HeyJaredPark It
An episode-by-episode rewatch of Parks and Rec, with lots of tangents about SNL, Tina Fey, and my other favorite comedians. Join us for Amy Poehler fan club meetings at the Snakehole Lounge.
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Would Leslie Knope last a day in Widow’s Bay? (opens the original)
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I am a huge baby when it comes to horror movies, so I avoided Widow’s Bay most of the spring and summer, despite everyone telling me I JUST HAD to watch it. But finally, once it got nominated for so many Emmys, Katie and I decided to buck up and get on the train. It’s for sure super creepy — we could only watch it together, in the daylight — but it’s also so funny. Patricia is one of the best characters I’ve seen on TV in a while, and the whole town of Widow’s Bay started giving Pawnee-if-it-wer
“Leslie and Ben” (opens the original)
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If you’ve been here for a while (can you believe I’ve been writing Park It for almost 2.5 years??), you may remember me talking about a Mike Schur Moment (MSM). And in case you’re new here, it’s a pretty simple ideology: Mike Schur, Parks and Rec’s creator and showrunner, is a total sap. I defined a Mike Schur Moment as:“A scene so unbelievably earnest and vulnerable from otherwise silly, goofy characters that you c
Do we really have to be this peppy all the time! (opens the original)
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If you’ve been reading Park It for any length of time, you know that Amy Poehler is kinda my gal. If I had a dollar for every time I said “I wrote my senior thesis about Amy Poehler,” I could jet off to Europe for a few years. I’ve never missed an episode of Good Hang. My TikTok algorithm has been taken over by thirty-year-old clips of Amy and Tina doing improv. Yes Please is so dogeared and creased it’s falling apart. I really just fucking love her.I also love Leslie Knope. It’s impossible not
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