Minnesota Independent » pawnee http://minnesotaindependent.com News. Politics. Media. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:37:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 ‘Parks and Recreation’ provides what local governments desperately need: lampooning http://minnesotaindependent.com/30593/parks-and-recreation-provides-what-local-governments-desperately-need-lampooning http://minnesotaindependent.com/30593/parks-and-recreation-provides-what-local-governments-desperately-need-lampooning#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:30:52 +0000 Chris Steller http://minnesotaindependent.com/?p=30593 parks-and-rec-websiteA new network TV comedy, NBC’s “Parks and Recreation,” premieres Thursday, April 9. Fans of the show’s star, Amy Poehler (late of “Saturday Night Live”), or of another NBC series, “The Office” (off of which “Parks and Recreation” is…]]> parks-and-rec-websiteA new network TV comedy, NBC’s “Parks and Recreation,” premieres Thursday, April 9. Fans of the show’s star, Amy Poehler (late of “Saturday Night Live”), or of another NBC series, “The Office” (off of which “Parks and Recreation” is said to have spun), have their own reasons to watch. But anyone who has dealt with local government, particularly online, will enjoy a visit to the “Parks and Recreation” Web site. It’s a pitch-perfect, deadpan parody of a city Web site, down to the “Information Technology” page that’s under construction. 

Refreshingly, the “Parks and Recreation” Web site appears to have absolutely no information about the TV show, except for a page devoted to Poehler’s character, City of Pawnee Deputy Director of Parks and Recreation Leslie Knope. So here’s a trailer for “Parks and Recreation,” which is coming soon to a city near you via network TV, whether your local government needs parody or already provides its own.

TV trivia: The fictional city of Pawnee, Ind., has an official seal that bears a slight resemblance to Minnesota’s state seal.

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