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

April's line to Jamm about training a crow to fly up his butt made me lololol

Nice to see they let Harris wear his own clothes to taping.

that became part of his character in the Valentines day episode

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I could've sworn in a recent episode Ron mentioned in passing that he and Diane had broken up. But now they're back together?

they never broke up

I wonder what I misheard. I remember being surprised that it was handled so nonchalantly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5BBhNkywMJY#!

I was just laughing at everything in this episode. I don't know why! It was really good! Poor Gerry.

loool this star wars pitch is awesome

was there one on last night or something?

No. there's two on tomorrow night though. That Star Wars pitch is an extended outtake.

ok cool

not available in my country

Article 2, first of the two shown last night, was so great! Patton Oswalt was amazing.

Isn't it established that Gerry's actual name is Gary, but they call him Gerry in the office because no one ever bothered to get it right? I might be wrong, but I could swear Gayle called him Gerry at least once during the breakfast scene.

I'd offer some quotes, but it seems like it was all in the delivery this ep.

Lesson: if you want a girl to make out with you, tell her you'd planned some macaroni & cheese pizza for the evening.

Ann's ebay name is "Future Mrs. Tiger Woods".

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that Patton Oswalt uncut filibuster is amazing!

The X-Men don't fly a Quinjet, Sir.

Donna talking about Game of Thrones was amazing.

retta's a huge tv nerd irl, i loved that they worked that in

dothraki can GET IT lololol

show of hands who will be singing the breakfast song from now on

i'd sing it if i had eggs bacon and toast and several hotcakes for breakfast every morning

the gerry ep was great- the other one was pretty decent too. The show's doing pretty well for being deep into its run. I'm wondering if they're planning on wrapping it up soon though.

critics have been saying it's almost certainly going to be renewed for another season, as it's the only nbc comedy doing consistently non-terrible numbers.

The wedding was meant to be a series finale so I think they're just going with it now.

as long as the actors are still killing it like this i'm totally okay with this show having no real plan

agreed. alternating between amusing/likeable and pretty damn funny is a good enough ratio for me.

parks and recreation consistently likable and not terrible ratings no controversy ever

I wonder what will happens if Mike Schur's police comedy gets picked up by fox?

according to sepinwall, schur has a co-creator/production partner who will take the lead on it while schur focuses on P&R.

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critics have been saying it's almost certainly going to be renewed for another season, as it's the only nbc comedy doing consistently non-terrible numbers.

I was curious, so I looked at the average # of viewers for NBC sitcoms this season, and it shakes out like this:

1. Go On
2. The Office
3. The New Normal
4. Guys with Kids
5. Whitney
6. 30 Rock
7. Parks and Rec
8. Up All Night
9. Community
10. 1600 Penn

That said, apart from the departing 30 Rock and The Office, all of the shows with larger audiences *on average* than Parks and Rec's have aired two to four episodes this season with fewer viewers than P&R's lowest-performing episode. Compared to the majority of NBC's comedy programming -- such as Go On, whose ratings have been on a steady decline ever since its big premiere -- P&R performs very consistently, even if it never reaches beyond about 4 million viewers per episode.

that ranking reflects total viewers and not the adult demo rating, right? if critics are to be believed, the demo is the more significant number (RIP Harry's Law, watched by millions, all of them olds).

Right.

Oh -- P&R actually does *better* within the 18-49 demo. Only behind Go On and The Office. How about that.

Info from here, btw.

wow, look at those numbers for Go On! a 5.6 to a 1.0 all in a single season?? thursday really is a cursed night

The Voice lead-in is all they have. It's why they'll only air Revolution after it. They're worried it'll go the way of The Event and every other crap hi-concept drama they've had.

"hi-concept"

the birth control pills story ruled.

does anyone know which mini golf course they shot at? it didn't look like the one in sherman oaks, but that's the only one in the area I know of.

Don't know but I liked that they didn't even try hiding the palm trees.

Pawnee Palms!

does anyone know which mini golf course they shot at? it didn't look like the one in sherman oaks, but that's the only one in the area I know of.

Judging by how much they film in Burbank id guess they just used the golf course that's on Universal, or next to it; the Toluca Lake one.

Didn't see the episode so I'm not confident but that's where id guess.

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Ha! I didn't even notice (or remember, a day later) that that's the name of the place.

speaking of this show's locations, I love how they take that part of Burbank on Riverside Dr, by the Equestrian center, and double it for Indiana. The tall trees obscure that just beyond them is the Griffith Park mountain, and the Hollywood sign on the other side of it. They use Pasadena a lot, too.

Although a friend of mine who lives out in the sticks now, but used to live in LA, loathes the show's doubling and treatment of small town Middle-America, saying that it's all inaccurate and the epitome of what L.A. big city folk imagine it's like in cutesy fly-over parts. That it's condescending.

And to that I say: of course it is, but did you expect, and would people want, Greg Daniels to have created a small-town America show that's HBO comedy depressing? This is for NBC, from the same people that made the Office.