Posts with tag "Parks and Recreation"

Amy Poehler: Watching Comedies 'Not My Idea of Fun'

Posted Mar 3rd 2011 at 10:21 PM by Nicki Gostin

The delightful Amy Poehler stars in NBC's 'Parks and Recreation,' a mockumentary that pokes fun at local government, specifically the earnest folks of Pawnee, Ind. The brilliant comedian, an alum of 'Upright Citizens Brigade' and 'SNL,' is married to the equally brilliant Will Arnett and is the mother to Archie and Abel. She spoke to PopEater about the "chaos" in her boy-filled household, ...

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TV Cliche Watch: The Betty-or-Veronica Dilemma Takes Over NBC for a Night

Posted May 21st 2010 at 05:30 PM by Gary Susman

When you see the same plot twist on more than one TV show in a season, you might call it a coincidence. Three times, it might be a trend. Four times? A cliché. But what do you call it when the same plot device turns up multiple times on several shows on the same night, on the same network? A company directive? A conspiracy? An epidemic of lazy writing? Whatever you call it, it happened ...