Season 4 Episode 8 "Smallest Park"

Now, in this episode Leslie is organizing a small park project that she has been planning. As you can see in the above project, when I say small park I'm talking max five people can fit on it. After Ben tells Leslie that once he finishes with the small park project he'll spend less time in the Parks department, Leslie purposefully puts more time into creating the park than needed. Making the community meetings long, creating picket signs for people to hold around the small lot, you name it.

Meanwhile, Andy becomes interested in taking classes at the local college where April attends. Andy never went to college and he wants to delve into that experience, however that experience became short lived when they found out how expensive college really is. April appeared clueless saying that her parents usually paid for her tuition. Oh April, weird, pretty, slightly scary April. How naive you are about the realities of how much debt goes into a college education.

Still wanting to take a course though, Andy randomly selects a class from the course catalog; and what's the class you ask? Women's Studies. Despite being reluctant at first, Andy goes to the class and is actually in awe of the material covered. Helping Andy with the finances, Ron offers to pay for the class.

Tom and Jerry are assigned the task of creating a logo for the Parks Department and are coming up short-handed. Most of the time just leading it to Tom making fun of Jerry. Until both agree to make the logo a throwback to the 1970s, giving homage to a simpler time in the Parks Department.

The "Keep Ben Around Longer" plan that Leslie orchestrated is slightly going south when Ben finally puts a stop to it and tells Chris, their boss, that he doesn't want to work with Leslie anymore calling her a steamroller. I know I didn't get the metaphor either and what the heck is a steamroller? So what they mean is Leslie just rolls past other people's thoughts, and is too caught up in doing everything on her own she doesn't anyone else's feelings.

I have personally met who go through life that way, and it is sometimes not easy to hold a conversation with them. But that doesn't mean those people are bad they're just very passionate, and strong leaders. They don't intentionally mean to discount anyone else's ideas.

Thankfully Leslie has her best friend Ann to tell her the truth of how she is. Seeing how intense she can get, Leslie decides to meet Ben at the small park that she finished making. She finally realizes that she needs to back off and that in order for them to move forward they can't be together. Although, they both know that's not true.

Leslie tells Ben there is another option for them; say screw it and fess up to their secret relationship to Chris and face the consequences. The whole speech leads to Ben and Leslie finally kissing each other knowing that they can't live without the other. See, I told you it was meant to be I cannot think of two people more perfect for each other than Ben and Leslie. Their love lives on forever!!!