Parks and Recreation season 5 airs at 9:30 p.m. this Thursday on NBC! The promo video has been released and all we can say to make you watch it is that it includes Leslie with a half-perm, Ron in face paint and old people with chlamydia.

In case you weren’t already excited for this season of Parks and Recreation, check out this promo video and get pumped up.

What was your favorite part? We would definitely have to vote for Anne’s “Sparkle Skin … Twinkle, Twinkle Big Star.” But a close second is when Leslie tells us that old people in Pawnee have a lot of time on their hands, “and what they’re doing with that time? Going hard, old people style.”

Who are we kidding we are excited for all of it: the U.S. Senators (including John McCain) who Leslie will meet in episode one of season 5, the fact that Breaking Bad‘s Jonathan Banks will be playing Ben’s dad and the multi-episode arc of Xena, Warrior Princess.

Season 4 left us with a bit of a doozy: Ben is leaving Pawnee for Washington D.C. (with April). That means our favorite duo, Ben and Leslie, will be split, as will April and Andy (what will happen to Champion … will he stay in Pawnee?). We are anxious to see how the two relationships deal with the strain of such a distance.

But on the plus side, Leslie is officially a member of Pawnee’s City Council, so who knows what lovable antics she has up her sleeves (can she make an official day for waffles? If so, we expect that will happen almost immediately). But does that mean she has to abandon the Parks department? Who will keep the office in line without her? (Remember the episode where she left, and the number of tasks she did in one day were absolutely insane.)

What are you most excited about for this season?