“Parks and Recreation” said its final goodbye on Tuesday, and through a series of flash-forwards, viewers found out what exactly happened to every member of Pawnee’s Parks Department. A few hours before the finale, HuffPost Entertainment caught up with Retta, who plays treat yo’self queen and real-estate mogul Donna Meagle, to hear about her final moments at the happiest show on television.
“I don’t plan to have a whole bunch of eyeliner on,” Retta said when asked how she’ll watch the episode with the rest of the cast and crew. “We’re pretty excited because we had this epic group text since we started the final season. It has been going and going and going. We’re actually just looking forward to being in the same room again. There’s gonna be a lot of ‘Dammit, Jerrys!'”
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6. No one wanted to leave.
By now, it’s “Parks and Rec” lore that the cast and crew are obsessed with each other. Retta said that while filming the finale, there was one last group shot that kept everyone together for a few more moments. “There was a picture we took under a tree and it was our last outdoor scene,” she said. “Then they asked us to walk over to this tree to take a picture. We were like, ‘Oh, my God, this is our last parks scene, our last outdoor scene.’ When they were taking the picture, everyone was like, ‘Use my phone! Use my my phone!’ It took forever, but they took a picture on every single person’s phone.”
