Whole-Assing a new full season of PnR
Caneoing With Ron. This is wonderful. (NOT a spoiler for the season finale. Just awesome.)
From the director's cut of "The Debate"
- Knope campaign contributor: Excited for the debate?
- Ron Swanson: I don't believe in debates. I think there should be less talking.
- Knope campaign contributor: In politics?
- Ron Swanson: In life.
Nick Offerman of ‘Parks and Recreation’ on the appeal and meme-ability of Ron Swanson
Yesterday, the Celebritology Pawnee-palooza brought you an interview with Adam Scott. Today’s piece of “Parks and Recreation” goodness, presented in the run-up to Leslie Knope’s debate against Bobby Newport on Thursday’s episode of “Parks and Rec,” is a conversation with Ron Swanson himself, Nick Offerman.
Offerman chatted with me during a visit to the set in February, prior to shooting a scene for the “Parks and Rec” season finale. During that conversation in Offerman’s trailer — which, unlike Scott’s, contained no weird drawings of lizard-horses or stick figures with oversized private parts — I confirmed a few things about the man behind Ron Swanson.
1. He occasionally receives phone calls from fellow funny man Will Forte.
2. He has an endearing laugh — a giggle, really — that is diametrically opposed to his mustachioed, manly man appearance. The only way to describe that laugh is that it sounds like Krusty the Clown … if Krusty were an 11-year-old girl.
3. He owns some actual pieces of Ron Swanson art (his wife, Megan Mullally, purchased them) and one of them is hanging in his wood shop.
- Ron: Hello. Here are some papers Leslie requested.
- Ann: These are blank.
- Ron: Weird. As long as I'm here, can I ask you a question?







