Parks And Recreation Returning For One Special Night
It was asked, “Are we going to let this crisis defeat us as a nation?” And a voice said, “Knope.” Michael Schur, creator of Parks and Recreation, revealed to the press today that Leslie, Andy, Ron and all the others are coming back as themselves for one night only, in an NBC special designed to raise money for COVID-19 relief. How can you have a new Parks and Rec episode out of nowhere, especially now? If you haven’t already guessed, the actors will be playing their characters remotely from their own homes, because the plotline will directly involve our current events. This means that the first scripted TV series to directly include the pandemic in its plotline will be Parks and Recreation…who would have figured? (Actually, to be technical, The Simpsons opened last Sunday’s episode with a chalkboard that simply said “CLASSES ONLINE” and no Bart, though the actual episode had nothing to do with the virus’ impact). “Like a lot of other people, we were looking for ways to