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

http://www.uproxx.com/webculture/2012/05/the-best-of-andy-dwyer/#page/1

the burt macklin pie recreation is at least top 5 scene this season

I am glad you said so, because I was feeling a little silly at how hard I laughed at that.

I was convinced that the discovery at the end would be that it was April aiming for Jerry. That woulda been funny too.

the sewer guy culprit was also Britta's ex from Community a few weeks ago

i think that episode of p&r is the most feel-good tv can ever get. it really made me happy.

So next season we get Andy the cop! And Ben leaves the show so Adam can be a movie star?

"in the case of a tie, the man is awarded the victory and the woman is imprisoned."

Well, it IS a city law.

lol @ blitzed Ann agreeing to move in with Tom

I also love the fact that it ended on a "JERRY!" moment

jean-ralphio's cameo was total fan-service, but since i'm a fan i LOVED IT

probably Schwartz-service as much as anything, since he loves doing it

It just made me think of his job interview walk-through, which is probably my lol highlight of the season.

the way adam scott pronounced "nuthin"

also this episode made me cry twice

Andy fixing the computer made me laugh so hard i had to rewind like the 2 minutes that came after.

jean-ralphio cameo made me think that awful show he's on was canceled but i guess not :(

go with your gut

House of Lies really is just the worst show

ha @ leslie's face when she says "you have PLENTY of jeans"

all about leslie's face this ep

cried real tears @ that last shot after she slides her picture in and she looks like the little girl in her campaign video. omg.

yeah, poehler really killed it this ep, even more than that speech at the end of the debate episode. manly tears yo

I really love Leslie Knope. It is silly to say but she's like my personal role model.

Silly because she's too wonderful??

I cried... and then I cuddled with my care bear and arranged flowers because I'm a WOMAN.

No but really I did cry. Good stuff.

i totally cried. she's brilliant.

So good, especially the last one:

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That drawing of Leslie really captures her spirit!

v. nice, where are these from?

http://rickylinn.com/

Today's Variety has an article written in character by Poehler called The Audacity of Knope.

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http://www.avclub.com/articles/nick-offerman-on-parks-and-recreation-kabuki-and-f,82589/

As Swanson, Offerman is both father figure and anchor of the show, providing a stern, deadpan center in the eye of the craziness, as well as the rare TV depiction of masculinity that’s funny without being tied to tired chauvinistic stereotypes.

um

ha what? There was a whole episode where he had a boys-only survivalist club. Like I know it would be tedious to list reasons why that's silly but I had to say just one.

it would be more accurate to say he humanizes tired chauvinistic stereotypes and (for many) makes them endearing

That NSFW headshot of him with a foam rubber Tetsuo cock is priceless

I think maybe the writer thinks that "chauvinistic stereotypes" only refers to like open sexual harrassment ala Mad Men or something.

Have we so soon forgotten Home Improvement?

not soon enough

Offerman's announcing the Emmy nominations tomorrow morning -- hope he gets to read some good news for himself and the show. Seems like his failure to score a nomination last year was seen as one of the bigger "snubs," so maybe Emmy voters will want to avoid similar accusations this year. The Peabody Award might also convince some people who'd previously ignored P&R that it's a show worth paying attention to.

oh god abbottt whyyyyyyy did you post that picture

Because it is cracking me up, still! Here's the story about it from the link DJP posted:

It’s funny, the flipside to that is, once I got into the business, immediately in Chicago—when I met with agents and people taking headshots and all that—they immediately started to categorize me and tell me what I was. When I first met with agents, they said, “Okay, you’re going to play plumbers and mechanics and bus drivers and farmers. Go.” And I was like, “Man… Fuck you. I can play anything, you son of a bitch!”

My response to that was to get this three-quarter headshot—like, knees to head—with this huge foam latex cock about the size of my forearm and fist that I’d made for a play. I got a headshot taken with this thing hanging out of my fly and just looking defiantly at the camera. I sent it to everybody in town. [Laughs.] That was my response to being told I was gonna be playing bus drivers: “Oh yeah? Have you seen my dick?” And wonderfully, two people in town got it and thought it was really funny, and they put me in plays in their theaters.

I’m gonna go see if I can find this photograph. One of the good things is, I’m super-young. I’m like 22 or 23 in this photo. I’ll be interested to get [my publicist’s] opinion on publishing a photo of me with a huge cock sticking out of my pants, but I believe I’m all for it. [Laughs.]

that was a pretty good interview. i'm horrified and dying at that picture

It amuses me that his DIY craftsmanship extends to making body terror penis props.

<3 that photo

i love how he's almost cradling it like a baby

and his awesome rockabilly hair!

P&R shut out of the main Emmy nominations again w/the exception of Poehler.

Two writing nominations, though, and one for the "April and Andy's Road Trip" webisode.

"shut out" is a pretty absolute term, should prob not be used when there are exceptions

Yeah, true. But no noms for comedy series or for Offerman is disappointing.

big bang crime against humanity etc