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Saturday, March 7, 2015

S2 E10: Hunting Trip

Score: 3 / 3
Leslie: April, I need you to do something for me. I’m going hunting tomorrow, so call the State Parks office and get verbal confirmation that our budget documentation is in. Can I just tell you the 16-digit tracking number or do you want me to write it down? I’ll write it down. Can you handle this?
April: You want me to dial a number and then read another number out loud?
Leslie: Yes. Can you handle this?
April: No.
Leslie: Well try, okay? And if you do it, I’ll name the first turkey I shoot after you.
April: Cool.

More:
Leslie and Ann talk about hunting
Ann checks on Donna who is screaming about her Benz being damaged
This means that all four lead women are included in Bechdel-passing dialogue in this episode…!
Ann asks Leslie why she takes the blame

Friday, March 6, 2015

S2 E9: The Camel

Score: 2 / 3
Donna: No offense Leslie, but I’m not an artist.
Leslie: Oh that’s not true, Donna. I’ve seen your fingernails!
Donna: Um, I pay someone to do this.
Leslie: Really? Oh, shoot.

More:
Ann, April, Donna and Leslie all pitch murals (along with Tom and Jerry)– most of the dialogue is towards the group. 
Notably there is an exchange between Ann and April that passes the test, which is the first Bechdel-passing exchange I’ve found that doesn’t involve Leslie.

Thursday, March 5, 2015

S2 E8: Ron and Tammy

Score: 2 / 3

Leslie: Hello, hi, my name is Leslie Knope. I called a little while ago.
Tammy 2: You have a lot of nerve showing your face here.
Leslie: Excuse me?
Tammy 2: You have overdue book fees totaling three dollars, missy.
(this conversation goes on)


More:
Leslie asks April to stop texting. This almost passes but doesn’t because April’s second contribution to the conversation is texted, not spoken.
Tammy makes fun of Leslie for the type of woman she is, but this is defined mostly by how they treat men

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

S2 E7: Greg Pikitis

Score: 0 / 3

FAILS


Leslie talks to Ann but only about Greg Pikitis.
April talks to Ann but only about her boyfriends.
Leslie spends the majority of the episode with Dave and Andy; Ann with Mark; and Wendy with Tom and Ron

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

S2 E6: Kaboom

Score: 3 / 3

Leslie: Ah! I am so pumped! I feel like I could take on the world!
Ann: Me too! I could prep like a thousand diagnostic tests. In an hour!
Leslie: That’s the spirit!
Ann: There it is. The pit. There’s something I wish I could “kaboom”.
Leslie: Well, we are. It’s just a slow “boom”. Slower, more deliberate.
Ann: Yeah, totally. See you tomorrow.

More:
Leslie asks Ann for help her with an unspecified task, they arrive at the pit to fill it in and talk some more – then at the end of the episode they talk about what’s left to do when they stand on the lot where the pit once was.
Leslie takes a call from a woman at her bank about suspicious charges but the caller is not named.

Monday, March 2, 2015

S2 E5: Sister City

 Score: 2 / 3

Ann: …or you could build a park with that money.
Leslie: Let’s look at the pros and cons.
Ann: Pro: we could fill in the pit and build a park.
Leslie: Con: we could be filling it in with dirty money.
More:

There’s a few utterances between women that don’t last very long, including Leslie asking April if she speaks Spanish – but ultimately this episode is a lot of interplay between Leslie and Raul (Fred Armisen)

Sunday, March 1, 2015

S2 E4: Practice Date

Score: 1* / 3

*So this one's tricky. The conversations Leslie and Ann have (including their role plays), while great fun, all concern Leslie's date with Dave. It is a male driven conversation, so Lauren feels it shouldn't pass. I think it's at least worth a 1 with an asterisk for reasons like this:

Leslie: The Danish call it op og ned maskine which, literally translated, means “the up and down machine”.
Ann: Wow, that’s a thorough history of the teeter-totter…
Leslie: Now I’m going to talk about the local flora and fauna found in Pawnee.
Ann: You know what? Just ask me a question. Just try to get to know me.

More:
Leslie asks Ann to help her dress and prepare for her date with Dave – most of these conversations are more about potential conversation topics than about Dave himself. Still, I’m not counting it.
Ann and Leslie talk about many other topics that are not men while role playing.