Parks & Recreation Season 2 "Summer Catalogue"

As The Office started to fall, Parks & Recreation came in and Greg Daniels once again offered us a show full of real heart, and real funny people. Starting off as an Amy Poehler show, it's now become a showcase for Aziz Ansari, who rocks it as Tom, Aubrey Plaza who is as hysterical as she is ridiculously beautiful, Nick Offerman, who has levels of legend in him portraying Ron Swanson, and Chris Pratt, playing former boyfriend of Rashida Jones' Ann, who managed to make it through a tough time to now be employed in Pawnee's government building, shining shoes.

This season has shown real legs, lovable characters and painfully funny moments of genius, and once more this week we're offered some select skits that are brilliant. Opening with Tom taking Ron's squirrel hat and shouting as many hat related chat up lines to girls as he can, failing at each one, before we get to the premise, the Pawnee summer catalogue is coming up and Leslie has organised for Ron and the three former Parks Department heads to meet up for a picnic. Only problem, their old, cantankerous and hate each other, one a dope smoking hippie, one a racist, sexist old old man, and one an aggressive man who hated his days at the department, all got the position, including Ron, by backstabbing the former head, all at the table, yelling at each other before photo time.

The April/Andy friendship that's blossoming heavily into something wonderful is here in full force as the two are stuck at the picnic to help out with Leslie's idea, and it's clear there's a spark there, even if an I.D. issue at a local bar reminds Andy that April is just too young for him.

Ron was back as hysterical as ever, acting like a child in between moments of being mean to his former boss, and once more at the end we get to see Leslie excited that one day she'll go up in the political world. The characters are so strong now it's wonderful, and I'm happy the show retains it's heart when it goes for some brilliant jokes, including Tom making Ann and Mark do a photo shoot for the cover, and having problems because Ann just looks depressed.
Keep watching, it's one of the best shows on TV.
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