(Snake Juice!) I wonder what he saved for Plates. The buddy boxes were a tough act to follow, filled as they were with remembrances of each individual friendship. In a nice callback to the bachelor party episode, the boys struggled to find a way to show Chris what he means to them. When I posted it as my Facebook status, several of my favorite ladies in this universe liked it immediately.īut much as Leslie would like to make this all about beautiful Ann, Chris Traeger – City Manager, health guru, and dancing machine – also left us this week. But my favorite tribute to their bond was in that last interaction with the horrid Public Works guy, who tells Ann and Leslie that they’re total pains in the ass. “Harold, your tiny brain could not understand this, but that is the best compliment you could ever give the two women standing in front of you,” Leslie proudly says.
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Between Leslie’s 30 parties and the full group sendoff the next morning, Leslie and Ann have their private goodbye on the vacant lot, right where Leslie hashed things out with Mark Brendanoquitz a couple of years ago. And more than willing to look ridiculous for the right reasons. “If I learned one thing from Leslie Knope,” she says, “it is that we don’t take no for an answer.” And if that means using one’s feminine wiles on Perd Hapley or putting the vile Kathryn Pinewood into a nasty headlock, so be it. So while we often credit Ann for tethering Leslie to solid ground and inspiring her to be a fuller, balanced person, it was more than a little Knope that came out in her as went out to get herself a park. So, fittingly, it was these women – who don’t ever have to knock, thank you very much – to do this together. But the Lot 48 park was never a present Leslie was going to deliver gift wrapped – it was a pledge that she made to join forces with Ann and see this thing done.
Leslie made Ann a promise, and even if they’d become friendly acquaintances instead of soul sisters, she’d still be running all over town on Ann’s last night, making sure that promise was kept. Harold from Public Works had no idea what thunder he was calling down when he dared to stand in the way of Leslie Knope’s farewell surprise to Ann Perkins. Instead, because Ben does not wield the “unfettered power to crush” Leslie’s enemies, the writers had Leslie and Ann doing what they do best – making things happen and waiting “for no man.” Now was not the time to let a Knope tantrum take center stage. I’m glad that Leslie had her freakout about Ann’s move back in “Doppelgangers,” so that Rashida’s final episode could be a proper send-off. A mission to break ground on Lot 48 – the pit that brought them together. The bulk of the episode was better spent sending Ann and Leslie on a mission. Tom Petty’s “Wildflowers,” Parks? Flag on the play. And the dearth of BFF storylines they’ve shared so far this season left us primed and ready for a big ol’ cry fest in “Ann and Chris” when the girls said their goodbyes. Plan the shower, like the Facebook pictures, buy the gifts. But what’s beautiful about this friendship is that it’s never been just about standing next to each other while checking boxes on a life to-do list. I’ve been missing Leslie/Ann something fierce this season – with Ann and Chris’s baby on the way, I feel like we’ve missed some prime opportunities for Leslie to go crazy over her future godchild.
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Leslie Knope and Ann Perkins taught us so much in six seasons: how to tell the truth, even if it means an uncomfortable moment or two how to respect one another’s individual needs instead of projecting our own and, perhaps most importantly, that tulip skirts are not for everyone. So began a Bechdel-crushing lady friendship for the ages. “That parks lady is coming over and we’re gonna go take a look at the pit.”
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