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A walk in the park is no walk in the park for Kerri Kenney-Silver, one of the stars of "Reno 911" (11:30 p.m., Comedy Channel).

She took her 2-year-old son out recently and fretted when he went over to some 7-year-olds who were playing nearby. She was certain they would not want to play with someone so much younger than they.

"I thought it was going to be a scene. I thought, 'Toughen yourself up now, Kerri. He's going to need you,' " she says, bracing for his rejection.

Sure enough, they didn't want to play, but he was OK with it. He walked away, none the worse for the wear.

Out of this, Kenney-Silver learned, "people are who they are. I certainly didn't teach him 'Let's be brave. Don't have insecurities.' That's not in my nature."

"Reno 911" is now in its fifth season. On tonight's episode, George Lopez returns as the town's crooked mayor seeking a favor, putting ethical pressure on the deputies.

Kenney-Silver, 38, has made her mark in cable TV with the neuroses of her "Reno" character, deputy Trudy Wiegel.

"If she were any more put together, it would be depressing and unfun to watch," she says. "It's always fun to watch someone out of control.

"You can think, 'Well, at least I am more put together than that person.' "

Think Barney Fife on antidepressants. Wiegel is uncensored, uncouth and so oblivious that she dated a serial killer without realizing it. Well, she figured it out when she found a foot in his refrigerator.

"It would be so (politically correct) of me to say she means no harm, but that's not true," she says. "She's definitely uneducated. She's definitely not worldly. She's dumb.

"That's OK. People always want to apologize for their characters. They say, 'Oh, there's something sweet about their innocence.'

"You know what? That's not Trudy. She's just really dumb."

In the fifth season of "Reno," Wiegel is going into uncharted territory for her — motherhood. But don't expect it to round out her rough edges. If anything, the blessed event caused Kenney-Silver to ponder how to get Wiegel out of being a mom.

Wiegel became pregnant on the comedy after Kenney-Silver conceived in real life. Now that Wiegel's baby is here, Kenney-Silver and the other executive producers of the show were perplexed about what to do next.

"There's no way Trudy could keep this baby. You can't go there with her. It's too scary, and she's too incompetent," Kenney-Silver says.

"Now that I'm a mother, I find it hard to watch humor about children and their welfare in a negative way."

Will Wiegel ever pull it all together? Doubtful.

For Wiegel to do so is "just not that funny," Kenney-Silver says, "because, after that, there's no place for her to go.

"What you enjoy about her is her complete innocence and her total incompetence. I love her like you love that drunk aunt at the wedding."