The Wikipedia page for Don’t Worry Darling has an “On-Set Conflicts” section (always a good sign) that’s nearly 300 words long. And it doesn’t even include The Spit incident. Things have gotten so messy for director Olivia Wilde’s follow-up to Booksmart that even NBC — NBC! — is taking shots at the various fiascos surrounding the film.
“don’t worry darling 2022 press tour,” @NBC tweeted, along with a clip of a classic scene from Parks and Recreation. The video is taken from the season four episode, “The Comeback Kid,” where Leslie Knope thinks she’s giving a speech as part of her city council campaign on a basketball court — but it’s actually a hockey rink.
What follows is some ol’ fashioned slapstick (and a payday for Gloria Estefan) as the parks department and a three-legged dog slowly inch and stumble their way across the ice. Do you miss when Chris Pratt was a bumbling, lovable goof? Because I do.
don’t worry darling 2022 press tour pic.twitter.com/PKSTuROStP
— NBC Entertainment (@nbc) September 6, 2022
If NBC is dunking on you, something has gone wrong.
It’s especially funny to use a clip from Parks and Recreation. The show’s star, Amy Poehler, dated Nick Kroll, who appears in — you guessed it — Don’t Worry Darling. (He was also The Douche on Parks and Rec, which gives me an excuse to watch a 10-minute video of The Douche’s best moments, not that I needed one.) The tweet is also reminding people of the “single greatest scene in television history.”
this has to be the single greatest scene in television history https://t.co/nf0jE6nf76
— huxley (@freyaa_0XX) September 7, 2022
Still one of my favorite scenes in television, the first time I watched this I was crying https://t.co/fvxMDWyhIo
— baekchu (@chanloeysc) September 7, 2022
no. a corporate account is not allowed to make me laugh with a dumb topical joke. i hate myself. im crying. https://t.co/qh2ILIXOxD
— frindle babbin (@cindyhelene) September 7, 2022
nbc posting it not some stan account is sending me https://t.co/5tA1DoBpS2
— Natalia ***** *** (@RealTusiaczek87) September 7, 2022
My colleagues at NBC choose violence this morning. https://t.co/v55mlrTxV2
— Chris Robertson (@_chrisrobertson) September 7, 2022
normally i dislike corporations trying to “get in” internet memes/celeb gossip… but this clip will never not make me cry-laughing https://t.co/t1KBZn5aKp
— LeiClutch (@flyleilah) September 7, 2022
It’s amazing that a corporate Twitter account is allowed to be this funny. https://t.co/HT5L9z33AI
— your neighbor kevin (@gang_aft_agley) September 7, 2022
I remember cackling with tears during this scene I love this show https://t.co/hNMtF5p00H
— S` (@__spodermin) September 7, 2022
This is one the funniest scenes ever. I could not stop laughing the first time I watched it. https://t.co/IPSGZeICAv
— toro (@kodatoroo) September 7, 2022
this scene still kills me https://t.co/uSp9Oy96rz
— charlotte ☭ (@tinycharlll) September 7, 2022
You can watch it for yourself below.