This List of Unused Food Puns From The Good Place Is Pretty Forking Amazing

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One of the delightful aspects of The Good Place is the way it balances elaborate philosophical conundrums with slapstick humor and groan-inducing puns, and both sides of the show were in full flower in last night’s episode, “Dance Dance Resolution.” (The eagle-eyed among you may notice that the title is also a pun.) Written by Megan Amram, who showrunner Michael Schur has identified as the show’s punner-in-chief, the episode found Ted Danson’s Michael rebooting the Good Place—which, as you should know by now, is actually the Bad Place—dozens and eventually hundreds of times, trying to come up with a version in which Eleanor (Kristen Bell) and her fellow afterlife-dwellers don’t eventually figure out that the paradise they’ve been told they’re inhabiting is actually a land of eternal, if subtle, torment.
In one montage,The Good Place showed us the effect Michael’s re-re-reboots have on the Good Place’s town square, which is invariably home to a collection of restaurants that all serve the same thing—first frozen yogurt, then Hawaiian pizza—and are named with food-related puns. There was From Schmear to Eternity, from a version where every restaurant served bagel, Sushi and the Banshees, and, from a pasta-focused Good Place iteration, You Do the Hokey Gnocchi and You Get Yourself Some Food.
It turns out that was just the icing on the cake. Schur says Amram’s original draft of potential restaurant names stretched to “six or seven pages,” and now she’s shared an edited, but not too edited, selection on Twitter. Some of them are great, some of them are terrible, and the best are both great and terrible. It’s just too bad Hominy Korine wasn’t available to direct.
Pasta
Al Dente on the Western Front
Penne for Your Thoughts
Pasta Expiration Date
Pasta Test
Ramen on Empty
Ramen With Scissors
Return of the Mac… ’N’ Cheese!
I’m Gnocchi-Ding Around
The Pesto’s Yet to Come
Ziti Lights
Ziti of Stars
Willy Lo Mein
Spaetzle Needs
J. Paul Spaghetti
Kara-Gonicchi
You Do the Hokey Gnocchi and You Eat Yourself Some Foods
Lasagna Come Out Tomorrow
Udon Own Me
Linguine Manuel-Miranda
The Apple Doesn’t Farfalle From the Tree
Pastry
Cake Cod
Cake Canaveral
HErtz’ Donut
Donut You Want Me Baby
Donut Make My Brown Eyes Blue
Cruller Intentions
The Fertile Croissant
Éclair and Present Danger
Filo and Otis
Filo Yiannopoulos
Macaroon-ey Mara
Pie Another Day
Pie Hard
Pie Antwoord
Strudel the Fence
The Strudel Is Real
Goofus and Galette
Puff Piece: Try Puff Pastry!
Quiche From a Rose
Knish From a Rose
Beignet and the Jets
Muffin But Net
Biscotti Pippen
Biscotti and Meatballs
Bundt in the Oven
I Torte I Saw a Puddy-Tat
Corn
Polenta to Go Around
Kiss My Grits … Then Eat Them!
The Maize Runner
The Maize From Westworld
Corn You Dig It?
Ty Corn-on-the-Cobb
Grand Corn-nation
Sufferin’ Succotash
In Perfect Hominy
Hominy Korine
Kernel Sanders
Sushi
So Sue-Shi
Tamago Never Dies
Roe-Roe-Roe Your Boat
Take My Tempura? Sure!
Tuna Piano
Rice to Meat You
For Goodness’ Sake
Miso-Gyny
Salmon-Bowl Lecter
Seaweed Rabbit — Chopsticks Are for Kids
The Catcher in the RIce
The Ketchup in the Rice
Ponzu Scheme
Bread
Toast of the Town
Toast the Rainbow
Loaf of My Life
Second to Naan
Pita Pan
We Ciabatta Zoo
Brioche With Death
Paint Brioche
Crouton a Hot Tin Roof
Matza-Chew-Sitz: A Place You Can Sit and Eat Matzah!
White Baguette Fences
Last But Not Yeast
Yeast Infectch-yum
Focaccia Red Handed
Bread Pit
Poultry
Squab Goals
Chicken of the Sea of the Land (Chicken)
Pot Pie the Sailor Man
Wings Martinale
Hot Coq au Vin
Ralph Lauren Pollo
Water Pollo (Duck)
Duck Duck Goose
Party Fowl
A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in Your Mouth
A View to a Quail
Quail Yourself
I Can Be Your Feather Figure
Chicken Corbin Bleu
Picatta Good Recipe From the Cookbook
Cheese
Forever in Bleu Cheese
Provolone Again Naturally
Fondue Diligence
Brie Larceny
Colby Maybe
Gouda-nough
Cheddar Off Dead
Cheddar Off Ted
A Qeuso the Mondays
Richard Gruyere
Camembert-bie Let’s Go Party
A Game of Cheese
Why I Ric-otta
Shrimp
Lady and the Scampi