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| Length: | 126 minutes
(2 hours 6 minutes) | | MPAA Rating: | TV-PG | | Sorting Category: | TV Show |
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Synopsis: Leslie Knope commits to building a park with no knowledge of just how hard a fight she has in front of her.
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Random Trivia For This Title: - Chris Pratt does his own singing and guitar playing. He also wrote the song "Ann" for the first season finale, {Rock Show}.
- The character Tom Haverford changed his name from Darwish Sabir Ismael Gani. The actor who plays Tom, Aziz Ansari, chose that as Tom's original name because it is his cousin's name. Ansari also shares with Tom the biographical fact that although his parents were originally from India, he was born and raised in a small town in South Carolina.
- Thomas Lennon auditioned for the role of Ron Swanson.
- Andy (Chris Pratt) and Lawrence (Eric Edelstein) play neighbors at odds in this episode. The two would later go on to work together in Jurassic World (2015). Pratt plays Owen and Edelstein plays Paddock Supervisor.
- In order to spend more time over his directorial debut on the episode {Rock Show}, Michael Schur was forced to pull out of a guest appearance in The Office season finale {Company Picnic}. His recurring character of Mose was replaced, in that episode, by a nearly identical character, called Rolf.
- April speaks to Andy for the first time in the episode {Rock Show}. The line she says is "I totally get what you mean."
- The character of April has a sister named Natalie. This is the name of Aubrey Plaza's real life teenage sister, who she uses as a source of inspiration when playing April.
- Matt Walsh and Mike O'Malley auditioned for the role of Ron Swanson. Walsh would later guest star as Leonard Tchulm and O'Malley would guest star as Bill Butler.
- The game that Mark, Andy and April are playing when Anne and Leslie walk in on them (when they're supposed to be canvassing) is Rock Band 2, as evidenced by the song 'My own worst enemy' by Lit.
- {Canvassing} is the only episode of the entire series not to feature Jim O'Heir.
- In reality, the cast and crew all loved working with Jim O'Heir, who plays Jerry, the office scapegoat. The writers felt so bad about constantly being so mean to his character, and by extension him, that they gave Jerry the picture-perfect home life: three beautiful daughters, a beautiful home, and a happy marriage to his wife Gayle (played by former supermodel Christie Brinkley).
- Ron Swanson's staunchly anti-government government official was based on a city planner who the show's producers met and interviewed when doing research. The planner was a Libertarian who admitted to them "I don't believe in the mission of my job."
- Chris Pratt modelled Andy's singing voice after [?] Eddie Vedder, frontman of the band [?] Pearl Jam, of whom Andy Dwyer is a huge fan.
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| Episode List: | | Episode Name | Disc | Disc Order | Directors | Writers | Synopsis | IMDB | Personal Rating | | Pilot | 1 | 1 | Greg Daniels | Greg Daniels
Michael Schur | In an attempt to beautify her town, Leslie Knope takes on the seemingly simple job of helping turn an abandoned construction pit into a park. | 7.1 | 7 | | Canvassing | 1 | 2 | Seth Gordon | Rachel Axler | Leslie gets a town hall meeting to discuss her park idea, but she finds out that public reception is less than receptive. | 7.1 | 6 | | The Reporter | 1 | 3 | Jeffrey Blitz | Daniel J. Goor | Leslie gets a newspaper reporter to do a story about her and the park idea, but becomes upset when she finds out that the reporter slept with Mark. | 7.3 | 7 | | Boys' Club | 1 | 4 | Michael McCullers | Alan Yang | Leslie tries to infiltrate the boys' club of politics by crashing an after-work gathering at the town hall. Trying to fit in, she opens a gift basket breaking the local government ethics, and then is called before an ethics committee. | 7.5 | 7 | | The Banquet | 1 | 5 | Beth McCarthy-Miller | Tucker Cawley | At a banquet honouring her mother, Leslie tries to convince a local zoning official to support her park project. But sensing resistance, Lesie resorts to blackmail. Meanwhile, Tom and Mark ditch the festivities to hit the bars. | 7.4 | 6 | | Rock Show | 1 | 6 | Michael Schur | Norm Hiscock | Leslie doesn't realize that a dinner with a much older man from the zoning commission is actually a date set up by her mom. Andy gets his cast taken off, but Ann gets mad when she finds out it could have been off two weeks ago. | 7.9 | 8 |
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