The #ParksAndRec Cast Had 20 Seconds To Compliment One Another

Amy Poehler, Adam Scott, Chris Pratt, Aubrey Plaza, Retta, Nick Offerman, Aziz Ansari, Jim O’Heir, and Parks and Recreation specialist producer Mike Schur couldn’t feature their unique ideas during a post-finale look on evening With Seth Meyers.

1. After Parks and Recreation reveal finale on Feb. 24, the entire cast, with manager producer Mike Schur, emerged on night With Seth Meyers.

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2. And reminiscing and exposing funny reports from final seven years, they took turns toasting one another… in only 20 seconds. Let me share their wonderful terms:

3. Aziz Ansari on Nick Offerman

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“An amazing individual. He previously a brilliant mustache, that could be fucking gone these days. We informed him to provide it in the event that you ask me wherein he didn’t. But he’s however a fantastic man and I’m anticipated to miss with the solutions of him.”

4. Retta on Aubrey Plaza

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“Aubrey Plaza can frighten the shit out-of individuals who have simply a look. But she in fact is, in precise, the sweetest, numerous darling, loveliest, kindest, [with] the maximum heart, and she’s going to get anyone to cry instantly.”

5. Nick Offerman on Adam Scott

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“Adam Scott is very rather. He’s got the funniest dried out game. Also during celebration Down, when there is certainly email shops throughout the cast … i’d laugh aloud at their particular attempts toward email stores. The large choice of cast, uh, biggest balls.”

6. Mike Schur on Amy Poehler

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“Solid B-plus skill. Not gifted. Maybe not demonstrably gifted, but, like, kinda grinded it. I favor this girl more than anyone in the world and I’m consequently satisfied we obtained hook up.”

7. Chris Pratt on Jim O’Heir

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“You tend to be genuine, extremely thoughtful. You’re an incredible current giver. You’re outstanding listener. You’re a great friend, and you’re a spokesman for system. When anyone hit you on range, you’re constantly sort to every and each and every certain individual. You’re sensitive and don’t allow anybody formerly make us feel bad about this. I have to state i do believe that’s awesome.”

8. Aubrey Plaza on Aziz Ansari

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“I have Aziz Ansari, and I’m in fact happy about this because Aziz, I’ve comprehended you plenty over anybody because of this sort. We discovered you once I had been positively, like, 18 or 19, and we’ve skilled such shit. You’re my bro completely. 2-3 weeks hence i enjoy you above one thing. You’re funny and we’re both diverse, consequently we have that choosing usa. You’re the most truly effective. And I’m in fact pleased you didn’t rest below because I’m gonna skip you resting every-where. That’s finished . I’ll remember.”

9. Adam Scott on Mike Schur

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“Mike is an extremely forgiving specific. We auditioned when it comes to pilot of Parks and Rec and performed a terrible task and mayn’t have the task. Formerly we happened to be on an outrageous system, a tremendously genuine about tv program, and I also in addition bear in mind if we read … it had been individuals from any office undertaking a new television system, we remember phoning my agent and I also additionally reported, ‘i want that get us through tv system I’m on because i do want to be on whatever which.’ Got the audition, blew it, and, like, annually . 5 later on, Mike requested us getting in through the system and it’s merely changed my life. I got eventually to utilize a people. I must say I do miss every person these types of. I’m consequently thrilled to complete off being your buddy, Mike.”

10. Jim O’Heir on Chris Pratt

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“Chris Pratt had been only for sale in a spot; he formerly been laying in a very space. Here’s the actual fact: he formerly already been consequently loving that forms of outstanding individual afterwards; he’s nowadays one of the greatest celebrities in freakin’ world and he’s comparable individual he’d already been considering the fact that area. And I also also represent when using the love. There’s no body kinder or maybe more gracious than Chris Pratt. I love him with my heart.”

11. Amy Poehler on Retta

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“A queen. A phenomenal particular, buddy, cast specific, and implies an individual we didn’t comprehension and now i’m like is family relations. Everybody feel house for me. I’m going to be consequently recognized and entirely overrun by simply how much I like both both you and will cherish you permanently. And also this comprehension on Parks [has] already been perfect reference to my entire life … i recently desire thank the supporters, those who held our television show within the environment, and which saw it till the conclusion. Retta, we choose you, and I also also additionally love everybody below. Congratulations to any or all or any.”

12. No, thank-you, Amy Poehler and cast and staff of Parks and Recreation for seven funny, pressing, and near-perfect months!

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(with no, we don’t have idea the reason Jim O’Heir and Aubrey Plaza have been making telephone call at shutting moments of tonight’s expose. Reflect on it one final present from folks of Pawnee?)

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How “Parks And Recreation” Created A Futuristic Pawnee

Parks and Rec co-creator Michael Schur tells BuzzFeed how those snazzy gadgets — including Gryzzl — were brought to life.

The final season of Parks and Recreation — which takes place in the year 2017 — has been a whirlwind of campaigning, tiny ninjas, and calzones.

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This season has also introduced a handful of eye-catching technological inventions. So how did the creators come up with the slick designs of the not-too-distant future?

Comedy and forecasting ultimately dictated the gadgets’ form, Parks co-creator Michael Schur told BuzzFeed in a phone interview. After looking three years into the past to see how rapidly our current electronics morphed, they decided to stick to one overarching rule: No hoverboards. “That was a shorthand of saying we’re only going to 2017. This is not Bladerunner,” he added.

So they focused on two big innovations: clear plexiglass and 3D images.

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“It was just extrapolating into the future and reading about Oculus Rift and stuff like that that seems to portend a three-dimensional future for all of us,” Schur said.

The tablets and phones are a product of Gryzzl, a chill internet company that’s bunking in Pawnee and is an amalgamation of Google, Amazon, and social media. And while their customized Gryzzlboxes may be comedic hyperbole, they’re not too far from reality.

In one scene, Gryzzl’s CEO, played by Workaholic star Blake Anderson, nonchalantly mentions that maybe Sweetums’ cohort Jessica Wicks (Susan Yeagley) should shut her device off before going to sleep. “Every year that goes by, this stuff gets a little more creepy and a little more invasive, and we turn a little more of ourselves over to it,” says Schur.

Except for Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman), of course, whose feelings on technology were perfectly encapsulated with one scene that featured him standing in a darkened threshold holding a battered drone.

When the show started shooting, the cast didn’t really know what the final products would look like.

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They were instructed to treat the phones and tablets like they’ve seen them a million times before. The special effects were built to match what the actors were doing, which was just randomly swiping at the plexiglass, Schur said.

But when they began to edit the show, they found even more moments of actors doing scrolling motions. “And we’re like, goddamn it, now we gotta do another visual effect, because every time they move their hand, that means that the image has to change,” Schur recalled. “It’s been really funny because it’s not their fault! They were just standing there looking at nothing, and they were reacting just the normal way they would react.”

And if you consider an iPhone 3 vintage, that’s exactly the mentality the actors were told to portray. Andy (Chris Pratt) casually cycles through the news, and Ben (Adam Scott) wafts through each of his PowerPoint slides as though this feature has been around since Microsoft launched.

“The main thing that we said to all the actors was, ‘These are not interesting to you,'” he said. “Never express any amazement about what you’re seeing, because no matter how crazy and amazing we make it, to you it’s like second nature at this point.”

But aside from a few fashion tweaks, everything else pretty much stayed the same.

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“The world doesn’t change that much from 2013 to 2015, and it won’t change that much from 2015 to 2017,” said Schur. “People still wear pants and shirts and still have hair and stuff like that. The tech world is the main place where you’re ever going to notice a difference.”

The time jump also gave the writers the ability to tear Ron and Leslie (Amy Poehler) apart without having to watch it in real time.

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“[Their friendship] is sort of like the beating heart of the show, and so that was something we wanted to do this year,” he said.

As for the pivotal lock-in scene in the fourth episode of Season 7, titled “Leslie & Ron,” Schur was the one who configured the Billy Joel lyrics as a method of torture. “We tried to figure out what would make Ron really break and crack — and break his silence — and Leslie making up rapid-fire lyrics to ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’ aggressively in his face was like, ‘Yeah, that would work,'” he said. “I think that would work on any military prisoner too.”

But Poehler was the one who nailed the “ridiculous” lines, he said. “That’s Amy Poehler for you.”

The Parks and Recreation series finale will air Feb. 24, and while it is — understandably — sad to say good-bye to the acclaimed show, Schur knew it was the right time to sign off. “We’re very lucky, because there are very few shows that last as long as we lasted and get to go out on our own terms,” he said. “The sadness was mitigated very strongly by a feeling of accomplishment and a feeling that we had really been able to do things — we did it our way, as Frank Sinatra said.”

The Parks and Recreation series finale airs Feb. 24 at 10 p.m. on NBC.

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