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

despite, you mean

No, Adam Scott is turning into the show's Jim Halpert, except the only thing he's doing is staring at the camera w/o ever really being funny in other ways. Sucks too, because I like Adam Scott, but he's really becoming an irritant on P&R.

To you maybe

He's been funny. The whole Adam is awkward on TV/public speaking etc episode a while back was amazing.

The whole Adam is awkward on TV/public speaking etc episode a while back was amazing.

I'll agree on this.

I love the teen mayor/major fuckup backstory on him too...

I honestly haven't noticed him staring at the camera much. I like what he's doing, though I agree with those who think he's capable of more.

this and the last episode are the first two where i felt like scott was being used well at all

really the only time Adam Scott is irritating to me on this show is the stupid little gesture he makes in the opening credits

is there a youtube montage of jim from The Office giving those looks of his to the camera? how many years can a person do that?

(whenever i see jim or pam in an ad for a movie i barf. they should never ever be allowed in movies.)

pam was pretty funny (and really hot) in walk hard

^^^

you know who would have been even funnier and hotter in that role in walk hard? almost anybody else on earth!

I can confirm that I would not have been any hotter than Pam in Walk Hard.

John Krasinski was awful in Away We Go. He has the emotional range of a urinal cake. But then, that movie pretty much sucked all around.

they are t.v. people. they should know their place in life.

really the only time Adam Scott is irritating to me on this show is the stupid little gesture he makes in the opening credits

― some dude, Monday, April 25, 2011 8:07 AM Bookmark

Was going to say myself.

otoh, loved it when leslie says at dinner, "Just between you and me, Tom," and he looks into the camera for a beat before saying, "okay?"

not w/ you on the 'hating Jenna Fischer' tip, skot: her genuine charm in front of the camera made Jon Krasinski seem way more tolerable and for far longer than he would have otherwise...

Adam Scott is nowhere near the camera-looker that John Krasinski is in The Office, but the few times he's done it (in the opening credits and a couple times in the epilogue) just make me want to walk him aside and say "I get it, okay? But there's probably a way to do what you're doing without looking as much like an 'I'm above all this' asshole."

But he kind of did it in Party Down too. Not that that's an excuse, but with a whole cast of somewhat eccentric characters Adam Scott gets to be bemused onlooker.

And doesn't April do this a lot too? Or she did until her and Andy hooked up.

Nobody did it in Party Down, really. Wasn't faux documentary like P&R and Office. Some of April's best scenes involve her looking knowingly at the camera imo. It's the one reason I forgive P&R for copping that Office style.

I dunno. Just the few times that has happened it rubbed me the wrong way. He's fine as Ben the rest of the time, though the Ben/Leslie thing still seems a little forced as he really hasn't done much that's charming or endearing yet.

agree with that. though I'm glad they are not doing this, it seems like Ron & Leslie would be the natural unrequited romance storyline in the show to me.

Adam scott is a good comic actor, Krasinski is barely an actor, full stop. The looks at the camera don't really bug me, but I can get why ppl might get worn out seeing it. He's great in those scenes like the media blitz episode and the bit with Lil Sebastian.

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Scott >>>>>> Krasinski for sure

I avoided this show for a long time fearing an 'Office' clone but it is in fact far superior. Huzzah.

It WAS a lame Office clone for most of its abbreviated first season, but it came back in its second year with most of the similarities stripped out and a bunch of funny in its place.

April/Andy wedding >>>>> Jim/Pam wedding for sure.

yes totally

Yeah I skipped the first season.

and YES that was great - no buildup, no drama.

this whole show could be a stinking pile of crap but as long as it had ron it would still be AWESOME

i don't really hate the dudly office duo. i watch the show. and miraculously i think this has been the funniest season i've seen of the show! don't know how they did that at this late date. will ferrell helps, but even before he showed up it had some great episodes. and i don't blame pam & jim for taking movie work. they are after all professional actors riding a popularity wave. but they are sooooooooo small screen that it actually hurts to see them in movies. felt the same way about most of the friends cast. especially chandler bing.

Jennifer Aniston is good in movies.

no

Shaddup, I love Aniston and I will cut a motherfucker.

phoebe i could take in movies.

the people who cast her as some sort of scold wife though need to be cut.

i mean who doesn't love romy & michelle?

I think the only movie I've seen Lisa Kudrow in was Mother. She was only in it for a couple of minutes, but she killed.

Oh wait, and Romy and Michelle. Killed in that, too.

Yeah, Romy and Michelle is tops.

sorry that's michele with one L. i just googled it!

romy one of my maria's top five movies ever i think.

i can't remember if courtney cox was ever in a movie i liked. probably not. joey and chandler just horrible on the big screen though.

Kudrow's had a pretty solid post-Friends career although she definitely has taken too many shrew roles to i guess balance out the Phoebe typecasting. Aniston's movie career is a tabloid-fueled joke, Office Space aside.

I like a couple of the Scream movies.

Didn't LeBlanc do a film with a chimp who plays baseball or something like that? Oof.

Kudrow is kinda WTF? in Easy A.

i liked her in that! kinda let the character do an unexpected 180 at the end

oh yeah scream. but honestly that could have been any one of a million people in that role. she did all the screams too, right? that's too many screams for one person.