Donna: Are you gonna hit that?
Ann: Him? He isn't exactly boyfriend material.
Donna: Who said anything about a boyfriend? Use him, abuse him, lose him. That's the Meagle motto.
[aside to camera:]
Donna: Grammy Meagle taught me that. She died at the age of 84, sandwiched between two thirty-year-olds.

Ben: Okay, this is bad, right?
Leslie Knope: Yeah, this is bad. This is like a poop tornado. This is like a poopnado. This is way worse than that. This is a huge government project, and already a lightning rod. And then you add the Wamapoke controversy. Double lightning rod.
Ben: Plus we lost that little pony.
Leslie Knope: It's a mini horse! And that's the third lightning rod. Triple lightning rod! And then you have the curse, quadruple lightning rod. This is a classic four rod disaster.
Ben: Oh, right, one of those.

Leslie Knope: God, now all the vendors are gonna bail. And the ticket sales are gonna go down.
Ben: Wait, I'm sorry. But do people in this town really believe in curses?
[aside to camera:]
Leslie Knope: Pawnee's a really superstitious town. A traveling magician came by one time and he pulled a rabbit out of a hat, and the mob burned him at the stake for being a witch. The year was 1973.