“Pawnee Commons” wasn’t the type of Parks and Recreation episode that will make any Best Of lists, nor will it probably convert any people who aren’t regular viewers into Pawnee fanatics, but it was satisfying, sweet and funny, and what I talk about when I talk about why I’d take an average Parks & Rec over most other sitcoms on TV right now. We knew from the second Leslie mentioned Eagleton what kind of people and places we were about to see, and I enjoyed every second of it… and felt quite empty in that I don’t get to have a balloon-artisan made Leslie and Ben at my desk this very second.

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