Leslie’s ever-optimistic, candy-loving self is the very definition of playfulness and childlike ambition. He exemplifies adulthood, while every other character has very strong inclinations toward characteristics of children. He’s the only one on the way out of the job. No, he’s the non-play, very serious adult. Jerry just wants to put his head down and put in his last few years until retiring with a full pension. Jerry receiving a tortuously slow-mo pie in the face from Andy, a reenactment of an earlier pie throwing to help Andy solve the mystery of who threw said pie.īut, let me be clear, what Jerry isn’t is the reprimanding father-figure to counter balance and control all the crazy kids. Jerry’s coworkers are supposed to be grown-ups, but hardly any of them act like it. The party, btw, that 5 grown-ass adults are having instead of unloading the moving truck. He ruins the fun! He steps on DJ Roomba (the vacuum on which Tom has set his iPod speakers on), for example. The “classic Jerry” is really a moment of being a total buzzkill. But, frankly, other characters are equally clumsy (Andy), overweight (Donna), and fit the role of comic paradigms (Andy, for example, embodies slapstick, complimenting Jerry’s representation of crude humor)… So, what’s the real reason why the staff aligns behind the phrase, “Screw you, Jerry!”? I think the answer may be the juxtaposition the entire show rides on…. He’s clumsy, overweight, and is inevitably in the wrong place at the wrong time, allowing his coworkers to ceaselessly come up with new ways to torment him. Everyone knows why Jerry from Parks and Recreation is terrorized by the rest of the staff.
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