top 5 Parks and Rec ships: #5, Leslie/Ben

Ben Wyatt is basically a male, slightly-less-competent Leslie Knope, so their dynamic doesn’t have a lot of intrinsic tension to it once they’re together. But it’s impossible not to find them adorable, or to be unpsyched at Leslie getting to be happy with someone who thinks she’s so amazing he has to resort to sports references I don’t understand to fully describe how great she is. Personally, I find the two of them most interesting when they’re yelling at each other, or when they’re playing weird sex games.

Which. Can we talk about that for a second, because seriously, the sequence up above aired two episodes after the one in which they first kissed. The timeline of season 3 is fucked beyond repair, but they do tend to try to say the episodes happened around their intended airdates, so it seems reasonable to assume that this happens two weeks after they first got together.

So if you’re Leslie Knope, when do you first introduce WEIRD RONALD REAGAN SEX GAMES into your relationship? The third date?