Parks and Recreation is underway with its seventh and final season on NBC. The show’s creator, Michael Schur talked to IGN about the show’s time jump and what comes with it. Schur also discussed where some of the characters went through the years, bringing characters back as the show concludes and much more. Here are some highlights:
On the Leslie and Ron conflict
“It was one of the key aspects of the decision to do the time jump. We were like, “What are the pros and cons?” And one of the biggest pros to me was you can do something like that. You can take a core relationship and screw with it and say, “Wow, a lot has happened in the last three years we didn’t see and something fundamental has shifted and changed.” You can play it as a mystery story which is kind of cool and, “What happened with them?” And of those core relationships, there’s no screwing with Leslie and Ben’s marriage. We weren’t going to do that. We weren’t going to screw with Andy and April’s marriage. But Leslie and Ron, which has always been the beating heart of the show and the yin and yang of the show, it was like, “Oh man, we can do that.” They’re two people with extremely different philosophies and they’re not working together anymore and I think there’s a big component of their relationship and why it worked and why they’re friends was about them working together every day and kind of complimenting each other in different ways. So we were like, “If Leslie moved upstairs, that didn’t happen anymore” and it just sort of came up very naturally.”
On throwing out crazy ideas
“There were some. The crazy ideas like… There’s drones now. It’s funny because the ads that have been running on NBC are like ‘We’re in the future!’ And in three years there’s going to be more drones flying around and people won’t even notice them. That’s a big part of the way that we deal with technology on the show in this future season is, boy, you get used to things real fast. You just do. Something new and exciting and technologically disruptive and breakthrough-y shows up and you text your friends and you’re like “This is amazing!” And a month later you’re so annoyed if it doesn’t work or you don’t have it or you have it and you’re bored with it. So that’s part of what we we’re doing and saying. We wanted to show like they’re all using these crazy, futuristic, tablet computers that have three dimensional images. As the season goes on, you’ll see that they can do more and more things and they’re incredibly advanced and no one is remarking on how amazing they are. At no time does anyone go, ‘This thing is amazing!’ because we don’t do that as a society. We all now have rocket ship computers in our pockets that can do anything in the world. You can stream NFL games in real time on your phone and if they don’t work perfectly you’re like, ‘Ugh, this is so annoying.’ So a lot of the big ideas are ideas like that. The things that we ended up pitching and cutting are mostly jokes about pop culture and stuff like that because if you have one an episode it’s kind of fun but if you have 50 an episode it starts to be like this is just a show where we make crazy predictions about what actors are in what movies or whatever.”
On Paul Rudd’s return
“It’s really just a final send off. He doesn’t’ play a huge role in the season or the series or anything. I just find him so funny and I thought he was so funny playing that role. Amy and I both reached out to him over the summer before we started shooting and were like, ‘Hey if there’s any chance….’ And then one day later, Ant-Man had been put aside for a second and got going again but then he told us, ‘It’s shooting and here are the dates of shooting and it’s in Atlanta.’ And I was like, ‘Oh well!’ Then he emailed me like, ‘Yes, I’m going to make this work, we’ll find a day. I’ll get a schedule from Marvel.’ He stayed on it and he got it and was like, ‘I can do it on these days and this day and this day.’ It was so nice of him. He’s old friends with Amy and with Adam and at this point with Aubrey and everybody. He just really was very sweet about wanting to do it so we flew him in and he did it.”
On the success of Chris Pratt
“It’s not surreal. I think everyone that’s been working with him for six years is like, “Yeah, right. Yes, what took you so long?” That’s the only question is, like, what took you so long, for me. James Gunn deserves a lot of credit because he saw in him what we’ve all been – he’s talented at a level that is difficult to really articulate. That talent, in his particular case, is merged with like a GQ man of the year looking face and human form which is a very rare thing. it’s not often that someone looks like him and is as talented as him and as funny as him. He’s so goddamn funny and he looks like Chris Pratt! So when he became a gigantic movie star, everyone who knows him was like right, yeah, of course. And like I said, I feel that way frankly about the entire cast. I feel that way about Nick Offerman. I don’t understand how Nick Offerman got to be 39 years old or whatever he was when he started the show, without being on a bunch of T-shirts. I don’t understand that. Aubrey was like 23, I get that. But Nick Offerman was 39. I couldn’t believe it. It’s like the stories that you read sometimes, where it’s like a guy was digging in his backyard, putting in a jacuzzi and he found a treasure chest filled with gold from the 14th century. That’s what Nick Offerman was. He’s just been here the whole time! He was right in front of us! I wasn’t surprised in the slightest. I’m not going to be surprised when Aubrey wins an Oscar. I’m not going to be surprised when Amy Poehler becomes the biggest and most important producer and director of network TV comedy and probably film comedy if she so chooses. I’ve been working with them for six years and it’s not a mirage. This is the most talented group of people ever been assembled. I really believe that. It’s really bonkers.”
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Parks And Recreation Creator Michael Schur On Final Season, Paul Rudd And Chris Pratt
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