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The Manager’s Bizarre Love-Hate Sidekick: Dwight Schrute (known in some circles simply as “Danger”) vs. Ron Swanson
Yes, technically, Ron is actually the boss of Leslie for the majority of the series. For this conversation, technicalities are irrelevant.
Either way, both Dwight and Ron have peculiar relationships with the people running the show at their place of work. Dwight is the number two guy in Scranton who devotes his life to his job and sucking up to his boss, while Ron is the number one guy in Pawnee who devotes his life to not caring about his job and letting his number two do his job for him. Both characters are the comedic catalysts to their show — no doubt about it — and their ridiculous relationships with their go-to coworkers spark that humorous fire more often than not. It’s also worth noting that a major way that both of these monosyllabic gents take tremendous pride in strutting their manliness and self-worth is by owning dozens of acres of land.
Between Dwight wrecking his own car into a parking lot gate while trying to save Michael from a casual George Foreman Grill foot burn, and Ron having a door-closer installed in his office so he can avoid people, the tough pick here is the mustachioed all-American good ol’ boy, Mr. Swanson. I really do dream about being able to care as little about my job and hating customers as much as him.
Point: Ron Swanson, Parks and Recreation
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It’s a weird concept, but I think P&R has the better cast of characters but somehow The Office was the better complete show.
Completely agree here. Putting characters side-by-side like this was a great idea for an article btw. Love both shows, but Office is my favorite. Pam got worse for me near the end, but the ending of the show redeemed a lot for me.
I don’t know, I think the greatness of the Office is that everybody works with the same characters from the show. They nailed the personalities so well, everyone knows the Angela at their office, the Kelly, the Dwight. And every guy thinks they are Jim.
I literally could not agree more with you more, teammate. Not a weird concept at all.
Thanks. I think we can all agree Rashida Jones is a major pool honey.
You can’t compare Dwight with Ron. I love Ron dearly, but Dwight Schrute is the ultimate character. Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.
I thought the same thing – Both of those two are in a league of their own.
At very least, they should have been a wash. Dwight K is a fuggin boss. Well, an assistant to a fuggin boss anyways.
“Assistant fuggin boss”
Assistant to the fuggin boss
The Christ Pratt bloopers should be NSFW, just got caught watching them from laughing way too loud.
I have a man-crush on Chris Pratt. There I said it.
You’re not alone
Michael, Jim, Pam, and Deight can only be rivaled by Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer.
Dwight*. I could hear my boss’s footsteps towards my cube and didn’t have time to proof read.
Personally I thought parks and rec got kind of repetitive in episodes. There was no real character development, and all Aziz Ansari did was annoy the hell out of me. Overall, it was a good show, but I think The Office wins this battle. The Office had character development, it was always coming up with new ways for each character to play a funny role in the show, and no two episodes were really the same as far as humor.
Where’s Creed at?
… Orin?
No way 3:58 is funnier than the “comeback story” clip, or the responses to his ice cream cone take.
Had to pick between going to bed at a decent time last night or watching the Season 5 finale of Parks and Rec…guess who’s tired today.
Give me your keys.
Evan you haven’t even graduated yet. Fuck outta here.
Guilty.