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‘The Good Place’ and ‘Parks and Recreation’ are in the same universe—and the internet is freaking out

A great Easter egg for fans of both shows.

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Tiffany Kelly

Eleanor from The Good Place reading Celebrity Baby

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.

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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.

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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

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Will characters from both shows cross paths on The Good Place?

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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

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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.

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https://twitter.com/yashwinacanter/status/960131089858777088

Once again, if you’re not watching The Good Place, you’re missing out on a lot of internet jokes right now.

 
The Daily Dot