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I wanted to start this thread as an apology for bashing it in the Community thread. As I saw Community before P&R, some of my unkind comments were based soley on season one, which was terrificly unfunny.
From the cold open with Amy rapping out Parents Just Don't Understand, the KNOPE posters in the style of the Obama HOPE posters, the gay marriage theme, and so on and so forth, the season premiere of P&R was something like a gajillion times funnier than season 1 in total, which isn't that big of a feat considering I laughed exactly once during the entirety of season 1 (when Rashida Jones' boyfriend was listing the history of his ever changing band names -- "Just the Tip" had me howling). P&R was such a chore to get through that if a) it hadn't been the Thursday night comedy block sandwiched between two shows I wanted to watch and b) the new TV season isn't quite yet in full swing so I had the 24 minutes to spare, this might have been deleted from my DVR. I think this show is so much better when Leslie is someone you want to root for -- last season, she was such a pathetic wannabe that her presence was grating. Seeing her take a real stand made her more likable and a better center for the show. Freeing her from the will they/won't they dynamic with the tall white guy is also a plus -- he was too much of a tool for anyone to want to see them hook up.
When 30 Rock returns, the lineup of P&R, 30 Rock, The Office, and Community will be about as solidly funny as any 2 hour block in recent TV history.
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I actually enjoyed season 1 so needless to say I really thought the s2 premiere episode was hilarious. If the show can be that consistently funny it will be on par with The Office and 30 Rock.
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True, the Leslie Knope character is just not my cup of tea for a lead character for a sitcom, which drains a lot of the fun out of the show for me.
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If I met Tracy Knope in real life, I'd try to extract myself from the conversation ASAP so why would I want to welcome her into my home 30 minutes each week?
I think the same could easily be said about Michael Scott, but it doesn't make his character any less entertaining IMHO.
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PSSSSssssssssss... That's the sound I heard throughout the second episode of P&R. It's the sound of air slowly leaving a tire, and after last week's memorable outing, this one deflated back to season one standards. Not even the great Louis CK should pull this one out of mediocrity.
I hope this show doesn't follow the Heroes trajectory where every fourth or fifth show, as I'm about to give up on it, is good enough to keep me around for another four or five episodes of wheel spinning boredom.
OK, I admit the part with the hernia was pretty funny. But it should have been funnier.
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Last week's Beauty Pageant episode was on the meh side, but some of the scenes from the practice date in this weeks show were gold, especially Leslie's enumeration of bad date incidents. Some of the digging up dirt storyline was also pretty good, especially the picture of Tom Haverford dressed like Osama (he was actually dressed as a Jedi). The punchline about Chris Pratt being a jazz musician was a bit obvious and flat, but overall I'd consider this one a keeper.
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Jeez and crow I can't keep the names straight. Maybe you can be my editor. I'll PM you my posts before hitting submit
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some of the scenes from the practice date in this weeks show were gold, especially Leslie's enumeration of bad date incidents.
"Whiz Palace" is possibly the funniest thing I've heard on TV this year.
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Parks and Recreation got picked up for a full 2nd season.
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Where do you get your data from Adam? That's not at all what I've seen, though the couple of sites I read only report 18-49.
Parks has held its audience all season, with last weeks episode still matching it's premiere. I'm sure it could do better if it had a stonger lead in, but right now it regularly outpaces Community which took a big hit when it moved to 8.
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From my ever-increasing sieve-like memory, P&R does about 5.5-5.8 million this season, while Community hovers around 5 million when it moved to 8 p.m. The Office is more in the 7.5-8.5 million range, while 30 Rock loses about 1.0-1.5 million from its lead-in, The Office.
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