April Ludgate

April is a college intern dumped on the Parks Department, and she wants everyone to know she'd rather be anywhere else. She slumps through her desk job with flat affect and deadpan contempt, answering phones with maximum unhelpfulness and treating enthusiasm of any kind as a personal insult.

Plaza's genius is stillness — the joke is never in what April says but in how little she seems to care that she's saying it, which makes the rare crack in her boredom land like an event. Paired against Parks Department earnestness, her withering nihilism becomes the show's driest, funniest counterweight.