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

They all fit in nicely into the wacky town.

Pawnee's growing so much and getting so complex that they could (and) should publish a spin-off encyclopaedia. They're clearly having loads of fun revealing (i.e. inventing) new rooms and characters in city hall, regional events, hero horses, adjacent towns &c.

Most shows are well into their groove by the end of s3 but it feels like Parks & Rec could go another 2-3 years before it hits its peak. If they know what they're doing and the keep the balance intact it could go for 10 years and not get stale. If this post makes no sense it's because I just woke up.

ah fuck.

Entertainment 720 is going to be a big arc early next season, according to Michael Schur.

Yay!

Am I crazy? I just watched this twice and didn't see any Ron swivel chair bit. Was that from the episode prior???

yep

Oops, never mind.

Due to a variety of things I JUST now got around to watching the last two episodes. I love this show soooo much. My favorite part, beyond the Ron swivel chair, was Haverford's laugh and reaction to the "CUBE BUTT" thing.

The swivel killed. Should've gone on longer.

Doing a rewatch of s2 and the lady jogging around Ron (I still get giggles thinking of that visual, and her making sun tea out of sprinkler water) was the same lady in "Sweetums" who's eaten muffins and lasagna every day. I love that lady.

bad paraphrase alert but "you put up a sign that said 'don't drink this water' so I made some tea with it and got really sick" lolz forever

i love this show so much

The swivel killed. Should've gone on longer.

Nah, this show knows when to stop.

Oh, totally. I think it was great as it is, but I'm a sucker for bits that go on too long; they start funny, become tedious, and then somehow become hilarious (cf. Steve Martin making coffee in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid).

Family Guy likes that trick.

Yeah, but they can never pull it off. Oh, Conway Twitty for three minutes? Fuck you, write some shit.

Totally, but they have pulled it off in better days. The peter falling and holding his leg "ffffffffffffff AAAHHHH" bit was hugely popular.

True, that was a good one. And I always liked Stewie's "You mean that book you're writing?" run.

Please stop talking about Family Guy in a P&R thread

Say, this reminds me of the time Ron Swanson met Perry King and Gerald McRaney at the Mustache Convention.

Please stop talking about Family Guy in a P&R thread

Truth. It's tainting the thread. TAINT.

"Bird is the Word" was the worst example of Family Guy stretching one joke too far iirc.

Last night we found a P&R episode we hadn't watched! The S2 one where Leslie takes a load of Ron's predecessors out for a picnic and photo. I always love it when Leslie gets angry and stands up for herself (surely there's more than a bit of Poehler in those moments).

no wonder us twee corny indie fuXors love this show so much ...

Willa Paskin classified the show as a “comedy of niceness.”

ha yes absolutely. In fact I thought they'd even make a decision to write Gerry into the group but the final episode pretty much destroyed that.

The 'twee' accusation is otm (not so much this writer's moan that it's no longer political enough) but I reckon this is the sort of show that would either shrug off such epithets or wear them as a badge of honour. One of the best things about P&R is its confidence about what it is.

sorry to talk about Family Guy again, but this is probably the best "stretched-out joke" they've done:

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

Yeah that was pretty good. On the whole it's fun in FG but I'm REALLY glad P&R doesn't do that.

this sentence makes me want to stab the author in the face repeatedly:

"Parks and Rec" presents a provincial utopia of philosoraptor-kings in which there are never competing legitimate interests, never hard choices, and never any need to engage in political maneuvering.

I had to quit following Barthel on tumblr because he habitually sucks the fun out of EVERYTHING.

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i dislike that article a. because it's not really accurate and b. "philosoraptor-kings" UGH UGH UGH DIE

think ppl need to stop using the phrase manic pixie dream girl

Intellectualising the political strength of this show is a dick move imo.

It would be like claiming 30 Rock doesn't accurately reflect the trial and tribulations of showrunning a US sketch comedy.

It really is.

ugh yeah it's that whole dancing to architecture thing.

there was some bullshit article on salon.com last year about how P&R was a brilliant depiction of small town american life. Bros be over-thinking shit.

funny people doing & saying funny shit. the end.

I can't tell what streched out family guy joke was posted (because I'm on my phone) but there was a great one recently. Peter introduced the clip as "the gayest music video ever" and then Mick Jagger and David Bowie performed 'Dancing in the Streets'

the entire damn video!!

Did they really play the entire video? Because I knew Family Guy was lazy, but that's a new low.

Yeah they did. I'm a defender of latter-day Family Guy but that was definitely a low-point.

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You're ruining the elongated off-topic jokeyness

Or are you?

"philosoraptor-kings" might be the tweest turn of phrase I have ever heard

'tweest'?

'tweeest'? 'twee-est'?

most twee

thankig u spirea x

(^second most twee)

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