Adam Scott appeared on Will Arnett’s podcast Smartless this week. And amongst all the things mentioned within the 54-minute episode, one explicit second has since gone tremendous viral throughout social media.
Will, who was joined by cohosts Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes, requested Adam if he’d “ever had an emotional affair with a coworker,” to which Adam laughed and mentioned, “Oh god.” And should you aren’t caught up with all of the lore, you won’t understand why folks assume it’s such a giant deal.
However earlier than we dive into it, it’s necessary to notice that the query got here throughout as tremendous lighthearted and plenty of folks thought it was an harmless reference to Adam’s character in Severance, who has an affair along with his coworker.
Now, when you in all probability know Will from taking part in Gob Bluth on Arrested Growth, should you’re a fan of Parks and Recreation, you may need noticed him in an early episode of the present. That’s as a result of Will was married to the one and solely Amy Poehler — who sits proper on the middle of all this.
In case you want a recap, Will and Amy started courting in 2000, proper earlier than Amy began on Saturday Night time Reside in 2001. They bought married three years later, and share two children collectively: Archie, 16, and Abel, 14.
After leaving SNL, Amy started starring as Leslie Knope within the NBC hit Parks and Recreation. The present premiered in 2009, a yr after Amy and Will’s first child was born. Within the second season, Will guest-starred in an episode, taking part in an MRI technician with whom Leslie goes on a horrible blind date. And whereas the episode was tremendous humorous, followers of the present will know that Leslie’s love life didn’t begin getting fascinating till the very finish of the second season, airing in 2010. Enter Ben Wyatt.
Though we now know and love him as Mark S., Adam Scott’s breakout position was on Parks and Rec as Ben — Leslie’s love curiosity. The 2 had immediate chemistry onscreen, and most followers will let you know that the present went from good to nice after Ben and Chris (Rob Lowe’s character) confirmed up, partially due to Leslie and Ben’s unimaginable dynamic.
September 2012: Parks and Rec’s fifth season started airing, and Will and Amy introduced their separation. Will then filed for divorce in 2014 — it was finalized in 2016 — and it sounds prefer it was tough for each of them. In a 2022 interview with The Guardian, Will described it as “virtually excruciating… Simply brutal, brutal, brutal. I used to be driving to the set someday and I pulled over to the aspect of the highway and cried for an hour.”
In Amy’s 2014 memoir, she revealed that she didn’t need to talk about their breakup as a result of it was “too unhappy and too private” to share. She commented on how proud she was of Will’s co-parenting expertise and mentioned that she didn’t think about their virtually 10 years of marriage a failure. “That being mentioned,” she wrote, “getting a divorce actually sucks.”
On the time, there have been rumors swirling on each side — probably the most distinguished of which being that Will had an affair along with his Up All Night time costar, Christina Applegate, which neither Will nor Christina have ever publicly addressed. There have been additionally rumors of Amy and Adam’s onscreen chemistry translating offscreen, given the timing of the preliminary break up in 2012 coinciding with Adam’s begin on Parks and Rec. Nonetheless, the rumors have been fairly stagnant — till Adam hopped on Will’s podcast and all people misplaced their minds.
On X, one person posted the clip and poignantly referred to as it “an unprovoked query posed to adam scott by will arnett,” and one other responded with, “he’s needed to ask that for a longggg time.”
“will arnett actually mentioned ‘by probability did you smash my completely happy marriage?’” one other person chimed in. “im sorry helly r you’ll by no means be adam scott’s n1 work place relationship,” mentioned one individual, posting an edit of Leslie in Parks.
It’s additionally necessary to notice that Will’s query to Adam, whereas presumably innocent, would possibly dispel one other rumor that was circulating about why Will and Amy’s marriage fell aside: enter Amy’s Weekend Replace cohost, Seth Meyers.
Referred to by many as “situationship closing boss,” Seth and Amy auditioned for SNL on the exact same day, and the 2 have been tight ever since. Suuuuper tight, as after they first met, Seth “fully fell for her.” His phrases!
Seth and Amy have been co-anchors on SNL‘s Weekend Replace for 2 years collectively, and so they, too, had nice chemistry. A lot in order that viewers of SNL’s fiftieth anniversary have been declaring Seth’s face whereas watching Amy carry out — virtually 20 years after they stopped internet hosting collectively. Whereas it was all hypothesis, there was a distinguished rumor that Will and Amy broke up as a result of Amy and a “well-known comic” have been planning on working away collectively, however the comic in query chickened out. For a very long time, folks assumed that it was Seth, however now followers have turned again to Adam.
“Extra like parks and homewreck” one person wrote. “someone lock seth meyers, will arnett and adam scott in a room collectively” one other added, and I can’t advocate for that sufficient.
Nonetheless, everyone knows that rumors are rumors, and nothing is definitely confirmed. I, for one, am completely happy that Will and Adam appear to be buddies now and that nothing has come between Seth and Amy. And everyone knows that Amy’s no. 1 work spouse will at all times be Tina Fey, so none of it actually issues in the long run.
That’s the lore! I’d love to listen to your ideas on it. Go away your theories within the feedback under.
