The Good Place + Mean Girls
(A short fan-fiction combining the series “The Good Place” and the movie “Mean Girls”)
*underlined sentences represent annotations, allusions to the show or movie.
Eleanor Shellstrop wakes up in the afterlife and is introduced by Michael to “The Good Place”, a highly selective Heaven – like utopia he designed, as a reward for her righteous life. She is then introduced to her assigned soulmate, Aaron Samuels, one of the most popular guys in North Shore, Good Place.
However, she realizes that she was sent to the ‘Good Place’ by mistake and must hide her morally imperfect behavior while trying to become a better and more ethical person.
Eleanor tells Aaron that she has been mistaken for someone else and he agrees to teach Eleanor to become a better person to earn her place for real.
Eleanor: “I mean somebody royally forked up. Forked up. Wait why can’t I say forked?”
Aaron: “Well, this is the good place, you can’t swear.”
Upon realizing the rules of the Good Place, Eleanor comes across the ‘burn book’: an old journal full of secrets, rumors and insults of everyone in ‘Good Place.’ Eleanor decides to steal and read the book so she can discover other people like her who don’t entirely deserve to be in the Good Place.
Before she could do anything, her neighbor is introduced to her as a silent Buddhist monk named Jianyu Li (who happens to be wearing pink on a Wednesday). Jianyu reveals that he is actually a dimwitted DJ from Florida named Jason Mendoza, who also believes he has been sent to The Good Place by mistake. Jason, floored with happiness, realizes that he isn’t the only mistake in the “Good Place” states “she doesn’t even go here!”
Amidst confusion and nervousness, Eleanor and Jianyu attempt to “fit in” with the good people to keep their spots in the Good Place.
The 20 annotations:
“The Good Place” : refers to the utopia designed by Michael which is inhabited by all the good people. Also alludes to the title.
“Assigned soulmate” : this term was underlined as it refers to the Good Place and how each person is being assigned their idea soulmate.
“Aaron Samuels” : a character in the Mean Girls, in this fan fiction, happens to be the protagonists’ soulmate.
“North Shore” : reference/ allusion to the high school in Mean Girls
“You must hide her morally imperfect behavior while trying to become a better and more ethical person.” : a popular line stated by Chidi, in the Good Place.
In both the movie and the show, characters pretended to be someone they weren’t.
In the Good Place, Chidi agreed to help the main protagonist with ethics and morals, similar to this fan fiction.
“I mean somebody royally forked up. Forked up. Wait why can’t I say forked?” : a popular line stated by the main character in the good place.
“Well, this is the good place, you can’t swear.” : alludes to how profanity is banned in the Good Place, and is replaced with other words.
“Burn Book” : reference to the burn book in the Mean Girls.
In both, they stole it.
Wearing Pink on Wednesdays is a common and popular line in the Mean Girls. Along with “she does not even go here.”
In both the movie and the series, the main characters wanted to fit in.
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