Parks & Rec’s Jim O’Heir—who played Jerry Gergich on the series—reminisced with Chris Pratt…

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Chris Pratt wasn’t crying on the Parks & Recreation set, he was just allergic to jerks.

Which is why when it came to the character of Jerry Gergich—who was often the butt of every joke on the beloved sitcom—he always made sure that actor Jim O’Heir, the man behind the character, was okay.

Now, almost 10 years off the air, it’s something Jim himself remembers fondly, as he detailed in his new memoir Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles and Parks and Recreation.

“I remember you, particularly more than some others, being worried about some of the Jerry bits being…mean,” Jim says in a conversation with Chris in the book, per Entertainment Weekly. “I remember you saying, ‘Jimmy, you okay with these?’… Do you remember that feeling at all?”

To which Chris replied, “I do. I was concerned in some of those moments because I care about you and I love you, and I knew that there were some jokes that were, like, mean. But meaner than they were funny.”

As the Guardians of the Galaxy star explained, there’s a fine line when it comes to comedy. “If it’s a joke, it’s funny,” he continued. “But if it’s mean for the sake of being mean, well, I’m not a huge fan of mean-spirited humor, and I just wanted to check in on you.”

In fact, Chris remembered one time when he vetoed a joke before it could become law.

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“There was that time you use the printer and it says something like, ‘Jerry sucks’ on a piece of paper, and I just said, ‘I don’t think that’s funny. I don’t know about it,’” the 45-year-old recalled. “For the most part, I rolled with it, but there were a couple times where I think it went too far and I was concerned for you.”

But Jim says Chris wasn’t the only one coming to his rescue.

“You checked in on me,” he explained to his former costar, adding that show lead Amy Poehler did as well. “And it’s not like I expected everyone to check in on me, but the fact that you did was so special.”

Jim added, “That meant the world to me.”

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Meanwhile Chris thinks Jim’s go-with-the-flow attitude about Jerry’s fate—as well as the bond shared between the two actors—comes from their shared background.

“People from the Midwest—their love language is, like, teasing,” Chris, who grew up in Minnesota, mused. “You learn to take your lumps and roll with it—I did at least—and I was never overly concerned you couldn’t take care of yourself, but if it ever went too far, I wanted you to know I was there for you.”

And for the Chicago native, that made all the difference. As Jim added to his costar, “You have the biggest heart, and I don’t mean it from a medical perspective.”

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