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

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Here's hoping the show is actually good and keeps running so I won't have dedicated a thread to it for no reason.

I like good TV shows, but an hour a night is about right for sofa taterin' and I've got that on Thursday already.

u gonna hold that against parks & rec

Not if it's really good. Might drop The Office, though, if it doesn't pick back up.

this is like sophie's choice

so far... waaaaay too similar in tone to The Office.

Shouldn't be too hard to fix, though.

this wasn't funny

the office has enough characters to keep things fresh even tho all the jokes hit the same note, and this one has... 5 characters? obv more will be introduced but man that first ep was rough

Naw it was fine

aziz was funny actually

Parks & Recreation is the most talked about new comedy on television!

"It was fine!" - n/a
"this is ... choice!" - s1ocki
"It's really good!" - Oilyrags

Needs more Loudon Wainwright!

i thought it was pretty funny and great

is rashida jones hot in it?

pretty hot pretty great

The first episode of The Office was weaksauce too, mostly because it was a rehash of the UK version. Greg Daniels' jokes aren't funny on the surface. The funny comes when you know the characters (which we don't yet).

pretty hot pretty great

― Mr. Que, Thursday, April 9, 2009 9:19 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark

ok that's a relief

xpost: I'm really glad they shelved Michael's hair plugs.

Couldn't get through this episode.

echo the 'it was okay' sentiments. laughed at the covering up of the violent parts of the mural.

I kinda liked the park dept manager who wanted to privatize the whole park dept. But overall, yeah, pretty thin gruel.

They must've known he's the real gold, since they did his little thing over the end credits.

I liked it. I hope Amy can walk the Michael Scott of seasons 1-2 line of balancing cringe-induction and geniuine lulz. That might be the dorkiest thing I've ever said, in a long line of dorky sentences. Anyway. Pancakes!

"This is where the rubber of government meets the road of actual human beings."

how is this show different from the office

like i am watching the pilot and amy poehler is exactly like michael scott, what's the point

(a: rashida jones)

There were times this week I thought "okay, this is actually getting better and can be good" and then there were times I thought "Jesus, why am I watching this? What else is on?"

i give it six more weeks

This needs to be completely retooled and fast.

There was an article last week in Entertainment Weekly saying that the pilot had been rewritten and shot several times so it would be less like The Office. Can;t even imagine how that must have been.

wau

yeah that was like

Maybe it was originally funnier?

"According to an early test screening of the pilot — results of which leaked online last month — many viewers felt Parks was ''too close and similar to The Office.'' But the Parks department claims the data was based on an extremely early version of the pilot — one that bears little resemblance to what viewers will see on April 9. ''By the time we had even gotten the results of the testing back, we had done, like, five more edits of the pilot,'' says Schur. ''The only thing that matters at all is the final product, and it's going to be very, very different from the version that was thrown in front of a group of people.''

Glad they got that all fixed before the premiere, was hardly like the Office at all.:/

My wife walked into the room, watched the show for like 5 seconds, and asked me whether the Office had a bunch of new characters. She had no idea that an Office spin-off had been created, and Rashida Jones wasn't even in that scene.

The tone is very similar to the Office, but the writing and acting are noticeably inferior. It's not good.

yeah not impressed so far- I expected them to get more mileage from the dour small town bureaucracy vibe but so far this is just like Dunder Mifflin

I've only seen the first five minutes of the most recent episode (watching it during my smoke break on iPod) but I thought the poop-bag flinging (and Poehler enjoying it) was very funny, made me laugh right out loud

That's the funniest five minutes of the whole series so far. You lucked out.

For some reason I find Chris Pratt acting like douche hilarious, so his guest star status makes me sad. Maybe they could trade him for that sulky intern chick?

Last night's episode was definitely way better than any that came before it. I can't tell if it's actually getting funnier or if I'm just more familiar with the characters and their behavioral patterns now.

The less content about "The Pit," the better the show.

was mildly interested in this until hearing her on terri gross and remembering that everyone on SNL is kinda dumb and annoying

Everyone? nah.

For some reason I find Chris Pratt acting like douche hilarious, so his guest star status makes me sad. Maybe they could trade him for that sulky intern chick?

― the devil's runes (reddening), Monday, May 4, 2009 3:06 PM

i've watched 2 or 3 eps of season 1 and the funniest part was probably him saying his band is called "just the tip"

I've been watching this and finding it mildly amusing. Tom is definitely my favorite character. Boyfriend with broken legs is also pretty funny.

this show would be a lot better if they remembered that michael scott wasn't the office's sympathetic lead and that there's already a show called the office that's been using the mockumentary stare-at-the-camera shtick for a bunch of years so wtf find a new shtick.

Either give Poehler's character half a brain and use her repub boss as the michael scott or make the show about more about rashida jones. and shoot whoever at nbc is tell them they have to be more "broad"

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.

― dice in my pockets (csa), Saturday, May 16, 2009 7:40 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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.

yeah, also "sugar sla-am!"

more Louis C.K. pleaze

he will be recurring throughout this season

his bit at the end was the best thing in the whole episode.

Def much better in the new season. Louis CK yes. Azir yes.

Aziz is great. "These are Souljaboytellems. Those are bonethugsinharmoniums."

it's been hit or miss till this weeks but this was the best one yet. Aziz keeps stealing it though with his shirts. The gay one last week and the monogrammed one this week.

But everybody was good...the boss in the chair even.

Every week makes me love this show more.

I thought for a split second Aubrey Plaza might break out her Sarah Silverman impression:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Sa9hXA4mo

As someone pointed out on the Community thread, how did Chris Pratt become one of the best things on the show? Definitely agree that the show's getting better week to week, and Louis C.K. seems like a good addition.

it was pointed out in this thread

I always liked Chris Pratt on Everwood, but didn't realize he could be so funny and weird.

Watching the episode this week, I was thinking about that guy living in the pit and what would he do it it rained and then I got the answer. The ex-boyfriend living in a pup tent in a big construction hole across the street is up with weird like the guy having to climb a pole to make a phone call in Green Acres. I kind of like it and think they could just make a show about the guy in the pit and forget the other stuff.

how did Chris Pratt become one of the best things on the show?

He was the best thing about the show last season! I wasn't going to watch S2 until I heard they'd made him a regular character.

I kind of like it and think they could just make a show about the guy in the pit and forget the other stuff.

― earlnash, Saturday, October 3, 2009 9:34 PM

lol. reminds of the plans they had for the 3rd season of 'get a life' which never got made. chris elliott was going to be a homeless drifter, after living w/ his parents in season 1 and with gus in season 2

reminds me

my brain is mush, sorry, too much tab switching

torpl

wizz palace

you know, the toilet thing

This last episode was really fucking funny.

So glad dude embraced the crazy

I assumed that the show would improve a lot in the second season, but this start has just been amazingly good.

"TALIBAN ROBE!"

Yeah, it's been a drastic and noteworthy improvement. On a par with the office this season.

should I watch this? do not care for the US Office much.

Also, I am a big Ken Tremendous fan.

how is this show different from the office

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, April 16, 2009 12:38 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

like i am watching the pilot and amy poehler is exactly like michael scott, what's the point

(a: rashida jones)

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, April 16, 2009 12:38 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so i'd only seen the pilot up until last night, and dang this show has improved. still feels office-y in its format, but the characters are actually distinct and funny.

whereas watched the office wedding episode(s) and am just sort of bored with their stupid schtick now

yeah im actually kind of pleased that this show started to get good just as the office finally started to suck

i think i may like it better than the office right now.

I do for sure.

Me too. I think the characters are just starting to come into their own.

I also enjoy this more than the office now. It's less like the office than it used to be.

also the characters are more likeable, imo

The Jim in this one is schlubbier and never looks at the camera.

also the characters are more likeable, imo

They're actually kind of nice to each other.

and aren't ridiculous cartoons

okay that was awesome. aubrey plaza mvp of ep.

best episode yet def

i love this show.

"this is our city planner."
"this city was planned??"

one of the bars in last week's episode is actually a lesbian/trannie bar near my house.

"this city was planned??"

OTM

viva mayor walter gunderson

this ep was ok. i don't know, something about the whole Venezuela premise was too obviously sitcommy for me. i do like it that Leslie has more chances to be semi-serious/not be a complete bumbling idiot all the time.

it was the worst episode of either season, but considering how great the season has been so far I don't really mind.

^^^this

great aubrey this ep tho

that's true. i wasn't really down with aubrey until recently, and this is one of those eps building her up as more than a one-note candy sour

haa xp u guys crazy this is the only ep i enjoyed fully - prob cause insulting s americans are funnier than cloying stilted flawed/lovable character dynamics - they should run w/the ott vibe and forget abt that 2nd rate officey bullshit

depressed girl and boss are funny - amy polher i feel like is failing to bring the required pathos to the character - indian guy is coasting - r jones is teh hot - guy from the assassination of jesse james is a good actor in a nothing role

i just hate that almost the whole ep relied on armisen.

he was hilar

love him, but the whole guest star thing always bugs me (w/ 30 rock, too)

it can be hit/miss imo. armisen was great tho 'thank you for your bottle of sap and your bag of garbage'

Def thought this was the worst so far. The regular characters have been so amazing these last few eps that, while Armisen wasn't terrible, I basically wanted him to get off screen most of the time he was on it.

I'm on team "weakest episode of the season but still pretty good".

really loving this show right now

It's totally surpassed The Office. I don't think there's a single P&R character I don't love.

my favorite is Dr. Mustache

I liked Andy showing up at Ann's house naked. Chris Pratt is v. funny.

gotta respect the Coach McGuirk cameo

It's totally surpassed The Office. I don't think there's a single P&R character I don't love.

OTM. I've deleted The Office from my DVR queue.

Jerry is such a unique character for TV. Hard to put in to words.

Excited to see what happens now that Andy can't live in the pit.

I hope he digs a tunnel and builds an underground layer, which causes trouble when they begin to dig the foundation for the boathouse or swingset or whatever.

Oh yeah...KABOOM...the post-credits thing where it's revealed that it's a prank was genius, it would've been so easy to make it a con.

and the post-post-credit thing where it's revealed to be real was heartwarming.

I know someone who works for KABOOM. It's a great organization.

This episode was funny, but I too belong to the worst-of-the-season camp. That's an indication of the high quality of the season so far though. "Practice Date" is the best episode yet.

practice date was next level

jon benjamin is always good! chris pratt naked was cheap but damned if i didn't laugh. liked this episode a lot more than last week's, this show continues getting better

is this show good now?

yeah but youre not allowed to watch it since u slept on it

i didnt sleep on it, i watched it when it was bad

sorry dude

big diff imo

what do you want me to say

say i acknowledge my error, u didnt actually sleep on it

and let us all move on.

max already said sorry though

i have only cought a couple episodes of this show but <3 <3 <3 aubrey plaza

Like Community, it just got picked up for the full season. YAY

also aziz ansari looks like about twelve dudes i know in real life /racist

"oil is food for cars"

'thank you for your bottle of sap and your bag of garbage'

― johnny crunch, Saturday, October 17, 2009 5:45 PM

this show is not that good

fffffft

"I'm not crying! I'm allergic to jerks."

god i love the poehler/louis ck rapport - the rhythm was great every time they had a back and forth.

tom at ann's party was p&r's mad men's pete at rogers party.

This is becoming my most-looked-forward-to show of the week.

Last night's episode got pre-empted last night for this:

http://www.clickondetroit.com/mindsofmedicine/index.html

I was annoyed and bewildered.

funny episode, good stuff. also, was that holland taylor!?

crappy halloweeners, thats hilarious

I am confused. Not surprisingly.

lol wasn't it spelled "halloweiners"

<3 Captain Mustache

Great role for Megan Mullally! Love her. Sex in the diner was insanely hilarious - the cut scene of them sitting eating their meals with their backs to each other in different booths, oh man.

she was great. hope she comes back. i was totally loving the library scorn for some reason.

i was just going to say, the idea that everyone kind of hated the library was so funny to me. and i hope she comes back, too. she was a great foil for Leslie

andy has gotten really funny too, chris pratt is convincingly nuts

show is now consistently better than the office.

hate to say it, but the office has become like my name is earl or scrubs for me. something i have to sit through or ignore until the good stuff comes on. still, not a bad night for funny. community seems to be getting better and 30 rock is still killing me. and this show is really great.

it's all about sunny in philadelphia for me.
oh kittenmittons

i keep hoping that at some point they just ditch the office-style documentary film angle all together. they wouldn't even have to mention it. nobody in the world would even notice or care that they weren't doing it anymore.

and it already seems like an afterthought.

I agree, it just seems dumb that anyone would be filming a doc for that long. They should just quietly drop it.

No kidding. Some of the "at-anne's house" stuff is especially confusing; what the fuck are they doing there?
it makes sense for the confessionals, but that shit is just shakespearean asides anyway

mullaly is married to dude who plays ron fyi

such a great episode!

Best line of the night on any of the four NBC shows: “It’s like doing peyote and sneezing slowly for 6 hours.”

MURINAL

Poor Jerry.

i was going to get arby's and watch frontline.

an attractive lady with a hamburger for a head!!!

Is Jerry ever going to win.

Best line of the night on any of the four NBC shows: “It’s like doing peyote and sneezing slowly for 6 hours.”

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, November 7, 2009 5:52 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

still chuckling at this line.

Yeah, Jerry is like Toby but with more pathos. Like, we agree that Toby is pretty pathetic even if he doesn't deserve what he gets, but Jerry seems like a really nice guy! I guess that's what makes the abuse so funny...

"that woman knows her way around a penis"

this hunting episode was great!

whadda mean that squirrel took the nuts outta the kids backpack...?

This has become my favorite show. I could not stop laughing at that squirrel thing.

April and Andy hanging out at the office was great.

haha so i just watched funny people last night and now i get why everyone loves aubrey plaza so much! i mean, i thought she was funny on p&r but now i fully appreciate her.

This is also my favorite show nowadays. I even love the opening credits. The montages of Amy Poehler one-liners always crack me up. The First Date episode montage was the best, but the interview with park ranger this past episode had me in stitches too.

seabiscuit!

They've learned patience and minimal exposure for maximum laffs. Great ep tonight.

http://10.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ku43dpigNQ1qzbatyo1_400.gif

Following Aziz on Twitter too?

"Are you clean? I'm also buying."

"I know that legally I own Ann, but somehow it doesn't feel that way."

I presume we're only months away from a real life strip club opening up with the name "The Glitter Factory."

Oh, I'm sure there's probably 100 of them scattered across the country.

not according to superficial googling.

the "jurassic fork" scenes were filmed at clifton's cafeteria in downtown l.a.!

i don't know enough about local strip club interiors to say where the glitter factory location was. i think they do most of their shooting in the valley so it could be the spearmint rhino?

Got a little choked up at this ep, not gonna lie.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/4ac3ee6f36/parks-and-recreation-is-the-wu-tang-of-comedy?rel=player

Heh.

love this

kinda think julie and julia would have been better had rza played julie tbh

Just about any change to the Julie half of the movie would have been an improvement frankly.

cept messina bc i got a crush on him and his ruffalo-lookin ways

(even if that character was dumb!)

oh that rza

April becoming Ron's assistant is an awesome alliance I did not see coming. Maybe its because she's playing such an apathetic/dry character, but Aubrey Plaza's facial expressions have been killing me the past couple episodes.

it kinda makes sense tho, there was that episode where she helps him with his hernia.

what about andy's song "talking about singing about what i talk about"

she has such a crush on him! (andy)

I have such a crush on her! (audrey)

i love andy

show needs as much andy as it can get

also lol at jerry at the end

Aziz Ansari interviewed:

In the last episode of "Parks," Tom showed a softer side, spilling his guts to Leslie about his divorce. Was that difficult for you?

Not at all. I've been messaging a guy on Facebook that claims he is Daniel Day-Lewis. I think he's really Daniel and he's been getting back to me, telling me how to get emotional. He says to frown and look down a lot. So I tried a lot of that. I think it turned out pretty good.

Aziz just killed it on his Comedy Central special.

Oh good, it comes on again at 1am. I forgot all about it.

watchin the aziz ansari comedy central special...

is this "intimate moments for a sensual evening"? or something newer?

Yeah, intimate moments...Comedy Central said it was new? It was aired twice...an hour long version with bleeps and cuts then later a longer version with curses and I think more material.

andy is so good

mvp

kinda weak episode i thought

i listened to aziz's "intimate moments..", not very good -_-

disagreed.

he gets points for being the first stand-up I've seen going through his smart phone while performing.

i laughed

"no zac, i don't text her 'it was nice meeting you.' i wait eight weeks and i text her... 'what's crackin'?'"

"Bitches be crazy."

"This wouldn't happen if I had a penis."

"I just wanna have babies!"

I think the best thing P&R did in its second season was make Leslie less like Michael Scott. Not that she can't be awkward, but she's not criminally inept.

The scene with Andy's Squirrel/Backpack line might be my favorite of the season so far, especially because it seems April can barely keep a straight face while he is saying it.

a bit weirded out about april and andy's budding love...how old is April supposed to be?

she's just finished college; internship's over. I always thought andy seemed to young for quincy jones jr.

I thought she was a high school student with a summer job or something!

April got busted for underage drinking last season, so she's probably 19-20.

Yeah, she does seem too young for him, but it slightly balances out by him being an idiot. In real life, though, the actors are only five years apart.

@KenTremendous Parks and Recreation, a TV show I work for, got picked up for Season 3 today. Thanks to everyone who watches and supports us. Good times!

yeah the squirrel line had me in stiches

also loved when aziz was shooting like a gangsta
(he also killed on one of the late shows about a month ago)

The ghost of DJ Roomba following Jerry playing Black Eyed Peas on a loop was rad.

agreed

i think it's great that you grandparents still make love

I like the focus on vests as healthy wholesome family apparel.

no! my pocket squares!

oh captain, my captain
ron swanson: a swan song.

that had me in stitches, i will admit

this ep reminded me of this post

i have no prob with peeps not liking bagged snax, but i get perplexed at shit like daria getting mad at her mom for buying drinks made of corn syrup - its corn syrup not bottled AIDS man who cares

― doomed... to fart (cankles), Saturday, January 9, 2010 7:35 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

andy on rollerblades was LOL

is poehler even in this show anymore? i feel like every episode i see she's in it less.

The last few episodes have had A-stories pretty prominently about her (Christmas scandal, hooking up with Will Arnett and then Justin Thoreau w/the diner party). But maybe the B-stories have gotten a lot of time, more than these shows usually give?

I think midseason is when they focus on the B stories, and the A story is usually ramped up at the beginning and end of a season.

Ron Swanson is secretly the lead character, I think.

Andy's band actually being pretty good at playing for old people is a wonderful development.

tbh i think i cld watch a whole show of rashida jones playfully/politely receiving gifts

i don't want a lot more plot-only episodes but every once in awhile it's good to shake up the status quo
this is light years ahead of the office now btw

office has become really stupid
april is a chick

oh weird she shares my birthday

i should of been an actress

This show's still doing well! So Rob Lowe and Adam Scott are joining the cast next season... wonder if that means any cast members are going to be "re-tooled" out of the show? Paul Schneider seems like an obvious drop...

Rob Lowe? Could be good, but my immediate reaction is NOOOOOOOO

(Would completely endorse Megan Mullally joining the cast, though.)

So Rob Lowe and Adam Scott are joining the cast next season

good.

Paul Schneider seems like an obvious drop...

indeed. so does amy poehler but i guess that won't happen.

I think Lowe might be interesting. I can imagining him playing something like his character in Wayne's World.

I hope he's mayor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LXuAtRwuGY

i'll admit it, i laughed

i have no idea why i'm laughin', but I'm laughin'

Amy is preggers and here we go with awkward plant placement etc

Paul Schneider got officially dropped for next season (seems like a mutual agreement), might come back for guest spots. Natalie Morales (aka chick from The Middleman) signed on for an arc.

HIMYM definitely had the best "yes, both of our lead actresses are pregnant, let's just come up with ridiculous stuff to 'hide' the pregnancies" run

speaking of the intro, i've watched a few episodes on demand, and they have a twice-as-long intro that is totally awesome.

i.e. the second half of the song is great.

youtube?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI7f4CgATiE

They play the whole thing sometimes.

permanently damaged into always hearing JABBA THE HUTT JABBA THE HUTT everytime now

Bummer that Schneider is leaving, but he has definitely had a reduced presence as the season has gone on...mostly just plays straightman.

I hope this doesn't develop into a cornball Andy/Anne/April love triangle if he leaves. With Anne single, it has that possibility. I like that story the way it is now.

Agreed. This has now risen to my favorite comedy currently on. Even though the last two have been only pretty good, there's still plenty of good stuff per episode....for example, "The Swanson Code"

I call it the wormlog!

also, the terrible triangle is clearly gonna happen; what a disaster for parks and rec

dammit. i really don't want to see that either. ah well, at least this episode was really amusing, just cuz it was an entire episode of ragging on Jerry

How often do love triangles happen in real life? Not that this show is that much like real life, but...

I always felt Jerry was treated unfairly until tonight, when it was revealed that he really is as bad as he's made out to be.

I am hoping for a very awkward love triangle. I think they can do it.

Jerry eating the burrito after pulling it out the creek made the episode for me.

That and the ripped slacks/fart combo.

"WOULDN'T EVEN SHARE WITH THE DOG"
if by "awkward" you mean "they lez up", i may be willing to offer approval

I really like how they're setting up the breakup-- e.g. the one episode where he's trying too hard to be a good boyfriend and anne is vaguely put off by it.

A love triangle isn't always bad (even when lez stuff isn't there)

Not to mention that April and big dumb guy are two of my favorite characters on the show

Rodent colleagues

Really, why would anyone eat anything other than breakfast food?

andy is such a stupid dick!!! leave his ass aubrey plaza u are better than that, gurl!!!!!

I hope this doesn't develop into a cornball Andy/Anne/April love triangle if he leaves. With Anne single, it has that possibility.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, March 17, 2010 6:16 PM

wait which episode did anne break it off w/ the other dude

not happened yet, but Paul is leaving the show, so people figured...and it seems like they hinting at an imminent break-up tonight.

ah ok. haven't watched tonights yet

I know Andy isn't supposed to be very smart, but how is it that he just found out she's only 20? Plot twist don't make no sense.

Can you Photoshop your life with better decisions, Jerry?

i don't think that's about him just finding out, I imagine he just didn't think about the fact that she wouldn't get in. I don't think he was like "oh she's young, I'm going home", I think it was just his usual "hanging out" with her and not realizing she saw it as a date.

oh god this dumb shit with anne's growing dissatisfaction is a bummer.
make this THE RON AND JERRY SHOW and cut out the rest plz

Can you Photoshop your life with better decisions, Jerry?

DIED at this, such a ridiculous mean stretch of a joke

agree on the anne/mark breakup is being dragged out too much, but they probably filmed these episodes months ago, so what can you do

yeah, andy was probably just oblivious about it being a date, and then suddenly realized it then, would be very much in character, though the age thing probably made it really stick out

Despite the Anne/Mark thing, I thought last night's episode was pretty pitch-perfect as far as this show goes. The end when Ron and Leslie were throwing darts was maybe my favorite bit of the whole show. I love how they've moved Leslie from being the focus to just being a player, and the relationship with Ron is so great.

yeah the relationships on this show are the best part

aubrey was so hilarious last night

SWEATER SWAP

life is a picnic with peyton manning.

i don't know how they do it, but these NBC location scouts have a remarkable knack for finding such uncannily central-indianan landscapes within greater metropolitan los angeles, not

they must receive coaching from the same network scouts who transform burbank office parks into scranton, pa on a weekly basis

love this show

Leslie is looking really pretty lately. And pregnant, right? She had a shoulderbag in front of her stomach during whole picnic.

Ron running off after eating the bacon was lulz.

OMG this is so good!

"Parks and Recreation Rap

Today at work my editor Streeter wondered out loud how cool a rap that sampled the Parks and Recreation theme would sound. After Googling my way to E-Dubble’s “Hampden Parks,” it turns out the answer is: very, very cool."

http://patrickcassels.tumblr.com/post/482185790/parks-and-recreation-rap-today-at-work-my-editor

Direct mp3 download: http://soundcloud.com/edubble/hampden-parks-freestyle-friday-7

jerry epi was total garbage and the character should be killed for being unfunny. low point of series is poehler saying HEY LOOK HOW FUNNY THIS VIDEO IS --> UNFUNNY VIDEO. having vaguely "credible" actors like aziz/plaza/jones makes this show seem better than (like) "scrubs", but it really isn't.

epi????????

sode

u mad

for when yr too busy to say "episode" but can go a little longer than "ep"

http://www.westga.edu/~bstewart/Buttons/epipen.jpg

community >> modern family >>> parks & rec (> scrubs)

for when yr too busy to watch "scrubs"

im not mad. they put jerry up front to make it seem like, oh, hey, p&r is different because even it's minor characters are a rich source of humour. bullshit.

I keep thinking about starting the NBC thursday night comedy show poll but I don't think I would actually want to read that thread?

u mad

― ☀ ☃ (am0n), Tuesday, March 30, 2010 12:29 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dr cox >>> any p&r character
also it had elizabeth banks iirc

what other comedies are on thurs NBC?

the office
30 rock
community

do it n/a

fwiw I think all four shows range from "good" to "holy shit I can't believe something this amazing is on television" with Community as the weakest link

no-one's going to vote for this or the office

ok maybe dan will. community became epic but this has fallen t f off.

I would vote for Parks & Rec, if the poll were only on the current season of each show.

or more like it was kind of "hey this is kind of good and will eventually click" but it hasn't

quite liked andy samberg's bit

i also did not like the jerry epi fwiw

now I'm epi curious

Current season of NBC's Thursday night comedy line-up

i loved jerry, i love all four of these shows. i am afraid of n/a's latest poll.

Catching up on past episodes and I can't help but rewind a couple times through DJ Roomba.

been watching a few episodes lately, show is growing on me a little, was amazed at the one where they actually gave Rashida Jones a couple of funny lines. they really need to try harder w/ her character, she doesn't even work w/ everyone else so it's like if they shoehorn her into the plot there need to be some jokes there.

just can't stand Aziz Ansari more and more, though, guy is just a vortex of unfunny, and they want him so bad to be this wacky lightening rod character he can't pull off.

I feel like Tom Haverford isn't really characterized consistently. There should be endless material with his strip club obsessions etc., but instead all we get are one-liners.

But man, did they ever knock it out of the park when they came up with RON FUCKING SWANSON.

some dude otm

yeah, very much so.

saw aziz live prior to his first mtv thing and man that guy's not funny

i think yall are being a bit harsh. it's not his fault the P&R writing team is rubbish.

some1 posted that scene from "the office" where michael scott "does" chris rock: there isn't a single scene of that quality in P&R.

i don't think AA is a comedic genius or ne thing but "if that was a drug deal i'd be shooting _________ in the face" is a good meme imo.

http://www.dukesilver.com

haha

April's unnamed sister with no lines = biggest LOL of the episode.

Marchtember 1tnth.

best episode this season easy

best episode this season easy

― i never promised you a whinegarten (forksclovetofu), Friday, 30 April 2010 04:09 (1 hour ago)

Practice date is still number 1 for me.

people being a dick to Jerry never gets old.

I believe April's sister is Natalie? She's mentioned her somewhere before.

Leslie tied to the gate was hilarious, I think they could've milked it even more.

That must be terrible!
Only when I lose.

Give a man a fish, you’ll feed him for a day. Don’t teach a man to fish and feed yourself. He’s a grown man, fishing’s not that hard.

<3 Ron

Detlef rules.

"He's had two beers. Light beers."

the only person who doesn't thrill me on this show is mark. i know that they need some straight men/women, but he just seems like he should be on the office. all his reaction shots are so office-y.

still cannot deal with aziz

Mark will be leaving the show soon, so Scott's in luck.

"are you bothering her?" "no, I'm bothering *you*"

aziz's tom haverford is the only character on the show that doesn't feel like a real person, and that really sticks out like a sore thumb.

He reminds me of a couple guys I know.

I couldn't stand Andy til April started crushing on him. Now I have an Andy crush.

i was walking around my neighborhood earlier today and saw a film l.a. notice on a door that said "parks and rec" used that building for filming a couple days ago. i was so happy!

i may use that "no i'm bothering you"line in the future.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-master-plan,41155/

a lot of gushing, but i can't help but largely agree - the show has been so consistently great and the character development so well-handled, it's probably my favorite sitcom on right now (even if Community is coming really close to knocking it off that top spot with a string of great eps recently) in a time where we're suddenly basking in many new well-executed sitcoms

i like adam scott already - hope natalie morales stays on for a while

Isn't Adam Scott's character pretty much the same character he plays on Party Down? He even has an embarassing catchphrase he's trying to live down.

yeah was just about to say, lol at adam scott typecasting

His name on Party Down - Henry. His name on Parks & Rec - Ben. The writers must like Lost.

this episode was pretty much all just about secretive smiles and knowing looks.

yeah i still fuckin h8 any scene that ends with a character quietly looking at the camera. but i could like FEEL the show instantly improving and maybe becoming something i could wholeheartedly enjoy the moment Lowe & Scott showed up.

rob taking over like alec in glengarry. what a hoot!

the av club recap is really weird in that the guy is some kind of over-the-top superfan of the show but doesn't seem to have any idea about the announcement weeks ago that Lowe & Scott are new cast members, not guest stars, or that Schneider is leaving etc.

lowe doing double duty on P&R and B&S? maybe B&S isn't coming back. i don't read the news anymore.

He left B&S, I believe

got to 3rd base over the pants

everything w/ andy, ann, april & ben was hysterical

Amazing ep -- was that an Archer reference during drunk karaoke?

maybe my favorite Jerry moment ever with Anne there.

xp i think it's merely the universal cheesiness of "highway to the danger zone" being referenced. that sure was a great running gag in Archer

yeah? well I am a funny asshole.

what the fuck^^

loved mustache guy loving the budget cuts

last week I loved the part when Indian dude is driving the car and tall man in the back seat says something like "you can scoot back" and Indian dude is like "no I can't"

CaptainLorax I would love to know your names for all the other characters, for real.

i just saw this show for the first time on an airplane. it was amusing and kind of charming. i love amy poehler. that aziz fellow wasn't funny, but i viewed him as less of an attempt at making a "zany" character and more of a set-up fellow for the head of the office, who i thought was pretty funny. i realize their roles are supposed to be the other way around.

i've never seen the office. is parks & recreation a carbon-copy of it?

i've never seen the office. is parks & recreation a carbon-copy of it?

― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 15 May 2010 10:28 (14 minutes ago)

No, P&R is much more amiable and less zany.

Ron Swanson/mustache guy/the head of the office is quite often the funniest person in any given episode, fwiw.

totally

yeah, mustache guy's eyes kept bugging out in funny ways in the episode i saw.

seriously crushing on the bartender at the end of the episode, btw.

you should've seen her in The Middleman - always too cute for that show

That bartender was supercuet! Loved that Andy called Jean-Ralphio "Ralph Macchio"...and Ron awkward-consoling April was awesome

yeah, bartender is instant ws

today, i saw aubrey plaza while hiking in griffith park. as she was walking past, i overheard her talking to her friend and she said, "rashida jones!"

^shit talking?

Maybe it's a curse? Like "goddammit"

man rashida jones
and i'm cool like dat
i'm hot like dat

i am ridicolously madly in love with aubrey plaza

love that she consistently tells off Steve Agee on twitter because he is unfunny as shit. also duh she's great, P&R is great

I knew Aubrey Plaza and I were on the same page when I saw her Sarah Silverman impression.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Sa9hXA4mo

http://i44.tinypic.com/rtj15k.jpg

<3 Ron Swanson.

Dunno about you guys, but I think just having dinner with Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally would be quite a time.

that is an extremely high quality impression

Just saw that P&R has been pushed back to midseason on NBC next year, despite the fact that they're already shooting it ahead of/during Poehler's pregnancy. Apparently they're making room on Thursday nights for Outsourced (http://www.thewrap.com/ind-column/nbc-picks-love-bites-event-outsourced-17102). Look, I appreciate that network tv needs a more diverse pallet of characters, and that NBC probably spent a lot of money shooting a show on location in India, but why you gonna fuck with Thursday night like that?

every week I'm like, aw I dunno if I feel like watching P&R anymore and then Ron Swanson does something that blows my mind.

Just saw that P&R has been pushed back to midseason on NBC next year

what a disaster for shitty office knock-offs

coming so incorrect ^

The first three episodes of the first season were shitty Office knockoffs. That is SO not the case anymore. The Office doesn't even deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as P&R anymore, considering how inferior The Office is.

*makes face for camera*

oh my god. The Office invented reaction shots????

ur fronting

this show is an "office" rip

not all of it is terrible, but it is p g damn mediocre

outsourced is prob gonna be pretty terrible

nah, you're totally off-base, hm. show grew the beard after the first bunch of episodes and is now often brilliant.

well there's no accounting for taste, but i gave up at the easter break

"community" is just streets ahead

i can see you not liking it, but if you were watching it until the easter break it's hard to believe you felt it was an Office clone. such a different tone -- it focuses on the characters + their relationships much more, where the Office often feels slapstick and you can rarely empathize with the Office characters.

i haven't seen "office" post-series 3, but it was str8 fire at that point. i didn't empathize with ne of the P&R characters tbqh.

idk. office has gotten so bad lately that i feel retroactively skeptical that it was ever good -- even tho i used to love it at one point.

I actually kind of appreciate that P&R still plays like a docu-comedy w/o ever acknowledging that. I mean, they have asides and reaction shots, but WHAT ARE THEY LOOKING AT AND WHO ARE THEY TALKING TO? It's kind of fun that they break the fourth wall all the time yet are still some of the most humanized characters in any sitcom on tv.

idk. office has gotten so bad lately that i feel retroactively skeptical that it was ever good -- even tho i used to love it at one point.

^ this.

I can't remember which episode it was this season that finally put me off it, but I haven't watched it in weeks.

Just noticed Diedrich Bader will be on Outsourced. Hello '90s!

obviously tom's offer to host weighed the scales in its favor, but otherwise april woulda never had her 21st at his corny ass slicknuts nightclub. it would have been much more in keeping with her character, as someone who has no tolerance for that kind of contemporary kewl, to force the gang to party at some cobwebbey ol bowling alley bar. anyway the show is now permanently ruined because of this

does rob lowe look like a motherfucker with some dark secrets to anyone else btw

21 year olds have their birthday parties at places you might not think they would. Plus, this is Pawnee, IN... not exactly a place with a bunch of options. Tom hosting it makes perfect sense, and hardly ruins the show in any way.

Rob Lowe is definitely a twelve-stepper or scientologist (or both).

if pawnee is large enough to support a full-time parks & rec dept then they're large enough to have a dilapidated bowl-a-rama; THEY BLEW IT

I'm just saying people often do things out of character on 21st birthdays. I dressed up in a suit and went with friends to the expensive lounge at the Hilton two towns over. Hated it, but it seemed like a good way to turn 21.

i believe you, i'm just sayin if tv show characters do things out of character on their tv show then the tv show is consequently irreparable and must be cancelled post-haste

Never even thought of April going to a club (probably the only one or two big-sized clubs in Pawnee) was out of character. Also April is supposed to be a bit of a mystery imo

What really kept the Office going was Jim and Pam and now there needs to be Jim and Pam doppledangers in the office (Andy and Erin don't make the cut)

I wish Andy and Erin could be plucked out of The Office and cast in another show. Not one starring them necessarily, but they're too likeable to be trapped in that bomb.

if this is a mid-season replacement could that free up adam scott to do more "party down" exclamation mark question mark

prob not, i think doing a network show precludes one from being on another series full time more for contractual reasons than merely scheduling. or at least that was definitely the case with Jane Lynch and Glee.

i like where this show is going but imo you can't really get mad about people comparing it to The Office when for like a year it was only known as as, like, "Untitled Office Spinoff Er No Wait Not A Spinoff Because We're Gonna Use Rashida Jones But She'll Be A Different Character."

its an office rip, tonally moreso than in terms of character and plotline lifts, but i dont think that precludes it from being funny

I didn't see the April/party thing as being very out of character. Back at the top of the season they made it look like she was a regular at the gay bar w/her boyfriends. Besides, you could see the party being a way for Andy to see her as a grown-up after the episode where she couldn't go into that bar with him.

iiiijjjj made that argument too weirdly for me to not take it as facetious, although i guess who knows.

been thinking about how this show's weird mix of character ages/backgrounds made the cast seem like a weird hodgepodge initially but now i think it's a strength in that it feels more like a real workplace than the avg show where everyone in an office is magically same age/race/etc.

^ truth.

Tom still seems out of place and operating on a different plane, though.

I really, really like the way that we've seen Andy grow this year. Last year I thought he was a one-note character and couldn't wait for his inevitable departure, but now I think he's my favourite character (after Ron Swanson/Duke Silver) and look forward to his scenes.

That's where Parks & R has really hit its stride this season: embracing the ensembleness of its cast to allow everyone to be _wacky_ enough to get big laffs, but having enough _wackiness_ to spread the focus around enough so that it doesn't get annoying. I mean the show is all Urkel and no Laura, but there's 8 Urkels so everyone has a chance to be a little bit Laura for a moment.

i love poehler but the best decision they ever made was to reduce her screentime and give everyone else more--that and avoid the ugly results of a terrible poehler-mark-karen fillipelli love triangle

xp did you really have to bring Family Matters into this? DID YOU!?

Max, I agree, it also had a nice side effect where the Leslie-focused episodes stand out a little better in general, and she has done great along with the rest of the cast. The sad thing is that Schneider, though not a bad actor, seemed to have little chemistry with either of the women - even compared to the one episode we've just gotten with Scott and Lowe

Did I do that?

hey carl got any cheese

am way too invested in this show to consider waiting until january for another episode.

For them to justify pushing this back to midseason, Outsourced had better be one DAMN HILARIOUS show.

can't say i'm eager to get to a new season promising MULTIPLE LOVE TRIANGLES OH BOY

i would just like to thank this thread for introducing the phrase "grew the beard" to me. god i love that kind of critical shorthand.

considering revisiting this show on DVD but don't get why they just don't eliminate the doc angle entirely. plenty of sitcoms do without talking to the camera and fourth-wall breaking glances! i haven't really heard the argument for how it makes the show better and can't imagine people would be up in arms if it was simply a single-camera sitcom without the superficial office jacks

though honestly its the word that amy poehler has moved beyond being the bastard child of ally mcbeal and michael scott that has me considering coming back

outside gaze has become a weird shorthand for "edgy sitcom"

honestly i can deal with it most of the time except April's thing is apparently to look up at the camera every 5 seconds apropos of nothing

it's a "hey geeks, I'm still cute" reminder

http://i47.tinypic.com/1fe8ok.jpg

http://i42.tinypic.com/1o5zx5.jpg
pretty much sums it up

no Jerry

i like how they made it real easy to crop out schneider

aubrey plaza just now tweeting that the Producer's cut of the finale on Hulu (which I can't get) is longer and better. if anyone investigates these claims, report back.

gukbe, if you're back on mac you can use hotspot shield to access hulu

not back on mac yet bro. plus throttled/crap internet made hotspot shield pretty useless. i also seem to recall hulu being all 'can't detect a region so f u buddy' and giving me that feeling of rejection.

it should be on nbc.com too though right?

interesting chemistry here between an interviewee who doesn't seem to like talking and an interviewer who seems to really like talking but doesn't really have anything to say

http://www.hulu.com/watch/125977/late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-aubrey-plaza-talking-and-walking

that was pretty great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq5lIwkupJU

This actually works a little too well. I hope NBC doesn't get any ideas.

this show is better than the office

i was gonna post the friends thing too :-)

now do one for community!

community is the ex-talk soup host, yes?

really every nbc property needs the friends treatment. law & order?

xpost: yes

community is the ex-talk soup host, yes?

still host, and it's just called the Soup now, and is occasionally brilliant.

i didn't get the audio, but i watched a funny-looking clip from the show on my flight to california. something about a strip-billiards match with an old guy.

There is a good How I Met Your Mother Friends Theme remix up on youtube as well.

update: saw the strip-billiards episode of community, this time with audio.

it was funnier without sound.

^ boo.

ha ha someone already did a Friends take on Community:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7hR1wi2Vkk

ron: "woah! impressive handshake."

lucy: "thanks. my father told me that a limp handshake is for weak men and communists. he hated both."

kinda love this show.

From Natalie Morales' tumblr:

Imagine you have a job. You love this job. You love this job so much you move across the country for it. You have a great time at work every single day. You love the people you work with. You work when you’re not at work- you advertise without any kind of pay, you promote constantly, just because you feel like you’re part of the team. As time passes, your boss gives you less and less work to do, and includes you less and less in what they originally hired you to do, but you don’t mind- because you’re part of a team. What’s good for the company is good for you, and you trust your boss.

Your job has a yearly hiatus, sorta like being a teacher does. When you go on this hiatus, you find out through someone that works in a completely different department: YOU’VE BEEN FIRED. No reason. Your bosses thought that it’d be better for the team if they went in a different direction. Okay. I mean, that happens all the time. It sucks, cause again, you loved this job, but, you’ll find another one and you have so much respect for your old company that you can’t think of any other future but an amicable one. Except that : Your boss doesn’t call you to tell you the news himself. Ever. In fact, no one that has anything to do with the company calls you. No one contacts you in any way. Weeks pass. You start to think to yourself, ” Man, this situation is being dealt with really poorly. Also, it’s kind of disrespectful at this point, right? “

Anyway, you move on and wish everyone the best- because what are you gonna do? Sit and sulk? So they dealt with it in a dick way, oh well. Months pass & the time when your old job comes back from their hiatus rolls around. People get back to work. You have also found another job. Everyone’s happy. Then you’re sitting at home watching tv, and you see a NEW commercial for your old company. With your face. Advertising something you’re no longer a part of. WITH YOUR FACE.

What do you do?

I guess, if this were to happen to me, in a crazy bizarro world where things like this actually happen and people are that unprofessional… I’d maybe write a post on tumblr about it, cause what else can I do ? ;)

Apparently she's also had a role on White Collar, so it might not be Parks, but if it is, that's both a shame (coz she's a deffo ws) and very rude.

Yeah, I think it's White Collar that let her go. I read that her role on that show had been greatly diminished.

Fun thing that's also on her tumblr:

* Me:

I'm going to see Pearl Jam tonight at Madison Square Garden.
* Mom:

Is that the band you really, really like?
* Me:

Yes, Mom, you know that.
* Mom:

I think I like them.
* Me:

No, you don't.
* Mom:

Yes, I do, I think I had a tape of theirs.
* Me:

No, Mom, you didn't.
* Mom:

Try me, what's their number one song?
* Me:

Um, I guess their most well known song is probably "Jeremy".
* Mom:

(sings) "Jeremy was a bullfrog!!"

That is a nice tumblr theme!

Yeah that is obviously White Collar. In the random episodes I've seen she barely seemed to appear on the show. Sucks for her, but I don't like that show anyway, and she's moved onto a better show now, though probably one with worse long-term employment prospects.

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/interview-parks-and-recreation-co-creator-mike-schur-previews-season-three?m=g

Interview with one of the co-creators about the upcoming season - the best part is at the end.

Watching Offerman/Plaza try and out under each other is some serious McQueen/Hoffman steez

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJc8lXfb0nA

"Just Like Seinfeld" and "P3D" ftw

I love Nick wandering onscreen with the bubbles and muttering "buh buh buh buh".

what happened to this show again? cancelled for 'outsourced' or what

mid-season come back. supposedly.

I've read some speculation that NBC is going to open up an hour of sitcoms on another night, potentially Tuesdays. P&R and 30 Rock will probably move, and something will get stuck into the 8:30 slot on Thursdays where 30 Rock currently is.

I actually found genuine laughs in this week's episode of Outsourced

it's clearly too late for me, run and save yourselves while you can

I was too lazy to change the channel after Community, so I watched The Office and Outsourced too. re: Outsourced, it's clearly not as dire now as the pilot was, but I still found it being like the dumbed down version of other single camera sitcoms. "Is Parks & Recreation too thinky for you? Well here's some obvious cultural stereotype humor you might get."

I do think that one overweight guy who does double duty in eSurance commercials is pretty funny, though. I wish he could've found work in a good show.

the pariah dude? he and the wallflower girl are the two best things about the show

although I do like the bitter Indian manager as well

I was surprised to discover (via Netflix) that Outsourced was spun off from a movie.

I heard the movie was pretty okay. I'm not going to much trouble to find out, though.

The only reason why I gave the show another chance was because former coworkers of mine who emigrated to the US from India were big fans of the movie and totally rooting for the series.

also lol I didn't realize that Manmeet was an original History Boys cast member

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AG_LVLpsAds/TIu8QQQp7QI/AAAAAAAAA7k/9vz1nafaZhE/s1600/muppet-man-ron-swanson.jpg

ha!

he's one of my fav characters on tv. i loved when he wore his tiger woods sex outfit.

lolz at pohler sneaking in a "can you fucking stop talking about piranha 3-d?"

Although I'm sure there's a lot of crossover between this thread's audience and that of certain others where this has already been discussed, I feel the need to bump it anyway.

P&R back in January at 9:30/8:30c.

Sepinwall's thoughts

crappy halloweeners, thats hilarious

― Bobby Wo (max), Saturday, October 31, 2009 2:42 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i rescreened the entire show [via netflix] and chris pratt is unquestionably the funniest thing on it

he crushes the halloween episode

he is married to anna faris

btw

what weird criteria (no jk i love faris + pratt both)

would swap

burt macklin, fbi

totally missed that video above, great stuff

ha ha we randomly rewatched "Pikitis" yesterday, love chris pratt and his jaunty way of holding a coffee cup. louis ck's character was also great, i wish he could've stayed longer, but no he had to go off and make a groundbreaking show of his own.

max how was season 1 on rewatch?

this looks promising: http://tv.gawker.com/5736883/rob-lowe-goes-nuts-after-realizing-parks--recreation-has-been-off-the-air-for-months

max how was season 1 on rewatch?

― illiterate and hateful, as expected (reddening), Thursday, December 16, 2010 12:58 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

better than on the first watch but still doesnt hold a candle to s2

The Practice Date remains the single funniest episode of the series.

It's back!

can't say i'm eager to get to a new season promising MULTIPLE LOVE TRIANGLES OH BOY

― some dude, Friday, May 21, 2010 1:54 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark

that said i love Adam Scott and Rob Lowe so i'm feeling like this is the year i start to genuinely like this show

I'm glad they wasted no time tormenting Jerry again.

Also, I forgot Tom was dating that really hot bartender girl.

Rob Lowe's character is so delightfully weird.

Lowe is a great comedic performer imo; really have no idea why he hasn't become a regular SNL host or anything like that

this was a setup ep, mostly a waste but still okay

some good lolz. interesting to see what they do with Rob Lowe, as he's pretty one-note (though genuinely likeable and I felt bad when I said he had his first bad date).

Tom's gf is Natalie Morales and they'd better keep her around because <3 <3 <3

http://i54.tinypic.com/303dzdf.jpg

never thought of ron as a futura guy

loved loved the practice date reprise and rashida jones' impression of rob lowe's character

i think i mightve got my mom hooked on this show last night...

Loved this. "Would you be cool with doing things a prostitute does? Minus the money?"

the Swanson pyramid of greatness had me dying! Also Ron's Bobby Knight chair throwing. SO great.

So glad this is back. Can never get enough Swanson. I think he is my favorite character on tv right now.

Boys < men < warriors < Swanson

"FISH: for sport only, not for meat. Fish meat is practically a vegetable"

hippo feet

liked how tom ended up as ref of the game, apparently only because he still had his shirt from working at the foot locker

so good. ANN PERKINS.

rashida jones finally got a chance to be funny on this show!

she had one episode last season where they let her loose, but yeah good to see that happening more

Loved this. "Would you be cool with doing things a prostitute does? Minus the money?"

― not the sort of person who would wind up in a landfill (Nicole), Friday, January 21, 2011 8:45 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yea rashida's answer/timing responding 2 this was LOL

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/01/parks_and_recreation_michael_s.html

Can we ever expect a D.J. Roomba-centric episode?

D.J. Roomba, murdered in cold blood by Jerry last year, is resurrected this season and appears in Episode 8. After that, he will be leaving our show to host his own morning show on ABC. We wish him the best.

goddamnn. first 10 minutes were stellar combo of writing and delivery. and Andy as April should be comic gold. what a show.

you had me at meat tornado

The look on Ron's face when he said "you had me at 'Meat Tornado'" was FTW of ALL TIME.

this is unbelievably as good as "The Practice Date." how is that even possible?

STOP. POOPING.

this ep killed me

"leslie i searched your synonyms on the computer. looks like you have... internet connectivity problems"

i loved the super straw

lol searched synonyms (autocorrect?)

this show has catapulted to my favorite ever since swanson had on his tiger woods sex outfit.

This was one of my favorite episodes.

The whole Andy/Ron bonding plot was A+ and Tom hanging at the spa was pretty great too.

And did they really use the phrase "shitz" on broadcast TV?!?!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=schvitz

I get what he meant, but that's not what he actually said.

i'm going to have to start watching this aren't i

i caught an audio-free episode of this on the plane with louis c.k. in it and that was enough to prime me to like it

The micro-chip has been compromised!

Tom at the spa was one of my favorite Tom scenes. really good episode

my wife wonders if Rob Lowe will ever get old and ugly...she calls him a "pretty" man.

he used to be pretty boy. now he is pretty man. love the lowe.

dean youngblood

one of the only brat packers who didn't lose their figure.

even spader got puffed up like a marshmallow.

oh how i laughed at this episode!

i would give props to mccarthy for staying trim, but he kinda looks ill.

http://icydk.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/E_AndrewMcCarthy_325.jpg

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/12/08/420x316-alg_director_andrew-mccarthy.jpg

He does always seem like he is suffering from dysentery.

seriously this was the best episode in a long time, rob lowe killed it, amy poehler killed it, can i say again, "network connectivity problems," i actually died laughing, i am posting from.... the afterlife

sometimes i think my girl watches this show 60% for rob lowe/adam scott

parks & rec and the office were my faves last night.

i ran screaming from that new show on nbc. don't want to watch a second of it.

nbc always does that to me though. scrubs. veronica's closet. i could go on.

aside from banging some young chicks and taping it, rob lowe is a bro.

I loved this show before they were both cast, but the addition of Adam Scott definitely doesn't hurt.

I remember getting into a weird argument about hating Rob Lowe on ilx once. Who could hate Rob Lowe? Crazy people, that's who.

Okay, I just looked and I became so irate over this topic that I devoted a thread to it, and I am not one to start a lot of threads:

How could anybody hate Rob Lowe?

rob lowe was kinda wasted on brothers & sisters. even though i watched it cuz i'm a sad sad old lady. i'm glad he can shine in a proper lowe-like manner.

i think i misunderstand the meaning of "aside from" huh

haha i was gonna say

he was one of my favorite things about the West Wing... LOVE the Lowe

cosign lowe amazing on west wing. and wasn't he dating lisa cuddy for awhile on that show too?? power couple!

Adam Scott showing a swell fashion sense on these first 2 episodes.

I need to seek out Party Down - I love everything that Adam Scott does

You do, it is great.

YES, you absolutely do.

sometimes i think my girl watches this show 60% for rob lowe/adam scott

― max, Friday, January 28, 2011 12:27 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

don't call me your girl

my dude

Which reminds me, tangentially, that Megan Mullally will be reappearing this season so I've read. She's awesome everywhere, but was especially so on Parks & Recreation.

Meg Mullally is married to Swanson in real life.

oh cool, i've been wondering about Party Down. WOrth watching?

Adam Scott is great in The Vicious Kind

I also just need to say

SPAWNEE

the scene when Amy was talking to the painting was fantastic. I can't remember what she called herself.

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TUMT7dpnQ2I/AAAAAAAAAZs/hnyUb_TJUuo/megannick.jpg

i told my wife i wanted to be just like swanson when i grow up. I kind of am, minus the mustache and beautiful haircut.

Wasn't it "Lady Pennyface"?

http://www.prime8.org/woodshop/

the beefcake section is hilarious.

they are a hot couple.

If I was a dude, I would want to be Ron

like i said before, my absolute favorite character on TV.

hands down

Anyone else remember American Body Shop? I'm pretty sure it was the first time I ever noticed Nick Offerman in anything and thought he was pretty damn righteous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKJh6blPIEg

chris v i think you would love party down

cool i'll have to check it out on demand or on my roku

party down is about three times better than parks and rec
and i really like parks and rec

I looooove parks and rec but Party Down is just perfect.

i've never seen it. maybe netflix has it.

Party Down was 2 seasons, 20 episodes total, and every one of them is essential viewing if you love laughing.

Netflix has every Party Down ep available on instant view or on DVD. I watched them all in about a week. They're incredible.

Ron Swanson has a tattoo????

iirc from the Party Down thread Netflix took it off instant view as soon as Starz cancelled the show

they're all available now

sometimes i think my girl watches this show 60% for rob lowe/adam scott

― max, Friday, January 28, 2011 12:27 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i have to say i am sort of in love with adam scott

I hate him. His head looks like an upside down triangle.

>:(

i mean, that's true, his head looks like an upside down triangle, it's a nice shape!

is a triangle with one angle pointing downwards truly upside down? is there a correct way for a triangle to be oriented? /deepthoughts

"leslie monster"

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TUOWTWLyYqI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/2BWg6xGnBcQ/adamscott-triangle.jpg

That's a right side up triangle imo.

he's kinda anime.

oh but meanwhile couldn't stop watching Party Down tonight. much laughter. They had me by "MORE POOL FOR ME, FUCKOS!" in the first episode. so funny.

thanks for bringing it up on here!

I'm still struck by what a brilliant premise for a show Party Down had. Changing the setting for each episode wasn't a convenience, it was a necessity. Only good things can come from that kind of foresight (except getting canceled, maybe).

i do love watching parties. on t.v. or in movies. i always thought there should be a 24 hour party channel for shut-ins. all kinds of parties. even large holiday gatherings for people to watch when they don't have the mental strength to face their own families. i know i'd watch it.

Good idea!

Thanks!