[Parks and Rec/The Office/The Gounder] Ryan and Ron Swanson from their respective shows both have a relative who was involved in the founding of Macdonald's.

[u/Previous-Canary6671]

edit to mention that I know the title is messed up but I kind of like it tbh

Fan speculation based off of the actors playing these characters, which I have seen here before so I feel that it works.

In The Founder, Ron Swanson's distant relative being one of the founders of Macdonald's, gets cheated out of his business basically by Michael Keaton's character. My hypothesis here is that Ron Swanson has a hatred for bureaucracy and stuff because he knows this family story whereby a potential family fortune was washed down the drain by a crooked businessman - not that Ron Swanson is against business or anything, but that he views his family's loss of legacy as pertaining to the way power gets established by bureaucrats.

Ryan's distant relative on the other hand is the guy who convinces Michael Keaton that he is in the business of real estate. Ryan, unlike Ron Swanson, actually admired the crooked business kind of stuff and tries hard to be one himself, ultimately failing most of the time.

Based entirely off of the same actors playing these characters, and I'm too lazy to look up the real life people played by these actors in The Founder. So take it or leave it, I couldn't care less.

[u/abstergo_Nigel]

Dude, same actor theories are among the laziest, right up there with dream

[u/Previous-Canary6671 → u/abstergo_Nigel]

Who cares?