While we hope the end of Parks and Recreation is still several seasons off, Schur already has an idea that might make its way into the series finale, whatever that might be.

“The original idea for the show was that in the pilot that this eyesore, this community problem, brought a whole bunch of people together, and those were the people you would be following…Over the course of the show, the idea was that in the background of the show would be this very long-term project. It takes years and years and years to get a park made, which is funny to me…We did an episode called ‘Kaboom’ in the beginning of Season 2 where we filled in the hole and made it a lot, and the idea of that was to signal to the audience, ‘Don’t worry. We’re not going to spend every episode or every moment doing nothing but focusing on this one problem. There will be many problems and there will be many different sources of comedy.”

“It’s still my intention that the idea is that the pilot was about finding this giant hole in the ground and that maybe the series finale, whenever that is, hopefully many years from now, is the ribbon-cutting for the opening on that park,” continued Schur. “It’s still a project that Leslie cares about and wants to do. In order to help launch our show and signal the correct things to the audience who are watching it, we just moved away from that in order to send that message, and we’ll circle back eventually, I think.”

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