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94 Meetings
Original Air Date: Apr 29, 2010
Sara M. – TwoCents Reviewer
sara@thetwocentscorp.com
After a long, long break Parks and Rec is new again! Mark’s intentions are revealed, April makes a big mistake, Ron’s day is ruined, and Tom ties Leslie up.
Don’t tell me you aren’t intrigued.
Mark is clearly blind. He and Ann’s relationship seems to be standing on thin ice, but he is completely ignorant to that fact. He confides in Leslie that he is planning on asking her to move in, which he hopes will lead to marriage. Leslie… does not take this very well. Be it lingering feelings for Mark or just a fear of loosing two friends, she barely manages to put on a happy face.
Across the office April realizes that March 31st is in fact a real day. As it turns out every meeting that she put off for Ron has been scheduled on what she believed to be a fictitious day. This results in 94 meetings on one day. Ron tries to split the meetings with Leslie. However, after her first meeting she runs off to save a gazebo. Tom tags along in hopes of becoming a “gold digger-digger.”
Ron brings April, Andy and Ann in to help take meetings. April and Andy remain at their stand still. She is just completely into him and sweet, sweet Andy is oblivious. The situation seems to be wearing April down. While Andy acknowledges that she is awesome, she is only 20 years old.
In the mean time, Leslie, with the help of Tom, has chained herself to the automatic gate leading to historical gazebo facing destruction. She is unable to save the structure and to make matters worse; the key to unlock her is gone.
It really isn’t April’s day either. She sees Andy and Ann together, is yelled at by Ron and by the end of the day decides to quit. Ron is made to see the light and goes to April’s house to get her to come back. Apparently April’s house is located somewhere inside of the Twilight Zone. Her parents are… sweet, nice, warm, friendly people. Ron tells her that Andy made him see how important she is and convinces her to keep working for him.
Mark and Ann arrive after their date to help free Leslie. She and Tom have a nice moment in the car afterwards. And he is oddly comforting for once.
It was a really great episode. Well done and greatly appreciated after such a long break. What about your two cents? Any other April/Andy shippers out there? Thoughts on the Mark and Ann relationship? Considering that Tom’s kindness could be misinterpreted as a rip in the space/time continuum?
Next Week: Telethon (Now tell me that doesn’t sound promising!)
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I don’t know if it’s just me but I was kind of dissappointed by this episode. Maybe I was expecting way too much since Summer Catalog was way good in my opinion. It just didn’t seem like old Parks and Rec episodes. The jokes and storylines were there but none of it seemed to work as well as it could have. Even Tom wasn’t funny to me which almost never happens. Also I guess I wanted April and Andy’s interaction to go a little differently since it seemed like Andy finally saw something with him and April after he saw the picture of them on the cover of the catalog. I didn’t really have any interest in Leslie’s storyline with the gazebo and everything. I just didn’t care as much as I used to and usually Leslie’s my favorite character. There was some good jokes but overall it didn’t really work for me. I still love this show so maybe Telethon will return to the quality of the previous episodes.
I think with having such a long break and the awesomeness that was Summer Catalog, that this ended up being an off episode. Which happens sometimes. I think they’re going to continue to drag out the whole Andy/April thing and they’re having fun making April jealous of Ann. Hopefully Telethon will deliver.