Last night, a few members of the Parks and Recreation cast, along with producer and director Dean Holland, executive producer Daniel Goor, and creator Mike Schur, held a panel at PaleyFest, during which they talked about how the fourth season will end and what to expect in the fifth. “More being the best, less Ann being a nurse, more jokes, more things, etc.” pretty much. You can read all about it here, if you want to! But if you don’t want to, STAY TUNED here for the most interesting part, AKA the part that can lead to a game, from The Hollywood Reporter:

“We shot actually three different endings, partially because we want to make sure that the one we are choosing is the right and we reserve the right to change our minds and also partly just to confuse people,” Schur explained. “There may be” a last minute switch. Will the chosen outcome affect season 5 in any way? “We wrote it in such a way that everything up until the moment we played that scene, it could go either way,” he says. We have the ability to choose Path A, Path B or Path C. We’ll wait to edit it, see how it plays, see how we all feel about it and then we’ll make our choice.”

THREE PATHS? That’s one more path than you’d expect from an episode about the outcome of an election! So why not play a guessing game about that path? Right? What the hell else are we doing? WE DESERVE IT.

  • Ann returns to the hospital and they say, “Who are you?” And Ann says, “Oh, I’m a nurse. My name is Ann. I work here.” And they say, “We don’t have any nurses named Ann at this hospital.” And Ann says, “No…I mean, yes you do. Me. Ann.” Then she shows them her nurses’s badge, and the lady she was talking to gives her a knowing look and says, “Oooh right, Ann…The nurse.” And then she takes Ann to a floor with pretend hospital rooms and pretend patients because Ann is not really a nurse, how could she be, she works at the Parks department, but she is crazy and they like to humor her.
  • Adam Scott proposes to Leslie and they get married and it’s so beautiful.
  • April and Aziz Ansari realize they are very in love and they run away and get married, but then April realizes she is already married but she says it doesn’t matter, but then in fifth season you find out that IT DOES.
  • The cast decides to use both their character names and their real names on the show interchangeably to make life easier for me specifically.
  • Aaron Paul guest stars as himself and announces that he’s moved to Pawnee and after that he’ll become a regular cast member, and he’ll be so good.

Probably one of those, but feel free to make your own guesses! I’m sure we’ll find out who’s right someday! Probably!

Comments (26)
  1. “At the end of the season they announce the show won’t be back for a fifth season and everyone is so happy.” – Frank Lloyd Wrong

  2. Everything culminates in a final battle between Adam Scott and Louis CK. The final scene ends with the sound of a gunshot… but who got shot?????

  3. Sweetums NutriYums are PEOPLE!!!!!!

  4. The Ghost of Lil’ Sebastian wins the election in a landslide.

  5. The apartment complex is about to blow up and no one can get Allison out because she’s locked her door and got her headphones on and is drunk, wallowing in her sorrow because Andy broke up with her. Oh wait…

  6. Ending A
    Ann is the true culprit, having used Perd Hapley to murder Bobby Newport and Tammy 2, while she herself killed the others to keep her true business of “secrets extortion” safe, planning on using the information learned tonight for her own benefit. Jerry reveals himself to be an FBI agent and arrests Ann as police secure the Parks office.

    Ending B
    Donna is revealed as the murderer of all the victims, and escapes after holding the others at gunpoint. However, Jerry reveals himself as an FBI agent with the town counsel elections set up to spy on Donna’s activities, believing her to be taking bribes by foreign powers, and the police quickly capture her as she flees.

    Ending C
    It is revealed that no one person committed all of the murders. Tom killed Bobby Newport, Donna killed the Tammy 2, Chris killed the Detlef Schrempf, Mrs. White killed Perd Hapley, Ann killed the Jean-Ralphio, and Shauna Malwae-Tweep was shot and killed by Jerry. It is revealed that Jerry is the true Bobby Newport, and that the man who was killed was his own butler. Jerry had brought the other victims (his accomplices in the blackmail scheme) to the house to be killed by the guests, and thus plans to continue to extort his blackmail scheme over them. Andy Dwyer then reveals himself as FBI agent Bert Macklin, and shoots Jerry; as police raid the house, the other guests are arrested for murder. It is also revealed that his earlier stated stupidity was part of his cover, signified by his final line in the movie: “Okay, Chief, take ‘em away. I’m gonna go home and read Aristophanes.”

  7. Path C involves write-in candidate Sarah Palin winning the election, thus lending legitimacy to the title of her documentary.

  8. Brendanawicz returns to confess his love for Leslie. DUM DUM DUMMMMMMM

  9. All 3 endings are pretty much the same, except Leslie orders a different dessert in each.

  10. No matter what the ending, I’ll wind up thinking “more Jean-Ralphio please thank you.”

  11. Leslie and Paul Rudd tie and she hires Bob Loblaw to handle the recount legal stuff. He writes about it on his Law Blog.

  12. 4 words: “what’s in the box?”

  13. the guy from ‘all the real girls’ returns, and everyone is super happy bc that guy was a laff riot.

  14. Leslie wakes up and realizes it’s all a dream. Then she gets in Air Force One and negotiates an end to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Then paps take a photo of her eating victory waffles with Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas at a diner overlooking the Wailing Wall. She wins the Nobel Peace Prize the following year.

  15. Frustrated punk rocker Andy Dwyer quits his shoeshine job after slugging Jerry, and is later dumped by April at a party. Wandering the streets in frustration, he is recruited in the repossession of a car by a repo agent. After discovering his parents have donated his college fund to a televangelist, he joins the repossession agency (Helping Hand Acceptance Corporation) as an apprentice “repo man”. During his training, he is introduced into the mercenary and paranoid world of Tom Haverford, befriended by a UFO conspiracy theorist Kyle, confronted by rival repo agent Jean-Ralphio, discovers Ann has turned to a life of crime, is lectured to near cosmic unconsciousness by Chris Traeger, and finds himself entangled in a web of intrigue concerning a huge repossession bounty on a 1964 Chevy Malibu driven by Donna, a lunatic government scientist, with Top Secret cargo in the trunk.

  16. It was all just a dream.

Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post, reply to, or rate a comment.