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

they're basically just putting him in the paul schneider straight man role, which is kind of a shame. similar to rashida jones, they're hiring funny actors and then giving them reaction roles.

the calzone thing was just kinda uhhhh

The calzone thing might (I stress, might)be funny if you remember that the show is set in small town Indiana where calzones might be thought of as exotic and (therefore) unappetizing "foreign" food. Probably an unfair midwestern stereotype, but we are talking sitcom matertial here.

if they were consistent with that "small town life is xenophobic and different is weird" schtick i might buy into it, but have you noticed the small metrosexual brown guy who seems to get along with everyone in the town?

calzone thing was just an absurdist "everyone hates calzones except adam scott for no good reason" joke, not that complicated

it was making a point, ie calzones are just pizza in a less convenient format.

it's actually a MORE convenient format
but i really really really don't want to go down this road

highway 2 the danger calzone

Yeah it was funny because it was irrational and reasonless but they all accepted it as obvious. Especially funny when she blew up about it one more time at the end.

Yeah it was funny because it was irrational and reasonless but they all accepted it as obvious.

The Jerry Principle.

Right.

yeah i thought the whole joke was that he couldn't say anything right. i thought it was funny. its rare that he's involved in the funny!

i think i liked most the v beginning after he suggests salad and then the calzones & aziz sez 'this is embarassing for you'

lold so hard through this ep...all of it was great! Ron is my hero.

...but have you noticed the small metrosexual brown guy who seems to get along with everyone...

The small metrosexual brown guy works hard at it, though. Calzones just sit there waiting to be loved. But n/a, et al have it right, irrational hate of perfectly OK thing is funny.

xps.. and yeah, especially funny when Leslie blew up at the end and psyched out Ben Wyatt (Adam Scott) at the end. props to Leslie, she had me fooled

best moment of episode was probably the reveal of Jerry eating the cupcake at the bridal shower.

lol that was great

this is kinda bullshit:

http://media.onsugar.com/files/2011/02/06/4/192/1922283/8155f952d539a60d_parks-and-rec-covers.jpg

i mean 'smartest' just seems like an odd label for a show where the biggest laughs are from stuff that's very silly and/or character-driven

also where the hell is adam scott

http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/02/10/parks-recreation-adam-scott-ew-cover/

Being a lifelong New Yorker (I grew up in Northern California and live in Los Angeles), when Entertainment Weekly called and begged me to be on the cover of their magazine (the show I’m on, Parks and Rec, was going to be on the cover, and thus I would ride its coattails) and that the shoot would be anywhere but Manhattan, I, of course, said no (yes).
To even consider leaving my fair city (I’ve never lived here) makes me literally vomit (not literally, actually not at all). So the decision was easy: I’d triumphantly stay in New York (I’m working on a movie here, and due to a giant storm, all flights were cancelled) while my fellow castmates mug it up in EW (I’m a subscriber). Victory (devastation)!!!
Mine (yours),
Nick Offerman (Adam Scott)

well that's a good excuse

<3

Great episode, but I'm pretty sure nothing topped Ron typing in the cold open...

"Rectangle...America...Monday...Butthole..."

so good, show is really firing on all cylinders.

DIED at april reading andy & rons letter to her grandfather

this is so far ahead of the office these days that it's embarrassing

best thursday night comedy by a fairly long shot imo, i know there are community obsessives out there but this is n/l

Incredible episode.

altavista searches!

This was out-of-control hilarious

Let's hope that the entirety of that talk show ends up a DVD extra.

<33333 joan callamezzo

crept back into watching this for adam scott and rob lowe. it is better than before in general, but this most recent one was properly great, adam scott killed it.

thought this ep was a bit subpar but w/e its a good show

93.7 is the local station in my hometown

great Thursday all-around imo: P&R, Community & 30R were all @ the top of their game.

Really? I thought 30R was pretty flat this week, and Community, while entertaining, didn't really provide big LOLs. I thought the mock-documentary style kind of undermined comedic timing or something.

Really? I thought 30R was pretty flat this week - see, now this is some malarkey

there were lols (as ever) but it was pretty flat in places. if Troy didn't provide you with big LOLs in this week's Community otoh, i feel bad for u son.

found p&r waaaaay funnier than community this week

Found them all funny, but with P&R in the lead this time. Three of my favorite shows all in one night, an embarrassment of riches.

93.7 is the local station in my hometown

― pre-prison, prison, and post-prison (latebloomer), Sunday, February 20, 2011 12:00 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

pretty sure it's a local station everywhere

They were all funny, and Community had some golden bits, but I can't get behind the "top of their game" description for Community and 30R. That's a really high standard and I wont go bandying such high praise about willynilly. THIS COMEDY THING IS SERIOUS BUSINESS.

xpost

i love parks+rec but ppl not recognizing community r crazy. dungeons + dragons ep alone was alltime

http://catsthatlooklikeronswanson.tumblr.com/

lubes that warm up when you rub them on things...

i don't think i get adam scott's character. was his facebook joke supposed to be really tired and lame? ok episode.

tbh im kinda sick of ron swanson steak bacon drool schtick

i might be the only one, but i liked paul schneider on this show cuz he seemed like a real person & not a caricature

u are the only one

the swanson steak freak out was great.