April and Ann and Ron and Andy and Leslie are all awesome.
I feel sorry for Jerry. Everybody treats him so terribly.
Ben and Chris are also awesome.
Who names their dog "Shoelace", Sweetums people?!! Also, what happened to Nick Newport Jr, if he was the CEO, and then everywhere else Bobby is the heir?
I know the show is called Parks and Recreation, so it's about the Pawnee, Indiana, Parks Department, but we see Andy working a lot more than we see Ann working. And she's a nurse, so that basically means she has an inhuman schedule all the time. How does she have time to get involved with all of the gang's crazy antics?!
"BYE-BYE, LITTLE SEBASTIAN...."
Mark was a jerk. But I kinda liked him. And I really wish he wouldn't have disappeared.
Tom and his plans are exasperating.
I HATE JEAN-RALPHIO.
Why are all Pawnee journalists and librarians either inept, evil or both?
Things slow down a bit in season four.
Tom is mostly intolerable.
I would read Leslie's book on Groffle the Awful Waffle.
Chris can bike faster than an RV?!
I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY HATE JEAN-RALPHIO.
Bobby Newport is astonishingly stupid.
Sad Chris is really pathetic.
They changed the design of the end-credits halfway through the fifth season. That's weird.
There's no counting how many failed businesses Tom's tried. Most of them were atrocious. Rent-A-Swag was actually all right.
Councilman Dexhart has had something like seven scandals. That we KNOW of.
I totally love the idea of Ben's bachelor party. Board games are awesome.
JEAN-RALPHIO'S SISTER IS (slightly) WORSE THAN HE IS. Their dad is even worse.
Why are we calling Jerry "Larry" now?
Metal lawn chairs are fine in their place(the lawn), but they're also uncomfortable. Why does Leslie have them in her office?
Ben has been hired by and quit the accounting firm at least
Can we have a Jurassic Parks and Rec mashup? I have a VERY VERY LONG list of characters I'd like to see eaten by murderous horrifying dinosaurs....the entire Newport clan, Marcia and Marshall Langman the morality defenders, Joan Callamezzo, Brett and Harris the stoners of the Animal Control Department, Shauna Mulway-Tweep, the Douche, Jen Barkley, Brandi Maxxxx, Tammy Two, the Sapersteins, Councilmen Dexhart and Jamm, Eagleton Chad...
Perd Hapley somehow grows on you.
It's not overkill to wish death upon INTENSE EAGLETON CHAD, is it?
Andy as Johnny Karate is literally the best type of Andy ever. Which is really, really saying something.
Really going to need to keep track of great quotes from this show...after I'm done watching it through for the first time. Summer project.
Orin makes a pretty good Easter bunny...
Chris and Ann are leaving for Michigan....it's so sad. "BYE-BYE, LITTLE SEBASTIAN..."
It's pretty awesome that Ann and Leslie argue about Friday Night Lights, since they both were NBC shows.
Eagleton Ron is weird. But kinda cool....in an "Eagleton-is-sometimes-on-rare-occasions-acceptable" type of way. But he's mostly weird.
Ron and Leslie hating each other is truly terrible and horrible to watch.
My eyes teared up when Ron was explaining about being lonely after everybody else left the Parks Department. (This likely has something to do with it being finals week, and an especially stressful one, which followed an extremely stressful semester, which closed out a particularly terrible year of college. As proof of this, I have binge-watched every single episode, seven seasons' worth, of a TV show in six weeks.)
Yeah, Ben and Leslie....if Gryzzl has a squad of flying robots giving out presents...that's...not great. Although the stuffed pigs dressed as movie stars is really awesome... PERD HAPLEY! A TV court show? Gryzzl is EVIL....2017-Chad is slightly more tolerable. But not very much. Although Dr. Richard Nygard must be the world's greatest therapist...This is a lot of thoughts during one episode. (705)
Dennis Feinstein is also on the "Must Be Eaten By Jurassic Park Dinosaurs" list.
I'm not exactly sure how many personalized binders and scrapbooks Leslie's made and presented to people, but I think it's running somewhere near thirty-four. Although I did forget about the 103 friendship-celebration scrapbooks she made for Ann.
The guys trying to find April a job is great.
Chad's name isn't Chad, is it? Craig, I mean....which is still a really...well, I wouldn't name a character either one of those.
Really colorful decorated hard hats must be a Pawnee thing. Jerry/Larry/Terry/Garry... Ben is really into calizones...probably should have mentioned that earlier. Brett and Harris the Animal Control guys live in the City Hall basement in 2017...because of course they do. Councilman Milton is STILL alive?! And is the 2017 shoeshine guy the bass player from Mouse Rat? Also, how many names did Mouse Rat HAVE, anyway? (Note to self, track that next time through...along with binders and quotes and awkwardly-phrased compliments.) So now the Indiana Organization for Women has awarded Woman of the Year to two men: Ron Swanson and Ben Wyatt.
Perd Hapley makes a wonderful TV-show host. Garry's last name is misspelled in the "Johnny Karate Super Awesome Musical Explosion Show" opening credits. Also, the show was created, written, produced, directed, with music by, wardrobe, arts and crafts, set building, snacks, car rides, casting, make-up, ninja training, special effects, "time tailoring" and custodial services are all done by Andy Dwyer. Burt Macklin's middle name is "Tyranosaur". And the Reggie Wayne jersey that Andy got married in is hanging on the wall of the set. The Smithsonian mental institution? I'VE BEEN THERE! And the Giant Monster That's Sitting in a Chair That Represents All of America's Enemies! I would almost actually like to read the boring disclaimer nobody ever reads... This show feels like most NSU BCM SWAT practices... Ben is Professor Smartbrain, haha. "Barry" the Mailman...he actually makes a terrible mailman. From the clip, one of the "Try Something New" segments Leslie was part of was eating green olives. The Very Good Building Company commercial is brilliant. I love the sixteen dead seconds of silence. The Wamapoke Casino ad is equally brilliant. (I live in Oklahoma, so I've seen plenty of casino commercials since 2004.) The "This Is Your Life" segment was terrific. Paunch Burger commercial was great. Veroxxotle: for all your Mexican food, telecommunications and transportation needs. "An amazing train wreck" occurring weekly, in April's words....yes, this is SWAT all over. They played the actual credits over the end...this was definitely one of the greatest episodes of Parks ever. (710)
This show has its fair share of TMI moments....please be quiet and go away, Ethel. If we want to hear about Mayor Gunderson, we want to know what trouble his dog Rufus got into. Jean-Ralphio makes a good fake-action-movie-proposal-video villain. Mona-Lisa is so horrendous. Tom's proposal was great. The inauguration ceremony for Jerry was a little much...but it was good.
It's the finale...but there's so many great moments we're referencing. I'm pretty sure that's Greg Pikitus and Allison buying the Seattle house from Donna in 2023. Teach Yo Self Foundation! I love Andy and April's future. And one of the kids at Halloween 2022 is dressed as Star-Lord, so that's awesome. Also, Champion lives to be at least 13 years old, or roughly 91 in dog-years. Ben and Leslie give the best advice. Also, when Jack is born in 2025, Andy is 44 and April is 35. Goodbye, Sapersteins...you were really weird and I am glad that we never have to see either of you again. Even when he's a Congressman, Ben is still running the accounting for Tom's Bistro, that's great. And the rest of the advisory board is Ron and Donna, even better. But poor Tom...nothing ever seems to go his way. But he did marry Lucy. And then he wrote a best-selling book. Mayor Garry Gergich served for 31 years and over four terms until his death at age 100 in 2048. Also, somehow Brandi Maxxxx and Harris the Animal Control Guy become members of the city council. Didn't like either Bobby or Shauna, but they're happy together, so that's nice. In 2022 one of Ron's daughters goes to Stanford; and he bought controlling interest in the Lagavulin whiskey distillery. And then he gets an awesome job as national park supervisor. (Also, I think his park rangers were once members of the Swansons club.) Ben and Leslie make a great team. 2025 - THE WHOLE GANG IS BACK TOGETHER! INCLUDING CHRIS AND ANN!
And now it's over...."You're 5,000 candles in the wind."
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