I tried. Oh Lord, how I tried.
Hey, you all watch
The Office, right? Yeah,
The Office is great. They've avoided
the Moonlighting pitfalls of the Jim and Pam relationship, the supporting cast is strong from top to bottom, Steve Carell manages to make his character, Dunder-Mifflin Paper Company middle manager Michael Scott, both likable and pathetic (no small feat). On any given week the show is capable of bringing you to near-tears with laughs or actual emotion. You should be watching
The Office.
Parks and Recreation is
The Office's retarded sibling.
Parks and Recreation is
The Office with all the awkwardness, but none of the jokes or me giving a shit. The best part of
Parks and Recreation ran down the crack of its momma's ass and ended up as a brown stain on the mattress. Even James Dobson agrees that
Parks and Recreation should have been aborted.
What the fuck happened? It was created by the same team that created
The Office.
It has some of the same writers. One of its stars, Rashida Jones, had a
memorable stint as Jim's girlfriend/Jim and Pam relationship roadblock.
Every indication going in was that this would be a show I would like. So why is this so terrible?
It's going to pain me to say it, but
the problems start with its star, Amy Poehler. And I think Amy Poehler
is awesome. Before I rip into Amy Poehler, let's enjoy her being
awesome for a couple of minutes.
That was amazing, right? OK.
I hate Amy Poehler on this show. Her character is annoying. She is obnoxious. She is stupid. I want to punch her
in the face. And she also fails to make me laugh. Ever.
The one thing
P&R got right is the supporting cast. Aziz
Ansari is awesome as her jerkoff employee. The guy with the mustache is
awesome as her boss. Rashida Jones is pretty and likable. The one episode I
was able to watch end to end was kind of good because there was very
little Amy Poehler in it.
But every other episode, I had to abandon ship by the first commercial break. Remember when the first episode of
The Office
was terrible (mostly because it hewed embarrassingly close to the pilot
of the British version), but immediately turned things around with the
second episode, the classic Diversity Day? Well,
P&R is not like that. There was no turn around.
So I'm done. I'm never watching this show again. If anyone ever tells me that this show got good, I will laugh in your face and never listen to your advice again.
