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Brawnfire posted:No, but apparently part of Ben's character is that opportunities plop down on his lap without his even trying, so who knows? Of course the other part is him declining them at the last possible moment, so it's still pretty much in character for both of them for it to be Leslie
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grilldos posted:It's a Nick Offerman book. They sprinkled a lot of Offerman into Ron on the show, but there are a few key differences between the two that's readily apparent. Watching his Netflix special will give you a rather strong indication. I brought the audiobook. His delivery sound exactly like Ron Swanson. In the chapters he talk about Megan Mullally and his obsession to Woodwork magazine, I can't tell the difference between Nick Offerman and Ron Swanson. So far I prefer this book over Amy Poehler's book. It's more personally.
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whatever7 posted:I brought the audiobook. His delivery sound exactly like Ron Swanson. In the chapters he talk about Megan Mullally and his obsession to Woodwork magazine, I can't tell the difference between Nick Offerman and Ron Swanson. This is some pro-tier phoneposting right here
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Isn't Nick Offerman basically a combination of Ron and Eagleton Ron in real life? Like, he's kind of a dope smoking hippie.
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Feb 26, 2015 19:13
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Sleeveless posted:
Its just footage of him from Deadwood.
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So is there any explanation for why Gayle looks exactly the same over several decades? Is she part of an immortal race ala Kenneth the Intern/NBC President from 30 Rock?
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Allison Brie out of nowhere. Must have shot the promo around the time they were filming Kings of Summer (which is a much better Nick Offerman indie film).
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In the Swanson chapter of Offerman's book he said Mike wanted him from the start in the show due to his older auditions that didn't pan out. Both him and Adam Scott did a "chemistry reading" with Rashida Jones, I assume for a role somewhere between Andy and Mark? NBC outright rejected it, said they want someone more handsome. Mike Schur went back and said okey okey we still want Offerman for a different role, as Amy's boss. The NBC suits said Offerman was not old enough and kept doing casting calls for this role. In the end it came down to a final audition between him and Michael OMalley (sp? I don't know this guy). Offerman found out later Mike and Greg didn't even hand in the other guy's tape to NBC, only his tape. So you can say Offerman own the P&R creative guys a big favorite. I like his casting stories, even though they are kind of repeatitive. Reminds me of the first season of Party Down.
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jumba posted:So is there any explanation for why Gayle looks exactly the same over several decades? Is she part of an immortal race ala Kenneth the Intern/NBC President from 30 Rock? Because it was a joke. Are the extended bits on youtube or NBC somewhere? I hate hulu but want to see more Jamm
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Athanatos posted:Are the extended bits on youtube or NBC somewhere? I hate hulu but want to see more Jamm That they are: http://www.nbc.com/parks-and-recreation/video
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Quandary posted:I think by definition fan-fiction cannot be written by the original writers Sure it can, look at Star Wars I-III. Now in that case it was bad fanfiction, whereas the P&R final season is good fanfiction. But it's still very different in tone, content, and characterizations.
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whatever7 posted:Michael OMalley (sp? I don't know this guy). Mike O'Malley was the host of 'Get the Picture' and 'GUTS' in the early 90s. Then he got fat and he was one of the main characters on that awful show 'Yes, Dear' that was on for approximately twenty-eight years.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Mike O'Malley was the host of 'Get the Picture' and 'GUTS' in the early 90s. Then he got fat and he was one of the main characters on that awful show 'Yes, Dear' that was on for approximately twenty-eight years. He also went on to cameo in Parks actually, as the guy who ran the white van fleet rental company and tried to rip off Ron & Co.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Mike O'Malley was the host of 'Get the Picture' and 'GUTS' in the early 90s. Then he got fat and he was one of the main characters on that awful show 'Yes, Dear' that was on for approximately twenty-eight years. I gotta stick up for him, he proved himself pretty well in Justified. But as a Ron Swanson character... Yeah I can't imagine that.
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Something I wish they had done was have the 2025 (was that the year?) reunion conclude with a group photo and mirror that with the final scene of the 2017 group photo.Phenotype posted:Ok, so I enjoyed the finale, and I'm glad all the characters we've grown attached to get happy endings, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who felt like they were watching P&R fan fiction, am I? It just felt, I dunno, just a little too perfect--the episode was a collection of scenes about how LITrally every character on the show ends up accomplishing their dreams and having a wonderful life. I also enjoyed the finale a lot, but the more I think about it, I agree with this to an extent. This entire season was already spent ensuring that each character is set up for success. Everyone leaving Pawnee for their next life step was the real end of the story for these characters and their time with the Pawnee Parks and Rec department, so we already had closure on every story arc with a happy ending. Adding that Andy and April had kids, Garry got elected mayor 4 more times, Donna became loaded and went on adventures, Tom became an author and motivational speaker, and Ron retired with a dream job doesn't really add anything to the story of the show, which is why it does feel like fanfiction.
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Epilogues are a well know form of fanfiction
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The Jean Ralphio funeral scene is extended by like 30 seconds in the extended cut and it is awesome. Just more of the same, but awesome.
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I couldn't believe it when The Wire showed us Daniels became a lawyer in the finale. What the gently caress is this poo poo, Fallout Equestria?!?
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grilldos posted:There are a shocking amount of people in this thread who seem to be completely unaware of who Christie Brinkley is. For real. Making me feel old.
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jumba posted:So is there any explanation for why Gayle looks exactly the same over several decades? Is she part of an immortal race ala Kenneth the Intern/NBC President from 30 Rock? She's Zorp.
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Feb 26, 2015 21:30
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Hail Zorp!
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A Steampunk Gent posted:I couldn't believe it when The Wire showed us Daniels became a lawyer in the finale. What the gently caress is this poo poo, Fallout Equestria?!? I'm sorry you can't respect the thought-out and reasonable opinions of others. Do you really find it that absurd for a fan of the show to be slightly dissatisfied with the finale and propose that they might have handled the ending slightly differently?
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Phenotype posted:I'm sorry you can't respect the thought-out and reasonable opinions of others. Do you really find it that absurd for a fan of the show to be slightly dissatisfied with the finale and propose that they might have handled the ending slightly differently? I had a few reservations with it myself, but calling for the fanfiction because it gave closure to characters the show's spent seven years building up is pretty stupid. It was a little on the self indulgent side I agree, but it was still just an epilogue - a completely normal and credible way to end a character driven story
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I like my optimistic television programs about the benefits and necessities of friendship and hard work to not end showcasing successful Happily Ever Afters for their characters. I would much rather they abandon their themes or at the very least be more ambiguous than the very ambiguous "Who Is President" gambit they perpetrated. Edit: This season was funny but very fan-servicey and the finale was no different, but rest in peace classic comedy program that I will think fondly of forever.
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A Steampunk Gent posted:I had a few reservations with it myself, but calling for the fanfiction because it gave closure to characters the show's spent seven years building up is pretty stupid. It was a little on the self indulgent side I agree, but it was still just an epilogue - a completely normal and credible way to end a character driven story That's fair. I did say that I enjoyed the finale and was glad everyone got a happy ending, but I think "indulgent" is a very good word for it, and I think they might have written a stronger ending by not literally spelling out that everyone maintained their warm happiness for the rest of their lives. Like, Bubbles gets to have dinner with his sister, but you don't see him as an old man surrounded by loving nieces and nephews on his deathbed. I think that's why fanfiction comes to mind -- I certainly give the P&R writing team all the credit they deserve, but "and they lived happily ever after for the rest of their lives in terrifying exactitude" is usually done by crap fan writers in love with their TV/manga husbands and waifus.
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Phenotype posted:That's fair. I did say that I enjoyed the finale and was glad everyone got a happy ending, but I think "indulgent" is a very good word for it, and I think they might have written a stronger ending by not literally spelling out that everyone maintained their warm happiness for the rest of their lives. Like, Bubbles gets to have dinner with his sister, but you don't see him as an old man surrounded by loving nieces and nephews on his deathbed. I think that's why fanfiction comes to mind -- I certainly give the P&R writing team all the credit they deserve, but "and they lived happily ever after for the rest of their lives in terrifying exactitude" is usually done by crap fan writers in love with their TV/manga husbands and waifus. So the ending of Six Feet Under was fan fiction as it did the same as it showed the ultimate fates of all the main characters?
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sweetmercifulcrap posted:Something I wish they had done was have the 2025 (was that the year?) reunion conclude with a group photo and mirror that with the final scene of the 2017 group photo. I disagree, one of the main themes running through the show, which was pretty much completely spelled out in Leslie's speech at the university, is how important the love and support of friends is in achieving your goals (incidentally, this is what made a lot of the Jerry stuff hard to take when it switched from laughing at his clumsiness to outright insults). The entirety of the city council campaign for instance, was a great example of this and why the season was one of my favorites "Leslie: Guys, it's so much work. I can't ask you to put your lives on hold. Ron: Find one person here who you haven't helped by putting your life on hold.", and chief trumble's quote about Leslie getting all the favors she wants because she only uses them to help others The harvest festival as well, by literally putting their jobs on the line to support Leslie's idea, picking up Leslie after she gets booted out of office, the Eagleton merger which was just on a scale of entire towns rather than their small group. There are plenty more examples of character growth using that same idea, particularly Ron, who becomes a very generous, selfless person once he allows the people he likes to actually become a part of his life. Even Tom, who is mostly a selfish dick throughout the series, ends up making his true success by literally using his friends personalities as a business model and is able to (mostly) recognise their influence If the ending was just people enjoying where they're at or just showing how they died it would be completely unsatisfying and run against everything the show has been building to that point, to see how that support for each other actually finally paid off, even if those characters are no longer part of the same immediate group, is what made the finale great for me. Lucky for you guys I'm phone posting so this ended up being a lot briefer than it could have been
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I thought the finale was pretty much perfect. I also loved that from the small timeskip at the start of the season one of the big ongoing jokes was that the jump forward in tech was massive and way overdone but during all the timeskips in the finale (except maybe for Craig and Typhoon) the tech was pretty much exactly the same despite the comparatively giant leaps forward in time.
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bobkatt013 posted:So the ending of Six Feet Under was fan fiction as it did the same as it showed the ultimate fates of all the main characters? "Usually" (comparative more usually, superlative most usually) Definition: Most of the time; less than always, but more than occasionally. screaden posted:I disagree, one of the main themes running through the show, which was pretty much completely spelled out in Leslie's speech at the university, is how important the love and support of friends is in achieving your goals (incidentally, this is what made a lot of the Jerry stuff hard to take when it switched from laughing at his clumsiness to outright insults). But I really like this interpretation. I never thought of it like that before.
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I don't think there's any interpretation there. There's a reason why all the flash forwards had someone leaning on a loved one for support or advice.
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Just finished season 7,. Really good but the unbroken string of awesome episodes stretching back to season 2 ended just before the finale with the Johnny Karate episode. The conceit of having to have the characters perform to an audience of children just seemed to make all the interactions fall flat.
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jumba posted:So is there any explanation for why Gayle looks exactly the same over several decades? Is she part of an immortal race ala Kenneth the Intern/NBC President from 30 Rock? Have you never met an old person who is just preposterously young looking?
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jumba posted:So is there any explanation for why Gayle looks exactly the same over several decades? Is she part of an immortal race ala Kenneth the Intern/NBC President from 30 Rock? Just a joke on how she will eternally be out of Garry's league, even when they're both 100.
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jumba posted:So is there any explanation for why Gayle looks exactly the same over several decades? Is she part of an immortal race ala Kenneth the Intern/NBC President from 30 Rock? In all seriousness, you know that actress is 61, right? Like, she does not visibly age.
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I was gonna go on a tirade about Christie Brinkley's cultural significance in a series of chronological steps, but at this point I'm pretty sure a lot of people in this thread have never even seen Vacation or understand Billy Joel's place in history, so gently caress it. I've been Jammed.
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32MB OF ESRAM posted:Just a joke on how she will eternally be out of Garry's league, even when they're both 100. Well, also that he has the perfect life outside of work.
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32MB OF ESRAM posted:Just a joke on how she will eternally be out of Garry's league, even when they're both 100. She's not even his type!
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