Who is ron swanson

Snake Juice is probably just arsenic in a pretty package. Despite Ron's significant diet of meat and his habit of ordering "all of the bacon and eggs" any restaurant has at any given moment, Ann declares that he's incredibly healthy, except for his potassium levels.

The revelation isn't exactly a surprise, as his distaste for fruit besides kiwis is a well-known quirk. Ann tells him, "Not sure how this is possible, but your cholesterol is , which is the lowest I've ever seen.

However, Ron isn't exactly the kind of guy to let serious health concerns affect how he lives. Ron shoves it into a colossal Paunch Burger to stomach the horrors. Hey, whatever works, right? But despite his good health, according to Ron, there are mental health issues in his family, as his uncle does yoga. So obviously, it's not all perfect. Ron may hate non-woodworking awards, but he's just as annoyed as Leslie when the Indiana Organization of Women tries to give him the Woman of the Year honor instead of the woman who actually deserves it — Leslie.

Sure, he's all too happy to tease her about it, taking languid photo ops and driving her wild, but at his core, Ron Swanson is a feminist — whether he wants to attach the label or not. Andy's women's studies professor brings it up first, saying, "According to Andy, you're quite the feminist. He recalls, "My father once told my mother that woman was made from the rib of Adam, and my mom broke his jaw.

She could probably even beat up Ron if she wanted to. And like his character, Offerman himself takes women's rights seriously, too. The Parks director bursts with pride when he claims to have spent years perfecting his "perfectly calibrated recipe for maximum personal achievement. According to the pyramid, crying is only acceptable at funerals and the Grand Canyon.

Yet upon Li'l Sebastian's death years later, Ron himself admits that he cried when he was run over by a bus as a child. So there are exceptions to every rule. As he preaches throughout the series, honor is the highest value, thus making it to the top of the pyramid, closely followed by America the only country that matters, according to Ron and buffets it's all about quantity over quality.

Also right near the top are three of Ron Swanson's all-time favorite things — weapons, woodworking, and welfare avoidance.

Ultimately, Ron's system is a hilarious gag, one probably meant to spoof Coach John Wooden's Pyramid of Success , which prioritizes things like "poise," "confidence," and "competitive greatness. Ron Swanson is so private that he throws his entire computer away when April shows him the disturbing accuracy of Google Maps. The Parks Director isn't someone who wants to be on any map — let alone one that provides an aerial view of his many secret cabins.

In fact, Ron takes paranoia to a whole new level, going as far as changing his locks weekly. At one point, when Ann asks for his birth date on a hospital form, he puts "springtime," and he refuses to tell anyone except Baskin-Robbins his birthday which proves to be a mistake when Leslie harasses an employee into giving it to her. However, Ron does loosen up a tad after starting his family. He later outs himself as jazz genius Duke Silver and agrees to be "on his family's map," even if he's not on the world's map.

Interestingly, while the show doesn't address its mockumentary setup nearly as blatantly as its sister show, The Office , Ron never seems to have an issue with a film crew presumably documenting his every move. The recluse even appears on local Pawnee TV channels with no qualms. I get in arguments with fans who think I am Ron Swanson, that it was all my idea, that I was this libertarian character and somehow ended up getting a show.

No, the writers are just that good. And more generally, my favorite baseball team is the Chicago Cubs. That was a pretty good year. If you want to tell me where to dig and how deep, I will aim to impress you with my spading acumen.

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Week 10 Preview: Browns vs. Patriots, Titans vs. Wanting to repay Leslie for all of the thoughtful gifts she has given her coworkers over the years, Ron suggests the Parks Department build a scale model of the office.

His idea is immediately turned into a gingerbread house, much to Ron's disdain. Ron discovers that he is terrible at building gingerbread houses, and leaves the work to his subordinates. As his own special gift to Leslie, he builds a wooden model of Leslie at her desk as a City Councilwoman, and arranges to have the Park Department take over her City Council campaign.

Ron becomes a friend of hers and, in " Halloween Surprise ", he takes her two daughters out trick-or-treating and they begin dating. Later in the episode, she admits she also loves him. In the fifth season finale "Are You better off?

In the sixth season premiere " London ", Diane reveals that she is pregnant. Ron proposes, and she accepts on the condition they do not have a huge wedding. They immediately get married on the fourth floor. In " The Wall ", it is revealed that Diane has had her baby as Ron takes him to work and mends a radiator on the third floor. While trying to organize performers for the Unity Concert, Andy discovers that Ron is Duke Silver and in the two-part season finale " Moving Up ," Duke Silver takes to the stage to perform at the Unity Concert, much to the delight of Diane and her daughters.

In the seventh season, the show is fast-forwarded to It is discovered that Ron left the Parks department two years prior to starting his own building company. For a seemingly unknown reason, Leslie and Ron have become bitter enemies due to an incident known as "Morning Star". The two are now fighting over a mile estate owned by the Newport Family, as Ron's company has been hired by Gryzzl to build their new headquarters there. After many hours of either arguing or ignoring each other, it is revealed in a flashback that Morning Star is an apartment complex that Ron's company was building on the lot where Ann's old house was.

Ron tells Leslie that the reason he wanted to leave the Parks department was that none of his old colleagues worked with him anymore. He finally left the government for good when he asked Leslie to go to lunch at JJ's so he could ask her for a job in the federal government, but she stood him up after she was asked to go to Washington, D. At the end of the episode, the two make up and go to breakfast at JJ's together.

In " Gryzzlbox ," when Leslie wants to confront Gryzzl about their data mining, Ron says that it's none of his business. However, when Ron's 4-year-old son John receives a GryzzlBox, he destroys the robot that delivered it and tells Leslie that he wants to help take down Gryzzl. Ron's actions imply that two more of his brothers also work at the company, whom he later introduces as Vaughn and Lon.

His brothers are only mentioned in one other Episode, "Hunting Trip. In Episode 12, Leslie offered Ron a job when fast-forwarded to the year Faced at a personal crossroad, he asks Leslie, one of his close friends whom he calls one of his "work-place proximity associates" to help him find a job where he would feel useful.

Leslie finally finds a job for Ron at Pawnee National Park, after she convinced the superintendent of that park to transfer to Bryce Canyon after the last superintendent retired. He now works as the superintendent when Leslie already accepted the job for him.

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Do you like this video? Play Sound. Spoiler Alert! However, he avoids a hangover while everyone else who drinks Snake Juice ends up with one. There is a list of things that Ron hates. First on the list is birthdays.

He has done everything possible to make sure no one knows his birthday so as to avoid a surprise party. He later mentions that Baskin-Robbins is the only person who knows. However, Leslie figures it out too. He also hates skim milk, which he labels "water pretending to be milk.

Ron hates lying too. He even chose to lose a court case instead of lying instead to win. He also hates most places that aren't America. He detests Canada and France more. The last thing on his list is pop music. Actor Nick Offerman, who portrays Ron, has tattoos on his arms.

However, Ron doesn't. The tattoos are either edited out or covered up by using makeup. However, in Season 2's "Practice Date," Ron can be seen with tattoos in the biceps of both arms, right under his short-sleeved shirt.

The tattoos never appear again. It can thus be assumed that the production team forgot to cover them up or edit them out. It would be nice for Ron to have tattoos too. Philip Etemesi is an author, journalist, screenwriter and film critic based in Nairobi.