The Pawnee City Council race heats up in tonight’s Parks and Recreation with an episode written and directed by star Amy Poehler, in which Leslie Knope has a high-stakes TV debate with her main opponent, Bobby Newport (Paul …
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Adam Scott on Friends with Kids, Party Down and His Long Road to Success
Adam Scott is an unlikely romantic lead. He is slight in stature, with a mop of puffy brown hair that always seems to have a runaway cowlick and a sardonic sneer that he uses convey a comedic level of disbelief. These qualities …
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The Morning After: Happy Leap Day! Edition
When a network airs four comedies across one night of television, you’re going to end up with a certain amount of unintentional repetitions of jokes, whether it’s different versions of the same Lady Gaga “Poker Face” gag (as …
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Human Beings Rejoice! Community Returns to NBC March 15
When NBC pulled Community from its schedule in December, saying it would bring the show back in midseason, fans began to spin all sorts of dark predictions as to what would happen to the show. Well, if you bet on “NBC will bring …
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There Is a Rap Song About Ron Swanson
There is a rap song about Ron Swanson. Why are you even reading the rest of this post? Why haven’t you just clicked “Play”? What more could you possibly need to hear?
Well, all right: the track comes from Adam WarRock, whose past work includes a full album about Firefly (“M to the A to the L!”) and whose Parks & Rec EP also includes a …
TIME’s Favorite Cultural Moments of 2011
Dear reader, you’re probably as exhausted as we are from this month’s onslaught of Top Ten lists. (Don’t worry, we have a couple more we’re rolling out later this week.) But those deal with the macro. Here’s a bit of the micro …
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Parks and Recreation Watch: Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose!
Spoilers for last night’s Parks and Recreation below:
Last night after rewatching “Citizen Knope” (having gotten a screener earlier in the week), I tweeted half-jokingly that Parks and Recreation had become “the Friday Night …
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The Morning After: Cummings and Returnings
You know the drill: too many season debuts, not enough time. Here’s your space to offer your morning-after critiques of the various premieres, returns and other TV shows of Thursday night, including:
* the season premieres of …
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Emmy Nominations 2011: The Good, the Bad and the Surprises
The Emmy Awards are a big ocean liner that turns very slowly, and this year’s nominations, announced this morning, were no exception: a lot of familiar faces and a few new (or old but underrecognized) entries. So there were a slew of nominations for Mad Men, Modern Family and [Insert Name of HBO’s Big Movie/Miniseries of the Year …
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Parks and Recreation Watch: A Little Horse With Grief
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Spoilers for the season finale of Parks and Recreation, below:
Earlier this season, Parks and Recreation followed up the splendid “Harvest Festival” episode with “Camping,” in which Leslie Knope dealt with an unexpected complication of the festival’s success: what was she going to do for a …
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Ron Swanson's Turkey Burger Made Flesh
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Parks and Recreation has for some time been the best and most hilarious comedy on TV. It is now also the most tasty. In last week’s “Soulmates,” Ron Swanson, asked by Chris if he had ever had a turkey burger, replied: “Is that a fried turkey leg inside a grilled hamburger? If so, yes. …
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Parks & Recreation Watch: …Or Forever Hold Your Peace
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Spoilers for last night’s Parks and Recreation:
A note to anyone planning to throw me a surprise party: I can pretty much be fooled about anything. Yeah, I remembered the kerfuffle several weeks back when NBC mistakenly ran a promo referencing an April-Andy wedding, then said it should have …
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Parks and Rec Watch: …And the Mini Horse You Rode In On
Spoilers for last night’s Parks and Recreation coming up:
Ladies and gentlemen, the best Parks and Recreation episode of all time. So far.
In my overview piece on Parks and Recreation’s third season, I wrote about the irony, at a time of fights over budgets and public unions, of there being a sweet network comedy about …