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

i'd still watch it

Ha well obv I would too if I sat through his first one, "Aziz Ansari KANYE TWITTER"

I would watch him do FUNNY VOICE FUNNY VOICE FUNNY VOICE FUNNY VOICE FUNNY VOICE

haha today i listened to montell jordan's "this is how we do it" and kept heaaring aziz ansari's voice :/

omg wtf is gonna be awesome this week

http://new.livestream.com/paleycenter/ParksandRecreation - Parks and Rec's Paleyfest panel, starting in a little bit. Unlike Community, most of the cast doesn't seem to be there, but it's got Amy Poehler, Chris Pratt, Retta, Jim O'Heir, Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, so it should still have some decent stuff in there.

That episode was PERFECT. For every character.

Yes, Ron's emphatic "YES" re: going home with Andy's professor was great.

lol @ third steak

loved rob lowe's enthusiasm for ron's shirt

sad to see this go for 6 weeks.

Hi it's back and charming as ever

I loved the pig.

Loved "Josh" and the West Wing intro gag.

This week's episode apparently already aired in Canada?

Tomorrow's or last weeks? We had a new episode last Thursday..

This week's! The debate with Paul Rudd episode. Another Canadian friend said it aired by surprise on City TV last night.

Oh! I missed that. Pity, I was bored last night.

if you trawl the seedy underbelly of the Internet, the episode is floating around. my sisters insisted we watch it immediately so they wouldn't risk being spoiled by tint-shifted anigifs on tumblr.

holy fuck that was gooooooooooooooood tv

if you're talking about the new episode (scheduled to air tomorrow night), SHUT UP.

Can you really get spoiled about a P&R episode, tho? Someone would kinda have to type out dozens of jokes.

have you seen ILX sitcom threads before?

is saying a new p&r episode is good spoiling it?

its not exactly like i say **** does this and ****** does that etc.

I think Gukbe was laying down a preemptive NO SPOILERS decree. You're in the clear with saying it was good.

Yeah, no issues with an evaluation.

yeah, very good episode, i will just say that what this show does well it does very well here, and that what it has had some trouble doing it has some trouble doing again in this episode but luckily that part is not nearly as much the focus as what it does well. also: tour de force chris pratt performance.

the early snippets of him felt like disconnected Pratt adlibs that had made the crew laugh so they got spliced in, despite not really supporting the scene. but his ...extended performances later in the ep were certainly worthy of their audience's reaction.

those were SO good

rudd killed it but god the whole aziz/rashida thing is so garbage

yeah, i can't imagine anyone out there watching is really rooting for those two to make it happen, feels like something a show would do in it's ninth season when they just start pairing ppl up to see what happens. when this show makes fun of politics, or govt, or esp the media or ESP the citizenry let's say it's really fantastic. the workplace humor stuff is also strong. but the aziz/rashida stuff makes the ed helms/ellie kemper stuff on the office look like sam malone and diane chambers.

yeah, they're not even trying that hard with it. it sadly reeks of "well, we have no storylines for these two, so..." but i'd rather see them in a crappy storyline than not at all, i suppose

I like the Ann/Tom pesudo-pairing for how deliciously wrong it is.

The Parks & Rec writers know how stupid the Ann/Tom relationship is, judging by their comments at the most recent PaleyFest (yes I am a nerd). They seem to mainly want to mine good character moments before the whole thing is over (OMG TOM HAS THE BEST GIRLFRIEND APT!)

tour de force chris pratt performance

Andy would prob say tour de France. Chris Pratt has been MVP of this season.

Sepinwall says (I'm told that about 50% of the "Roadhouse" bit was improvised, and 100% of the other movies were.)

yeah, they're not even trying that hard with it. it sadly reeks of "well, we have no storylines for these two, so..." but i'd rather see them in a crappy storyline than not at all, i suppose

I like Rashida Jones, so it's disappointing that they can't seem to come up with many stories for Ann aside from getting her together with different guys on the show.

If this show turned into a half hour of Chris Pratt/Andy Dwyer acting out the plot of different movies, I wouldn't complain.

I like the Ann/Tom pesudo-pairing for how deliciously wrong it is.

― Simon H., Friday, April 27, 2012 12:46 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

i think that's what they're going for but it isn't really very delicious.

rashida/rob lowe was an actually entertaining pairing, although it'd be kinda lame if they just sent her back to him like clockwork.

I thought this was... okay

The emotional bits worked really well (including Ann negging Chris and Tom) but I wanted Andy's "tour de force" to be more than just acting out movies. I like that character more when he's interjecting or bouncing off of others, I guess.

I will say that Rob Lowe is killing it this season, though.

I love how fantastic of a physical actor Pratt is. Like the gag of him kicking over the TV was so obvious, but it was still p hilarious.

yeah i wasn't gonna say anything but i idg the bfd about chris pratt in this episode. enthusiastically summarizing movies seems a little stale as a gag, and the execution didn't really do much for me.

the TV kick and his attempt to schmooze donors with April were way funnier than the movie summaries IMO; actually I thought Donna's enraptured response to them was funnier than the summaries.

"Politics!" I love when Andy & April try to blend.

"investments? i recently invested in some t-shirts from the thrift store. i left them at wendy's. the economy."

Ron trying to hide when he hears sirens; Wichita Lineman

Andy's retelling of the fourth Rambo film was about as spot-on a critique as I've read about it.

i haven't seen it yet, but there's a director's cut of last night's episode with 6 additional minutes. so much bonus comedy between this and the two versions of 30 rock!

The extended version doesn't add much, sadly, it's just more time lolling with your favorite people on TV

Wichita Lineman was gorgeous.

"and please stop ducking the first question. Did Groffle use some sort of boat to cross the river?"

Chris Traeger has become such a great character.