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

yeah season 1 was trying too hard to be bleak and horrible like the office, which i enjoyed for the first couple of seasons of the office, but i like that they just made leslie awesome instead of sad.

no i was saying she doesn't sneer! (she is my hero, btw)

― horseshoe, Monday, September 19, 2011 9:24 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

i love leslie and she has every right to sneer. not a LITERAL sneer, (what are we even talking about), but she has an awareness of the faults of pawnee's people and her facial expressions at the town hall meetings, her shame wrt to the paintings at city hall, etc, say a lot. I'm saying that her claims of adoration for pawnee aren't 100% sincere because it's more complicated than that; she's trying to convince herself (and everyone else) that she is in blind love with the town but nearly every interaction she has with it is less than perfect.

None of the townspeople are major characters. They're a source of conflict, which is fine because without conflict there's no narrative. Also, Leslie's driven by her love of Pawnee as a whole, not the dozen or so froot loops who keep turning up to town hall meetings.

yeah that's the point -- the town is one giant character that serves as the butt of a lot of the shows' jokes. a giant version of jerry.

also, come on "Gerry Grgich" is clearly a typo, because why the hell would they spell his name right? it's jerry.

Yeah definitely a typo, I just went with it because it's all I'd seen.

I'm saying that her claims of adoration for pawnee aren't 100% sincere because it's more complicated than that; she's trying to convince herself (and everyone else) that she is in blind love with the town but nearly every interaction she has with it is less than perfect.

Yeah. She's a career politician, so really it could be any town, but her attachment comes from her duty to it (which ultimately is about progressing her own career). The bind is that her strong responsibility ties her to the one place – Pawnee is her pet project now.

http://i56.tinypic.com/hv0z04.jpg

looool i love that

We're also led to believe that there's something intangible about Pawnee that draws fondness from its people (e.g. the whole Lil Sebastian thing), which I understand because I live in a city with a character that's very strong but also hard to get a grip on.

xxp aaaaahahahahaha

why must comedy have a future

― conrad, Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:38 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

who let the lex on a sitcom thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMRUf8ykPhI

Oh man that is a treat

ha ha, jerry didn't know he was adopted.

"anchors aweigh, ladies!"

i guess they felt extra bad about what they've done to jerry, since they gave him the largest penis anyone's ever seen

solid ep I thought. Are they waiting to explain Rob Lowe's hair in this episode?

"I have something important to tell you."
"Yes, but wait, before you start, I want to show you this."
"No, let me go first, I need to ––––"

I hate that kind of crap about as much as I hate manufactured love interests on sitcoms.

I was really hoping Upside Down Triangle Head would die this episode. It's the only way it can work out.

ann, you beautiful naive sophisticated baby

also perd hapley will never not make me laugh

"and now for the female perspective, a woman"
"i DON'T know what you mean, but it had the cadence of a joke"

yeah perd is the best. ya heard?

"there you have it, where "it" is the thing leslie knope just said about this situation."

Clarkson fucking killed it in ~2 mins screentime, holy shit next week should be amazing

"I have the toes I have" is one of my favorite Ron lines ever.

sweet middle name

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrygp5tTjY1qmha4qo1_500.png

otm about the toes line

Crying with laughter in the first two minutes. omg this show.

solid ep I thought. Are they waiting to explain Rob Lowe's hair in this episode?

― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 23 September 2011 15:50 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

God I hope so, it's awful and distracting and not even in character.

I am expecting it to be some kind of fringe toupée, chris freaking out about receding hair or something.

More like "Is Rob Lowe supposed to be an unkempt drunk this season?"

I didn't notice that Rob's hair changed.

i guess they felt extra bad about what they've done to jerry, since they gave him the largest penis anyone's ever seen― FLAWLESS STANCE, ATHLETIC BEAST, WINNER'S POSTURE (reddening), Friday, September 23, 2011 5:31 AM (Yesterday)

I liked this reveal a lot. It adds to the futility of Jerry. He has a godly dong but no one is gonna no about it.

Also, maybe it helps explain why Jerry doesn't get too upset when he gets knocked down all the time.

I think that's what makes Jerry interesting and funny as a character. Apart from the penis thing, he actually has a lot going for him. From what he says he has a loving family, he's a talented artist and reasonable musician but he is still the butt of the departments jokes. He should really be one of the most confident people in the department.

Jerry explained this on a past episode. He puts up with it because he is cruising toward retirement.

"sit up straight, you're not doing your breasts any favors"

Lowe's hair was just meant to show how flustered he was I thought

figured jerry just has no idea that his penis is even big

^^

he's also probably got the mumps

Even before I remembered that Michael Schur's favorite sitcom of all time is Cheers, it occurred to me that Tammy 1 = Lilith.

The entire exchange where Joe from sewage gets fired and learns he has mumps is classic.

show needs 2 find a way that jean-ralphio is in the office on a reg basis

jean-ralphio is on another show this fall i think :(

but i think he's still coming back for a few, since he's all wrapped up in tom's plotline

hm yeah looks like hes on this showtime show - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lies

The entire exchange where Joe from sewage gets fired and learns he has mumps is classic.

as a sarah lawrence alum I can tell you that this characterization is spot-on

http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2011/09/Picture-1-1317263392.png

Nick Offerman, btw

wau

Little did they know that the moustache would become the true source of his power.

Decoy gold

we're gonna go play video games and tweet our high scores

amazing episode. all of the entertainment 7wenty stuff was hilarious.

jail, ron. jail. ron ... jail. jail! ron! jail!

quality lols. aubrey plaza is so funny.

Aubrey Plaza has murdered this character. So good.