Parks and Recreation has provided so many instantly memorable scenes over its six seasons on the air: Donna, April, and Ann singing “Time After Time,” Donna and Tom treating themselves, Donna schooling Ann on Game of Thrones, other moments that don’t involve Donna. But there are plenty of scenes the cast never got around to filming that they wish they could have:
CHRIS PRATT (Andy): “Andy might have been a good politician if he was representing a party who didn’t need someone to think on their own. I always pictured Andy running against Leslie and doing well by simply sticking to talking points, none of which he fully understands or believes in.”
NICK OFFERMAN (Ron): “Ron in an old-timey boxing ring, fighting a local bruiser. It would be kind of an Ivan Drago, perhaps from Eagleton. He would be menacing and get his licks in, but Ron would somehow stoically avoid his punches enough and then with one haymaker, knock him out of the ring.”
RETTA (Donna): “Where I get to make out with Chris Pratt. I thought they’d do it as a dream sequence or something. But I wanted there to be a point where Donna made out with Andy Dwyer and Andy was like, ‘Damn, girl—now I get it!”
AUBREY PLAZA (April): “A family party of April’s. You see my parents and you meet my sister but that’s all you get of my family. Because I’m half-Puerto Rican, I’ve always envisioned there could’ve been a really funny party scene with all of my Puerto Rican relatives being crazy… Just so many drunk Puerto Rican uncles and aunts and cousins salsa dancing, and then inviting Leslie Knope and Ron Swanson into that scene would be kind of amazing. Or April’s family meets Andy Dwyer for the first time and he’s salsa dancing with my family. She would be into it. The weird surprising thing would be that April loves it… But it’ll never happen because the show’s over and we’re all going to die.”
Death is life’s series finale. With that happy thought in mind:
