# Parks & Rec returns tonight **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 20, 2012, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-rec-returns-tonight/635318 "2012-09-20T21:20:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [September 20, 2012, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-rec-returns-tonight/635318/1 "2012-09-20T21:20:10Z")
Just sayin’ ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-rec-returns-tonight/635318/2 "2012-09-20T21:32:33Z")
Cool. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-rec-returns-tonight/635318/3 "2012-09-21T12:32:28Z")
It was good. Ron driving away with the BBQ still attached to his truck was hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-rec-returns-tonight/635318/4 "2012-09-21T13:46:32Z")
Great episode and Tom (the Pig) looked delicious! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-rec-returns-tonight/635318/5 "2012-09-21T14:05:16Z")
I have this bad habit of attempting to find logic in sitcom plots, and so I wondered why Leslie would travel to Washington to request a grant to clean up the Pawnee River instead of just organizing volunteers to do so. That’s exactly the sort of thing that environmental groups organize around Earth Day, and they can usually get enough volunteers. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2012, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-rec-returns-tonight/635318/6 "2012-09-21T14:07:17Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I have this bad habit of attempting to find logic in sitcom plots, and so I wondered why Leslie would travel to Washington to request a grant to clean up the Pawnee River instead of just organizing volunteers to do so. Ben Wyatt’s butt. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-rec-returns-tonight/635318/7 "2012-09-21T14:39:34Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > Great episode and Tom (the Pig) looked delicious! 🙂 He sure did. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2012, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-rec-returns-tonight/635318/8 "2012-09-21T14:42:47Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > Great episode and Tom (the Pig) looked delicious! 🙂 Poor Tom! I’d barely be able to lick my fingers because of the grief. My sorrow would be so great I doubt I could finish off more than 6 or 7 ribs. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-rec-returns-tonight/635318/9 "2012-09-21T17:27:24Z")
That was LIT-erally the best episode of Parks and Rec I have ever seen broadcast. (Since my wife and I just watched the previous seasons on DVD.) I really like the balance that this show strikes between humor and emotion. It doesn’t sacrifice character for big laughs the way that a lot of other shows (even ones that I enjoy) do, but is still consistently laugh out loud funny. “Amalgam”. ---
**Author:** ![SecretaryofEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@SecretaryofEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecretaryofEvil)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-rec-returns-tonight/635318/10 "2012-09-21T19:34:02Z")
The way Ron stared down Jerry before denying him corn was great. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-rec-returns-tonight/635318/11 "2012-09-21T21:12:09Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > Great episode and Tom (the Pig) looked delicious! 🙂 I loved how Chris was at first excited by seeing Tom the Pig and saying how cute he was, then his face dropped when he realized that Tom was there. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-rec-returns-tonight/635318/12 "2012-09-21T21:40:55Z")
The callback to John McCain’s [_Saturday Night Live_](http://snltranscripts.jt.org/02/02cwoodward.phtml) appearance made me chuckle. ---
**Author:** ![SecretaryofEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@SecretaryofEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecretaryofEvil)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parks-rec-returns-tonight/635318/13 "2012-09-23T19:40:15Z")
“Look, a handgun! I call it!”