Lloyd Bishop/NBCHow do you celebrate your series finale? If you're the Parks and Recreation cast, you reunite on Late Night With Seth Meyers and hold nothing back. Seriously, the cast was dropping tidbits, hopes and dreams like nobody's business. And of course you end everything with a surprising makeout session and a sing along to "5,000 Candles in the Wind," the Lil' Sebastian tribute song.
Lil' Sebastian forever.
The cast told host Seth Meyers the original pitches they had for ending the show. Retta's wish for her character Donna Meagle is one we're sure you can relate to. "I pitched that I would have sex with Joe Manganiello and that never happened," she said.
She wasn't kidding.
Chris Pratt wanted to go all Six Feet Under with the finale and see how everyone died. For April, she died of a broken heart "and then you would see that Andy died ‘cause he was left in a hot car with the windows rolled up."
Was there pressure to tie it all up? "You're literally thinking, ‘Is this appropriate to be the last things that these people ever say?' It's terrifying," co-creator Michael Schur told Meyers. "It's very scary and that was like a big issue for us. It took me probably three days to write the last actual page of the script, I would say...It was like you'd write a word and then cry for a while."
Can we take a minute and discuss Nick Offerman's new look? Ron Swanson no more!
Garry/Jerry/Larry/Terry and April?! Who knew there was so much sexual tension between Jim O'Heir and Aubrey Plaza after all these years? "I can't look at it! I can't watch it! Oh, my God," Retta laughed while trying to sing along with the rest of the cast.
Goodbye, Parks and Rec cast. We'll always love you.
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