I used to think that the things people say in Parks and Rec was an exaggeration of how dumb the general public is. Then I started working a government job.
Madeline Groh oh it happened hahaha. They actually did research by spending time in local government and attending town halls! That’s part of how they created Leslie Knope- she was originally going to be someone useless like Michael in “The Office”, but after visiting the local government their vision for Parks and Rec’s changed!
@@vivianyu7579 Ron Swanson was based on a guy the writers met who admitted being a libertarian and no believing in half the stuff he was doing as a government bureaucrat.
The same lady who made tea with the park's sprinkler water and complained about slugs in front of her house but didn't even thank Leslie for getting rid of them.. I both love and hater her!
Fungamerplays Take the last three words off that complaint and it goes from "most" to "all". You can send out mail notices, you can hang notices on doorknobs, it doesn't matter. People will flat-out ignore them and then they will complain about never being notified of what the city is doing, and then when you go directly to them and ask them if they read the notice they will admit that they threw it in the garbage. The public is lucky their taxes pay our salary, they are too fucking stupid to be trusted with their own money.
Scott Buckley with the rising number of mosquito borne illnesses there are too many children playing outside. It’s either watch your kids play inside or take care of them when they get sick and possibly die.
If anyone has worked in customer service, retail, or anything with the public. You know how realistic and scary this is because these people are more common than most think.
I worked at Sam's Club for 3 years. There was one time a man brought a bone from a ham in day after Christmas and said he didn't like the ham. He expected a refund.
I was a bagger at a grocery store and this old lady told me she wanted her fruits and vegetables separated. She got mad and called me an idiot and started screaming that’s I was an idiot. I had put her tomatoes with the fruits and she said they were vegetables. My manager promptly took her to the customer service desk to work something out. They ended up giving her a 25 dollar coupon that had a pamphlet on it explaining that a tomato was a fruit. Best and worse day there ever
I've worked at Jimmy John's for like 8 or 9 months now and I actually have yet to come across anything close to this, thank god. Pretty much everyone is either pleasant at best and neutral at worst. I've only ever had like three bad experiences and one of them was kind of sort of my fault for not phrasing things properly.
@@goaliestar4552 well that's your fault. Never correct a customer unless they grab something by mistake, such as when people grab reduced fat chips instead of regular chips at Jimmy John's where I work (that happens at least once a week and they're always glad I corrected them.)
I want to see an episode with a comper and contrast with the grown-ups and the kids and young adults on politics. Young adults are way more muture and better at fact checking and crucial thinking in today's political landscape and that would be a great consept.
@@preciousyoung357 I don't think young people are better at anything than old people. Old people are just young people but few years later and young people are just old people but few years earlier. They all are stupid, don't trust the humans, stay hidden in your room.
Artvr Rvtra Yes but old people end up losing hope after life weighs down on you instead of looking at the potential of the future. Look at the baby boomer generation. They had all the potential to change the world when they came of age in the 60s but ended up being the worst capitalist pigs in history with their greed putting humanity on a path of utter chaos. Old Young adults aren’t necessarily more intelligent but they tend to have a better grasp of morality and humanism than older Americans.
@@gajayjay None of the generations have a potential to change anything. It's all a joke, a con, or a scam, if you will. The very reason everyone today when hears 'baby boomer' thinks "idiots" is because they are manipulated into thinking that - just like baby boomers where manipulated they can be better than the 'best generation' that lived during and after II World War. It's the same shit, just people think they are so much different. This 'capitalistic pigs', when young, wanted to create - most commonly - socialist Utopia. Just like today, among young people in Western world, most want to build this world of justice and equality through redistribution of wealth. It's the same thing. They don't realize, that they are in fact used to extend the influence and power of state and in turn those that control the government. The 'best generation' was used in exactly the same way, throwed into support of a new form of Global Alliance to stop wars. Who would have guessed, that in fact it did not stop shit, only gave more control to most powerfull. In 30 years, kids will say that millenials or whatever this generation is called were idiots, who only created even worst world. They will also fail to realize they are just used to support some new agenda that will end up fucking everything up even more. Since the dawn of time, the only ones that changed anything, where the 'puppetmasters' that used masses like tools to shape the world. Their world is getting better, easier, more docile, while ours - the so called 'many' - is getting shittier. Enjoy.
One time we were re paving an old pretty used trail by a lake and this guy who was walking his dog came walking up to us cussing us out saying we were "wasting tax payers money on a trail no one uses" ok well then explain why its so worn out and explain why you're using it right this second lol. then another time some lady dropped her Tesla keys in a dog shit can (15 ft deep hole at the dog parks) and asked that we help her get her tesla key. so we didn't want to go near it and so we pulled the bag and she insisted on pulling every dog shit bag out by hand, no gloves, wiping the shit on her dress. mind you this is week old 1 ton fermented dog shit. she realized she probably didn't even drop her key in there after about 30 min. people are weird my dudes
According to my journalism professor, who used to cover city meetings, and an actual city council member of my city, this show is 100% accurate in its portrayal of citizens and the inner workings of local government. According to my professor, he used to live in a town where police officers would have to be present at all city council meetings to prevent the council members from lunging across tables and getting into actual fistfights with each other.
I want to see that, actually. I don't want the fight itself to determine policy, but hey, if council members want to beat the tar out of each other, who are we to get in the way of entertainment? My taxes pay their salary, dammit, and I want some bang for my buck!
Holy hell, if the guy who plays the angry citizen named Mel wasn’t born to play the BTK killer Denis Rader than I don’t know who is. He clearly can exude the rage needed for the role.
@@coltc5360 Indirectly, yes. The healthcare needs of women are pretty much disregarded by the right wing in the USA, having a detrimental monetary effect on owners of vaginas.
Spot on. If you've ever worked in public service, you know these "passionate" people who don't actually take the time to learn how things work at a basic level.
You have to realize that at some level, P&R is a political satire. Pawnee is a microcosm of the USA, and its citizens represent the American electorate, their needs, demands and obsessions.
+Chazbot Slightly satirical. I've worked as a consultant for small town Indiana governments, and it's scary how real some of these people are, and how often they come out the woodwork to insert their "opinions". P&R is the closest thing to accurately depicting small town government in America as I have ever seen.
I used to work at a meat market where we had to explain to a customer what lamb was. She asked, "You know how beef is cow, and pork is pig? What's lamb?" "Well, lamb is lamb." "I know it's lamb, but what is it?" ".....It's lamb." That went on for some time.
@@Chino56751 "Let's all wear a mask and do our part." Virus rates go down. "Masks don't work! We're not wearing them anymore!" Virus rates go up. "I don't care! It's a hoax and I"m going to cough on people who tell me to put the mask back on!" Virus rates skyrocket to record levels. Reality is literally proving you wrong with every new day that dawns.
I love absolutely every one of the extras they get to play the people in Pawnee. Everyone of them is so perfectly stupid and argumentative it's frighteningly believable and hilarious.
@@al23438 "I mean, I completely agree with racist old ladies who don't want to come into contact with working class black people. They've got a point, in that _I_ don't want to come into contact with working class people with more melanin than me either! _Especially_ the type on whose enslaved backs this nation built its ~glorious prosperity~...the government used that wealth to massively subsidize these big ol' inefficient white flight communities known as 'the suburbs' for a reason, you know!!"
I went to visit a friend of mine and there was a city council meeting and I seriously considered going just to stand up and say “THERE IS A DISTURBING LACK OF BENCHES IN YOUR PARK! I WANNA SIT MORE!”
1:32 rings so, so true for anyone that has ever worked in a customer/public facing job. "You told me not to do the thing, so I did the thing and a bad thing happened and now I'm going to blame you for the bad thing"
Dionne Agnes went to a town hall meeting for my city and this was mentioned but it was a soccer field. Lady brought this up with all the seriousness in the world.
We had a woman at a council meeting who was heavily opposed to him building a third convenience store in our town due to solely being born in Mexico...
I still love the lesser joke of the "I don't know... I'm just scared" guy as he says "we all might be wiped out from disease, or the flu" as if the flu isn't a disease. Also, "But isn't all food bad for you? I've been eating lasagna and muffins everyday of my life for forty years and I feel terrible" is the best fucking line ever written.
1:34 Idiotic Woman: Oh sir there’s a sign at ramset park that says don’t drink the water, so NATURALLY I MADE tea with it. Ron Swanson: You’ve gotta be kidding me
I don't know why but when the lady in pink starts jogging around Ron's circular desk as he spins away was one of my favorite moments of the show. I loved her in every cameo she did!
The guy about the fences and the income tax is Mike Scully, the executive producer. He also used to work on The Simpsons, and hearing him on the commentaries, hes a riot.
Brenda Rodriguez relly... can u give an example. cuz I was curious if this was true... pity civil servants... you get shit on by people... and then round two by libertarians.
As a local government worker, I once received a complaint from someone who said the birds were making too much noise. Not pet birds. Wild birds. In the trees. Out in nature. Where they live. She was wildly upset when she was told the city will not come out and “relocate the birds” per her request. Total people of Pawnee moment
It's missing the Pawn Shop guy. “My cousin's got a kick-ass mud pit in his yard. She could watch me do belly flops. Then maybe we'd get some Thai food and a tank of nitrous and see what happens.”
IveGotToast aka Herman Lerpiss. I always wish they did a crossover between "Parks and Rec" and "The Office" just so Creed and the pawn shop guy could be friends.
If tumblr's demographics skewed more rightwing/elderly what with all the whining/comments about taxation, commies, "undesirables," and al-Qaeda, lol. All social media platforms provide a steady stream of stupid takes, but ideologically these Town Halls kinda feel more like the RU-vid comments section, if anything...
