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Maybe it will turn out like that old Twilight Zone episode.....


A no-good-guy who was killed during a burglary found himself in an afterlife where an overly solicitous guardian named PIP, played by Sebastian Cabot, attended to his every need. Finally after several days of boring perfection the punk in exasperation exclaimed "What kind of Heaven is this?" to which PIP in a sinister voice and with a fiendish laugh replied "what makes you think this is Heaven?" Maybe this really is the Bad Place.

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> "what makes you think this is Heaven?" Maybe this really is the Bad Place.

That is unlikely since Michael has told Eleanor point blank that this is the Good Place. Pip never told Rocky that he was in heaven, he simply let Rocky believe that. Rocky would say things like, "I must be in Heaven!" and Pip would just grunt or say, "Something like that."

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And it did turn out to be The Bad Place after all!

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> And it did turn out to be The Bad Place after all!

True 'dat. Good call.

Who would've thought that people in The Bad Place were allowed to lie?

The thing is that in most classical tellings of Hell and The Devil, they are never allowed to directly lie to the humans. Oh, they can mislead humans and offer deals that sound too good to be true, but they can't actually take the step of lying.

So, for example, Michael can say, "Only one in a million people make it to The Good Place. You deserve to be here," because both statements are true, although they are misleading when spoken together. He couldn't lie and say that this was The Good Place. At least, in classic literature and Hollywood.

I mean, think of it, what fun is it to torture people by lying all the time? The victims would quickly catch on and never believe another word you say. The fun comes in getting people to torture themselves, as Michael pitches to Sean and the board.

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