I know today is usually Hayley Atwell Wednesday and it almost was but… look, Agent Carter may not be back and that makes me sad but Parks and Rec is definitely not coming back.  It’s over.  That needs to be commemorated and it is what I am thinking about today.  How great the show was, how much I will miss it and so on.  Now, it is tempting to make this bigger than it is.  This was the last tie to NBC’s old Must See TV Thursdays, which for most of my life was an epic block of comedy.  Seriously, when I was a kid the Cosby Show was the biggest thing on TV (you know, before that shit got dark), as was Cheers, and Seinfeld, and Friends.  And I could take a trip down nostalgia lane about all of that and how it leads to this but I don’t need to.  The show was simply great on it’s own and amazingly had a heart a lot of comedies don’t.  I was thinking last night about how the show was almost always punching up instead of down.  There weren’t really butts of jokes, just interesting characters playing off of each other.  And yes, even Aubrey Plaza’s acerbic character had that heart of gold and helped people.  I can’t remember if the show introduced me to her or if it was something else, I know she was in a few things around that time.  She is hilarious, she is gorgeous, she is a huge talent.  I look forward to what is next, I guess movies.  But I will miss her and the entire Pawnee crew so today I want to fuck Aubrey Plaza.

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