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‘There Will Be No Fucking Vegetables!!’ Hercules Loves Tonight’s Fifth Season Premiere Of PARKS AND RECREATION!!
NBC says of “Ms. Knope Goes To Washington”:
Leslie and Andy visit Ben and April at their new jobs in Washington D.C., and Leslie feels overwhelmed by the city -- especially after meeting two of her idols. Meanwhile, Ron throws a "thank you" barbeque for the entire Parks and Recreation staff.
The teleplay for this one is credited to Aisha Huharrar, also credited with last season’s hilarious “Bus Tour” episode. More in the text invisible.
* The four clips above begin the first, second, third and fifth scenes of tonight’s episode.
* Huh! The fifth scene is slightly different in the last clip than it is on the screeners sent to the press.
* As reported elseswhere, the two Leslie idols are female U.S. senators – Olympia Snow and Barbara Boxer. They are numbers four and 26 on Leslie’s List of Amazing Women.
* As described in the fourth scene, Ron’s plans for the barbeque -- even if they didn’t stand in sharp contrast to Leslie’s -- are truly horrifying and super-hilarious.
* We get an interesting update on the roller-coaster Ann-Tom romance.
* Leslie is mistaken for a famous actress by a Japanese tourist. (Hint: not Amy Poehler.)
* The promos spoil John McCain’s surprise cameo in tonight’s episode. What they don’t spoil is that it’s pretty funny.
* It’s amazing how a summer away makes me forget how insanely sexy Rashida Jones is.
* Great line: “We’re not doing any of that.”
* Another great line: “Spin it around; back it on up.”
* How does it end, spoiler-boy? “Two hundred dollars cash!! Up front!!”
9:30 p.m. Thursday. NBC
Readers Talkback
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I <3 this show
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Thank god it's back
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Sept. 20, 2012, 7:26 a.m. CST
Shame that Leslie Knope and Gob Bluth are no longer together.
by tylerzero
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When I first heard they were doing an Office spin-off I was like why? But this show is way funnier than the Office.
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sorry.
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Appears so. But I didn't realize that until you 'combo'ed it 20 times. But ya bummer on Knope and Gob. Parks and Rec is superior to The Office.
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Sept. 20, 2012, 9:34 a.m. CST
And parks and rec is basically the same premise of the office but to use it in the setting of parks and recreation doesn't work. Which is why they tried to move it to the mayor's office. Situation comedy on a whole is really lame these days with the group
by Cedric Ford
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Sept. 20, 2012, 9:39 a.m. CST
Well not the mayors office but city concil. Point is the whole working in parks and rec was lame cause they couldn't come up with no good story lines that involved parks and rec.
by Cedric Ford
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Sept. 20, 2012, 9:44 a.m. CST
And if the main character is now city council what reason would she have for showing up at parks and office in every episode?
by Cedric Ford
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Harvest Festival, gay penguins, water fountain project, logo redesign, smallest park ever, Lil' Sebastian appearances, the Lil' Sebastian funeral, the Eagleton fence..... That's just off the top of my head. Don't say they can't make any good stories out of Parks and Rec as a setting for the show. Leslie didn't run for mayor, she ran for city council, a position which is stated several times as "not interfering with her work with parks and rec." I won't knock your opinion on the show as you're entitled to it and I respect that. However, this is one of the few instances on AICN where the love is probably going to outweigh the hate. Be prepared for that.
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Jerry (Gary?) and Perd Hapley are criminally underrated as characters and actors. Those dudes rule.
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You're an idiot.
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God I'm so pumped that this show is back. Definitely my favorite comedy on TV right now. I'm usually a pretty gloomy, grumpy guy, but this show is so good natured and hilarious that it always manages to make me feel good.
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I think that's what's refreshing about it: it's such a good-natured show. Whereas shows like Always Sunny and The League (I actually love The League, don't get me wrong) are kind of about assholes who think they're good guys, Parks and Rec is a show about people who have the best intentions, even if they would never admit it.
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...that Herc thinking Rashida Jones is sexy really qualifies as a spoiler that needed to be put it in the invisible text portion.
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Sept. 20, 2012, 10:43 a.m. CST
Rashida is a pleasure to behold. how could you forget that?
by zom-bot.com
though it seems like each time she's onscreen, it's like you've seen her for the first time, so I guess i get what you are saying. and with glasses on in Jeff who lives at home? purr.
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Sept. 20, 2012, 10:45 a.m. CST
oh wait, not jeff who lives at home- Wilfred. wtf was I thinking
by zom-bot.com
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aaah, shit....I laugh at that joke every time I think about it....has to be the first time a major network show has done a fisting joke. You fuckin' rule, Amy.
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Fucking Hilarious. So excited, thank god this show is back.
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Sept. 20, 2012, 11:23 a.m. CST
LoL Enjoy your show about midget horses this sow will be canceled mid season!
by Cedric Ford
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Sept. 20, 2012, 11:39 a.m. CST
This is lit-ter-ral-ly the best news so far. The difference between P & R and say, The Office, or 30 Rock is
by openthepodbaydoorshal
that Leslie is actually very good at her job, unlike a Michael Scott, who suceeds despite himself. And although the characters are exaggerated, they are not human cartoons as they are on 30 Rock.
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That's the only excuse I can think of for this....
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Everybody loves a good comeback.
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so why print that ya dummy?
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Sure they will, they'll just bleep it out. Ron Fucking Swanson.
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You have no soul. I don't mean to sound over dramatic or use hyperbole, but if you don't like this show even a little bit, you are a worthless human being and deserve to be fired out of a cannon into the sun.
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Had never seen it before and watched seasons 1-4 over the course of a month. It's hilarious. Can't believe no channel in the UK has picked it up.
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Plus an SNL political episode. Great stuff! Plus Person of interest returns next week!
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as the rest of the cast was a genuis move that, unfortunately, The Office never thought to use. Some of my favorite bits involve the general populice of Pawnee. Or the other floors of their building. Any bit of Pawnee history. Those wonderful paintings. Local TV. No show does that kind of thing! The fake town in The Onion News show comes close...
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Sept. 20, 2012, 3:58 p.m. CST
False alarm Big Bang Theory premieres next week, I was looking at the listings for the returns of the last two episodes of last season.
by Paul
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Thanks for that. I thought all the humor would be in the headline, but then you added those two zingers into the body. ''Person of Interest'' in particular had me in stitches; thanks again!
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whenever they hold the public town halls i laugh my ass off at things people complain about. also how about the way everyone in pawnee drinks from a water fountain? too good
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Sept. 20, 2012, 5:01 p.m. CST
And seriously, after rewatching seasons 3 and 4 over the last few weeks...
by BlaGyver
There's really not a bad episode in the whole batch. The very worst ones are still perfectly watchable and have a couple good laughs. And those episodes are few and far between the moments of absolute brilliance.
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Sept. 20, 2012, 5:03 p.m. CST
Everyone watch this so they dont cancell it like all the other nbc comedies
by and
I love parks and rec it makes me happy unlike almost all other shows. this is the last season for community, 30 rock and the office. and they half seasoned this season of parks. So please everyone watch it so they dont chop this great show down too
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vitamins minerals and fiber guys, eat your damn veggies. I am in between Ron and Chris, I eat bacon but also carrots. Parks is such a sweet show just just guys who only eat meat will have heart disease and think eating healthy is being an extreme health nut like Chris, drives me mental but that is my problem. When the office, 30 rock, and community are gone at least I will still have Parks and Rec I hope. Breaking Bad, Boardwalk Empire, and now Parks get their own talkback, can't complain. Fringe will need its own too, or fridays talkback will be all about fringe and community. Arrow might be cool though
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With such like the big gang bang polluting the airwaves... Parks and Rec is a gem.
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Your welcome, figured that I would invade this talkback since Herc hadn't made a Thursday one yet, but he finally did.
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aka Parks & Rec.
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Here's my permit.
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It's a basic premise of "conflicts of interest" law. You can't hold an elected office that has supervisory or budgetary authority over your appointed office. In Pawnee, the City Council has been shown to have both supervisory (at least indirect) and budgetary (direct) over the Parks Dept. Normally, I'd say "hey, its TV, give it a pass," but on this show these type of dilemmas are often major plot points (for example, Leslie's inabilty to date Ben while he was her boss). Furthermore, those plot points are usually in the service of illuminating just how ethical Leslie tries to be at her. As such, I just find it off putting that missed such a common sense, basic, rule of good government when crafting the current set up.
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Sept. 20, 2012, 8:51 p.m. CST
Ugh. I don't like seeing optimistic Leslie so discouraged
by buffywrestling
Where's my joy???
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Sept. 20, 2012, 11:08 p.m. CST
Ron Swanson was a fuckign cartoon this episode- no swanson straightman subtlety
by zom-bot.com
he was a caricature of the character tonight..the meat and beer thing was taken to the extreme, and he did things Ron would never do- 1) flip his shit 2) speed through a park full of people. in a cast of goofy characters, he's supposed to be funny because he's so straight and serious in the things he believes in
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Sept. 20, 2012, 11:32 p.m. CST
Zombot, I think you've missed quite a few classic episodes if you think Ron Fucking Swanson went overboard tonight.
by Dandelion.
He's done other "crazy" things that had to be reeled in by other characters, much the same way Chris had to rectify his behavior at the end tonight. Swanson is in no way the "straight man" of the show, if anything the only two people that served as straight anything were Anne and Mark(that was his name, right?) and thank god they got rid of that boring slab of meat guy and made Anne pretty funny too. This show is interesting in that it doesn't have any straight man characters at all anymore- it simply uses the characters against eachother in a great series of checks and balances, some weird sort of rock-paper-scissors type play on characterization that completely works without being overblown or out of character. People can appear in specific scenes as the "Straight man" for the scene, only because the person playing against them is either more rediculous or completely opposite in their stance.
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I don't so much think he was a cartoon, I just feel like he was written tonight like a fan writing a spec script. Not the best episode but far from the worst. I'm sure it'll pick back up with Leslie back in the Parks office.
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Ron was missing a lot of his charm tonight.
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the whole pig thing was funny and his permit cracked me up. i also loved chris's raisins scene. so funny
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Sept. 21, 2012, 7:51 a.m. CST
the permit bit was funny, but yeah, it felt like he was written by a fan.
by zom-bot.com
that's the better way of describing it.
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You know, it's not so much that he flipped out (like somebody pointed out, it's happened plenty of times in the past) ... it's how the flipout was written. Generally the writers do a better job at what I guess I'd call a controlled nuclear blast ... last night was kind of a runaway meltdown. Still funny, just not the way I prefer to see Ron written.
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We're going to this new BBQ joint today (huge beer selection including an outstanding local brew :D ), anyway, feel like ordering some Tom.
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I love this show! I travel all over the country in my car and most of that time is spent listening to Parks & Rec, Arrested Development or News Radio (We miss you Phil Hartman). I could not have been more excited for tonight's episode...but it just felt like a pilot episode where people hadn't found their footing yet. The writers didn't get anyone right, really. Ron was a caricature of Ron Swanson (not to mention the man that believes there are three acceptable haircuts: High and tight, crew cut & buzz cut had a poofy hair thing going on last night) And I am not typically one to knock something as silly as make-up on a sit-com, but why the hell did Aziz look like an Indian zombie through the episode and the lovely Rashida Jones looked like a meth head? Is there some sort of "Everyone but the Actors" strike going on? Please pull it together for episode 2. The show has so much more to give.
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I never really thought about that, because it seems like a natural progression to go from being in charge of a department to a councilperson for the whole city. I did always think Chris's active participation in Leslie's campaign was a little shady though, since he was the city manager.
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It would be a natural progression if, after she won, she resigned her Parks job. However, from what i understand she still holds both offices, thereby creating the conflict of interest. In regard to the City Manager, Chris could probably support Leslie on his own time, but he had to be prepared for the fallout if she lost (and I thinks they even mentioned once that he was aware if she lost her opponent would push to have him fired). The bigger ethical issue there was him and the rest of the staff using city offices, city resources and city time to run her campaign. That was overtly illegal.
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...it was funny up to and including the 'permit' gag but after that it turned into a caricature of the 'real' Ron. The real Ron is an extremist about many things but-absent an appearance by Tammy-he's an extremely controlled and competent guy. He'd never put on a BBQ that wasn't run like clockwork. Witness his burger challenge against Chris in an earlier season.
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You are dead on, I was thinking the same thing. They are going to run this character into the ground. How long before he's on a motorcycle jumping a shark cage?
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