Ben Wyatt
First Appearance	"The Master Plan"
Gender	Male
Born	1975
Age	36 years old
Family	1 unseen brother
Significant Other	Leslie Knope (girlfriend)
Occupation	Assisant City Manager of Pawnee (resigned), Indiana State Auditor (former), Mayor of Partridge, MN (impeached)
Portrayer	Adam Scott

Ben Wyatt is a character on the NBC TV show Parks and Recreation. He guest starred in two episodes in season two, and then became a regular character in season 3. He originally appeared as a state auditor who comes to Pawnee with Chris Traeger to evaluate Pawnee's funds at the end of season 2. Ben's personality is very straightforward and serious, willing to tell the truth without thinking about how bad it is. It is hinted that he still has feelings for Leslie Knope, though they broke up early season 4.

Contents 1 Character History 1.1 Season Two 1.2 Season Three 2 Photos 3 Fun Facts

Character HistoryEdit

Riding a wave of anti-incumbent sentiment, Ben Wyatt was elected mayor of the town of Partridge, Minnesota, at the tender age of 18. His immaturity and lack of experience led him to impeachment after two months after he ran the town's finances into the ground, most infamously by spearheading the construction of a winter sports complex called Ice Town which bankrupted the town. A newspaper ran an article with this headline on his defeat: "Ice Town Costs Ice Clown Town Crown."

Season TwoEdit

In season two when Ben first comes to Pawnee, he and Leslie Knope do not get along, Leslie yelling at him for having an insensitive attitude about firing people from the Parks and Recreation team, as well as cutting her budget. When he asks her out to have a beer, they begin to respect each other more. They become friends and he shares his history in politics with her, and tells her he became auditor to show that he is responsible enough to run for mayor again.

Chris reveals that the town has virutally no funds left and the government will be shut down (which includes the parks of Pawnee) until further notice. He and Chris set up a budget task force with several employees of Pawnees goverment, including Ron Swanson. Ron accidently reveals that that Leslie is secretly planning to put the canceled childrens concert on a unused lot (Lot 48) behind Ann Perkins' house, he tries to stop her. When he sees how much effort she put into it, he lets her have the concert and even pays Freddy Spaghetti (a childrens musician) to come back after he booked something else, which gets him back on Leslies good side.

Season ThreeEdit

In the first episode of season 3, "Go Big or Go Home", Ben starts a youth basketball leauge because of popular demand throughout Pawnee. In the same episode, Ben and Chris agree to re-start the tradition of the Pawnee "Harvest Festival" at the proposal of Leslie Knope. Ben brings Leslie to the hospital for the flu becuase she won't admit it, due to the fact that she has an important presentation with the Pawnee Chamber of Commerce about the Harvest festival. He brings her waffles from her favorite diner in the same episode, and chicken noodle soup, which is a large hint that he might be interested romantically in Leslie.

Ben is slowly starting to be more impressed by the citizens of Pawnee and their "passion", as well as Pawnee itself. Ben embarasses himself in "Media Blitz". This episode is mainly about Ben and his history. He stammers and is awkward on the radio show, "Crazy Ira and The Douche". The Harvest Festival brings Ben and Leslie closer together because of the teamwork needed for the sucsess of it. In "April and Andy's Fancy Party", he and Leslie stare at each other when Andy Dwyer is talking about doing what makes you happy (after the wedding).

Also in the episode "Jerry's Painting", he admits to Andy that he has feelings for Leslie and that she might have feelings for him also. He also kissed Leslie in the episode Road Trip, and they are currently in a relationship.

PhotosEdit

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Fun FactsEdit

• Enjoys model trains
• Ben did not like Peter Jackson's movie adaption of J.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
• His drink of choice is Point Honey Lite
• Ben's favorite food is a calzone
• He has an immense fear of cops
• His parents are divorced