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

Except they obviously have a new stylist. April is dressing differently, and Rob Lowe's hair is still terrible. Distracting!

Everybody pants now! Pants pants pants pants pants pants.

you gold digger! you are literally a gold digger!

i can't believe they've had detlef shrempf in like three/four episodes now. and added roy hibbert.

Reggie Miller before season's end.

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i'm not as big a jean-ralphio stan as some people on here but his whole speech to ben where he changes his name to "jello shots" was pretty amazing

I think my favorite Jean-Ralphio moment is when he's trying to get Donna to invest in the Snakehole.

changes his name to "jello shot," then immediately shortens it to "j-shot".

jean-ralphio's reached some dizzying heights imo, but my favorite moment is his quick, respectful "yes i'm here" when leslie drunkenly summons him to dance up on her.

Tom:"Swingers or Crashers?"

J-R:"Fred Claus."

^genius

e720 stuff was good, the rest wasn't too good I thought.

I liked April sitting up straight when Tammy 1 came in

the non-mustachio ron-being-a-weirdo bit was also hilare

hey Jerr, humpday amirite??

"i'm being audited by the IRS" "no, your worst nightmare!" was such a clumsy attempt at a joke because that's everybody's worst nightmare, not just the crazy libertarian guy who hates the government meddling in his life

there was an uncharacteristic amount of clumsiness in this ep.

It was slow imo. It's like they've gone right, we made this "Tammys" promise, let's get it over with.

i felt like they did all these 720 jokes already and the detlef schremph isn't it funny that this guys knows a lot about business stuff joke was lame. weak episode.

yeah the "praire drinkoff" was really stupid too. But whatever, let's move on.

i feel bad for adam scott, he's really getting painted into a boring pattern of always going "hey these characters are being crazy/irresponsible, i should point it out!"

yeah if this was all they had planned for him they should have just kept Paul Schneider!

drink-off gives the glory that is Amy Poehler playing drunk and going "everybody pants now pantspantspantspantspants" and if that's weak then y'all are crazy

I felt stuff like "jail, ron!" and "you literally are a gold digger" fell flat, but that snarky b-ball players, neutered wimp Ron and drunk Leslie were enough to keep the ep afloat

waaaaay better than the Office ep! whoa!

the great line wasn't "Jail, Ron! Ron, jail! Jail! Jail!", it was Ron's response

Chris/Ann was surprisingly funny, I thought I was going to get tired of it at some point

loved every moment of the prairie drink-off, from "everybody pants now" to April's tag-in

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Well then.

gotta wonder what sort of person does such a thing

that chest hair is truly disturbing.

This Public radio cold open...

"oh yes, they are awful. but they are lesbians, so..."

Pawnee's version of "Fresh Air"!

The only thing that worries me about this show, which I love, is whether they might make a hero out of a Libertarian. Are the writers so inclined?

South Park is built on trumpeting libertarian values and it's still funny, so...big deal.

Aubrey Plaza is getting hotter by the second.

The only thing that worries me about this show, which I love, is whether they might make a hero out of a Libertarian.

Hero? Funny is funny and relatable/sympathetic characters are relatable/sympathetic characters, strident belief systems bedamned.

ugh you guys liked the NPR spoof?

Best part of the cold open was the announcer, who actually sounded like a NPR voice. Castellaneta's character embodied that hoary stereotype of NPR dudes as touchy-feely liberal wimps.

Which I'm not saying is 100% groundless, but it was written and played too broadly to be recognizable.

When they first started the cold open I immediately thought of Garrison Keillor.

liked aubrey plaza's one word shutdowns with Anne. And of course Joan Calamezzo is always welcome.

oh yeah and the val kilmer line

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great moment

I like the idea that Nick offerman was really breaking there and they put it in

Yeah, I imagine they just rolled for a bit while Aubrey used a few different names as the button on the joke and Lester is the one that made him crack.

ha ha, sepinwall revealed what's been up with rob lowe's hair this season, apparently it's to mask the fact that's he's also filming a lifetime movie where he plays drew peterson:

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god, creeeeeepy!

this episode was nine times better than the last two

OK, I just listened to a few minutes of Bookworm with Michael Silverblatt on KCRW, and I take back what I said about Castellaneta's character.

lol

Ann was awesome this episode, I don't know why I gravitated towards that totally unimportant story line but it was great

also lol @ the dancers and Chris's reaction to them

extra lol @ Chris at the Eagleton records office, Lowe was really killing it