![]() ![]() (Thanks, NBC promo department, for spoiling the genius “It rubbed off, from friction” punch line. The montage detailing the events leading up to this is one of the most confidently giddy and economic sequences you’ll see on this or any other television show - the fight, the hair salon, the wedding-registry spree, breaking in and stealing a license, the ceremony that takes the “you may now kiss the bride” part to a dangerous extreme. ![]() ![]() You know, one minute you’re trying to reach closure with your emotionally manipulative ex-wife at a pizza party, the next you’re in jail with your hair in cornrows, wearing a filthy kimono, a half a mustache, and a wedding band on your penis. “I know Tammy seems scary,” says Leslie, “but she’s just a manipulative, psychotic, book-peddling, sex-crazed she-demon.” What follows is nothing short of disaster. Tom, though, is still bitter about their relationship, and now that he no longer has Lucy to distract him, takes revenge by bringing Tammy to a pizza party for the Pawnee police force, intended to butter them up so they’ll volunteer their services for the Harvest Fest. Which is all fine and well until Wendy announces that she’s moving back to Canada, and no, Ron isn’t interested in moving to Canada. Ron calmly tells Tammy that he’s in a happy, stable, non-insane relationship with Wendy. (Has any comic actor worked the brow this well since Belushi?) Leslie accompanies Ron to Tammy’s office at the - shudder - library, for moral support, but it’s not needed. There’s a lot to love in this episode, but maybe nothing more simple or sublime than the look on Ron’s face in the very first scene, when the comptroller informs him of the late charge levied for the popular self-help tome It’s Not the Size of the Boat: Embracing Life With a Micropenis - he’s amused and impressed and vaguely terrified and definitely turned on, all told with a cock of an eyebrow and the a smile. (The fact that Nick Offerman and Mullally are married In Real Life gooses the joke.) It was only a matter of time before she’d be back.Īnd now she is. Ron Fuckin’ Swanson, the libertarian ideal of what happens when free will meets self-control, was rendered defenseless and partially mustache-less. But this did mark an anticipated reunion in that last year’s “Ron and Tammy” episode - in which we learned the lurid details of Ron Swanson’s tortured, sexually depraved relationship with his evil-librarian ex-wife - is on anyone’s short list of moments when Parks and Rec found its voice and its footing last season. Adam Scott and Megan Mullally don’t even have any scenes together. Parks and Recreation returns for a fifth season this fall.Last night brought the cult-sitcom reunion you’ve all been waiting for: Henry Pollard and Lydia Dunfree, sans bowties and pigs in a blanket, transferring the frayed chemistry from their days at Los Angeles’ Party Down Catering to humble Pawnee. Offerman previously said that he doesn't support Parks and Recreation fans growing their own versions of Ron's facial hair. The writing is like a big old aunt throwing her blousy arms around you and embracing you." Just the things Ron had to say - the cute way that he talks to his co-workers as well as Tammy 1 on the phone when he calls her - it was really hard to speak that dialogue without getting nauseous. "Certain consonants didn't feel right without a huge bristle brush impeding their exit from my mouth. And it was so hard to speak dialogue as Ron Swanson without a big moustache. ![]() To have him be clean-shaven, wearing an Easter shirt and turned into a little boy was so bizarre and foreign. He further explained: "Maybe it was predicated by the scene in 'Ron and Tammy II' when Ron lost half his moustache and had to get cornrows. That was by far the hardest, strangest thing I've had to do as Ron Swanson." There was a real sense of having shorn Samson of his locks," the actor joked. Offerman told Entertainment Weekly that everyone in the Parks and Recreation crew was unsettled during the episodes where Ron's ex-wife Tammy 1 (Patricia Clarkson) forced him to go clean-shaven. Parks and Recreation star Nick Offerman has admitted that it was traumatising to shave off his character Ron Swanson's trademark moustache in season four. ![]()
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