(Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
Series creators Daniels and Michael Schur, sitting on the set of "Parks and Recreation," said it was a bit of an uphill battle for the show at first. "My sense is that if we had built 'Parks and Recreation' around a 90-year-old Maasai warrior, people would still have said, 'He reminds me of ["The Office's"] Michael Scott,' " Schur said of the initial reviews from critics. "There was just no way to escape it."
![Series creators Daniels and Michael Schur, sitting on the set of "Parks and Recreation," said it was a bit of an uphill battle for the show at first. "My sense is that if we had built 'Parks and Recreation' around a 90-year-old Maasai warrior, people would still have said, 'He reminds me of ["The Office's"] Michael Scott,' " Schur said of the initial reviews from critics. "There was just no way to escape it."](http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-11/50579934.jpg)
