The Biden Way: Vice President Joe Biden Will Guest Star on Next Week's 'Parks and Recreation'

Parks and Recreation has spent a lot of its current season in Washington, D.C., even shooting scenes in our nation's capital. The show has already featured cameos by John McCain, Barbara Boxer and Olympia Snowe, but Leslie Knope is about to meet her biggest political crush on next week's episode: Vice President Joe Biden. Yup, Biden took time out of his busy schedule of washing his car on the White House lawn and hitchhiking around America to shoot a scene with Amy Poehler and Adam Scott.

Entertainment Weekly chatted with Parks and Rec executive producer Michael Schur about doing an episode the Biden Way, with Schur offering a few secrets of the shoot.

When the Parks crew set up in his office to shoot the scene, Biden happened to be tied up in a meeting with… President Barack Obama. Then “Obama got on Marine One and flew away, and Biden walked across the executive building and we shot the scene,” says Schur. “It was really cool: You go this way and get on a helicopter that will take you to some incredibly important thing, and you come this way and shoot a scene with Amy Poehler.” 

The Veep handled his scene like a pro, even ad-libbing a response to a crazy Leslie retort that wound up in the final cut of the episode. “He was very nice and charming,” reports Schur. “He was clearly a big fan of Amy. It was the day the Emmy nominations came out and when he walked through the door he congratulated her on her Emmy nomination… He said some very nice things about the show and talked about how the pro-public service message was meaningful.”

Check out a brief preview clip of Leslie's encounter with Biden after the jump.