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Recap / Parks And Recreation S 06 E 16

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Leslie meets again with Grant Larson about a job with the National Parks Service. He tells her that she would focus on the big ideas and would oversee a large staff who would concentrate on the smaller details.

Pawnee's new website is live, and Leslie uses it to host a poll to decide Pawnee/Eagleton's new slogan. When Ben tells her the website will do all the work of the poll, Leslie sees a parallel between it and the Parks Service job. She decides to visit all the local media personnel to get the word out about the slogan contest. Unfortunately, this results in a crude slogan being proposed, but when she asks for citizens to change the slogan, the new one is insulting toward herself. She holds a town meeting, and one woman proposes a slogan: "When You're Here, You're Home". This one is the winner.

Tom recruits April and Donna to help him find a location for his restaurant. Tom and/or April find something wrong with every property Donna shows. Tom will have to inform his investor that he can't find a suitable property. April and Donna admit to each other that they sabotaged Tom's efforts because they want to keep him around. Feeling bad, they take him to one more property, and this one works.

Andy is trying to find musical acts for the Unity Concert, and Craig tells him about a good bar to try. At the bar, Andy sees Duke Silver. Later, he confronts Ron about Duke and tells him he has to play in the concert. Ron, valuing his privacy, instead throws away his saxophone. Andy convinces him not to give up music and tells him he doesn't have to play in the concert.

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  • Bait-and-Switch: We are lead to believe that when Andy pulls Ron's saxophone out of the dumpster and he walks in with the case that the banana peel on top is also from the bin, but then Andy takes the banana peel off as "it was his lunch on the way over [here]".
  • Comically Missing the Point: The former proprietor of the dinosaur-themed restaurant "Jurassic Fork" explains that they went out of business after they over-extended themselves by opening up another Steven Speilberg-themed restaurant: "Schindler's Lunch".
    • During the slogan meeting, someone "corrects" the proposed sign by switching "you're" with "your".
  • Noodle Incident: As Donna notes, one Eagleton restaurant went out of business because "you can't outrun the whale meat police forever."
  • Internal Reveal: Andy finds out by accident about Ron as Duke Silver, though he initially believed he had an identical twin.
  • Only in Florida: Leslie mentions Glenwater, Florida, a town that has the distinction of being the "Home of America's Most Violent Walmart Parking Lot". The real-world Port Richey, Florida not only likely holds the same title as the fictional Glenwater, but the lot in question is where half of all crime committed in the small town takes place.

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