Chapter 50: Mondays, Am I Right?

## Monday's, Am I Right?

**Chapter 50: Mondays, Am I Right?** is the eleventh episode of the fourth season of *The Good Place*, and fiftieth episode overall. It aired on January 16, 2020.

## Plot

Michael runs some tests and Chidi gets some good advice from Jason.

## Summary

In the Bad Place, Michael, the others, and Shawn introduce the new system to a group of demon architects, they need to devise tests to evaluate humans, and they are used to devising tortures for them. With Tahani as a test subject, and files of her history, they try to make test scenarios to see if she makes ethical decisions, but they never get the idea until Vicky, who wasn't invited, walks in and effectively takes over as teacher.

It turns out, despite her past with Michael, she has really gotten the point of the new system, and easily makes a scenario that tests Tahani, then proceeds to teach the process to the other demons; she's really capable of taking over the whole evaluation program. Michael spends a while dismissing her efforts, but later admits to Janet that it was mostly because if Vicky takes over, he doesn't know what else he could do. Eventually he allows Vicky full creative control of the project, and does so in a way that lets the other demons think she "took control" away from the "traitor" Michael.

As the demons are involved with this, Chidi, Eleanor, and Jason are busy in the Bad Place records; they need to identify the first thousand humans to be tested, so they go through the files on everyone. This means the files on Eleanor and Chidi are there to be read, causing both of them to worry how they might look to the other. In time they both settle down to recognizing how much they love each other, and how the past of neither one would change that.

There is now a "New Afterlife Architect Training School", a place that looks like Michael's Neighborhood; there are architects from both the Good Place and the Bad Place streaming from the train station, with Vicky in charge getting them all sent to their correct classes. Michael, Janet, and the humans can just look on with approval, and Eleanor says the first batch of test neighborhoods are up and running. Then they hear the sound that the system makes when someone passes the test for the Good Place; they wonder who passed, and Michael says it's the four of them, the Judge decided that they don't need to take any test.

A golden balloon, that same one that Michael tried to claim was the balloon to the good place before, comes down from the sky. They all look at him thinking it's another "fake" attempt, but Michael and Janet assure them it's for real this time. The balloon settles down to land, and the four humans get in. Michael and Janet join them, Michael saying that, since he's unemployed, he'll travel for a bit. The balloon takes off, as the architects on the ground wave goodbye.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Kristen Bell as Eleanor Shellstrop
* William Jackson Harper as Chidi Anagonye
* Jameela Jamil as Tahani Al-Jamil
* D'Arcy Carden as Janet
* Manny Jacinto as Jason Mendoza
* Ted Danson as Michael

### Guest Starring

* Marc Evan Jackson as Shawn
* Tiya Sircar as Vicky
* Rebecca Hazlewood as Kamilah Al-Jamil
* Ajay Mehtam as Waqas Al-Jamil
* Anna Khaja as Manisha Al-Jamil
* Fran Gillespie as Megan
* Carl Tart as Steve

### Co-Starring

* Dave King as Phil
* Melodie Casta as Anais
* Robert Paul Taylor as Georges
* Joe Mande as Todd Hemple
* Evan Gaustad as Waiter

## Trivia

* When Chidi offers to learn the guitar, Eleanor says she prefers drummers. Kristen Bell's husband Dax Shepard plays the drums.
* Jason: "Janet and I are different. Maybe it can't last. Maybe we're like the Montagues and Capulets." Those are "two households, both alike in dignity," the feuding families from "Romeo and Juliet." Chidi expresses amazement that Jason made a literary reference, but "Romeo and Juliet" has long been required reading for every schoolchild in the United States, usually (though not always) in the ninth grade. The show has established that Jason attended at least some high school; in Chapter 20: Janet and Michael, he tells Tahani, "I went to Lynyrd Skynyrd High School in northeast Jacksonville, which was really just a bunch of tugboats tied together."

* The first eleven names they have on the blackboard as possible test subjects are all notable people who contributed **greatly** to history. They are:

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War, the country's greatest moral, cultural, constitutional, and political crisis. He succeeded in preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, bolstering the federal government, and modernizing the U.S. economy.
Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.
Norman Borlaug was an American agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution
Marie Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
Florence Nightingale was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing.
Susan B Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.
Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat who served as vice-consul for the Japanese Empire. During the Second World War, Sugihara helped thousands of Jews flee Nazi-occupied Lithuania by issuing transit visas to them so that they could travel through Japanese territory. It has been estimated as many as 100,000 people alive today are the descendants of the recipients of Sugihara visas.
Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, statesman and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by tackling institutionalized racism and fostering racial reconciliation.
Toyohiko Kagawa was a Japanese Protestant Christian pacifist, Christian reformer, and labor activist. He wrote, spoke, and worked at length on ways to employ Christian principles in the ordering of society and in cooperatives. His vocation to help the poor led him to live among them. He advocated for women's suffrage and promoted a peaceful foreign policy.
Siddhartha Gautama (aka the **Buddha**) is regarded as the founder of the world religion of Buddhism, and revered by most Buddhist schools as a savior, the Enlightened One who rediscovered an ancient path to release clinging and craving and escape the cycle of birth and rebirth.
Rene Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist who invented analytic geometry, linking the previously separate fields of geometry and algebra.
* Later on, it shows the blackboard full of names, which adds another twelve notable people who also contributed **greatly** to history. A few of them are based around their contribution of different religions and how they implemented them into society, plus a couple of philosophers whose philosophical teachings are in practice to this day. Those names are:

Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist and a member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Anna Maria van Schurman was a Dutch painter, engraver, poet, and scholar, who is best known for her exceptional learning and her defense of female education.
Derek Parfit was a British philosopher who specialized in personal identity, rationality, and ethics. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential moral philosophers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Mr. Rogers was an American television host, author, producer, and Presbyterian minister. In 1968, he created *Mister Rogers' Neighborhood*, which ran for 33 years. The program was critically acclaimed for focusing on children's emotional and physical concerns, such as death, sibling rivalry, school enrollment, and divorce.
Erasmus was a Dutch philosopher and Catholic theologian who is considered one of the greatest scholars of the northern Renaissance.
Rosa Parks was an African-American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has honored her as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".
Ida B. Wells was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin.
Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political figure, diplomat and activist. She served as the first lady of the United States from March 4, 1933, to April 12, 1945, during her husband President Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest-serving first lady of the United States. Roosevelt served as United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952. President Truman later called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.
Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.
Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization.
B. R. Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, economist, politician and social reformer, who inspired the Dalit Buddhist movement and campaigned against social discrimination towards the untouchables (Dalits).
* In the top right corner of the blackboard is labelled "Jason's Top Picks" which are:

Squirrel
Gleek (can't see the rest) - Da Super Friends!