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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