They also announced Kathryn Hahn will be taking a role as Leslie's opponent's campaign manager for some episodes in the spring.

Parks is also produced in-house by NBC and they want to keep Daniels, Schur, and Poehler happy - similar to how they've given 30 Rock a lot of love because they want to hold on to Tina Fey. 

The blatant VW ad was the only thing marring the otherwise perfect "End of the World." 

I think Leslie and Ben being definitely paired could work perfectly well. The show is about Leslie's career and the Parks department, so it's not like her being paired off actually detracts from the main dynamic.

Ron's happy ending to his shoeshine is one of the funniest things I've ever seen on TV.

"BECAUSE THEY SUCK! WHY DOES NO ONE UNDERSTAND THIS!"

No - the project was put on hold when the city had the shutdown at the end of S2. Then in S3, when Ann suggests Leslie pick the park project back up as her next big thing, Leslie says there's no money.

Right, what's great about The Camel is that it's also entirely self-contained and it does a brilliant job of fleshing out every character. Also it's one of the most hilarious episodes they've ever done.

I once suggested a partial S1 viewing - E1, E3 (The Reporter), and E6 (Rock Show). Those are, I think, the three best episodes of S1 and Rock Show is actually very good.

You also notice it more because they didn't used to do it as much. If you go back and re-watch S3 and (especially) S2, many episodes only have A and B-plots, and even when there is a C-plot, it's largely part of the main plot.

So did April ever graduate? I'm assuming she did, but it's never been mentioned, even though she was supposed to be a college student earlier (at through through Season 2).

Or "The Camel" or "Sweetums" - also season 2.

I really hope they don't actually. That would really annoy me, because like the others I've stopped seeing this as premised on a documentary crew following them around.

I've felt this season was kind of hit-or-miss, but I have to say that the last three have all been top-form, at least to me. If this sticks than Season 4 (or at least the last 1/2-2/3 of Season 4) could actually be as good as S2 and S3. 

Mary Richards. But, yeah.

Mike Schur addressed the whole "nation's smallest park" versus "Indiana's smallest park" in an interview with Sepinwall. He said that when they were breaking this episode, they researched the issue and found that the smallest park in America is a two-square-foot circle in a traffic median in Oregon. So they decided it…

I think the show would have been better if it stuck to the original concept - of Maya Rudolph's character being Reagan's friend and colleague at a PR firm. NBC made them rejigger Maya's role after Bridesmaids.

I know, that was my point. Outsourced sucked. But Whitney sucks more.

It's basically impossible to launch one new program right after another one. For NBC to put Free Agents after Up All Night was basically either just stupidity or a sign they never expected the show to take off.

I actually quite liked Free Agents. It might have worked had it, not Whitney, gotten the post-Office slot.