Parks and Recreation (season 3)The third season of Parks and Recreation originally aired in the United States on the NBC television network between January 2. May 1. 9, 2. 01. 1. Like the previous seasons, it focused on Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) and her staff at the parks and recreation department of the fictional Indiana town of Pawnee. The season featured 1.

Rob Lowe and Adam Scott, who appeared as guest stars in the second season, began season three as regular cast members playing Chris Traeger and Ben Wyatt, respectively. The season also featured guest appearances by Megan Mullally, Will Forte and Parker Posey, among others. To accommodate Amy Poehler's pregnancy, the first six episodes of the third season were filmed immediately after season two wrapped so they could be saved for a projected September 2. However, after the episodes were finished, NBC postponed the season premiere until January to accommodate their new series, Outsourced. The third season consisted of several major story arcs, including a complete shutdown of the Pawnee government for budgetary reasons, inspired by the real- life global financial crisis. Other storylines included the parks department's organization of a harvest festival, a romance between Leslie and Ben, and the dating and eventual marriage of Andy Dwyer (Chris Pratt) and April Ludgate (Aubrey Plaza).

As in the previous season, Parks and Recreation was critically acclaimed during its third season, and was declared by several reviewers to be one of the best comedies on television. Entertainment Weekly featured it on its cover in February 2. The episodes . Parks and Recreation received its first nomination for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series for its third season, and Poehler received her second nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

Nevertheless, Parks and Recreation continued to struggle in the Nielsen ratings and averaged about 4. Episodes. The only permanent cast member not to return was Paul Schneider, who previously played city planner Mark Brendanawicz. Schneider departed from the series at the end of season two. Posey had been in discussions with the Parks and Recreation staff to make a guest appearance since the show debuted, and grew frustrated when it took several months before she received an invitation. Besser had previously been on the sketch comedy show and troupe Upright Citizens Brigade with Poehler.

Although the third episode to be shown, . But I think, weirdly, there's a momentum that comes from people waiting for us, which is nice. For example, during one scene in . Much of the filming was improvised, including shots used in a montage sequence that showed how drunk each character had become by the end of the night. Amy Poehler described the filming as . In the past, Poehler would improvise several different jokes during a take, and they would be intermingled into a montage of jump cuts featuring many of the jokes.

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That technique was used prominently in . Due to budget restraints, the Parks and Recreation set department did not build the set, but instead used a real- life setting at Los Angeles Pierce College, a community college in California which holds an annual festival event. The setting was a completely white 1. Michael Schur described the setting as, . It's truly nuts. It's like a hallucinogenic nightmare. At this point in the season, April and Andy were separated and had not yet reconciled.? How does someone believe that change could happen without losing faith?

The storyline stemmed from serious budget problems facing Pawnee and the major cuts threatened to the parks department, which prompts Leslie to bring the harvest festival back and stake the future of the entire department on its success and failure. Schur said the harvest festival story arc was written in part because the first six episodes were written and filmed early, so the writing staff felt having one concise storyline to tie them together kept the show focused. Schur also said the writers were fatigued from working on six third season episodes immediately after the second season, so the harvest festival story arc helped .

Leslie denies there are any, but it is suggested her secret relationship with Ben could become such a scandal. Schur said the decision to have them marry after only briefly dating stemmed from the writing staff's desire to . They decided a fast marriage was funny, but also made sense because the characters are . So that was our only goal; we just sort of tried to follow through on the characters, and what the characters' lives had presented them, over the course of the year.

I just wanted it to feel like everybody made a move. So we had everybody make a move.“”– Michael Schur, Parks and Recreation co- creator. Schur said: . And the way to knock that person off balance is to get Rob Lowe in a relationship with you. This marked her process of getting over Chris and becoming a . The storyline is advanced particularly strongly in .

Schur said the writing staff had a general idea of where the newly introduced storylines should go, but the exact stories had not been completely worked out yet when the episodes broadcast. Schur said they sought to . EST on Thursdays, the third season marked its debut in a 9: 3. Thursday timeslot effective January 2. The Office and 3.

Rock. These cuts were about five minutes longer than the televised version and included several scenes that were originally cut due to length limitations. The episodes to receive .

Watch Pilot online. Stream Parks and Recreation season 1, episode 1 instantly. Several actors who had appeared in previous seasons of Parks and Recreation continue to appear in the third season, including Ben Schwartz as Tom's cocky and. Parks and Recreation was an American political comedy television sitcom starring Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope, a perky, mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks Department of. With Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones, Aziz Ansari, Nick Offerman. Leslie blows off Ben's birthday party to filibuster councilman Jamm's motion, Andy pays a surprise visit.

Parks and Recreation stars Amy Poehler as city employee Leslie Knope, following her attempts to liven up Pawnee, Indiana.

Parks and Recreation (or Parks and Rec to its friends) is a 2009-2015 NBC Work Com about small-town government, centering on the employees of the Parks and Recreation.

The show was featured on the February 1. Entertainment Weekly, where it was called . Club said although he considered Parks and Recreation the funniest sitcom on television during its second season, . The average viewership for the 1.

Other than that, I'm not sure what else we can do. It’s very disconcerting. The season debut, . It marked the series' highest rating in that demographic. However, the Parks and Recreation episode was seen by an estimated 4. Amy Poehler received her second Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

The show itself was nominated for . Offerman also hosted the TCA Awards in 2. My Dad Says' Adjusted Up, 'Bones' Adjusted Down.

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