--- title: The Revenant Mashed Up With Parks and Rec Intro: Video description: Frontiersmen never seemed so happy-go-lucky canonical: https://time.com/4171341/the-revenant-parks-and-rec-mashup/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-07T17:36:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:28:25.919Z og:title: See 'The Revenant' Mashed Up With 'Parks and Rec' og:description: It's so much less intense og:url: https://time.com/4171341/the-revenant-parks-and-rec-mashup/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See 'The Revenant' Mashed Up With 'Parks and Rec' twitter:description: It's so much less intense twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # _The Revenant_ Is So Much More Fun When Mashed Up With _Parks and Rec_ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jan 7, 2016 5:36 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jan 7, 2016 5:36 PM UTC If you’ve seen the film _The Revenant —_ or even just [the trailer](http://time.com/4053795/leonardo-dicaprio-new-the-revenant-trailer/) — you know it’s a deeply intense, violent affair. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as a Wyoming frontiersman in the 1800s whose [suffering](http://time.com/4157304/the-revenant-movie-review/) includes getting brutally mauled by a bear. So, like we said, it’s intense. The movie takes on a decidedly different tone, then, when mashed up with the famously cheery and sunny sitcom _Parks and Recreation._ Writer Demi Adejuyigbe combined the two and shared the video [on Twitter](https://twitter.com/electrolemon/status/684863663010787330/video/1): The movie, Adejuyigbe explains, frequently mentions the Pawnee people — and Pawnee happens to be the name of the fictional Indiana town where _Parks and Rec_ takes place. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4171341/the-revenant-parks-and-rec-mashup/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4171341/the-revenant-parks-and-rec-mashup/"},"headline":"The Revenant Is So Much More Fun When Mashed Up With Parks and Rec","datePublished":"2016-01-07T17:36:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:28:25.919Z","description":"Frontiersmen never seemed so happy-go-lucky","url":"https://time.com/4171341/the-revenant-parks-and-rec-mashup/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4171341/the-revenant-parks-and-rec-mashup/","name":"The Revenant Is So Much More Fun When Mashed Up With Parks and Rec"}}]}] ```