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

"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

Offerman didn't even get to announce the noms, held up by "weather-related travel delays," sucks 2 be him i guess

aw man, weak sauce

let's be honest though, offerman was like fuck this man i got fish to catch

Possibly! He said in that interview that he was honored to be asked but that it fell in the middle of his family's annual fishing trip in Minnesota.

I love that guy.

A friend posted on FB that she noticed a film crew in NYC shooting something with Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd both dressed as Benjamin Franklin.

"both dressed as Benjamin Franklin."

was this a 2-people-in-1-costume deal, like a horse costume

she's the kite

was this a 2-people-in-1-costume deal, like a horse costume

One can dream, but I got the impression they were separately attired.

well she'd be at the ass end with that big old Ben Franklin caboose

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happy to see the return of my favorite thread title PORN and RACK-REATION aka "Everyone's coming on Amy"

for the rashida jones fans...
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lyapalater/rashida-jones-is-jaw-droppingly-gorgeous-in-new-ph

^that is why the whole ann/tom thing is dumb

Newsflash: Rashida Jones is jaw-droppingly gorgeous rolling out of bed or sweeping a floor or, basically, breathing.

^that is why the whole ann/tom thing is dumb

― LaMonte, Friday, September 21, 2012 3:07 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also because they are totally unconvincing in acting it out

at first I thought the plotline was that they were pretending to date

That was the plot line in this episode. Did you mean when they first started dating?

This just wasn't very funny, like it was written by someone who'd only made the vaguest attempt to understand any of the characters.

Taking half the cast out of Pawnee was a mistake as well.

show is kinda too cutesy for me at this point, might be done with it.

yeah not a great episode- characters becoming more cartoonish and yet less funny, plotline seemed to puncture encroaching fonzieness of ron swanson only serving to amplify it. i am glad they finally killed the tom and ann relationship.

That was the plot line in this episode. Did you mean when they first started dating?

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 21 September 2012 12:18 (Yesterday) Permalink

yeah

the fonziefication of ron has been happening since the beginning of S3, if he started out like that no one would've minded probably (like andy, or if chris were a more important character in the beginning)

i'm prepared for this to be the season where the show goes downhill but it's probably also the last season and it's tiny so i'm ready to just ignore that and laugh way too hard at the stuff that works

er, i'm rusty -- switch andy and chris, and i meant if andy were more impt in the beginning than people would've cared more about his character suddenly changing (but still no one ever cares that chris is a cartoon)

pretty much they're all cartoons other than leslie and ben.

Ben is a cartoon, he's a stick figure

i'm prepared for this to be the season where the show goes downhill but it's probably also the last season and it's tiny so i'm ready to just ignore that and laugh way too hard at the stuff that works

This is the Parks & Recreation thread, not the Community or 30 Rock thread

pretty much they're all cartoons other than leslie and ben.

Not only that, they've been cartoons since season 2 IMO

They're cartoons but they're loveable ones.

Possibly the worst move has been taking April out of the office and putting her into a more fulfilling job in another city. I hope they find a way to bring her and Ben back soon. I don't really the point of the writers finding a convoluted way to bring Ann into the parks department only to send two characters hundreds of miles away.

so many whiners itt

No, no. They're right. Based on the twenty minutes we saw this week, there is no way this season won't be awful.

The first episodes of NBC seasons are usually a bit clunky, it'll improve.

this is a show about nice people being nice to one another. people need to chill.

Seriously. I don't know what people will complain about when all of the decent NBC sitcoms are gone.

I watched the last 6 or so episodes from last season just before this season's premiere and they were all of a piece. If you've been a fan up to now, there's nothing wrong with the show unless you're actively looking to nitpick.

word

ron was being worse than usual tho. i think it was about how he needs leslie or chris or such to keep him in check or he just becomes horrible.

That was my read as well.

“And here, in a third-time’s-the-charm move, is the REAL theme of the episode and also, I predict, the season: Leslie finally has her dream job and it is not at all like she dreamed it would be. Generally speaking this is the No. 1 problem with dream jobs. Say you always dreamed of being a princess or a mermaid. What about if you become a princess, people post topless photos of you on the internet? And HOW DO MERMAIDS HAVE SEX?”

— Jessica Goldstein, Vulture: Parks and Recreation Recap: Twinkle Twinkle Big Star

I actually enjoyed this one reasonably well.

No, no. They're right. Based on the twenty minutes we saw this week, there is no way this season won't be awful.

― Old Lunch, Saturday, September 22, 2012 10:17 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i came into the episode feeling that this season was going to decline, just cause these shows usually don't go this long without losing their shine. it's ok. but if this is going to become like the community thread where the slightest complaint is met with a chorus of guilters branding you the devil for ruining their precious giggles experience, i'll remove bookmark now

unless that's already happened in this thread, i don't remember

man, there are a bunch of grumps itt

Two words: Oval Redenbacher

why would you even bother watching the show if you were expecting a decline? I usually don't waste time watching things that I don't intend or expect to enjoy

anyone who loves a show has already seen the episodes they'll always love the most, so they'll always think it's on the decline whether it is or not, and will always be loyal enough to keep watching, and probably complaining.

Ehhh, not really. A lot of shows I love continue to surprise me. Or at least maintain a high enough level of quality that I still appreciate them. Even in light of the fact that hardly any shows stay great for more than, say, five seasons, I can often still find stuff to love. People need to save the naysaying for the good shows that go well and truly off the rails (any P&R fans complaining at this point in the run need to watch the entirety of Roseanne to see what a true decline entails).

I still love P&R, and it still has the problem of being full of impossibly delightful in-love couples that make me feel a lot of emotions.

I'm glad that I still enjoy seeing happy couples and realistic depictions of same, but given my utterly cynical outlook on relationships where I'm a participant, I'm sympathetic to the notion that those depictions sometimes stir up a lot of (sometimes unpleasant/unwanted) emotions.