The Good Place: The Podcast is the official podcast for The Good Place. Hosted by Marc Evan Jackson with the show's writers, cast, and crew each appearing in an episode to discuss each episode, behind-the-scenes tidbits while filming, and other things related to the show.
It is available for free on all major podcasting platforms.
Tropes that appear in this podcast:
- The Cameo: Nick Offerman as Ron Swanson in the advertisement for the Swanson Safe Company, incredibly annoyed at having to now add a disclaimer to all safes he manufactures solely because someone was stupid enough to have died in one of them.
- Character Catchphrase:
- Jackson frequently remarks that The Good Place is an unusual half-hour of American television.
- He also frequently calls it "The smartest dumbest show on television".
- Driving Question: In relation to the show's ethos of examining what it means to be a "good" person, Jackson asks all guests on the show what they consider to be "good".
- Parody Commercial: Starting with the second season, the totally real sponsors have ads playing for them. They're primarily drawn from the various brands shown on Earth like International Sophisticate Magazine and HeirBnB.
- Person as Verb: "Niednagel-ing" refers to David Niednagel doing his stuff as VFX supervisor and making all the fantastical bits come to life.
- Running Gag: Season 3's "Everything Is..." greeting becomes a Mad Libs Catch Phrase with the adjective corresponding to something relevant
- Show Within a Show: It's mentioned by Michael in the second season intro that the Good Place's most popular podcast is about Jimi Hendrix discussing music with Mozart and the Bad Place's most popular podcast is Josef Stalin recapping The Bachelor.
