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Heroes

Watch Nick Offerman Talk About His Mischevious Teenage Years

by | March 13th, 2013

Here's Parks and Recreation's Nick Offerman reliving his youth to Jay Leno last night. Don't worry, Nick Offerman talks way, way more than Jay Leno in this clip.

Hit the jump for Part Two:

guest stars

Patton Oswalt to Guest Star on 'Parks and Rec'

by | February 20th, 2013

Patton Oswalt will be guest starring on an upcoming episode of Parks and Recreation, showrunner Mike Schur confirmed in a conference call today. "I think the news has broken – what the hell, right? Yeah, we wrote a part recently for an episode we just finished shooting and we were sort of like, 'Who should do this? Oh Patton Oswalt. The answer is Patton Oswalt.' One of our writers, Joe Mande, has opened for him a lot doing standup, and he literally just emailed him and Patton was like, 'Yeah definitely, I'm in.' And that's as hard as it was to convince him, which was great, because he's a fan [...]

Fandom

April Ludgate from 'Parks and Rec' Pens an Ode to Neutral Milk Hotel

by | February 11th, 2013

"In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is the best album ever made and all other albums stink, and if you don’t agree, I’ll fight you."

- April Ludgate, of Parks and Recreation fame, writing for Vulture about her appreciation for Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea on the album's 15th anniversary (Parks an Rec co-creator Mike Schur may have helped).

Interviews

Talking to Mike Scully About Writing for Poehler and Fey at the Golden Globes, 'The Simpsons,' and 'Parks and Rec'

by | January 30th, 2013

Mike Scully is living proof that if you just spend your childhood watching TV and have no college degree or any other marketable skills, you can always fall back on show business.

[Full disclosure: the preceding line was Scully’s invention. Hey, sometimes you take an assist from a professional comedy writer, especially one as accomplished as he is.]

Scully is a television writer and producer perhaps best known as the showrunner for The Simpsons Seasons 9 through 12. Since then he’s had stints producing and writing for shows including Everybody Loves Raymond, Parks and Recreation, and The New Normal, where he’s currently a co-executive producer.

Scully’s won 6 Emmys, [...]

Casting Notices

Annabeth Gish Will Play Ben Wyatt's Sister on 'Parks and Rec'

by | January 18th, 2013

We're gonna meet more of Ben Wyatt's (Adam Scott) family on Parks and Recreation later this year. After Jonathan Banks and Glenne Headly were introduced as his bickering parents earlier this season, Entertainment Weekly reports that actress Annabeth Gish (The X-Files, Mystic Pizza) has been cast as Ben's sister and will make her debut in an episode sometime this spring. The episode in question involves Ben and Leslie taking a road trip to his hometown, Patridge, Minnesota. Keep in mind that Ben Wyatt was briefly the 18-year-old Mayor of that town before bankrupting it to build a winter sports complex called Ice Town. I'm expecting Ben's hometown [...]

Ratings

'Parks and Rec' and 'Community' Hit Rating Lows, But at Least They're on a Fifth Place Network

by | February 22nd, 2013

Last night's super funny and sweet Ben and Leslie wedding episode of Parks and Recreation and the Inspector Spacetime convention episode of Community failed to draw in more viewers – in fact, they each hit series lows. Parks got a 1.3 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 3.03 million viewers overall, and the show's second new episode got a 1.4 and 2.91 million. Community received a 1.1 rating and 3.8 million overall viewers.

While the continued low ratings are bad news for these shows, the network they're airing on isn't doing much better. For the February "sweeps" period – which stations use to score high ratings so they [...]

alcoholism

Enjoy This Supercut of All the Drinking Scenes from 'Parks and Rec'

by | February 14th, 2013

Slacktory cut together all the scenes from Parks and Recreation in which characters drink and/or are drunk. The video has a surprising lack of Snake Juice.

summer blockbusters

'Parks and Rec's Chris Pratt Will Be a Marvel Superhero in 'Guardians of the Galaxy'

by | February 5th, 2013

Marvel has made a surprising casting choice for its upcoming big superhero franchise Guardians of the Galaxy by hiring actor Chris Pratt, best known for his role as Andy Dwyer on NBC's Parks and Recreation, to play one of the lead characters. Deadline reports that Pratt will play Star-Lord (real name Peter Quill), a NASA astronaut who's the offspring of a human mother and an alien father and becomes the leader of the central team of superheroes known as the Guardians of the Galaxy, which also includes Drax the Destroyer, Rocket Raccoon, and Gamora. Those roles haven't been cast yet.

Pratt's casting ends a long search by Marvel and director James [...]

Podcasts

It's That Episode 51: Aubrey Plaza's Brush with Reality TV

by | January 28th, 2013

On "It's That Episode" Craig Rowin (UCB Theatre) invites guests over to watch any episode of any TV show they want. They discuss the episode and other crap.

Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation) introduces Craig to the most insane cooking show ever, Sweet Genius. Aubrey talks about her obsession with reality TV and the time she auditioned for a reality show about female comedians. Also, Aubrey and Craig discuss depressing movies.

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Reviews

Checking In with Parks and Recreation Halfway Through Season 5

by | January 17th, 2013

Consistently one of the funniest shows on TV (based on a scientific method averaging laughs per minute over well-placed callbacks per episode), Parks and Recreation has already hit some significant milestones halfway through its fifth – and, hopefully, not last – season. As Leslie adapts to life outside the Parks and Rec office, Ron pulls free from the Tammys, and Ben, Tom, April, and Andy all start getting serious about their own five-year plans, things are evolving across the board. And while all the big life events lead to occasional emotional moments, they’ve been perfectly balanced by the absurd things we’re learning about Pawnee – and the strength [...]

finale

Tonight's 'Parks and Rec' Was Written as a Potential Finale Because NBC Originally Ordered a Shorter Season

by | February 21st, 2013

Hitfix's Alan Sepinwall has a long interview with Parks and Recreation co-creator/showrunner Mike Schur today, in which he reveals they made the first of tonight's two new episodes a possible series finale because NBC had only ordered a 13-episode season originally. The network ordered nine more episodes for a full 22 shortly after the episode was filmed, but the writers made it a special episode with a sense of closure just in case. Here's Schur explaining the situation:

"The way we operate every year is we that don't know what our future is. So we try to tell the juiciest, most interesting stories we can tell. And at the end [...]

pilot season

Chelsea Peretti and Andre Braugher Join Andy Samberg's Cop Show

by | February 12th, 2013

Stand-up/Parks and Rec writer Chelsea Peretti and Men of a Certain Age's Andre Braugher have just been cast in a new Fox pilot starring Andy Samberg, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The untitled show was written by Parks and Recreation co-creator Mike Schur and writer Dan Goor, and it follows a diverse group of police officers in a precinct on the edge of New York City. Peretti will play Gina the civilian office manager at the station, and Braugher's character is Captain Holt, who just got his own command after 30 years on the force. Terry Crews, Melissa Fumero, and Stephanie Beatriz are also set to star [...]

business

Adam Scott Named His Production Company "Gettin' Rad" Because It's the Worst Name

by | January 31st, 2013

Here's Adam Scott on Conan last night, talking about the new, totally real company he started with his wife, Gettin' Rad Productions, a name they picked because it's a terrible name. Scott runs through some other awful name options, but the company's "tiger with sunglasses" logo is so good it can make any of these names work.

Beefs

Adam Scott Trash-Talks Amy Poehler

by | January 25th, 2013

"Before every take of a new scene, whenever we’re starting a new scene, she has a really weird process she goes through: She needs complete silence, and she has to have all the lights in the building turned off, which is really inconvenient because there’s a whole crew working, and all of the actors are trying to work. But we need to turn all of the lights out. So it’s pitch dark, while she, quote, moves into the space of her character. But, you know, whatever gets you there; it’s fine. And so we all support her, and it’s her show, so we’re all just going to have to keep doing [...]

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