Sorry, Ben Wyatt: Leslie Knope is about to meet her real dream man.
According to Entertainment Weekly,
during Parks and Recreation's November 15 episode, Wyatt (Adam Scott)
will bring Knope (Amy Poehler) with him during a visit to the White
House, where she'll run into none other than America's newly re-elected
VP, Joe Biden.
While other women fantasize about
running off with Ryan Gosling or Brad Pitt, Pawnee City Councilwoman
Knope's celeb crush qualifications are slightly different. The man
Knope ends up with will hopefully have "the brains of George Clooney and
the body of Joe Biden." (Biden also isn't just "on" her "celebrity sex
list" -- "He is my celebrity sex list," Knope quipped during season
four.)
Executive producer Michael Schur
said getting the Veep to agree to a cameo was "so much less difficult
than we ever possibly imagined."
It helped that Biden was already familiar with the residents of Pawnee, Indiana.
"His staff really loves the show,
and he apparently had watched the show with his family and his family
liked it," Shur shared. "The hardest part was keeping it secret for so
long, because there's all these FEC rules and equal-time rules. We
couldn't air it before the election because it was the equivalent of a
campaign contribution to advertise for one candidate."
The Vice President won't be the
only D.C. heavyweight Knope has gotten to hang with since her fiance
moved to the capital for a job as a congressional campaign manager.
Earlier this season, she mingled with Senators Barbara Boxer, Olympia
Snowe and John McCain at a cocktail party.
Still, her meeting with Biden
"transcends that," Schur said. "She's meeting the man she's in love with
on some deep level. It was a bigger deal to us in some ways than it was
that she meet Barack Obama."
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