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Sweetums film from Parks&Rec less sweet than original
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Mar 6, 2010
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Sweetums film from Parks&Rec less sweet than original
Rabe compares "Sweetums" film (with Chris Murray) from NBC's Parks&Rec to "Sugar Crinkles" cereal ad from 1950s epidode of "Gunsmoke." Come inside for the "Sweetums" video, which includes a line cut from the broadcast version.
Sugar Krinkles cereal box. They're "just right sweet," Mom.
Sugar Krinkles cereal box. They're "just right sweet," Mom.
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Rabe compares "Sweetums" film (with Chris Murray) from NBC's Parks&Rec to "Sugar Crinkles" cereal ad from 1950s epidode of "Gunsmoke." Come inside for the "Sweetums" video, which includes a line cut from the broadcast version.

Rabe compares "Sweetums" film (with Chris Murray) from NBC's Parks&Rec to "Sugar Crinkles" cereal ad from 1950s epidode of "Gunsmoke." Come inside for the "Sweetums" video, which includes a line cut from the broadcast version.

Mmmmm. Parks & Rec’s Sweetums makes for contented cows and docile people.

Who could have predicted, that crazy night at House of Pies …

(Photo: Julian Bermudez.)

… that my friend, the actor Chris Murray , would soon be corporate creep Nick Newport in NBC’s new Thursday night series Parks & Rec? Here’s “Newport” extolling the virtues of corn syrup.

Chris, who played Dean Rivers on Zoey 101, and who is the son of Don Murray and Hope Lange, has appeared on Off-Ramp a few times. He’s told us the story of his unjust handcuffing by an overzealous security guard in the employ of a Malibu Beach Baron, updated us on his efforts to get Lange a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and revealed the secrets of being staff announcer for the Pinewood Derby at his kids’ elementary school.