Leslie: Yeah. Okay, I’m gonna see Ben in our secret meeting place in a few minutes. How do I look?
Ann: What are you going for?
Leslie: Sophisticated with a hint of slutty.
Ann: Bullseye.
On the set of Parks & Recreation
Leslie: Hey, ladies and gentlemen, for the first time ever in her new part-time job in the Public Health Department at City Hall, it’s Ann Meredith Perkins! Yay!
Ann: Oh, Leslie, this is so nice!
April: I put a poisonous gas in one of these balloons so if any of them pops you may die.
Andy: No, April, we would all die. Gases fill the volume of whatever container they’re in. School.
Ann: You know this is my house, right?
April: Yeah, hi.
Ann: Do you wanna come in? You okay?
April: No. Andy is totally mad at me right now and I don’t know how to deal with him so I thought I would ask you.
Ann: You know, Andy and I broke up so long ago. I don’t think that I’d be the best source to…
April: Please.
Ann: What happened?
April: He doesn’t think I like Mouse Rat. And all I said to him was that this other band was better but I don’t know why he got all mad because it’s like an indisputable fact that they’re better. They’re a real band.
Ann: Oh, boy. Okay. Well, Andy just wants you to be proud of him and his music so this isn’t really about being right. It’s more about being supportive.
April: Oh, wow, I didn’t realize you were a marriage counselor, Ann. Sorry. My instinct is to be mean to you.
Ann: I understand.
Leslie: Ann, we have a serious code Ben.
Ann: Well, it’s not really code if you say his name.
Leslie: He told me that he liked me and I’m gonna go make out with him right now on his face.
Ann: That’s awesome!
Leslie: No, no, read me the script.
Ann: Seriously?
Leslie: Yes.
Ann: All right. “Leslie, it’s Leslie Knope from the Parks Department speaking to you through Ann Perkins friend and beautiful nurse.” Thank you. “Do not do anything with Ben. Be responsible, no matter how cute his mouth is. YOUR JOB IS ON THE LINE!”
Leslie: Shut up, Ann!
Ann: You wrote that.
Leslie: No, you… then Leslie, Leslie, you don’t know what you’re talking about. I care about him very much, and I’ve had 2 1/2 glasses of red wine and what that means is I’m gonna go make out with him right now and it’s gonna be awesome.
Ann: Yay!
Leslie: No, you’re supposed to talk me out of this.
Ann: No, don’t, stop.
Leslie: Shut up, Ann, I’m doing it anyway.
Ann: Yaaaaaay!
Her job on Parks and Recreation, which just wrapped up a breakthrough third season, is to provide an occasionally flustered, frequently perplexed center of gravity for the local government lunatics in her orbit. “Every week, someone on that show will tickle me in a new and fun way. Wow, that sounds really bad. Please put that next to a topless picture of me in GQ.”
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Yeah, I snuck an Al Green song in there.