Throw a Tune Dance Enjoy for Adam Scott, he can are expecting the day – kind of.
A principle goes viral amongst “Severance” enthusiasts that Adam Scott’s “Parks and Recreation” personality, Ben Wyatt, “predicted” the flow crash sci-fi drama that Scott now stars in years after.
In a viral submit, one fan meme account identified that within the 2014 “Parks and Recreation” episode “Farmer’s Marketplace, Ben suggests to his spouse, Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) that they chorus from speaking about paintings out of doors of the place of business.
“Maybe it would be good to keep our home life and our work life separate. Like we only talk about work stuff when we’re at city hall, like a firewall system,” he says.
The episode aired in 2014, however enthusiasts are noticing that it’s eerily related to the idea of “Severance.”
One Reddit user shared the clip and captioned it, “Adam Scott’s character coming up with the idea of ‘Severance’ a decade ago.’”
“Stiller and Erickson are trolling the heck out of us all,” one Reddit consumer joked, relating to Ben Stiller, who exec produces the display and directs many episodes, and writer Dan Erickson.
“Dan Erickson STOLE HIS IDEA,” any other fan joked concerning the “Severance” writer.
Lately airing Season 2 (untouched episodes out Fridays on AppleTV+), “Severance” is a sci-fi mystery following staff at a invisible biotech corporate known as Lumon.
Mark (Scott), Helly (Britt Decrease), Dylan (Zach Cherry) and Irving (John Turturro) are all “severed,” this means that they have got chips of their brains setting apart their “home” selves from their “work” selves. Outdoor of the place of business, they have got refuse reminiscences of what they do at paintings, and vice versa.
The display has layers of mysteries about what Lumon is truly doing.
Chatting with The Publish in January ahead of Season 2 premiered, Scott 51, mentioned “I know essentially the answers” to lots of the plot questions.
However whilst wild fan theories fly round, audience received’t to find Scott visiting the Reddit forums.
“I’ve heard some of them,” he mentioned. “But I don’t jump in and really explore them myself.”
“Parks and Recreation” could also be a display about employees in an place of business, but it surely’s a comedy in lieu than a sci-fi thriller field display.
As “Severance” enthusiasts identified, in “Parks and Recreation,” Ben additionally makes a claymation mission that displays a claymation guy sitting up in mattress – a eye that still seems within the “Severance” Emmy successful opening credit score layout.
“Ben Wyatt finally did it!” any other fan joked on Reddit, relating to the claymation.
In January, Cherry informed The Publish concerning the display’s mysteries, “We certainly know some things. And sometimes I’ll watch the show and go, ‘I didn’t even know that that was what we were doing!’”
Turturro, whose personality Irving is in love with Burt (performed by way of Christopher Walken), informed The Publish, “Chris [Walken] has asked me at times like, ‘What the hell is going on here?’”
Tuturro added, “And I just go, ‘Listen — we’re into each other. Just say your lines to me, and I’ll say my lines to you.’ And sometimes he gets confused with the whole thing.”
