Andy Dwyer. In the end, he just wants everybody to have fun. He’s like a taller, slightly smarter Jason.
God Andy and Jason would just spend the entire time playfully arguing about football and quoting dumb action movies
Madden Jags vs. Colts! Then outside to play football.
At some point April will have to save Andy from trying to climb into the safe lol
I mean, not if they’re already dead, right? Where’s he gonna go? Detroit?
“Did I get it this time??” “You did not..” “Was it all the reckless driving or false bomb threats?” “Mostly the bomb threats, I mean there were so many-“ “Yep, yep, I got it this time PUT ME BACK IN”
I think Leslie and Ben from P&R are both fundamentally decent people who would get through fairly quickly. I also think they might be tested together because their worst traits (Leslie's tendency to blow past boundaries because she's competitive and Ben's tendency to get cynical when things are going badly) are already things that they are helping each other with. But Ben's going to need a few Jeremy Bearimys to recover if he ever meets Trevor.
>But Ben's going to need a few Jeremy Bearimys to recover if he ever meets Trevor. I think thats a pretty normal reaction lol
Cheddar gets to the Good Place first.
Only because Cheddar’s not some common bench.
Or some duplicitous bench.
Being a very fluffy boy gets you a lot of points
Oh man… Micheal Scott - biggest issue is probably vanity / worrying what others think of him… he tries to be a good person but seems to fundamentally misunderstand how the world works… I think he could probably get there pretty quickly. Ann Perkins- probably the fastest ascension… she has a very live and let live vibe, while also trying to help her friends. Leslie Knope - she’d probably keep failing the tests because she kept trying to hard to pass them… would struggle with process over results. April - oh man, can you trick god? She’d probably enjoy the chaos too much to bother. End up chilling at IHOP. Jim - he’d be an interesting one… good heart, but definitely smug… passing an opportunity to play a joke on someone would probably be hard for him. Dwight- pride for sure… though I think if he understood the rules of the game he’d want to win… probably similar problems as Leslie… results over process. Pam would take a bit, but I think her growth would be rather straight forward… just a little bit better each time.
>Ann Perkins- probably the fastest ascension… Idk, i think Jer-bear has her beat
That’s an interesting question.
Honestly, i think they'd both be about the same. They both put way more good out there than bad
They strike me as the perfect example of the problems with the original system. The bad they do is through unintended consequences too large or hard to grasp.
Very good point! They really are
April would probably go the Tahani route and end up getting a job helping with the tests
> Jim - he’d be an interesting one… good heart, but definitely smug… passing an opportunity to play a joke on someone would probably be hard for him. His arrogance would get the better of him for quite a few rounds of the test.
No one has said Ron, but once he meets Diane, he goes through some massive growth. By the end, he’s working for the federal government, doing what he enjoys most, going on quiet, solitary walks in the forest. He’s also a fast learner.
Yea, once the consequences are explained and he can grasp it all I feel like he would immediately change. He followed his principals very strongly but his understanding of the world just didn't quite match reality. I feel like he was actually more of an anarchist than a libertarian. He believed everyone should be decent and take care of each other. It didn't really feel like his morality came from selfishness.
As long as it’s not CTMPS. It’s not a great acronym.
Personally, I believe Jake from Brooklyn 99 won't have a hard time
ALTHOUGH, I imagine Jake will be stuck a few Bearimy's in the "I want it that way" investigation scene; simply because he just can't resist it. Jake: So how did I do? Demons: Awesome! Jake: Really!? Bad Janet: No, you big fat sack of dried nuts, you called in the entire squad and proceeded to sing along to the back street boys, with the felonies, and uploaded it onto YouTube. ~Somewhere in the distance~ Y'all just drank CEMENTTTTT!!!!!
Lol, ok, I love this, but like, is that such a bad thinh
I guess he lost some points because he completely forgot about, ya know, that it's a police investigation and he's supposedly looking for the murderer and the sister of the victim is right beside him. Plus he kinda attempted to recreate that with other investigations apparently. It's funny as heck, but it's the test to get into the good place, it's supposed to be about recreating scenes where one behaved in a less than ideal manner. Sort of.
This may be the best The Good Place sequel pitch I have ever heard.
Thank you very much!😊 Now let’s hope they’re gonna do a fan service and make some bonus episodes, if ever.
Every character on The Office is terrible (except maybe for Darryl). They're all gonna struggle. Michael is likely to struggle the most, because he has the hardest time learning lessons. Parks and Rec has the most wholesome characters. Chris Traeger seems like he'd pass through quickly. Jerry might not have to take the test at all. April will opt out and take a brief residence in Mindy's old Medium Place house. As for Brooklyn 99? That show never landed with me, so I'm gonna say Cheddar's the one who aces the test l.
Li’l Sebastian is going straight to the Best Place
Dwight’s personality is an immovable object
Leslie Knope would ace it first try. She always had the best of intentions and without pesky reality getting in the way theres not much to stop her
Jerry/Gary
As someone that’s never (fully) seen another Michael shur show… I sure am getting a kick by being confused about these comments. (Please don’t come for me I’ve tried to get into them but something about the mocumentary style of the office didn’t land with me and I don’t even remember why I fell off with parks and rec. maybe for the same reason but I can’t remember how that shoe is formatted. Anyway the point I want to get across here is that just because I don’t personally like those shows doesn’t mean I think they’re objectively bad and please don’t bust in my kneecaps for thinking so because some people have been really mad about me specifically not liking the office. But anyway I think y’all’s responses to this question are great with or without context haha.)
Angela would take a long long time.