On January 4, 2019, a video appeared on The Good Place YouTube feed entitled "Janet's Void: What Actually Happens When * BING *". It consists of five hours of Janet standing around in her void, occasionally disappearing. You Tube commentators soon noticed that her disappearances were about 22 minutes long, the length of an episode.
All of the shrimp consumed by Eleanor are fake, as actress Kristen Bell is a vegetarian. Bell described them as "rubber nuggets", painted to look like shrimp (although the various dipping sauces are real).
Michael Schur asked Ted Danson to play the role of Michael, thinking it was a long shot that someone as famous as Danson would agree to do the role. He was pleasantly surprised when Danson accepted the role.
The creators of the show always envisioned that the show would have a four season arc.
The name of the primary neighborhood in the show is "Neighborhood 12358W". The numbers correspond with the Fibonacci Sequence, in which every number is found by adding the two previous numbers.