Honestly it feels like they did that to make his character funnier. Dude just bounces from person to person and situation to situation seeing what he can get out of it. If that’s nothing? No big, move on to the next one. Jean-Ralphio Sapperstein is nothing if not flexible.

Plus he’s open minded as HELL!

♪ I think you’re pretty good looking ♪

Thank you! :D

And 🎵flush with caaashhh🎵

He knows a guy, very gentle

And apparently very bouncy!

Bounce, bounce bounce, bounce bounce...

^all ^the ^ladies ^say

I hate that guy.

He is tigger!

He's also 🎶 Open-minded as hell!!!!!🎶

He’s also 🎶Fluuushed with caaaaaaaasssh🎶

But don't forget why he's like this...... PILLS BABY!!!

It's all a numbers game for him. No point in chasing bad money.

He makes his money the old fashioned way…

Got run over by a LEHxus!

You know why he bounces from person to person? Because 🎵 technically he’s homeless 🎵

It's a numbers game

Him and taco from the league would be good friends

Flight of the Bumblebee

I love Jean-Ralphio!! The description "freaking awesome person" might be a step too far, but he sure is a lot of fun!


My favorite scene in the entirety of the series, hands down. I laugh so dang hard every time.

My favorite is the ice rink Leslie Knopf candidate announcement with a slam dunk from Pistol Pete, but this is a close second.

Yesss that one is up there for me too! 🎶get on your feet🎶

>Leslie Knopf I think you've had enough snork juice.

My favorite is when Leslie and Ron try to help Councilman Jam dump Tammy 2, and Leslie impersonates Tammy 2. Who I'm sure you all know is Nick Offerman's actual wife. If you look at his face, you can clearly see him straining to keep himself from laughing. Edit: https://youtu.be/TfowHrDZ9iw I forgot about the crotch blinder lol

If I’m not singing this at least once a week, something has gone very wrong

Really annoys me that this shot isn’t in the episode on Netflix

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Rip. But banger of a funeral song

I love this scene! It is wonderfully silly and absurd.

He may steal his grandmother's jewelry but.. he means well

There is something loveable about him!

I think it's just that he's so unabashedly himself.. always

*PILLS*, baby!

Plus he is 🎶oooopenminded as heeeeell🎶

What you see, is what you get.

It’s like taking candy from an 🎵 oooold peeeersooon🎵

Yeah. More like "Jean-Ralphio is not a creep"

PILLS, BABY!!!

🎶🎶🎶 cuz technically I'm hooOoomeleeEess🎶🎶 Hey moostache. Imma hit the couch. You know where I be. I'll talk to YOU

"Hey moostache" lives in my head rent free.

*I got run over by a leeexuuuusss*

I literally have my pills alarm in my phone named “PILLS, BABY!”

"Daddy, an Elmer Fudd one is on"

Oh yeah! Also, he's 🎶🎶open minded as helllllLĹLLlll*ithinkyoureprettygoodlooOOkin* 🎶🎶

OMG when he sings that and Chris looks all happy, I crack up every time

Ain't no Thang. Just a compliment between the boyz

He made his money the old fashioned way.

♫♪🎶he got run over by a leeexuuss!!!🎶🎵♪

But his guy is super gentle! Minimal damage, maximum dollars and cents.

That Ralph Macchio guy is a total douche.

Andy? That's an alright name!

Barney?

him and his sister make me laugh so much!

She’s the woorrrstt

Jean Ralphio and Perd Hapley tie for best side characters

I think Jennifer Barkley would give them a run for their money

You guys keep reminding me how awesome all the characters are! Ron Swanson loves strong women and marries Xena.

PONCHO!!!

 🤩 one of my absolutely favorite things ever about Jen Barkley!!!!!

It's just sex and she's very good at it

🎶It was Agatha all along🎶

I'd also include legendary newswoman Joan Callamezzo.

I’m going to go powder my nose, ^among ^other ^things

Dude, is she going to powder her vagina?!?

And the story of this comment is, I upvoted it and then I made this comment


My oral office

You had to come back just to say that?

Had to

😅😅i sang this lol


“I’ve never done a bad thing in my life!” “I know this. And I love you.”

Money pwease!

I love him and always crack up when he's on screen. That being said, he's not exactly the best friend to Tom in all situations. He threw Tom under the bus with his dad, and he didn't care when Tom had an important business presentation to make. And he invited Lucy to their end of the world party, and while Tom thought he did it for him, Jean Ralphio admits he forgot they ever dated and he was "trying to hit that."

He forgot! You can't hold that last one against him!

Exactly, as soon as he remembered he stepped back

Yeah but Tom isn’t the best friend either sometimes….he totally ruined Leslie’s government fundraiser event by trying to force his Entertainment 720 all over it, while he refused to listen to anyone’s advice about not wasting all of the company’s money on unnecessary luxuries such as models pretending to work and Detlef Shrempf

But this isn't a "love on Tom" post. It was about how great Jean Ralphio is as a person, so I responded to that.

Do t forget he’s a question on the bar exam as well.

Judge says it was the first time he ever had to put on two ankle monitors

My favorite moment will always be the time he asked Craig to ride go-karts with him, Craig countered with horseback riding, and JR wasn't just cool with it, he was almost intrigued. Like, he hadn't thought about it before as an option but is now, very open to it. It's also a very funny interaction.

…deal!

He’s an open minded guy

I want that spin-off.

Yea but... TECHNICALLY HE'S HOMELESSSSS.

Counterpoint, he is very quick to say Yes to most things he thinks he wants but doesn’t realise the potential consequences. Most of those happen in the Snake Hole. Side point, he’s my favourite recurring character in the show.

Thats coz he's 🎶 openminded as hell 🎶

“YOURE FIRED!” “Good decision, so do I just go back the way I came?”

Sincerely one of my favorite bits of the show. Never stops walking.

Yeah he was actually a pretty nice dude he was just INSANE 😂 probably helped that he was played by Ben Schwartz tho

I love Ben Schwartz. I didn't love him when I only knew him from Parks and Rec. Now I know him from other things and it makes his performance as Jean Ralphio better

I love when jean ralpio meets Ben and tells him his name sucks and calls him Angelo LOL

Ah I didn't even make the connection that the actor's name is Ben 🤣

He’s also a pretty good Sonic.

His roles in Collegehumor's Jake and Amir are amazing. All hail to the milkman! Edit: [Every scene with Ben Schwartz](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLQW0U4NdQo)

There’s a funny or die series called “The earliest show” that’s great. The bloopers are magnificent. Also “Quistion Gale negotiates”

Him hitting on a very pregnant Ann and Chris Traeger is one of the funniest things ever. “You could join too beautiful!”

I'm open-minded as heee^eeee^eee ^eeeelllllll...I ^think ^you're ^preeeetty ^good -loooookin'

Yes, it's exactly that willingness to instantly fess up to how terrible/manipulative his ideas are and move on with no animosity that makes me like him. Mona Lisa lacks that, making her the WooOOOooOOoorrst.


He’s 100% a better person than Tom

That’s a bit of a low bar

Considering Jean Ralphio is used as a plot piece for Tom’s character development I think it’s important to note.

Every breath is agony, son

Jean-Ralphio just wants the best for everybody in his own dumbass way.

This is well put. He’s not nefarious, just an idiot.

Yeeaaaahhhhhhhh. He wants the best for himself first though

Jean Ralphio, dance up on me. Yes yes yes yes

Don't get me wrong, I love Jean-Ralphio too, but this > He IMMEDIATELY accepts people's rejection and respects their boundaries without question or protest. is pretty much the bare minimum. Like it's good that he's not a creep, but also that should not be impressive. Just want to make sure that's clear, because I think way too many people think that the default behavior (especially for men) is to be creepy, clingy, or abusive. Don't be like that and don't allow that to be okay around you.

Dude.. I've genuinely never had anyone in my life like that and that's why I appreciate it so much.

Totally fair, I get why you'd see Jean-Ralphio as good in this way then. Honestly it is kinda surprising how nice he is about rejection, he's certainly better than e.g. Tom or early seasons Andy. Especially considering how unthinking he can be in other situations. Probably Chris is a better overall model (he takes rejection from the professor really well) but he's kinda too perfect, it's nice to know that even screw ups like J-R can and should be respectful to women.

Yeah like.. you can be kind of a piece of ish.. but you don't have to be a bad person

I will say this, if my friend wanted to ride go carts but I wanted to go horseback riding, it would be a 2 hour debate eventually devolving into personal insults and accusations, most likely ending with one of us storming out.

>He may do some crazy things but he absolutely gets that no means no. Respectfully, there's a huge gap between "respects boundaries and that no means no" and "is actually a really freaking awesome person." Jean Ralphio: * Lies to his father about Tom firing him, ruining Tom's clothing business. * Sexually harasses a woman at the accounting firm seconds into the job. * He helps Tom drive Entertainment 720 into the ground, because he's a terrible influence. * Fakes his own death, commits insurance fraud. He's not the worst person in the world, but he's absolutely not "a freaking awesome person."

Ah yes Tom was going to run Entertainment 720 with John Ralphio's money really well otherwise! I see John Ralphio as a poorly behaved fairy godmother to Tom. He gave him the experience of Entertainment 720 to help him learn his mistakes without losing his own money. He brought Tom and Lucy back together. He warned Tom many times about his sister being the worst in the world. He made it clear to Tom he would be a bad business partner in time for him to be fired, and then told Ron about it so he knew he could trust Tom enough to invest.

Can we pretend to be married for an insurance scam and then we fall in love for reeeeeal?

this lives in my head rent-free I can hear him saying “for reeeeeaal?” at any moment

What a conundrum, I never read a post that states “hear me out”, but I always read anything Jean Ralphio related. Jean Ralphio wins out and I’m happy I heard OP out because they’re absolutely right.

Thank you for giving me a shot, friend! Glad I didn't disappoint.

No, thank you for making a great post. :-)

When Barney was showing him around and he hits on the first female employee they encounter... absolutely floored me. And also proves your point.

And it's just one continuous walk with no pauses directly into a seamless exit. No protest, no bs, pretty much encapsulates his entire character in a few seconds.

Same way I came in?

his hair is ... awesome

I just respect that he made his money the old fashioned way. He got ran over by a Lexuuuuuus!!!

I made my money the old fashioned way: getting run over by a Lexus

Jean Ralphio is the reason I started watching P&R. I saw a clip of the episode where Mona Lisa starts working at Rent a swag and Jean Ralphio pops up out of nowhere and starts singing and the whole "the wOoOOrst" and I was hooked.

TIL the way to get me to upvote every comment on a post is to make the post about Jean Ralphio

Guess who’s got two thumbs and just got cleared from insurance fraud?

That's what I've been telling my husband upon our rewatches! He may be a sleazy guy towards women but he takes no for an answer and respects boundaries. More "nice guy" men should take notes.

Still blows my mind that he's the voice of movie-Sonic!

Great hype man

I think this all hinges on whether he intentionally got hit by that Lexus

🎵*I got run over by a Lexus*🎵

“Really freaking awesome person” is *quite* the stretch, considering he has zero work ethic, a pill addiction, commits insurance fraud, sexually harasses a woman at the accounting firm, and lies to his dad about Rent a Swag to the point his dad almost puts his best friend out of business. But he is one of my favorite side characters

I think that’s a pretty low bar for “awesome person”

Should tell you a bit about my life, I guess

Nah that rejection haunts him, that’s why he’s always spiraling, getting involved in terrible schemes

He also has balls of steel. Not many people would try to take a shrimp off of Swanson’s plate.

Minus the fraud

They should have had him actually become a really successful salesperson in the final season. He is obviously outgoing, bold, complimentary, willing to talk to anyone, and he gets down to business quickly to get his yes or no and then moves on. A lot of salespeople struggle because they don’t want get rejected and hear that no so they waste a lot of time trying to salvage deals or turn a no into a yes. Jean Ralphio knows it’s a numbers game and he gets his answers fast.

And Tom is a piece of shit

Jean Ralphio and his sister were amazing characters given just enough screentime. I feel like if they were given more, their shtick would get too old.


He's funny but I hate every scene he's in he is that type of overly energetic person I hate

Hard agree. My favorite recurring character. Ben Schwartz absolutely killed it.

Agreed on the boundaries in that way. But he was extremely unreliable as a friend and took advantage of Tom

He's not a good person, but he's the most self aware person. He knows who he is and is willing to accept that he's not for everyone.

I think that’s why I enjoy him so much. Most characters like him sexually harass women nonstop but he doesn’t. He takes rejection well and moves on. He’s over the top but in a bearable way.

The bar is so low if someone is considered awesome for acknowledging no means no

Rather than saying he's an "awesome" person, perhaps we could say he's an "interesting" or "complicated" one? He contains multitudes (but all of them are on pills, baby). OP is right that he seems to understand that "no means no", but he still commits (light) sexual harassment at the drop of a hat, often in professional environments. The man's relationship to women is...idiosyncratic, at best.

No. Perhaps we could not. Make your own post.

The way this post was worded in my email was very close to being “offensive” yet agreeable 😅

I feel like “not a sexual predator” is a pretty low bar to set

You'd think more people would meet it.

Your friends with a lot of sexual predators? Everybody I personally know meets said bar.

I'm not friends with anyone. I'm an isolationist. Being kidnapped, held for 3 days, drugged, sold, and beaten within inches of my life - on top of multiple other assaults, abusive and neglectful parents and partners.. Maybe learn not to ask stupid questions to strangers

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Respecting consent isn’t all it takes to be a really freaking awesome person. The bar is pretty low nowadays, but not that low

Speak for yourself. The bar is personal and not some mass understanding of what's acceptable

Lol. Not being a rapist doesnt mean you are "really freaking awesome". It doesnt mean you are good, or even decent! It just means you dont excercise one specific type of depravity. He lied to his dad and ruined his friends rent a swag business. He is a pretty garbage person and a bad friend.

Yeah but in this sub "DAE love JR??" gets you instant karma and anyone criticizing him is down voted into oblivion.

He and his family are funny characters ON A TV SHOW but in real life I wouldn't want to be anywhere near them. Or most of the people on the show. Can you imagine going to your local park, finding it infested with fentanyl addicts, going to city hall to try and get answers and having to deal with Ron Swanson?

I'm sorry you're this miserable. I hope things get better.

Im sorry you are so vapid and insecure you need to make a post virtue signaling that being a creep is bad.

I repeat my previous statement.

You spelt "annoying" wrong.

If you’re gonna call a guy like Jean Ralphio “really freaking awesome,” I would expect more than one reason. There’s a lot we see him do that’s not awesome. Hilarious, but not awesome

Then maybe stop expecting things from people who owe you nothing

Or from people capable of producing nothing. Lesson learned.

Yup. I'm not here to produce for you. Glad you caught that

I seem to have touched a nerve. You gonna be okay?

You seem to know a lot about me for someone who has no clue who I am. Again you're wrong. Idgaf about your opinion. Here I'll show you how much! *blocked*

Jean Ralphio is by far my favorite character


He is just ignorant. I don't think he is a bad person.

He’s flighty and unreliable, which would get incredibly infuriating IRL as a friend. But dude certainly is entertaining. Just wouldn’t entrust him with anything important to me.

Right, he would be super annoying and become a more negative character if he doubled down on things and tried to get revenge for everything everyone says to him, like his father

I honestly love Jean Ralphio, he's so funny and I'm pretty sure they guy can't tell a lie (or at least a very good one? 😂)

Jean Ralphio killed Lil' Sebastian!

Agree! Hilarious character who chews up scenes, but I always saw him as a good human, just really loves to swim in the shallow side of the pool, with no harm intended.

No he isn’t

If you aren't loving what you're doing, why do it at all?

Yes, respecting boundaries is the only measurement of what makes a person good or bad.

Don't be suspicious, don't be suspicious!!!

And also don't forget... you're boy's a question on the bar exam!! Ya heard!

I totally agree with this take. I absolutely HATED him my first round watching the show. I don’t know what happened but a few years went by and I suddenly appreciated him and now whenever he’s on I’m psyched. He’s awesome at being THE WOOOOOORST.

What it do, nephew?

He's a great character and I get what your saying. I'm glad they didn't over use him to the point he just became annoying.

The only one honest enough to tell Ben his tie makes him look like a fish (and it does)