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The episode will air Thursday night on NBC after the Paley Centers salute to the series.
The government in these moments of crisis becomes the place where people have to turn.
Schur teamed up with six of the originalParkswriters to turn the script around in three days.
Any fan who cares about canon should consider this canon, Schur said.
It did present a weird situation because ordinarily you could just make everything up and start from scratch.
In fact, the first person on camera will be one of them.
Leslie Knope was a person who believed in friendship.
She was a very loyal person.
She was a very friendly person.
But as tricky as working out the story was, logistics became the biggest challenge.
The slow and laborious process took four days, Schur said.
TV is a team sport, from the very beginning to the very end, he said.
I dont think theres any way that this is a sustainable method for making television.
I dont want to downplay it.
It was fun to have the crew back together.
