Producing Parker / YMMV

Adorkable: Parker is a very endearingly quirky woman. Best exemplified in the intro when she hides behind her clipboard.
Alternative Character Interpretation:
- The show takes for granted that Parker is a nice but overworked woman who often finds herself the butt-monkey despite her best intentions. The fact that she writes all the shallow and toxic segments for the show, enables and encourages Dee's worst impulses for the sake of ratings, and fails in relationships due to her own antisocial or obsessive behavior goes largely unexamined. "Parker 3.0" shows her latest love interest wanting a genuine connection with her, but Parker is only using him for the sake of her vanity from the getgo.
- Some of Chicago's 'Ditzy' moments read less as promiscuity and more as disability. Examples include coming to work in her underwear, forgetting or misunderstanding basic instructions, or flashing random people on the street for no other reason than them briefly looking at her work building. The nonchalant way she implies sexual relationships with every man who passes through the studio implies she thinks this is normal. It can be argued that Chicago is a handicapped woman who is so regularly taken advantage of that she sees nothing wrong with walking around naked to save time.
- Dee is a narcissistic alcoholic with zero perspective of the real world presumably due to her own choices. Or, she's a isolated woman (shown to quite literally live on the set) with no ties to people who aren't taking her money or making money off her. The conflict of each episode is usually begins with a segment making her reconsider an aspect of her life followed by Parker desperately cutting the segment before Dee has any meaningful revelation. Its no wonder she often comes up with ridiculous solutions to the emptiness inside her, she seems to have no matter of perspective.
Cult Classic: Despite being extremely obscure and suffering from review bombing on IMDb (with a shockingly low score of 3.4^note), the show has developed a solid following among Canadian TV fans.
Foe Yay Shipping: Dee and Parker, or "Darker", is the most popular ship for fans of this series.
Hilarious in Hindsight: In "Dog Dee Afternoon" Victoria who owns a bunch of cats says that she's adopted another...and it turns out to be a Siberian Tiger. A decade after this episode aired, The Secret Life of Pets 2 has a scene with a cat lady deciding to adopt a Siberian Tiger.
Les Yay:
- Parker and the blonde Latino lesbian.
- Chicago getting kissed and touched by a group of lesbians!
Signature Scene: Dee's weight gain in "The Skinny on Parker" is the most widely seen moment of the series due to its popularity with fetishists.
What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: The show's episodes on YouTube are a victim of COPPA's effects of marking videos for kids, despite the show having strong language and sex jokes.
The Woobie: Parker's job of getting what Dee's whims demands, fixing to her gaffes and generally keep the show running is undeniably difficult, and she puts her all into it consistently. The pilot had her sobbing openly about having lost her job (well, she thought she would) at The Dee Show after working it for years and having nothing to show for it, and that's the start from the rest of the series.

YMMV / Producing Parker

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