If the Eagleton people are in your city, they would need to be taxed the same as everyone else. If you wanted them to pay their own debts, it would make more sense to keep them segregated. The state or feds should have handled this.

No, that's pretty much it. Because a kid spraining his ankle at a basketball game is the same as incompetent city government. Assuming even the essential Eagleton city employees were let go, Pawnee will be paying more (higher taxes to pay off the debt) for less (the same number of government resources stretched over…

Agree. The political material now is a complete cartoon on both ends. Leslie and her friends are superheroes, merging with an entire other city in the span of two episodes. Everyone else is incompetent or evil. And the election stuff is just as hokey as the last time, with all of the bouncing up and down in the…

The whole Tom subplot was Sitcom 101 crap.

Why will they not even name who she is running against? This is how recall elections work. Voters sign a petition to have the officeholder recalled. Then another election is held against other candidate(s). Leslie is behind in the polls… to an unnamed person.

Yeah, getting rid of Eagleton is yet another reason why this arc is so awful.  Eagleton was maybe the most developed of Leslie's rivals; there was some legitimate substance to it.  Much better than Jamm.  And it's just being thrown away.  In addition to Jamm and the whole city council.  If Leslie gets carte blanche…

Ironic that it WILL change it in this case, since the actors are leaving the show.  Do we think Leslie is going to give and Ann and Chris update every episode?  Why would she keep talking about those characters when the actors are no longer around?

Wondering where the doppelganger for Leslie and Andy were.  Leslie's would have been Parker Poesy.  I guess Ben probably just fired her, though she might be full time since she probably wasn't on the Eagleton city council.  I guess Andy shouldn't have a doppelganger since he obviously does nothing even in comparison…

As a "couple" they come across as Ken and Barbie imagined by a seven year old girl, complete with sexlessness.

Owens was more in the Don Pardo category, straight sounding announcer saying ridiculous things.

Prey with him?

If the whole region is going to be affected, perhaps the state or the feds could be involved.  I'm sure this isn't the first time this has happened.  Asking a similar sized town to take on this debt is beyond dumb.  Of course in Leslieland, this doesn't matter, because Leslie and only Leslie will think of some magical…

The Leslie Knope material in this episode was absolutely dire and it really shows what a problem her character has become to this show.

The Newhart Show's finale also retconned The Bob Newhart Show's ending where he left for Oregon.  He's back in Chicago here, as well as in the reunion.  Which was fine, since The Bob Newhart Show's finale was a meh ripoff of MTM.

I would think she would be elite, but I don't think the show thinks of her as elite.  Even being friends with the city manager and all, she is somehow still "the little girl."

It's not so much growth, although the character is more mature.  It's that the show has trouble showing Leslie as truly needing anyone else, even her husband.  Leslie is an irrepressible force, and the people in her life either support her unconditionally or are cartoonishly stupid or evil.

I'm not sure they will ever go back to her father, since her mother seems to have died or something, unmourned and unloved.

I agree she's more suited to her worker bee job than the city council.  However, the show has had chances to portray actual politics before, and they've always gone the joke cartoon route.  Like only having joke candidates run against her, or making Jamm a cartoon.  Another chance now with another election.  I…

MTM's characters were all sane except for Ted.  Who was that crazy on Barney Miller?

I found "steady, comfortable joke-o-matic" a problem with both shows.  The rhythms were way too pat.  When I know when the joke is coming it's not funny to me.  I need to be surprised.