<Tr> <Th> Relatives </Th> <Td> Georgia Wyatt (niece) </Td> </Tr> <P> Benjamin "Ben" Wyatt is a character portrayed by Adam Scott in the TV series Parks and Recreation . The character guest starred in two episodes of season two and was upgraded to a series regular in season three . Ben is a state auditor who comes into Pawnee with Chris Traeger to evaluate the town's funds at the end of the second season . Ben began dating Leslie Knope in the season three episode "Road Trip" and married her in the season five episode "Leslie and Ben ." It is implied that he or Leslie or both later become the President of the United States . </P> <P> Ben is from Partridge, Minnesota . When he was 18, he ran for mayor and won on the strength of, in his words, "anti-establishment voter rebellion ." However, being so inexperienced, he quickly ran the town's finances into the ground and was impeached after two months . His signature failure was spearheading the development of a winter sports complex called Ice Town which bankrupted the town, leading to the newspaper headline "Ice Town Costs Ice Clown His Town Crown ." Ben attended Carleton College, where he was the host and DJ for a swing music college radio show called Zoot Suit Wyatt, a reference to the swing song Zoot Suit Riot (1997). After becoming an accountant, he and Chris Traeger assumed the nicknames Butch Count - sidy and the Sum - dance Kid, with the names referencing the outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as well as being accounting puns . </P> <P> Ben is very serious, mature and work - oriented, and usually doesn't seem fazed by much of the immature, eccentric behavior from some of the other members of the Pawnee Parks and Recreation Department, primarily Tom Haverford, Leslie Knope, and Andy Dwyer . Ben is often teased by Tom (and, early on, Leslie as well) for his affinity for, references to and vast knowledge in Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, Game of Thrones and other things considered to be "nerdy". Ben is also shown to have a hard time socializing, as his main focus is his work . During season six when he was jobless for a week, he created a game called The Cones of Dunshire . The game became very popular, which he realized while visiting San Francisco . He was angry that he didn't copyright it, but later in the show, one of his former coworkers surprises him with the copyright papers . </P>

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