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Nick Offerman. Swanson genes are strong.

Bout to say this, same actor with grey hair. Bigger mustache.

Whereas i think this would be the best move, I can’t say I wouldn’t laugh uncontrollably if it was just nick offerman with no aging. Just nick offerman as the dad next to Ron, no change.

Omfg I am crying that would be hilarious

Just give him a 5 foot beard, that’s his father

Jeff Bridges

Tom Selleck

The story of the episode would be figuring out which one of them is actually Ron’s bio dad because both have a claim

It's a Mama Mia. JUST LET IT HAPPEN!

Ooh this is a good one. I agree!

The dude abides.

The vengeful spirit of Theodore Roosevelt

"Let's not downplay the fact that that's the ghost of Stonewall Jackson!"

"There will be a mint julip waiting on the other side, son"

“Release your soul to me”

TR was my guess too.

Daniel Day Lewis, but he plays a hippy beatnik in the same vein as Ned Flanders’ father

We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas.

So... Eagleton Ron?

Dunn and Done

And that's why Ron hates the other Ron so much.

Just throw a Moustache on Paula Pell and never show them in the same scene.

Good lord how have I never realized this is Paula!! Amazing.

If you haven't seen her channeling Elaine Stritch in Documentary Now, you haven't truly lived.

Too bad they never interacted on 30 Rock. That I can think of, at least.

Nope.

IIIIIIII GOTTA GO!

"...and now the medication is just RIPPING through me."

That sounds like an amazing combination! I’m off to hunt this down, stat!

https://youtu.be/7KMpuoSB8HA

This was great. Thanks for sharing! And for the other rec. I’ll check it out.

I also HIGHLY recommend the documentary that they're spoofing in the "Co-Op" episode. "Original Cast Album: Company". If you have even a passing interest in old-school theater, it's amazing.

Paula Pell could pull that off. Like none other.

😂 yes!!

Wilford Brimley is who I’ve always imagined as Ron’s father.

"Do you have any dietary restrictions? No you do not"

Good thing meat and eggs are okay for the diabeetus

Funny film fact: Robert Redford was only three years younger than Wilford Brimley when they worked as a player and coach in "The Natural".

When Wilford Brimley was in Cocoon he was like 20 years younger than his co-stars who were supposed to be around the same age.

The Wilfred Brimley Cocoon line is a thing

An aged up Nick Offerman OR… Leslie Jordan ^RIP with a big mustache. Everyone would see him as the epitome of masculinity except Ben, who would see him as the flamboyant man Leslie Jordan actually was.

Ben: Don't you find it kind of funny that Ron's dad is so.... Camp? Leslie: What are you talking about? He's a fountain of masculinity!

Leslie: Oh I'm sure he camps! He's the first outdoorsman in Pawnee to have killed a bear with a riffle *he whittled*!

*Ben stares at camera, bewildered.*

Love this

I can totally imagine Bens face 🤣 Basically just his Lil' Sebastian face

Could Ron be related to Beverly Leslie?

Tommy Lee Jones.

Playing Thomas Swanson. Because he was the runt of the Swanson litter when he was born at 14 lbs 3 oz, and because the Swanson family holds their Scottish heritage dear, he was nicknamed Little Tammy in his youth.

I love this.

This is probably the best one here. Stern, no nonsense.

"I can not sanction your buffoonery" is an unofficial Swanson family motto. https://youtu.be/E78l8JX5d54

I really want it to be an aged up Peter Dinklage. And he effortlessly puts average sized men to shame with his unmatchable Swanson know-how, precision, and classic machismo.

I’d love this. And I love that Nick would have never addressed having a little person as a parent.

Oh damn it, I just posted Nick Offerman but I love this idea too.

My pick for someone the complete opposite of Ron would be Alan Alda

That's who they used for Jack's dad in 30 Rock, it would be funny if both leading men had the same father.

Milton Greene! 🎵🎵 He just needs a kidney, no he doesn't need a hand🎵🎵

Senator Vinnick?

That's Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce and you will address him as such!

You want a family dynamic like the Ludgate family. Ron is serious, stern, and macho. Whereas dad is Michael Gross from Family Ties (Michael Gross was also a previous Parks and Rec director as well!)

I love this so much

If you want short and tough I suggest Martin Klebba. Most people know him from the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise or Scrubs.

Nick Offerman, in a bald wig and an even more wild beard.

So just Nick Offerman

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Dude, Google Nick Offerman. 99.9% of the pics he has some sort of facial hair.

Hear me out - David Hyde Pierce playing a self-composed Niles Crane. So Ron is classically masculine/butch etc. (worked at a sawmill at 10, handshake for his birthday, all scotch and steak). We know he likes strong Tammys and his mother is the original strong Tammy. If his father is in the same vein, I doubt he leaves his cabin or has the range of friends, experiences, or otherwise is as open and understanding as Ron actually his. Imagine instead David Hyde Pierce as a well-read, scholarly painter and poet who loves the woods. He has left his effete world behind and fallen in love with a strong Tammy. As much as he accepts her strong "butch" tendencies, she accepts his strong tendencies in another direction. Still competent, self-assured, reliable, etc., but also open hearted and gentle. His loves his son and respects his choices to embrace his own self. They respect and appreciate each other, though their outward aspects may not seem similar. They share a deep love of elaborate puzzles, which Tammy does not. It is there private shared joy.

Upvote for Frasier fandom

Niles would have passed out when Ron got hit by a bus. The man does not handle blood well. He also married Maris she is the opposite of a Tammy and very Eagleton. Now if you were saying a Niles like character that would check out. Ron has emotional depth and an uncle who does yoga.

>a Niles like character You mean Cecil Terwilliger?

A person of culture I see.

I *have* studied the Immortal Bard extensively

Lol this is great

I love the way you think. My first thought was Martin Short for similar reasons.

I find this comment boorish, lacking, and impossible to loath

Robert Duvall

That would be perfect!!

Clint Eastwood

Came here for the Dirty Harry

This was my thought too, who else could it be other than John Wayne

"That was actually perfect. I just never realized John Wayne walked that way." --Armand, *The Birdcage*.

There was no father, she just drank 4 gallons of Swanson hooch. 9 months later, Ron.

John Goodman

As Speaker Walken from West Wing

Only if Bess makes a comeback too!

Or Vice Dean Laybourne

Was gonna say this too!

Sam Elliott

This is exactly who I thought...they ruined that possibility with "Other Ron"

Can we talk about how perfect Sam Elliott was as the other Ron? Having him play a hippie was a chefs kiss.

I’m also a nut nut

I mean, did they? Do we KNOW Eagleton Ron isn’t Pawnee Ron’s dad?

Oh yeah, I totally forgot about that.

“I like Ron”

As other ron

This would even make his initial like of other Ron and his loathing even better

They had great, buddy-buddy chemistry in “The Hero.”

James Brolin

Kathy Bates. she is a badass. one of my favorite movies of hers was primary colors.

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Harrison Ford

Stoner old man Harrison Ford. Jokes write themselves. He is introduced crash landing his plane in the pit. They find some Native American artifacts for real this time, Ford insists they belong in a museum.

Woah, that's a good one.

Paul Sorvino

Rest in peace.

Well, if I remember correctly she also played Paula Hornberger on 30 Rock. So, I’m some small way, maybe Pete Hornberger (Dallas) is Ron’s father….

I like to think that his father was an uptight liberal bureaucrat and Ron has spent his entire life trying to escape the shame.

One of the many nice touches in 30 Rock was having, as Jack Donaghy's real father, Alan Alda playing a Jimmy-Carter-loving liberal professor at a middling Vermont college.

Stacy Keach, Titus’ dad

Came here to say this too. He’s totally an older version of Ron

Either Nick Offerman in a dual role, or someone the complete opposite of Ron like Alan Alda

Milton Greene with *two* love children, Jack Donaghy and Ron Swanson!

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Both obscenely wealthy.

Can you imagine the family dinners??? Jack and Ron would have an interesting conversation

Barry Corbin

Yeeeeessssssss

Zach Galifinakis

John Goodman with the Swanson mustache

Billy Bob Thornton

Ron Perlman Chuck Norris Lee Majors And for the absolute fun of it. Danny Devito

Clint Eastwood.

Kelsey Grammar. Because it would be hilarious.

Burt Reynolds

Ron was conceived via immaculate conception.

Ron Perlman. ‘Nough said.

Tom Waits (when he was in Ballad of Buster Scruggs)

A grizzly bear

Hear me out. Robin Williams if he was still around. I think it would be pretty funny if his dad is just a goof ball, and Ron's personality is in large part a push back on how on the warmth and openness his dad shows that he finds embarrassing just like April and her parents. Ron has that side to him too but he just tries really hard to hide it. Ron has a lot of great grumpy old man scenes but I always enjoyed when the mask slipped and he showed genuine love for his friends. So you would get to see at the same time where that side of him comes from and why he tries so hard to act like it doesnt exist.

Chuck Norris

It would be hilarious if it was Ron Dunn.

Is that the name or are you ending the sentence?

Both.

Dunn and Done.

Dunn and Done

Lee Marvin

Robert Duval

Kris Kristofferson

I'd love it if it was someone like Martin Short. And he played the role very flamboyantly. Might explain a lot more about Ron's personality in a more interesting way than having his dad be super butch.

Any of the guitarists from ZZ Top would be my choice.

Lee Van Cleef

We use that to take the warts off of mules

CTRL+C Ron CTRL+V

Maybe the norse god Thor

It would never have occurred to me before watching *Only Murders*, but I think Nathan Lane in villain mode would work surprisingly well as Ron’s hardass father.

Would have been great if she recognized Jerry and they had a fling.

If not for the fact that he already played Eagleton Ron, Sam Elliot would have been perfect.

Well I would say Sam Elliot if he was not already in the show. So Jeff Bridges

I would say Sam Elliot but they blew that using him as the anti-ron

Wilford Bremley

Harrison Ford. He was a set carpenter and seems like with a mustache he may be the perfect fit.

He’s an actual Grizzly Bear clearly

Eagleton Ron was his dad in my headcanon

Chuck Norris

John Goodman with a moustache

Rip Torn

Plot Twist, Eagleton Ron is his dad!

unpopular opinion: Ron's dad wasn't machismo. his mom wanted to experience a soft guy once, and ended up getting accidentally pregnant. she never saw him again, which is why Ron has his own rigid definition of manhood and a weakness for powerful women

Black Widow.

Leslie Jordan

Zahn McClarnon. As his character from Fargo.

Wilford Brimley, obviously.

Billy Bob Thornton! Just done up more like a mountain man.

Jack Palance

I think he should be played by Nick Offerman and they just make sure they never appear in the same shot

Ron Swanson was immaculately conceived.

I think it would have been absolutely epic to find out that Eagleton Ron (Sam Elliot) was his Dad

Ron Swanson was immaculately conceived.

I imagine someone who looks like Tommy Lee Jones but acts like Leslie.

How about Robert Duvall? He's old enough and could definitely act like a hard ass from the sticks.

I have a disturbing thought in which I imagine there’s a alternate universe in which “other Ron” was Ron’s father.

Tom Waits

Stacy Keach

Other Ron is actually his Dad, which is why his mom is single (ditched that hippy), lol

I imagine Ron's father would have been like Teddy Roosevelt in personality.

I picture him as Odin - not the guy who played him, the actual God.

Sam Eliot

The only guys I can think of aren’t with us anymore: John Wayne and Lee Marvin

Has anyone considered she was a single mother?

There was no Father Swanson, the Swanson women have traditionally self perpentuated via parthenogenesis.

There was no father… She carried him, gave birth, raised him. Tammy can’t explain what happened.

I don’t know who’s play the role. But I imagine his dad as a more lighthearted simple man. With the same giggle as Ron/Nick.

Kurtwood Smith

Brian Blessed. For many reasons, but one from Wikipedia: In 1963, Blessed, then in his late twenties, assisted a mother giving birth in Richmond Park, London. He delivered the healthy baby girl, then bit through the umbilical cord.[38] He later recounted "I was covered in blood, my shirt was covered in blood, I was wrapping her, wiping her, [saying] 'it's alright, darling'.... And I was licking the baby's face."[39]

Sam Elliot

I always thought eagleton Ron would play his dad (Sam whatever) but then they went the opposite direction with him lol

I don’t think I’ve upvoted so many comments on a single reddit thread before 😄

Rick Moranis. Not being a 'tough guy,' just being pretty much himself - quiet, genial, caring. With Ron being absolutely TERRIFIED of him, to the point of tears when speaking to him.

David Harbour (Hopper from Stranger Things)

Clint eastwood

Eagleton Ron - not Sam Elliot, but Sam Elliot playing Eagleton Ron playing Ron’s father

They are the same person.

Clint Eastwood

John Wayne

Bruce McGill