(Sorry this is late today. My internet broke for a few hours and so I was crying big, messy mascara tears while curled up in a ball under my desk at standard posting time. But it's fixed now! E-life can go on.)
Friends, enemies, and undecideds: rejoice! It is Friday afternoon and time for me to say some things about Thursday night NBC sitcoms. I’m not saying that you HAVE to participate in these discussions, but again, it is Friday afternoon, and you probably aren’t doing anything else.
Parks and Recreation
In this episode, we learn that Leslie’s city council campaign is gaining on frontrunner Bobby Newport. She and Ben work on getting the endorsement of the senior citizen vote with the help of old person Ned Jones (OMG Carl Reiner!) Leslie courts him by promising to install wheelchair ramps all over town. (“Stairs are the #3 complaint of old people, behind ‘everything hurts’ and ‘I’m dying.’”) Newport is too busy partying in Majorca to care, so his father hires a big-time strategist (OMG Kathryn Hahn!) to take Leslie down. And even though she seems nice privately, she is brutal to Leslie in public, and crashes her old people event with promises to install lifts instead of ramps. Leslie calls out Newport later for not even being in Pawnee to deal with his campaign, and the campaign manager (why did I not write down her name and why is it not on IMDB??) says he’s there to get contracts for European companies to set up factories in Pawnee. Also, that the girl Newport was making out with in tabloid story was anti-landmine activist, so was Leslie saying she was PRO-landmine? So not a good week for Leslie.
Meanwhile, back at the office, Chris notices that they are understaffed, especially with Leslie out. He asks Ron to hire more people. Ron doesn’t want to because he likes when government agencies achieve little, but he taps Ann to help with a project to show Chris they can still get stuff done.
The project deals with this: