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

re: upthread comment - this is like 'fanfic the sitcom' - i dunno where suddenly this became the episode to comment on it as a bad thing

i enjoyed this. wish it was just the party though tbh.

almost screamed when leslie forgave tom so quickly. i'm like everyone else and i love that this is a show where everyone loves each other, but i was so anticipating a story where a principal actually gets angry at another in a situation with real stakes. these things happen to friends in real life!

halloween stuff was great tho

Her getting into a hot tub with guy that just brought dancers into a business conference made me think made me think pawnee paparazzi was going to come around the corner.

The whole episode was about killing off 7e20. Obviously they came back from the writers' break with no idea what to do with it. That's fine, taking risks like that is awesome to see, but in this case it just didn't pay off.

Also, yeah, Leslie forgiving Tom allows Tom to go back to the parks dept, but that scene just came across as a cop-out.

didn't seem like making entertainment 720 a success was ever part of the plan, then they'd have a workplace-focused comedy with multiple workplaces

I never thought it would be a long-term success either, but I wonder if they truncated it because the guy that plays Jean Ralphio got cast in a mid-season replacement.

Yeah there's that too.

Obviously 720 was never long-term, but it really didn't have anywhere to go even in the short term.

Basically the point of Entertainment 720 was to give Tom a chance to chase his dream and then to see what happens when he fails at it. It's a wacky subplot on the show, but it also provides character development. I'll be disappointed if they have Tom just go back to the parks department as if nothing happened.

Leslie's turnaround from anger to support seemed designed to hint that Tom won't be going back to the Parks Dept

I'll be disappointed if they have Tom just go back to the parks department as if nothing happened.

Pretty sure you're going to be disappointed, because I don't see what else they'll do at this point.

Oh, I don't doubt that he'll return to the parks department. But I'd like to think that he'll be changed somehow.

I thought it was setting it up for her to hire him a campaign manager.

once again I am startled by Leslie not only sharing my birthday, but being two years younger than me

― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Friday, October 28, 2011 3:29 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

well, poehler's character is 4 years younger than poehler for some reason

Maybe so that Leslie and Ben can be the same age?

(I don't know remember if his age or birth date has been stated explicitly, but he was an 18-year-old mayor in 1993, IIRC.)

i was thinking so that she won't be implausibly old if they end up with her married and starting a family in later seasons of the show

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a92ee560970b-800w

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltygixly711qzq9oyo1_500.jpg

Apart from the dumb VW product placement, tonight's episode was totally adorable feelgood mush that I loved.

i love panicky lying leslie so this episode was a delight

tonight's episode was totally adorable feelgood mush that I loved.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 November 2011 01:05 (7 hours ago) Bookmark

yesssssssssssssssssssssssss

although does anyone else find ann to be a really sad character?

Lately, yes. Way sadder than someone like her should be.

They have totally been upping up her pathetic quotient lately, whether it's being spurned by the Pawnee Goddesses or trying to get Ron and April to talk to her for a minute or being dressed as an eggplant. I like it; it gives Rashida Jones something new to play, and it makes it seem like the writers understand that its audience doesn't even really like Ann all that much (relative to Leslie or Ron or Andy or April etc).

Ann Perkins!

The big problem with Ann as a character was that, for a long time, she came across as being generically perfect when compared to the others; everyone else either has a character trait or a situation that sets them outside of the norm but Ann was sort of conceived as the "real person" observing all of the maniacs. Once they brought in Ben to take over as the "real person", they needed to make her fit more into the lunacy of the Pawnee landscape; the creative choice of making her normality a strike against her, causing her to flounder and turn into a loser, is kind of genius. (They're doing a similar thing with Ben and his nerdiness. In the end, Pawnee will claim you and make you strange.)

Ugh I don't like any of that now that I've reread it but I spent too much time typing to delete it.

No, that makes sense.

Also, April's hair this season is A++++ and shows off how cuet she really is.

i'm not that huge an april fan but i laughed at her reaction to the grand canyon

The big problem with Ann as a character was that, for a long time, she came across as being generically perfect when compared to the others; everyone else either has a character trait or a situation that sets them outside of the norm but Ann was sort of conceived as the "real person" observing all of the maniacs. Once they brought in Ben to take over as the "real person", they needed to make her fit more into the lunacy of the Pawnee landscape; the creative choice of making her normality a strike against her, causing her to flounder and turn into a loser, is kind of genius. (They're doing a similar thing with Ben and his nerdiness. In the end, Pawnee will claim you and make you strange.)

Ugh I don't like any of that now that I've reread it but I spent too much time typing to delete it.

― dense macabre (DJP), Friday, November 4, 2011 9:51 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

now do spiderman

Ben's #2 love after The Dark Knight

series of webisodes about April and Andy's road trip: http://www.nbc.com/parks-and-recreation/exclusives/road-trip/

April & Andy are a billion times more adorable couple than Jim & Pam.

The difference being that once Jim & Pam actually got together, everything interesting about either one of them was killed off as they became "JAM". April & Andy, on the other hand, are so much better together (and married) than they were before.

Well, yeah, but I just also find their chemistry a lot more endearing.

series of webisodes about April and Andy's road trip: http://www.nbc.com/parks-and-recreation/exclusives/road-trip/

― encarta it (Gukbe), 2011年11月5日 星期六 上午4:10 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

fucking geoblocked

I have seriously had a gutful of that dumb bullshit

The difference being that once Jim & Pam actually got together, everything interesting about either one of them was killed off as they became "JAM". April & Andy, on the other hand, are so much better together (and married) than they were before.

ITA, Jim and Pam became the ultimate smug marrieds. Andy and April seem to make each other even goofier and more endearing.

I think I always hated Pam, and hated Jim after he dumped Karen, because why would you dump Rashida Jones? (unless she was being so normal she was a loser, DJP otm)

good episode but kinda irked by how much more than $10,000 that party would've cost

also you can't just drive up to the grand canyon, and there'd be people/mules everywhere

F+

I'm with Johnny. This exactly the kind of squishy huggy feelgood episode that I love.

Andy's reaction to the car alarm going off...I died.

still fonder of Andy than i am of many irl friends

He's so goddamn adorable he kills me every Thursday night

he does an amazing frantic twist in the "Spider" webisode.

still don't understand the cuddlestein mountain vibe people have with the characters on this show. i laugh at some of the jokes but when i look at the characters i'm like oh look there's amy poehler being a dork, there's adam scott being uptight, there's aziz ansari being obnoxious, etc. they don't really feel like people to me.

how does one explain a cuddlestein mountain vibe? you either feel it or you don't.

aziz ansari, though, has a perfectly round and adorable face. if you don't respond to that you are just a monster and i can't help you.

Like I said upthread, it's basically a live action "Simpsons," with their own little weird universe (they even have a Shelbyville). You don't really watch for character development. You watch what these set characters do when placed in funny situations or faced with certain challenges.

When Tom got kissed by the cute girl from the strip club I was all "Awwww <3 <3"....and April + Andy doing Andy's bucket list was the cutest ever...and Leslie taking Ben to the gas station and pretending not to be sadface...I really go for that shit. They're zingy and funny too and I can appreciate it on that level, but there's some genuinely sweet moments for these characters too and those moments feel very likeable and human and FINE YES I LIVE ON CUDDLESTEIN MOUNTAIN.

Aw I knew it was going to be the Grand Canyon as soon as they got out of the car, and we just went there a few weeks ago after wanting to go for ages, so that was cool.

where are the faces?

^^^^