leslie knope is problematic af | Parks & Recreation | Comedy Bites

[@abbymaddox7689]

'' The only thing I will be waving is your decapitated head on a stick in front of your weeping mother 🤪'' I love this line so much.

[@belhlv]

good lord!

[@maximillian875]

I’m not sure I’d feel threatened by that, I’d probably just laugh my head off FOR Leslie if it came from her.

[@BenDavidin5785]

it's biblical so i extra love it

[@sims2lovealot]

The great thing about Leslie is that she has a lot of flaws - like every human being - but she makes up for it in passion and heart. She does bad things sometimes but she always does her best to make it right and to apologise and fix the situation, and her intentions always come from a place of wanting to do the right thing. Parks & Rec is so awesome because the characters work together to improve themselves and each other, and by the end of the series they've really grown and developed.

[@ploopyfudgewink9207]

Yes but consider all of these mistakes are over an extended period of time AND after her closest friends had singled out these unsavory tendencies (on multiple occasions) to her. She doesn’t listen and it’s almost like she keeps people around simply because they work as buffers for her fuckups and have much more passive personalities. She’s so focused on proving she’s ‘great’ that she sees taking the time to work on herself as a hindrance when in reality, it’s that mentality that sets her back and prevents her from growing as a person. It’s like Leslies caught in a loop of acting without forethought but stumbles into success repeatedly because she keeps good people around.

[@CheerfullyCynical829]

I hate cheery optimists. And I hate politicians. Guess how I feel about Leslie Knope.

[@sims2lovealot]

@@CheerfullyCynical829 what's wrong with being an optimist?

[@neolexiousneolexian6079]

​@@sims2lovealot Sometimes optimism about the future comes at a cost of disrespecting and ignoring other people's pain or your own real problems in the present.

[@cstrosetta]

Oof these sounds like Breaking Bad commentaries

[@globbyakaweirdjellyguy954]

Leslie realizing she messed up when she gave a crazy, malicious laugh is perfect.😆 Also, poor Ann being pimped out by Leslie.😓

[@jakepullman4914]

Her wicked laugh reminds me of Ron's.

[@su_el_paula]

Haha, Ben's "That's a great thing about treatys, they don't even matter" is so underrated

[@teapottanuki5841]

“You should call be a bulldozer then a steamroller” That’s exactly what a steamroller would say whilst bulldozing over someone else.

[@gibranadnan5788]

A decent chunk of these clips are from Season 3-4, which is when Leslie was still transitioning from the "ditzy Michael Scott" type to the "blooming flower of hard work" type. I think the writers maybe didn't know how to naturally get her to be a very hard worker without being ditzy, and maybe they thought this was a good way to transition her. Just a thought.

[@parryyotter]

No. That was season 2.

[@rasklaat2]

Season 1 was ok. Seasons 2-5 were good. Season 6 was awful.

[@user-oe8tx9co1p]

@@rasklaat2 what when how where why?

[@user-oe8tx9co1p]

@@rasklaat2 what?

[@wangray9456]

Leslie: Keep interrupting while Ann talks Also Leslie: Ann, you always keep starting these sentences without finishing.

[@betweenXtheXstars]

Its weird, I'm so attracted to Ben, even though I'm not really attracted to Adam Scott.

[@fatimazaidi7068]

Oh my God yes.

[@ytubeytube3882]

I’m attracted to Adam Scott when he’s a jerk cause I’m a messed up individual 🤷‍♀️

[@betweenXtheXstars]

@@ytubeytube3882 oh so like Stepbrothers?

[@Studiosagi]

@@ytubeytube3882Trevor in The Good Place was chicken soup for my villain-loving soul

[@aznfangrl612]

If someone asked me "I just want to borrow your husband for the evening"... someone's getting their wig snatched

[@KEVMAN7987]

I AM SUPER CHILL ALL THE TIME

[@zeffmalchazeen3429]

Leslie said calmly

[@cosmicloops3471]

0:28 the moment Ben fell in love with Leslie

[@Amanda-pz7io]

Agreed.

[@cuffed2479]

His "Good lord!" hits differently after reading your comment 🤣

[@brbrdeng9122]

The worst thing Leslie did was shut down April's proposed dog park area. April was actually passionate about it and since she would be working close where Ann lives, it would've been a great opportunity to actually be nice to her. The face April has at 5:39 is heartbreaking.

[@bexyPTX]

Man it’s really hard to watch pretty much anything from the model UN episode

[@Shimeih]

I always skip that episode.😬. Once was enough

[@__m__a__x__]

I watch it for the lions and the moon

[@aceofspades6789]

@@__m__a__x__ and the weeping mother

[@WJen8]

She really is like a burning sun 😂

[@samiai8905]

"Good Lord" *I am so attracted to you right now.* We all know that's what he was thinking

[@malihaahmad334]

The best sitcom I have ever seen yet! Leslie knope is my most favourite character!!

[@BigMastah79]

Not a sitcom but okay. Capitalize “Knope”, and remove the “most”, it should be “my favorite character”.

[@DHS630]

@@BigMastah79 Quite pompous are we? If you come to the Internet to correct grammar, please find a new hobby. Also, P&R is most definitely a sitcom. As is The Office, as is Community, as is Modern Family. A sitcom is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode. Just because they changed forms (Thanks to The Office), doesn’t mean that isn’t what they are.

[@BigMastah79]

@@DHS630 Oh. I just associate it with Laugh Tracks. And don’t tell me what to do babes, you have just as little of a life as I do 💖

[@__m__a__x__]

@@BigMastah79 Ooh self-burn, those are rare!

[@specialkali]

I don’t know if I would consider her problematic. She is driven by the need to do good for the many and in doing so often brushes aside the needs of the individual. Not great, she’s a flawed character, but not problematic.

[@MaxMckayful]

But it's also selfish to declare that your "good" is the good of others. The Anne clip is a perfect example. Leslie forces Anne to not drink white wine, but Anne says "it's my headache". There's some nuance to it. If a person is about to get hit by a car, it's okay to push them out of the way. But a lot more situations have a lot more nuance and it's incredibly arrogant to steamroll over others and decide for them, pushing your own world view, versus hearing them out.

[@sheatetables]

@@MaxMckayful anne is also an adult and can use her words to say no. Leslie has a strong will because this just how she is as a person. I work with little kids and I am constantly amazed by how strong some of those kids opinions are about things they hardly think about while I struggle to get other kids to be anything other than totally indifferent. People come in all varieties and Leslie is just the type to think that she has the answer. Because she thinks she has the answer, she often tries to push her views on other people, and while I don’t agree with her doing that, it’s also up to others to say no instead of letting her steamroll them. While I do agree that Leslie can be too much, I don’t think she’s selfish - I just think she wants to see her friends be happy and succeed and sometimes it’s hard for her to understand how she’s coming off to other people. In the end, she does say and do more than she should, but it’s not fair to blame her for things that others stand by and allow to happen. She can have her opinions but other people don’t need to let those affect them.

[@elizabethlee2136]

I also think it's a joke, while the clips poke fun at her foibles and actual flaws, and how they backfire

[@neolexiousneolexian6079]

​@@sheatetables Ann *is* using her words to say no, at multiple points in this clip. Leslie isn't respecting that, and is instead pushing forwards to force what she thinks the right answer is each time.

[@scottmitchell1974]

She's easily the worst character. Tom is her VP of awfulness. She cloaks her obsessive behavior in "helpfulness" and other virtue signaling. The term is "officious" and she's the Queen of it.

[@Casey420]

I love leslie knope. She has her flaws but she's an amazing fair person. This show and it's characters (even the side characters) is just fantastic and I'm sad that I finished it a few days ago.

[@sweetimmortalife]

Not everything about Leslie will fly in the future, she sure will be subjected to a lot more criticism being a white woman portrayed as "good", but she's dope and well-intentioned, and as of now she remains a progressive hard working character that often choose the selfless path for the better of her community. She was also an excellent friend, so yeay to Leslie, will always love her.

[@sweetimmortalife]

@KZbin are Snowflakes ok Jamm

[@abolishice591]

Nobody's criticizing people just for being white women

[@sweetimmortalife]

@KZbin are Snowflakes Ughh, you’re being a real Jerry now

[@sweetimmortalife]

@@abolishice591 I didn’t say she would be critiqued for being a “white woman”. Reading comprehension. She did many questionable things as a white woman. Her criticism will come from her privilege as a white person and the disadvantage of being a women.

[@abolishice591]

Melissa Bay well I agree with that but why did you phrase your original statement like "she will be subjected to criticism being a white woman portrayed as good"? I assumed that you were saying that criticism of white privilege was a bad thing and that people are attacking white women for no reason.

[@artism9780]

0:28 Dark Humor at its finest 🤣

[@itshana_nothannah]

0:37 story of my life

[@madeniquevanwyk]

Gotta have that on a t shirt 😭

[@rohangangan8327]

I just love how ben looks into the camera 3.53🤣🤣

[@WMASD2707]

Passionate but over the top

[@maximillian875]

Woman: “Leslie, I JUST want to borrow your husband for the evening.” Leslie: 😧

[@polaroized]

problematically AWESOME

[@MrRiddler6]

1:26 was 4 seasons worth issues i had with her character. she's has a good heart to do things for the community. but some times she do whatever she wants just to prove her point. It can come off as petty to some degree. Its interesting how it took this long to call her out on her behavior.

[@kellymcgarrey9618]

i would die for her

[@madeniquevanwyk]

Yeah I mean, luckily she had good intentions 😩😩

[@EnoVarma]

I may be wrong, but I don't think there was a single example of gaslighting here.

[@ernestoagapitogarcesconyad1710]

there isn't, unfortunately it's kind of a meme now

[@parryyotter]

Actually there is lol

[@ernestoagapitogarcesconyad1710]

@@parryyotter where

[@MaxMckayful]

@@ernestoagapitogarcesconyad1710 At the UN, when Leslie declares "we can still spend time together as friends", that's arguably gaslighting. Rather than state it as a hypothesis, Leslie declares it as basically factual. It forces Ben to push back and assert his view that, for him, it doesn't seem possible. It's not the perfect example, and to be clear it's also not being done maliciously. But it is, as Ben says, selfish. It's declaring that her world view is fact, not opinion. And denying Ben his world view in the process. The non-gaslighting version would be more like "I would like to continue as just friends if that also works for you". Gaslighting was saying "just friends will definitely work". I do think there could also be more terms to tease apart some of these nuances. Because I do agree that Leslie doesn't do the more egregious, traditional outright malicious, essentially lying. She's less "lying" and more just declaring her opinions as fact.

[@clarestollery2503]

When Ann says she hates Harry Potter and that Leslie made her watch all 8 movies, Leslie replies that she loves it because she's watched them all. Basically gaslighting by changing reality to suit her preferences (She wants Ann to likes something so forces it on her rather than letting Ann have a say).

[@mansishukla6779]

Just a thought - but why is this channel more critical of Leslie Knope than any other character from a show? She's flawed but she doesn't get away with her mistakes or bad behaviour. More often than not, she works to improve her department, help other people, do her job well and achieve her childhood dreams- she can be overbearing, stubborn or narrow minded sometimes when worrying about something beyond her control but she's more willing to own her mistakes and work on herself than others - I really don't think she is problematic.

[@francescakyanda9182]

on an entirely different spectrum, she could've been a white supremacist and that's terrifying

[@turdferguson1989]

The ultimate karen

[@jelle-2554]

no shes not

[@Ray_D_Tutto]

Just like Ron Swanson could of been Ron Dunn. So different yet so similar.

[@philrandall8745]

To be fair besides April and Donna everyone is kind of a pushover but Ron Doesn't care enough to engage

[@Svengali764]

No Leslie knope slander allowed here..

[@vincentgordon466]

I love this show!! Maybe a reboot ? Lol

[@AlexJordan]

the video was entertaining but I really don't care for this title. a more accurate statement would be "Leslie Knope tries her best to do good but makes mistakes just like any human and we should be understanding of that and forgive her af"

[@phhrogg8065]

thought this was gonna be a video essay

[@hittingyouoverthehead]

No this channel merely gives compilations/ clips from the shows.

[@harambo88]

ah steakroller means wackewalz

[@0812imterri]

Leslie is a well-rounded, likeable character with flaws and a good heart. So to this channel's weird title choice, in the voice of Ben Wyatt, "stop being obtuse."

[@jonferris1297]

Its is true.... Any country she was the President... Yikes....

[@ultravioletcatastrophe]

not sure what power presidents hold in any non-thirdworld countries, but if she was the supreme leader of the world, I think there'd be a lot less suffering

[@hittingyouoverthehead]

@@ultravioletcatastrophe I think if she were the Supreme leader, she'd work herself to death in two months. She's such a workaholic that she simply won't be able to resist that amount of work.

[@sarahbarnes9648]

This is why she's kind of like Michael Scott

[@Cry0thecringeyicerobot]

Yooo first

[@itshana_nothannah]

Second

[@scottmitchell1974]

She's easily the worst character. Tom is her VP of awfulness. She cloaks her obsessive behavior in "helpfulness" and other virtue signaling. The term is "officious" and she's the Queen of it.

[@ieatcaribou7852]

I just can't understand how Amy Poehler, who's supposed to be an actress, helped produce the show yet made her own character the absolute worst. She singlehandedly ruined the show. Thank God for the supporting cast.

[@dizzylilthing]

Look up the American conservative comedy Mr Birchum and look at what Adam Corolla did. granted, I don't know anybody who likes that show and most people I know who watch Parks and Rec greatly enjoy Leslie.

[@dizzylilthing]

also, you should look into this web show called the new norm. It took a proud stand against wokism like pronouns and women, but the producers went ahead and gave him an African for a friend. producers don't always have the best vision.

[@matthewsweeney9454]

Apart from her political views which i hate in this show, she was still so infuriating on top of that so many times

[@scottmitchell1974]

She's easily the worst character. Tom is her VP of awfulness. She cloaks her obsessive behavior in "helpfulness" and other virtue signaling. The term is "officious" and she's the Queen of it.

[@dizzylilthing]

​@@scottmitchell1974I think I would feel differently if Leslie wasn't so intent on making other people's lives better. there's a reason that the police chief, literally the most important police officer which is the most important job in America, recognized that she uses her favors for other people and should be helped. are you some kind of blm liberal? Do you think that you know better than the chief of police?

[@Hunteldork]

She is the reason why I hated the show