Rashida Jones had no idea that while she was a freshman at Harvard, she would seal the fate of one of her greatest roles with a kiss.

The Parks and Recreation star goes way back with the show’s creator, Michael Schur, who also worked with Jones on The Office.

“Freshman year, we did a play together called Love, Sex, and the I.R.S.,” Jones explained on Tuesday’s episode of Amy Poehler‘s new podcast, Good Hang, “where we were — the play started with us making out.”

“Wow. Lucky him,” Jones’ former Parks castmate joked, saying Schur “must have done a quiet fist pump” on “the day when they were like, ‘And here’s your make-out partner!'”

“The thing is,” Jones said, “you just audition for shows, especially in college, and…who you get is who you get. The fact that we met freshman year is nuts.”

The three-act comedy Love, Sex, and the I.R.S. was originally published by Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore in 1979 under the title Tax My Mistress. The playwrights also originated the lead roles that Schur and Jones eventually stepped into.

The play indeed begins with a makeout. The first group of stage directions describe a “comfortable-looking sofa. On it, we see Leslie Arthur, a gawky young man in his early twenties. He is engaged in a passionate kiss with Kate Dennis, a pretty little brunette.”

Ann Perkins, Jones’ affable nurse and bestie to Poehler’s Leslie Knope on Parks, makes a number of love connections with other principal players on the show. She starts the series off dating Chris Pratt‘s Andy Dwyer, but quickly outgrows his himbo-ish naiveté and falls for Paul Schneider‘s Mark Brendanawicz, after nursing him back to health following a fall into the infamous pit. A brief trial period with Aziz Ansari‘s Tom Haverford aside, Ann eventually settles down with Rob Lowe‘s Chris Traeger, with whom she eventually has two children.

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Jones also had an ill-fated romance with John Krasinski‘s Jim Halpert during her stint as the Dunder Mifflin Stamford branch employee Karen Filippelli on the third season of The Office. Sometimes a romance is what puts butts in seats and gets viewers to tune in; in Jim and Karen’s case, Jones told Poehler she felt so strongly that “fans were not about it,” preferring the Jim’s long-budding relationship with Pam (Jenna Fischer), that it “made sense” when she was let go after only a single season.

Listen to the rest of Jones and Poehler’s conversation on Good Hang above.