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Why Do Voters Want Women Candidates to Be Like Parks and Recreation’s Leslie Knope?
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Why Do Voters Want Women Candidates to Be Like Parks and Recreation’s Leslie Knope?

By
Juliette Holder
/ 11 October 2022

Ten years after Parks and Recreation’s campaign-focused season 4, real-world female political candidates still liken themselves to Leslie Knope. Is that the kind of candidate 2022 needs?

The Cost of Comfort: Racial Hierarchies in ‘King of the Hill’
Culture/Featured: Top of Home Page/Features/Television

The Cost of Comfort: Racial Hierarchies in ‘King of the Hill’

By
Neil Huff
/ 15 July 2019

At its best, animation comedy show King of the Hill asks, Why are"race" issues in America always about white people?

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Goodbye to ‘Parks and Recreation’ and America’s Greatest Town

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J.M. Suarez
/ 4 March 2015
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‘Parks and Recreation’: Friends, Free Markets, and First Steps

By
Liz Medendorp
/ 14 March 2013
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I Love This Town: Parks and Recreation’s Leslie Knope and the Rural Brain Drain

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Kathryn Donohue
/ 7 March 2013
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King of the Hill

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Marco Lanzagorta
/ 31 March 2003

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