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

I prefer schneider to Scott too.

I thought it was hilarious that Ann had never been dumped before and didn't realize it when it happened. Further lols at other people knowing and her continuing to not know.

Adam Scott's role is easy to explain, really. He even did it himself in this episode. New guy who moves around a lot, doesn't see the point in forging relationships, then finds out people in Pawnee are embracing him (they knew what kind of beer he likes) then he gets Tom's back by spraying "Tommy Fresh" in the perfume dude's Escalade. I can see him being super eager to be everyone's friend in future episodes almost to the point of annoyance.

It's almost impossible for me to watch Adam Scott in this and not think of Henry Pollard.

largely the same character-- a guy with a past he's running away from.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Offerman

In addition to acting, Offerman is also a professional boat builder and has a side business as a wood craftsman. Offerman makes furniture and other wooden structures such as canoes and boats at his woodshop.[4] He also released an instructional DVD in 2008 entitled Canoe Building with Nick Offerman.

there was a pretty cool interview with offerman in his studio on carson daly's show

Saw that. He said something about what his studio used to be in the past before it was his studio, but now I can't remember what it was. Was cool, though.

It sounds like a scene from the show, in the same way Tracy Morgan setting fire to his fishtank sounded like a scene from 30 Rock. Love this sort of thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D1_PcQ7jEM

Now both Swanson and Offerman are on my list of Ultimate Americans. NB there is nobody else on the list.

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

― johnny crunch, Friday, February 25, 2011 4:10 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

funnier than anything in this week's ep

Schneider's character was so redundant that even he looked confused about why he was there.

Sometimes they'd even have the action go past his office just so he could turn to camera and indicate a response, like they felt sorry for him and thought he should be involved somehow.

That was always hilarious. Like in the PIGGYBACK BAM! episode.

glad adam scott quit party down to do jokes about how fbook status updates are kinda banal

Yes, because the new series of Party Down is going so well!

yeah yeah i know

still, i felt bad for him delivering it

yeah that was terrible

I think as mentioned above, that maybe that was intentionally bad.

yeha i posted the link to his workshop above.

NONONONONONONONO

http://splitsider.com/2011/03/aw-come-on-rob-lowe-may-leave-parks-and-rec-for-two-and-a-half-men/

I like him on P&R but I don't really think losing him would be the end of the world.

Yeah, he's not vital, but I really appreciate him being around. Plus, Two and a Half Men is the ENEMY.

Two And A Half Men is a way better show than P&R but i can't see Lowe fitting into the former as well as he has on the latter

Two And A Half Men is a way better show than P&R

Did you shit your brain into the toilet this morning?

okay waht

xp: lol

yeah are you crazy dude.

some dude is high on tiger blood.

and vatican assassins.

Would rather dump Adam Scott.

Both are bad ideas.

^ agreed. why dont they cancel two and a half men outright.

if rob lowe does go to 2+1/2men they should just have him totally take over the charlie sheen role and not even acknowledge that there's a different character playing him

Two And A Half Men is a way better show than P&R

I've read a lot of wtf opinions on ilx over the years, but this is just o_O

yeah who would have guessed that a show that has 10 million more viewers than parks and rec might have some fans.

i always wondered who these fans were. (the only two i know are middle-aged chinese semi-retirees)

Yes, because popularity always equates to quality. I know people watch 2 1/2 Men, but even the people that watch it on a regular basis seem to admit they aren't quite sure why and that it really isn't that good.

winning

fwiw i think P&R is just kind of cutesy and intermittently funny and mainly watch it because it's on between other shows i like more. Two And A Half Men isn't amazing or anything but it at least makes me laugh and not just nod and go 'oh that was kind of clever'

yeah who would have guessed that a show that has 10 million more viewers than parks and rec might have some fans.

― mizzell, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 20:52 (5 minutes ago)

ilxor isn't the real world

I don't know, the flu epidemic episode probably gave me more full-on belly laughs than anything else I've seen this year.

i missed the first 5 minutes of that one and i think i was too distracted trying to figure out why every other character was in a hospital bed

Yes, because popularity always equates to quality.

that's not what i said, popularity = people like it. despite the fact that some people you know watch it without liking it, i'm gonna guess that a show who has attracted 15 million viewers for nearly a decade has some fans

Really I was surpirsed that it was some dude saying that.

jesus christ

^^ could be a hilarious addition to either show

jesus christ and a half men

while it's kind of trollish (and obnoxious) of some dude to say it's a "better" show, I can understand someone preferring the traditional zing-style sitcom jokes on Two & a Half to P&R's more character-driven humor. I have many friends who find P&R boring as shit, and there's really nothing I can do to convince anybody otherwise.

Rob Lowe leaving P&R is a good thing. I wouldn't mind if Adam Scott left, either. Get some new blood in there!

Bring back Mark Brendanawicz'

Bring back the pit (more entertaining than Mark Brendanawicz).