Andy: Honey, Donna’s been here forever. She’s gonna know what to do.
April: What if she doesn’t? I could get fired. Or even worse, Leslie might give me a lecture on responsibility again. I can’t do it.
Andy: I’ll tell you what, honey. Here’s the deal. You get fired, I’ll quit, we’ll leave together. I’m serious, move to a new city, change our names, burn our fingertips off with acid, swap faces.
April: What?
Andy: If we have to.
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I dig your groovy tunes, man.
#how wonderful was she in live ammo? #i’m so glad they are giving her dedicated storylines again #and proving that she can care #but also that she is competent at her job(!!) #and tom and april friendship let me diiie #and her stumbling confidence heading up that meeting? #l o v e #mr hamster penis #april ludgate being lively and colourful
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I think I may have found a project I’d actually enjoy doing, helping these cats and dogs.
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one of my favorite things about Parks and Recreation has always been its willingness to move forward, to let its characters develop and grow, to let storylines progress, especially since comedies—at least of the past—tend not to let those things happen. it’s usually a very stagnant genre, where if an episode does require growth, that growth is forgotten a week later. and Parks doesn’t do that, and it’s refreshing. it helps me get invested in these characters and it helps me love them so much. it’s easier and more fulfilling to root for them because i know they can succeed. they can genuinely learn from their mistakes and their experiences and have that lesson stick with them the next week and the weeks after. the stakes feel higher because my investment level is higher. the people feel more real and more genuine than they often can feel in comedies—this is not to say other comedies can’t or don’t do this. i have been very into comedies as of late for one reason or another. but the point is, Parks has succeeded at doing so consistently for four seasons.
but this is why i’m so excited about what they’ve been doing with April. there was a period of time when i was worried they’d forgotten about her outside her relationship with Andy, and while i love them (favorite romantic ship on the show!), i love April as an individual and she is so much more than her marriage. and to see that the show does understand that is amazing. the past few episodes have been so great to her in so many ways and i just want to kiss the writers on the face.
we’ve seen her growing emotionally, and we’ve seen the start of her growing professionally, and i am so interested in that and so invested in that, so invested in her. and i love how those two things are separate for her, but also tied together. i was rewatching ”Ron & Tammy 2” today and when Chris tells April he believes she’s smart and has a bright future ahead of her? RIGHT IN THE FEELS! because you can see how much that does mean to her, even if she tries to hide it because she doesn’t want to care about people and things when they suck so much of the time. but she does care, she’s always cared about something or other. and to have his faith in her reflected back in her helping him during his heartbreak this season is so great.
i have absolutely adored her trying to help Chris move on from Jerry’s daughter (and i can’t remember her name right now, oops), because she’s been opening herself up to other people more and more—a process that i do think started with her relationship with Andy. she’s been trying to help the people around her and showing them she cares in these small, but also really important and wonderful, ways. she’s been so selfless and it’s been a delight to see.
and then having this process continued this week with the pet adoption was really satisfying. because she’s getting more responsibilities at work and she’s actually trying where the April we first met wouldn’t, she would’ve keep a more solid facade of apathy and laziness. this April threw herself into the pet adoption and allowed herself to be disappointed when it didn’t go as well as she’d hoped. she cared, she showed she cared, and she’d invested herself in something she believed in. and i just wanted to give her a hug.
and i love that this is her narrative right now. that her arc is about her and only about her. and i really, really love knowing the show isn’t going to drop it, that the show understands what it’s doing with her and that the writers know these things have consequences. i love being sure that her development is going to be sustained. and i love being able to be excited to see where it continues to go and how she gets there. because i love April so much, and i love this show so much.
