![]() ![]() The rest of the band bails, scorning the idea of being childrens’ musicians. Sometimes he plays with his band Mouserat, and in S6E12, they are booked to play at a party of 6-year-olds. He wrote Leslie her campaign song when she was running for City Council, and he wrote what was to become the anthem of the show-“5,000 Candles in the Wind”, a tribute to local hero Li’l Sebastian (he’s a tiny horse, and no one really knows why this town worships him as much as they do, but boy do they). April especially is great at managing her big lovable doofus of a husband. Not only do these two love each other like crazy, they support each other. April was the one who volunteered him for the job. The two of them together are one of the great television OTPs, and their relationship is what launched Andy on his way into my heart.Īndy graduates from the shoeshine stand and gets a more respectable job as Leslie (Amy Poehler) Knope’s assistant. Soon after they started dating, they impulsively got married. April has a personality like Wednesday Addams crossed with a rabid honey badger (and I mean this in a good way), and Andy is an exuberant, boyish, golden retriever of a human. He worked at the shoeshine stand in City Hall, and soon he became the boyfriend of April Ludgate (Aubrey Plaza), who works on the Parks team. However,the production team liked Chris Pratt so much that they kept Andy on, even after he and Ann broke up. He had broken both his legs when he fell into the pit behind Ann’s house (he was super wasted, as he accidentally says in front of the kids), and had become a large, flannel-wearing baby that she was taking care of. Andy Dwyer wouldn’t ever be someone I could date in real life, but as far as fictional guys go, he is adorable and brings me great joy.Īndy started out as Ann Perkins’s (Rashida Jones) deadbeat boyfriend, and he wasn’t much to write home about. He can do as many stud-muffin, handsome-guy movies as he wants to, but as far as I am concerned, the name of every single one of those characters is “not!-Andy”. I hate to say it, but in my eyes, Chris Pratt peaked with this show. And I think this was what made Parks and Rec do for me that which most sitcoms don’t. What ties the two shows together, really, is the underlying theme of a group of good-hearted people, trying to make the world a better place. ![]() ![]() I often refer to Parks and Rec as “ The West Wing’s adorable kid sister”. When they courted West Wing alum Rob Lowe to play City Manager Chris Traeger, they apparently told him that the whole concept of the show was “what if The West Wing was done as a comedy”. Parks and Rec creators Michael Schur and Greg Daniels had apparently been massive West Wing fans. What eventually hooked me was how similar this show was to one of my all-time favourite not-a-comedy-but-witty shows, The West Wing. Everyone warned me about the first season, that you kind of have to push through it because the show hadn’t yet figured out what it was about. ![]() When I saw that the writing credits had names in common with The Simpsons, I decided that was a good sign. We have very different tastes, but for her sake, I decided to check it out on IMDb. My best friend had been on my case to get me to watch this one for a long time. There was absolutely no reason why I should have loved Parks and Recreation. I prefer hour-long drama type shows, that just happen to have a lot of wit in them. And I’m not particularly into comedies either. There’s something about the half-hour format that makes me impatient. ![]()
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