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The 25 Most Stylish Men on TV →

8. Ben Wyatt (Adam Scott), “Parks and Recreation”
Pawnee, Indiana is a podunk town. And yet, there are some impressively well-dressed men roaming the halls of the local government building. Ben Wyatt, the out-of-town fixer and budding paramour of Amy Poehler’s Leslie Knope, is a simple man with deceptively hip taste. You can find him rocking check shirts and solid skinny ties (and vice versa) topped off with a modernized Member’s Only spring jacket or khaki blazer. Also, his hair has got some epic swoop going on. Sure, he’s a budget-slashing bureaucrat muckety-muck, but at least the man knows how to dress. –S.F.

3. Tom Haverford (Aziz Ansari), “Parks and Recreation”
All Purple Label Everything. That’s the primary playboy of Pawnee’s motto. Ben Wyatt nails approachable style, but Tom—entrepreneurial co-owner of the Snake Hole and creator of the haze—inducing Snake Juice—is a different animal all together. French cuffs, tailored suits, bad pickup lines, and an enthusiasm for all things T-Pain make Tom H. (born, ahem, Darwish Sabir Ismael Gani) Indiana’s most unwanted eligible bachelor. And don’t forget, ladies: he’s a foodie, too.—S.F.

• Ron fucking Swanson made it to the top of the noble failures list.

Adam Scott Tells 13 Odd Stories From 13 Shoots →

Regarding his Boy Meets World days:

I always checked the [online] message boards, which were still this kind of mysterious thing – and I remember reading someone posting that they were friends with the girl that played Topanga, and Topanga had told this person that no one at the show liked me very much. And I remember just being crushed, but it also all kind of made sense, because I was definitely on the outside of whatever was going on there. They were all friends and I was just kind of there and would hang out with Blake [Soper, future Rilo Kiley guitarist] and Ethan Suplee. I didn’t know if it was real or not, but kind of felt like it was … The Internet or these message-board things were still kind of small enough that it felt genuine. And sure enough, the next episode they wrote me off.