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Parks and Recollection

Writer Katie Dippold: The Set Up (S2E13)

Parks and Recollection

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Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, Comedy

4.73.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Another guest joins us in Pawnee! Today writer Katie Dippold (Haunted Mansion, The Heat) breaks down one of her favorite episodes she's written. In "The Set Up" Ann sets Leslie up on a blind date, and the date does not go as Leslie had hoped. On today's pod find out the writer's room obsession with the 2002 film Swimfan, see the origin of Leslie's Biden crush, and hear everybody's idea of what they want "the club" to be. Got a question for the Pawnee Town Hall? Send us an email: [email protected] Or leave a 30-Second voicemail at: (310) 893-6992 When Leslie learns Pawnee is being sued by the previous owners of Lot 48, Ann calls upon her lawyer friend Justin Anderson (Justin Theroux), whom she’s known since high school and seems to still have feelings for. Justin helps Leslie resolve the issue, and the two hit it off immediately. Having recently broken up with her boyfriend, Leslie asks Ann to set her up on a date, but is surprised when Ann hesitates to set her up with Justin. Instead, she arranges a date with Chris (Will Arnett) an MRI technologist Ann works with. The date goes terribly, with Chris appearing annoyed upon learning Leslie attended a rival college, and that she was a director of regular parks, not amusement parks. When Leslie says she has never had an MRI, Chris takes her to the hospital to perform one on her. Chris comes off super creepy, remarking that Leslie has an excellent uterus and asking whether she is having her period, presumably in anticipation of sex later. Meanwhile, Mark grows suspicious that Ann harbors romantic feelings for Justin. He eventually confronts Ann and accuses her of putting Justin on hold for a possible relationship in the future. Ann admits she has distantly thought of her and Justin ending up together, prompting Mark to walk out on their date and spoil the ending of Marley & Me. Mark asks Andy if Ann seemed to have feelings for Justin when they were together. Andy confirms that she did and then immediately confronts Ann about it in another endless attempt to win favor with her and get back together. Realizing her behavior was inappropriate, Ann sets Leslie up on a date with Justin. In a B storyline, Ron deals with complaints from local residents due to a new town policy requiring public officials to deal more directly with the public. Ron calls the policy "my hell", and seeks a new assistant to protect him from the citizens.Tom volunteers to find Ron an assistant, but really uses the opportunity to find an assistant for himself. After multiple interviews, Tom brings forward a fast-talking candidate named Jean-Ralphio (Ben Schwartz), whose personality closely resembles Tom's. Ron hates him right away and in the end hires April, who’s internship is coming to an end, as his assistant.

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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

For calling in parks and recollection, come on in a podcast, spread your wings and fly.

0:35.0

Hello everybody, welcome to Parks and Rec Election.

0:38.0

It's always a great day when we have a guest.

0:41.0

And today is one of those days we've got the incredibly talented and wonderfully fun Katie Dippolt,

0:49.0

who is a writer who's written on the show and gone on to write many big movies.

0:54.0

I'm excited to be here and Alan Yang is here. He's always here.

0:58.0

I'm always here. That's not exciting at all. I'm always here.

1:01.0

It's gonna be fun. What's our episode today, Alan?

1:04.0

Episode 13 of season two, the set up is air January 14, 2010 written by Katie Dippolt, our guest, directed by Troy Miller.

1:12.0

Welcome, Katie. How are you?

1:14.0

I'm very good, very happy to be here.

1:17.0

And you are not just one of our favorite writers, one of the long standing writers of the show, too.

1:21.0

How many seasons were you on Parks and Rec for? I just remember you being there forever.

1:26.0

Do you know it was actually only three seasons, seasons two, three, and four?

1:31.0

Someone would say the best seasons.

1:34.0

I wouldn't say it out loud. I would text it to you.

1:38.0

Yes, you're constantly saying how much the show fell off after you left, just complaining to me constantly.

1:44.0

Okay, every day, I just want to revisit it and unpack it.

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