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rikyl

Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dec 03, 2011 15:31

Forty-four exclamation points doesn't look as impressive as I was expecting.

( Flailing about The Trial of Leslie Knope and some thoughts on Ben's career )

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stillscape December 4 2011, 00:39:47 UTC

It occurred to me that the timeline of how they got together, broke up, and got back together was pretty much perfect.

I don't disagree, but the idea of using the words "timeline" and "perfect" in the same sentence, regarding this show, is kind of hilarious. SEVEN MONTHS IS NOT A YEAR, LESLIE.

saucydiva December 4 2011, 00:50:37 UTC

When I was watching and she said they'd been dating since May, yet it was on and off for a year, and then Chris tried to say they were secretly dating longer than Leslie admitted, I was wondering if I was somehow mishearing, because she admitted they had been dating longer than seven months. Does no one on that set understand math? I feel like I am missing some key line there that would make that make sense.

stillscape December 4 2011, 00:54:30 UTC

I am chalking "a year" up to Leslie's tendency to exaggerate, and then Chris thinking it might have gone back as far as the Harvest Festival?

saucydiva December 4 2011, 01:01:03 UTC

I dunno, it's just really weird, because when you tell someone its been a year, and then you tell him it started seven months ago, and then you are mad when he thinks you are lying about it being seven months... (?) I still feel like some line of dialogue got cut there because that struck me as nonsensical.

stillscape December 4 2011, 01:03:54 UTC

I didn't say it made sense.

I am actually more bothered by the missing 3.5 months/winter not happening last year.

Also, HOW DID CHRIS GET TO INDIANAPOLIS IN THE FIRST PLACE?

jncar December 4 2011, 01:10:29 UTC

He rode one of his five bicycles, of course. I thought everyone knew that. ;D

stillscape December 4 2011, 01:13:41 UTC

Oh, yes, of course. Silly me. He rode 85 miles on a bicycle in about an hour.

rikyl December 4 2011, 01:17:54 UTC

He doesn't own a car because he has five bicycles, and he just rents a car when he needs to get someplace far away, and ... I don't know?

jncar December 4 2011, 01:18:18 UTC

His body is a microchip. He can do 10,000 push-ups in a week and run to the moon. Of course he can bike to Indianapolis in an hour!

(Or, just, take an airport shuttle or something boring like that.)

stillscape December 4 2011, 01:28:26 UTC

Airport shuttle has been my most reasonable guess. Or pogo stick. I bet he could have bounced there on a pogo stick.

craponaspatula December 4 2011, 01:33:24 UTC

Shot out of a canon?

rikyl December 4 2011, 01:36:04 UTC

Love it.

rikyl December 4 2011, 00:50:54 UTC

You're right, what was I THINKING. Slaps forehead.

Deleted scene princess_george December 5 2011, 07:26:23 UTC

Deleted scene from The Trial of Leslie Knope ( ... )

Re: Deleted scene rikyl December 5 2011, 14:54:57 UTC

Hee hee! This is so funny.

My theory was that they thought "off and on for a year" made them sound like a more serious couple than "six weeks last spring and also since last night." Or maybe with the "off and on" they just started out as "off." I don't know, with the exact dates of their relationship becoming a plot point, that did seem really weird.

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