Enjoy these while you can because NBC has made the terrible decision to start Parks and Rec in a midseason spot next fall. Though the episode was pretty fantastic all-around, we've picked favorite moments for you to laugh at.
Rob Lowe made his first dreamy appearance on Parks and Recreation last night, and the results were just as hilarious as we'd expected.
Ron Swanson, Director of Parks and Recreation is a Pawnee enigma. He adores breakfast meats and Steffie Graf, hates government, has two ex-wives named Tammy, and can carve a harp with his bare hands after 6 shots of whiskey.
Parks and Recreation did some charitable work last night at Pawnee's all-night telethon for diabetes and discovered that love is like a busy switchboard - some connections are made while others are lost (the beep-beeping of broken hearts).
Since starting as Ron's assistant, April had managed to make her boss happy by halting all potential public interactions. Supplicants were scheduled for a day the secretary thought she'd invented through calender trickery. Unfortunately, that day is very real.
Continuing a trend of spot-on guest appearances and TV show spoofs, the casts of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Parks and Recreation took it to the beats with a classic spoof on America's favorite TV-musical phenomenon.
Recently, a few intrepid reporters from Gawker.TV wandered into that strange fauxhemian Shangri-La known as Brooklyn and what did our eyes behold? Coonskin caps on everyone – men and women, young and old!
Today at Gawker.TV, Paula Deen lets loose on The View, Kenneth the Page's shirtless 30 Rock scenes, Kirstie Alley swears Conan was fired because of bad karma, and Miley Cyrus and Jay Leno bond over being widely-hated.
While Leslie's Directors picnic was the central source of Parks and Recreation's comedy, the drama came from Andy and April, who, after falling for each other in their respective dumb-witted and detached ways all season, finally had a date... almost.
Jerry, Parks and Recreation's pudgy and picked-on office dope, got a very special episode last night. Mugged while feeding hummingbirds, Jerry saw his plight unite the cast in pity, fear, and zingers at the expense of his supreme lameness.
While Leslie Knope glimpsed the promised kingdom of the mayor's office, helping with a possum hunt that actually symbolized the ethical dilemmas of insiderism, Ron and Mark were caught in their own battle of friendship and favoritism versus workplace responsibility.
It's hard not to make up words and sing along to Parks and Recreation's theme song. When the tune and intro combine with Star Wars' Jabba the Hutt, the world is left wanting a Tatooine and Sadomasochism spin-off.
Today at Gawker.TV, Zach Galifianakis's hilarious appearance on Late Night, The Office may have a new power couple, The Rascal Flatts appear on CSI, inner desires are revealed on Parks and Rec, and Dakota Fanning's racy rendition of "Cherry Bomb."
Last night, Pawnee's close-knit coworkers struggled with their deepest desires. While Leslie pined for the validation of a women's group award given to Ron, Andy and Tom were tantalized by their own life goals: independence and a fly club, respectively.
Today at Gawker.TV, The Office adjusts to Sabre, Survivor is more like Real World, Road Rules Challenge than you'd expect, Community pays homage to The Breakfast Club, and Archer is all about the gratuitous (and animated!) tits and ass.
Parks and Recreation's house band may be used to dive bars and drunk girls, but last night they rocked slowly and killed softly to teach a lesson in love: that front man Andy Dwyer is the dreamiest.
The Parks and Recreation staff helped with Tom's move, the aftermath of his Green Card marriage's dissolution, and met the first stereophonic vacuum. The world, however, was not ready; DJ Roomba soon fell, senselessly murdered while spreading his joyous tidiness.
Here's Aziz Ansari performing stand-up as "Raaaaaaaandy— with eight A's!" Prepare to be dazzled by his DJ and tales of his sex life that he's hilariously named after 90s cartoon Duck Tales. This guy knows what I'm talking about...
After last week's dismal setup, Leslie Knope was due for real romance. Justin Theroux guested on Thursday's Parks and Recreation as Leslie's love interest, whose adventure-filled life and unintentional superiority starkly contrasts Pawnee's municipal sphere and its denizens' Indiana dreaming.
Will Arnett joined wife Amy Poehler on Parks and Recreation last night as Leslie Knope's date, for what proved to be one of the most hysterically awful nights out in broadcast history, following every romantic cliché: dinner and an MRI.
