" Boys' Club " is the fourth episode of the first season of the American comedy television series Parks and Recreation. It originally aired on NBC in the United States on April 30, 2009. It was written by Alan Yang and directed by Michael McCullers. In the episode, Leslie tries to integrate herself into the local "boys' club by drinking wine from an illegal gift basket, and gets into trouble as she tries to accept responsibility for her mistakes. In story B, Andy cleaned up his apartment while Ann was working.
The episodes included beer and tools from the Upland Brewing Company, a real-life company based in Bloomington, Indiana, in an effort to give Pawnee an authentic Indiana atmosphere. "Boys' Club" received positive reviews until fair, with some commentators praising the episode to better develop the supporting characters of the show.
According to Nielsen Media Research, the film was watched by 5.28 million households in its original show, consistent with the previous week. "Boys' Club" and the rest of the first season Parks and Recreation were released on DVD in the United States on September 8, 2009.
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Plot
The episode opens with Leslie (Amy Poehler) and Tom (Aziz Ansari) responding to the incident on the garden trail, where the teenage boys take plastic bags of dog poop and toss them to each other. Leslie tries to stop them but ends up playing with the kids and admits that it's fun. Later, at the town hall of Pawnee, a construction company had sent a gift basket with wine and cheese to the garden department, but Leslie locked it because they were not allowed to receive gifts over $ 25. Then, she and others in the department saw new social networking sites which April (Aubrey Plaza) has prepared for the pit construction project. The site already has seven friends, including the city planner Mark (Paul Schneider), which Leslie is disappointed to see is a friend with many young women dressed in skimpy. Leslie and Ann (Rashida Jones) see Mark and other city planners drinking beer at the town hall yard. Leslie described her as an exclusive "boys' club" and suggested that she and Ann bump into her.
As they came out, Mark and the others warmly welcomed them. Leslie enjoyed herself at the party and, when the beer ran out and the party was about to end, she continued to do so by taking wine and cheese from the gift basket. The next morning, he feels guilty and, even though his boss Ron (Guarantee Estimates) guarantees that "it's no big deal," Leslie issued a public apology to every government official in Pawnee, including a link to a new hole. website. Later, however, he learned April had put his drunk video of himself drinking the rest of the wine on the site, although he's only 19. Ron says Leslie's ethics council has called for a disciplinary hearing with Leslie. Leslie apologized to the council and defended April, accepting responsibility for the video. As questions from the board continued, Ron angrily defended Leslie, insisting, "Leslie never broke the rules of her life, to the point of being irritating." He suddenly ends the meeting and insists they have to go through him to give Leslie more than a slap on the wrist.
Later, Leslie learned that she would receive a letter in her file, which disappointed her so much that Mark told her that she had seven in her file, and that most of them had at least one. Mark welcomes Leslie "to the team", which makes him proud.
In a B story, Ann's normally lazy boyfriend, Andy (Chris Pratt) decides to surprise him by cleaning up their messy house when he's gone. He cleaned the house (even though he dumped their garbage into the hole). After cleaning it, he bathed in the children's pool in the backyard and played music in his boombox. Lawrence's outraged neighbor steals his boom, pushing Andy (who has two broken legs) to chase his naked neighbor through the streets of his crutch. Later, Ann arrives home and is happy with Andy's housework, with Andy telling the documentary crew she hopes to get "gently put" later on.
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Production
"Boys' Club" was written by Alan Yang and directed by Michael McCullers. McCullers co-authored two Austin Powers movies and directed Poehler in the comedy film Baby Mama. The cold open scene, with children throwing dog poo pockets at Leslie, was added to the episode after the rest had been filmed, and directed personally by co-creator Greg Daniels series. The bags were actually filled with mashed potatoes. Daniels said of the opening, "There are many people who feel this is uncomfortable, but to me, this is one of the most fun things about the show." The restrictions that prohibit Pawnee employees from receiving gifts over $ 25 are based on real-life city regulations that Parks and Recreation manufacturers encountered during their research. The scenes that were filmed in town hall outside the courtyard were filmed on the studio sound stage, and the ethics board review scene was filmed inside the Pasadena, California city hall building.
Like most episodes of Parks and Recreation, many scenes in "Boys Club" are improvised by actors. For example, Nick Offerman improvised on the "Put in an e-mail?" Line, which he said when Leslie told him that he had a long story to tell him. Schur considered the phrase "my favorite thing on the show", and they made it say in it every subsequent pickup during the filming. Aziz Ansari also improvised most of the scenes in which he helped Leslie prepare for a review of his ethics board. Dean Holland, Parks and Recreation Editor, , says this is his favorite scene of the entire first season. Amy Poehler improvised the queue in the meeting yard, after she accidentally spilled a few bottles of beer, "I feel like I'm in a boys' club. Look at the whores cleaning me up." Schur said the line helped develop Leslie's character in the upcoming episode because "we realized that Leslie could be a little colder than we had expected". The scene with Ron describing his ideal government was written for a different episode, but moved to the "Boys' Club" when the producers decided it was better there. Schur said it was his favorite moment in the episode. "Boys' Club" ended with Leslie and Mark roasting each other's beers because Schur said, "It's a joke in the author's room that every episode should end with a tinkling beer."
Photographs of the producers of Garden and Recreation were incorporated among the photographs of previous city councilors on the walls of the town hall. Norm Hercock's photo is what Leslie says he believes, "No matter which way I move, he always looks at my chest." Mark's social networking site featured on "Boys' Club" includes characters with promiscuous women. photos during that time, according to co-creator of the Michael Schur series, "We bring lots of women and basically say, you're really rubbish. You're a garbage lady, and we'll take your photo now. "During the party scene in the yard, a short clip shows Poehler, Jones and Schneider dancing together.The clip is actually three character actors who play around between the time it takes, but the Garden manufacturers decided to add it to episode.
Michael Schur, co-creator of Parks and Recreation, said "Boys' Club" marks an effort to develop Andy Dwyer better. Schur said, "We really want to make his character modified and not make it only a one dimensional douchebag." In the episode, Andy plays a recording of himself singing the song titled "Ann", which he wrote as a romantic ballad for him. Chris Pratt actually wrote and sang the song himself for the show, although he said in an interview, "it really is not much". Pratt actually shows up at the nude scene while filming a scene where he chases Lawrence down the street without clothes. Schur said the scene was written because Pratt "likes to take off his clothes". It proved difficult to film a scene with Pratt bathing in a children's pool because the bubbles disappear so quickly that it takes some retrieval. The scene with Andy running naked through the streets with crutches to regain his boombox was inspired by the real-life experience of the set. During the filming, the announcement made that special coffee available to the cast and crew, and Pratt ran fast after them with crutches. Greg Daniels added it to the "Boys' Club" because he found the experience very funny.
In an effort to provide authenticity to fictional Pawnee, the Indiana arrangement, Parks and Recreation manufacturers contacted Bloomington, Indiana-based Upper Raising Company and asked them to provide empty beer bottles and labels for scenes with drinking characters in city ​​hall page. The company provided props for their beer brands, Dragonfly IPA, and Upland officials said that their prominent appearance in the episode generated positive publicity for the company: Scott Johnson, marketing operations manager for the brewery, said, "As soon as it explodes, all people started calling me and e-mailing me. "They also drank ginger ale, a very popular soft drink in Indiana. Windell Middlebrooks made a guest appearance as Brian, one of the men who attended a page party. Middlebrooks was chosen based on his work on the Miller High Life ad, where he stole a beer from a bar he deemed unworthy.
On the day of the original American episode broadcast on April 30, 2009, the official NBC site Parks and Recreation launched a duplicate of the Sullivan Street Pit social network site featured in the episode, complete with photos of the hole, friends "from performances and links to Mark's page and his pictures with the women dressed in skimpy. The pit page, as well as the regular NBC website, also includes an actual video of Aubrey Plaza that pretends to drink wine and get drunk, as shown in the episode. Schur said for the scenes, "We just gave Aubrey a camera and told him to drink wine and talk to the camera."
Cultural reference
The social networking site developed for this pit project was inspired by sites like MySpace and Facebook, which were very popular when the episodes first aired. Leslie made a public apology for all female government officials in alphabetical order, starting with Republican Republic of Minnesota Michele Bachmann, Democratic Republic of Wisconsin, Tammy Baldwin (Democrat, Wisconsin) and Illinois Democracy Republican Melissa Bean. At his desk, Leslie has framed photos of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. The apology scenes were filmed with the camera on a tripod, something rarely done in a documentary-style series. The online game Scrabble is seen on the computer screen in Ron's office during one scene. This is the same Scrabble game he played with Tom in the previous episode, "The Reporter". While preparing Leslie for his ethical board review, Tom asks if he ever fantasized about Ron "closed in Powerade". This is a reference to advertising for sports drinks, where athletes take out multi-colored fluids while exercising.
Reception
In the original American broadcast on April 30, 2009, "Boys' Club" was watched by 5.28 million households, according to Nielsen Media Research. This rating is consistent with the previous week even when other NBC shows, like the new Southland , see a downgrade. "Boys' Club" received a rating of 2.3 rating/8 among viewers aged between 18 and 34, and ranked 2.3 rating/7 between viewers between 18 and 49.
This episode received positive reviews until fair. Alan Sepinwall, television journalist for The Star-Ledger, says "Boys' Club" is more funny than previous episodes and includes scenes with good physical comedy involving Leslie, especially when she spills beer bottles; he also praised Andy's "naked" persistence. Matt Fowler of IGN said the episode gave a bit more insight into "Leslie's aspiration of wanting to be a successful woman in government, which is a step in the right direction", but Fowler says her mistakes are persistent. and the wrong decision breaks down the story. Fowler says the best part of the episode is Andy's subplot, especially the scene where he jumps into the nude path on his wand. Keith Phipps of The A.V. The club gave B-grade episodes, and said that the character of Amy Poehler should be more fully formed in the upcoming episodes. Phipps said most of the laughter of the show comes from the supporting characters of Andy, Tom and Ron; he also highly praised Ron's closure to Leslie's hearing and his monologues about the ideal government: "A man, sitting in a small room at the table, and the only thing he is allowed to decide is who should be tried." Jeremy Medina from Entertainment Weekly liked that the episode included a moral crisis for Leslie, whom she described as "a fully realized character rather than a caricature."
DVD release
"Boys' Club", along with five other first season episodes of Parks and Recreation, was released on a DVD disc in the United States on September 8, 2009. DVD includes cast and crew commentary tracks for each episode, as well as around 30 minutes removed scene. The deleted scene included in the DVD was initially displayed on the official Garden and Recreation website after the episode aired. In one scene, Leslie buys a gift basket and returns it to a business that provides the real one, in what she calls an "ethical restitution." In another scene, Leslie apologized to April for introducing her to alcohol, prompting April to then tell the camera that she has had fake IDs in Indiana, North Dakota and Delaware since she was 14 years old.
References
External links
- "Boys' Club" on the official Garden and Recreation site
- "Boys' Club" in IMDb
- "Boys' Club" on TV.com
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