I am – Hercules!!

“Parks and Recreation” continues a strong streak of episodes tonight with an installment titled “Sister City.”

Equipped with a Marx Bros.-ish premise, it centers on a visit by representatives of the parks department of Boraqua, Venezuela, sister city of Pawnee.

The oil-rich Boraqua delegation is disappointed to learn that government-funded prostitutes will not be a component of their visit to Pawnee, and they endlessly disparage the shoddy state of the town generally.

“Look, this is nothing personal,” one of the visitors confides. “We just think that you are weak and your city is disgusting.”

Later tonight “30 Rock” gets off to a surprisingly flat start with a Tina Fey-scripted season premiere that has Jack ordering Liz to find a new cast member – a cast member that rural viewers can relate to. They don’t actually find one, and Steve Buscemi is wasted as an oily, wildly unconvincing mole, but the end of the episode is worth catching for Jenna’s red-state-friendly tennis commercial and a Fey-Baldwin segue to “The Jay Leno Show.”

Deleted scenes from “Niagara,” last week’s wedding-centric episode of “The Office”:

“Parks And Recreation”: 8:30 p.m. Thursday. NBC.
“The Office”: 9 p.m. Thursday. NBC.
“30 Rock”: 9:30 p.m. Thursday. NBC.

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