One of my favorite things from this week has been Alan Sepinwall’s interview with Parks and Recreation showrunner Michael Schur, who you also may know as Ken Tremendous or Mose Schrute.

Schur was one of the producers and writers on The Office before leaving the show to start Parks and Recreation. After a sub-par first season, the show hit its stride in the second season by making Leslie Knope more believable and becoming one of the best comedies on television (I’ll go with Party Down as my favorite, but it’s close).

Sepinwall’s in-depth interview is fantastic for a multitude of reasons, but mostly because it provides wide-sweeping information about the show, the storylines, new characters and much more. Here is a taste of the interview…

So there was no discussion – even not necessarily making Leslie pregnant but doing a story where Leslie’s been eating too many Sweetums or something?

I would hope what happens is that in this day and age, the viewers and the show are making an agreement. They’re just making a silent, tacit pact that this actress is pregnant, that happens. Women have babies and we’re just going to watch the show and enjoy the show and not have to come up with any kind of explanation for why her stomach is larger than it usually is.

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Anyone who stuck with Parks and Recreation into the show’s second season has been pleasently surprised by the noticable improvement in the show’s quality.  Greg Daniels and Michael Schur seem to have made Poehler and the rest of her co-horts much different from The Office characters and also much more likeable.

But that’s all about to change (or maybe it won’t) during the next month when Pawnee’s Parks Department is rocked by a sex scandal.  Leslie Knope will reportedly be involved in some way (no word yet how) and this should be one of the funniest moments in the series’ young history. 

Also in the E! article is Poehler dropping a hint that Will Arnett, her real-life husband, will eventually make a guest appearance during this season.

To read more about both, check out the article right here.

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I felt really bad during the Super Bowl.  Not because I was pulling for either team, but because of two reasons.

1. I ate some terrible clam chowder and then washed it down with RC, salsa and a dried fruit mix.  Ugh.
2. The new name of the new show from the creators of The Office is now called Parks and Recreation.

And I had no idea that this was in fact its name.  Over on one of my other daily writing gigs, Is This It X, I wrote that the new NBC show will be called Community Service. But, as 95.4 million saw last night, the new Amy Poehler-starring show is called Parks and Recreation.

The interesting thing about the show is that Rashida Jones plays second-fiddle to Poehler.  But Jones will return to The Office this week. And she will be pregnant.

So, based on what’s typically the case with TV shows, a pregnancy means that Jones should be around The Office for quite a while.  Or maybe not.  We’ll have to see Thursday night, when The Office has to live up to a pretty great post-Super Bowl episode.

And, Office fans, be sure to check out Jones and Poehler in Parks and Recreation in April.  The new show figures to be hilarious.