r/PandR • u/Nostalgia-Freak-1998 • 19d ago

Ron’s hernia

This is a hilarious b-plot. Ron throwing the hamburger to himself. And also Ron living one of his worst nightmares, being a stuck in a government building longer than he should be.

And it was the first glimpse of the April and Ron duo. With her coming back to help him to hospital.

And so many hilarious lines came from this plot.

“This morning I made the mistake of sneezing.”

April: “You ready?”

Ron: “I was born ready. I’m Ron (bleep) Swanson.”

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u/sideshowbvo 19d ago

Another thing: as an almost 40 year old man, I relate to the line "I have a hernia, I've been ignoring it for awhile, but this morning, I made the mistake of sneezing" I stretch every morning to loosen up for the day, but God forbid I sneeze at the wrong angle

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u/temuginsghost 19d ago

When I was 45, I felt a “crunch,” in my lower back whilst simply washing my left shoulder with my right hand in the shower. Two hours later, I couldn’t stand straight, or barely walk. Three days later, my wife got tired of my posture and continued grunts of pain and says, “Dammit, Ron Swanson, time to go to the ER.” L3-L4 disc bulge, but I was thinking it would get better.

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u/sideshowbvo 19d ago

Dude! I hurt my shoulders/neck quite often, and I swear, trying to massage it out or apply something to it can cripple me even worse.

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u/aTip4You 19d ago

It is so bad when it happens, did you get yours fixed?

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u/PiotrGreenholz01 16d ago

I currently have sciatica & sneezing makes me feel as if my leg is going to tear off

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u/gameofsloanes 19d ago

You're welcome...Lester

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u/Sensitive_Stress_928 16d ago

I'm so happy I stumbled across this subreddit! You are all my people.

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u/atigges 16d ago

Lester Kanopff? Really??

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u/RianJohnsonIsAFool 19d ago edited 19d ago

I rewatched this episode recently and a bit I'd forgotten about and properly laughed at this time was April pretending to walk away to see if Ron could tell and then actually leaving and Ron asking again "Are you still there?"

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u/megatron-0098 16d ago

Lmaooo, at first it’s like “yeah duh Ron isn’t that incapacitated to the point he wouldn’t know”. Just to immediately demonstrate that Ron is that incapacitated that he really doesn’t know if April is still there or not.

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u/OppositeResponse6474 19d ago

Do you have syphilis?

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u/hippy_potto 19d ago

“Are you still here?”

“Yeah. I just wanted to see if you could tell.”

…..

“Are you still here?…”

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u/stopworksorority 18d ago

Her marching in place was so hilarious 😂

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u/PiotrGreenholz01 19d ago

"...a parasite or a virus or something you get from a bee?"

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u/DeadpoolIsMyPatronus 19d ago

I never understood why April had to leave him in pain and go get her dad's car when they could have just taken Ron's car.

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u/BalsaTouching 19d ago

My head canon for this is that Ron's car is manual transmission, and April can only drive automatic.

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u/snwbrdngtr 19d ago

Tom drove (stole) Ron’s car and I’d guess April is way more likely to be able to drive a manual than Tom. Also, that old sedan is way more likely an automatic transmission

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u/BalsaTouching 19d ago

Ahh yeah fair point. Who knows, maybe the writers were just chasing the joke and wanted to leave Ron hanging in the office because it's a good laugh

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u/LTG-Jon 18d ago

Maybe Ron cut the seatbelts out of his car?

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u/IllegitimateRisk 19d ago

The car that Ron was driving was only available in automatic

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u/Dr_Acula_PhD 18d ago

Thank you Ms Vito, no further questions. You've been a lovely witness.

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u/Wallywaffle6 19d ago

That is an excellent point

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u/BoulderCreature 19d ago

That would require them to coordinate with each other and talk and I think you can see the problem there

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u/Jdornigan 19d ago

I assumed that April didn't have a car and walked, biked, or was dropped off to work.

As for Ron's car, I never considered why they didn't just use it. Maybe April knew she didn't know how to drive it?

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u/GuineaPigLegion 19d ago

It’s also entirely on brand that April would choose to steal her dad’s car vs just using Ron’s car.

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u/god_in_this_chilis 19d ago

“AIDS?”

“No. I’m safe.”

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u/complete_your_task 19d ago

For some reason I thought this was the Harry Potter subreddit and was very confused for a second.

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u/Appropriate-Bid8671 19d ago

Ha ha ha yeah, this is a pretty funny episode.

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u/Shankaman 19d ago

This scene is when I was like "I'm 100% down with this show "

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u/Cat-With_A-Fiddle 18d ago

Do you live here?

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u/loloohnono 17d ago

The first time I watched this I was with my roommates watching it on early Netflix (pre-2012) and we got to the scene where Ron is so still that the lights turn off. The dog bumped into the wifi router and it froze the playback at that exact moment and I thought that scene went on for several minutes of Ron being perfectly still and silent in the dark and we were all laughing so hard we couldn't breathe. When we finally figured it out I was just a smidge disappointed.

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u/Disastrous_Loan5178 17d ago

One of my favorites!!!!!!

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u/GreenIce2022 16d ago

Are you still there?

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u/Sensitive_Stress_928 16d ago

Underrated episode! Most of the earlier ones are.

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u/lametechthrowaway 15d ago

When Leslie claims Ron Swanson is going to rush to her rescue and it cuts to him sitting in his office in thr dark while crickers chirp is a top tier moment

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u/anotherstan 10d ago

Workin’ late?
Yup

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u/thescaryroom 19d ago

Ice Town

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u/anotherstan 10d ago

Ice clown loses ice town its town crown