It’s time to give thanks to D’Arcy Carden for confirming a major Man on the Inside cameo.
“Another mystery solved,” Carden, who played Janet on The Good Place, shared on Instagram, along with a group photo revealing that Kristen Bell did, in fact, make an uncredited guest appearance in Episode 8.
In A Man on the Inside’s Season 1 finale, eagle-eyed viewers noticed a woman leaving Charles’ lecture that looked an awful lot like Eleanor—and now we know it was Bell who was shot from behind. Carden’s photo shows Bell wearing the same sweater her former alter-ego, Eleanor Shellstrop, wore in The Good Place’s 2020 series finale.
Carden also made a cameo in the same scene, appearing as Professor Della Denunzio opposite former co-star Ted Danson (fka Bad Place architect Michael).
Connections between A Man on the Inside and The Good Place—they share a creator, Michael Schur, and several actors, including Marc Evan Jackson and Eugene Cordero—have prompted online speculation that they might even share a universe, but no such theory has been confirmed. The finale, and Season 1 overall, earned a reader grade of “A.”
Did you catch Bell’s cameo in the Man on the Inside finale? Hit the comments with your reactions!
