“Parks & Recreation” Creator Weighs in on Possibility of a Spinoff as Cast Members Express Interest in Revisiting the Show

Mike Schur is speaking out about the future of Parks and Recreation — or lack thereof.

The beloved NBC series’ creator recently chatted with The Hollywood Reporter about season two of A Man on the Inside. When the subject of mentor Greg Daniels‘ spinoff toThe Office, The Paper, and whether that sparked any inspiration for revisiting Pawnee, Schur shut down the idea.

“That show had a very specific argument to make about government at a very specific moment in time, the Obama era. We left nothing unsaid,” he told the outlet.

The series, which ran for seven seasons from 2009 to 2015, followed the chronically underfunded and underperforming Parks and Recreation Department in the fictional town of Pawnee, Ind.

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On the Tuesday, May 20 episode of her podcast Good Hang, Amy Poehler welcomed Shur as her guest and the pair, who are teaming up again on an all-new comedy series, Dig, revealed the trailer for the spinoff series that the Parks & Rec cast filmed over a decade ago for the first time.

Philly Justice, as the spinoff was called, originated after Poehler, Rashida Jones, Adam Scott and Parks & Rec guest stars Kathryn Hahn and Paul Rudd posed for a photo on set that sparked a “fantasy of being in a Nineties, David Kelley-style procedural show…where we were all playing law clerks in Philadelphia,” as Jones previously told The Independent.

The spinoff idea really took hold with the cast and crew, as Poehler, 53, noted on her podcast.

“Philly Justice is a fake TV show that we made up a few cast members made up on the set of Parks and Rec one day because we looked at a picture of ourselves and we laughed and we said, ‘Oh, we look like we’re in a TV show called Philly Justice.’ That small inside joke onset laugh grew into a beast that is still discussed today.”

In September, Aziz Ansari reminisced on his time on the show at the Toronto International Film Festival, where he appeared in support of his feature-length directorial debut, Good Fortune.

While chatting with Entertainment Weekly, Ansari, 42, was asked about the possibility of a future Parks and Recreation project, to which he replied, “Oh man, if I get to spend time with Jim [O’Heir], I would love to do it.”

“I would love to spend time with anybody from Parks — even if the show was terrible, and we just got a decent enough check, but we got to spend time together,” Ansari, who played Tom Haverford for the run of the series, joked. “I might just be up for it.”