Canvassing/Trivia

• Leslie searched for 25 minutes at the annual Easter Egg Hunt and didn't find one
• Tom forgot to hide eggs
• Leslie's meeting will be at the Smithfield Community Center
• Leslie's secret weapon against a vote at a town hall meeting is canvassing
• Leslie is not above using her expertise to change hearts and minds when the cause is just
• in the 6th grade, Leslie was voted Best Dressed, winning by 87
  • there were only 63 people in her class
• Tom wears a dark blue Izod polo shirt and dress slacks when canvassing
• Leslie learned about push-polls from Karl Rove
  • if you want to guarantee the results of a survey, you design the question to give you the answer that you want
• 9 of 10 meth users hate parks due to the excessive noise and BBQ smell
• Leslie believes a pit filled with garbage isn't the best America can do
• in Russia, however ...
  • Vlad could pretend the rocks are potatoes
  • Nikolai could swim in the dirt
• Leslie's mom has always wanted her to be successful
  • which is why she reminds her that there is nothing wrong with being a wife and mother
• citizen Kate Speevak claims no environmental impact survey was done for the park (despite one presumably done for the abandoned condos)
• Ann's neighbor Lawrence lives with his grandmother
• Leslie filibusters her own meeting by reciting the history of and predicting the future for Pawnee, then reading The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Opening credits

• the show title is shown when the piccolo begins
• an extended 30 second version of the theme plays

Behind Leslie in her office

• the framed picture of Nancy Pelosi has been replaced by one of Madeleine Albright
• an owl figurine has been added

Behind Ron in his office

• the Bobby Knight poster remains

Ron's appearance

• hair parted on his right
• wears a suit with tie

Leslie's description of her mother

• a big mucky-muck in the county school system
• her hero
• as respected as Mother Teresa
• as powerful as Stalin
• as beautiful as Margaret Thatcher

Leslie Binder

• the cover has the seal of the city of Pawnee and the words "Department of Parks and Recreation" on it
  • there is a white label on the spine, but what is on it is not known
• it is a canvassing guide with a script to follow when speaking to people
  • if the person is a man, turn to page 2
  • if the person looks like a celebrity (Example: Jack Nicholson) use this to help your pitch (Example: You can't handle the pit, that's why we need to turn it into a park)
• contains a sealed envelope holding a push-poll-type question:
  • Wouldn't you rather have a park than a storage facility for nuclear waste?

People met while canvassing

Canvassing for Lot 48Shall the City of Pawnee convert the Sullivan Street pit into a park?
Name	Gender	In-home? Y/N	Pro/Con	Attend meeting Y/N	Canvassers	Notes
(unknown)	female	Y	Pro	N	Leslie, Ann	cannot attend; busy
(unknown)	male	N	Pro	Y	April, Mark, Tom	has no children; asked if park will be 1,000 from his home
(unknown)	male	N	Pro	N	Leslie, Ann	uncertain
(unknown)	female	Y	Pro	N	Leslie, Ann	cannot attend; her 4 year old can't watch her 2 year old
Kate Speevak	female	Y	Con	Y	Leslie, Ann	her love of her own daughter is questionable

People Tom recruited to attend the meeting

• Mickey is Tom's #1 sod-man
• Marcy (Price?) has the two sexiest thighs in landscaping
• Tom believes Kevin's sandboxes are the best
• monkey bar contact
• Jerry (likes pretzels)
• Roy, the fence maker
• Victor Miles, top sod guy in Indiana (who leaves early)
• Don, from Don's Cement

Leslie's Dream

• to build a park that she will visit with her White House staff on her birthday
  • her staff would say, "This park is awesome, now we understand why you're the first female President of the United States."

Andyisms

• band name: Just the Tip
• when Just the Tip practices in Ann's garage it wakes up neighbor Lawrence's birds
• Just the Tip needs a bassist

Pawnee History

• in 1817 Reverend Luther Howell came from Terre Haute on an ox and planted his flag in the ground
• Howell was met by an angry tribe of Wamapoke Indians who twisted him and his white flesh to death
• in 1969, man walks on the moon as hippies infest Pawnee
• in the future, everyone will be flying around in space taxis, communicate on watches and blink our feelings to each other rather than use words

Deleted scenes

• In a talking head, Leslie says she doesn't have a life plan, only to then lay out a plan of her carreer for the next fifty years.
• After suggesting canvassing to her subcommittee, Leslie proposes to vote for it. Leslie, Ann, and Tom vote "yes", Mark votes "no", April abstains.
• After distributing binders, Leslie gives out little bags of snacks she calls GORP ("Good old raisins and peanuts"). Mark gets a bag with nothing but gummy bears. In a talking head, Ann notes that Leslie has the energy and the taste in snacks of a 10-year-old.
• More footage of Leslie and Ann cavassing: the old man who in the final episode simply says "it's a good idea, but I'm just not sure" has a lengthy conversation with the pair about a bread factory that burned down and his old dog. Earlier, a woman simply refuses to talk to them and keeps walking.
• The subcommittee takes a break at Ann's house. Ann deems the canvassing a failure, Mark feels vindicated.
• Ron's "new wind blowing in government" speech ends with him admitting he always knew he'd transfer to the private sector, and that time has come. Ron calls a friend of his named Jake, meets him at his office and asks for a job. Jake shocks him by telling his business is going under, showing how badly he is doing and asking him for a job. Ron then has a talking head in which he backtracks on his intentions.