Pawnee is calling, and Aziz Ansari is standing by the phone.

The 42-year-old actor who portrayed the scheming, smooth-talking city official Tom Haverford on the full series run of Parks and Recreation tells Entertainment Weekly he’s ready to step back into his character’s diligently polished loafers.

Speaking at the EW Studio at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, where he’s promoting his directorial debut Good Fortune, Ansari enthuses, “Oh man, if I get to spend time with Jim, I would love to do it.”

Ansari is referencing his old Parks costar Adam Scott telling EW in July that if reboot fever were to strike Parks, Jim O’Heir‘s Jerry (“because when we left the show, he was mayor, still, of Pawnee”) and Ansari’s Tom (“I think also Tom would be a good one to check in with, find out what’s going on with Tom”) would make the best candidates for protagonists.

But Ansari says he wouldn’t even need to see a script.

“I would love to spend time with anybody from Parks — even if the show was terrible, and we just got a decent-enough check, but we got to spend time together,” he jokes.

Jim O’Heir, Retta, and Aziz Ansari on ‘Parks and Recreation’.

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“I might just be up for it,” Ansari continues. “I love those people so much and every now and then I get to see him.”

Ansari explains that a few of his old castmates came out for his big 40th birthday bash in 2023: “I saw [Rashida Jones] a couple of weeks ago, [and] I saw Adam a few months ago. They’re the best.”

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Parks and Recreation, which followed the quirky exploits of a dysfunctional, small-town American parks and recreation department, premiered in 2009, winding down its seven-season run in 2015. In 2020, the full cast reunited with co-creator and showrunner Mike Schur for a reunion special conducted, per peak pandemic guidelines, over Zoom.

Since then, no formal plans have aligned for a Parks reboot, spinoff, or sequel series. But that hasn’t stopped the cast and crew from talking about how game they’d be to return to Pawnee.

The cast of ‘Parks and Recreation’.

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Speaking with EW after the 2020 reunion, Schur noted, “I really honestly didn’t ever think it was going to happen. Even as the reboot craze and the reunion craze struck and those things were floating around in the ether, I still was like, ‘I don’t think so. I don’t see why.’ Amy and I and the whole crew had the same feeling, which was: That show had a very specific point to make, and we felt like we made the point, and then we ended the show and we moved on.”

But he had to admit that it took very little pushing to get everyone back for the one-time virtual reboot: “I had this whole argument of why we should do it prepared, and I never had to make the argument because the second that I suggested it to everybody, they all said yes!”

In 2022, series star and producer Amy Poehler said she’s “always standing by” for a reboot: “Anytime anybody gives me the word, and I’m down.”

And earlier this year, Jones echoed her screen bestie by saying she’s “ready any time” for more Parks.

“Oh man, I hope sometime soon,” Jones said. “I know Mike Schur was like, ‘There has to be a reason for us to do it. We can’t just do it’…. But I would love that.”

With reporting by Gerrad Hall.