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Rashida Jones Reveals How Poorly NBC Treated ‘Parks and Rec’

Jones said that “every single season” the show’s cast thought, “This is it. They're not gonna want us back.”

Despite the show’s resurgence amid streaming availability years after its last episode, Jones revealed that, at the time of filming the series, it wasn’t a hit—by a long shot. “[ Parks and Recreation] is kind of iconic now—It’s like one of those great comedies of that time, which is so awesome,” Jones said in a new episode of the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast released on Monday, “But we didn't feel that way.” Plaza, Pratt, Offerman, and Scott enjoyed mondo-success after its wrap—but no one expected that type of success at the time, Jones explained.

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