Original air date: October 22, 2009
Writer: Aisha Muharrar | Director: Charles McDougall
Summary: NATIONAL SERVICE WEEK INSPIRES LESLIE—Leslie (Amy Poehler), Ann (Rashida Jones) and the rest of the Parks Department volunteer to help the organization KaBOOM! build a playground for a neighboring town. After building an entire playground in one day, Leslie gets frustrated at the (lack of) progress with the pit, and takes some advice from Mark (Paul Schneider) to cut through the red tape. Aziz Ansari, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza and Chris Pratt also star.
Poll:
In a poll conducted on Knope Knows from October 22-25, viewers gave “Kaboom” an 8.89/10.
Ratings:
4.981 million viewers | 2.1/6 A18-49 | Source
Videos:
Deleted Scenes
Quotes:
Credit Card Rep: $20 to Netflix.
Leslie: Yup.
Credit Card Rep: $20 to Blockbuster Online.
Tom: Both?
Leslie: I needed all 11 discs of Gossip Girl at the same time.
Leslie: They give you a little wand and a diploma. It’s fun!
Tom: What did you major in?
Leslie: Potions.
Credit Card Rep: Jessica Simpson clip and hair extensions.
Credit Card Rep: Man Pillow. The pillow shaped like a man.
Credit Card Rep: Also something called Bucket of Cake.
Tom: So, what does the Man Pillow look like?
Leslie: Daniel Craig. It’s for my lower back.
Keef: It is… playground time!
Leslie: Well, we’re here in Eagleton. It’s two towns over. And we’re all volunteering for KaBOOM!, a service organization that says it builds a playground in a day. I never trust anything that comes that quickly. That’s why I don’t eat minute rice.
Keef: You can look at a problem and you can either go, “Oh, this is a problem.” Or you can kaboom! Blow it up and turn it into something great. You literally kaboom the problem.
Keef (pokes Ron): Kaboom!
Ron: Don’t do that.
Ann: Man, this is tough.
Leslie: Yeah, but just think of all the kids that’ll swing on this swing. Fat kids, skinny kids, brainiacs, sluts, the gay drama kids, goths, jocks, the alternative crowd.
Ann: Mmm hmm.
Andy: The key to volunteering? A lot of pockets. For putting all the food in. The Red Cross has amazing cookies. I go there all the time. Meals on Wheels was a bonanza. Suicide Hotline? Surprisingly lame spread.
Andy: I thought I’d give back to those less fortunate than myself.
Ann: You live in a pit.
Keef: Hey look, I’ve got a remote control and I’m controlling you. Go faster! Go faster! Go faster! Ron’s the master!
Keef: Remember. You take a man kabooming, he kabooms for a day. But you teach a man how to kaboom… Kaboom! Kaboom! Kaboom!
Ann: The pit. There’s something I wish I could kaboom.
Leslie: Well, we are. It’s just a slow boom. A slower, more deliberate kaboom.
Leslie (holding an eraser): You know what this is? This is a a kaboomer.
Leslie: OK, forget it. Let’s all pretend Jerry wasn’t born. And this is clean.
Leslie: How do we kaboom it?
Leslie: In my next life I’m going in a private industry. Maybe strip mining.
Tom: I have a couple of doing caps in my wallet. That’s what I call condoms.
Leslie: How do we cut through the red tape and how do we get this pit filled in? Ideas?
Tom: We need to cut through the red tape and get the pit filled in.
Leslie: Yes, Tom. Good.
Leslie: Mark, buddy, you’re not listening to me. I want to kaboom it! OK?!
Leslie: Mark’s going to help me. So thanks for nothing, Jerry. Good job, Ann.
Leslie: I am so sick of moving like a slug. I want to move like a cheetah. Or a slug driving a remote controlled car. Something more plausible than that. But fast.
Mark: Would you break the rules?
Leslie: I won’t murder.
Leslie: Say you had a friend who wanted to do something good, but a little risky and she was kind of nervous about it, and this friend is me. What should I do?
Ann: What are we doing? Is it dangerous?
Leslie: We’re not gonna murder anyone.
Leslie: I’ve never rented a guy before. Wish I knew about that during prom.
Worker: Ms. Montague, you ready?
Leslie: I didn’t want to tell him my real name, you know? (in foreign accent) Yeah! First speech is important moment here.
Ann: We should have checked before to see if you were… home.
Andy: Oh no, I told you. I moved out of the pit. I decided to go back because I forgot my headphones. And I laid down on this really comfy tarp, I saw this old cereal box I hadn’t read before so I must have drifted off.
Andy: The pit works in mysterious ways.
Leslie: Hey, can I smoke in here?
Ron: You don’t smoke.
Leslie: Just askin’ if I can.
Ron: Are you high?
Leslie: I’m high on kaboom.
Ron: I’m sorry to burst your ka-bubble, but I just had my ass ka-handed to me by the city manager, and now this entire department is ka-screwed.
Ron: What the ka-f*ck were you thinking?
Andy: I don’t get it. What does he have that I don’t have?
Ann: Are you serious?
Andy: Yeah.
Ann: Everything. He has literally everything you don’t have. A job, a car, a steady income, an address, a second pair of shoes, table manners, the ability to say tampon without giggling.
Leslie: Sometimes when you make an omelet you’ve gotta break a few eggs. What’s the alternative? No omelets at all? Who wants to live in that kind of world? Maybe birds. Then all their babies would live.
Leslie: Can I give him the pig?
Scott: Yeah, pig’s fine.
Scott: No miming.
Leslie: If you want to meet, just put a white chalk X on the mailbox across the street from city hall. Or call me back. Just call me back.
Leslie: Hey, Andy, it’s your aunt. You mom or dad’s sister. I don’t know how to tell you this, but your uncle has passed. He’s with Jesus now. So we’re having a memorial in 30 minutes at City Hall.
Leslie: Hey, free guitars at city hall! Everybody run!
Leslie (in robot voice): Me, ’cause of a local disaster, you, ANDY DWYER, must go to the evacuation center at PAWNEE CITY HALL.
Tom: Hmm. That was weird.
Leslie: How long have you been there?
Ann: Leslie, the man lived in a pit. OK, he couldn’t find a place to live on the Earth’s surface so he went under the ground. You’re dealing with a grown man who thinks like a gopher.
Leslie: Has he shown up naked before?
Ann: Oh yeah. Anniversaries, birthdays, holidays. Good luck.
Leslie: That doesn’t sound like Ann.
Andy: Well I can’t really do her voice.
Leslie: No, I will not negotiate with greedy street people.
Andy: Chick chick, kaboom!
Leslie: I think that Andy seems like he doesn’t care so much about the second one. And he would be fine with us just filling in the pit.
Andy: I could fall in 10 more times by “eventually”.
Leslie: Well, I hate to say it, but it really seems like Andy has us over a barrel here, Scott.
Leslie: Who knows why that gopher does what he does.
Leslie: Goodbye, pit. Hello, lot.
Leslie: How does taking risks make me feel? Amazing. Tingling sensation throughout my whole body. I feel flushed. My muscles are relaxed yet I feel awake. Just waves of pleasure. I wish there was something physical that could make me feel this way.
Keef: Kaboom is a word I made up. It’s not in any dictionary. I trick people into building playgrounds in empty lots in their neighborhoods. It’s an elaborate prank. For my next prank, I’m going to build a hospital in a poor part of China. They’ll never see it coming.
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