NBCGet your tissues ready: Parks and Recreation's final season begins Tuesday, Jan. 13 at 8 p.m. on NBC. The beloved comedy will air back-to-back episodes until the hour-long series finale on Tuesday, Feb. 24 after The Voice.
Somebody please send us waffles ASAP.
"Mike Schur and Amy Poehler, along with their incredible producers, cast, and crew, have given us one of the great television comedies of all time, and we're inordinately proud of Parks and Recreation," NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt said in a statement. "In an effort to give it the send-off it deserves, we wanted to ‘eventize' the final season to maximize the impact of these episodes, which really do take the show to a new level. The highly-anticipated one-hour finale will air behind The Voice in order to lead the largest audience possible into what promises to be a very special hour of television."
When we last saw Leslie Knope (Poehler) and the rest of her Pawnee gang, we had jumped three years into the future with everybody in new points of their lives. Leslie and Ben (Adam Scott) had their triplets and Jon Hamm was there! Hamm will return in the final season, as will Megan Mullally, Ben Schwartz, Rashida Jones and Rob Lowe.
"Critics, viewers and all of us at NBC fell in love with this endearing, funny, heartfelt show and its authentic cast of characters," Jennifer Salke, president of NBC Entertainment, said in a statement. "After seven amazing seasons, saying goodbye to the folks of Pawnee will be bittersweet, so we want to give the show and its fans the most impactful final season possible."
Poehler won the Golden Globe for her work in last season of the series. She'll host the Golden Globes again alongside pal Tina Fey on Sunday, Jan. 11 on NBC. Parks and Rec also stars Aziz Ansari, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Pratt, Jim O'Heir and Retta.
Just in case you need it, here's Mouse Rat's "5,000 Candles in the Wind," their tribute song to Lil Sebastian. It's only fitting.
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