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Ted Danson says “The Good Place” had ethics professors on speed dial

“The Good Place has done such a good job of exploring morality that some universities are using the show as part of their ethics programs,” Ted Danson said on the “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” podcast this week. “Literally,” he said, wondering if Notre Dame still offered its Good Place lectures.

What made The Good Place so academically sound? “We were on speed dial, we had three or four ethics professors talking to the authors every day to make sure what we were talking about was right,” Danson said. “Sometimes it’s good to get a second or third opinion.”

Good Place creator Mike Schur praised these advisors during a Reddit ama in 2017. “We have two excellent academic advisors – Todd May from Clemson and Pamela Hieronymi from UCLA – who we Skype with quite often and meet with is no joke, my favorite part of putting the show together,…