Leslie Knope

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Played by: Amy Poehler
Occupation: Deputy Director of Pawnee’s Parks and Recreation Department
Family: Marlene Griggs-Knope
Relationship status: Single (dated: Dave, Justin)

  • Vows to fill in the pit and make a park (”Pilot”)
  • Has worked for the Parks Department for six years (”Pilot”)
  • At work on a memoir with Tom (”Pilot”)
  • Slept with Mark five years ago (Pilot). Leslie calls it a “brief affair” in February 2004 (”Boys’ Club”). On that night, they met at a bar and Leslie remembers Mark being pretty drunk (”Rock Show”)
  • She falls into the pit (”Pilot”)
  • During drunken gatherings at work, Leslie has made out with the water delivery guy in her office, tried faxing someone a fruit roll up and tried to stop a crime that was going on outside while dressed as Batman on Halloween (”Pilot”)
  • Voted best dressed in the sixth grade (”Canvassing”)
  • To this day, Leslie is haunted by one of the remaining graffiti penises from the Tucker Park Graffiti Removal Project (”The Reporter”)
  • Leslie’s interview with Shauna is her first ever interview (”The Reporter”)
  • Marlene got Leslie her department job (”The Reporter”)
  • Food of choice at J.J.’s Diner is a waffle with whipped cream (”The Reporter”)
  • Violates the Government Employees’ Ethics Code of the State of Indiana (”Boys’ Club”)
  • Wrote up Jerry in 2008 for making personal phone calls to his mom (”Boys’ Club”)
  • Has to testify in front of the Disciplinary Committee because of April’s actions (”Boys’ Club”)
  • Has first official political haircut with Salvatore before the Tellenson’s (”The Banquet”)
  • Has a meeting set up by her mom with a local big wig — George from Eagleton — who could help Leslie build a park. Turns out it was actually a date (”Rock Show”)
  • Gets kissed by Mark by the pit but tells him to go home (”Rock Show”)
  • Knows all the words to Will Smith’s “Parents Just Don’t Understand” (”Pawnee Zoo”)
  • Gets a cake, card and T-shirt from the owner of a Pawnee gay bar, The Bulge (”Pawnee Zoo”)
  • Supported by Pawnee’s gay community (”Pawnee Zoo”)
  • Doesn’t understand youth culture or know what Photoshop is (”Pawnee Zoo”)
  • Hates salad (”Pawnee Zoo”)
  • Wants to create a secret language with Ann (”Pawnee Zoo”)
  • Gets the phone numbers of two bisexual guys during a night at The Bulge (”Pawnee Zoo”)
  • Dubs herself “Queen of the Gays” (”Pawnee Zoo”)
  • Appears on Pawnee Today with Marsha Langman after marrying two male penguins (”Pawnee Zoo”)
  • Tells Mark that Ann is dying to go out with him (”Pawnee Zoo”)
  • Transfers penguins to a zoo in Iowa because gay marriage is legal there (”Pawnee Zoo”)
  • Puts whipped cream on her coffee (”The Stakeout”)
  • Brainstorms a community garden right in the middle of the pit (”The Stakeout”)
  • Would like to be president some day (”The Stakeout”)
  • Had an insanely good brownie in college (”The Stakeout”)
  • Embarks on a stakeout with Tom to catch the person who planted marijuana in the community garden (”The Stakeout”)
  • Discovers Andy has been living in the pit (”The Stakeout”)
  • Waits for Tom overnight at the police station (”The Stakeout”)
  • Orders flowers for Ron while he’s in recovery for surgery (”Beauty Pageant”)
  • Becomes a judge for the Miss Pawnee Beauty Pageant (”Beauty Pageant”)
  • Creates a personalized scorecard for the pageant (”Beauty Pageant”)
  • Agrees to a date with Dave (”Beauty Pageant”)
  • Has been on dates where the following things happened: 1.) her date showed up with another woman, 2.) one of her sleeves caught on fire and it spread rapidly, 3.) instead of tic tacs, Leslie accidentally popped a couple of Ambien and had to keep punching her leg to stay awake, 4.) she drank an entire bottle of vinegar because she thought it was terrible wine, 5.) she went out with a guy who wore 3-D glasses the entire evening, 6.) she rode in a sidecar on a guy’s motorcycle and the sidecar detached and went down a flight of stairs and 7.) she went to a really boring movie with a guy and while she was asleep he tried to pull out one of her teeth. Leslie went out a couple times after that with him but then he got weird (”The Practice Date”)
  • Goes on a practice date with Ann to prep for her first date with Dave (”The Practice Date”)
  • Has memberships to Netflix and Blockbuster Online (”Kaboom”)
  • Watches Gossip Girl (”Kaboom”)
  • Majored in Potions at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (”Kaboom”)
  • Has a man pillow that looks like Daniel Craig (”Kaboom”)
  • Doesn’t trust Minute Rice (”Kaboom”)
  • Gets pit filled in through a legal settlement with Andy (”Kaboom”)
  • TPs Greg Pikitis’ house (”Greg Pikitis”)
  • Has a $3 overdue book fee cleared by Tammy Swanson (”Ron and Tammy”)
  • Had a dream where she designed a mural, but then it turned into a nightmare because the mural started talking and it came alive. And it was whispering and she couldn’t hear what it was saying so she leaned in close and then it ate her. At one point Gina Gershon was there (”The Camel”)
  • Confuses Greg Kinnear with George Clooney (”The Camel”)

Memorable feats:

  • Led a city-wide drive to disinfect the sandbox sand after problems with cats (”Pilot”)
  • Aided by Mark, Leslie gets a Parks Department Exploratory Subcommittee established (”Pilot”)
  • The Tucker Park Graffiti Removal Project removed five cartoon penises before it was shut down due to lack of funding (”The Reporter”)
  • Got involved in a smear job interview with a Pawnee middle school newspaper in 2008 (”The Reporter”)
  • Gets in a dog poop fight (”Boys’ Club”)
  • Spent summer 2009 doing a number of zoo promotions, which include throwing a 60th birthday party for a parrot, graduating chimpanzees from college and marrying two South African, black-footed penguins (”Pawnee Zoo”)

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