Review: Last Night's Parks and Recreation "Park Safety"

I haven't mentioned Parks and Rec here before. This is mostly due to me trying not to make this blog a fanboy masturbatory bat cave of convenience and self delusion (ie see the website to apply for a Sears card). But Parks and Recreation gave us a little something last night. They had an episode, as much as they could, about their "schlemiel" and "schlimazel", Jerry. An episode centered around the prat fall character is an inherently special episode, thereby- thru redundancy- this is worth taking a look at. I compare Jerry to the great butt of every joke characters on TV like Butters from South Park, Geordi from Star Trek, and Jitters A. Dog from Bonkers, and well past that of a Tobey Flenderson, the Spanish Announce Team's table on WWF Raw or Lutz from 30 Rock. Bad things happen to Jerry- why? Because that's hilarious! So this song and dance has been working wonders for Parks and Rec ("your adoptive mother was arrested for Marijuan possession"... "I didn't know I was adopted"), so they cranked up that tune and turned it into a full on opera. We felt sad for Jerry- he was mugged after all- then we saw Jerry rip his pants and fart. Not only were we laughing at that, we were laughing at the office trying not to laugh at that. Turns out that Jerry wasn't mugged and it was all just a Jerry. Leslie puts Jerry's feelings over telling the truth to the government, which is a big step for her, therefore we can go back to laughing at Jerry and the way people treat him. Which is always a fun to have around. Ron Swanson accepts it, and Ron Swanson is god of Pawnee. Leslie always laughs at it, because it is always funny. Tom, April, and Donna always start it because they need a Jerry in their life- because they are strong willed and witty and because Jerry isn't. Acceptable Targeting, once it's known to be accepted- the more people start shooting at it. We are revealed that Jerry has a nice life and happily married, which is fine and all, but do we really care? We got so many Jerry jokes last night! That's the important thing: funny jokes.

Parks and Recreation gives us funny jokes and boy, do they sure know where they come from.

Also I didn't mention anything about Andy Samberg because I didn't think it was any good. Good episode overall though. Season 2 is usually the best seasons of shows, so wow- Parks and Recreation, congratulations on being the best sitcom on TV.