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Equally as impressive, the show manages to make all of its crapping-on-Jerry comedy not seem too mean-spirited. Even when he occasionally shows himself to possess admirable skills - take his magic egg trick, his piano performance, his Centaur painting - a host of forces somehow conspire against him to rob him of any redemption.

( Laughing.But let us note that Jerry-rigged humor is not one-dimensional - he’s a versatile victim, a nice guy who always finds new ways to finish last. Jim is always eternally grateful that we gave Jerry that character trait. I was on set for his second episode and he reminded me, as he always does, of the episode of mine where it was revealed that Jerry had a very large, ahem, penis.

#Jerry parks and rec movie#

They’re all such huge stars after Parks and have movie careers that scheduling is hard.Īny fun anecdotes from your time on set with Jim? But they’re all such huge stars after Parks and have movie careers that it’s hard for scheduling. It would be funny if we had a walk-on part for Chris Pratt with a two-line bit but he’s a bit busy. There are no immediate plans but as roles come up, we always look to them. It’d be nice to see an episode where we had more time for Nick with Holt and see more time between the two of them. We’d love to bring Nick back but he’s so busy that it’s difficult. It would be a dream and is a dream to work with any and all of them.

#Jerry parks and rec tv#

The cast of Parks is one of all-time great TV casts. Is the goal to get everyone else from Parks on the show? You’ve had Nick Offerman guest in the past. We bandied about ideas for Jim but since none of those resulted in a story, we thought let’s use him and he’ll be great in this role rather than waiting for a story to come to fruition. Or like a former partner of Hitchcock and Scully or a former partner of Holt’s or a former captain.

We had talked about Jim as a guy who had been Jake 20 years before in precinct and then had become Jerry 20 years later.

Were there any other roles that you thought of Jim to play? That’s a thing that Jim is able to play: he’s able to play simple and sweet on the outside but there’s something under the surface. The idea for him was that he outwardly appeared to be a dolt but then actually was effective as a cop in the sense that his Newlywed Game tactic, for instance, surprisingly works and he does catch Holt and Jake in a lie. Sheriff Reynolds has a different upbringing from experience he needs to overcome. Jerry didn’t have a hateful bone in his body! But Jerry is a product of the Midwest and a sweet, Midwest town. Sheriff Reynolds was very Jerry-like - but also a bit racist and homophobic. We always try to bring people back if we can. I think it’d be really fun to see Maya Rudolph and her U.S. After that, there are a few people from Florida that will be really fun to see in Brooklyn, if we can figure out a way to get them there - or if our guys had to go back to Florida - and one of them is definitely Jim. I think Jim O’Heir will be flattered being compared to Jon Hamm! But in truth, Jon Hamm should be flattered being compared to Jim O’Heir! They are our country’s two greatest leading men! ( Laughing.) The timing of this episode coming two nights after Jon Hamm surprised everyone on Fox’s Last Man on Earth is pretty great. Then early on in talking about who should arrest them, Jim was the idea. It felt good that Holt and Jake got arrested and then had to break out of jail. So we started talking to him as we were writing it. We had the idea and before we wrote it, had the idea for it to be Jim. Did you write the role specifically for him?