If you’re active on Twitter, you’ve probably seen a lot of people discussing The Good Place. The NBC comedy show, which follows a group of humans in the afterlife, has a strong online fanbase where memes and screengrabs of the show are regularly shared.
On Tuesday, one fan shared an amazing revelation: The Good Place and Parks and Recreation, another NBC comedy that aired from 2009 to 2015, take place in the same universe.
Just discovered that The Good Place takes place in the Parks and Rec universe and now by whole brain is crying. pic.twitter.com/UjtJLSclrA
— Words from Darran (@ShinraAlpha) February 6, 2018
Of course, we shouldn’t be too surprised. Michael Schur, the creator of The Good Place, was also a co-creator of Parks and Recreation. But it’s still a nice little Easter egg. The images show Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) reading a magazine before she died. On the back cover of the magazine is an ad for a perfume by Dennis Feinstein, a character on Parks and recreation who makes fragrances.
The discovery was retweeted by more than 8,000 people. Fans had a lot of questions about their favorite Parks and Rec characters. Did they go to the Good Place or the Bad Place?
https://twitter.com/AlizaTweets/status/960929637009412096
wait so like
— Angie J. Han (@ajhan) February 6, 2018
do the Good Place people just think Derek bears a striking resemblance to fragrance mogul Dennis Feinstein https://t.co/Y7OVxjbui9
Will characters from both shows cross paths on The Good Place?
Jean Ralphio's Bad Place soulmate is Bad Janet. https://t.co/jC4eBGyRsx
— Whitney 🎨 Gardner (@HeyWhitney) February 6, 2018
i'm just here waiting for a knope/shellstrop showdown https://t.co/LHwXr6XSai
— arshia (@arshia__) February 6, 2018
If you’ve watched the show, you already know that Adam Scott, who played Ben Wyatt on Parks and Recreation, appears as a demon named Trevor in The Good Place. So if the shows share a universe, does that mean Wyatt went to the Bad Place and became a demon?
https://twitter.com/MollyOstertag/status/961005789446946817
Well, we all know why Ben Wyatt is in The Bad Place.
— Laura Kelley (@raradee) February 6, 2018
Ice Town https://t.co/x40sHd08Wm
The fictional world of The Good Place (which appears is also the world of Parks and Recreation) has already spread to the real world. Earlier this month, someone tweeted a photo from inside a Blackwell’s bookstore in Oxford, England of a selection of books based on character Chidi Anagonye’s interests.
CHIDI’S CHOICE! great work, @blackwelloxford 😍💕 pic.twitter.com/VCtMF8BbgH
— yash says extend josh naylor & kiefer sherwood (@yashwinacanter) February 4, 2018
Once again, if you’re not watching The Good Place, you’re missing out on a lot of internet jokes right now.