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Ron dancing. That's it. I don't need to say anything else to why this is perfect.

Parks and Recreation has many great episodes. Some are political satires on American culture, some are very influential to the series as a whole, and some are just flat-out bonkers. Season 3's episode "The Fight" certainly fits the latter. You know, sometimes all you need in an episode is just to see everyone get super drunk!

The episode revolves around Ann getting offered a job to work at City Hall. Leslie obvisiouly is very excited about this opportunity and, being the super supportive friend she is, decides to help Ann in any way she can so she can get offered the position. Ann, on the other hand, isn't sure if this is the right career opportunity for her, and feels Leslie may be rushing into things and pushing her into something she may not want to do. It's this conflict that anchors the episode story-wise. However, I think when most people look back at this episode, they think about one particular thing: Snake Juice.

Snake Juice, is a new alcoholic beverage that Tom has created that he has decided to promote at the Snakehole Lounge. He invites the entire Parks Department to attend, but what most people don't know is just how unhealthy this beverage really is and contains a high volume of alcohol and caffeine. This episode starts off pretty slow, and ends pretty slow, but everything in the middle at the Snakehole lounge is COMEDY GOLD!

We see Leslie and Ann fighting for the first time in the series; April introduces her alter-ego Janet Snakehole (incredible performance by Plaza) as she role-plays with Andy's alter-ego, FBI agent Burt Macklin; Jean-Ralphio pops in and displays his lackluster rapping skills; Nick Kroll's, The Douche, also is in attendance and gets stuck in the middle of Leslie and Ann's bickering; and this entire sequence has arguably the best "jump-cut talking-head sequence" (one of the show's trademarks) as we see everyone talk drunkingly into the camera one at a time. Each one remarkably funnier than the next.

Overall, "The Fight" is simply one of the funniest episodes in the show. The entire cast show's off their incredible drunk-acting skills and the episode is filled with many great gags and memorable quotes. This is the second episode written by Amy Poehler and she proves once again why her comedic talent is greater than just acting. She can also write some of the funniest episodes in the series.

Just the scene 3/4 into the episode kills me...the babbling, Jerry, Ron's dancing, Andy trying to be Eddie Vedder...they all look legitimately ripped. If it weren't for the engagement episode, this would be my favorite one.

What a brilliant episode genuinely hilarious in places. One of the rewatch over and over episodes

Each character becomes drunk and its funny, very funny.

In here you have all the characters with time to have some protagonism. You have them dancing and being drunk. You have ron promoting the snakejuice, leslie and ann fighting, andy and april running after each other playing spies, tom absolutely dunk, donna the designated driver, leslie trying to make ben jealous with jean ralhpio...it just encapsulates perfectly the comedic tone this show had and the amazing characters they created.

I watched this whole series like 3 or 4 times already (except season 1 i always skip). This episode i watched more than 10 times, and sometimes i just go on youtube to see ron dancing. Its perfect comedy here, one of the best tv episodes ever and one of the best comedy shows ever.

I mean this is a bit "unrelated" but out of all the tiny won swanson masculinity and "redneckiness" references so far... i just like this one.. i mea it's so subtly out there in such a exaggerated series with such stereotypical characters i mean in 2011 when idk how may picked up on that.

(and yes i understand that technically protein doesn't absorb sugar i'm not here to give you a lecture on the effect on insulin and nutrition and blah blah blah but generally speaking... it may be a oversimplification but it really goes to show.......)

i mean the subtlety of the drunken red meat loving fella ot being as ignorant as he was previously presented when it comes to something he likes...

a perfect beautiful example of the great writing of ron

(i mea generally speaking ron swanson is defiantly my favorite character or just because we align a bit more ideologically (or for the opposite people view him as a great ideological criticism) or because the character is hilarious and exaggerated or... but because it's done -write and acted so well )