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Posted by: Don, January 17th, 2013, 6:16pm
Parks and Recreation - The Softball Game by Dave - Series, Comedy - Leslie and the Parks Department find themselves in a rematch softball game against the hated Sewage Department at the annual Pawnee Picnic. When Leslie tries to make the game, "a little more interesting", the underdog Parks Department ends up having more than just pride riding on the outcome of the game.  41 pages - pdf, format 8)

Posted by: kabbottjr, February 1st, 2013, 11:54pm; Reply: 1
I must say that as a fan of "Parks and Rec" I was pretty excited to see a script on here for it!  I haven’t seen every episode, but I've watched most of them.  In my humble opinion, it is probably the best comedy on TV right now.

I thought the dialogue in this script was spot on.  I especially like what was done with Leslie and April.  April's line on pg. 28, "Girls can't play sports in Indiana.  It's against the law." was CLASSIC April!

My only major question/concern would be the length of the script.  It is a 30 minute show, (22 or so minutes I guess if you cut out commercials), yet the script is 41 pages long.  Was this meant to be a two-part episode, or was it long by accident?

Regardless....congrats on what I thought was a pretty good script for a really good series!

Cheers!
Posted by: khamanna, February 2nd, 2013, 4:10am; Reply: 2
I'm a slow reader and on p19 now but I must tell you that your characters are great, the dialog is fun and the whole thing is fun!

I wrote a couple of these - one for New Girl and one for Curb Your Enthusiasm, but never dreamt of writing for this one since I think it's a hard show to write for. I watched all of it I think and love it, but writing for it is out of my league. Anyway the 19 pages that I read are so fine... I can't think of a thing to change. Just perfect.

Well, let's see, maybe I'm lucky and I find something)) Doesn't look like it - it's just a fun fun read.
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