# Parks and Recreation - Pawnee Rangers - Oct. 13, 2011 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 14, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-and-recreation-pawnee-rangers-oct-13-2011/599655 "2011-10-14T18:09:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-and-recreation-pawnee-rangers-oct-13-2011/599655/1 "2011-10-14T18:09:47Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-and-recreation-pawnee-rangers-oct-13-2011/599655/2 "2011-10-14T18:54:32Z")
Batman’s crying. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-and-recreation-pawnee-rangers-oct-13-2011/599655/3 "2011-10-14T19:11:08Z")
I want Batman to be my IT guy. I’m a little in love with Ben. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-and-recreation-pawnee-rangers-oct-13-2011/599655/4 "2011-10-14T19:13:18Z")
“All we do is sit around in the cold eating beans.” “Those beans were a reward!” ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-and-recreation-pawnee-rangers-oct-13-2011/599655/5 "2011-10-14T19:15:25Z")
I’m posting this from my canvas/cardboard shelter. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-and-recreation-pawnee-rangers-oct-13-2011/599655/6 "2011-10-14T19:27:54Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-and-recreation-pawnee-rangers-oct-13-2011/599655/7 "2011-10-14T19:31:29Z")
I liked Leslie’s “goddess roar”. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-and-recreation-pawnee-rangers-oct-13-2011/599655/8 "2011-10-14T19:46:11Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-and-recreation-pawnee-rangers-oct-13-2011/599655/9 "2011-10-14T20:41:42Z")
I want to join the Swansons. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-and-recreation-pawnee-rangers-oct-13-2011/599655/10 "2011-10-14T21:20:48Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I want to join the Swansons. “It will not be fun.” ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-and-recreation-pawnee-rangers-oct-13-2011/599655/11 "2011-10-14T21:28:03Z")
Treat yo’ self! ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-and-recreation-pawnee-rangers-oct-13-2011/599655/12 "2011-10-14T21:31:22Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-and-recreation-pawnee-rangers-oct-13-2011/599655/13 "2011-10-14T21:41:01Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > 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. There’s a repressed psycho inside every accountant. Most would be the Joker, but Batman matches up better with Ben’s personality. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-and-recreation-pawnee-rangers-oct-13-2011/599655/14 "2011-10-14T23:26:03Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > 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 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. > [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > 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. 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.” ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-and-recreation-pawnee-rangers-oct-13-2011/599655/15 "2011-10-15T01:22:00Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > There’s a repressed psycho inside every accountant. Most would be the Joker, but Batman matches up better with Ben’s personality. I think he’d make a great [Arthur](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_(The_Tick)). ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-and-recreation-pawnee-rangers-oct-13-2011/599655/16 "2011-10-15T02:10:56Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Meltdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Meltdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meltdown)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-and-recreation-pawnee-rangers-oct-13-2011/599655/17 "2011-10-15T22:51:09Z")
“It’s a pioneer woman watching her grandmother get trampled by a buffalo.” ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-and-recreation-pawnee-rangers-oct-13-2011/599655/18 "2011-10-15T22:57:23Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > “It will not be fun.” 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. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-and-recreation-pawnee-rangers-oct-13-2011/599655/19 "2011-10-19T18:48:25Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > 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. Isn’t she an investor in the Snake Hole Lounge? They aren’t completely unsympatico. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-and-recreation-pawnee-rangers-oct-13-2011/599655/20 "2011-10-19T19:39:10Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Isn’t she an investor in the Snake Hole Lounge? They aren’t completely unsympatico. 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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-and-recreation-pawnee-rangers-oct-13-2011/599655.md?page=2)