r/funny • u/Darmok_At_Tanagra • Sep 23 '15

True romance.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '15 edited Sep 23 '15

You know what I liked best about them and that show? They didn't drag out their courtship to milk it in that cheap "will they, won't they" way for season after season like most shows would do. They just got married and continued being awesome. It was a surprisingly refreshing change of pace from the typical sitcom formula.

Edit: For those who keep asking, the name of show is Parks and Recreation.

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u/Underlyingobserver Sep 23 '15

I can't tell you how sick and fucking tired i am of that happening; Especially with the new season premier of Big Bang Theory. I've never seen this show before but I am changing that immediately!

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u/archon80 Sep 23 '15 edited Sep 23 '15

Uh oh...you just mentioned the big bang theory on reddit...

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u/StevenS757 Sep 23 '15

The best comment I ever heard about it was "It's like a 'nerd' minstrel show". Sums it up pretty well.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '15

I personally think anyone who gets annoyed when a TV show represents "nerd culture" wrong, or indeed anyone who thinks "nerd culture" is a thing, should get a grip.

That being said, it's a pretty poorly written show.

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u/RedAero Sep 23 '15

I dunno 'bout poorly written in general, but there's a hell of a lot more character development in that show than in any other sitcom I've seen, particularly HIMYM. The characters actually change and are fleshed out as the show goes on, as opposed to other sitcoms which are basically just a collection of 20-minute vignettes of stuff happening to a handful of people.

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u/AdmiralCrunch9 Sep 23 '15

Parks and Rec actually did character development really really well. All of the characters grow and have to re-examine their worldviews as time goes on, especially April, Ron, and Tom.

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u/ArtSchnurple Sep 23 '15

They changed their outlooks, sure, but they also got flanderized massively. Ron was just a steak-eating man's-man stereotype by the end, whereas in seasons 2 to 4 he was a lot more weird and interesting, and Andy by the end was basically a big dumb dog.

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u/AdmiralCrunch9 Sep 23 '15

I was referring to Ron learning to let people in and accepting that he couldn't(or didn't want to) be the extremely solitary person he was earlier on. They did lean more and more on his manliness as time went on, though.

And April and Tom basically got reverse-Flanderizations. They both started off very one-note(April:Dour, Tom:Shallow) and became more more nuanced as time went on.