from The Good Place, Season 3, Episode 12, “Pandemonium”
by Christopher Encell and Joe Mande
Eleanor: Can you, just, like… tell me the answer.
Janet: Sorry?
Eleanor: You know. The Answer. To everything. You know everything there is to know in the universe. Crunch the numbers. Tell me the answer. What’s the point of love, if its just going to disappear? And how is it worse to not love anybody? There has to be meaning to existence. Otherwise the universe is just made of pain and I don’t like the thought of that so tell me the answer.
Janet: I know how you feel. Back on Earth, I had to watch Jason have no recognition of me. It felt like… right before someone pushes a plunger and murders you?
Eleanor: Sure.
Janet: The more human I become, the less things make sense. But that’s… part of the fun, right?
Eleanor: Waddya mean…
Janet: If there were an answer I could give you to how the universe works, it wouldn’t be special. It would just be machinery fulfilling its cosmic design. It would just be a big, dumb, food processor. But, since nothing seems to make sense, when you find something or someone that does, its euphoria. In all this randomness, in this pandemonium, you and Chidi found each other and you had a life together. Isn’t that remarkable?