Parks & Recs Best Episode Was Made Much Better By Its Casts Improv

Parks & Rec’s Best Episode Was Made Much Better By Its Cast’s Improv

One of the most memorable scenes in Parks & Recreation was completely improvised, and it’s also part of the show’s best episode.

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Parks & Recs Best Episode Was Made Much Better By Its Casts Improv

Parks & Recreation left room for its actors to improvise, and the series’ best episode was made better by the main cast’s improvisation. The 2000s saw a wave of sitcoms, and one of the most popular and successful ones is Parks & Recreation. Originally planned as a spinoff to The Office, Parks & Recreation was created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur and was eventually developed as a separate story, and it premiered on NBC in 2009, coming to an end in 2015 after seven seasons.

Parks & Recreation followed the daily lives of the crew at the Parks Department in the town of Pawnee, Indiana, with the always optimist Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) as the lead. Through her, viewers met her coworkers and closest friends, and many of them became fan favorites, more so as the series took time to explore their personal journeys alongside that of Leslie. Some of the best moments of Parks & Recreation are those that include the whole main cast, and the series’ best episode was made even better by their incredible improvisation skills. Although Parks & Recreation has many memorable episodes, the one regarded as the series’ best is season 3’s “The Fight”.

The episode opens with one of the most memorable scenes in the series: the mystery of who broke the coffee machine, before jumping into the episode’s story. In it, Leslie suggests her best friend Ann Perkins (Rashida Jones) as the new health department public relations director, mostly so they can spend more time together as Ann had been dating a lot and Leslie felt left behind. Ann agrees to attend the job interview but isn’t really interested in it, and Leslie really wanted her to take the job, making way for the title fight, which takes place during the launch of Snake Juice at the Snakehole Lounge. There, the main group gets drunk on Snake Juice, making way for the episode’s funniest scene, which was completely improvised.

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As Parks & Rec was made in the style of a mockumentary, there were scenes in which the characters directly addressed the camera, and the aforementioned improvised scene in “The Fight” was all about how each character acts when drunk. The cast was actually given creative freedom to improvise their characters drunken actions, with Leslie crying, Tom Haverford (Aziz Ansari) being pretty much the same, Ann being barely able to speak, Ben being giggly, Andy Dwyer (Christ Pratt) singing, April Ludgate (Aubrey Plaza) talking gibberish, Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman) dancing, and Jerry (Jim O’Heir) simply laughing. The cast had some extra fun while filming that scene as they made a bet to make Amy Poehler laugh, as she was the director of the episode. This was revealed by the Parks & Recreation cast during a reunion panel at Paleyfest in 2019, further showing the great chemistry there was between the main cast.

“The Fight” is considered the best Parks & Recreation episode as it helped better integrate Ann into the series, marked a milestone in her friendship with Leslie, and is pretty much the series’ peak comedy with a touch of drama. “The Fight” definitely wouldn’t have been the same without the drunken scene at Snakehole Lounge, which showcased the cast’s incredible improvisation and comedic skills, and the behind-the-scenes story of them trying to make Amy Poehler laugh only makes it better.

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