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* GoodnessExam: In the episode "[[Recap/TheGoodPlaceS2E11TheBurrito The Burrito]]", the gang manage to escape the Bad Place and makes it to the Judge's chambers and asks for a chance to earn their way into the Good Place post-mortum by showing how they've progressed during their time in the fake Good Place, each of them given a test tailor-made to pick at their worst habits to prove that they've outgrown them. Because Gen is a TrueNeutral being with a limited understanding of humanity and its hardships, [[spoiler:blissfully unaware that the point system itself is centuries out of date]], her tests are too flawed to actually work.
** Tahani has to walk down a hall without opening any of the doors, all of the rooms being people talking about her. While the test is as straight-forward as it seems, Tahani fails by going into the room with her parents (who were the reasons she became a shallow socialite so desperate for other people's validation) where she has a heart-to-heart with them. While she manages to get a productive examination from the experience and it was the right thing to do for her, Gen fails her for it anyway because she wasn't supposed to open any of the doors.
** Chidi has to choose between one of two hats (a brown and a grey hat). Because Chidi is TheDitherer who can't decide on the most basic things under the assumption that there is a moral weight to them, he wastes an hour and a half over it. While Gen points out the obvious that there is no "right" answer to picking one and that he's crazy for thinking otherwise, [[spoiler:in Season 3 it's revealed that all decisions humans make, no matter how inconsequential, dock people points because of the unintended consequences inherent to a world as interconnected as 21st-century Earth is. So while Chidi is morally right to stress over every little decision according to the flawed system he is judged under, he still fails the test because the Judge is too ignorant of the problem to realize it.]]
** Jason is left in a room with a game of ''Madden'' and he has to play against his favorite team the Jacksonville Jaguars. He immediately begins playing without even letting her finish and she leaves him to it. At the end, it's revealed that his test was a SecretTestOfCharacter to test his impulse control and he failed for not considering the idea that he didn't have to play the game at all. On closer examination, even if Jason waited for Gen to explain the rules, she still set up the test that's basically "play the game against the Jags" and him playing the game at all is treated like a morally wrong act, making it come across as more SchmuckBait than a true test of his moral worth.
** Instead of being taken to a different room, Eleanor is told by Gen that she and Chidi both already passed and Tahani and Jason's tests are just their way of devising future tortures for them in the Bad Place. Having grown attached to her friends, Eleanor spends a while conflicted on whether or not to take the easy out or stay behind with her friends. By the end, she figures out that Eleanor was being put through a SecretTestOfCharacter to test her selfishness and that [[GoodAngelBadAngel the Chidi she was with was just a construct Gen made to test her]]. While she was the only one who passed Gen's test, she's still set to go to the Bad Place because she wanted to be tested as a group, something Gen calls out as being a bad idea. Ironically, she passes her test by being selfless, yet she's still set to be sent to the Bad Place ''because'' she made the selfless decision to stand with her doomed friends through thick and thin.
** Tahani has to walk down a hall without opening any of the doors, all of the rooms being people talking about her. While the test is as straight-forward as it seems, Tahani fails by going into the room with her parents (who were the reasons she became a shallow socialite so desperate for other people's validation) where she has a heart-to-heart with them. While she manages to get a productive examination from the experience and it was the right thing to do for her, Gen fails her for it anyway because she wasn't supposed to open any of the doors.
** Chidi has to choose between one of two hats (a brown and a grey hat). Because Chidi is TheDitherer who can't decide on the most basic things under the assumption that there is a moral weight to them, he wastes an hour and a half over it. While Gen points out the obvious that there is no "right" answer to picking one and that he's crazy for thinking otherwise, [[spoiler:in Season 3 it's revealed that all decisions humans make, no matter how inconsequential, dock people points because of the unintended consequences inherent to a world as interconnected as 21st-century Earth is. So while Chidi is morally right to stress over every little decision according to the flawed system he is judged under, he still fails the test because the Judge is too ignorant of the problem to realize it.]]
** Jason is left in a room with a game of ''Madden'' and he has to play against his favorite team the Jacksonville Jaguars. He immediately begins playing without even letting her finish and she leaves him to it. At the end, it's revealed that his test was a SecretTestOfCharacter to test his impulse control and he failed for not considering the idea that he didn't have to play the game at all. On closer examination, even if Jason waited for Gen to explain the rules, she still set up the test that's basically "play the game against the Jags" and him playing the game at all is treated like a morally wrong act, making it come across as more SchmuckBait than a true test of his moral worth.
** Instead of being taken to a different room, Eleanor is told by Gen that she and Chidi both already passed and Tahani and Jason's tests are just their way of devising future tortures for them in the Bad Place. Having grown attached to her friends, Eleanor spends a while conflicted on whether or not to take the easy out or stay behind with her friends. By the end, she figures out that Eleanor was being put through a SecretTestOfCharacter to test her selfishness and that [[GoodAngelBadAngel the Chidi she was with was just a construct Gen made to test her]]. While she was the only one who passed Gen's test, she's still set to go to the Bad Place because she wanted to be tested as a group, something Gen calls out as being a bad idea. Ironically, she passes her test by being selfless, yet she's still set to be sent to the Bad Place ''because'' she made the selfless decision to stand with her doomed friends through thick and thin.
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* {{Foil}}: Michael chose the original four for his Good Place experiment specifically so that they would torture each other with their conflicting personalities, he and the rest of the Bad Place employees meant to subtly push them together to make them miserable as glorified props. Tahani would make Eleanor miserable for being more successful, Eleanor would make Chidi miserable by making him contradict his own ethics trying to keep Eleanor from being discovered and be forced to teach her philosophy, Chidi would make Eleanor miserable by making her contradict her own base instincts to do bad things, Chidi would make Tahani miserable because they seem to be compatible to each other yet he would prefer to be with Eleanor (or "Real Eleanor"), Jason simply being Jianyu made him miserable (something exacerbated by Tahani wanting him to talk to her) and Jason making Eleanor and Chidi miserable for fear of his idiocy blowing their cover. What Michael did ''not'' count on was for [[OppositesAttract their personalities complimenting one another]], as not only do they become friends in-spite of (or, to be honest, in part ''because of'') their conflicting personalities, but they complete and benefit each other as well, Eleanor becoming a better person and outing herself and derailing his plan. When they repeat the experiment in the Medium Place, the Bad Place sends humans who where specifically chosen to conflict with the original four's personalities.
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* {{Foil}}: Michael chose the original four for his Good Place experiment specifically so that they would torture each other with their conflicting personalities, he and the rest of the Bad Place employees meant to subtly push them together to make them miserable as glorified props. Tahani would make Eleanor miserable for being more successful, Eleanor would make Chidi miserable by making him contradict his own ethics trying to keep Eleanor from being discovered and be forced to teach her philosophy, Chidi would make Eleanor miserable by making her contradict her own base instincts to do bad things, Chidi would make Tahani miserable because they seem to be compatible to each other yet he would prefer to be with Eleanor (or "Real Eleanor"), Jason simply being Jianyu made him miserable (something exacerbated by Tahani wanting him to talk to her) and Jason making Eleanor and Chidi miserable for fear of his idiocy blowing their cover. What Michael did ''not'' count on was for [[OppositesAttract their personalities complimenting complementing one another]], as not only do they become friends in-spite of (or, to be honest, in part ''because of'') their conflicting personalities, but they complete and benefit each other as well, Eleanor becoming a better person and outing herself and derailing his plan. When they repeat the experiment in the Medium Place, the Bad Place sends humans who where specifically chosen to conflict with the original four's personalities.
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* HumanityEnsues: At the start of the series, Janet is less a person and more of an abstract character archetype of ThePollyanna, being incapable of expressing any emotion other than optimism and store-clerk politeness. After being rebooted over 800 times, she becomes more and more sophisticated and begins to behave more and more like a real person. [[BlessedWithSuck This has many drawbacks]], as this gives her many emotions that she literally was not designed to feel (genuine love, anger, depression, heartbreak, etc.) which causes massive problems with her capacity to serve her purpose and run the neighborhood (that being said, it eventually ends up being a Reconstruction, as her sophistication and understanding of emotions help make it possible for the team to succeed).
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* HumanityEnsues: At the start of the series, Janet is less a person and more of an abstract character archetype of ThePollyanna, being incapable of expressing any emotion other than optimism and store-clerk politeness. After being rebooted over 800 times, she becomes more and more sophisticated and begins to behave more and more like a real person. [[BlessedWithSuck This has many drawbacks]], as this gives her many emotions that she literally was not designed to feel (genuine love, anger, depression, heartbreak, etc.) which causes massive problems with her capacity to serve her purpose and run the neighborhood (that being said, it eventually ends up being a Reconstruction, {{Reconstruction}}, as her sophistication and understanding of emotions help make it possible for the team to succeed).
