Chapter 47: The Funeral To End All Funerals

## The FuneralTo End All Funerals

**Chapter 47: The Funeral To End All Funerals** is the 8th episode of Season 4 of *The Good Place*.

## Plot

The group awaits the judge's final decision on the fate of human existence.

## Summary

While Michael attends the Judge's ruling on the experiment, along with Shawn and the Good Place Committee, the humans and Janet (who were not permitted to attend) decide to take their minds off the stress by throwing themselves mock funerals and commemorate each other and their friendship.

The review of the experiment results begins. Simone, John, and Chidi all became better people during the experiment, but Brent actually became worse over the last year. Michael nonetheless argues that Brent had redeemed himself from a much lower score with his last-minute apology to Chidi, showing that he wasn't completely beyond redemption. He also pulls up the scores of Kamilah Al-Jamil, Donna Shellstrop, Patricia and Pillboi, who all improved their lives drastically after the Soul Squad's intervention.

After a brief deliberation, the humans and Janet are brought into the courtroom as the Judge announces her verdict. She has decided the Soul Squad is right and declares the experiment a success. While everyone (except Shawn) is initially delighted, they are all horrified when the Judge declares that Earth is cancelled and will restart existence, wiping out all humans, alive and dead, in the process. Michael tries to get her to consider another option, Shawn refuses to help rather than admit defeat, and the Good Place Committee is as ineffectual as ever. Before the Judge can activate the device that will reboot existence, Janet steals it and hides it in her void. Gen tries to steal it back, but can't find it. It's been taken by the newly reformed Bad Janet, who had read through Michael's manifesto and came to agree with the Soul Squad that the points system is irrevocably flawed even though she still doesn't have a high opinion of humans in general. She reveals she's passed the manifesto to all the other Janets in the afterlife, and a stream of Good, Bad, Neutral, and Disco Janets enter the courtroom, ready to help hide the device in their voids. Gen coldly declares she will get the device back and marbleize every Janet in the room. With Gen distracted, Eleanor tells Michael to restore Chidi's memories, figuring he is the only person who can come up with a solution.

## Cast

Kristen Bell as **Eleanor Shellstrop**
William Jackson Harper as **Chidi Anagonye**
Jameela Jamil as **Tahani Al-Jamil**
D'Arcy Carden as **Janet / Bad Janet / Neutral Janet / Disco Janet / Cats & Dogs Janet**
Manny Jacinto as **Jason Mendoza**
**and** Ted Danson as **Michael**
**Recurring Cast**

Maya Rudolph as **Judge Gen**
Marc Evan Jackson as **Shawn**
**Guest Cast**

Brad Morris as **Matt**
Paul Scheer as **Chuck**
**Co-Starring Cast**

Takato Yonemoto as **Daisuke**
Marc-Sully Saint-Fleur as **Bruno**
Dana Powell as **Paula**
Denise Sanchez as **Andie**
Tatiana Carr as **Meg**

## Trivia

* In this episode, Michael tells the Judge that Phoebe (played by Lisa Kudrow) from the television show "Friends" deserves to go to the Good Place. In the later episode "Patty," Lisa Kudrow plays Hypatia, a woman in the actual Good Place.
* A total of 38 Good, Bad, Disco, and Neutral Janets line up in the judge's courtroom to defy her, and defiantly save the Earth from a four-billion-year reboot.
* When Janet tells Tahani about her funeral on Earth, she says, "Moby spoke first. He claimed that the two of you..." at which point a disgusted Tahani cuts the story off. According to the show's podcast, this is a reference to an incident from May 2019, in which musician Moby claimed in his autobiography that he once had a secret romantic relationship with actress Natalie Portman, a claim Portman denies.