Trivia / The Good Place S1E01 "Everything Is Fine"

• Missing Trailer Scene: A shot in the promos had Eleanor commenting on how drunk she got but never got a hangover. This never appears in the episode, although it is later mentioned in "...Someone Like Me as a Member," when Eleanor gets a hangover because the Bad Place demons turned the hangover filter off. This may be a holdover from earlier shoots, as the first draft of the episode had Eleanor wake up after the party gleeful that she didn't have a hangover.
• What Could Have Been: There are a few differences between the first draft and the final episode.
  • Tahani's name was spelled "Tehani" and Chidi's surname was Ibekwe, not Anagonye.
  • The Good Place demonstration would have included footage of real life people to represent "good" and "bad" actions instead of just using graphics. It also would have ended on a Parody Product Placement for Doritos, before waving it off because there's no corporate sponsorship in the Good Place. In the final product, the sponsorship is replaced with "otters holding hands" without the Bait-and-Switch joke.
  • Instead of mentioning that her parents were in the Bad Place torturing each other, Eleanor claims that her parents were good people who are probably having sex in the Good Place, as opposed to Abusive Parents who hated each other and got divorced early in Eleanor's life.
  • The flashback of Eleanor mouthing off to an activist was originally a flashback of her scraping against somebody's car and leaving a Post-It note blaming them for parking badly.
  • The party dialogue and subsequent chaos scene is different. For example, Eleanor calling Tahani a "butthead" would have resulted in Tahani's head being on her butt during the chaos scene.
  • Near the end of the original draft, there was a montage of Eleanor's bad actions overlaid with text pointing out her negative traits (such as "Narcissistic" or "Selfish), which was presumably cut in favor of a Show, Don't Tell approach.
  • Other jokes that got cut were Eleanor burping after discovering how she died, the reveal that Albert Einstein's theories were incorrect and he set physics back centuries because of it, and a reveal that John F. Kennedy was assassinated by six people, including Frank Sinatra.