This is LITerally the worst news we’ve heard all week. In news initially broken by BuzzFeed and then confirmed by NBC, Rashida Jones and Rob Lowe are on their way out of Parks and Recreation. For reasons presumed budgetary reasons, the actors will depart the hilarious sitcom following Episode 13 of Season 6. “The news about Rob and Rashida is true,” executive producer Mike Schur said in a statement. “We’ve been working on their storyline (on and off) for four seasons now, and heading into this year, with the two of them contemplating parenthood, it felt like a natural time to move them into the next phase.” When we last saw Jones’ Ann Perkins (who has been with the series since its pilot) and Lowe’s Chris Traeger (who joined toward the end of Season 2), they had agreed to make a baby together. It’s unclear how the characters will be written out, but it’s safe to assume this parental mission will be accomplished and the pair will choose to raise their child outside Pawnee for whatever reason. Concluded Schur: “We absolutely love both Rashida and Rob, and will be sad to see them go. Rashida was one of the very first people we knew we wanted in the cast, and as important as Ann is to [Amy Poehler’s] Leslie (and vice-versa), she’ll certainly never be far from Pawnee. Rob we initially thought we could only have for six or eight episodes, and we couldn’t be happier that he will have stuck around for 75 “They are wonderful, funny, committed actors, they’ve been a huge part of the Parks and Rec family, and we think we have a great Pawnee send-off in the works for them.
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Rashida Jones and Rob Lowe to Depart Parks and Recreation
