History Headscratchers / ParksAndRecreation

** I think it's a satire n plastic political candidates who only "come to life" during photo ops, etc.

* Why does Leslie desperately seek input for designing a normal park on lot 48 in the episode ''Pawnee Commons'', even though Mark Brendanawicz already gave her plans for this park, and April wants to build a dog park there? Why isn't a dog park built there, even though it's the only appropriate location and a dog park is necessary?

* Why does Leslie desperately seek input for designing a normal park on lot 48 in the episode ''Pawnee Commons'', even though Mark Brendanawicz already gave her plans for this park, and April wants to build a dog park there?

* Why does Leslie seek input for designing a normal park on lot 48 in the episode ''Pawnee Commons'', even though Mark Brendanawicz already gave her plans for this park, and April wants to build a dog park there?

* I don't know the weather in Indiana, but in S02E12, which takes place around Christmas, the establishing shots show kind of SoCal kind of weather (green lawns and shrubs). Then on the evening when the Christmas tree is going to be lit, everyone shows up muffled up in warm coats and earmuffs, and it is snowing (unless it was in-universe artificial snow).

** Ron explains why he keeps Leslie around in season 5s "Soda Tax". She totally conflicted with his beliefs and his plan to sabotage the government, and in fact he tried to have her '''fired''' on '''4''' different occasions for insubordination - she was extremely eager and efficient, and even though he nixed or undermined every idea she had, she found loopholes around it or just ignored him. The only reason she has a job is that every time he field to have her fired he ended up withdrawing his request, because much as he disliked her politics he admired her for having drive and convictions, and was worried that whoever replaced her would be a wishy-washy kiss-ass who just caved in to him. There is an unmade season 0s worth of stories where Leslie is the plucky underdog just starting her new job at Parks and Recs and Ron is effectively the NobleDemon BigBad of the show battling her at every turn but grudgingly growing to respect her, and what we see of him in the show proper is after he has TookALevelInKindness and done a HazyFeelTurn.

** It's also that Ron isn't a just a one-dimensional libertarian stereotype (although he may have started out as one). His life and ideas have wrinkles that don't slot perfectly into libertarian ideology because he's human, and no human adheres completely to their chosen ideology. Ron's not a perfect libertarian because no libertarian is a perfect libertarian, just as no self-identified communist is a perfect communist, no self-identified anarchist is a perfect anarchist, and so forth.

** It's also that Ron isn't a just a one-dimensional libertarian stereotype (although he may have started out as one). His life and ideas have wrinkles that don't slot perfectly into libertarian ideology because he's human, and no human adheres completely to their chosen ideology. Ron's not a perfect libertarian because no libertarian is a perfect libertarian any more than a communist can be a perfect communist, an anarchist can be a perfect anarchist, and so forth.

** It's also that Ron isn't a just a one-dimensional libertarian stereotype (although he may have started out as one). His life and ideas have wrinkles that don't slot perfectly into libertarian ideology because he's human, and no human adheres completely to their chosen ideology. Ron's not a perfect libertarian because no libertarian is a perfect libertarian any more than a communist can be a perfect communist and so forth.

** Also because the alternative meaning is probably not particularly widely known outside of a relatively small population, meaning that the producers were likely unaware of it. While my own experiences are hardly conclusive or universal, speaking personally this is literally the first I'd ever heard of this meaning, and I suspect that I'm not alone. To be honest, I'd respectfully suggest that anyone who sees Rashida Jones dressed up in an eggplant costume and immediately leaps to assuming that the producers are even inadvertently sending a coded racist message involving the Italian word for the fruit is probably looking for things to be offended by.

* How on EARTH did Leslie fund her campaign after her managers stepped away? She hired Ben (who, even if he was willing to work for cheap out of his love for Leslie still had to pay his more-than-half of the rent at April and Andy's house), she made a massive campaign bus, she rented out a skating rink and bowling alley, her election day party was in the Jermaine Jackson Ballroom... where did she get the money for all of this? (And, if she had the money for all of that, how could they not find a nicer place for the debate watch party than April and Andy's house?)

** Also because the alternative meaning is probably not particularly widely known outside of a relatively small population, meaning that the producers were likely unaware of it. I'd respectfully suggest that anyone who sees Rashida Jones dressed up in an eggplant costume and immediately leaps to assuming that the producers are sending a coded racist message involving the Italian word for the fruit is probably looking for things to be offended by.

* In the Season 2 finale, Mark's final gift to the city before going into the private sector is a plan for the park in the lot behind Ann's house. Why does Leslie then have to go through all that trouble getting a plan for the park from the guy in Eagleton a few seasons later?