This post lists spoiler information for Parks and Recreation’s second season. To view season one spoilers, please click here.
UPDATED: February 8, 2010
April and Andy: are they a thing? Also, will we be seeing Will Arnett again?
Spoilers: Season 2
February 8th, 2010Video: ‘Galentine’s Day’ preview
February 8th, 2010Mark your calendars! Parks and Recreation’s season 2 finale to air May 20
February 8th, 2010NBC announced via press release that its Thursday night comedy block of Community, Parks and Recreation, The Office and 30 Rock will collectively air its season finales on May 20.
Follow the link for other NBC season finale dates.
Link: NBC Announces Season Finale Dates, including Two Hour Chuck Finale on May 24
Viewer Ratings: Season 2
February 7th, 2010Scores are based on a poll (best score: a perfect 10) conducted on this Web site immediately after a new episode airs. Polls close on Sunday at 9 p.m. (pacific time). To view season one viewer ratings, please click here.
- “Ron and Tammy” – 9.58
- “The Practice Date” – 9.22
- “Sweetums” – 9.14
- “Leslie’s House” – 9.00
- “Greg Pikitis” – 8.92
- “Kaboom” – 8.89
- “Pawnee Zoo” – 8.88
- “Beauty Pageant” – 8.85
- “The Stakeout” – 8.84
- “The Set Up” – 8.82
- “Hunting Trip” – 8.81
- “Tom’s Divorce” – 8.71
- “Christmas Scandal” – 8.55
- “The Camel” – 8.21
- “Sister City” – 7.62
Below, a pie chart of the most recent poll. This week: “Sweetums”
New York magazine’s Q&A with Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally
February 7th, 2010
Hey hey, Ron Swanson!
From New York magazine:
Megan Mullally: Neither of us are paragons of physical perfection. That’s why I pitched that nude-photo idea: It’s as if we were Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, but of course we’re not.
Nick Offerman: I’m very hairy, and men in film and TV are no longer allowed to be hairy. If you’re going to be topless you have to wax everything. My uncles, who are farmers in Minooka, Illinois—I grew up with them and their pickup trucks and mustaches, and to me that was masculinity: big hairy sweaty guys who could pick up a bus.Tammy and Ron had one of the best hate-sex scenes in modern history. That throwdown in the restaurant—was that hard to pull off?
N.O.: It was really good therapy, because in any relationship you have love times and you have who-didn’t-do-the-dishes times. We’ve worked together before in different ways, but we’ve never had the opportunity to be a team, and in that episode we were like a two-fisted weapon, battering comedy in the audience’s face.
M.M.: We basically destroyed the diner. We ran the gamut of wild, crazy, exhibitionist sex acts and screaming at the other patrons, throwing things, berating the manager and …
N.O.: We actually tore the table off the wall.
M.M.: That was kind of an accident. [Laughs.] When we screech into the motel parking lot, that was the first shot on the first day, six o’clock on Monday morning. We’re in that car and I was like, “I’m going to throw my bra out the window and take my top off as we run in.” I didn’t care. I didn’t know anybody. It’s not my set.You both got your big TV breaks in your late thirties, though ten years apart. How did you negotiate the disparity between your careers before Nick landed Parks and Recreation?
M.M.: We’re very supportive of each other. I don’t know when I’ve been happier than when he got Parks. That was one of the most exciting things that ever happened.
N.O.: One great benefit of our relationship is that Megan has gone through everything a couple of chapters ahead of me, so there’s an easy student-master quality to it. When your wife is a legend of comedy, you have to be a huge jackass not to assume the student role.
‘Galentine’s Day’ promo
February 7th, 2010Paul Schneider among New York Times Magazine’s Nifty 50
February 7th, 2010
From New York Times Magazine:
With his mischievous yet low-key good looks and an eye for cerebral, oddball dramas, Schneider has frequently found himself playing scene-stealing sidemen, in films like “Elizabethtown,” “Lars and the Real Girl” and especially “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.”
His performance in that western (as, yes, a gun-slinging womanizer) caught the eye of the great director Jane Campion, who cast Schneider in last year’s “Bright Star” as the bearded, burly Scotsman Charles Armitage Brown, the patron and friend of the poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw). For Schneider, the dramatic role was a departure, and an opportunity to show off the versatility he says is lacking in Hollywood. “I feel like, especially these days, there’s not acting anymore. … You cast a personality, and you plug that personality, unchanging, in this movie and that movie,” he said in September of his turn in “Bright Star.” “I think it’s a really great thing that some people don’t recognize me in that movie.”
