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"First things first: Does everyone realize that last night&amp;#x27;s Parks and Rec was the season finale? It&amp;#x27;s on the early side. And you could be forgiven for not realizing that this particular piece of television was a year-closer. After two seasons in a row with seriously memorable last-hurrahs (season four was the election results, season three was Lil&amp;#x27; Sebastian&amp;#x27;s memorial), last night&amp;#x27;s send-off about Leslie&amp;#x27;s iffy check-in with the town felt a little...quiet. Who knows: Maybe it was just that The Office put me in a melancholy mood. But while there were fuzzy-feelings galore at the end of the Parks and Rec finale (we&amp;#x27;ll get to those in a second!), I thought it was an interesting move to have Leslie go out on, well, sort of a low. Sure, she&amp;#x27;s deliriously happy with Ben (and his butt). But we&amp;#x27;ve spent enough time with Leslie Knope to know that the ultimate unhappy place this character can go to is to be disillusioned with her work. I was totally freaked out when she said, &amp;quot;Maybe I should quit.&amp;quot; And I felt personally tortured watching that float come down the street. I guess that&amp;#x27;s the point here: The show seems to be setting Leslie up for a comeback next year, so we&amp;#x27;ve got to go through some blue times first. The silver lining of the episode, of course, was Burt Macklin&amp;#x27;s knocked-up investigation. And that, I loved: Not only because it had enough twists and turns to earn it a place among our favorite TV pregnancy reveals, but also because it totally flipped the typical gender expectations. We spent the whole ep wondering who&amp;#x27;s going to be a mother, only to find that our big revelation concerned who&amp;#x27;s going to be a father: This guy! I&amp;#x27;m so excited for the future little bacon lover to get here. Ron&amp;#x27;s going to fashion the best wooden rattle ever. What did you think of the finale? Photo: NBC"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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