Parks and Rec's Michael Schur teases reunion special: "The first face you see on camera will not be one of the 10 main cast members"

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“And that sets the tone for the show," Schur told reporters Tuesday of Thursday's A Parks and Recreation Special for coronavirus relief. The Parks and Rec co-creator added: “There are probably half a dozen… familiar faces who pop up at one point or another." Schur added that the special is a one-off, taking three weeks to put together -- including four days of filming -- to emphasize the importance of government. “Leslie Knope believed government could be a force of good," Schur said. "The show was forged in the economic recession of 2008, and at national, state and local levels we’re obviously in another one of those moments. Government is where we’re turning: people need food and mortgages paid and the government in these moments is where people turn to in times of need.” Schur said the coronavirus crisis was a compelling reason to bring Parks and Rec back. “I honestly didn’t think that Parks and Rec was ever going to reunite for any reason, just because I felt like that show had a point to make, and I felt like we’d made it, and we ended the show and it just didn’t seem like there was a compelling reason,” he said. “But this is a compelling reason. This is as compelling a reason as there is.”