![]() “Ron and Tammy,” our introduction to the woman and the relationship, was the eighth episode of Season 2 of Parks and Recreation, early in the show’s run while it was still figuring out its tone and how its characters would respond to Leslie’s unrelenting energy and optimism. So I feel like we’ve graduated to a level where we can look at each other and jump off any cliff together.” Mullally added, “There is a nice sort of security working together, but I also feel like we’re more relaxed.”īut while their scenes together are most memorable for their creative insults, outrageous euphemisms, and explosive physicality, they also serve as a set of subtle storytelling moments. As Offerman told People, “Those particular roles required a lot of trust and vulnerability to go to horrifyingly deep places, especially with our tongues. While both Offerman and Mullally are razor sharp actors and comedians in their own right, their real-life relationship helps push Ron and Tammy’s scenes to their delirious heights. RELATED: The Top 50 'Parks and Recreation' Episodes, Ranked ![]() It’s a wild and fun departure (for the audience, anyway) from a character we know and love for his gruffness and immovability, and brings out brand-new shades of someone who primarily operates in black and white. Gone is both his reserve and resolve - with Tammy, Ron is a powder keg of emotions and a puppet on her g-string. They also bring out a side of Ron that no other character can access - screaming, smirking, sexual, and smug, Ron with Tammy is a Ron we hardly recognize. Whether slinging operatic insults and come-ons or attacking one another in desire and disdain, these two characters bring out some of Parks and Recreation’s most chaotic, anarchic laughs. When Ron and Tammy are together, the comedy is never funnier or more absurd. It’s only Leslie’s desire for Ron to be truly happy that breaks the spell, and he escapes her clutches with his restored personality and a pushpin in the face to show for it. Once Ron is back under Tammy’s spell, her plan is revealed: she has convinced him to give her the lot. What starts as coffee leads to screaming and then to snogging, first in the middle of a diner and then in the hourly embrace of a motel bed. When the library lays claim to Lot 48, where Leslie had hoped to put a park, she is swayed by Tammy’s talk of “government gals” sticking together and puts Ron back in touch with his ex, thinking they can smooth over their differences. After growing up together in the same small town - under the eye of Ron’s first ex-wife, Tammy, and his mother, Tamara (who, yes, goes by Tammy) - they married and divorced with equal, if opposite, passions enflamed. You don’t start calling someone a “sewer-dwelling gutter witch” without history, and Ron and Tammy have it to spare. ![]() Her cardigans, headbands, and cheery accommodations only mask the truth for so long: she’s manipulative and mean, someone Ron believes “was programmed by someone in the future to come back and destroy all happiness.” Leslie’s hatred is free-floating, but Ron’s is targeted: his ex-wife Tammy is the new library director. While he shares none of Leslie Knope’s ( Amy Poehler) pep, they do share a deep-rooted disdain for the punk-ass book jockeys at the library. A libertarian working in the government mainly to slow it down, Ron loves breakfast food, the woods, and not talking. Ron Swanson is the director of the Parks and Recreation department in Pawnee, Indiana.
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