Parks and Recreation is one of the most optimistic shows of our lifetime. It masterfully blended this optimism with humor in order to make its fans feel genuine emotions and attachment for its characters, their lives, and the little town in Indiana they called home.
‘Parks and Recreation’ predicted the Cubs’ World Series in its final season
You thought it was a joke, but they were not joking.
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It shouldn’t be a surprise, then, that in the final season of Parks and Rec set in the future of 2017, the writers decided that the Cubs had won the 2016 World Series.
There is a chance Lucy predicted the future #ParksandRec pic.twitter.com/j74iH3tvfM
— Natalie Morales (@nataliemorales) October 24, 2016
Best of all? They weren’t actually joking about it. Let’s rewind to 2015 and co-creator of Parks and Rec, Michael Schur:
During a press stop in January of last year, Schur told the crowd that a reference the sitcom made to the Cubs winning the 2016 World Series was no joke. Before he could finish his sentence, he was interrupted with laughter. The Cubs were, after all, just a few months removed from an 89-loss season.
It’s 2016, and the Cubs not only made the World Series — an impressive enough prediction from noted baseball fan Schur, who you might also know as Fire Joe Morgan and Twitter’s Ken Tremendous — but they also managed to win the whole thing.
See? The optimism of Parks and Rec really is rooted in reality! The world isn’t so bad when it mirrors Pawnee, you know.
