Re: Parks and Recreation

nikita Wed Jul 31, 2013 10:15 pm

Wow. Yeah, not sure I like that at all.

biakbiak Wed Jul 31, 2013 11:15 pm

I am only upset about

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Cutebutpsycho Wed Jul 31, 2013 11:38 pm

This news is literally THE WORST. /Jean Ralphio.

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Author By Night Thu Aug 01, 2013 8:25 pm

Cutebutpsycho wrote: This news is literally THE WORST. /Jean Ralphio.

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Heather Wed Aug 07, 2013 3:48 pm

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emrie Fri Sep 06, 2013 11:34 pm

Season Five Blooper Real

1. Chris Pratt is so gross and I love it.
2. Amy Poehler consistently strikes me as a warm and generous (and hysterically funny) person
3. If there were a TV channel that was all bloopers all the time I would watch the shit out of it

katesti Thu Sep 26, 2013 11:32 pm

This show makes me SO HAPPY IN MY SOUL. I can't even list all the things I loved tonight.

Instant Monkeys Fri Sep 27, 2013 12:01 am

I <3 this show. A lot.

Oh, Ron Swanson.

Gillian Fri Sep 27, 2013 12:37 am

I never really like episodes of shows that take place in their not normal settings. It always feels too weird, and this was really no exception. But even though it wasn't my favorite, there was still so much about it that I loved, which is really just what I love about this show in general, and that is LOOK HOW HAPPY EVERYBODY IS! Everyone's just living life, having functional relationships, achieving life dreams, etc. It's awesome. I love how positive this show is.

Shiny happy feelings aside, I could really do with about 100% less Mona Lisa. Jean-Ralphio is a national treasure, but his sister makes me wish for less Saperstein in my life.

biakbiak Fri Sep 27, 2013 12:57 am

This show is perfection!

I loved the England bits! I mean even if sucked I would need it for the five Pratt free episodes!

My heart will break when this show goes off to the harvest festival in the sky! Why hasn't this show won every award in the world.

sobe Fri Sep 27, 2013 2:01 am

This show makes me laugh, but it's warm and cuddly like a hug, too. I loved all of it, but for some reason my favorite moment was Donna eyeballing Chris's boxer-briefs. Donna's the best.

Shalamar Fri Sep 27, 2013 11:05 am

I somehow wasn't expecting Ron to immediately propose as soon as Diane said she was pregnant, but I should have. Because he's Ron Swanson, and of course he'd want to "do the right thing" for his Duchess. Sniffle.

I LIT-erally gasped out loud when Diane said her middle name was Tammy. Hee.

BreezyK Fri Sep 27, 2013 11:13 am

I like Mona Lisa just for the moment when Jean-Ralphio says "She's the WOOOOO-OOOORST"

Author By Night Fri Sep 27, 2013 3:18 pm

biakbiak wrote:Why hasn't this show won every award in the world.

Because the show is Leslie Knope, and Hollywood is Pawnee, pretty much. /April Ludgate mode

Speaking of April, I do love her character development. She's grown from the surly sarcastic teen/earlytwentysomething very naturally and believably, imho.

For a vacation episode, this was pretty good. I'm always nervous when American shows/movies touch European soil, but thankfully there were only a few moments where I cringed, and they were intentional (I think). No annoyingly awkward poses in front of the Buckingham guards!

Snarker Fri Sep 27, 2013 4:46 pm

I loved Ron's quest to the holy grail of whiskeydom.

Shalamar Fri Sep 27, 2013 6:33 pm

No annoyingly awkward poses in front of the Buckingham guards! .

And no "Oh, hey, look who I ran into! Fergie!" I'm lookin' at you, Friends.

bbridges Fri Sep 27, 2013 10:04 pm

When Ron started tearing up reading the poem I got a little misty. Leslie's perfect gifts are my favorite thing.

biakbiak Fri Sep 27, 2013 10:16 pm

More of Ron's Scottish journey.

mokey75 Mon Oct 21, 2013 4:03 pm

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

Fuck you, NBC. Right in your ear. I know I should be happy we've gotten as many awesome episodes as we have, and that I (likely) won't have to worry about the show hitting a slump before it goes out, but I'm not. P&R is my happy place, dammit.

On the plus side, I have faith that the show runners have enough time to plan for a super awesome final season because they've had to do it more than once. I mean, the Leslie/Ben wedding was the planned finale if the show didn't get renewed past its 13 epsisodes last season and that was probably my most favorite episode of a sitcom ever.

Shalamar Mon Oct 21, 2013 4:25 pm

DAMN IT. I am beyond upset about this.

"The network desperately wants to get more viewers to sample 9 p.m. comedy Sean Saves the World." Yeah, good luck with that. To be fair, I haven't watched "Sean", but I've heard it's terrible.

puddingcup Mon Oct 21, 2013 4:50 pm

I don't understand. How is this supposed to help anyone? How is it that a repeat showing of the Voice gets more viewers than a new episode of Parks? Never mind, don't answer that.

ETA:

The comments had this:

I think you're off base here. NBC is airing 4 episode of Parks and Rec over the next month. That's not what happens when a show is getting benched. They just don't have any 30 minute options to plug the hole in the schedule they're left with, so they're using the 4 episodes they have as two full hours instead of four half hours. Then they're using some hour long options they have to fill in on the other nights.

As for the absence from the schedule for the end of the year, that's far from unusual. The Thanksgiving nigth NFL game and the Sound of Music special have been planned for quite some time. And mid- and late December is almost always filled with lots of repeats and holiday specials.

These moves are not primarily geared towards boosting Sean Saves the World. They are geared towards keeping the entire night somewhat afloat. If they just plugged the holes with repeats for the remainder of the year, the slide would get worse and worse.

I'd bet good money Parks & Rec is back in Fall of 2014, and NBC has done nothing to make me think otherwise.

Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.

I don't know enough about tv to know how much of this makes sense.

Binky Mon Oct 21, 2013 4:55 pm

Shalamar wrote:DAMN IT. I am beyond upset about this.

"The network desperately wants to get more viewers to sample 9 p.m. comedy Sean Saves the World." Yeah, good luck with that. To be fair, I haven't watched "Sean", but I've heard it's terrible.

Yeah, this is basically NBC saying it wants more viewers to change the channel to something, potentially anything, that is not NBC.

Gallifrey Girl Mon Oct 21, 2013 5:12 pm

I read this article just this morning from the LA Times about one of the thursday comedies getting cancelled, and NBC filling the hour with Parks and Recs, and then return in January in the time slot after Community.

I think with their new shows doing so poorly, they'd be crazy to cancel something with even middling ratings.

nikita Sat Oct 26, 2013 12:11 pm

Adam Scott had a series of tweets about this the other day which basically said no, we're not on hiatus, this was always the schedule as planned, no worries. So I'm trying not to freak out. But I've heard ratings are not good so I worry about a possible future for the show beyond this season. I lost my 30 Rock, I don't know if I can stand losing my P&R too.

And honestly, if P&R gets canceled, there will be literally nothing left on NBC that I watch besides SNL. And a lot of times I DVR that and watch it later in the week.

Binky Sat Oct 26, 2013 12:21 pm

bloomtoperish wrote:
And honestly, if P&R gets canceled, there will be literally nothing left on NBC that I watch besides SNL. And a lot of times I DVR that and watch it later in the week.

I sincerely think there are a lot of people in this position. I hope the announced casting change indicates NBC is going to try to save money on the show in the future, not cancel it.

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