Some of you might already know, others will find out in a second: I watched all seven seasons of Parks and Recreation within 2-3 weeks. Truthfully, the last season took a little extra time but it was because I wanted to postpone the inevitable – the end of something special. But luckily, I have endless possibilities to watch it again so.. it technically hasn’t ended, though it has, and it is quite sad. As a cure for the sadness, I’ve created this endless list (which isn’t actually endless) of things I love about Parks and Recreation.
Thing 1: Leslie Knope and her outlook on life
Thing 2: Leslie Knope’s friendship with Ron Swanson
Thing 3: Ron Swanson’s hate towards the government
Thing 4: Ron Swanson working for the government
Thing 5: The Park’s departments team dynamic
Thing 6: Leslie’s resistance, durability and dislike against negativity
Thing 7: The show’s many ways of showing the real value of friendship
Thing 8: Andy Dwyer and everything about him
Thing 9: Andy Dwyer’s love for April Ludgate
Thing 10: Andy Dwyer’s love for cosplay
Thing 11: The lack of love for Jerry / Garry
Thing 12: Jerry’s hot wife Gayle
Thing 13: Nobody understanding how Jerry got such a hot wife
Thing 14: Ben Wyatt’s constant struggle of how hot Gayle is
Thing 15: Ben Wyatt and Leslie Knope’s relationship and everything about it
Thing 16: Ben Wyatt’s Cones of Dunshire
Thing 17: The accountant who kept getting rejected by Ben Wyatt
Thing 18: Tom Haverford getting rejected by women, a lot
Thing 19: Tom Haverford’s inability to suceed
Thing 20: Tom Haverford’s ability to succeed
Thing 21: Tom Haverford dating Ann Perkings
Thing 22: Ann Perkings, Leslie Knope and their non-lesbian relationship
Thing 23: Ann Perkings’ actual relationship with Chris Traeger
Thing 24: Chris Traeger being literally the most optimistic person on the planet
Thing 25: And Christ Traeger being literally the healthiest person on the planet
Thing 26: Chris Traeger catching the flu
Thing 27: Chris Traeger and therapy
Thing 28: Tom Haverford and Donna Meagel getting some Treat Yo Self therapy
Thing 29: The concept of Treat Yo Self
Thing 30: Donna Meagel’s hot husband
Thing 31: The hotness that is post diet Andy Dwyer
Thing 32: The nerd like hotness of Ben Wyatt
Thing 33: Leslie Knope referring to Ben Wyatt’s hotness
Thing 34: Leslie Knope’s monologues about anything really
Thing 35: April Ludgate not saying anything about anything
Thing 36: April Ludgate’s unmotivated look at life
Thing 37: And April Ludgate’s love for dogs, Champion and Andy Dwyer
Thing 38: Ron Swanson loving April Ludgate as his assistant
Thing 39: Ron Swanson hating almost everything in the world
Thing 40: And Ron Swanson loving meat, whiskys, hunting, woodworking, breakfast food and jazz
Thing 41: Ron Swanson’s scary ex-wives
Thing 42: Leslie Knope not knowing Ron Swanson’s birthday
Thing 43: Leslie Knope knowing everything about everything
Thing 44: Leslie Knope giving the best birthday presents in the world
Thing 45: And Leslie Knope’s projects
Thing 46: Leslie Knope building a park
Thing 47: Ann Perkins and Chris Treager building a family
Thing 48: Ron Swanson building a crib for Ann Perkins and Chris Traeger
Thing 49: Ron Swanson saying he tested the crib by hitting it with his truck
Thing 50: Ron Swanson saying things that are extremely funny
Thing 51: Andy Dwyer singing things that are very funny
Thing 52: Andy Dwyer and Johnny Karate’s Super Awesome Musical Explosion Show
Thing 53: The emotional impact of Johnny Karate’s Super Awesome Musical Explosion Show
Thing 54: The feelings of joy, happiness, sadness and warmth during and after watching any Parks and Recreation episode
Thing 55: The desire to have such employees and friends and people in your life
Thing 56: The actual people behind the show
Thing 57: Amy Poehler’s laugh
Thing 58: Nick Offerman’s mustache
Thing 59: Aubrey Plazas deadpan delivery
Thing 60: Adam Scott’s bed hair
Thing 61: Rob Lowe’s ironic delivery of each line
Thing 62: Chris Pratt’s everything
Thing 63: Rashida Jones’ soothing voice
Thing 64: Aziz Ansari’s enthusiasm
Thing 65: Jim O’Heir’s likable portrayal of Jerry
Thing 66: Retta’s spirit
Thing 67: All the guest appearances
Thing 68: Most of all, Megan Mullally’s guest appearances as Ron Swanson’s ex-wife Tammy Two
Thing 69: The chemistry between the cast
Thing 70: The writing throughout the show
Thing 71: The character developments of all the characters
Thing 72: The way the show was filmed
Thing 73: The blank stare at the camera
Thing 74: The enthusiastic stare at the camera
Thing 75: The worrying stare at the camera
Thing 76: The last credits
Thing 77: Ron Swanson’s showing positive emotion when Leslie does something nice for him
Thing 78: Leslie Knope doing nice things for others
Thing 79: Leslie Knope not being able to act normal during a first date
Thing 80: Leslie Knope being able to achieve everything
Thing 81: Leslie Knope getting a library named after her
Thing 82: Everybody hating libraries
Thing 83: Everybody actually loving each other
Thing 84: Even Ron Swanson with his love towards his coworkers
Thing 85: Ron Swanson’s need to hide his positive feelings
Thing 86: Andy Dwyer’s showing all his feelings
Thing 87: Andy Dwyer being lazy while living with Ann Perkings
Thing 88: Andy Dwyer living in a hole he fell in
Thing 89: Ann Perkings finding out Andy Dwyer lives in a hole behind her house
Thing 90: Leslie Knope falling into the same hole
Thing 91: Ron Swanson falling on grass
Thing 92: Ben Wyatt’s hangover
Thing 93: Leslie Knope’s hangover
Thing 94: All of the guys drinking Snake Juice
Thing 95: Tom Hatheford’s crazy business plans
Thing 96: Leslie Knope’s crazy plans which always seemed to work out
Thing 97: Chris Teager always working out
Thing 98: Watching Chris Teager work out
Thing 99: Watching Andy Dwyer working out for a second
Thing 100: Ben Wyatt and his love for Calzones
Thing 101: Ron Swanson’s love for treasure hunts
Thing 102: Everybody loving Lil’ Sebastian
Thing 103: Leslie Knope’s love for everything to do with Pawnee
Thing 104: Leslie Knope finding out she was not born in Pawnee
Thing 105: The short yet memorable appearances of Craig Middlebrooks
Thing 106: Craig Middlebrooks’ love for WEDDING PLANNING
Thing 107: Ron Swanson’s opposite persona Ron
Thing 108: Ron Swanson without a mustache
Thing 109: Leslie Knope and Dave Sanderson
Thing 110: Louis C.K as Dave Sanderson
Thing 111: Paul Rudd’s guest appearance as the most annoying character ever
Thing 112: Eagleton’s perfection
Thing 113: Leslie Knope’s hate towards Eagleton
Thing 114: Leslie Knope’s infinite belief in herself
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Guess I should finally give this a try. My daughter swears by it, too.
You should, I did and I have no regrets!
AND JEAN RALPHIO! Great post, I love this show so much. Ron’s hatred towards vegans and vegetables is one of my favorite things. Also that episode where they stayed in that weird ass hostel and he was like “what the fuck is a german muffin?”! this show has so many great episodes but my fav were the ones where Ron got shot in the head and the one where Leslie assembled previous directors and they were all terrible during her picnic.
I’m in the unpopular group of people who didn’t really have big feelings towards Jean Ralphio but I completely understand his appeal. And since I watched it all in a row all the episodes are all puddled together in my head but I totally remember the episodes you mention here. Then again, there are so many episodes more to love!
Oh this is an awesome list! In no way did I get anywhere near to watching the whole thing in under 3 weeks, but it was definitely something like a month and a half. February was a good month this year :’)