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Parks and Recollection

Soulmates (S3E10)

Parks and Recollection

Team Coco and Stitcher

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, Comedy

4.73.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Grab your food rakes because today Rob Lowe and Alan Yang are swiping right on S3E10! In "Soulmates" Leslie is matched up with Tom on an Internet dating website, while Chris and Ron compete in a hamburger cook-off. On today's episode find out why clarity in comedy helps the audience laugh, how copyright trouble helped make better comedy, and why RoLo loves this episode! All of this and why Danny Glover's love for prop food is rivaled only by Chris Pratt's. Got a question for the Pawnee Town Hall? Send us an email: [email protected] Or leave a 30-Second voicemail at: (310) 893-6992 Chris enacts a government-wide health initiative in Pawnee, starting by banning red meat from the city hall commissary, much to the displeasure of Ron. He challenges Chris to a burger cook-off to prove red meat is superior to Chris' preferred lean meat, with red meat staying on the menu if Ron wins. Meanwhile, Leslie invites Ben out to dinner, but he turns her down, leaving Leslie confused because she was sure Ben was attracted to her. Ann, who is now dating multiple men after taking Donna's advice to be more adventurous, tells Leslie to join an online dating website called HoosierMate.com and helps set up her profile. Leslie finds a match that is 98 percent compatible with her – a "soulmate" rating – but is horrified to discover that it is Tom. Additionally, the crude sewage department employee Joe makes a romantic advance toward Leslie, prompting her to launch a "douche-vestigation" to find out why she attracts the wrong type of man. Meanwhile, Chris takes Andy, April, and Ron to a health food market called Grain 'n Simple, where he gathers numerous ingredients for the perfect turkey burger, but Ron is unfazed, simply buying a pound of red meat from his favorite food market, Food and Stuff. In her investigation, Leslie quickly learns Joe merely hits on any woman as long as she is not elderly. She takes Tom out to lunch to learn more about him. He responds to all of Leslie's questions with his usual chauvinistic answers, annoying her to the point that she admits she took him out because they matched on HoosierMate. A delighted Tom teases Leslie the rest of the day by pretending they are a couple, but she finally silences him by kissing him. Chris notices the kiss and warns Leslie that he has a strict policy against workplace dating. At the cook-off, Chris prepares his meticulous turkey burgers for the judges: Tom, Donna, Jerry, and Kyle. They all love it, but give much higher praise to Ron's simple hamburger on a bun. Initially surprised, even Chris comes to admit the burger is superior after trying it, so he agrees to reinstate red meat on the commissary menu. Chris later tells Leslie his dating policy has affected others, explaining that he earlier warned Ben not to ask out a co-worker. Leslie realizes that is why Ben rejected her and is glad when Ben asks her to eat in front of her favorite city hall mural. Leslie deletes her profile on HoosierMate, and is relieved to learn that Tom has 26 different profiles on the site to match himself with any type of woman, although the one Leslie matched with was his "nerd" profile.

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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 lives of passions, the pets we fell into.

0:17.0

And we're putting it on in a podcast.

0:20.0

Then we'll send it up into the sky.

0:24.0

We're calling it parks in recollection. Come on, let a podcast spread your wings and fly.

0:34.0

Well, everybody, you found us. Parks and Recalection. It's happening. It's on. It's me, Rollo.

0:42.0

Otherwise known as Roblo, otherwise known as Chris Trigger. And the great Alan Yeeah!

0:47.0

What's up, Rollo? How you doing, buddy?

0:49.0

I'm good. We're in a good vibe with these episodes now. There's one after another, all super fun.

0:59.0

And today's is another really, really good one.

1:02.0

Yeah, we're in the heart of a good stretch for the show.

1:05.0

So I would say in the peak, the mid-peak of the show.

1:10.0

Yeah, I was excited to re-watch some of these.

1:13.0

And remember where we're coming off of the Harvard Festival arc and all that stuff.

1:17.0

Oh, yeah, this is a good one. And you wrote this one. You wrote today's episode.

1:20.0

I have a writing credit on it. Yeah, just to clarify, if people don't know this,

1:26.0

just because your name's on it, it means that you probably wrote a first draft of the script

1:30.0

and then everyone kind of works on it. So everyone works on it together to break the story.

1:33.0

And you go off and you write a draft, you come back into the room,

1:36.0

and some of your stuff stays in and some of it gets re-written. But yeah, my name's on this one.

1:40.0

And you know, a kind of fun thing I did was I pulled out my original writer's draft of it and found a few things here and there that stayed in.

1:47.0

And we can talk about that down the road. But let's get into it. Let's do the details.

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