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Parks and Recollection

Eagleton (S3E12)

Parks and Recollection

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Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, Comedy

4.73.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Call your friends and welcome them to Pawnee. Today Rob Lowe and Alan Yang are watching S3E12. In "Eagleton" Leslie is forced to deal with a former beloved colleague-turned bitter enemy when a neighboring town separates a shared park with a fence. On this episode find out how amazing it was to work with Nicole Holofcener, why a trash fight convinced Parker Posey to be in this episode, what in this script made Rashida cry, and why Alan never keeps ice cream in his home! Got a question for the Pawnee Town Hall? Send us an email: [email protected] Or leave a 30-Second voicemail at: (310) 893-6992 Eagleton, a more prosperous neighboring town of Pawnee, has erected a tall fence in the shared Lafayette Park to keep Pawnee residents at a distance. Leslie’s theory is that it’s the work of Lindsay Carlisle Shay (Parker Posey), The Eagleton equivalent of Leslie. Lindsay is a former Pawnee parks department employee and used to be Leslie's best friend. While dealing with the fence, Leslie also discovers Ron's upcoming birthday, a date he has kept secret for years. Leslie promises a horrified and annoyed Ron that she will throw a surprise party for him. In the standard style of a disorderly public meeting, the citizens of Pawnee call for the fence to be removed. Leslie meets with Lindsay, who refuses to take the fence down and insults Pawnee in the process. Leslie, Tom, and Ben attend a catered Eagleton town meeting inside a country club to plead their case to its citizens. The people of Eagleton are wealthy and civil, but also incredibly condescending. Citing the poor maintenance of Pawnee's side of Lafayette Park, the Eagleton citizens would like the fence to stay up. Leslie reveals to Tom and Ben that she was offered the job of Eagleton parks director five years ago but turned it down. At the time, Leslie and Lindsay both promised to remain in Pawnee. However, Eagleton then offered Lindsay the job and she accepted, turning her back on Pawnee and worse… Leslie. Ron becomes increasingly paranoid of Leslie's birthday party, especially after he overhears April and Andy discuss outrageous plans. When Ron learns what a huge party she threw for Ann’s birthday, he becomes so paranoid that he resorts to sleeping in his office to avoid any potential surprises at home. While this is happening, Leslie seeks revenge against Lindsay by getting her parks employees to throw garbage over the Eagleton side of the fence. When Lindsay arrives to stop it, the two get into a fight amid the garbage bags. The police arrive and arrest both women: Lindsay is jailed in Pawnee, while Leslie is jailed in Eagleton's pristine holding cell. After Ann bails Leslie out of jail, she tells her that Lindsay built the fence to get a rise out of Leslie, because she is jealous that Leslie was offered the Eagleton job first. Ann suggests that Lindsay should be hit with a baseball bat, which gives Leslie the idea to turn Pawnee's side of Lafayette Park into a wiffle ball field, with the fence serving as the outfield wall. Lindsay is impressed by how fast Leslie turned the fence into something positive, and remembers why she and Leslie joined the parks department in the first place. With their relationship on the mend, the two agree to get a drink together. Later, Leslie returns to the office to throw Ron's party: she takes him to an empty room with steak, whiskey and his favorite movies waiting for him, and reveals that April and Andy's duties were red herrings. Leslie explains she made a party that he would want and leaves a content Ron alone to enjoy his birthday.

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0:00.0

We're getting together to talk about all the things we used to do

0:10.0

The laughs, the passions, the lifts, the passions, the pets we fell into

0:17.0

And we're putting it on in a podcast, then we'll send it up into the sky

0:24.0

From calling in parks and recollection, come on, let a podcast spread your wings and fly, yeah!

0:35.0

Welcome everybody to Parks and Recollection as always, it's your humble servant Rob Lowe with my partner, Alan Yang.

0:44.0

How you doing, Rolo? What's up? What's up?

0:46.0

Same old thing, man, we're talking about parks, which is always a good day.

0:49.0

Yeah, man, this is a good episode and how's your production schedule running around, right?

0:54.0

My show Unstable is in big time free production.

0:59.0

I love that, is your right-assroom going for the new show?

1:02.0

Yeah, we've got five episodes written and to put it in perspective on Loan Star.

1:09.0

I don't think we ever had a written episode finale.

1:12.0

I don't think we ever did.

1:14.0

They're still writing it now, weirdly.

1:17.0

It's in the can, it's going to air, but they're still working on it.

1:20.0

They're still noodling that act to break.

1:22.0

I'm telling you, man, there's a lot of ways to just going to cap.

1:26.0

Doesn't, they're really, doesn't, doesn't eight sound good though, is it like, oh wow eight, it's like we got five.

1:32.0

On the 22 show, you're like, oh we're in quarter way there.

1:36.0

I was talking to some other showrunners and they're like, yeah, everyone has a different way of doing it because

1:41.0

there's different, well, you know, like if you're on a 22 episode network show, you cannot be on set and in the editing room and writing at the same time.

1:49.0

So a lot of those people sacrifice the set and then meanwhile, I was talking to someone else who does a show where you write it beforehand and then you can do the whole thing.

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