Parks and Rec but it's just Sweetums being the WORST company | Parks and Recreation

[@agent0422]

The "zero calorie water" having 60 calories was hilarious

[@samtaastic]

“How is this a child size soda?” “Well it’s roughly the size of one child”

[@Rearadmiral725]

One liquefied child!!

[@danthemankhan]

@@Rearadmiral725 "We estimate. Not that we've definitively proven that...."

[@G-Unit1111]

"Can I help you, Ron?" "Yes, you can get me a refill."

[@dustyb58]

@@Rearadmiral725 A liquefied 2-year old child

[@BunnyTheOverlord]

Not gonna lie, that much for only $1.59 is a steal. It scares me what they put in it to make it profitable.

[@allisonbilbey1948]

The idea of a towns water reservoir being full of a drink that’s just like Gatorade or fruit punch is horrifying

[@godfreyofbouillon5634]

"But it has electrolytes"

[@danthemankhan]

Agreed. Can you imagine how many ants that would attract?

[@justfellicitya]

@@godfreyofbouillon5634 It IS what plants crave.

[@kranberry3318]

Can you imagine washing dishes in that? SHOWERING in that? Yeesh.

[@kranberry3318]

Can you imagine washing dishes in that? SHOWERING in that? Yeesh.

[@ewhschrisc]

I imagine Sweetums doesn't have to assassinate its whistleblowers, they just die of diabetes.

[@danthemankhan]

Who are they going to whistleblow to? The company owns the newspaper and sponsors the TV news.

[@hustlecrowe9440]

Boeing is jealous

[@breakingbacon658]

How can they blow a whistle when they’re out of breath just sitting.

[@Pagliacci_Rex]

​@@danthemankhan FDA.

[@spiraljumper74]

@@Pagliacci_RexFDA is an ineffectual boondoggle now that the Chevron Deference was struck down by the Supreme Court, it and every other executive branch agency may as well not exist for how well they’ll be able to institute any sort of sane regulatory framework.

[@Obozo_Gaming]

I always loved the sass behind "Most people call it a gallon".

[@danthemankhan]

Conspiracy theory: Sweetums buys all the local gyms that open in order to close them down.

[@horsehay]

Sells them to Paunch Burger lmao

[@feritperliare2890]

Nah they probably give high interest loans then focus their marketing in that area so people don't notice the gym the gym can't stay open and they go bankrupt from their loans

[@thunblot78]

Ah the Disney method, smart

[@cdbsk76]

The Newports didn't even bother going after Sue's Salads. They knew Pawneeans would run 'em outta town on their own.

[@Volkbrecht]

Why? People that sweat get thirsty... Also, paying for a gym membership is so good to keep that guilty conscience quiet while sipping a little child size soft drink ;)

[@ross.neuberth]

The “child” size gets me every time

[@iranribeiro4009]

It's a new unity of measurement, I guess.

[@willpower8289]

I know it’s probably the joke but I always found it fascinating how Sweetums is not only fully aware of unhealthy their products are for the people of Pawnee but they are purposefully making the city’s residents overweight. I don’t know why but I find that bit of corruption in their company to be fascinating. I wanna know when in the company’s history that became the business tactic where they purposely make their customers gain wait from the sugary crap in their products while having a chokehold on the town itself.

[@sneezyg1]

*residents

[@DB-po8rs]

I think its meant something like how the govt wants their subjects to be fat happy and docile. But yeah doesnt make much of a business model.

[@davidmaka6742]

Yeah, blame the government when there are multi-billion dollar corporations that have unhealthy food targeted at low-income households as their business model.

[@willpower8289]

@@sneezyg1 Thank you for pointing out my mistake. I get those two confused lol

[@kaylahensley1581]

They’re basically drug dealers trying to keep their junkies’ dependent.

[@jovanai]

I just realized parcs and recs had so many ongoing jokes and they are all brilliant

[@1certifiedgamer183]

Like jam the dentist being a huge sweetums supporter 💀💀

[@dispater101]

The fact that they're fully aware of what they're doing and are actively trying to pump up the diabetes and obesity rates in front of everyone just makes it so much funnier (and quite grim) 😂

[@KaiserAfini]

They probably get kickbacks from the medical community and insulin industry as well.

[@courier6402]

If you think about it like the Heart Attack Gril in Las Vegas just on a much larger scale. Be absolutely transparent and leave it the people to decide what the value Helat or good testing unhealthy food.

[@scorpionic-night]

the USA❤

[@Mostie-ev7oh]

They’re probably partnered with Eli-Lily one of the main insulin manufacturers. They’re headquartered in Indianapolis.

[@KingChiggy]

I'll be honest I would have absolutely given up on Pawnee a long time ago and moved if I was Leslie. The amount of dumb from the community, the committee and this factory would have driven me insane lol

[@vincentthought6130]

Honestly there probably only 3 times worse than anywhere else.

[@NurniyazKazaliyev]

The fact that she refuses to give up and is trying to make that place better is really inspiring

[@crinkly.love-stick]

While it is a comedy show, reality isn't that far off. Working for a municipality will show you. The public really is this stupid

[@cranapple3367]

Pawnee is arguably LESS stupid than real politics. You either fight it or watch the world burn.

[@MH-ev3wr]

The stupidity in this fake show pales in reality to the actual stupidity of the American people. Furthermore, the indifference towards people from this fake company pales in reality to actual Corporate America's indifference to real people.

[@DiBaozi]

I cracked up at fact that Nutrium bars have to be broken into 4 servings to appear healthy 😂

[@squatchjosh1131]

Probably not even healthy, just tolerable lol

[@RandomGamerCory]

That's basically everything you buy at a store

[@seanmulloy854]

"Are we putting bargains on trial here?" Everyone on this show shined, from the regulars down to the bit parts.

[@teh3964]

Ron checking under his seat😂

[@kranberry3318]

And he was so excited!

[@OurKindofEntertainment]

OMG his face 😂

[@thelonewolf7443]

Just like when he met… Lil’ Sebastian 🐎

[@KeepQuirky]

This got me, too. 😆

[@lamThinker]

Ron, the biggest hypocrite lmao. Dude is head over heels for some Sweetums

[@SpittUp]

“If you can’t beat umm, Sweetums.” - Leslie Knope

[@sceyth]

Crazy enough there was an actual molasses incident a long time ago where homes were destroyed and people died

[@monkeyprojects129]

Boston is a wild place

[@OfLanceTheLonginus]

@@monkeyprojects129 What a callous, nihilistic thing to say.

[@Novictus]

@@OfLanceTheLonginus No? callous maybe. Not nihilistic

[@OfLanceTheLonginus]

@@Novictus I noticed most of your recent replies are towards already existing conversations, so I’m a bit put off from going into an actual debate on the matter. Sorry.

[@JM-yg1kz]

Yeah that's why I found it odd for him to say that it was a slow wave. As the actual flood in Boston was fast, and really sticky. From what I remember around half of the casualties were people trying to rescue people from the molasses.

[@jotusaini7886]

“I call em like I see em” coldest Anne Perkins lines

[@kellymoses8566]

"A gym opened AND STAYED IN BUSINESS!"

[@zellalaing5439]

Love how Nick Newport Jr kinda disappeared off the face of the earth even when bobby came in.

[@lamondlense]

Nah he just morphed

[@ethanrothermel8516]

Bro had to go become the puppet master of the corporation fr.

[@abhishekrao1525]

6:35 Fun Fact: The FDA does allow for a certain amount of rat and insect parts to be in food. They call it "unavoidable defects". You can find the details in CFR, Title 2, Part 110, Sec. 110

[@Michael-j4l3d]

Food grade rat parts (Meat presumably) are a bit of a rarity, though in Easter island rat meat became common after famine caused partially by introduction of rats compelled them to try it. Rat and horse meat is also a bit risky as poisons are often used to kill them.

[@hopsiepike]

Oh, it’s only 4% top sides!

[@spiraljumper74]

I mean yeah it’s pretty gross but it did take over a year of studies and research by subject experts and doctors to come to the conclusion that certain contaminants are essentially impossible to avoid in industry-scale food preparation, while also being essentially safe, if gross, to consume. Of course it’s going to get MUCH worse now that the Supreme Court struck down Chevron, we’re looking at food and water quality (among other things) going waaaaay down in any states that don’t pass local legislation that meets or exceeds federal standards. And lots of smaller red states that don’t have domestic food production will essentially have to take whatever compromises food preparation companies choose to make in terms of quality just to avoid having empty supermarket shelves.

[@daverichards9141]

Yep, average of 3 bug legs per bar

[@enriquevillegas7188]

Ron kills me every time 💀 he gets up and hopes he got candy 😂

[@G-Unit1111]

Napkins are a vegetable because they're made from plants. Makes sense.

[@hopsiepike]

The Reagan administration allowed ketchup to be the vegetable for school lunches. The jokes were mere exaggerations.

[@DanielLCarrier]

By the same logic, high fructose corn syrup is a vegetable.

[@Z64bit]

Does that mean we're liquid because we're 70% water?

[@dudewithapoorlydrawnmustac2523]

In an alternate timeline, they rebranded themselves to Brawndo and replaced water.

[@philliptivis3082]

Well, I mean, it has electrolytes. It's what plants crave.

[@TenshiRyuzaki]

You want us to drink water? Like out of a toilet?

[@MostHighEmperorPalpatine]

Sweetums was purchased by Brawndo 🤔

[@AtlanticCoastJoey]

Because it’s got electrolytes

[@nightmare674]

Everytime a show makes fun of a company you end up thinking "Oh, c'mon, of course a soda company isn't hiring death squads" and then you found out that they aren't being over the top, they do stuff like that lol

[@dfw_fpis7655]

5:38 The regular sized cup is replaced by a second 'Child' sized one. One on the table with the straw and the one Leslie puts on her head.

[@ajay1589]

This was the saddest storyline actually. Leslie took on sweetums and ended up being recalled. Always loved how they supported (ron) and critiqued capitalism (sweetums)

[@richardarriaga6271]

We are that stupid unfortunately. Look at how people acted with COVID, ranting about haircuts and wanting the old to die to save the economy.

[@logicmeister1821]

Oh, it gets worse than that, Fuaci recently admitted he made up most of the Covid Rules, such as 6ft distancing, meaning that the economy was tanked and people kept isolated for no good reason

[@justinchase6666]

Nor really a critique of capitalism and more of a critique of kleptocracy. Capitalism is simply a system where the means of production is held by private individuals like when the Dutch sailors decided to buy shares in each other's trips in order for there families to not go bankrupt since 1/10 ships sank. Kleptocracy on the other hand is exactly what sweeties represent. Basically rich use there money to crush competition and pass laws against the masses self interest for increased profit.

[@inquisition3173]

@@justinchase6666 What is your major and why is it political science xD. Solid take though.

[@justinchase6666]

@@inquisition3173 engineering.

[@aritraduttagupta6607]

This clip makes me realize how accurate the show's social commentary was

[@slimj091]

I used to think the same way as Ron. Until I found out that the reason why my toes and finger tips are numb, and feel like they are falling asleep is because all of the sugar that I've shoveled into my mouth over the years has destroyed my nerves, and constricted my blood vessels.

[@hebrew_jitsu]

Are you saying we should take people’s freedoms away because you didn’t have self control?

[@thunblot78]

​@@hebrew_jitsuwe're not asking to take peoples freedoms away, we're asking for stuff like this to be WAY more regulated and watched than it is right now. Like you should NOT be able to go to McDonald's everyday and kill yourself from the cholesterol, they should be able to stop you at some point for YOUR OWN HEALTH

[@sr202-n7c]

Completely agree with your final point. But just wanna point out that wanting things to be more regulated is, by definition, taking people's freedoms away.

[@yakobsoulstorm5187]

@@sr202-n7c No, it's not. It's giving the freedom to live past 60.

[@sryanr2]

@@yakobsoulstorm5187 I don't disagree with the sentiment, but "regulated" and "free" are literal antonyms. Asking for something to be regulated is, by definition, asking to take away a freedom. That's not necessarily a bad thing -- but you can't say "we're not asking for freedoms to be taken away, we're just asking for more regulations". Asking for more regulations is literally asking for freedoms to be taken away.

[@samuelvoorhees3982]

I love that despite the show being long over Clips still circulate around the internet constantly

[@joeSCHMOEwithTheo]

"are we putting bargains on trial here?" Her delivery is perfect, goddamn I just feel like I want to agree with her

[@bushidotestu1997]

Still not as bad as nestle

[@johncontreras2327]

What did nestle do?

[@bushidotestu1997]

@@johncontreras2327 just look up nestle and Africa

[@mr.s845]

​@@johncontreras2327kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJuZe4KBp7GSrMksi=aVpMr3S9Aca4Al7s

[@muffinmendy7327]

​@@johncontreras2327what haven't they done? They have even done crimes against humanity.

[@StarkSpider24]

I mean there was a guy that wanted to own all water.

[@AngryDemonCat]

Sweetums is truly a corrupt company but no one even sees it until its to late or just ignores the danger of their products 😅

[@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus]

Any one craving a smoke? Iam

[@julianyc422]

Read Labels and Sweetums is a nickname for All America's Food producers. Like Cambells, Kellogs, Salad Dressing, anything in a box...

[@nick0875]

If the consumer managed to use their brain for half a second then most these places along with various fast food joints would be out of business. With all of the available cooking instruction information out there you can make most things at home, and raw ingredients usually cost far less.

[@Satherian]

@@nick0875 If only it were that easy - unfortunately, healthy eating is an incredibly complex topic, especially since it's affected by so many aspects of our society such as income inequality, physical layout of cities, information access, and more

[@nick0875]

@@Satherian For those of lower income, especially if they do not have a car or access to the internet, you have a point. But where I live the closest grocery store has a McDonald's right across the street that seems to always have customers whenever I am picking up groceries.

[@usmanqureshi8941]

​@@nick0875poor people have less time to do stuff

[@nick0875]

@@usmanqureshi8941 I must have been a time management genius when I started living on my own and working for minimum wage.

[@mnmlst1]

It's amazing the series ended years ago and the channel posts videos that still get hundreds of thousands views of people that like me, are never tired of Parks and Recreation.

[@tamnker8465]

I love how this is getting closer and closer to reality.

[@mr.l8723]

“Lance Armstrong!?!” That doesn’t make it better, Leslie!😂

[@drunkenmmamaster419]

3:12 jerry dancing always has me dying 😂😂😂😂😂

[@BatCritic21]

2:37-3:07 The Lunchly controversy Leslie: Logan Paul, KSI, Mr. Beast Anne: The internet

[@thomaspetrucka9173]

"Ga-zoinks-bo!" will never not get me. 🤣

[@mudman619]

I wonder if the folks in Hershey, PA squirm while watching this, lol. (and yes, I took my kids to the Hershey factory once) lol

[@dannytallmage2971]

I doubt it Hershey is a healthy low obesity town like most towns with low amounts of non-White residents.

[@sarahberkner]

I don't know that Hershey has as much sugar as some other candy, or any soda, but to me it doesn't taste that good.

[@dannytallmage2971]

@@sarahberkner it’s the preservatives that are put into it. Hershey’s did market research and found that people buy Hershey’s bars in expectation of keeping them for absurd amount of time so they really stuff the preservatives in there.

[@lordpumpkinhead265]

@@dannytallmage2971 "like most towns with low amounts of non-white residents" This feels racist. I don't know if it is, but it certainly feels that way.

[@SkilletSpooner]

This honestly just makes me so depressed about corrupt mega-corporations.

[@mrgreen4688]

sweetums was ahead of the curve with their water replacement. I thought Brawndo came up with that on their own

[@stevenwillenberg6765]

It has electrolytes

[@drivernephi5587]

It's got what plants crave

[@zbeebs]

It hadn't really occurred to me before, but does Sweetums own Paunch Burger? Are they the same company?

[@Cross177]

Either that or a partnership where they gain commission for every drink sold by the ounce. Sweetums be crazy like that.

[@danthemankhan]

I wouldn't doubt it. Pepsi owns KFC and Taco Bell.

[@11sfr]

​@danthemankhan not for over a 1/4 century, PepsiCo spun off their fast food business as a separate company back in 1997. It's called Yum Brands, Pepsi doesn't own any shares in it anymore, they just have a contract to supply soft drink syrup to all the locations, like Coca-Cola does for McDonalds

[@danthemankhan]

@@11sfr Back in my day!

[@ChesterKN]

my brain sang "the worst" part of the title in Jean Ralphio's voice... I hate it and like it at the same time

[@DrDoomBloom]

The story behind the child size cup gets me every time 😂😂

[@sirripsalot420]

45 IQ : Ron Swanson fan 2000 IQ : Leslie Knope fan

[@julianyc422]

Sarah Palan, drinking a big gulp on stage, working for Billionaires saying, "Junk food in school is FREEDOM"

[@websterri]

Idiot.

[@dannytallmage2971]

Maybe if you replaced some of your jjzz consumption with sugar you could spell properly.

[@websterri]

@@julianyc422 idiot.

[@tracyxavierleetowertaylor1503]

Right , and convincing people that a napkin is a vegetable 😅

[@badgerbadgerton966]

"I'm sorry, I just don't see the problem."

[@Pagliacci_Rex]

Ann spraying her with a bottle like she's a cat, lol.

[@Earthwormjimm]

Sweetumsnis basically the pharmaceutical companies that own the fast food restaurants and super markets

[@khallilmarshall]

“He was so decrepit” 🤣

[@cbolivar3518]

Diet water zero light!!!! LMAO

[@shadofett7495]

"hey buddy, you just came here from stupid town" was the first thing that came to mind after watching the last scene 12:10

[@MegaDrain]

Watching The Boys, Vought is like everything Sweetums wishes it could be.

[@zanemartin6699]

Vought is to medicine as Sweetum’s is to food

[@prointernetuser]

I'd like to think all the blondes who work at Sweetums don't even know what their sweets taste like. Like they're all vegetarian yoga moms despite them working for the personification of diabetes.

[@robskyd]

Ron looking under his chair is a masterful piece of comedy.

[@owen_tl]

I love how pawnee was canonically obese and there was never a single obese person in the show xd

[@hopsiepike]

Early Chris Pratt.

[@krystal4721]

Donna, Jerry, Perd, etc.

[@dannytallmage2971]

@@krystal4721It is funny all the black characters are obese just like in real life.

[@OLBastholm]

How American do you have to be not to see all the fat people in this show?

[@Sgtturtle22]

“OW don’t throw things at me” ☹️ 10:14

[@luckyduckydrivingschool3615]

"Yeah, well it's not less!" that's probably the most Jerry has ever stood up for his own opinion

[@calmbbaer]

That "Wendell Gee" reference is a deep, deep cut for R.E.M. fans.

[@ShinRyojin]

I’m convinced that Sweetums became Buy n Large from Wall-E.

[@jonathanstanford843]

Catherine Pinewood is actually great at her job 😂

[@chrisnotyou]

HFCS was designed as a cattle feed. A cheap effective way to make those ready for slaughter. I guess it still is.

[@jfox24]

8:33 this legitimately happened

[@halogalaxy5612]

I wouldn’t be surprised if sweetums candy bars contains a formula for a zombie apocalypse

[@halftuber4437]

man.. i want an another show like this 😭😭😭🤣🤣

[@yourlocalentertainmentchan9153]

7:19 They’ll get sued anyway. How is anyone going to wash their hands with sugar water?

[@0DdOne]

I love how close to your threading this with content, but good job on this one

[@HallyVee]

Just happened irl. Explained how unhealthy sugary treats are. "But it's got electrolytes (vitamins)!"

[@StarkSpider24]

The promise to poison the water supply with sugar is absolutely absurd

[@Merylstreep1949]

Eff just about all the shows of the last 20 years, Superstore and Parks are deserving of classic all time forever funniest American tv comedies

[@faser4044]

Parks and Rec yes, superstore deserves to be lost to the sands of time. The FUNNIEST MOMENT was in the FIRST EPISODE.

[@Thewarden2070]

It’s a really good running joke, about the fact that the general public is too stupid to know what’s good for them, and care about the world. It’s unfortunately seen everyday in real life.

[@SimpleChineseYoutube]

5:42, another Child-sized drink appeared by magic on the desk!

[@bauer0788]

1:26 - What's crazy is I feel as soon as politicians realize you probably can try this, it's game over.

[@superraggazio]

Tell me you don’t know what the VRA is without telling me you dont know what the VRA is.

[@bauer0788]

@@superraggazio It’s a joke fam. Chill.

[@superraggazio]

@@bauer0788 got it, so I’m additional to inaccurate misrepresentations, you are not funny.

[@bauer0788]

@@superraggazio Ok.

[@hustlecrowe9440]

2:54 April's dancing LOL

[@andromedafan]

OMG Sweetums offices are the offices of Crane, Poole and Schmit from Boston Legal.

[@cursedhfy3558]

512oz is enough to drink for days, at that point it makes more sense to bottle and resell it.

[@nreekm]

I just found out the story of a town being flooded by molasses and people dying is actually real 😂

[@MostHighEmperorPalpatine]

12:51 funny the Newport family is happy and healthy 🤔😗 I guess they don’t eat or drink their products

[@Blakepurcell14]

They guy asking about shoelace is coach beard from Ted Lasso

[@joeyb6285]

Sweetums - the proud sponsor of office raves since 2001

[@maximillian875]

I completely forgot Ron trying to find candy under his seat. That’s some treasure there.😂

[@Merylstreep1949]

Bobby Newport is Antman❤

[@danieljung785]

I’m afraid what an adult sized drink would be 😅

[@ScentsibleJournal]

Pawnee radio is lowkey my favorite scene 😂

[@NixonRules963]

"The sky is beautiful." "It's the pollution from the Sweetums factory. But is it worth the asthma?" "...No." Hilarious lol

[@auroraborealis7945]

Lance Armstrong being on the nutrition bar made me cackle

[@coreyzek]

What's crazy, is at the end, Denver Newport (the dudes' son) looks like Ryan from "The Boys". But they're not the same actor, but the actor for Denvers' name is actually Ryan XD (Sorry I had to look it up, I could've sworn they were the same person).

[@Merylstreep1949]

Sadly I'd buy from Paunch burger

[@PolyBiBadger]

Same. I mean if they can make a burger that Ron would still eat after he put bananas on it must be a pretty damn good burger

[@globbyakaweirdjellyguy954]

Oof to Ben looking at the camera after the Sweetums woman came in and thought giving a school a new seesaw would do enough to make up sending people to the hospital.😓 The scene with Sweetums proposing “Drink-Ems” reminds me of “Idiocracy.”😓 Also, the parks department raving on their sugar rush is so weirdly funny.😂😅

[@robastergaming6074]

but drink-ems has what plants crave!

[@germanjp9746]

The secondary characters just made the show

[@aggy5372]

Boston really did have a molasses flood where people died.

[@tyrant-den884]

A gallon of soda for $1:50!?

[@BaynexoMusicOfficial]

4:39 Ron makes me want to throw a chair

[@ecamp6360]

Did they actually reference the Boston molasses flood? And it wasn't that slow moving.

[@lucidtofu]

Parks n Recs is like educational show for adult 😅

[@沈啍]

Sweetums. Because we can’t just use Nestlé

[@dudewithapoorlydrawnmustac2523]

7:20 Getting some real Brawndo vibes from this.

[@fireice8]

7:24 that would actually violate federal law

[@lewishamilton9251]

i want a double bacon grenade deluxe