Tom Haverford

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    Played by: Aziz Ansari
    Occupation: Government official
    Relationship status:Divorced (Wendy)

  • From Bennetsville, SC (”Pilot”)
  • “Helps” Leslie with her memoir (”Pilot”)
  • Says he convinced Leslie while she was drunk to try to fax someone a fruit roll up. On a separate occasion he convinced her to try and stop a crime that was going on outside while dressed as Batman on Halloween (”Pilot”)
  • Plays online Scrabble with Ron, but lets him win (”The Reporter”)
  • Thinks lexicon is a type of luxury automobile (”The Reporter”)
  • Does terrible things to cheese (”Boys’ Club”)
  • Goes peacockin’ (”The Banquet”)
  • Has a friend, Todd, who graduated from Indiana State in 2005 (”Rock Show”)
  • Leslie calls him effeminate (”Pawnee Zoo”)
  • Reads Details magazine (”Pawnee Zoo”)
  • Often is a guest on Pawnee Today (”Pawnee Zoo”)
  • “Helps” Leslie with the community garden located in the middle of the pit (”The Stakeout”)
  • Substitutes the names of rappers for the Latin names of plants (”The Stakeout”)
  • Embarks on a stakeout with Leslie to catch the person who planted marijuana in the community garden (”The Stakeout”)
  • Tom’s birth name is Darwish Sabir Ismael Gani, but he changed it to Tom Haverford because he didn’t think people with Muslim names made it far in politics (”The Stakeout”)
  • Discovers Andy has been living in the pit (”The Stakeout”)
  • Spends a night in jail after Mark mistakes him for someone breaking into a van (”The Stakeout”)
  • Dave thinks he’s a pervert (”The Stakeout”)
  • Receives daffodils from Leslie, who ordered them from the Internet (”Beauty Pageant”)
  • Becomes a judge for the Miss Pawnee Beauty Pageant by calling in a favor (”Beauty Pageant”)
  • Gives out his house key to women he just meets (”Beauty Pageant”)
  • A girl once beat him in a wrestling match in high school (”The Practice Date”)
  • Dressed like a Jedi for Halloween in 1999 (”The Practice Date”)
  • His wedding to Wendy was a green-card marriage (Wendy is from Ottawa, Canada) (”The Practice Date”)
  • Met Wendy at college (”The Practice Date”)
  • Knows how to serve a Crunch bar with the crispy rice removed (”Sister City”)
  • Donated money he received from Boraqua’s Raul to the Friends of the Park Fund (”Sister City”)
  • Dresses as T-Pain for Halloween 2009 (”Greg Pikitis”)
  • Is the life of Ann’s Halloween party (”Greg Pikitis”)
  • Has no interest in non-nude images until Arnold’s art teaches him to appreciate abstract impressionism (”The Camel”)

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