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"I slept with your brother"
"Mitch!?"
"And he's DISGUSTING in bed"
"You know he's not right in the head after that ski accident"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

"this is boring. I'm bored now."

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:36 (6 years ago) Permalink

I saw part of this for the first time last night. It was more cartoonish that I expected but pretty funny.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:37 (6 years ago) Permalink

This show is delightful. As soon as I heard Alec Baldwin saying the "I'm bored now" line, I fully realized what comedic genius lies in this show.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

Make Dr. Spaceman a regular.

― N.i.c.o.l.e (Ex Leon), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

Argh I keep forgetting to watch this. I think I'm subconsciously boycotting the tube until "Lost" comes back.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:40 (6 years ago) Permalink

"where are my car keys?"

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:40 (6 years ago) Permalink

Lost cause at this point, I'm afraid.

x-post.

― N.i.c.o.l.e (Ex Leon), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:41 (6 years ago) Permalink

"Who's your financial advisor?"
"Grizz."

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

Spaceman IS a regular, at this point. He's been in all the episodes since he debuted!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:48 (6 years ago) Permalink

a weekly sitcom with tracy morgan & chris parnell is pretty much my idea of heaven

― and what (ooo), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:48 (6 years ago) Permalink

I can't tell you how psyched I was when I checked my DVR and saw that yesterday's ep was called "THE RURAL JUROR."

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

I think someone said this on the old thread, but I'm so glad Tracy Morgan finally got a project worthy of him.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

Urban Fervor is next!

We discussed this in the Scrubs thread. Parnell was brilliant...I hope he becomes like a Dratch character...playing different roles in every episode. He's like Phil Hartman was on the Simpsons. Use him for any weirdo white guy character.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:51 (6 years ago) Permalink

haha the rural juror stuff was killing me, i kinda hope it reaches a 'bob loblaw's law blog' type conclusion

― and what (ooo), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:51 (6 years ago) Permalink

"Urban Fervor" made me laugh intermittently every 5 minutes, when it would re-occur to me.

also awesome: Rachel Dratch's Barbra Walters.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

"I assumed it was Oral Germwhore."

― N.i.c.o.l.e (Ex Leon), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:54 (6 years ago) Permalink

"Maureen, thanks for the flowers. They were lovely."

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:01 (6 years ago) Permalink

"Let me tell you about how I helped Arsenio."
"Hall or Billingham?"

― N.i.c.o.l.e (Ex Leon), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:02 (6 years ago) Permalink

'you know an arsenio billingham?' 'no!'

― and what (ooo), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:03 (6 years ago) Permalink

"Eureko!"

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:08 (6 years ago) Permalink

'you know an arsenio billingham?' 'no!'

Ha this was my favorite line

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

Aw fuck I can't believe I missed this. Fucking "friends", coming over to "visit". Gah. A'torrenting I will go.

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

"well, folks, bread will never maybe attack your brain again!"

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

tracy morgan trying to convey medical authority is on my list of funniest comic set-ups

― and what (ooo), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:19 (6 years ago) Permalink

PLEASE somebody tell me the line Dr. Spaceman said before that, before Tracey asked him if it does.

My other favorite Parnell moment...when Alec asks him to sponsor a product, he just says "sure" THEN asks what it does.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:20 (6 years ago) Permalink

"Who's your financial advisor?"
"Grizz."

Grizz sadly saying, "WorldCom, man. WorldCom."

And later Tracy: "What is it with you and telecommunications?"

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

parnell is like the funniest dude on the planet

― and what (ooo), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:23 (6 years ago) Permalink

Dan, the exchange:

Tracy Morgan: (with mouthful of foodball) "Dr. Spaceman, is it true that bread eats away at your brain?" (POINTING TO HEAD GENIUS!)
Chris Parnell: "We have no way of knowing, because the powerful bread lobby won't let me complete my research"
(audience gasps)
TM: "Well, folks...(etc.)

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:23 (6 years ago) Permalink

oh, you wanted the line before all that. Tracy says the foodball is delicious, and Chris Parnell walks in: "and it's healthy! Hi, I'm Dr. Leo Spaceman. I'm a working physician with a degree from the Ho Chi Mih city school of medicine."

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:27 (6 years ago) Permalink

Yup! But it wasn't Dr. Spacemen, what's his name?

Did Whoopi selling the machine in a foreign country remind anyone of Arrested Developements Corn Baller?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:46 (6 years ago) Permalink

he just said his name the way it's pronounced: "spuh-CHI-mun"

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:47 (6 years ago) Permalink

it's spelled "Spaceman" but properly pronounced "Spuh-CHEM-an." Tracy always says "Spaceman," though.

xpost

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:48 (6 years ago) Permalink

i fucking LOVE this show, and i love the shit out of tracy morgan, but...

when i saw him do standup a couple years ago he bombed, entirely, and spent about 10 minutes talking about wiping (anal sex) blood off of his dick with the window curtains before leaving.

actually that sounds sort of funny, but it was a lot less funny at the time.

― max (maxreax), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:51 (6 years ago) Permalink

best part of the last episoe = tracy's bald, less fat bodyguard doing the robot while tracy shows the meat machine to jack

― max (maxreax), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

wasnt he the dude with flowers when everyone thought liz wanted to have a baby with someone?

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:28 (6 years ago) Permalink

yeah i think him and grizz both had flowers

― max (maxreax), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

meat is the new bread

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:19 (6 years ago) Permalink

I think this is the third episode in a row where someone steals the page's sandwich.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:59 (6 years ago) Permalink

how come the page is in the credits but not the funny jew? hmm

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:04 (6 years ago) Permalink

I can't tell you how psyched I was when I checked my DVR and saw that yesterday's ep was called "THE RURAL JUROR."

The what?

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

i loved when baldwin said the rural juror perfectly

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

"I'm a huge Kevin Grisham fan."

― max (maxreax), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:29 (6 years ago) Permalink

hi, i'm whoopi goldberg and this is WORKING OUT WITH WHOOPI! ...

...

― joseph (joseph), Saturday, 13 January 2007 02:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

No, it's gotta be "oral germwhore".

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Saturday, 13 January 2007 02:43 (6 years ago) Permalink

ONE DELICIOUS FOODBALL

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Saturday, 13 January 2007 02:46 (6 years ago) Permalink

Sorry I'll stop, I'm watching and posting at the same time now.

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Saturday, 13 January 2007 02:47 (6 years ago) Permalink

this show makes me love tv comedy again
(even though i love the office and AD, this is so TV COMEDY and awesome at it)

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Saturday, 13 January 2007 03:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

the flashback bit to liz waiting backstage for jenna, and then the same flashback from jenna's perspective = classic tv! and funny!

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Saturday, 13 January 2007 03:15 (6 years ago) Permalink

"i'ma make you a mixtape! you like phil collins?"
"i have two ears and a heart, don't i?"

― joseph (joseph), Saturday, 13 January 2007 03:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

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Don't even say it.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 1 February 2013 02:37 (3 months ago) Permalink

Perfect ending

― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Thursday, January 31, 2013 6:25 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so fucking perfect

― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Friday, 1 February 2013 05:00 (3 months ago) Permalink

of all the running gags to end on, Immortal Kenneth is probably the best choice they could've made

― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Friday, 1 February 2013 05:00 (3 months ago) Permalink

The flying cars were the most perfect detail.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 1 February 2013 05:03 (3 months ago) Permalink

omg and Immortal Characters were on Kenneth's list of TV No No Words!

― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Friday, 1 February 2013 05:06 (3 months ago) Permalink

I didn't notice that. AWESOME!

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 1 February 2013 05:08 (3 months ago) Permalink

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 1 February 2013 05:18 (3 months ago) Permalink

What was the name of Liz's message board, you Hitlers?

― SOPA Middleton (Leee), Friday, 1 February 2013 05:20 (3 months ago) Permalink

GothamMoms or something like that.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 1 February 2013 05:21 (3 months ago) Permalink

I thought the end joke was that the whole show was imagined by some future person (a nod the St Elsewhere's ending). But maybe making that person Kenneth says otherwise.

― nickn, Friday, 1 February 2013 06:25 (3 months ago) Permalink

The girl in the chair was Liz's granddaughter, right?

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 1 February 2013 06:32 (3 months ago) Permalink

Yes.

― Big Sambola & The Tailspinners (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 February 2013 06:44 (3 months ago) Permalink

yeah nickn, it was a reference to that, but the gag is not that Kenneth imagined it, but that LL's great-granddaughter pitched 30 Rock to Kenneth as a show idea in like 2120 or whatever (and of course Kenneth is still president of NBC because, as established, he is immortal)

― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Friday, 1 February 2013 06:54 (3 months ago) Permalink

I didn't notice the daughter, or don't remember it now in any event.

Good ending, just the right amount of sentimentality.

― nickn, Friday, 1 February 2013 08:10 (3 months ago) Permalink

btw re "callback," this already means something else in showbiz, and u sound like a fucking producer when you use it -- find another word.

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 February 2013 08:19 (3 months ago) Permalink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callback_(comedy)

A callback, in terms of comedy, is a joke which refers to one previously told in the set. The second joke is often presented in a different context than the one which was used in the initial joke.

In television, the term callback has come to mean a joke or line that refers to a previous episode (or sometimes, in rare cases, movies). Particularly in earlier sitcoms - though even until the early 1990s — callbacks were rare and often frowned upon by networks, because they threaten to isolate a viewer who is new to the series, or who missed episodes. Seinfeld was one of the first sitcoms to regularly use callbacks in its scripts, although on a level which would often be missed or disregarded by viewers. More recently 30 Rock has employed callbacks to reference fictitious movies and television programs created within the show. Arrested Development became well known by fans for its regular use of callbacks throughout all of its episodes.[3] Of course, the line between a callback and simple continuity can sometimes be ambiguous. The opening sequence of the season nineteen premiere of The Simpsons calls back to the events in the movie.

― President Keyes, Friday, 1 February 2013 10:15 (3 months ago) Permalink

though I suppose we could make up a new word for them, like rememberfunnies, didn'theysaidthatbefores?

― President Keyes, Friday, 1 February 2013 12:10 (3 months ago) Permalink

Morbz can tell there weren't callbacks in any episode of this show because he didn't see any of them

― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Friday, 1 February 2013 14:11 (3 months ago) Permalink

(a nod the St Elsewhere's ending).

There was still definitely a nod to this, but then the reveal was that it wasn't a dream.

― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 1 February 2013 15:09 (3 months ago) Permalink

i vaguely remember a mention of broken snoglobes

― Nhex, Friday, 1 February 2013 16:12 (3 months ago) Permalink

"brian williams needs a mirror on the floor of his bathroom, which I guess you'd want if you have a glass toilet"

― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:02 (3 months ago) Permalink

Anyone transcribe the first verse of Rural Juror?

― schwantz, Friday, 1 February 2013 17:29 (3 months ago) Permalink

nice episode to end things. kenneth asked a question i've often wondered about myself, where are the baby pigeons?

― Jibe, Friday, 1 February 2013 17:54 (3 months ago) Permalink

Lyrics:

The Irma Luhrman-Merman murder
Turned the bird's word lurid
The whir and the purr of a twirler girl
She would the world were demurer
The insurer's allure
For valor were pure Kari Wuhrer
One fervid whirl over her turgid error
Rural juror
Rural juror
I will never forget you
Rural juror
I'll always be glad I met you
Rural juror

I will never forget you
Rural juror
I'll always be glad I met you
Rural juror (x2)
These were the best days of my flerm.

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 1 February 2013 18:17 (3 months ago) Permalink

This was so great. Probably the best show of the past decade. I really loved how Jenna only got sad when they were taking away her mirror. That shot of her looking at the mirror as it was being taken off the wall, with the weird subtle shifting perspective framing her in it, was really quite a beautiful way to show her world crashing down around her.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 1 February 2013 18:25 (3 months ago) Permalink

Prez Keyes, "reference" is good enough

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 February 2013 18:31 (3 months ago) Permalink

Don't think it's specific enough.

― Gukbe, Friday, 1 February 2013 18:33 (3 months ago) Permalink

2c, you upstart, and your conference room lingo not to be found

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/callback

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 February 2013 18:35 (3 months ago) Permalink

morbs truthbombing the fuck out of this

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 1 February 2013 18:35 (3 months ago) Permalink

Morbs should be on Homonym.

― Gukbe, Friday, 1 February 2013 18:36 (3 months ago) Permalink

No, the other one.

― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Friday, 1 February 2013 18:37 (3 months ago) Permalink

one probably shouldn't bust out the dictionary defense without proper vetting since 2a is the definition being used here (ie, recall as a noun), particularly with the synonym list for recall containing "flash back (to)", "hark back (to)" and "harken back (to)"

― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Friday, 1 February 2013 18:40 (3 months ago) Permalink

but it's just noxious in relation to tepid sitcoms

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 February 2013 18:42 (3 months ago) Permalink

Fuck off, sweetie.

― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Friday, 1 February 2013 18:45 (3 months ago) Permalink

done, sweatso

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 February 2013 18:48 (3 months ago) Permalink

Tepid? I thought you haven't seen it.

― Gukbe, Friday, 1 February 2013 18:50 (3 months ago) Permalink

I have never seen this show and still the discourse surrounding it appalls me

― President Keyes, Friday, 1 February 2013 18:59 (3 months ago) Permalink

I wrote a thing: http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/?p=34259

― SOPA Middleton (Leee), Saturday, 2 February 2013 02:02 (3 months ago) Permalink

"In all honesty, I'm going out for cigarettes now"

― s.clover, Saturday, 2 February 2013 02:51 (3 months ago) Permalink

Leee otm

― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Saturday, 2 February 2013 03:19 (3 months ago) Permalink

Yeah, great write-up!

― Gukbe, Saturday, 2 February 2013 03:24 (3 months ago) Permalink

"Callback" is already an established term in computer programming, and it does not mean what you're using it to mean, you jerks!
Great ending -- surprised at how glad I am that it ended this well.
Jack's realization that he could've had a hot spank-giggling secretary instead of Jonathan made me laugh a bit too much.
Also, Tracy's "cut the bs" reply.

― Øystein, Saturday, 2 February 2013 20:49 (3 months ago) Permalink

Why would you think we were trying to use it as a programming term rather than as a comedy term?

― President Keyes, Saturday, 2 February 2013 21:06 (3 months ago) Permalink

Nerdy reasons, no doubt.

― Øystein, Saturday, 2 February 2013 21:24 (3 months ago) Permalink

I really loved how Jenna only got sad when they were taking away her mirror.

i was shocked that kenneth's reflection appeared in the mirror, expected a white haze.

― keef qua keef (Jordan), Saturday, 2 February 2013 21:25 (3 months ago) Permalink

... rural juror song makes me sad we will never experience rural juror 2: urban fervor

― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Saturday, 2 February 2013 23:31 (3 months ago) Permalink

(Belated) thanks, silby and Gukbe!

― SOPA Middleton (Leee), Monday, 4 February 2013 02:15 (3 months ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

I quit watching this during S2 because I could never remember to catch it on its broadcast night, so we're just now catching up with the whole thing in a walkathon, 3 episodes a night. Tonight included the S5 live episode.

― I Don't Wanna Be Dissed (By Anyone But You) (WilliamC), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:37 (2 months ago) Permalink

ergo affleck finally got that Oscar

― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:40 (2 months ago) Permalink

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