'Parks & Recreation' Creator Says Next Season Will Be the Last, Confirms Time Jump

Wondering what to make of last night's season finale of "Parks & Recreation?" So are we.

For those who haven't watched the episode yet, there are spoilers ahead!

Things were tied up nicely in last night's finale, as Leslie proved once again that she really can have it all. She took the job for the National Parks Service in Chicago, only she had one major demand...that her department be moved from Chicago to Pawnee.

Since it was a sound financial decision, Leslie got her wish. Then, the show dropped a pretty crazy sequence on us: It jumped foward three years into the future, showing us Leslie's new life.

Among the details of this future: Leslie has bangs, she hired and then fired Jon Hamm, April and Andy babysit the triplets sometimes, and Ben was wearing a tuxedo for some kind of fancy event in the building.

Today, series creator Michael Schur confirmed that when "Parks & Recreation" returns next season, it will remain in that futurescape and not jump back to Leslie's pregnancy. This is good news for those who were tired of the Pawnee-Eagleton merger storyline (i.e. pretty much everyone), but bad news for those who were hoping to see Ben and Leslie deal with Leslie's pregnancy and delivering triplets.

Still, the door is open for some creativity in time jumping, if "Parks" decides to take a page out of the "How I Met Your Mother" playbook and jump back and forth.

The sad news for fans is this: Schur also noted that next season's finale will probably also be the series finale. "It’s fairly likely that next year will be the last,” he said. “The natural rhythm of the show and the big creative jump we take at the end of this season certainly suggests that we’re moving in that direction."