Stuff I like by Benita
I'm awesome.
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Parks and Recreation and the Comedy of Super Niceness
If deep down inside, under the endemic disgruntlement of The Office or endemic egomania of 30 Rock, most sitcom characters are “good people,” on Parks there’s no deep down inside about it. Has a sitcom ever had so many characters that are variations on ”sweet, kind person?” The driven sweet, kind Leslie; the goofy sweet, kind Andy; the grounded sweet, kind Anne; the guarded sweet, kind Ben; and Ron, whose mustache only hides the sweet, kind guy lurking underneath. Even the romance between Andy and April is a story about the power of niceness. In the words of Parks’s showrunner Michael Schur, April is a young woman who “feels out of place in this town; her friends are all ironic and hip and sour.” But she learns “You don’t have to be bitter and sad all the time about your place in life,” thanks to Andy, “this big happy golden retriever who is just very full of love and joy.”
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Amy Poehler and Aziz Ansari Talk About the Origins of Chickie-Chickie Parm-Parm
A website just went up called Tomhaverfoods.com.
Poehler : Oh my God! Aziz is going to freak when he sees it. He’s such a foodie. He’s an epicurean. He’s always tweeting about food.
Ansari: I know, I saw that. It’s so funny; I’m glad people are into it.
Poehler: And I heard they made the turkey leg and hamburger thing for Ron Swanson. Ron Swanson talks a lot about his meat products, and there’s a website where they cook the things that Ron Swanson talks about. And there’s a turkey leg stuffed inside a meat patty, and then grilled. -
Wow. Parks and Rec fans are really good at Photoshop and shit like that. Love this.
Amazing.
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Entertainment 720
Entertainment 720 is Pawnee’s
first and only entertainment
media conglomerate. Helmed by
nightclub impresarios and
marketing masterminds Tom
Haverford and Jean-Ralphio
Saperstein, Entertainment 720
is your one-stop-shop for public relations, marketing, or anything having to do with reaching out to people, communicating effectively, and other desirable abilities. -
HOW DID I JUST FIND OUT ABOUT THIS? THIS IS ALMOST BETTER THAN DOWNTON ABBEYONCE. I CAN’T STOP USING CAPS.
(Source: downtonpawnee)
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Infinite Drunk Ron Swanson
MESMERIZING.
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