Parks and Recreation took its final bow last night on NBC, but the cast and co-creator Michael Schur aren’t leaving the tight-knit family that they cultivated over seven seasons just yet. Schur and the show’s stars, including Amy Poehler, talked about getting their unique series finale together.

After the show, the crew appeared on Late Night With Seth Meyers, where Poehler’s former SNL “Weekend Update” co-anchor asked if anyone had pitched ideas for the end. Schur said that he got a text from Chris Pratt, suggesting a Six Feet Under-style ending where they flashforward to see how everyone dies.

“When you saw April, it would be that she died of a broken heart,” Pratt said. “And then you would see that Andy died because he was left in a hot car with the windows rolled up.”

While the show, which already spent the entire season in 2017, flashed even further into the future to see how the lives of our beloved Parks team members continued, we only saw how Jerry/Gary/Garry (Jim O’Heir) died. It turns out that he got to be the long-running mayor of Pawnee until he died at 100... and even then, his name was spelled wrong on the tombstone.

“I liked the flash-forwards because we could show a little glimpse of everyone’s life, just a small slice of each of their futures, because this cast demands such individual attention,” Schur, who created the series with Greg Daniels, told Entertainment Weekly. “They were all so good, I wanted to give each of them his or her own spotlight.”

The flashforward provided suitable endings for every character’s story. However, it did leave one thing ambiguous. After becoming Governor of Indiana, what is Leslie’s next challenge?

“It’s so much more interesting than saying she’s… whatever,” Scott told EW. “I could see her becoming President. Why not? We have Secret Service with us at Jerry’s funeral, but who knows why? I think it’s really, really cool that it was left a little vague.”

Parks and Recreation, which started out as an Office knock-off and became so much more, ran for seven seasons. The producer’s cut of the finale runs 10 minutes longer than last night’s broadcast and will be available online today.

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