Adam Scott Knows Footage of the Parks & Rec Cast's Fake Philly Justice Show Exists, and He Wants Fans to See It (Exclusive)

Adam Scott is demanding justice for Philly Justice.

“I don't know what happened to that,” the Severance actor told PEOPLE of the faux pilot he and his Parks and Recreation costars filmed during the beloved NBC sitcom’s seven-season run. “It would be so fun to put that out in the world.”

Parks and Rec creator Mike Schur and stars Amy Poehler and Rashida Jones have all teased Philly Justice over the years, describing it as a side project several of the show’s cast members did for fun during their downtime on set.

Scott, 51, who is currently appearing in a Ben Stiller-directed State Farm ad, confirmed to PEOPLE that the cast did “shoot something,” and expressed surprise that the footage has never been released.

“Nothing ever came out?” he asked. “Oh, wow. Yeah, they should put that out. I know there is something somewhere.”

“We spent a whole day shooting Philly Justice,” he added. “So, there is material.”

At a 2012 Paley Center panel, Schur and Poehler explained the cast’s incredibly detailed inside joke, which they said stemmed from an on-set photo of Poehler, Scott, Jones and recurring Parks and Rec guest stars Paul Rudd and Kathryn Hahn.

“They were on set and they had someone take that picture and they decided to pretend that they were all on a show called Philly Justice about Philadelphia lawyers," Schur explained.

Poehler said that each of the five actors in the photo had given their fake character a name and backstory. Scott, for instance, played a “loose cannon” lawyer named Nick Bellows who was traumatized by 9/11, while Jones played Joanna “Joey” Suarez, a “fiery” lawyer dedicated to stopping gang violence.

According to Poehler and Schur, the actors didn’t stop with their characters’ backstories; they also invented a whole behind-the-scenes history for the fake show, which they said would have been filmed in 2003. Poehler said that Rudd would have been replaced by Dylan McDermott after the 2003 pilot, only for McDermott to later be replaced by Dermot Mulroney. Jones’ character, meanwhile, would have been given an image makeover halfway through the series after testing poorly with audiences.

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“It's difficult to explain to you how intricate this bit has gotten,” Schur added. "These actors, these five people, got so into this idea that they had been in this fake show together and that Paul Rudd had been replaced by Dylan McDermott, that Adam Scott created a fake email address for Dylan McDermott and started emailing everybody about how excited he was to be in the show.”

Schur said that Scott took the joke so far that he was writing emails from his real address responding to his fake Dylan McDermott address. The cast, Schur said, also teased Rudd “mercilessly” about being recast on the fake show.

In an oral history of Parks and Rec published in The Independent last year to mark the show’s 15th anniversary, Jones revealed that Philly Justice became more than just a joke among the cast.

“We became obsessed with it and so did the writers,” she said. “They ended up writing it as an entire episode of a different show which we started to actually shoot. We shot 15 pages of a show that doesn’t exist with our free time.”