LK: (interrupting) Ben thinks that I’m a steamroller? That’s unbelievable! How dare he think that I’m a steamroller? LK: Everything in my life is going wrong right now. Here’s the exchange between Leslie and Ann: Ignoring what he wants, Leslie tries to drag on the project forever, tells him that he needs to spend more time with her instead of less, and then when Ben finally snaps and calls her a steamroller, she goes to Ann, incredulous that he could accuse her of such a thing. As a result, Ben tells Leslie that after this last project, he is going to focus his attention away from the parks and rec department his feelings for her really bum him out when he has to see her all the time at work.
Leslie’s tendencies come to a climax in episode 8 of season 4, “Smallest Park.” At this point in the show, Leslie and Ben Wyatt have made their romantic feelings for each other very clear, but they can’t be together because of Chris’s rules that government employees should not be romantically involved with employees whom they supervise. When the health department is looking for a new PR director, Leslie signs up Ann for an interview for the next day at 9am without even asking if she’d be interested in the job, and then is furious with Ann that she doesn’t spend all night cramming from the enormous interview prep binder that she prepared for her (S3 E13). She convinces Ann to go on a date with Chris Traeger in order to coerce him into adding more money for the parks and rec department budget (S3 E1).
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She convinces Mark Brendanawicz to propose to her best friend, Ann Perkins, on live TV in order to boost the ratings for Leslie’s telethon fundraiser (S2 E22). Her extraordinary passion manifests itself in such a way that she has no regard for other people’s feelings or desires. Throughout Parks and Rec’s first three seasons, there are numerous examples of Leslie’s extreme tunnel vision. She makes heroic efforts consistently to make Pawnee a better place and to protect its citizens from infestations of raccoons, racist city councilors, corrupt corporations, and, in Leslie’s own words, “the human equivalent of gas station sushi, Jeremy Jamm.” With all that said, she is a bit overrated. Leslie Knope, from the TV show Parks and Recreation, is a badass woman, a dedicated public servant, an outrageously hard worker, and an overall unstoppable force for good in the world. Indeed these two characters feel like they've been cut from the same cloth, and fans of the shows might think they can tell these two apart, but would you bet on it? Can you tell Leslie and Amy apart from these quotes alone?ġ.A reflection by WLRC graduate assistant Seth Quam Romantic, kind, and badass in their unique way, the two characters redefined female arcs for sitcoms to follow and became role models for female fans worldwide. The two characters bring so much to the table with their dynamic personalities. Leslie Knope and Amy Santiago are two iconic characters from either show that come to mind. While other-worldly writing and on-point jokes take credit for their success, nothing can be taken away from the exemplary characters. With fan bases spanning across the globe, both shows top the streaming charts, and there's just no touching the heights of their fandom.
Whether it be the style of comedy, story plots or character dynamics, the two tend to share the same taste in sitcom comedy fans love dearly. NBC boasts an impressive lineup of workplace comedies and two notable mentions are the American office mockumentary Parks and Recreation and everyone's favourite cop sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine.īoth comedies descended from the genius mind of Mike Schur so they were bound to have some similarities.
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