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‘Parks and Rec’ star Adam Scott makes divorce funny in ‘A.C.O.D.’

“Are you f – – – – – g serious?” says Amy Poehler, arms crossed. “You’ve hated me from day one. You called me the c – – tessa.”

“I, I don’t think I called you that,” whimpers Adam Scott.

It’s not exactly the type of dialogue fans of the popular TV sitcom “Parks and Recreation” are used to hearing from the show’s leading lovebirds. But we’re not in Pawnee anymore, folks.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead plays the girlfriend of Adam Scott’s character, Carter, in “A.C.O.D.”

Adam Scott, 40, stars in “A.C.O.D.,” a new dramedy in theaters Friday, as the titular “adult child of divorce.” His “Parks” wife, Poehler, plays his bitchy stepmother. Awkward?

“I would work with her on everything if I could,” Scott tells The Post. “We are always just making goo-goo eyes at each other on ‘Parks.’ We shot the movie just a few weeks after we had wrapped [a] season and were immediately in adversarial roles — just hated each other’s guts. So it was super fun.”

In the film, Scott’s character, Carter, attempts to wrangle his broken family after his brother announces he’s getting married. Chaos ensues as Carter attempts to bring his bitterly estranged parents together, while also dealing with his own commitment problems.

Scott was born and raised in Santa Cruz, Calif., where his parents divorced when he was 5 years old. Despite the split, the two lived close by and remained friends.

“The divorce in my family was really amicable. There were no fireworks. It was all sort of behind the scenes, if you will,” he says. “None of us kids ever saw any argument.”

But in a world where 50 percent of marriages end in divorce, Scott didn’t have a hard time finding inspiration.

“It is the norm now. Growing up, I did not have many friends with parents who were together,” says Scott. “So it’s certainly one of the reasons I feel like the movie is resonating with people.”

Split-parenting isn’t something Scott considers even a possibility for his own children, Graham, 6, and Frankie, 4, with wife Naomi.

“I can’t imagine my wife and I ever splitting up. I can’t imagine a life without her,” he says.

He has a tight-knit circle in his professional life, too, regularly working with the same crew again and again, including Poehler, Lizzy Caplan (“Bachelorette” and the Starz sitcom “Party Down”), Paul Rudd (“Party Down” and “Parks and Rec”), Jane Lynch (“A.C.O.D.” and “Party Down”) and Will Ferrell (“Step Brothers” and “Eastbound & Down”).

But famous friends aren’t the only stable thing in Scott’s life. His role as Ben Wyatt on “Parks” geared up for a new season last week, and he has upcoming parts in December’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” with Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig, and next year’s “Hot Tub Time Machine 2.”

Scott describes his character in the former as “a mean person with a beard” and the latter as, well, atypical.

“I’m from the future in that one. And therefore, of course, I wear a skirt,” he says. “ ’Cause apparently in the future, roughly 40 percent of men wear skirts. I gotta say, it was really comfortable.”

So where does a guy satisfied with life, leg-baring garments and all, go from here?

“I’m just excited to watch my kids grow up,” he says. “Other than work, I’m just going to soccer games or baseball games. That’s essentially all I have time for anymore.”