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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

I think I shouted with laughter at that line.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 13 January 2007 03:57 (6 years ago) Permalink

"Cheese and crackers!"

― cws (cws), Saturday, 13 January 2007 04:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

laugh all you want, 97% of American didn't get the Maureen Dowd joke

― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Saturday, 13 January 2007 05:15 (6 years ago) Permalink

with the ratings it gets it would be a prime suspect fort cancelation if it weren't for the way it cozies up to NBC corporate culture -- and being a product of Lorne Michaels, it's relatively safe, especially with Sorkin's show tanking and getting a pity extension.

― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Saturday, 13 January 2007 05:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

don't get me wrong, it's the only sitcom i watch. even when i come home too late and miss The Office, this show destroys me.

― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Saturday, 13 January 2007 05:20 (6 years ago) Permalink

Here's the old thread.

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Saturday, 13 January 2007 07:02 (6 years ago) Permalink

(G00gle doesn't work but I just looked at New Questions Culture Television and it was right there)

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Saturday, 13 January 2007 07:04 (6 years ago) Permalink

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

I wept when I heard that one.

― musically (musically), Saturday, 13 January 2007 07:08 (6 years ago) Permalink

97 percent? Maureen Dowd *is* a bestselling author. Sure, I have a crush on her, what of it?

― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Saturday, 13 January 2007 08:46 (6 years ago) Permalink

A few weeks ago, when Tina Fey's character discovers that Morgan's character isn't illiterate, as she'd thought, Morgan gets caught reading the op-ed page: "Damn, George Will just keeps getting more conservative!"

― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Saturday, 13 January 2007 08:48 (6 years ago) Permalink

What was the Maureen Dowd joke? I missed part of the episode.

― Nathan P1p (hoyanathan), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

Alec Baldwin's latest lover affair.

― Super Cub (Debito), Saturday, 13 January 2007 21:40 (6 years ago) Permalink

i can't believe how much i love this show.

"cheese and crackers!"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 14 January 2007 01:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

What was the Maureen Dowd joke?

Baldwin on the phone: "You hang up, Maureen ... no, you hang up ... okay, on three ... one, two, three ... no, I didn't hang up either, Maureen ... wait, Maureen, you're breaking up ... I lost the call." [proceeds to have whole other conversation, then turns to assistant] "Get me Maureen Dowd back on the phone."

― nabisco (nabisco), Sunday, 14 January 2007 02:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

that reminds me one of my favourite arrested development jokes, "you're supposed to say 'away'".

one-sided phone jokes are a very fertile source of humour! ask bob newhart

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 14 January 2007 02:47 (6 years ago) Permalink

Or Chevy Chase -- "no, you're not supposed to actually blow on it..."

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 14 January 2007 03:19 (6 years ago) Permalink

I have every episode of this downloaded, and have watched every one at least twice, save for the first couple, which I think everyone agrees aren't as good.

Anyway. Top five moments so far:

1. Dennis' speech to Liz. "I cried like a big dumb homo." And "You have chosen to abort me." (I miss Dennis.)
2. "I have two ears and a heart, don't I?"
3. Tracy falls asleep on Conan. It's all about the buildup to it.
4. "I already have a drink. Do you think he'll buy me mozzarella sticks?"
5. Pretty much every line delivered by Alec Baldwin. But maybe especially, "I know what I know. Next time I see Putin I'm going to kick his teeth in."
4.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 14 January 2007 10:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

And no, that's not Eugene Mirman.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 14 January 2007 10:27 (6 years ago) Permalink

Bread is one of the worst things in the world.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 14 January 2007 10:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

Big runner up: everything said by Tracy Morgan. "I once tried to make mashed potatoes with laundry detergent!"

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 14 January 2007 10:34 (6 years ago) Permalink

"Those shoes are definitely bi-curious."

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 14 January 2007 10:56 (6 years ago) Permalink

My fav line:

lemon: "You're wearing a TUXEDO?"

baldwin: "it's after 6, i'm not a farmer"

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 14 January 2007 18:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

i love it when he calls her pizza "greasy peasant food"

― max (maxreax), Sunday, 14 January 2007 18:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

Oprah and Stedman are the same person

― A B C (sparklecock), Sunday, 14 January 2007 20:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

My fav line:
lemon: "You're wearing a TUXEDO?"
baldwin: "it's after 6, i'm not a farmer"

-- M@tt He1geson (matt@game[remove]informer.com), January 14th, 2007. (Matt Helgeson) (later) (link)

i was trying to remember that one!

― zombierza (tehresa), Sunday, 14 January 2007 21:13 (6 years ago) Permalink

Dowd joke also a bit of a dig at Sorkin (she's one of his famous exes-- Lahti character on his show is based on her (just like Christian lady is based on ex Kristin Chenoweth... guess he's got ex issues)).

― sydz (sydz), Monday, 15 January 2007 01:28 (6 years ago) Permalink

I did not know that.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:59 (6 years ago) Permalink

I have asked about this before but we are all supposed to get that the skinny white guy is a mock-up of Jimmy Fallon, right? Hence the impersonations and overall annoyingness.

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:03 (6 years ago) Permalink

I had to re-watch the Meat Machine infomercial at least 4 times before I could stop laughing enough at one joke to hear the next.

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:04 (6 years ago) Permalink

xpost - Yeah, I've thought that too about skinny dude as Jimmy Fallon character.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:08 (6 years ago) Permalink

the way tracy chews that meat and talks is great

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:23 (6 years ago) Permalink

skinny as alterna-fallon, also check

― m@p (plosive), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:23 (6 years ago) Permalink

Hence the impersonations and overall annoyingness.

also they made him really dumb.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:34 (6 years ago) Permalink

i enjoy his ray romano

― m@p (plosive), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:47 (6 years ago) Permalink

(I think) no one mentioned yet how hilariously shit the TGS skits continue to be:

"No, when Paris Hilton makes out with the bear, the bear should act like he's into it."

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 01:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

"tracy to the stage for 'pull your own wisdom teeth'"

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:00 (6 years ago) Permalink

ok, Baldwin is about to get the Golden Globe

― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:22 (6 years ago) Permalink

fuck yeah i'm right

― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:22 (6 years ago) Permalink

It only just occurred to me that NBC's entire Thursday lineup was nominated.

Buck Henry is a writer on 30 Rock?

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:24 (6 years ago) Permalink

"Lemme tell ya about 20 year olds: half of them are 16."

― Dean Winters (rogermexico), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 03:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

hah! I was like "buck henry?!?!". Makes such good sense.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 05:27 (6 years ago) Permalink

yeah!

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 05:32 (6 years ago) Permalink

He's not credited as a writer anywhere that I can find, but it would be unsurprising if he acted as a consultant, editor, polisher, etc, and threw in a joke now and again. He's a comedy writing God, and still pretty close to SNL, I imagine.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 07:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

I just learned from IMDB that he co-directed Heaven Can Wait. I did not know that.

And of course there's The Graduate.

"Ben, this all sounds a little half-baked."
"No, it's completely baked."

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 07:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

I think he later claimed that Beatty brought him because he knew Julie Christie would be mad at him before the shooting was over, so he would need Buck to give her direction.

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:43 (6 years ago) Permalink

"I want you to ride me as hard as you can." = Tobias Funke moment.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 02:36 (6 years ago) Permalink

aw balls, I forgot this show was on

― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Friday, 19 January 2007 02:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

LMFAO at the "Goldcase" coda. Tears.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 03:01 (6 years ago) Permalink

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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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