--- title: Parks and Recreation Final Season: Chris Pratt Sings at Wrap Party description: Everyone is very nostalgic as the final season approaches canonical: https://time.com/3635809/chris-pratt-parks-and-recreation-lil-sebastian/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-16T16:39:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:15:22.886Z og:title: Watch Chris Pratt Sing a Beautiful Tribute to Li'l Sebastian at the 'Parks and Rec' Wrap Party og:description: Everyone is very nostalgic as the final season approaches og:url: https://time.com/3635809/chris-pratt-parks-and-recreation-lil-sebastian/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd4265ec0f80953f1/6986a201e8524bcc846048b1/186609411.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1996 og:image:height: 1123 og:image:alt: Chris Pratt og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Chris Pratt Sing a Beautiful Tribute to Li'l Sebastian at the 'Parks and Rec' Wrap Party twitter:description: Everyone is very nostalgic as the final season approaches twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd4265ec0f80953f1/6986a201e8524bcc846048b1/186609411.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Chris Pratt Sing a Beautiful Tribute to Li'l Sebastian at the _Parks and Rec_ Wrap Party > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Vera Anderson/WireImage) Vera Anderson—WireImage / Getty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Dec 16, 2014 4:39 PM UTC The _Parks and Recreation_ crew just wrapped its final season, which [will begin airing](http://time.com/3612697/parks-and-recreation-finale-nbc/) Jan. 13, and we’re starting to get a little misty-eyed thinking about saying our goodbyes to the great people of Pawnee, Ind. The show’s cast and crew, of course, have also been getting pretty nostalgic about wrapping up the beloved comedy. On the last day of filming, they were [tweeting photos](http://www.avclub.com/article/cast-and-crew-parks-and-recreation-are-tweeting-th-212958) and memories and all sorts of sentimentality. And then at the show’s wrap party, it seems the nostalgia continued. We don’t know much about the festivities — though we imagine everyone was getting [drunk on Snake Juice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%5FfyEarGbpXM) and Amy Poehler [sang “Poker Face”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6KB8v2AO54) — but we do know Chris Pratt took the stage (possibly in character as lovable idiot Andy Dwyer?) to sing “5,000 Candles In the Wind.” As you probably recall, that’s the song Andy’s band Mouserat performed as a tribute to Li’l Sebastian, the miniature horse who was basically the Beyoncé of Pawnee. Oh man, all this nostalgia, but [I’M NOT CRYING, OKAY?](http://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/giphy.gif) _Read next:_ [_Watch Nick Offerman Sing a Beautiful Tribute to His One True Love, Whiskey_](http://time.com/3616932/nick-offerman-sings-love-whiskey-mustache/?xid=time%5Freadnext) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3635809/chris-pratt-parks-and-recreation-lil-sebastian/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3635809/chris-pratt-parks-and-recreation-lil-sebastian/"},"headline":"Watch Chris Pratt Sing a Beautiful Tribute to Li'l Sebastian at the Parks and Rec Wrap Party","datePublished":"2014-12-16T16:39:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:15:22.886Z","description":"Everyone is very nostalgic as the final season approaches","url":"https://time.com/3635809/chris-pratt-parks-and-recreation-lil-sebastian/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","celebrity","chris pratt"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd4265ec0f80953f1/6986a201e8524bcc846048b1/186609411.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd4265ec0f80953f1/6986a201e8524bcc846048b1/186609411.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Chris Pratt","caption":"\"Delivery Man\" Press Conference","creditText":"Vera Anderson—WireImage / Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3635809/chris-pratt-parks-and-recreation-lil-sebastian/","name":"Watch Chris Pratt Sing a Beautiful Tribute to Li'l Sebastian at the Parks and Rec Wrap Party"}}]}] ```