In an unbelievable (even to herself) and all too honorable
move by Leslie Knope, Pawnee has absorbed and is helping pay the debt of
neighboring Eagleton. While Eagletonians
are as you know “the worst kind of people”, Leslie kept true to her values of
helping anyone in need. This season of
Parks is promising to keep the same quick wit and style that it has these past
five seasons. Keeping a show lovable after so many years seems all too easy for
the writers of Parks and Recreation, little can be said for the rest of NBC’s
current lineup.
With Pawnee and Eagleton’s new merger the two departments
are being put together and it is up to Leslie to decide who stays and who
goes. Right off the bat the show gets in
some great jokes with Jerry’s return to the office as a temp immediately resulting
in the gang changing his name to Larry.
We also get to see the dream team Ben and Chris back together helping
with the Eagletonian budget and debt.
The parks department soon meets their doppelgangers of Eagleton
employees with some incredible moments.
April showing off her character/impersonation skills and Ron meeting his
other played by Sam Elliot (also named Ron) being the most powerful moment in
televised mustache history since Magnum PI.
In big Anne news she finally breaks it to Leslie that she is
thinking about moving with Chris to raise their future child. She immediately follows these words by (in
what is sure to be a GIF by tomorrow) shoving pie and ice cream in her face as
a distraction. Leslie spends the rest of
the episode trying to cope with this news the occasional quirky outburst
spurred by others thinking of leaving.
Almost all of the Eagleton staff decides or is chosen to get
cut and the team is safe. Chris talks
with Ben about the plans to move with Anne and is fully supported by his
friend. The show closes with Leslie and
Anne finally coming together to get a chance to talk more about Anne’s
departure. Leslie has always been
overpowered by her emotions and desires and didn’t handle the original news so
well. Will she be able to come to the
same feelings of acceptance, we shall see next week. It was yet another exemplary demonstration of
what a quality sitcom can and should be.
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