Gonna erase the Eaaaaarth, erase the Earth -- no, wait, just kidding. Gonna come up with a whole new afterlife plaaaaan . . . hmm, that doesn't scan so well, does it. Well, folks, as we settle in for the final half-season of TGP, there is a lot of ground to cover. And some of that ground is in the form of a foxy older gentleman in a 10-gallon hat. Brianna and Marissa take this opportunity right before the roller coaster peaks to put themselves firmly on Team Leave The Cockroaches Alone, Team It Would Be Nice to See Jason's Mom's Afterlife, and Team Cheleanor 4eva. Dissidents from these teams will be forced to ride the Tesla Cybertruck through Bad Janet's Void.

Who's up for dishing about this enjoyable hot mess of a movie?? We love us some Rey/Kylo Ren hot Forcebook chatting, but the MacGuffins, the new weird lore, the non-sacrificial sacrifices, and the heartbreaking absence of a real Leia throughline make this a not-totally-satisfying ending to the Skywalker Saga. Does the Rey/Kylo stuff make up for all that? Y'know, it almost does, especially when Kylo is doing his Mr. Darcy impression. Or is it Noah Baumbach's "Marriage Story"?

Jenny Nicholson's critique (from which Marissa stole more than one point) is here: https://youtu.be/GErIPKjwuDg

Gentle gentile listeners, buckle up: the Good Sisters are about to let you in on a whole passel of JEW SECRETS, like how to play Jewish Geography, and whether sufganiyot are different from regular jelly doughnuts! They're all revealed in the context of reviewing this utterly charming Lifetime holiday movie about a Christian woman falling in love with a real cutie-patootie Jewish guy. Get a plate, fill half of it with fruitcake and half of it with latkes, and settle in: this is a pleasure to discuss, good listeners.

Regular Jesus, take the tow-truck wheel, and in the name of John Pierpont Collegestudent, let us pray. It's that time of year again, the time of year when Netflix spends the minimal amount of money it can to produce minimally acceptable holiday-themed programming. I hope you like indistinguishably attractive white girls, because this movie's got 'em in spades! It also has a legitimately hilarious interfaith Christmas pageant and a curious dearth of live performances by Shameik Moore. Plus . . . Joan Cusack in tinfoil?? Are you OK, Joan??

"There is no 'answer.' But Eleanor is the answer." If you didn't love this episode, go walk into the ocean!!! The Good Sister spend some quality time loudly sobbing, around which they manage to fit a recap, some words about that dumb church choir show, and a new (somewhat satirical) iTunes review.

We already know y'all want us to do the Hallmark "Chanukah movies," but if there are any other topics you want us to cover during the midseason hiatus, email us ([email protected]) or tweet @thegoodplaypod!

Bam, bam, bam -- ooh, shouldn't have committed to the bam. Even when our hapless Soul Squad wins, they still lose -- though the Good Sisters don't think that Gen has really thought through this whole "erase everything and start over" plan. (What of hyperintelligent ants? WHAT OF THEM??) Also, Michael does not wake up Marissa's TV husband Chidi and she's quite peeved about it. Plus on the show before the show, the Good Sisters get called out by a fictional church choir member!!

The WALL-E and Eve scene we mentioned: https://youtu.be/KTzNvpToJmA

Ryan Toby's very innocent debut in Sister Act 2: https://youtu.be/mXPoRnY3r10

Ryan Toby's SUPER non-innocent current music (don't play it around little kids!): https://youtu.be/wKEzEVftIJ4

Everything falls spectacularly apart in new and alarming ways on this week's TGP. As the Soul Squad tries several exploding Hail Marys to score a last field goal, Eleanor & co. lose their grip entirely on the experiment, and The Good Sisters are left Monday-morning quarterbacking the whole thing. Could the Soul Squad have handled the residents better??? We don't know, and it's too late now! Plus a new iTunes review and our customary rundown of competitive church singing, this time with pink hair.

Shirt gets real this week when resident "born on third base, thinks he invented baseball" resident Brent writes a book that makes that piece of pulpy trash that Bill O'Reilly wrote in the '90s look like the latest Zadie Smith novel. If this were truly The Good Place, Simone and Tahani would not be obligated to even think about this tripe . . . but it's The Experiment Place, and things are a lot more complicated here. Plus, a new iTunes review, the episode titles up to the midseason break (!!!), and our usual review of the last 5 minutes of the show in the 8:30 slot (BRADLEY WHITFORD SAYS THE WORD "TWERK," Y'ALL).

The Good Sisters are throwing a Molotov episode at y'all this week in honor of Jason Mendoza, a great boyfriend and the source of all wisdom, apparently. In addition to the recap, we have a lot of listener mail to get to (which we love -- send us more!!) And as usual this year, there's the tearing apart of the last 5 minutes of that Bradley Whitford show, which is apparently now somehow our signature feature as a TGP podcast.

All of our listeners' suspicions about Michael and Janet come to a head in this week's practically-a-bottle episode full of mistrust, lies, accusations, and gallons of blue goo. In the end, Jason, the low-key wisest (and high-key sexiest) of them all, saves the day with Chekhov's Sex Toy, and guys, it's riveting. Plus: listener tweets/Facebook posts/email, a new iTunes review, and our customary review of the last 5 minutes of that churchy Glee knockoff show we refuse to learn the name of (this week, Bradley Whitford drinks his own butt).