Ok, to explain "coach" Ron Swanson: The red sweater with the white collar is a take on this big-time college basketball coach at Indiana University named Bobby Knight, who was this temperamental personality who drove his players hard and blew up at bad calls; even flinging a chair across the court during a game in the 80s like Ron did here.
Penfold74
2025-04-29 16:24:11 +0000 UTC
Somebody should see if Rob Lowe does any Cameo vids for fans, and buy one for Ana to get Rob looking right in the camera, do the double-finger point Chris Trager style, and give a Trager-like "Ana Colli".
Penfold74
2025-04-29 15:59:16 +0000 UTC
Ah, and I'll add: I mean, to me Adam Scott is and will always be the "Are we having fun yet?" guy.
Parks and Rec doesn't hold a special place in my heart like it seems to for so many others... I get it, to some degree, the cast is mostly really likeable, to a greater or lesser degree (except Tom, who sucks, and everybody, for how they treat Jerry). But I do appreciate how cool it is that Adam Scott missed out on his audition for The Office and Parks and Rec initially, which freed him up to do "Party Down", and when that ended (WAY too early), he was brought back for Parks and Rec in a really meaningful role. (I'm pretty sure he was gonna be Mark Brandanowicz, so to dodge that role and then get Party Down *AND* Ben instead? What a lucky break.)
(Although again, I think the way they re-tooled Mark after season 1... he was just a much, much better character moving forward. He was kind of a bit of a flat character, a bit of a cliche, not particularly compelling, in season 1, but after that they just did a fantastic job of making him a much more fully realized character, so much so that I was legit bummed out when Ann broke up with him, and when he left the show after season 2. It's incredible how much they turned that character around in season 2.)
Eric
2025-04-16 08:40:51 +0000 UTC
This is when I started to truly hate Tom. He was always a bit of a self-centered shit, but he's dating fucking Natalie Morales and he's throwing a tantrum because Ron is with his ex. Grow the fuck up.
Eric
2025-04-16 08:20:55 +0000 UTC
Honestly, can't blame them. One of the funniest jokes in the whole show.
Rene Aavik
2025-04-05 22:01:39 +0000 UTC
Andy's "Network connectivity problems" joke was adlibbed by Chris. Pissed the writers off because it was funnier than anything they wrote.