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Parks and Recollection

The Possum (S2E18)

Parks and Recollection

Team Coco and Stitcher

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, Comedy

4.73.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Call animal control! Today Rob and Alan are talking about the 18th episode of season two. In "The Possum" Leslie puts together a task force to catch a famous town-possum. In this episode you will hear all the similarities between animal control and classic clowning, who Harris Wittels was originally cast as, and the Parks seed that grew into Oscar nominee Paul Raci's incredible career! All of this, and some pretty darn interesting facts about our animal friends the possum. Got a question for the Pawnee Town Hall? Send us an email: [email protected] Or leave a 30-Second voicemail at: (310) 893-6992 After the infamous possum "Fairway Frank" bites Mayor Gunderson's dog at a golf course, mayoral representative Evelyn (Judith Moreland) asks Leslie to form a task force to capture it. Leslie, Tom, Andy and two incompetent animal control workers, Harris (Harris Wittels) and Brett go to the golf course and quickly find the animal. The animal control workers are useless and Tom immediately runs away, but Andy dives toward the animal and captures it. Evelyn is impressed with Leslie and promises her a special favor from the mayor's office. However, Leslie sees a second opossum and fears they have captured the wrong animal. She later finds out that the mayor doesn't care about catching Fairway Frank, but rather about securing a trophy animal for his bathroom. Back at the department office, reporter Shauna Malwae-Tweep (Alison Becker) interviews Andy for a newspaper article. After he brags about the capture, the reporter suggests his heroics might win him back the affections of Ann, his ex-girlfriend, much to Andy's excitement. April , who has romantic feelings for Andy, overhears this and leaves. Evelyn demands delivery of Fairway Frank. Leslie responds that there is uncertainty about the identity of Fairway Frank. She refuses to hand over the captured opossum and creates a ketchup-blood diversion so that April can escape with the caged animal. Leslie and April take the opossum to Ann's home, where April has been paid $50 to housesit. April lets the opossum out of its cage, and it causes havoc and minor damage. While hiding from the animal, April reveals her feelings about Andy to Leslie for the first time. When Leslie refuses to hand over the opossum, Evelyn angrily takes back her promise of a favor from the mayor's office. Andy, still oblivious to the reasons behind April's jealousy, delivers coffee to April, as well as the day's newspaper, containing a story which credits April for providing moral support to Andy. It is later revealed that Leslie has donated the opossum to the Pawnee zoo. Meanwhile, Ron plans a woodshop expansion in his home and seeks the approval of city planner Mark. Mark informs Ron that an inspection is needed to ensure that the facility meets all current zoning code standards, and an obviously lying Ron claims it does, clearly underscoring his vexation with governmental regulations. During the inspection, Mark finds numerous code violations, including oily rags placed above a wood-burning fireplace and a long-outdated fire extinguisher. Later, Mark takes a half-day off so that he can help his friend's woodshop meet city code. Ron thanks Mark by building a wooden canoe and leaving it in his office.

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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.

0:35.0

Welcome everybody to Parks and Recollection.

0:38.0

Alan Yang is here. I am here. That means we're going to do this.

0:43.0

It's going to happen. And we have a particularly good, funny episode.

0:48.0

They're all funny. They're all good. I don't want to make it sound like,

0:51.0

well listen, I'll be very clear about the ones that I think are like super duet there.

0:54.0

But they're all good. That's why we're doing this show in the first place.

0:57.0

Wouldn't you say it's a pleasure to watch. It's a pleasure to watch.

1:00.0

We got the personnel here today. We're going to do the show.

1:03.0

This is a fun one. What do we got in the barrel today?

1:06.0

The episode is called The Possum.

1:09.0

Episode 18 of season two, first aired March 11, 2010, written by the legend Mike Scully,

1:17.0

former Simpson showrunner, one of the funniest human beings on earth directed by Tristram Shapiro,

1:23.0

the elegantly named Tristram Shapiro. Tristram. Tristram Shapiro is a British man.

1:30.0

He's a British director. And to me, the writer and director of this episode,

1:35.0

their names sort of embody an American name and a British name, right?

1:40.0

The American dude's name is Mike Scully, the British dude's name Tristram Shapiro.

1:44.0

And by the way, he might as well be named Benedict Cumberbass.

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