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An animated Star Wars filibuster

In last season's Parks and Recreation, comedian Patton Oswalt played a hilarious running joke of a Star Wars-obsessed fanboy who stages a filibuster during a community meeting. The show thought enough of Oswalt's improvised ramble on the forthcoming Star Wars sequel that it posted the lot together as a web-only video (see below), and a few days ago, this animated version showed up on the interwebs. It's so funny. 

Here's a look at the original source material, courtesy of Parks and Recreation: 

 

As it turns out, this isn't even the first attempt at animating Oswalt's filibuster. Here's one posted this spring: 

Ron Swanson doesn't do salad

From last week's episode, Ann's Decision, which featured the subplot of Ron Swanson & co. testing meal options for the upcoming Leslie-Ben wedding. Yet another great run of Swanson food jokes. 

Red carpet insoles

One of many memorable lines from Tom Haverford, played on Parks and Recreation by Aziz Ansari: 

"How do you make any event classy on a budget? Red carpet. My entire apartment is red carpet. On top of that, leading into my bedroom, a second red carpet. Oh, what’s this in my shoe? Red carpet insole. Everywhere I go, I’m walking on red carpet."

Give me all the bacon and eggs you have

It was a happy day yesterday, as this T-shirt arrived in the mail. Actually, three of them - one for me, one for Nick, and one for my friend Mike, a fellow Parks and Recreation fan and an admirer of Ron Swanson's meat-loving ways. (It was a shirt of the day from TeeFury.) 

If you're not familiar with the phrase (one of many, many that are moving around the pop culture vernacular), have a look below ... with particular attention to Nick Offerman's stellar line reading. 

Ron Swanson takes everyone down a peg

As seen here.

 

Swan Ronson

Why did I not think of this first? As seen here. 

The Tom Haverford key ring

Treat Yo Self, the catchphrase that's become a bit of a long burn. 

As seen here.