Leslie
Knope [played
by Amy Poehler]: “Trish, Alexis de Tocqueville called America ‘The Great
Experiment.’ What can we do, as citizens, to improve on that experiment?”
Trish
Ianetta [played
by April Eden]: “Uh, well, uh, I think America is the land of the free,
which is a wonderful thing, and also the brave, where people can live. And
nobody can ever take that away from you, and it never gives up. But the high
birthing rate of immigrants frightens me! No offense to anyone out there, but
if it were up to me and my family, I would actually call it our America, and
not their America! Thank you.”
[The
audience applauds enthusiastically.]
Leslie: “Don't applaud that. She didn't—she
didn't answer my question.”— Parks
and Recreation,
Season 2, Episode 3, “Beauty Pageant,” original air date Oct. 1, 2009,
teleplay by Katie Dippold and Harris Wittels, directed by Jason Woliner
This is a
scene in which the full vacuity of a character can only be conveyed by watching
an actor rather than by reading the admittedly clever dialogue.
In a few
years, it sounds like Trish and her family would be among the original,
hard-core MAGA contingent.
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