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

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If I wanted to bring a large number of deviled eggs, but I didn't want to share them with anyone else, could you guarantee fridge space?

Nick Offerman was on Conan last night and it was totally delightful. He's not that far removed from his character, though he may have been playing it up.

^^ this was awesome, especially his explanation of Ron's hairstyle: he passes a comb through it once and thinks, "That is sufficient."

Seeing him without the mustache was pretty trippy, tho.

It just now occurred to me that there's no Paul Schneider anymore.

lol I hadn't thought about it, and I knew he was leaving, but damn...he isn't missed AT ALL.

It's fun to think about what happens to characters who just drop out of a show and are never mentioned again - like that girl who was in the first season of West Wing and suddenly disappeared in the interim. For some reason these are always grisly possibilities for me.

a) Maybe he committed suicide.
b) Maybe he was killed and eaten.
c) Maybe he was paralyzed by a madman and left fully conscious on a post in the middle of a field while dressed as a human scarecrow - like something out of EC Comics, maybe?

I dunno.

Well, they did give him an outro story (I can't remember the details, but I think he took a job in the private sector in a different town).

Completely forgot about that.

it was kind of cute how they rationalized it by saying the guy his character was loosely based on did the same thing IRL, like yeah whatever makes it easier

He's such a good actor; the character was just totally superfluous.

for a sec i thought y'all were talking about offerman/ron and i was like noooooo

No way, if Ron left the show it would be all over.

indeed. he's a great character.

i had to google to figure out who you were talking about! he WAS a pointless character!

I'm glad he's moved on, I always thought he was pretty creepy.

rob lowe is gonna hurt himself saying 'literally'

Adam Scott/Paul Schneider are basically the same character type.

not really, scott's got a pretty funny back story and stuff. schneider was too much of a straight man. also plaaaaaza

i had to google to figure out who you were talking about! he WAS a pointless character!

― الله basedأكبر (forksclovetofu), Friday, February 4, 2011 5:23 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

I kind of liked the idea of them taking it to another level and just actively trying to make him the most pointless and dry recurring character possible.

Yeah - now that I think about it, every character trait they tried to ascribe to him fell off him like water off a duck. He never really registered at all, beyond the occasional catalyst for Amy's character to find herself in wacky/embarrassing antics.

The problem was that he was the token "normal guy", and normal just doesn't work on this show (even the more straight-on characters, like Rashida & Adam Scott are slightly off-center from time to time).

well I think part of it too is that the characters on the show aren't that ridiculous. Jerry for example is very normal, which is why it's so funny that they treat him like a leper.

so a straight man in comparison to those characters just seems useless.

Will Forte killed me in this episode!

yeah. everytime he shows up on a sitcom now (or playing Ted Turner on Conan) i feel kinda bad for him like oh he's off SNL and MacGruber flopped this is probably all he's got going on, but then he's hilarious so it's ok.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Did anyone else catch that bumper about April and Andy's wedding and how you look at the registry on nbc.com? Methinks that probably wasn't supposed to be revealed yet?

ha yeah that confused me but then i haven't paid close attention to all the recent episodes so i thought maybe i missed something

tonight's episode was very lolsy

I disagree with Leslie's stance on calzones, fwiw.

Love the cornrows.

i love calzones. that was some kinda episode. wow. ron killin' it.

great episode obviously, but why does every character on this show have to date another character?

Your comment makes me hope that we'll see, when Mullaly returns, her attempt at seducing Jerry to get at Ron.

i do wish they had more plot ideas that didn't involve dating/relationships between characters year

year=yeah

This show keeps getting better. And Ron really is killin' it - the cornrows were both totally absurd and somehow kind of believable. The dating / flirting aspect of the show is a little weak, and reminds me of one of the reasons The Office frequently sucks. I wish they'd cut it out - this is a strong cast and they've shown that they're capable of much more. I never liked Megan Mullaly much before, but she's hit the perfect level of psychopathic insanity here.

Megan Mullaly is great in this. Good episode, but agree on the dating stuff. I think my all time favorite episode of this show is the hunting episode from last year. More like that wouldn't bother me one bit.

The library wedding shower was note perfect, it was eerie.

^love that jerry was there

I didn't shave it.

"I just taught her to whittle. She made me this tiny, sharpened stick."

i love this show but i do kind of hate that all sitcoms now have to have big character arcs, which inevitably lead to everyone dating each other, love triangles, etc. i kind of miss how in old sitcoms, everything would reset with each episode and no one ever changed.

hey dude Big Bang Theory/Two and a Half Man are still around

yeah i guess i was mainly thinking of the sitcoms i watch. nevermind.

I'm with n/a on the character arc thing. For most sitcoms you can kind of understand it, because the workplace is just another crappy set for characters to tell jokes on, but Pawnee and its government is almost a character of its own. It seems so rich with potential stories, it doesn't need these constant who's-gonna-hook-up plots (nor does it need two seasons devoted to the construction of one playground for that matter).

lol at using a show that uses as its main recurring theme the on-off relationship of two of its central characters as an example of something that doesn't use ongoing relationships between its central characters to further character arcs

I can't be bothered by the love trapezoid. This show has long since outclassed the rest of NBC Thurs. & last night's ep was the hardest I've lolled @ a sitcom since certain episodes of Louie last year. I like that the writers seem to be taking the Dennis Duffy approach w/ Tammy by bringing her into the narrative just often enough to keep her & Ron's awesome lunacy from settling into schtick.

o all the cops describing the altercation!

"a real piece of work"