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*** Given Andy's situation, "anything" would also have been an acceptable answer.
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*** With ''Whitney'' ably filling the void left by ''Outsourced'', mind you.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Tom is on the receiving end of one from Tammy Two at the end of ''Ron and Tammy: II''.
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* CoitusUninteruptus: During their "lovey" moments, Ron and Tammy II constantly engage in this.


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* FriendlyEnemies: Ron and Leslie have shades of this as well as WorthyOpponent. They are very close friends who always look out for each other despite their diametrically opposite politics. In one episode, both get talking heads about what they would do if they were in charge (Ron would try to close Parks and Recreation and Leslie would try to massively expand it), but know they would have a spirited debate with the other first.


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* VideoWills: Ron leaves something along these lines to be shown to himself in the event he wound up yet again in Tammy Two's claws.
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* PersonAsVerb: In "Ron and Tammy: Part II", Leslie refers to (what she perceives as) an embarrassing mistake by Ben as "being a Jerry"
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* StrawmanNewsMedia: ''Pawnee Today'' checks off a lot of the boxes for this, being vapid and with ridiculous attempts at "balance" that play out as bias against Leslie.


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** Tom is once shown going to a sauna with some rich old men (he's their [[BlackBestFriend Indian Best Friend) and refers to going for a shitz (he means [[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shvitz shvitz]])
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* FaceDoodling: Ann narrates the talking heads segment at the end of of "Telethon", and announces that Leslie has been asleep on her couch for 22 hours (after staying awake for a few days). She closes the episode by announcing that "I love her so much... but I think I'm gonna draw a mustache on her face."
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** In "Flu Season", a sick Leslie tries to leave the hospital to give a speech and Ann threatens to strap her to the bed if she doesn't comply with orders to remain there. Leslie gives a pouty reaction to this.
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* DressesTheSame: In a season 2 episode where there was a Halloween party at Ann's house, one of April's gay boyfriends asserted that he was dressed up as a straight person. Immediately afterward, Mark walks in wearing the same outfit. A few episodes previously, Leslie comments on Tom's pink shirt being effeminate, and to prove her point, holds up a shirt she was given by the local gay bar, which is the exact same shade/color.
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** Leslie loves [[SweetTooth anything sweet].

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** Leslie loves [[SweetTooth anything sweet].sweet]].
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* HappyEndingMassage: In "The Camel", Ron really likes getting his shoes shined and ends up having this reaction when Andy shines his shoes, enormously squicking out Andy and embarrassing Ron. The two agree to [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain never speak of it again]].


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* HoYay: Tom is shown to have a massive man-crush on Justin.


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** In the first episode of season 3, Leslie tells Ann she should seduce Chris and get him to provide more funding for the Parks. Leslie has them roleplay a conversation in which Leslie plays a flirty Ann and Ann plays Chris.


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* TrademarkFavoriteFood:
** Leslie loves [[SweetTooth anything sweet].
** Ron loves [[RealMenEatMeat meat]] in general but has a particular love of breakfast meats.
** Pancakes seem to be a favorite food of Andy's, although they might just be one of Ann's cooking specialties, as other characters have also asked her to make pancakes.
** Pretty much everyone on the show drinks a lot of coffee.
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* TheCastShowOff: Nick Offerman, who plays Ron, is a master woodworker in real life, and the writers made this an aspect of the character.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Comes up a lot in the episode "Park Safety", as after Leslie finds out that Jerry had been mugged, she feels bad about how cruel everyone treats him, and tells the others to be nicer to him. However, when they make cracks about Jerry, she can't help but laugh.

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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Comes up a lot in the episode "Park Safety", as after Leslie finds out that Jerry had been mugged, she feels bad about how cruel everyone treats him, and tells the others to be nicer to him. However, when they make cracks about Jerry, she can't help but laugh. It doesn't help that he's a magnet for embarrassing things happening.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Comes up a lot in the episode "Park Safety", as after Leslie finds out that Jerry had been mugged, she feels bad about how cruel everyone treats him, and tells the others to be nicer to him. However, when they make cracks about Jerry, she can't help but laugh.
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* StalkerShrine: Early in the second season, Andy set up one of these to Ann in his shoe shine station.
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* FriendshipMoment: Many have happened in the series so far, but especially between Leslie and Ann and Leslie and Ron.
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* FunWithAcronyms: "Citizen Knope" features Leslie forming a citizen action committee named the Parks Committee of Pawnee. Just like the drug, they are so powerful and fast-acting they should be illegal.

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* FunWithAcronyms: "Citizen Knope" features Leslie forming a citizen action committee named the Parks Committee of Pawnee. Just like the drug, they are so powerful and fast-acting they should be illegal. Later, she tells Chris she's starting a new organization: Leslie's Sorry Division.

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* FunWithAcronyms: "Citizen Knope" features Leslie forming a citizen action committee named the Parks Committee of Pawnee. Just like the drug, they are so powerful and fast-acting they should be illegal.



* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: During an interview for an article about the prospective park, Andy reveals that he was drunk when he fell into the pit, and Ann calls him out on it, which prompts him to call her out on...using birth control. Ann is mortified that he had the audacity to bring this up in front of a reporter clutching a tape recorder, and her birth control use is mentioned in the resulting article.

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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous:
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During an interview for an article about the prospective park, Andy reveals that he was drunk when he fell into the pit, and Ann calls him out on it, which prompts him to call her out on...using birth control. Ann is mortified that he had the audacity to bring this up in front of a reporter clutching a tape recorder, and her birth control use is mentioned in the resulting article.article.
** "The fact that Yahtzee is not in the rec center is a tragedy on par with human trafficking. ...Slight exaggeration."

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* NoExceptYes: In "The Trial of Leslie Knope", Leslie tells Ron to silence Chris's decisive witness, then corrects herself--"Don't ''silence'' him, just make sure he can't talk." To be fair, Ron probably took the initial "silence him" as a DeadlyEuphemism.

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In "The Trial of Leslie Knope", Leslie tells Ron to silence Chris's decisive witness, then corrects herself--"Don't ''silence'' him, just make sure he can't talk." To be fair, Ron probably took the initial "silence him" as a DeadlyEuphemism.DeadlyEuphemism.
** "Citizen Knope":
--->'''Leslie:''' Oh, I'm not gonna do my ''job''. I'm just gonna oversee the department, check in on the parks, and attend any meetings that are required of the Deputy Director.
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**The Douche comments to Crazy Ira about how long Ann and Leslie were in the bathroom during "The Fight".
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** In a later episode Tom admits that all three of Jerry's daughters are beautiful.
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* {{Defictionalization}}: The Lil' Sebastian plush from "The Trail of Leslie Knope". A ad for it appeared in the bottom row of the original broadcast of the episode.

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* {{Defictionalization}}: The Lil' Sebastian plush from "The Trail of Leslie Knope". A An ad for it appeared in the bottom row of the original broadcast of the episode.

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* Deficitionalization: The Lil' Sebastian plush from "The Trail of Leslie Knope". A ad for it appeared in the bottom row of the original broadcast of the episode.

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* Deficitionalization: {{Defictionalization}}: The Lil' Sebastian plush from "The Trail of Leslie Knope". A ad for it appeared in the bottom row of the original broadcast of the episode.

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* Deficitionalization: The Lil' Sebastian plush from "The Trail of Leslie Knope". A ad for it appeared in the bottom row of the original broadcast of the episode.
** ''Pawnee: The Greatest Town In America''.
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* {{Webisode}}: A short series of them to show the details of April and Andy's trip to the Grand Canyon in "End of the World".

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* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Ron calls Ann "Jenny" after she finally manages to engage both him and April in small talk by describing a gross medical story. Ron and April's talking head:
-->'''Ron:''' Ann was getting a little chummy. When people get too chummy with me I like to call them by the wrong name to let them know I don't really care about them.
-->'''April:''' That's a genius move.
-->'''Ron:''' Thank you.
-->'''April:''' Your welcome....Lester.
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* MyNameIsNotDurwood: MomentKiller: Ethel during Leslie and Ben's spectacular kiss at the end of "The Trial of Leslie Knope".
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Ron calls Ann "Jenny" after she finally manages to engage both him and April in small talk by describing a gross medical story. Ron and April's talking head:
-->'''Ron:''' --->'''Ron:''' Ann was getting a little chummy. When people get too chummy with me I like to call them by the wrong name to let them know I don't really care about them.
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them.\\
'''April:'''
That's a genius move.
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move.\\
'''Ron:'''
Thank you.
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you.\\
'''April:''' You're
welcome....Lester.
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Lester.\\
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smiles at the camera like a proud father)father)''
** Turns out that everybody calls ''Gary'' "Jerry" because the old Parks director accidentally called him "Jerry" on his first day.
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* SnowMeansLove: "The Trial of Leslie Knope".

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* ComicRolePlay: In "The Fight" Andy and April do this in the Snakehole lounge. Andy pretends to be his FBI agent alias "Burt Macklin" and April is "Janet Snakehole" a rich widow with a cigarette holder who talks like a character from an old movie.
* ConspicuousConsumption: So far it's all Tom and Jean-Ralphio seem to be doing at their company ''Entertainment 720''. Spending an exorbitant amount on expensive furniture, and paying pro basketball players and beautiful women to just hang around. An alarmed Ben: "My guess is they'll be bankrupt by the end of this..sentence!"



** As its title would imply, "The Trial of Leslie Knope" involves a hearing regarding Leslie and Ben's relationship, and naturally the witness testimony involves a lot of continuity nods.



* ComicRolePlay: In "The Fight" Andy and April do this in the Snakehole lounge. Andy pretends to be his FBI agent alias "Burt Macklin" and April is "Janet Snakehole" a rich widow with a cigarette holder who talks like a character from an old movie.
* ConspicuousConsumption: So far it's all Tom and Jean-Ralphio seem to be doing at their company ''Entertainment 720''. Spending an exorbitant amount on expensive furniture, and paying pro basketball players and beautiful women to just hang around. An alarmed Ben: "My guess is they'll be bankrupt by the end of this..sentence!"
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* NoExceptYes: In "The Trial of Leslie Knope", Leslie tells Ron to silence Chris's decisive witness, then corrects herself--"Don't ''silence'' him, just make sure he can't talk." To be fair, Ron probably took the initial "silence him" as a DeadlyEuphemism.
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* TakeThat: To {{NPR}} in "Born & Raised". The Wamapoke Public Radio station that Leslie is interviewed on has her introduce the next song, by an Afro-Norwegian group, called "Nefertiti's Fjord". The music is pretty much unintelligible.

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* TakeThat: To {{NPR}} in "Born & Raised". The Wamapoke Public Radio station that Leslie is interviewed on has her introduce the next song, by an Afro-Norwegian group, called "Nefertiti's Fjord". The music song is pretty much unintelligible.actually a remixed version of Norway's national anthem, "Ja, Vi Elsker".

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