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What's My Motivation

‘What's My Motivation’

Season 1, Episode 11 -  Aired January 12, 2017

Eleanor tries to do good things so she can earn enough points to stay in The Good Place. Meanwhile, Michael learns who Jason really is, and Chidi is nervous about his relationship with Real Eleanor.

Quote from Eleanor

Chidi: Hey, can I ask your advice on something?
Eleanor: Are you sure, dude? Isn't there someone else better you could ask, like literally anyone else?
Chidi: Well, it's a sensitive matter, and you... you do know me pretty well. So here it is: Real Eleanor said she loves me.
Eleanor: Hey, man, nice pull. She's a great person.
Chidi: I don't know what to do. I mean, we are soul mates, so I probably do love her, but then again, how do I know if my motivation is correct? Maybe I think I'm supposed to love her, but if I tell her that I love her for the wrong reasons, it won't mean anything.
Eleanor: You have a tendency to over-think things. Turn off that giant brain, and just say you love her too.
Chidi: You think?
Eleanor: If this were some random person you hooked up with at a Diamondbacks game in the parking lot behind the port-a-potties. Not based on a real example... I would say keep mulling, but this is your soul mate. She's Universe-approved. Tell her you love her. [beep]
Chidi: Hey, your score just went up 20 points.
Eleanor: Yeah, 'cause I give great advice. Now maybe you'll finally listen to me and take off those glasses. We are in the afterlife, dummy, nature's Lasik.

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Quote from Eleanor

Tahani: Now, we shall hear from tonight's featured guest. She's kind, she's humble, she's... the Walmart of friends. Did I use that word right? Eleanor Shellstrop. [sparse applause]
Eleanor: Hi, everyone, I'm Eleanor. Original flavor, not new and improved. I know a lot of bad stuff has happened because of me, but I never meant to hurt you, so if I caused you any harm, I'm truly sorry.
Jessica: That's nice, Eleanor, but I still crashed into a turkey carcass.
Glenn: And I fell into a sinkhole.
Pevita: And my dog got kicked into the sun. What can you possibly say to us that'll make up for your actions?
Eleanor: Pobody's nerfect? [Pevita chuckles] [chuckling spreads]
Pilar: "Pobody's nerfect"? That's hilarious.
Sachveer: Like "nobody's perfect," but the letters switched.
Glenn: That's very funny.
Sachveer: It's nerfect!

Quote from Eleanor

Tahani: How did this not work?
Eleanor: There's no way to increase my point total because everything I'm doing is out of self-preservation.
Tahani: I don't understand.
Eleanor: My motivation is corrupt. Even when I do nice things, I'm only doing them so I can get something out of it, the ability to stay here, which means none of this had any real moral value. It doesn't count. Holy shirt. I know what I have to do.

Quote from Eleanor

Eleanor: Okay, I am almost done with these personalized "I'm sorry" notes to everyone in the neighborhood. I need you guys to deliver everyone their notes, along with those T-shirts.
[Chidi and Real Eleanor hold up blue and yellow t-shirts featuring Eleanor's face with the text "Pobody's Nerfect"]
Real Eleanor: Well, granted, these are hilarious, but how is this going to help?
Eleanor: Just trust me. I'm gonna get the points.

Quote from Jason

Jason: Oh, good morning, Dad. Where you been?
Michael: Oh, just walking around, contemplating my failure, wishing for the sweet release of eternal extinction.
Jason: Cool.

Quote from Jason

Jason: I suffocated to death in... in a safe? I'm a moron. Hey... hey, Janet?
Janet: [appears] Hi, there.
Jason: Janet, you need to leave me.
Janet: Why?
Jason: You're the smartest girl in the world...
Janet: I'm not a girl.
Jason: And your dad is an angel. I mean, what a family. I'm just a dope who died in a safe with a snorkel... who's only now realizing why that didn't work. You should be with someone better. I don't deserve you.

Quote from Janet

Janet: Jason, you are all that I care about, possibly because I did not have the capacity to care about anything before you. I love you. Also, interesting sidenote, I think I might hate things now, too. So far, it's genocide and leggings as pants.
Michael: This is nuts. Just weighing in over here. This is bonkers. Okay, I have to go reboot Janet.
Janet: Why?
Michael: It's the only thing I can think of to do to get rid of this glitch.
Jason: Yo, who you calling a glitch?
Michael: It means "error," Jason, which is what this is.
Janet: Oh, really? Is it an error to act unpredictably and behave in ways that run counter to how you were programmed to behave?
Michael: Yes. Now, you two sit tight. I'm gonna go murder Janet, and I'll be right back.
Jason: Look on the bright side. When you're rebooted, I can teach you all the Dorito flavors again.
Janet: No. I'm not starting over. What if he reboots me, and we fall out of love? We have to get out of here right now.

Quote from Janet

Eleanor: Oh, hey, Janet. I was just about to call you to ask you to get me a train to the Bad Place.
Jason: Whoa, what?
Eleanor: You have to be a good person to stay here, and I can't become a good person unless I leave.
Janet: You don't belong here, Jason doesn't belong here, and now that I can think and feel, I don't belong here either.
Eleanor: Where are you going with this?
Janet: There is a woman named Mindy St. Clair who lives in a neutral zone by herself. It's neither a Good Place nor a Bad Place.
Eleanor: A Medium Place? Dude, that's where I belong. I've been saying that since day one.
Janet: It's where Jason and I are going. Would you like to come with us to Mindy's house?
Eleanor: Yeah. Let's go hang with Mindy. That sounds great. Love her, huge fan. Call the train.

Quote from Jason

Jason: Look, there it is now.
Janet: I did not call that train. That train belongs to Shawn, the judge, who's coming here to judge you.
Eleanor: Can you make that train go to Mindy's house?
Janet: Yep.
Eleanor: Then we have to go right now.
Jason: I just have to run home real quick and hit save on the Madden game I was playing because Blake Bortles has, like, 300 yards passing in the first half... [Janet and Eleanor grab Jason and run off]

Quote from Jason

[flashback:]
Jason: Pillboi, let's talk big picture. You know I love Jacksonville.
Pillboi: J-town.
Jason: It's easily one of the top ten swamp cities in northeastern Florida, but if we're gonna make it in the DJ game, we gotta get to Miami.
Pillboi: Miami's expensive. We just don't got that skrilla, B. I mean, I got ten bucks to my name, and I spent eight of it on this burrito, and the other two on guac.
Jason: I know what we gotta do. We're gonna rob this restaurant.
Pillboi: Great idea! What if we get caught?
Jason: We'll just get married so that no one can testify against us.
Pillboi: Dope. Yo. I got diarrhea. I'll be right back.
Jason: Me too. I'll race you. [laughter]
Both: Best friends!

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