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In the article it says they redrew it in the 70s to look less strangley.
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grilldos posted:We're on our umpteenth rewatch of seasons 1-4, and it's pretty amazing how noticeably the quality begins petering out in the second half of 4. There are a handful of really good episodes to end that season (the final three episodes are The Debate, Bus Tour, Win/Lose/Draw), but once you hit the Tom/Ann ("Tan") storyline in that season, the show really becomes hit or miss with how cohesively it weaves themes and storylines together, and you can see the seeds of the problems seasons 5 & 6 would come to suffer from -- the shift from character relationships breeding good jokes/stories to seemingly the jokes/plot ideas becoming the jumping off point. Nearly done with the season 5 rewatch and it's definitely got a bunch of funny moments that just aren't molded together well into the best stories or theme work. It always seems to shake out to where there are two or three plots involving three or four of the characters as their major players, with the rest of the main cast oddly sprinkled into whichever plot as a Joke Machine. Part of this is they were more and more having characters naturally branch out beyond the Parks office, but then they sort of ran out of reasons for extra characters to be in any particular scene. Seasons 2-4 were much better about dealing with the Too-Many-Characters problem by (more often than not) giving each character a driver for each particular episode. One that stands out in my mind is Season 4's "Smallest Park". The B plot is Andy going to college; April is naturally there, and then they give Ron something to do by having him finance it and tag along to secure that investment. Then they even tie him into the women's studies class in a way that suits his character. That's a 3 person B plot in an episode with 3 loving plots where all the characters have something to do, with the A plot culminating in the most emotional and satisfying moment of the whole goddamn season. The C plot even involved Jerry in a key way. The problem with season 5 isn't that it's bad by any means. It's just being compared to the standard set by itself for the last 2 and a half seasons.
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HookShot posted:Boy do not read the comments on that Gizmodo article Just imagine all comments sections on all websites as the attendees of Pawnee public forums. It makes reading the garbage a little easier (albeit still awful) Anyway, I just finished season 7. I still don't like the way the season started, but it did get better and the ending was absolutely fantastic. I'm glad I went back to it. Now to start all over again! (emphasis on ALL, which means the slog through S1 and all of Mark in S2, that's gonna be great, ha) bucksmash fucked around with this message at 08:14 on Jan 18, 2016 |
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If you think the public forum people are fictional, look up any local government meeting that's open to the public ever. Holy poo poo If anything, the people on the show are unusually reasonable.
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Javid posted:If you think the public forum people are fictional, look up any local government meeting that's open to the public ever. Holy poo poo One of the funniest/saddest things you can watch is a public meeting where somebody in the audience tries to do math.
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Javid posted:If you think the public forum people are fictional, look up any local government meeting that's open to the public ever. Holy poo poo There's a guy in Bloomington Indiana who shows up to rant about how Indiana university fired him to interfere with his efforts to end the drug war because the Unitarian church told them to. Sometimes he brings a guitar and sings sings about government mind control.
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Pope Guilty posted:There's a guy in Bloomington Indiana who shows up to rant about how Indiana university fired him to interfere with his efforts to end the drug war because the Unitarian church told them to. Sometimes he brings a guitar and sings sings about government mind control. Somewhere behind the scenes, there's a local alderman (who never shows up to those meetings) sitting at a control panel in a room with a huge computer. On that computer is a card reader, and the card in the reader is that guy's old Indiana University ID badge. And that alderman is laughing his rear end off, because he's about to hit the SING, GENERAL CONSPIRACY, MIND CONTROL, and GOVERNMENT buttons all at once. Because this is the 3rd meeting of the year, and just hitting the UNITARIAN CONSPIRACY button has gotten boring.
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Speaking as someone who has had to run a few public engagements, yeah, those meetings in Parks and Rec are pretty spot on. The main reason it brings out so many people like this is that many of these people don't have anyone to talk to, and this is an enclosed situation where the government said they want to hear from people. So they have a captive audience and they are going to use it. People running it need to be respectful and actually listen - to a point. The chanting guy would get shut down really quick.
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He's got some good ideas w/r/t ham and mayonnaise.
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And about how her daughter is an idiot.
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I'm rewatching this on Netflix and just have to say that Jean-Ralphio Saperstein is the greatest character in the history of television.
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I think you mean he's the wOOOOOOOOrrrrssssssTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT he really is the best
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At very least he's the best supporting / recurring character I've possibly ever seen in a show. If he were on screen full time he'd grow tired real fast and lose his charm.
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Merauder posted:At very least he's the best supporting / recurring character I've possibly ever seen in a show. If he were on screen full time he'd grow tired real fast and lose his charm. Yeah they really knew when to bring him in and let him leave. Soooooo many other shows could learn from P&Rs character treatments.
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CommaToes posted:The chanting guy would get shut down really quick. Except for turnip! Except for turnip!
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CommaToes posted:The chanting guy would get shut down really quick. Topless park! Topless park!
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Ham and mayonnaise! Ham and mayonnaise!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng_-HgRfGBY Also here's a pretty good compilation of all the citizens. I forgot about the "fence around their fence" guy
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'Add to Watch Later' very much hit. Good find.
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You know those huge glass jars of candy they have in the Sweetums office? I had no idea those are real things, they use them for candy buffets. I just ordered two of them for my wife for Valentine's Day, going to fill one with banan runts and the other with popcorn jellybellys.
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Concurred posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng_-HgRfGBY Literally every single one of these is funny. God what a good show. edit: "THERE'S NO TIME! HE CAN FLY!" might be my favorite. The delivery is just perfect.
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:You know those huge glass jars of candy they have in the Sweetums office? I had no idea those are real things, they use them for candy buffets. I just ordered two of them for my wife for Valentine's Day, going to fill one with banan runts and the other with popcorn jellybellys. Your wife is loving disgusting.
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:You know those huge glass jars of candy they have in the Sweetums office? I had no idea those are real things, they use them for candy buffets. I just ordered two of them for my wife for Valentine's Day, going to fill one with banan runts and the other with popcorn jellybellys. So you're getting a divorce for Valentine's day?
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What am I going to do with my kids all day? Keep them in my house? Where I live? The best show.
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CORN'S A FRUIT, SYRUP COMES FROM A BUSH
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Concurred posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng_-HgRfGBY This was great an all but it doesn't even have the pawn shop owner in it and he's pretty much the greatest thing ever.
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suddenlyissoon posted:This was great an all but it doesn't even have the pawn shop owner in it and he's pretty much the greatest thing ever. Looks like it was published late 2012, so it's missing a lot of the public seen in the last few seasons. Needs a refresh!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9By96DZfKTI Oh Harris 
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Best of Harris and Brett. Holy crap how did I ever forget about the Flintstones dead bird work whistle?
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BonoMan posted:Best of Harris and Brett. Holy crap how did I ever forget about the Flintstones dead bird work whistle? They don't show my favorite Brett moment (maybe because it doesn't include Harris?): "I'll kill 'em...soon as I'm done with these birds..."
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Can someone help me..I am trying to find out which episode it is Ron is renovating the third floor. I think it is mid season six? I can't remember if it is over multiple episodes.
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faarcyde posted:Can someone help me..I am trying to find out which episode it is Ron is renovating the third floor. I think it is mid season six? I can't remember if it is over multiple episodes. The Wall, episode 15 of season 6.
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screaden posted:The Wall, episode 15 of season 6. Thank you, it's my favorite episode. Watched it again today 
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Classy move douchebag
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 It's all coming true, guys!
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Cockblocktopus posted:
We messed up and forgot to do the whole President Biden thing.
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Spacebump posted:We messed up and forgot to do the whole President Biden thing. Maybe Leslie gets to be the first woman president after all 
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I so very loving much needed this and I didn't even know it. ("Leslie" wrote an open letter to America for Vox.)
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