PARKS and RECREATION aka "Everything's coming up Amy"

the av club recap is really weird in that the guy is some kind of over-the-top superfan of the show but doesn't seem to have any idea about the announcement weeks ago that Lowe & Scott are new cast members, not guest stars, or that Schneider is leaving etc.

lowe doing double duty on P&R and B&S? maybe B&S isn't coming back. i don't read the news anymore.

He left B&S, I believe

got to 3rd base over the pants

everything w/ andy, ann, april & ben was hysterical

Amazing ep -- was that an Archer reference during drunk karaoke?

maybe my favorite Jerry moment ever with Anne there.

xp i think it's merely the universal cheesiness of "highway to the danger zone" being referenced. that sure was a great running gag in Archer

yeah? well I am a funny asshole.

what the fuck^^

loved mustache guy loving the budget cuts

last week I loved the part when Indian dude is driving the car and tall man in the back seat says something like "you can scoot back" and Indian dude is like "no I can't"

CaptainLorax I would love to know your names for all the other characters, for real.

i just saw this show for the first time on an airplane. it was amusing and kind of charming. i love amy poehler. that aziz fellow wasn't funny, but i viewed him as less of an attempt at making a "zany" character and more of a set-up fellow for the head of the office, who i thought was pretty funny. i realize their roles are supposed to be the other way around.

i've never seen the office. is parks & recreation a carbon-copy of it?

i've never seen the office. is parks & recreation a carbon-copy of it?

― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 15 May 2010 10:28 (14 minutes ago)

No, P&R is much more amiable and less zany.

Ron Swanson/mustache guy/the head of the office is quite often the funniest person in any given episode, fwiw.

totally

yeah, mustache guy's eyes kept bugging out in funny ways in the episode i saw.

seriously crushing on the bartender at the end of the episode, btw.

you should've seen her in The Middleman - always too cute for that show

That bartender was supercuet! Loved that Andy called Jean-Ralphio "Ralph Macchio"...and Ron awkward-consoling April was awesome

yeah, bartender is instant ws

today, i saw aubrey plaza while hiking in griffith park. as she was walking past, i overheard her talking to her friend and she said, "rashida jones!"

^shit talking?

Maybe it's a curse? Like "goddammit"

man rashida jones
and i'm cool like dat
i'm hot like dat

i am ridicolously madly in love with aubrey plaza

love that she consistently tells off Steve Agee on twitter because he is unfunny as shit. also duh she's great, P&R is great

I knew Aubrey Plaza and I were on the same page when I saw her Sarah Silverman impression.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Sa9hXA4mo

http://i44.tinypic.com/rtj15k.jpg

<3 Ron Swanson.

Dunno about you guys, but I think just having dinner with Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally would be quite a time.

that is an extremely high quality impression

Just saw that P&R has been pushed back to midseason on NBC next year, despite the fact that they're already shooting it ahead of/during Poehler's pregnancy. Apparently they're making room on Thursday nights for Outsourced (http://www.thewrap.com/ind-column/nbc-picks-love-bites-event-outsourced-17102). Look, I appreciate that network tv needs a more diverse pallet of characters, and that NBC probably spent a lot of money shooting a show on location in India, but why you gonna fuck with Thursday night like that?

every week I'm like, aw I dunno if I feel like watching P&R anymore and then Ron Swanson does something that blows my mind.

Just saw that P&R has been pushed back to midseason on NBC next year

what a disaster for shitty office knock-offs

coming so incorrect ^

The first three episodes of the first season were shitty Office knockoffs. That is SO not the case anymore. The Office doesn't even deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as P&R anymore, considering how inferior The Office is.

*makes face for camera*

oh my god. The Office invented reaction shots????

ur fronting

this show is an "office" rip

not all of it is terrible, but it is p g damn mediocre

outsourced is prob gonna be pretty terrible

nah, you're totally off-base, hm. show grew the beard after the first bunch of episodes and is now often brilliant.

well there's no accounting for taste, but i gave up at the easter break

"community" is just streets ahead

i can see you not liking it, but if you were watching it until the easter break it's hard to believe you felt it was an Office clone. such a different tone -- it focuses on the characters + their relationships much more, where the Office often feels slapstick and you can rarely empathize with the Office characters.

i haven't seen "office" post-series 3, but it was str8 fire at that point. i didn't empathize with ne of the P&R characters tbqh.

idk. office has gotten so bad lately that i feel retroactively skeptical that it was ever good -- even tho i used to love it at one point.

I actually kind of appreciate that P&R still plays like a docu-comedy w/o ever acknowledging that. I mean, they have asides and reaction shots, but WHAT ARE THEY LOOKING AT AND WHO ARE THEY TALKING TO? It's kind of fun that they break the fourth wall all the time yet are still some of the most humanized characters in any sitcom on tv.

idk. office has gotten so bad lately that i feel retroactively skeptical that it was ever good -- even tho i used to love it at one point.

^ this.

I can't remember which episode it was this season that finally put me off it, but I haven't watched it in weeks.

Just noticed Diedrich Bader will be on Outsourced. Hello '90s!

obviously tom's offer to host weighed the scales in its favor, but otherwise april woulda never had her 21st at his corny ass slicknuts nightclub. it would have been much more in keeping with her character, as someone who has no tolerance for that kind of contemporary kewl, to force the gang to party at some cobwebbey ol bowling alley bar. anyway the show is now permanently ruined because of this

does rob lowe look like a motherfucker with some dark secrets to anyone else btw

21 year olds have their birthday parties at places you might not think they would. Plus, this is Pawnee, IN... not exactly a place with a bunch of options. Tom hosting it makes perfect sense, and hardly ruins the show in any way.

Rob Lowe is definitely a twelve-stepper or scientologist (or both).