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HitFix First Look: 'Parks and Recreation' presents the best of Perd Hapley

Ya heard about Pawnee's number one anchorman?

By Alan Sepinwall Friday, May 11, 2012 9:00 AM

<p>Jay Jackson as Perd Hapley on "Parks and Recreation."</p>

Jay Jackson as Perd Hapley on "Parks and Recreation."

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The town of Pawnee on "Parks and Recreation" is often compared to Springfield on "The Simpsons" in the way that it's given the show such a deep bench of ancillary characters while also creating a recognizable community for our characters to live and work in.

Springfield has a busy but clueless news media, and so does Pawnee, where the man behind the anchor desk is Perderick L. "Perd" Hapley, marvelously played by Jay Jackson. Personality-wise, Perd probably owes more to Dr. Hibberd than to Kent Brockman; where Kent Kent is a relic from the days when news anchors were expected to be the Voice From the Mountaintop, Perd is an idiot getting by on an amiable personality and a propensity to laugh (even if he doesn't always understand your humor, he can recognize the cadence of a joke), and he's also changed his hairstyle over the years.

NBC's online team has put together another of its "Parks and Rec" character mash-up videos — which is exclusive to HitFix for the next few hours — this time highlighting the cheerful inaninty of Perd. SPOILER WARNING: The clip reel contains a few scenes from last night's season finale, so if you haven't seen it yet, don't watch.

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Alan Sepinwall has been reviewing television since the mid-'90s, first for Tony Soprano's hometown paper, The Star-Ledger, and now for HitFix. His new book, "The Revolution Was Televised," about the last 15 years of TV drama, is for sale at Amazon. He can be reached at sepinwall@hitfix.com
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    ps

    I looked up the actor who plays Perd, Jay Jackson, on IMDb. And ALL of his previous roles have been as reporter and newscaster!! This guys knows face news.

    May 12, 2012 at 2:15PM EST Reply to Comment
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      ps *fake news

      May 12, 2012 at 2:16PM EST

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