29 Facts About Ann Perkins

Ann Perkins is a nurse and Leslie Knope's best friend.

Ann Perkins's ethnic background is a mystery and is often speculated about.

Ann Perkins is Leslie's motivator and the reason the series is set in motion.

Ann Perkins originally came to a city hall meeting to ask that an abandoned pit near her house be filled.

Ann Perkins spends most of the series trying to discover herself.

Ann Perkins is often uncertain and anxious, but still pushes herself, even when she is uncomfortable.

Ann Perkins later discovers when she is in a relationship she gets swept into her boyfriend's personalities and begins to date herself.

At the start of the series, Ann Perkins is living with her boyfriend Andy Dwyer.

Ann Perkins is far more mature and responsible than Andy, who remains lazy, spoiled, and unemployed.

At first, Ann Perkins seems to be happy with Mark, but as time goes on, she starts getting bored having a normal and healthy relationship, remembering that her relationship with Andy, while terrible, was more interesting.

Leslie sees an opportunity to utilize Chris' positivity to bring more funds into the Parks Department by having Ann Perkins bring it up on a date.

Ann Perkins later apologizes to Chris and asks him out on another date, and the two soon enter into a relationship.

Ann Perkins later tells Leslie Chris became distant after their "talk", which prompts Leslie to search his house for items that could suggest his infidelity, when she and Ron visit his house in Indianapolis.

Ann Perkins is emotionally affected by the break up, and she begins engaging in impulsive behaviors, such as dyeing part of her hair red and making out with a patient during the Harvest Festival.

When Chris returns to Pawnee as the temporary city manager, the two of them discuss their relationship over dinner, where Ann Perkins is fooled again by his positive attitude into thinking their relationship is back on.

Ann Perkins ends up taking the job part-time so she can still be a nurse at the hospital.

Ann Perkins is again a big supporter in Leslie and Ben getting back together.

Ann Perkins agrees to help Leslie with her campaign and temporarily became her campaign manager.

In "Operation Ann Perkins", Leslie tries to help Ann Perkins meet a date.

Ann Perkins ends up going out with Tom Haverford, even though almost everything he does annoys her and they frequently break up.

On election night, a drunken Ann Perkins agrees to move in with Tom.

Ann Perkins decides she wants to have a child and begins the process of in vitro fertilization, asking Chris to father her child.

Leslie later finds out that Ann Perkins did this because she was in labor and didn't want Leslie to drop everything to come see her because she could be in labor for hours.

Ann Perkins appeared in every episode of Parks and Recreation until Season 6, except for "Woman of the Year", which she missed because she was filming scenes for the David Fincher film The Social Network.

Ann Perkins often serves as a straight man to the other characters, particularly Leslie Knope, and some reviewers have said Rashida Jones' talent has been under-utilized in the role.

Many reviewers were critical of the pairing of Mark and Ann Perkins, feeling the couple lacked chemistry and were often the least funny parts of the individual episodes.

Ann Perkins would receive much more positive reviews in the later seasons.

Many reviewers claimed Ann Perkins's relationship with Chris in the third season was a major improvement, with several writing that Chris' near-perfection took the normally composed Ann Perkins out of her comfort zone, giving Rashida Jones more comedic material to work with.

Club wrote that by the middle of the third season, "Ann Perkins's character defies all the expectations heaped on her from two previous seasons".