Parks and Recreation: The Camel

Another strong installment. The running gag with the murals returns, and this time takes centerstage as finally the offensiveness of their contents forces TPTB to have the different departments come up with alternative suggestions to the theme of "The Spirit of Pawnee". Poor Jerry, who quite clearly came up with the best mural, fudges his speech and the rest of the folks were too busy laughing at his faux pas to notice the actual mural itself. Fun to watch Tom becoming increasingly enamoured with the abstract mural he paid an art student to concoct for him (including him tearing up during the tag!). Mark's mural was, as Ron put it, very pleasing and calm to look at, and probably would have won if they had gone with it. But Leslie's eventual decision to go with the montage of everyone's mural suggestions was in keeping with her character and tone of the show.