The Wisdom of Ron Swanson: The Pyramid of Greatness

8 January 2013 Rob Buckley The Wisdom of Ron Swanson, US TV Post a comment

BBC4 has acquired NBC’s Parks and Recreations, ready to air it this year – better late than never, it being on its fourth season at the moment. Now, I stand by remarks I made a while back on Radio 5 – that it’s actually not that great a show. Sorry. I keep trying to watch it but it rarely makes me laugh.

However, there is one aspect of it that’s pure awesome: Ron Swanson, possibly the most American man in the whole wide world. His words of wisdom are wonders to behold. So, every Tuesday, to celebrate BBC4’s acquisition and to save you having to watch everything in Parks and Recreations that isn’t Ron Swanson, I’m going to be serving up some of Ron’s insights.

And where else should I start than with his Pyramid of Greatness? Next week: bacon. Once you watch, you’ll understand.

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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