Also, I would watch a travel show that consisted entirely of a disgusted Ron Swanson taking photos over his shoulder and shaking his head in disapproval.

Since most of the episode's (many, many) great parts have already been discussed, can I throw a little love Helen Slayton-Hughes' way?  There are so many awesome people in the Pawnee universe, but Ethel Beavers is always perfect.  I want her to be my grandma, too.

Hardest laugh: when the two little girls slapped Denise back-to-back.  Perfect.  Perfect punchline, perfect timing.

I love the hell out of Slacker, but I've found it one of Linklater's harder sells to people who just aren't on the right wavelength for it.

Agreed completely.

I guess this is a minority opinion, but I much much much preferred this episode to the two-part season opener.  Last week felt like a metric ton of unmotivated exposition: this one gave me some room to breathe and soak in the details of the world.  I really enjoyed it.

In fairness, it's not like Stoker respected the material he used for the book, either.

If you mean the character Dracula, maybe, but how long has it been since you read Stoker's novel?  Nearly half the (interminable) book is about three men competing for the affections of one woman, who then stalks the earth in her revealing negligee (Lucy's "heaving breasts" make about a dozen appearances in the book -…

Genuinely do not understand this line:

This was good, but for me:

He's also hilarious.  Some crazy people are just sad, but Metta World Peace has a fantastically weird sense of humor.

That was my biggest laugh of the night, actually.  Or maybe I just like women who gorge on sandwiches (I miss you, Liz Lemon!)

For me, it's the woozy weirdness of Suite IV, swirling around the John Barry sample from The Black Hole.  The whole album is a lot of fun, but that opening track slays me.

None from me: it's my least favorite of his major works (having not read Vineland yet), so a better and more mature version of it would be welcome.

The description of the main character/plotline sounds uncomfortably like The Crying of Lot 49, so I hope this isn't a regression.

I'm in the M&D camp, too, although it's a coin flip between that and GR.

Roger Mexico's Christmas Eve vigil and the whole chapter about Poekler and his disappearing daughter are my favorite parts of the book.  There's just so much amazing stuff in there.

Even by fan wiki standards, that is ridiculously detailed.

There's a really wonderful moment in the commercial where the sad scarecrow sees the industrial foods packaged as "natural" and he's really sad,

Also: Sally's Song from Nightmare Before Christmas.