12 Essential Episodes of PARKS AND RECREATION
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The world first met Pawnee, Indiana’s finest government employees along with some less effective, yet no less lovable, workers on April 9, 2009. What followed is one of the best sitcoms of the 21st century. For seven seasons, Leslie Knope, Ron Swanson, and their colleagues showed the perils and triumphs of local politics. While we always recommend a full rewatch, if you’re just looking for a reminder why the show is one of the greatest ever, here are 12 essential episodes of
“The Banquet” (S1, E5)
The often maligned six-episode first season hadn’t yet found the heartfelt tone that would soon come to define the series. But season one did show just how funny
Jerry Zezima: To have and have knocks
Jerry Zezima
Jerry Christmas and happy New Year!
OK, so I just made up this lame attempt at humor, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be included in the next edition of “Knock, Knock! The Biggest, Best Joke Book Ever,” which my wife, Sue, and I gave to our granddaughter Chloe for holiday ho, ho, hos.
Since then, Chloe, who’s 7 and a half and loves to laugh, which not only is true but also rhymes, has been calling me with knock, knock jokes.
“Knock, knock,” Chloe said in her most recent call.
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Well, I wasn’t expecting to write about Lin Wood twice today, but here we are.
Earlier, I put out an article focusing on Wood’s latest lunacy, including the assertion that VP Mike Pence is a traitor who may be shot by a firing squad (see What the Heck is Lin Wood Doing?). To the extent that Wood hadn’t already thoroughly thrashed his credibility, this latest outburst was just next level.
Here’s a taste of it.
If Pence is arrested, @SecPompeo will save the election. Pence will be in jail awaiting trial for treason. He will face execution by firing squad. He is a coward & will sing like a bird & confess ALL.
“Jeopardy!” champion Ken Jennings is attempting to backtrack on years of insults hurled at conservatives and others on his Twitter feed in what some have speculated is a bid for the popular game show’s open host position.
Jennings, who is a Brett Kavanaugh rape truther and currently an interim host of “Jeopardy!” following the death of longtime host Alex Trebek in November, issued a statement on Twitter on Wednesday addressing any “insensitive” and “unartful” content he has shared in the past.
“Hey, I just wanted to own up to the fact that over the years on Twitter, I’ve definitely tweeted some unartful and insensitive things. Sometimes they worked as jokes in my head and I was dismayed to see how they read on-screen,” Jennings wrote, claiming he did not delete his tweets “just so they could be dunked on” and so he wouldn’t be “whitewashing.” He continued the thread by claiming it “wasn’t my intention to hurt anyone.”
The Wonder Book staff doesn’t pry too much into which objective a particular client is after. If an order were to come in for, say, 12 feet of books about politics, specifically with a progressive or liberal tilt as one did in August Wonder Book’s manager, Jessica Bowman, would simply send one of her more politics-savvy staffers to the enormous box labeled “Politically Incorrect” (the name of Books by the Foot’s politics package) to select about 120 books by authors like Hillary Clinton, Bill Maher, Al Franken and Bob Woodward. The books would then be “staged,” or arranged with the same care a florist might extend to a bouquet of flowers, on a library cart; double-checked by a second staffer; and then shipped off to the residence or commercial space where they would eventually be shelved and displayed (or shelved and taken down to read).