Parks and Recreation: “Sex Education”

I think Parks and Rec has officially beat every other show to the game of “what happens when we take the electronics away from funny characters in today’s society?” And they successfully were able to set the bar high here as Tom Haverford without technology and social media is pure gold. Whether it was his desperate attempts to keep his sanity by creating a real-life Pinterest Board and notepad iPhone, or his complete inability to find anywhere, including his home, without his trusty GPS. Plus, it allowed for the always spectacular pairing of Ron and Tom as Ron played sponsor to Tom’s difficult withdrawal. Also, I can’t imagine anything Ron would want to less than “Nacho Average Podcast.”

On the Leslie side of things we see another circumstance of her grappling with standing up for what she believes to be right and the never ending hurdles of red tape and outspoken nut-jobs standing in her way. Any excuse for the Parks gang to be involved in a town hall style forum is always welcome seeing as how clueless everyone in the town of Pawnee is about pretty much everything, so Leslie trying to teach sex education to the elderly was fantastic. The town complaints led to Marcia and Marshall Langman (*) calling out Leslie on “Ya’ Herd with Perd” and we learned that Perd Hapley devotees are affectionately referred to as “Perd-verts.” These kinds of stories seem to be what we can expect from Leslie going forward so hopefully they can keep producing at this high of level.

(*) Marshall must be Pawnee’s Tobias Funke.

The “C story” revolved around Ben and April meeting a robotic, clueless politician. I’m sorry that was redundant. The “C story” revolved around Ben and April meeting a politician. As much as I’m still enjoying the give and take with Ben and April in their little side adventures, I’ll be even more excited when we get the whole gang back together in Pawnee.

A few other quotes and thoughts:

• “I am April Blart, mall cop.” – April introducing herself.
• “God Jerry you don’t deserve the internet.” – Tom getting mad at Jerry when he goes to Alta Vista and searches for “Please go to Yahoo.com.”
• Chris would be completely oblivious to Marshall’s flirtation with him.
• “Sometimes I like to throw in LinkedIn for the professional shortiiees.” –Tom.
• “Why would a robot need to eat organic matter?” – Ben’s instinctive need to nerd-correct April.

Comments are certainly welcome.