boob tube producer Mike Schur has left an Easter eggs in the season finale ofThe Good Placethat will have fans of his other strike , Parks and Recreation , thinking they ’ve pass and gone to heaven . As The A.V. Clubreports , a tiny detail in the most late episode of the show indicate that Eleanor , Chidi , Tahani , and Jason live in the same world as Leslie Knope and the gang — even if they do n’t exist in the same plane .
A sharp - eyed Twitter drug user post the screenshots below from the season two finale ofThe Good Place , which air on February 1 . The episode — written and directed by Schur — has a diminutive reference toParks and Recreation ’s egotistical , wretched " enterpriser " Jean - Ralphio Saperstein .
We do n’t want to hit you with any spoilers ( you may read Vulture’srecapfor a effective overview , if you dare ) , but suffice it to say that the scene involve a peek at Eleanor ’s time on Earth , show up her read a low - brow magazine publisher calledCelebrity Baby : Plastic Surgery Disasters . And lo and behold , what kind of clientele would publicise in such a recreant powder magazine ? Oh , just brands like Champagne by Jean - Ralphio .
The worlds - colliding revelation kind of make sentience in faint ofanotherrecent A.V. Club analysis of Schur ’s show , includingParks and RecandThe Good Place — that fundamentally , all of his fabricated foundation come off as “ uncommonly decent television world , ” filled with earnest , earnestly industrious characters . Eleanor might not be quite as altruistic as Leslie Knope , but it ’s not toilsome to imagine Leslie taking her on as a mentee . And yeah , it feel like fellow wonk Chidi and Ben would get along swimmingly . ( We wo n’t even get into what this mean for the 2016 fan theory thatdeterminedSteve Harrington fromStranger Thingsis actually Jean - Ralphio ’s father . )
Does this mean we can expect Jason to eventually contact and attempt to hinge on dear renown miniature cavalry Li’l Sebastian in heaven ? We can only desire .
[ h / tThe A.V. Club ]
