The Snakehole Lounge

In this episode of your favorite Parks and Recreation fan-rewatch podcast, we hit one of the most important and landmark episodes for the early eras of the show. The "Hunting Trip" episode featured the biggest on-screen roles for the then side characters Donna and Jerry. Raina shares some of the inside information she's obtained from reading Jim O'hair's new book, Welcome To Pawnee,  which we've b...

Our favorite heroine Leslie Knope finds herself and her Parks and Recreation crew engaged in a cross departmental competition to design a replacement mural for the controversial "Spirit of Pawnee" which is repeatedly vandalized. In her competitive way of doing things, she starts to steamroll her coworkers ideas in an effort to win at all costs. Will she come to her senses, or not, before it's too...

A huge possible barrier to the creation of a park on Lot 48 is the fact that now the library department of Pawnee has put in a request for the property. This episode features the first appearance of Tammy Swanson (Megan Mullaly) and real life wife of Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman). Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) has to help guide him back away from the darkness of his ex-wife, and restore balance to the...

Things are starting to get spicy when Leslie Knope spies on a teenage kid who she thinks is vandalizing city property on Halloween night year after year. Now with the help of her cop boyfriend Dave (Louis CK) and future shoe-shine expert Andy Dwyer (Chris Pratt) they might be able to put a stop to his schemes. Meanwhile, Ann Perkins (Rashida Jones) is trying to throw a fun Halloween party with her...

In this episode our Herione Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) gets a crazy idea to fill in the pit on Lot 48 after they help complete a project for Eagleton in a single day. Unfortunately, this leads to a serious injury for Andy (Chris Pratt) who still lives inside the pit, who finds himself in the position to sue the city. Show Segments: Recall Raina The Pawnee Commons Pawnee Today Jeremy Jamm's Trivia...

A delegation of Venezualian government officials travels to our favorite city of Pawnee, IN, to visit with our Heroine Leslie Knope. While she is excited at first, things don't go as planned when the delgates are a group of rude entitled jerks. Our podcast hosts, Raina and Brandon, struggle to nail down the B-plot for this one, and they get a little into the muddy politics of the early 2000's NBC...

Our heroine Leslie Knope must face one of her greatest fears, going on first dates. After enlisting the help of her best friend Ann Perkins, she undergoes radical exposure therapy for bad dates. Ann puts her through the wringer while the rest of our cast of Pawnee characters tries to dig up dirt on each other, leading Tom and Ron down a rabbit hole to some seriously funny secrets. Our hosts Brando...

After a long hiatus your favorite Pawnee citizens are back! Raina and Brandon Noel return with an episode they actually recorded in August and it's an interesting transitional episode for Parks & Recreation, as well.  While Leslie Knope spends her time, along with the help of Tom, judging a local beauty pageant -- April actually joins the competition! Meanwhile, the ever boring Mark Brendanawicz c...

It's time to either, "Get with it or get out!" as our resident Pawnee historian and co-host Raina says. An all-time favorite episode for her, where Anne Perkins is headed out for her first date with the terrible Mark Brendanawicz. Meanwhile, Leslie Knope and Tom Haverford try to solve the mystery of who planted weed plants in the community garden. They end up finding Andy Dwyer is living in the pi...

It's time to check your podcast privelege, and dive right into the second season of Parks & Recreation with us, and your new favorite fan rewatch of the greatest TV comedy of the 2000s Tux and Flipper, the new penguins at the Pawnee Zoo are going to get married! There's just one problem, it's the early 2000s and gay marriage was not the law of the land yet, and the show takes a hilarious, yet, pos...

THE END OF SEASON 1!! How fast the first season of Parks & Recreation goes by, and so many storylines reach their early conclusions. Raina has a nearly perfect recollection of all the major and minor points of this classic episode where Andy Dwyer and his band of many names take the stage, while Leslie Knope (our embattled heroine) is set up on a date by her mom with an older gentlman who is NOT a...

Brandon and Raina are back, and things are just getting interesting with our friends in the greatest city on earth: Pawnee, Indianna. Leslie Knope's mom, Marlene, gets a special honor from the city of Pawnee, but their political schemes send things spiraling out of control. Leslie sees that maybe she's not cut out for the type of moves her mom says are needed to get things done! Also, hilarity ens...

In the last episode of Brandon and Raina's initial recording session, things start to get a little loopy -- as Brandon loves whiskey just as much as Ron Swanson. And in this episode, Raina has her strongest recall of what goes on. The first time the plot skews away from the Lot 48 pit, and Leslie Knope is already getting into trouble when she breaks a local government rule, and April Ludgate gets...

The first appearance of Shauna Malwea Tweep! More discussion on why the Mark Brendanawicz was a doomed character from the very early days of the podcast. Everything so far is still centered on the pit in Lot 48, and our hero Leslie Knope gets very bent out of shape. Show Segments: Recall Raina The Pawnee Commons Pawnee Today Jeremy Jamm's Trivia Corner Perdverted Stats Of The Week Perdvert Stat Sp...

Your new favorite Parks and Recreation podcast is rolling right into its second episode! It might be early in the show, but some already our favorite gang of characters are starting to come together. Leslie Knope and Anne hit the pavement trying to round up support for the Lot 48 park with interesting results. Pawnee expert, Raina struggles to recall details at first, but Brandon helps trigger her...

Do you love everything Pawnee? Is your favorite show Parks and Recreation and there just isn't enough content about it available? That's why we created this rewatch show that isn't as straightforward as you think. Hosted by a father-daughter duo who launched this idea after being dissatisfied with the level of Pawnee-podcast fandom. Join us as we go episode by episode back through the greatest cit...