Park and Recreation Tertiary Characters: Who's Ya Favorite?

Jean-Ralphio in a walk. Shout out to Crazy Ira and the Douche though.

I think I have to go with Joan Callamezzo. Such a great character and a great performance.

missing perfume magnate dennis feinstein but i'm voting for perd no matter what so whatever

joan callamezzo is fantastic too but perd hapley makes me laugh every single time

Ya heard?

joan v. tammy II

I voted Orin

perd is great too. i do like callamezzo too, but i didn't like her look this season.

I voted for Bobby Newport cause he gave me free candy.

I've seen every episode of this show and I have no idea who half of these characters are

I didn't either, from just the names, but most of them came rushing back once I read their Wikipedia descriptions.

Perd all the way.

It was only recently that I found out Perd Hapley is a real-life news person in Los Angeles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twhypgQP4d8

Jean-Ralphio

perd over jean-ralphio, shoutout to sewage joe though

Kudos for putting Lil Sebastian in the poll.

Who's the accounting software guy? He cracks me up every time he appears.

Barney Varmn, I guess? There's a much more comprehensive list of characters here (I maxed out at 50). Some of these names just about kill me. Geoffrey Morglesberg. Randy Killnose. Sewage Joe's last name is Fantringham.

can't find the vid of Jean-Ralphio's job interview

The thing I like about Perd is that there doesn't seem to be any particular joke associated with him other than this constant perkiness no matter what's being discussed, and it's hilarious.

Jean-Ralphio vs Tammy II for me though.

Sorry I mean Tammy I.

I had no idea before now that Paula Pell played Ron's mom.

I feel like "GET ON YOUR FEET" should be a tertiary character

The thing I like about Perd is that there doesn't seem to be any particular joke associated with him other than this constant perkiness no matter what's being discussed, and it's hilarious.

to me it's more about his convoluted phrasing than his perkiness

and also how he says strange meaningless or redundant things like "tonight we start with our first story" or "the story of this next dance is that it's called the worm".

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3xsi4m7i51rq5jz3o1_250.gif

can't find the vid of Jean-Ralphio's job interview

I only vaguely remember that but I like to think the whole character was inspired by this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqIyA9sGZHI

to me it's more about his convoluted phrasing than his perkiness

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, October 11, 2012 2:45 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and also how he says strange meaningless or redundant things like "tonight we start with our first story" or "the story of this next dance is that it's called the worm".

― wk, Thursday, October 11, 2012 2:53 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This. I feel like the main joke with his character is that his rehearsed-sounding patter is usually just nonsensically vacuous filler: "There you have it, where it is the thing Leslie Knope just said about this situation."

crazy ira and the douche

yeah i like that parks is this kind soft examination of democracy (a cuddlestein mountain the thick of it) that repeatedly makes clear the problems w/ democracy aren't so much the govt as it is the vacuous (perd) or petty (joan) media and angry, idiotic citizenry.

"There you have it, where it is the thing Leslie Knope just said about this situation."

haha yeah that one was great. some of the more subtle ones are funny because they almost slip by unnoticed as part of the generic reporter flow.

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That's definitely one of the main reasons I love it. Given the subject matter, it could be a really angry show but it just goes in a totally different direction, thanks largely to Leslie's positive attitude.

heaps of these are actually secondary characters (eg Jean-Ralphio, Tammy II, Perd, Joan, Boobbbbby Newport), no fair cloggin the poll with them

missing perfume magnate dennis feinstein

also Harris from Animal Control

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Perd!

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkfrq6Lwgt1qcqjd5o1_500.png

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Think the winner is really more secondary at this point, tbh.

This poll needs to be...

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RETRO-JAMMED.

I do enjoy the fact that 2017 Joan is completely nuts.

omg she is awesome in 2017

I love Jean-Ralphio so much.

otm

That job interview...

I didn't remember until recently that Dr Saperstein is the gynecologist from rosemary's baby.

Jean-Ralphio's first appearance is easily one of the show's funniest moments. His next few appearances are just funny. Then he gets increasingly tedious

The parts where he sings in people's faces are always my favourite.

I love Jean-Ralphio pretty consistently. But Perd is my favorite. Pretty sure he's an alien.

Really came to love Jeremy Jamm. I thought the final season was a big letdown but all his parts were hilarious, especially laughing at his own crap joke in his last scene. I think Jon Glaser had one of the funniest parts in Louie.

Don't you work at Lady Footlocker? <<< April's best Jean Ralphio burn

Been rewatching Parks, love all the Jean Ralphio forever amen

http://youtu.be/nnyGH5kuC2M

http://media.giphy.com/media/4PvP4zij51Lyw/giphy.gif

lol :D

as great as Jean-Ralphio is as a character, i'm glad that he remained a tertiary character. a lesser show would've promoted him to being a regular, and he would've become irritatingly obnoxious as opposed to entertainingly obnoxious.

i think his real role was to be a personification of Tom's id -- that is, what Tom would have become if he didn't have the rest of the Parks Department to knock the worst of that shit out of him.

and even though he wouldn't have gotten my vote, i always got a kick whenever Orin showed up:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_YYiIFWwXHDw/TcD3sWsJFpI/AAAAAAAAAG8/M1DrIwjPSHk/s800/Oren.gif

http://cdn2.crushable.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/oren3.png

My favourite Jamm line.

"Yeah, I don't mean to brag, but I've got irritable bowel syndrome"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axFrKTiiFdo
My favourite Jean Ralphio moment.