The Good Place (TV Series)
Tahani Al-Jamil (2016)
Ted Danson: Michael
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Quotes
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Michael : Listen, Chidi. I've been studying your file. You're a very interesting case. You essentially only did one thing while you were on Earth. You thought and wrote about ethics.
Chidi Anagonye : Yes, I spent 18 years working on my manuscript called "Who We Are and Who We Are Not--colon--Practical Ethics and Their Application in the Modern World--semi-colon--a Treatise--"
Michael : Yes, yes, yes, that's the one. That's the one.
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Chidi Anagonye : Thank you for trying to find me a new hobby. Um, but I just want to be an academic. I want to keep working on my manuscript.
Michael : Chidi, here's the thing. See, I read your whole book, all 3,600 pages of it. It's, um... how shall I put this?
Janet : It's a mess, dude.
Chidi Anagonye : [Janet drops Chidi's massive manuscript into his hands] Hey!
Michael : She's right. You see, Chidi, I can read the entirety of the world's literature in about an hour. This took me two weeks to get through. I mean, it's so convoluted, I just kept reading the same paragraph over and over again, trying to figure out what the heck you were saying.
Chidi Anagonye : Oh, no.
Michael : I mean, on page 1,000, you start section two with the sentence, "Of course, the exact opposite might be true."
