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

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

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsoakfBH1p1qi6d7ao5_250.gif

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsoakfBH1p1qi6d7ao6_250.gif

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:

http://www.shoppingblog.com/2011pics/rob_lowe_drew_peterson.jpg

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

i like that they're making andy somewhat competent, last week he thought of going to ron's mom (unsuccessful but a reasonable idea), this week he got the birth certificate for leslie.

i cracked up at the "gotcha!" sticker on the back of leslie's book. and all the crazy people at the book-signing. another good episode.

andy is my favorite character by a long shot

IIRC, Schur has said that Pratt is the best improviser in the cast. Apparently, this wasn't in the script:

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

yeah that was like my #1 lol of last season

That's still funny and I've seen it 50 times!

loved when ron and (aubrey) started to warm up to ann's hospital talk. what did ron say? like "no. speak." or something

The NPR announcement "providing umbrella hats for homeless people when it rains"...omg I died

the dan castellanetta stuff was pretty broad but i like that they bothered to make the fake norwegian lesbian tribal music

i thought it was pretty good norwegian lesbian tribal music tbh

yeah i liked it!

the music was the thing that sounded most like actual-NPR tbh

"nefertiti's fjord"

i lol'd

my reaction was "this could be tUnE-yArDs"

My NPR station doesn't even play music anymore, so.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/the_current/playlist/playlist.php

maybe they have a writer who listens to The Current

Oh, I take that back, there's a local world-music show on Friday nights that actually does look like something Nefertiti's Fjord might be featured on. OK, maybe I just don't listen to enough NPR!

that totally sounds like the stuff they play on the musical segments of "the world"

it sound like typical NPR bumper music, tho usually they dont introduce the artist, the whole "african norwegian lesbians" thing aside

that totally sounds like the stuff they play on the musical segments of "the world"

OTM. The last five minutes of "The World" where they profile an international musical act. Usually pretty terrible.

All Things Considered usually does a music thing, some kinda twee mustache band or Iraqi rappers or w/e

All Things Considered was the first place I ever heard Spice Girls.

My NPR station doesn't even play music anymore, so.

― jaymc, Friday, October 7, 2011 12:14 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark

gotta get NPR2 for that now

this ep was so funny i forgot it was a 22-minute ad for the book tie-in

also pretty good use of chris, actually having him as part of the gang and not just a stationary character who pops up a few times an episode.

lol I'd forgotten that was going to be an actual buyable book.

I didn't even realize the book was an actual artifact until I read another review that cast the whole show in light of it.