Grab your BFFs, it’s Galentine’s Day! Amy Poehler’s Parks and Recreation character, Leslie Knope, invented the holiday in 2010 to celebrate sisterhood one day before Valentine’s Day every ...

Move over Valentine’s Day—thanks to the always-optimistic, waffle-obsessed Leslie Knope, played by Amy Poehler on Parks and Recreation, February 13th has officially become Galentine’s Day.

No, back in Season 1, Parks and Recreation had a Leslie Knope problem. The series’s main character — an idealistic Indiana bureaucrat played by Amy Poehler — was initially framed as a peppy ...