I wish I was writing something insightful and supportive about the charming delight that is Parks & Recreation and how it and Community interact with their television and Internet audiences in provocative ways. I wish I was writing something celebratory about the clever enthusiasm of those shows’ audiences and how they play and participate with those shows through animated GIFs and winking referential quotes. I wish I was writing something lively and fun that praised these things while hinting at something that neither of us had exactly thought out loud before about what makes these shows work.
I might title the piece “The Ballad of Ron Swanson.”
