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

is telling them

loved how much Knope's "male"over looked like her Hillary impersonation, and the adjacent scene of her talking about becoming first female mayor, etc, but they also had a first female president gag in one of the first episodes so they better stop with that one for a while. Rashida Jones as Amy's trophy wife was pretty funny, also that guy who kept talking about how brave she is/it's OK to fight etc etc. Loved last week's bit with the guy cleaning the house and saying "someone's going to get gently laid tonight" and her "hey!" in the background too.

really hope they didn't hire that guy from All The Real Girls just have to him colin-firth around saving her ass, bridget jones style.

oh, and the speech Knope's boss gave: "You are a woman. You have won this award." etc.

Yeah, Leslie's immediate supervisor guy is a silent comedy force. I remember him from American Body Shop, but that show was terrible.

really, if they'd just make more amy poehler than "michael scott + ally mcbeal" the show might come together. there are so many great supporting actors on this.

more of amy

loved how much Knope's "male"over looked like her Hillary impersonation
all i could think of was the time on antm when they made some model pose as trump and melania.

LOL yes I remember that! Very similar, actually.

really hope they didn't hire that guy from All The Real Girls just have to him colin-firth around saving her ass, bridget jones style.

I kind of get the feeling that that is what they are having him do, though. I only watched five minutes of this last night though so I don't know if it was much better/different from last week.

This show is getting better. This and the Boys' Club episode were both pretty decent. I laughed hardest at the neighbors waving while throwing their trash into the pit.

It's already been renewed for a second season, but I think the current season ends next week (making it only 6 eps...kind of like how The Office began). Here's hoping Parks and Recreation's second season is anywhere as close to the same quality.

just listened to that fresh air interview this morning. poehler's kinda tedious. i liked the palin rap best.

kind of puttering out for me now.

Finale was quite funny, I thought. The band was truly wretched in the best way.

I need to see the whole thing. I only caught the last 15 mins on Thursday night.

I tried REALLY HARD to like this.

The final three eps were LIGHT YEARS better than the first three.

thought the last ep was really good.

lol'd pretty hard @ the student intern - oh he's not my boyfriend, he's the gayest dude i know i just make out with him sometimes when im drunk

I tried REALLY HARD to like this.

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ditto

for me, poehler's not doing what she's good at. like to me she's awesome when she's all bratty and sassy smart girl, like when she did the news...or doing like that "whut whut" shit like in baby mama or blades of glory....

i just think she seems to sharp to buy her as this faux naif female michael scott character....

I think for her to work well in episodic tv, though, her character needs a pretty flat baseline. Her bratty/sassy persona would grate pretty quickly if put out there every week. But this way, she has plenty of room to throw stuff around and see what sticks.

Still optimistic for a good second season.

This last ep definitely gave me more optimism for the show than the previous ones I'd seen (I skipped the last couple of weeks). I'll probably be back for next season.

Go watch "The Banquet" on hulu. I think it was the funniest of the six.

given how long it took the office to reach its peak im willing to give this show a certain amnt of leeway

s2 begins tonight!!

I honestly read that as "sb begins tonight". I have not suggest banned it yet, but I usually forget to watch it and end up doing something else.

LOL @ the cold open.

Love the intern's "complicated" relationship!

"She's Leslie Knope and she wants to recruit you!"

I started singing PJDU at the same time she did, which I found both hilarious & upsetting.

I can't tell if the writing got better over the summer or if I'm just more familiar with the characters now. Some of both, probably.

Both of their phone numbers!

It's still a bit too much The Office w/ Amy Poehler for me.

I think a bit of both - definitely feels like the show is much more at ease with itself.

OMG living in the pit!!

Flipper & Eve, not Flipper & Steve graffiti FTW

the "boom boom" in the club scene was amazing

^YES

Third Paragraph

Really?

is it really that surprising?

I hope the show sticks around, it's pretty funny.

I'm seeing a nightmare scenario w/P&R getting replaced by "SNL Thursdays" once 30 Rock comes back.

The first two weeks of the season, P&R has been my favorite out of NBC's Thu night run. Makes sense it's on the block I guess... shit I think is funny usually gets canceled. What else would they put in its place, though? Another crapfest like Kath & Kim?

Jay Leno wanking for a half hour.

Sorry, I just grossed myself out so I probably made others slightly ill there as well.

spunking all over denim-saturated motorcycles

I would/will watch Amy Poehler in basically anything and sometimes I find P&R amusing, but it's sooo *slight* - sorta on purpose, I guess. It's just impossible to imagine this show getting the type of fanbase that it would take to stay on air. even if it were really funny!

The second episode this season was the best episode of this show so far.

It would benefit by being sandwiched between The Office and 30 Rock, but that would require them moving The Office to 8 and 30 Rock to 9... which actually would be a pretty great idea, leaving Community at 9:30. Of course, NBC won't move The Office out of the 9pm slot.

chris pratt's character's development (or de-evolution) is my favorite part of the show

chris pratt's character's development (or de-evolution) is my favorite part of the show

The shot where they cut to him and he's standing knee-deep in the pit and munching on a carrot absolutely slayed me.

She did! We meet them both. But the name April Ludgate does not scream "we intended this character to have Puerto Rican roots," though I probably wouldn't have thought that without Tom Haverford also being on the character list.

lol this is great

At the meeting, they told her the idea for the show's pilot and that they were considering giving Amy Poehler's character an assistant who was a doltish blonde. Plaza pitched them instead the character of a smart intern who is at the department only for college credit and does not care about the job, which Plaza thought would be an interesting, comedic contrast with Poehler's character. They liked the concept for the character and created April Ludgate.[43][14][6][42] Plaza, who said that in real life she was like Poehler's earnestly hard-working character, took inspiration from her younger sister for April's apathetic disposition.[

From a 2013 interview with Plaza

We started talking casually, and I threw out a couple of ideas. “Wouldn’t it be funny if they had a college intern who didn’t really want to be there and was only there for the college credit?” And they said, “That’d be really funny.” I found out later that they wrote me into the pilot, and they even used my name. But then I had to audition for it. I just went in and read on tape, but they changed the character’s name from Aubrey to April so I wouldn’t think that it was written for me. [Laughs.] I pretty much had it in the bag, but I didn’t know it.

I wonder what the show would have done with Ron Swanson had they gone beyond 2015 into the Trump presidency. His anti-government stance is presented relatively genially (and without ever, I don't think, following through on what that might mean in real terms), and I don't think you ever dislike him. With a hateful, nihilistic (and completely unprincipled) version of Ron in office, that might have been trickier. (They do soften him towards the end anyway, and he's always expressing his admiration for Leslie.)