Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman made out filming “Parks and Recreation” to try to make the blooper reel

Putting the recreational activity in "Parks and Rec."

Leslie Knope and Ben Wyatt may be Parks and Recreation's OTP, but Amy Poehler had other ideas behind the scenes.

Poehler revealed that she and Nick Offerman, who played Leslie's boss Ron Swanson, would regularly make out at the end of their scenes together in the hopes of getting the footage into the annual blooper reel.

"Nick and I used to do a thing every year for the blooper reel where we would end a scene by making out," Poehler said in an oral history published in The Independent to mark 15 years since the show's premiere. "And the crew would hate it."

"Everybody hated it and it really made us laugh," she continued. "It was like watching your aunt and uncle making out or something."

The cast and creative team reunited to reminisce on the casting process and how the show found its footing gradually over its first two seasons. Poehler had nothing but praise for her costars, including her kissing buddy. "Working with Nick was a gift," she said. "He uses five words when Leslie uses 100. He’s super private and Leslie lives everything out loud so it was super fun to bounce up against him."

"I would literally often be poking, pushing or getting in his space physically," she added. "Nick’s a big imposing guy, even though anyone who knows him knows he’s a giggly softy, but he has a lot of typically masculine qualities – he can build a boat and has a mustache. It was really fun to dance with him as a character and a person."

Poehler and Offerman go way back to their earliest days as young actors in the Chicago theater scene, where Poehler was heavily involved in improv comedy and Offerman was an actor, fight choreographer, and master carpenter at some of the city's most prestigious theaters.

The two remain close, cohosting Making It for NBC, a three season reality competition show in which craftspeople face off against each other.

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