ASHES TO ASHES, PLANTATION TO DUST: A Toast to the Nottoway Fire To the smoke signals sent to the heavens. To the ancestors ...

From Homer Simpson to Michael Scott, sitcom leads are typically dim-witted characters, but Parks and Rec's Leslie Knope ...

The cameo was beautiful, hilarious, and, according to Amy Poehler’s Good Hang with Amy Poehler podcast, Obama was “perfect.” “Do you have a memory of that day? I’m sure you didn’t because you were ...

Amy Poehler and Quinta Brunson bonded on the "Good Hang" podcast ... "feel appropriate with her job and her town," just like she did with Leslie 16 years ago. "I remember when we were first starting ...

In late 2012, Dan Erickson was a twenty-eight-year-old aspiring screenwriter in L.A., working a dull job in office ... s type would make a good love interest for Leslie Knope.

If anything, it just makes it more remarkable how good the ... loving her job and doing the absolute best she can for the local government. If only our own councils had a Leslie Knope.

Our ratings were not good ... of the toast that Leslie gives at the end of the episode. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "PARKS AND RECREATION") AMY POEHLER: (As Leslie Knope) When we worked here together ...

“So I’m that guy, good or bad, that’s who I am ... In an interview conducted over waffles, in honor of the breakfast food Leslie Knope loved almost as much as municipal bureaucracies ...

Even Joe Biden, back when he was the VP himself—in his aviators, eating an ice cream cone, politely edging away from a frenzied Leslie Knope on Parks & Recreation—was in on the joke ...

However, Poehler's Leslie Knope was far from merely a female analog to Michael Scott. They were very different characters, largely because they did very different jobs. Much like the British show ...

She breaks the ice by letting him know she finally watched the series and that the binge was good, essentially telling ... and “The Trial Of Leslie Knope” is a perfect example.