Parks and Recreation/Trivia


 * Actor Allusion:
 * A picture of Madam Secretary on Leslie's wall. Similarly, when Leslie meets Joe Biden in the fifth season, she thinks he's going to ask her to replace "Madam Secretary".
 * Tom's angry insistence on a high thread-count in his bedsheets is a reference to Aziz Ansari's stand-up bit about buying Luxury Linens brand sheets, only to find out the package lied about the thread count.
 * Actor Shared Background:
 * Like Aziz Ansari, Tom is an Indian-American from South Carolina.
 * April being of half-Puerto Rican descent. However, in the Real Life case of Aubrey Plaza, it's from her father's family, versus April's mother.
 * Donna evidently has relatives in Liberia; so does Retta; Retta (full name Marietta Sirleaf) is related by marriage to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, first female President of Liberia.
 * Fan Nickname: "Tammy Zero" for Ron's mother.
 * Hey, It's That Guy!:
 * Leslie's ex-boyfriend Justin wrote Iron Man 2.
 * See also Real Life Relative. In one case, the "Hey It's That Person" is more famous than most of the cast.
 * Andy is Bright from Everwood.
 * Natalie Morales is Lucy, Tom's bartender girlfriend.
 * Hey, it's Sam Seaborn as the state auditor Chris!
 * Dick Liddil went straight and became a city planner?!
 * Ann Perkins is Karen from The Office.
 * Hey, Henry Pollard, are we having fun yet?!
 * Griff Hawkins grew up and put his con-man ways behind him.
 * Retta (Donna) appeared as a cashier in the "The Gang Gets Extreme: Home Makeover Edition" episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
 * Richard Dunn and the yesterday's weather presenter appear in "Tom's Divorce".
 * How did a serial killer get elected to Pawnee's city council before the events of "Live Ammo?"
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: The city's lawyer in "Kaboom" is no other than Sterling Archer.
 * Real Life Relative: Will Arnett has a cameo as a creepy guy Leslie dates in one episode. He is married to Amy Poehler (Leslie) in real life. Also, Nick Offerman (Ron) and Megan Mullally (Tammy 2) are married in real life.
 * What Could Have Been: Deleted scenes and DVD audio commentary reveal that several Pawnee townspeople would become more heavily recurring characters in future episodes. These characters included conspiracy-theorist Barry, anti-parks advocate Kate Spivack, and Andy's neighbor Lawrence. When the Pit 48 plotlines were demphasized in the next season, the need for these characters diminished. However, Lawrence made several cameo appearances in later episodes. Barry appears very briefly in season two in the episode "Sister City", though he only has lines in a Deleted Scene.