Christopher " Chris " Traeger is a fictional character played by Rob Lowe on the NBC Parks and Recreation NBC comedy series. He began appearing as an Indiana State Auditor visiting the fictional city of Pawnee to help solve a crippling budget problem, eventually becoming Pawnee City Manager. Chris is a very positive person who is always passionate and energetic. Highly conscious of his health, he continues to exercise and only eat healthy food, hoping to become the first human to reach the age of 150 years.
Chris first appeared in the second season episode of "The Master Plan". Originally expected to appear in eight episodes as a guest star, Lowe finally went on to remain on the show as a permanent cast member. Chris is a romantic interest for Ann Perkins (Rashida Jones) during the event. Chris imposed a strict policy on dating at work at the town hall, but the protagonist of the series Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) and Ben Wyatt (Adam Scott) began secretly dating, which Chris eventually accepted.
The idea of ​​Chris as the State Auditor was inspired by the real-life accounts of the government's closure amid the global financial crisis. This character has received very positive reviews from critics, and has been described as "one of the best comedy creations in recent years" and "one of the funniest shows of Rob Lowe's career".
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Character biography
Background and personality
Described by Rob Lowe, Chris Traeger started the show as an auditor working for the Indiana state government in Indianapolis, but eventually became the manager of the acting town of Pawnee, the fictional city of Indiana where the Garden and Recreation was set. Originally from Wisconsin, he was a very positive and upbeat person, always eager and very energetic. As an infant, Chris was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder and was not expected to live for more than three weeks, but miraculously survived. As a result, he sees every day he lives as a gift, resulting in a very cheerful and enthusiastic personality. He has a half-brother who lives in London.
Chris is very health conscious and keeps exercising; he ran as far as 10 miles during his lunch break, and assumed a 15km run for a "light" exercise. She avoids eating red meat and fatty foods for dishes such as turkey burgers and sweetened vegetable buns with fruit reduction, and takes lots of unusual vitamins. Chris has always remained very well hydrated, and as a result of extreme sports regimens it has only 2.8% body fat, which makes it very susceptible to disease due to the weakened immune system. His ambition is to be the first human to live 150 years. Chris always greets people with close handshakes and direct eye contact, and remember their names often point directly to people and repeat their names at their first meeting. His constant desire to make everyone around him happy meant that Chris hated to deliver bad news, a task he often gave to his subordinates, usually Ben Wyatt. He often states things that are "literally" the best thing he has ever seen or done, emphasize the word and say it "in a litral way." He is very specific about his needs, provides long and protracted requests, often making only one point per sentence; in the episode "Ron & amp; Tammy: Part Two", he ordered a beer saying, "I want a local beer... I like it in a bottle... and I want it to cool down."
Season two
Beginning in the second episode of the season "The Master Plan", Chris Traeger and fellow state auditor Ben Wyatt (Adam Scott) were sent to Pawnee to help solve a crippling city budget deficit. Despite the seriousness of the problem, Chris presents the situation in a very positive light and tries to get all the city hall employees around him happy, leaving difficult decisions and sending bad news to Ben. Because of Pawnee's poorly managed administration, Chris and Ben needed to cut every city budget by 50 percent, much to the disappointment of park deputy and recreational director Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler).
During a walk in the bar, Chris meets Leslie's friend, Ann Perkins (Rashida Jones), who is drunk and experiences conflicting emotions after his breakup with Mark Brendanawicz (Paul Schneider) recently. Ann makes out with Chris and, even though she is too drunk to remember the incident the next day, she develops romantic feelings for her. Ann refuses her request for a date, and thinks it's too strong, but the ever-optimistic Chris does not become discouraged and insists she'll keep following. Meanwhile, in "Freddy Spaghetti", Chris and Ben reveal Pawnee's budget issue is worse than anticipated, which would require the government to temporarily close, much to the horror of Leslie, but the park's fun and recreational director Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman), a libertarian anti-government. Chris and Ben even consider firing Leslie to save money, but Ron persuades them instead.
Season three
In "Go Big or Go Home", after three months of closure, the Pawnee government reopened in limited capacity, but Chris and Ben insisted that the park's budget and recreational department can only maintain the maintenance of the existing park. Leslie, however, wants to offer better programs and services for Pawnee residents. She asks Ann to date Chris, then tries to convince him to raise the budget. Ann reluctantly approves of the plan, but as time passes, she finds herself genuinely enjoying herself and developing feelings for Chris. When Leslie accidentally delivers her secret plan, Chris is wounded and belittled by Ann's hidden motives. The next day, however, Ann apologizes and asks to continue dating Chris, who gladly accepts.
Ann finds out that she really likes Chris, but is intimidated because she can not find any weakness with him, which causes her to act socially awkwardly around her. However, when the flu epidemic strikes Pawnee in "Flu Season", Chris becomes seriously ill, due to extreme sports regimens, he has a poor immune system and low body fat. He suffered a complete physical disorder and became delirious with fever, which caused Ann (who worked as a local nurse and cured her illness) felt less intimidated by her. Later, when he recovers, Chris and Ben are called back to Indianapolis for another task, but Chris asks for an extension to stay at Pawnee, apparently because of his feelings for Ann.
In "Ron & Tammy: Part Two", Ann begins to question why Chris has not asked him to move with him to Indianapolis when he finally returns there, especially after he offers to assistant Ron April Ludgate (Aubrey Plaza) to come there to work for him. After Ann insists that they need to decide what will happen in their future, Chris breaks off with Ann. However, he did it in a positive and optimistic way so he did not realize that they had broken up. When Chris returns to Indianapolis, Ann becomes confused as to why they have little contact and suspect that he betrays her. In the "Indianapolis" episode, Ann confronts Chris about her suspicions, only to be humiliated to know that she really wants to break up with him.
In the episode "Camping" a few months later, Chris returns to Pawnee to work as a city acting manager after former manager Paul Iaresco (Phil Reeves) suffers a major heart attack. Ann is still devastated to meet him to try to clear the air. However, Chris was once again very optimistic when discussing their separation that he misconstrued that they had returned together and tried to kiss him, thus embarrassing himself further. Meanwhile, Chris offers Ben a full-time job working in the Pawnee government, which Ben receives.
Chris proved to be an energetic city manager, encouraging Leslie to pursue great ambitious projects like the harvest festival he held before he returned to Pawnee. In "Soulmates", he also tries to combat the problem of Pawnee's infamous obesity by enacting health initiatives throughout the government. In the same episode, when he saw Leslie kissing fellow Tom Haverford (Aziz Ansari) employees and mistakenly believed they were dating, Chris warned him that he was maintaining a strict policy against the labor calendar and insisted he could be fired if he did that kind of relationship. She does not realize, however, that Leslie and Ben really have romantic feelings for each other, and finally start dating without her knowledge.
During the end of season "Li'l Sebastian", Chris learned he had tendinitis. Though not too serious, he frightened Chris who was conscious of his health and made him start contemplating his own mortality. He was finally entertained by Ann, who now works part-time in town hall as public relations director of the health department. Chris felt better and seemed to start developing feelings for her again.
Season four
In "Ron and Tammys", Chris helps Ann shoot PSA related to health. Her determination to make it perfect, taking pictures after being taken, reminded Ann about some of her reasons for not dating her. In "Pawnee Rangers", Chris meets the daughter of Jerry Millicent (Sarah Wright). The two started dating and Chris made sure that it was okay with Jerry. Jerry says that he's fine with them both dating, a lot to please Chris. Chris and Millicent go together to the Halloween parties of April and Andy, with Chris dressing up as Sherlock Holmes, her favorite character. After Chris begins to lose contact with Millie, he asks Jerry, Donna, and Ann to help him, against Jerry's wishes. Ann tells him that he's too accessible and has to back off a bit so he can continue dating Millie. In "Bowling for Votes", Millie dumps Chris, leaving her depressed. In "Operation Ann", Leslie assures Chris that she is still a pleasant person and Millecent's opinion does not mean anything. He soon lost his depression. In "Dave Returns", Chris finds Tom's relationship with Ann and confronts Tom about it, making Chris realize that he has to "... adjust." He then froze and stared sadly into the sky. In the same episode, when Andy, asks Chris to sing for her (because she works as a supporting vocalist on Andy's song for the campaign), she sings "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" out of tune and with the wrong lyrics. , causing others there to grimace. Chris helps Leslie's campaign, but he can, even take a lot of busy work to distract him from his lonely "Bus Tour". He has a brief relationship with campaign manager Bobby Newport, who comforts him.
Season five
In season five, Chris still works as Pawnee City Manager. He is no longer depressed, but continues to see a therapist. She was also asked to father the son of Ann Perkins through in vitro fertilization. He hesitated at first and turned to Ben and the others to help him make a decision. After the "Bailout" he told Ann that he would be a father and both started a nursing compatibility test to see how well they would work together with child rearing. During "Jerry's Retirement", they return together but Ann is not sure if they should continue their relationship as now.
Season six
With Ann pregnant at the start of season six, Chris is preparing to become a father. Also, when Ann expressed an interest in leaving Pawnee to be closer to his family in Michigan, Chris decided to go with him. Moments after they left, Ann gave birth to her son, Oliver Perkins-Traeger.
Season seven
Chris and Ann, now married, return for guest appearances in the final series to advise Leslie in 2025. It was revealed that after Oliver, the couple had a second child, a daughter named Leslie.
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Development
Shortly after his departure from drama series ABC Brothers & amp; Sisters , Rob Lowe accepts Chris Traeger's role in Parks and Recreation . He made his first appearance on the show on "The Master Plan", the second last episode of the second season. The character debuted the same episode that Adam Scott started his role as Ben Wyatt. Initially, Chris Traeger was only meant to be a guest role, with Lowe describing him in the last two episodes of the second season and the first six episodes of the third season before leaving the series. However, Lowe instead became a regular member of the player starting with the third season, and signed a multi-year contract to stay on the show. Chris's idea as a state auditor visiting Pawnee, and subsequent government closure, was inspired by news reports as some countries are considering closing schools, parks and other services due to the global financial crisis.
Parks and Recreation co-creator Michael Schur says Chris's habit of pointing directly to the faces of the people he encounters and repeating their names is one of the first elements of his character written by the author's staff. Chris's desire to live for 150 years was inspired by Schur's wife, J. J. Philbin, who had read an article stating that scientists believed that the first human to live 150 years had been born, and felt it applied to Chris Traeger's character. The first day of Lowe's filming in the series was her birthday (March 17, 2010), which was the day when her kiss scene with Rashida Jones on "The Master Plan" was shot. Lowe says that he likes his character "tireless enthusiasm" and the fact that he is not a romantic cast, but "a big, fat nerd." Parks and Recreation starred Amy Poehler about Chris Traeger: "It's a very fun character to play because what you'll see begins to happen is Chris does not want to deliver bad news, but he's actually like Bad News Bear. "Like most other players, Lowe occasionally improves lines and actions for his character that is not included in the script. The authors hope to use Ann Perkins's break with Chris, and a drastic change in his after-life behavior, as a way of harnessing the potential for more comedy than his character rather than making him fill the role of the straight man he had in the past. Schur said: "Ann is a very intelligent and attractive woman, and it's hard to knock someone out like that without balance, and the way to knock him out of balance is to get Rob Lowe in a relationship with you."
After Lowe joins a regular player, Chris's role turns into more of an authority figure who is concerned with integrity and efficiency, though he continues to maintain his positive attitude and personality. Schur said about this second role: "He does not like the ends or controversies - he wants the political body to be clean and organic as the human body itself.Section of character design is to give the character another true boss - the real ruler figure rules and regulations mean they have to follow certain lines, even when the endless ceria disposition makes it difficult to argue with them. "As a result, Chris Traeger changes in several ways after he becomes a regular character. In previous episodes, Chris avoided associating himself with something negative and constantly made Ben report bad news to others. However, as city manager in subsequent episodes as a regular, Chris begins to impose rules or changes in unpopular offices and appears less resilient to enforce them. For example, Chris began to impose a dating ban policy around the town hall. In addition, in the episode "Jerry's Painting", Chris forcibly ordered Leslie to destroy the painting when it proved controversial, and became angry when she tried to refuse the order.
Reception
Chris Traeger's character has received critical acclaim. Rick Porter of Zap2it described it as "one of the greatest comedy creations in recent years", and hitfix writer Alan Sepinwall called it "one of the funniest shows of [Rob Lowe] career". David Hinckley of the New York Daily News said that Lowe and Adam Scott were a great addition to the cast, and Eric Sundermann of Hollywood.com said that Chris "is really what the event needs to push him into another level of silliness ". Some reviewers believe that Chris's personality is too high will be funny in the short term, but the character will not prove to be three-dimensional enough to have long-term sustainability. New York magazine writer Steve Kandell originally described it as "funny, but somewhat single note", and Eric Hochberger of Fanatic TV first found Chris funny, but also said he was "not sure how great he was" would be long term. "Matt Fowler of IGN revealed the same sentiments after the previous episode, but in the third season says Chris proved to be a great addition to the show.
The relationship between Chris and Ann is described by Sundermann as "one of the most interesting parts of the show and the reason, in particular, is Chris". Likewise, Porter says Lowe and Rashida Jones have developed "fantastic dynamics". Joel Keller of TV Squad said he found Chris "a little two-dimensional", and believed the relationship was not handled properly because it made Ann too passive. Lowe received very strong praise for his role in "Flu Season", where Chris became very sick and hallucinated when infected with the flu. Tim Goodman from The Hollywood Reporter says Lowe's character seems well integrated into the cast by the episode "Flu Season", and adds "If you've never believed Lowe can make you laugh out loud, pay attention to the episode Steve Kandell said Lowe stole the show from the ordinary Garden of Powerhouses from Nick Offerman and Chris Pratt, and called one scene, when Lowe tried to get away from his flick by shouting to himself in the mirror "Stop it..pooping! "," the greatest comic moments of his life in his long and handsome career ".
Parks and Recreation have traditionally experienced poor Nielsen ratings, and NBC officials expect the addition of Lowe to the players will help increase the number of viewers. Her first event on the second season episode of "The Master Plan" was publicly advertised in the hopes of attracting new audiences. However, the rankings continued low after he joined the show, and his performance only resulted in what writer Daniel Fienberg called "irrelevant statistical lump" in the rankings.
Following the departure of actor Charlie Sheen from the CBS comedy series "Two Half Men" in March 2011, rumors began to circulate that Rob Lowe might leave Garden and Recreation to take Sheen's place at the show. People report that the creators of Two and Half Men Chuck Lorre "seriously discussed the possibility" signed Lowe, and Sheen herself said she would be an "extraordinary" successor. However, the rumors proved unfounded, and were rejected outright by Michael Schur, who called him "nonsense". Although widely regarded as a supporting role, Lowe's performance as Chris Traeger was submitted for the Emmy Primetime 2011 Awards on Main Actor in the Comedy Series.
References
External links
- Rob Lowe biography on the official Garden and Recreation site on NBC.com
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