10 Secret Subplots You Learn From Watching Parks & Recreation Deleted Scenes

10. The Real Reason April Joined The Parks Department

Though Parks and Rec's pilot episode is considered weak sauce by most fans - as is most of the first season, in fact - the pilot did hide one vital piece of character work in one of its deleted scenes.

In the scene, April Ludgate (Aubrey Plaza) reveals that she ended up working for Pawnee's Parks Department because she missed the sign-up day for internships.

The reason for this? Her sister forgot to wake her up on time, and so April was randomly assigned to Parks and Rec. And so, the course of April's entirely life was irreparably altered because of her sister's mistake.

But considering we wouldn't have April and Andy (Chris Pratt) without the gaffe, it was most certainly for the best. Given how revelatory this scene is, it's criminal that it didn't make the episode's final cut.