Tom and Donna’s annual get-together was both unexpected and refreshing; it made me smile a lot. I never saw them as being so sympatico, especially considering Donna’s hatred of Jean-Ralphio. And also their unconditional support, eventually, for Ben’s whole new level of nerd.
“I have already passed the kale I had for lunch.”
Puppy party! Leslie is a freaking genius. I want a puppy.
Ron sometimes scares me … when I find myself agreeing with him … “I try never to say what someone obviously wants me to say. My first wedding took two hours.”
Loved Andy’s expression and enthusiasm as he took the oath to become a Pawnee Goddess.
“It’s a Gertrude Stein!”
I thought the Batman costumer made Ben look kind of fat-faced. Also I was disappointed by the payoff to the Chris-Jerry storyline. I hope they are setting that up to be funnier.
Maybe I’m just in a good mood today, but that was one of my favorite episodes ever. Words can’t do justice to the hilarity contained in those 22 minutes.
I will not be excited if Ben becomes a comics obsessed nerd. His line last week about the star trek movie seemed to fit with his general tidyness and accountant nature but relaxing by wearing a batman costume brings us to a whole level of weird that I don’t care for. Unless they get Leslie and Ben back together and it goes away.
I had to check the time because I was sure the episode ran long. They crammed a whole lot into one show. I think pretty much ever character was featured.
Ben’s just a general nerd. When he started talking about how “Game of Thrones” appeals to everyone my first thought was “That’s the exact sort of thing I would read on the Dope.”
There’s being a nerd and then there’s dressing up in costume, not for a joke or a prank but because it is relaxing. I am afraid they are turning Ben into just another wacky member of the cast and then we’ll be left with Ann Perkins for the straight lines, and god knows I love her but that’s a lot to ask of one person. I was actually kind of hoping that we’d get to see some development on his character in terms of his relationship with Leslie but I feel like the writers decided to just hang a big nerd sign on him.
Ron is such a caricature but not at all funny. What happens because of him is funny sometimes, but he is so unreflectively self-righteous he’s like a black hole in the laughs.
Not that P&R has any really zany characters - the humor is social and story-centered - but Ron still seems like the massively dense center of gravity of the show.
I saw her investment as a kind of fuck-you to Tom, at least in part. I didn’t think they were such pals, anyway, even if they have some of the same interests.