5 Iconic TV Sitcom Tag Scenes From The 2010s

5. Parks And Recreation - Gary/Jerry

Oh Gary, Jerry, Larry, Terry... your life in the Parks Department was a rocky one wasn't it?

When Parks and Rec began we were introduced to a few side characters in the Pawnee Park's Department, including Donna Meagle and Jerry Gergich. Jerry Gergich was the laughing stock of the show, as every single character seemed to dislike Jerry and force him into terrible jobs.

Jerry's failure at the Parks Department was a running gag throughout the show's run and the other characters' distaste for him gave us a lot of laughs along the way. As the show continued, the running gags surrounding Jerry got more and more ridiculous, including his beautiful successful family and his love of the saddest most pathetic things, like how his favourite place in the world was Muncie, Indiana.

The best running gag about Jerry started during Season 4. In the tag scene at the end of the episode The Trial of Leslie Knope we see Jerry being interviewed as a witness for Leslie's trial. Leslie asks Jerry to state his name for the committee and he responds with Gary Gergich, to which Leslie replies with disgust that he "can't even get [his] own name right". That is when we find out in a hilarious twist of events that Gary is his real name. After repeating both names over and over and noting that they're both awful, Leslie resigns to keep calling him Jerry.

And so began one of the most ridiculous jokes in the show: Gary, Jerry, Larry, Terry. Poor Gary was always the bud of the joke, no matter what name people were calling him by.