'Parks and Recreation' producer discusses surprise romance

Parks and Recreation executive producer Mike Schur has revealed more details about the new romance in small town Pawnee.

The sitcom's latest episode ended with Leslie (Amy Poehler) and Ben (Adam Scott) catching Tom (Aziz Ansari) and Ann (Rashida Jones) on a secret Valentine's date set up by April (Aubrey Plaza).

Schur told E!: "It's real. Tom and Ann are dating and will have a relationship for some amount of time."

He also said that the new romance will affect other people, especially April.

"We have a lot of soul-matey relationships, with Leslie (Amy Poehler) and Ben (Adam Scott) and Andy (Chris Pratt) and April (Aubrey Plaza), and we just wanted to do a comedy relationship," Schur added.

"It's real, but it's not soulfully gazing into each other eyes and running off to get married after three weeks. We're going for a different relationship, which is a pair of mismatched people who are very gingerly having a couple drinks here and there to see if they're compatible."

He went on to claim: "You have this small, loser town filled with loser people and Tom's at least kind of cool. The reality is, if you were a young attractive woman in Pawnee, and you worked with a guy who's kinda cool even if he's a dope, at some point you'd say, let's just try it."

Jones, who can been seen in The Muppets, previously said that while she believes in romance, she isn't sure if marriage "works altogether across the board".

Watch a clip of Tom and Ann on a secret date in Parks and Recreation below (US only):