"Janet(s)" is the tenth episode of the third season of The Good Place.
Written by Josh Siegal and Dylan Morgan and directed by Morgan Sackett,
it originally aired on NBC on December 6, 2018. The episode sees
Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason accidentally transformed into versions
of Janet, all played by D'Arcy Carden (pictured). Meanwhile, Michael
(Ted Danson) and the real Janet (Carden) investigate if the afterlife
system that sorts good and bad acts has been manipulated. Rehearsals for
the episode began earlier than usual so Carden could learn to play the
other characters. The episode required more visual effects than previous
episodes. "Janet(s)" was watched by 2.58 million Americans in its
original broadcast and was well received by critics; Carden's
performance was widely praised. Themes covered include the meaning of
the self, which the writers had studied in preparation. It was nominated
for a Primetime Emmy Award for writing and won a Hugo Award.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet%28s%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1846:
Mexican–American War: American and Mexican forces clashed at
the Battle of San Pasqual, a series of skirmishes near San Diego,
California.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_San_Pasqual>
1912:
The Nefertiti Bust, listed among the "Top 10 Plundered
Artifacts" by Time, was found in Amarna, Egypt, before being taken to
Germany.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefertiti_Bust>
1956:
At the Melbourne Olympics, 14-year-old swimmer Sandra Morgan
became the youngest Australian to win an Olympic gold medal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Morgan>
1988:
Self-government was granted to the Australian Capital
Territory.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Australian_Capital_Territory>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
winding:
1. gerund of wind
2. The act of twisting something, or coiling or wrapping something
around another thing.
3. (especially in the plural) A curving, sinuous, or twisting movement;
twists and turns.
4. (especially in the plural) A curving, sinuous, or twisting form.
5. Chiefly followed by up: the act of tightening the spring of a
clockwork or other mechanism.
6. Sometimes followed by up: the act of hoisting something using a winch
or a similar device.
7. (figurative, chiefly in the plural) Twists and turns in an
occurrence, in thinking, or some other thing; also, moral crookedness;
craftiness, shiftiness.
8. (obsolete, music) A variation in a tune.
9. Something wound around another thing.
10. (electrical engineering) A length of wire wound around the core of
an electrical transformer.
11. (lutherie) Synonym of lapping (“lengths of fine silk, metal wire, or
whalebone wrapped tightly around the stick of the bow of a string
instrument adjacent to the leather part of the bow grip at the heel”)
12. (obsolete)
13. A decorative object, design, or other thing with curves or twists.
14. (except dialectal) Synonym of withe or withy (“a flexible, slender
shoot or twig, especially when used as a band or for binding”); also,
all the withies used to make or repair a wall, or the process of using
withies in this manner.
15. Moving in a sinuous or twisting manner.
16. Sinuous, turning, or twisting in form.
17. Chiefly of a staircase: helical, spiral.
18. (figurative) Of speech, writing, etc.: not direct or to the point;
rambling, roundabout.
19. (obsolete)
20. Flexible, pliant.
21. (figurative) Morally crooked; crafty, shifty. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/winding>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Matter is the creation of the mind, not the reverse. Our entire
world is thought, not wood and stone. We learn to think or reflect upon
the thoughts, which the Thinker of the world, invisible, yet everywhere
visible, has first thought. What we see, hear, taste, and feel, is all
within us, not without. Sugar is not sweet, we are sweet. The sky is not
painted blue, we are blue. Nothing is large or small, heavy or light,
except as to ourselves. Man is the measure of all things, as an ancient
Greek philosopher asserted; and man has inferred, discovered, and named
matter.
--Max Müller
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_M%C3%BCller>