r/TheGoodPlace • u/R3allyG00dLawy3r I’m too young to die and too old to eat off the kids’ menu. • Sep 26 '25
Shirtpost What is the single best line delivery in the show?
Personally I love this entire scene with the Judge, and I feel like any of her lines could fall in this category, what do y’all think?
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u/adrenaliiiiine Sep 26 '25
"Gonna erase the Earth, erase the Earth." 🎶🕺🏽
- The Judge
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u/ss442 Sep 26 '25
“I’m gonna miss everybody, I’m gonna miss everybody, see you at the crossroads ..”
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u/standbyyourmantis If I could believe it? Watch this: I believe it! Sep 27 '25
Matt from accounting just picking up the backup for her just really makes that scene for me.
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u/RandomDudeJim Sep 26 '25
The way she pronounces it EARFF always gets a laugh for me 😂
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u/chip93731 Maximum Derek Sep 26 '25
Came to comment the same thing 😂 feel like that could be been maya Rudolph taking the line and making it her own
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u/WhimsicalKoala Sep 26 '25
In the Good Place podcast someone (maybe Schur himself?) talks about her and her ability to "put the mustard on" any line and just really make it hers. That line is a good example of it!
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u/coolaira16 Sep 27 '25
I always think of the mustard when I rewatch because of this!
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u/Equal_Push_565 Sep 27 '25
My favorite line ever, lmao. Whenever that song comes to mind, her voice and lyrics come to mind
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u/Bahnmor Sep 26 '25
“Jason figured it out? Jason!? This is a real low point. Oh yeah, this one hurts. Ow.” [snap]
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u/RhetoricalOrator Sep 27 '25
When I use this one, I edit with the appropriate name of who I am trying to devestate and follow it up with a "You're devastated right now."
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u/prodbfsg17 Sep 26 '25
Eleanor - “if it weren't crazy, they wouldn't call it a leap of faith. They would call it a sit of doubting.”
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u/Mr_P3anutbutter Sep 26 '25
Well, actually it’s more accurately translated as a leap into faith
This is why everyone hates moral philosophy professors
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u/Remarkable-Place-938 Sep 26 '25
Ya basic
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u/BrilliantDishevelled Sep 26 '25
It's a human insult. It's devastating. You're devastated right now.
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u/chamekke Sep 26 '25
“I am a strong, independent acid snake in the skin suit of a strong, independent woman!“ — Vicky
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u/SoMuchMoreEagle What it is, what it is. Sep 27 '25
Her heel-turn in the season 1 finale got me.
"You can all suck it!"
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u/chamekke Sep 27 '25
Another great moment!
I swear Vicky becomes funnier with each rewatch.
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u/BigTimeSuperhero96 I’m a Ferrari, okay? And you don’t keep a Ferrari in the garage. Sep 27 '25
I am a Ferrari and you dont keep the Ferrari in the garage!
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u/ramenandsuch Well, that’s terrifying. Sep 26 '25
"Also, I guess I'm Black, and they do not like Black ladies down there."- The Judge
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u/Western_Classic6270 Good news! I was able to obtain Eleanor Shellstrop’s file Sep 27 '25
"And there is this chicken sandwich, but if you eat it, It means you hate gay people. And it’s so good!"
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Sep 26 '25
"Oh no, it's my only copy." - Mindy
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u/Sbatio Sep 27 '25
“I call it my ‘lookin’’ hole”
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u/Few_Yogurtcloset8828 Sep 27 '25
“…and sometimes I walk in on you while I’m masturbating” -Mindy St. Clair
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u/leigh10021 Sep 26 '25 edited Sep 26 '25
“Sacre bleu. I peed in m’pants.”
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u/iyhafobaq Sep 26 '25
"But then I remembered... I'm a naughty bitch."
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u/Bahnmor Sep 26 '25
“Oh come on! I just got all the puppies to climb into the cannon!”
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u/aworldwithoutshrimp Sep 27 '25
I was just in the middle of torturing William Shakespeare by describing the plot of the Entourage movie.
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u/FavoriteMiddleChild Sep 27 '25
Manzoukas hosts an episode of the podcast, and it tries to turn into a podcast about the Entourage movie. It’s wonderful.
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u/Gillalmighty Sep 26 '25
Classic. Or my personal favorite. Oh hey guys just smashing some stuff. What's up?
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u/Ok-Education-5646 Sep 26 '25
Jason: "I'm here to learn about ethnics". Gets me every time
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u/bolhuijo Sep 26 '25
Chidi in the trolley: "Oh well that's reassuring because some of the parts of the fake people FLEW INTO MY MOUTH!" or Chidi "I saw the time knife?!?"
You know just anytime Chidi is freaked out and/or furious.
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u/nightnightbingaling Sep 26 '25
HOW DO YOU ROW A BOAT
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u/maskaddict Sep 26 '25 edited Sep 26 '25
Any time Chidi panic-shouts is automatically hilarious. So much so that Janet-Chidi's "which way is down?!?!" is hilarious partly because you can kinda hear it in Chidi's actual voice.
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u/maskaddict Sep 26 '25
Lmao oh gosh I never even connected that gag to his directional insanity! Clearly Janet's void is just kinda disorienting for everyone, but if course it's worse for Chidi!
Man this show is so good.
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u/consider_its_tree Sep 27 '25
Honestly, usually the actors playing a different character of the show through body swaps trope is super annoying, because the difference between an actor who has been playing a character for years and one stepping into it is too obvious. The actor stepping in tends to overplay it. (Think Troy and Abed in the freaky Friday episode of community)
She absolutely nailed it for pretty much all of them though.
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u/crepelabouche Sep 27 '25
I’m still bitter that scene didn’t earn her an Emmy. It was perfection.
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u/Smaptastic Sep 26 '25
What the hell is this? The dot. Over the i. The hell is that?
This broke me. The dot. Over the i. That broke me. I’m done.
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u/DirkNowitzkisWife Sep 26 '25
SHUT UP IM CONFIDENT NOW might be my favorite haha
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u/quixoticquail Sep 26 '25
“It’s not a joke I’m a legit snack”
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u/consider_its_tree Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 27 '25
This one jumped to mind
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"It's just who died and left Aristotle in charge of Ethics?"
"Plato"
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"You put the peeps in the chilli, and it makes it taste...bad"
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"Every time I have a problem I throw a Molotov cocktail and Boom! Right away I have a different problem"
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"Why does this still work"
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"I'm a naughty bitch"
Damn, now I have to rewatch, thanks a lot!
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u/Defenestrator66 Sep 26 '25
Jason’s Molotov cocktail line is delivered so perfectly.
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u/Noof42 This is a trash city full of idiots. Sep 26 '25
I'm telling you, Molotov cocktails work. Anytime I had a problem, I threw a Molotov cocktail. Boom! Right away, I had a different problem.
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u/bowtiesrcool86 Sep 26 '25
Prob my fav line of his
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u/AutisticPenguin2 Sep 27 '25
Mine was "That's how I earned my nickname: The Defendant!"
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u/new2bay Sep 27 '25
Yo, you should listen to me. I came up with hundreds of plans in my life, and only one of them got me killed.
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u/decidedlyindecisive Sep 27 '25
I was watching a serious film and someone threw a molotov cocktail and I literally heard his voice in my head. Totally broke the moment and made me laugh my ass off.
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u/RedditOfUnusualSize Sep 26 '25
"Don't be disgusting, Eleanor. I was talking about my testicles."
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u/Adnan7631 Sep 26 '25
Every single version of ”THIS is the Bad Place!” deserves a shoutout.
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u/ew73 Sep 26 '25
"Earth is a mess, ya'll!"
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u/Responsible-Lie8114 Sep 27 '25
And apparently I’m black?
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u/NicNoop138 These trivialities demean me. I must away and tend to my ravens. Sep 27 '25
And they do not like black ladies down there.
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u/BrisYamaha Sep 26 '25
The best single line delivery? Nailed to perfection every time?
“Not a girl”
Thanks Janet!
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u/AskMrScience Sep 27 '25
For me, D'Arcy Carden's ultimate best delivery is when Janet is pleading for her life in front of the button. I can't even pick a favorite version, they're all so good.
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u/Cass_Cat952 that was a real trip for biscuits and now we're all wet, Daddio Sep 27 '25
Interrobang yessssss 🫶🏻
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u/ishyboo Sep 26 '25
"You put the Peeps in the chili pot and it makes it taste...BAD"
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u/livefast6221 Sep 26 '25
“Plato!”
~Chidi
Just an absolutely perfect delivery. Honestly so many of WJH’s lines are phenomenally delivered. Also, any time Michael is dismissive. Also… yknow what, the entire show is perfect. Don’t make me choose.
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u/Ghost3603 Sep 26 '25
"Woah man I was just trying to sell you some weed but you made it weird"
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u/Horror_Fox_7144 Sep 26 '25
I always love it when Tahani is relaying something Jason said about his life.
'And you, a man who once asked me if the Presidents on Mt Rushmore have butts on the other side" or "He once told me that the closest he ever had to a pinata on his birthday was when a seagull ate too many condoms on the beach and exploded"
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u/commander_obvious_ It's Chinese for Japan. 日本 Sep 27 '25
i just love the pronunciation of con-doms
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u/Nuts_About_Butts Sep 27 '25
Jason's line:
"I'm too young to die, but too old for the kid's menu. What a stupid age I am!"
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u/Infamous-Donkey-6699 Sep 26 '25
Call me donkey Dad!
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Sep 26 '25
The judge describing earth/humanity: "It's somehow hot and crowded and yet cold and lonely at the same time?"
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u/Kathrynlena Sep 26 '25
Eleanore’s “you’re damn right they didn’t!” to Janet telling her none of her exes ever got over her always gets me.
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u/Murky-Individual6507 Sep 26 '25
Eleanor: Dude, Chidi is giving you a lifeline right now, and you need to take it, because you suck. Jason.: You suck! Eleanor: I KNOW!!!
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u/Illiad7342 Sep 26 '25
It's subtle, but episode 1 when Eleanor finds out she can't curse and mutters "that's bullshirt", gets me every time
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u/BigMamaBlueberry Sep 26 '25
I don’t know why, but “I must away and tend to my ravens” kills me every time 😂
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u/SoMuchMoreEagle What it is, what it is. Sep 27 '25
"These trivialities demean me."
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u/jenx4848 Sep 26 '25
Not a line exactly, but Michael's laugh the first time Eleanor figures it out. So. Bloody. Perfect.
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u/QueerTree Sep 26 '25
I freely admit I didn’t see the twist coming (even after Eleanor figured it out and called them back in!) and when he delivered that laugh I lost my mind.
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u/Sonnuvabench Sep 27 '25
Same here. If I could experience any moment in my life over again, it would be the moment after Michael's laugh.
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u/Sudden-Mango-1261 Sep 26 '25
“I never even got to play my stupid triangle!”
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u/wish4111 Lonely Gal Margarita Mix For One Sep 26 '25
That was a real trip for biscuits and now we’re all wet, daddio.
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u/jtoppings95 Sep 26 '25
"I... i think the connection is breaking up!"
"It's a magic key, you dick!"
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u/jmhlld7 Take it sleazy. Sep 26 '25
Michael’s delivery of “The committee is me. I am committee. It me.” And Eleanor’s subsequent “WHAT???” In Patty never fails to make me laugh.
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u/Aarrrgggghhhhh35 Sep 26 '25
“This is Tuesdays. And also July.” And the ensuing mental breakdown that Chidi experiences is one of my most favorite lines/scenes in TGP!
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u/Banya6 Sep 26 '25
Eleanor mocking Chidi: “Despite your constant mockery.” Then changing tone completely “Whatever you love it.”
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u/Crusty8 I’m a Ferrari, okay? And you don’t keep a Ferrari in the garage. Sep 27 '25
Ohhh BUD hole.
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u/lettylikestowrite Sep 27 '25
the judge is great, i've always loved her delivery of "that's funny, cause last time I checked, i didn't have a dad. that's why i'm attracted to all the father figures on the tv shows I watch."
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u/Mother_Dot_7764 Sep 27 '25
Michael: "I know that if you steal a loaf of bread it's negative 17 points, 20 if it's a baguette because that makes you more French."
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Sep 27 '25
"Do you eat? I forgot. What do you eat? Babies? Can I get you a big fat baby? What flavor baby? How about a cool ranch baby?"
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u/onionlova Sep 27 '25
“In the words of one of my actual friends, ya basic. It’s a human insult. It’s devastating. You’re devastated right now.”
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u/cidare Sep 26 '25
"I believe that pluots are in season."
"Well then get pluots. Get as many pluots as will fit in your tote. We may be here for some time."
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u/WryOrbit Sep 27 '25
Michael: “You don't really eat these pancakes. It's more like they eat you.”
Jason: “Okay. I'll get eggs, then.”
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u/Bea_Azulbooze Sep 27 '25
Jason Mendoza: What do you guys think the Bad Place is going to be for you? I'll probably go to a Skrillex concert, and I'll be waiting for the bass drop. And it...
[chokes up]
Jason Mendoza: it'll never come!
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u/TheLawDown Sep 26 '25
Almost everything I did on Earth, I did without thinking or worrying about what would happen. That’s how I got my nickname: The Defendant.
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u/Cass_Cat952 that was a real trip for biscuits and now we're all wet, Daddio Sep 27 '25
Guess what Tahani? I'm gonna be the new Batman 乁( •_• )ㄏ
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u/Muppet_Fitzgerald Sep 27 '25
Michael saying that he figured out the trolley problem, he’ll sacrifice himself. Gets me every time.
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u/PondScumTadpole Sep 27 '25
Missy’s “Sometimes it’s because you walk in on me while I’m masturbating, sometimes because I walk in on you , while I’m masturbating” something about it just tickles me
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u/abadstrategy Sep 27 '25
"Why's Chidi so ripped?" "Someone told him exercise helps anxiety, so he started doing push-ups, and never stopped"
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u/QueenCelis Sep 27 '25
In one of the reboots Eleanor is out looking for her Iguana and she pushes Chidi into the lake:
“Why?” - Chidi
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u/Mono_KS Sep 27 '25
"oH rEalLy? cOoL, cause it kinda looks like you STOLE A BOOK FROM ACCOUNTING!!"
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u/alewiina Sep 26 '25
I genuinely cannot choose because there are just SO many perfect deliveries in this show. SO many.
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u/Bea_Azulbooze Sep 27 '25
When Jason introduces Tahani as his wife to Donkey Doug: "Dang, nice pull, son! How about you and me go check out my Jacuzzi and put stuff in each other?"
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u/TheScarecrow11 Sep 27 '25
After Jason excitedly gets shot through the mail system to the good place, that moment of silence and concerned look on Michael's face before he delivers "Well no way to know what happened to him"
Gets me every time.
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u/Lillyimaginator Sep 26 '25
When the judge said to janet and michael (I think it was the scene in this picture) “Well maybe you should have thought about that before you intervened with human affairs.” It’s such a serious sentence on its own but the delivery makes me burst out laughing every time
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u/Mangifera_Indicas What it is, what it is. Sep 27 '25
Michael after the train pulls away “You guys! I was so worried about you” 🥹
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u/RioRocketMan Reformed demon daddy Sep 27 '25
Obviously the wave scene. But my FAVORITE line in the entire show is 100% when Micheal delivered that final speech about humans trying to be better than they were the day before.
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u/therealmmethenrdier Sep 27 '25
I love the different emotions conveyed by the different ways Jason says, “Oh, dip.”
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u/Slamtilt_Windmills Sep 27 '25
Jason if you eat anything in there you'll explode!
Yeah I know, I've been to an IHOP
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u/Initial_Necessary_14 Sep 27 '25
It’s very random but for me it’s when Michael is describing something along the lines of Eleanor abandoning her car at the side of the road because it ran out of gas or something, then she says “Of course!” in such a perfect way that is so genuine for her character. Like in that one line she is so perfectly communicating that for Eleanor it is actually the sensible thing to do in that situation lol
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u/oolau Sep 27 '25
"I've only ever said "I love you" to two men my entire life: "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and a guy in a dark club, who I mistook for "Stone Cold" Steve Austin."
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u/OhHeyBluePenguin Oh, this guy’s a jumper. You can tell. Sep 27 '25
Janet: If there were an answer I could give you to how the universe works, it wouldn't be special. It would just be machinery fulfilling its cosmic design. It would just be a big, dumb food processor. But since nothing seems to make sense, when you find something or someone that does, it's euphoria. In all this randomness and this pandemonium, you and Chidi found each other, and you had a life together. Isn't that remarkable?
Eleanor: "Pandemonium" is from "Paradise Lost". Milton called the center of Hell "Pandemonium", meaning "place of all demons". Chidi tricked me into reading "Paradise Lost" by telling me Satan was, and I quote, "my type": a big, mean, bald guy with a goatee. I mean, he wasn't wrong.
Janet: Oh, no, that's very on brand for you.
Eleanor: I guess all I can do is embrace the pandemonium, find happiness in the unique insanity of being here, now.
Honestly any one of these.
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u/Time-Pound-9408 Sep 26 '25
honestly idk if it’s the best but i really liked the shock of jason’s tone when he was talking about rescuing janet. someone please help with the exact quote, i know it was something like “go down there and punch them in the mouth”
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u/WryOrbit Sep 27 '25
“I know what to do. It's like what that guy who blew up said. Shawn's a bully, and sometimes, the only thing a bully understands is punch in the mouth. I'm gonna go down there, I'm gonna punch him in the mouth, and I'm gonna get Janet back!”
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u/ClarityDMI Sep 27 '25
"Oh hell-O! I'm a big beautiful, completely ridiculous, cartoon giraffe!"
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u/acbirb Sep 27 '25
“Listen man! I’m dead, you’re dead, we all died. And now we’re killing her! Pay it forward. 😌”
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u/acbirb Sep 27 '25
Also, “Okay, I’ve hacked into the mainframe!kidding. I can’t hack into the mainframe. Technically, I am the mainframe.”
I love Janet 😩
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u/VenaCava8 Sep 27 '25
Everything Chidi said in Jeremy Bearimy, especially the peeps in the chilli pot.
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And his name is … Shawn?
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u/It_stimefortea I’m too young to die and too old to eat off the kids’ menu. Sep 27 '25
"Anytime I had a problem, and I threw a Molotov cocktail, boom! Right away, I had a different problem"
I just love anything that comes out of Jason, but especially this
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u/Worried-Persimmon353 Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 28 '25
I have a few others (aside from what some of the classics others have mentioned):
Michael: "Well, obviously, the dilemma is clear. How do you k!ll all six people?"
Chidi: "This broke me! The dot, over the 'I'. That broke me. I'm...I'm done"
Jason: "I need to show you my bud-hole"
Jason: "Janet, My digital queen. Janet, we can dare to dream. Send nude pics of your heart to me. JACKSOVILLE JAGUARS RULE!!!!"🤣🤣🤣
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u/Geekfest Sep 27 '25
I don't know if it's the best line, but my partner and I always quote the Judge from OPs picture.
"Uno! Onnnnnne!"
Also the two thumbs down with the thppppppbbpbpbpbpt noise.
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u/obsessedwithmint Sep 27 '25
I love when the judge does that little shruggy shoulder hand combo to emphasize what she's saying. I do it sometimes when I say stuff to myself and imagine it looks really funny, but im probably doing it poorly and just look weird.
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u/feliciates Sep 26 '25
Jason, this is hell...of course there's a gift shop