--- description: A little something to tide you over until the show returns for its final season title: Here's a Supercut of All Tom Haverford's Ridiculous Business Ideas on 'Parks and Rec' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Here's a Supercut of All of Tom Haverford's Ridiculous Business Ideas on _Parks and Rec_ by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 30, 2014 3:29 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 30, 2014 3:29 PM CUT One of the many excellent running jokes in NBC’s _Parks and Recreation_ is Tom Haverford’s, uh, entrepreneurial spirit. Throughout the series, he comes up with a variety of business ideas, ranging from the[ actually-kind-of viable](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUCzGi11Sto "undefined") to the downright ridiculous. (Okay, most of them are just downright ridiculous.) The video compiles most of these ideas into one four-minute supercut — and they end up sounding even _more_ ridiculous one after the other. Several appearances by his [sometimes-partner ](https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7121605376/h7014EE1F/ "undefined")Jean-Ralphio make the video even better. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3058954/tom-haverford-supercut/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3058954/tom-haverford-supercut/"},"headline":"Here's a Supercut of All of Tom Haverford's Ridiculous Business Ideas on Parks and Rec","datePublished":"2014-07-30T15:29:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:02.862Z","description":"A little something to tide you over until the show returns for its final season","url":"https://time.com/3058954/tom-haverford-supercut/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Amy Poehler","NBC","parks and recreation","aziz ansari"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3058954/tom-haverford-supercut/","name":"Here's a Supercut of All of Tom Haverford's Ridiculous Business Ideas on Parks and Rec"}}]}] ```