Aubrey Plaza reunites with 'Parks and Rec' crew for their favorite holiday: Galentine's Day
Emily St. MartinFeb. 13, 2023
Dear Congress,
(
its Leslie
(
again) to remind you that Galentines Day should be a national holiday.
Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) of Parks and Recreation has brewed up more faux holidays than maybe any fictional character ever.
Theres
B
utt
D
ay,
C
alzone
D
ay, and
P
ost-Christmas
D
ay … but today is the day of Leslie Knopes most successful holiday, because its one thats actually been integrated into many real-life circles. Its Galentines Day.
Whats Galentines Day? Knope asked during
Episode 16 of
Season 2
, Episode 16
. Oh its only the best day of the year. Every Feb. 13 my lady friends and I leave our husbands and our boyfriends at home and we just come and kick it breakfast style. It’s like Lilith Fair, minus the angst. Plus, frittatas!
Ladies celebration, ladies. You know my code: Hoes before bros. Uteruses before duderuses. Ovaries before brovaries.
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Every year on Valentines Day Eve, Knope treats her galentines to a menagerie of gifts a bouquet of hand-crocheted flower pens, a mosaic portrait made from the crushed bottles of her gal pals favorite diet soda, and a personalized 5,000-word essay on why they are all so awesome.
Naturally she throws in a needlepoint pillow adorned with a picture of her friends face and the lead headline from a newspaper on the day they were born.
This year is no different, and Leslie Knope or, eh ehm, Amy Poehler is with her galentines, keeping the annual Galentines celebration alive.
Rashida Jones, who played Ann Perkins on the show, shared a photo to Instagram today of the old Galentines crew including Poehler and Aubrey Plaza, who played April Ludgate, with the caption Happy Galentines Day!
Plaza shared the same photo to her own Instagram, and the “Parks and Recreation” official Instagram account commented: why am I so emotional right now?
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