After seven long years and many many threats of cancellation, NBC’s last must-see sitcom, Parks and Recreation, finally got to bow out on its own terms. Here’s a rundown of all the fun references and deeper character moments that gave us the perfect ending to a stellar season of television.

Flashback Easter Eggs

Actor Jon Daly had a small part in the pilot episode of the series playing a drunk stuck in a slide. Creator Michael Schur had Daly return to play the well-coiffed man who asks for the swing near his house to be fixed in the finale. It’s a tidy bit of symmetry that’s serves as both a callback to the pilot and reference to how much has changed for Leslie as well. From the bottom of a pit and pining after the wrong man (ah, Brendanawicz), to the top of her career with Ben Wyatt by her side, you’ve come a long way, Knope.

Flash-Forward Easter Eggs

Flash-Forward Easter Eggs : There were plenty of flash-forwards for side characters that we didn’t get to see. Creator Michael Schur has promised we will find out more about Councilman Jamm and Shauna Malwae-Tweep in an extended producer’s cut of the finale. But the one side character who did get a future was Jean Ralphio. Not just the fake funeral and casino in Tajikistan, but this Easter egg Schur planted about our favorite Saperstein’s future.