A small government advocate, Ron is delighted at the prospect of deep municipal cuts, gloating and chanting cheers at the cuts Chris and Ben propose, but when he learns the auditors plan to fire Leslie, Ron refuses and offers his job instead. Meanwhile, Ron has been assigned to a task force to help fix the city's budget problem. While April and Andy are doing their part in setting things up, they finally admit their feelings for each other, but April still rejects him, as she worries that Andy still has feelings for Ann. Leslie jumps on the idea and gets the rest of the department to help out. Leslie vents about this to Ann, who comes up with the idea to hold the concert at Lot 48, as it is not a park and therefore not shut down. When Leslie goes to Mark to vent about her situation and seek advice, she is stunned to learn that he has taken a buyout and plans to take a new job offer at a construction company, partially in response to Ann having broken up with him. Leslie visits Chris and Ben, wanting to find a way to keep the concert, but Ben insists there is simply no money for it. When Leslie explains at a town meeting that a family concert featuring children's entertainer Freddy Spaghetti must be canceled due to the shutdown, the citizens are disappointed. The Pawnee government has shut down due to the budget crisis. No other department has one to begin with. The season four finale, “Win, Lose, or Draw” is the culmination of an entire season’s worth of election coverage for the show’s leads-plus it’s got some great Paul Rudd material.Ben: Every department's losing a Leslie Knope. Win, Lose, or Draw (Season 4, Episode 22) “Ron and Diane” remains one of the best examples of this. Ron Swanson’s love life is often a source of big laughs throughout Parks and Rec’s run. The show’s final episode, “One Last Ride” differs from many other series finales because of its refusal to keep the ending open for differing interpretations or potential growth-it’s all laid out in front of the viewer, with no room for hypothesizing about the character’s lives post-show. “Leslie and Ron” is the first episode of the final season that actually shows promise.Ī two-part finale (one that was clearly made to double as a series finale if need be), “Moving Up” wraps everything up so nicely that the next season and no choice but to do a time jump to create some new problems. There’s something about Parks and Rec episodes named after two characters, it seems. Surprise weddings never cease to be some of this show’s strongest material. The season two finale, “Freddy Spaghetti” showed just how great the rest of this sitcom was going to be-it took two seasons, but it finally found its footing. This early season three episode proves to be one of the most-quoted and most-gif’d twenty-two minutes in the show’s entire run. The episode that saw April and Andy get married went down in the show’s history as one of the strongest (and sweetest) imaginable. As a result, there are sone truly transcendent episodes. With a cast comprised of Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones, Adam Scott, Rob Lowe, Nick Offerman, Chris Pratt, and Aubrey Plaza, among many other great supporting cast members, there’s no denying the amount of comedy star power attached to this thing. It’s no matter, though-none of this matters to the actual quality of the show itself. The show existed on the bubble of cancellation throughout its network run, but there’s no doubt these problems would’ve disappeared if it premiered on the website instead of the basic cable network. Often considered to be one of NBC’s greatest comedies, right up there alongside The Office and 30 Rock, Parks and Recreation remains incredibly popular due to success found on streaming giant Netflix. RELATED: Six 20th Century Films Set In The 2010’s Check out our picks in the gallery below! is binging up a storm to determine the very best episodes of Parks and Recreation.
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