― Ruud Comes to Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 12 October 2006 01:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 12 October 2006 01:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Comes to Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 12 October 2006 01:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Tina Fey = nu-goddess
― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Thursday, 12 October 2006 12:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 12 October 2006 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link
second favorite thing: Alec Baldwin effortlessly sliming on all women in the cast except Tina (well and Dratchy too); his best line reading in a whole field of them was "Oh, you don't want me to guess your weight."
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 12 October 2006 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Comes to Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Comes to Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Comes to Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link
"About five inches, but it's thick."
― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link
having your own funny thread has obviously inspired you. and you are as right as rain.
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link
"no, charisma's over there...."
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link
my friend is on this show!!
SIKED!
― BONERTIME! (ddb1), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 12 October 2006 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 12 October 2006 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 12 October 2006 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link
1)"white man putting AIDS in the chicken nuggets"2) me wondering aloud if a trivection oven could really be possible, gf dismissing it offhandedly, then a real ad for the GE trivection oven comes on, massive ownage ensues3) they shot the restaraunt scene at M&Gs, my favorite soul food restaraunt ever http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/m-and-g-diner/
― ▒█▄█ ▄▄▄ ▒█▄█ , Thursday, 12 October 2006 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Thursday, 12 October 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link
4) alec baldwin owning the world
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 12 October 2006 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link
"we own kmart now?"
"no, but why do you dress like we do?"
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 12 October 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link
it's almost not fair having him on a half hour sitcom.
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 12 October 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link
"you don't need to hide in a supply closet""this is my office"..."it's nice to see you bring a woman's touch to everything"
― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jimmy_tango (Jimmy_tango), Thursday, 19 October 2006 02:36 (seventeen years ago) link
the deadpan tone of the whole thing, punctuated by tracy being nutz and weird shit like everyone throwing their lunch on tina, is kind of disturbing, actually. which i like. but the whole show is hard to guage, (only saw one ep a couple nights ago) but will watch again and see. (because, y'know, i need yet another tv show to watch...)
― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Thursday, 19 October 2006 02:50 (seventeen years ago) link
There's definitely a lot of potential with this cast, and I don't even mind Krakowski so far.
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 19 October 2006 04:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chris L (Chris L), Thursday, 19 October 2006 04:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link
the fact that they cast that trucker hat guy from the Dave Matthews Band video makes me want to dislike this show, but it is pretty good. Baldwin in this kind of reminds me of Jimmy James from Newsradio (=ridiculously high praise).
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― researching ur life (grady), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link
It's really so simple; good writing and good comedic timing. Why do so many shows fail at this?
― Super Cub (Debito), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link
hee hee
― schwantz (schwantz), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 20 October 2006 02:17 (seventeen years ago) link
Can we get AIDS into every episode, plz?
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 20 October 2006 04:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chris L (Chris L), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― researching ur life (grady), Thursday, 26 October 2006 05:00 (seventeen years ago) link
alec baldwin continues to kill me - and that southern accent taunting across the poker table! hahaha
― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Thursday, 26 October 2006 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link
oh man after i saw that scene i wanted to go so bad... i was planning on hunting for that place when i'm in ny for 48hrs this wknd... thanks for the tip!
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link
The show on after this with Jeffrey Tambor & John Lithgow is a lot funnier than I expected, but it's still a regular sitcom, which is so much harder to watch now post Arrested Development/Office/etc.
― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― lk (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link
"In five years we'll either be working for him or dead by his hand"
― lk (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link
From today's Washington Post:
And, in a move that can only be called PR genius, NBC announced "30 Rock," Tina Fey's sendup of "Saturday Night Live," and mothballed doctor comedy "Scrubs" would join "My Name Is Earl" and "The Office" for a four-comedy block on Thursday night, harkening back to the golden days of NBC, long before it became just another cog in the great GE/NBC Universal 2.0 mandala.
Based on early exit polling, it worked like gangbusters. Critics seemed to like it; ditto members of the Hollywood TV community. The move "at least gives the network an identity" on one night of the week, said one industry suit who wished to remain anonymous because private schools aren't cheap.
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link
This is saddening in a way though because now once again there will be nothing decent on tv in the hour before LOST on Wed.
― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link
(they just wanted to prove me wrong. they are ALWAYS doing that.)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link
bulllllshit, three-camera/studio audience sitcoms are still, as a format, way better than all that steadicam/awkward-silences-with-no-laugh-track stuff that's trendy now (although I do like what 30 Rock does with it), and judging from CBS's Monday night lineup there's still some good shows being made in that style.
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Friday, 27 October 2006 01:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Friday, 27 October 2006 01:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Portable Dorkness (Dick Butkus), Friday, 27 October 2006 01:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 27 October 2006 01:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 27 October 2006 01:47 (seventeen years ago) link
they had promos up the butt for months! they looked like snl promos.
"and judging from CBS's Monday night lineup there's still some good shows being made in that style."
other than lost, and now 30 rock, these are the only shows i watch. i dig how i met your mother, and 2 & a half men, and old christine. the class is pretty bad though. maybe even worse than the one with the fonz and stockard channing that is gone now i think.
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 27 October 2006 02:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― researching ur life (grady), Friday, 27 October 2006 02:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― researching ur life (grady), Friday, 27 October 2006 02:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Portable Dorkness (Dick Butkus), Friday, 27 October 2006 02:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Friday, 27 October 2006 03:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― nickn (nickn), Friday, 27 October 2006 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Friday, 27 October 2006 05:28 (seventeen years ago) link
And I didn't even realize that Gretchen was played by Law & Order alum Stephanie March.
20 Good Years was doomed from the start, it was basically targeted to everyone outside the 18-49 bracket. Smart.
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 27 October 2006 06:13 (seventeen years ago) link
yes! i mentioned that one. it's not great, but it has its moments. and andy richter as creepy japan-obsessed oral sex king is worth watching. her brother is weird. like he dropped in from an indie movie or something. definitely laugh out loud moments to be had.
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 27 October 2006 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Saturday, 28 October 2006 07:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jimmy_tango (Jimmy_tango), Saturday, 28 October 2006 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 28 October 2006 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 2 November 2006 01:22 (seventeen years ago) link
Alec Baldwin for president!
― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 November 2006 01:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 November 2006 01:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jimmy_tango (Jimmy_tango), Thursday, 2 November 2006 01:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 November 2006 01:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― sometimes my entire life be like DAMNNN! (tehresa), Thursday, 2 November 2006 01:43 (seventeen years ago) link
"did we just walk in a circle?"
"nice walk & talk"
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 2 November 2006 04:02 (seventeen years ago) link
LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE ITS SHARK WEEK.
― researching ur life (grady), Thursday, 2 November 2006 05:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 2 November 2006 05:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Thursday, 2 November 2006 08:38 (seventeen years ago) link
SHARK WEEK
― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Thursday, 2 November 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 November 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Thursday, 2 November 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Actuall thought this ep was slightly weaker than the others. Still good though.
― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Thursday, 2 November 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― mizzzell (mizzzell), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link
that slayed me.
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Friday, 3 November 2006 03:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Friday, 3 November 2006 08:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Friday, 3 November 2006 08:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Friday, 3 November 2006 08:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― researching ur life (grady), Friday, 3 November 2006 08:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Friday, 10 November 2006 03:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Scorpion Tea (Dick Butkus), Friday, 10 November 2006 03:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― From the Moon to Pluto Back Down to Earth (Rrrickey), Friday, 10 November 2006 12:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 17 November 2006 04:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Friday, 17 November 2006 04:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 17 November 2006 05:48 (seventeen years ago) link
My favorite part was the crossword puzzle.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 17 November 2006 06:01 (seventeen years ago) link
i thought that was the point.
GAYBERHAM LINCOLN.
― researching ur life (grady), Friday, 17 November 2006 06:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― researching ur life (grady), Friday, 17 November 2006 07:02 (seventeen years ago) link
For some reason this always takes ages with this programme.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 17 November 2006 07:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Friday, 17 November 2006 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link
Also the stuff about placing the products in the show was so fucking funny, especially after the Staples mentions & the shredder thing in The Office.
― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Friday, 17 November 2006 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link
but was it funny or was it an opportunity for them to make money and then try to make us think they were just being clever?
― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 18 November 2006 02:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 18 November 2006 02:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Saturday, 18 November 2006 02:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 18 November 2006 02:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 18 November 2006 02:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Saturday, 18 November 2006 02:51 (seventeen years ago) link
(c) Rickey Wright!!!
― Factory Sample Not For Sale (Rrrickey), Saturday, 18 November 2006 09:59 (seventeen years ago) link
P.S. Tina Fey, call me.
― Factory Sample Not For Sale (Rrrickey), Saturday, 18 November 2006 10:01 (seventeen years ago) link
tina fey = nu-kennedy
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 18 November 2006 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 18 November 2006 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Saturday, 18 November 2006 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 18 November 2006 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 18 November 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link
kennedy never had the tina fey look:
Classic Or Dud:The Tina Fey Look
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 18 November 2006 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 18 November 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 18 November 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― songs and ballads of the bituminous miners (sanskrit), Saturday, 18 November 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 18 November 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Friday, 26 January 2007 02:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― the art of pretend non-lawyering. (tehresa), Friday, 26 January 2007 02:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 04:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Saturday, 27 January 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― David R., Friday, 23 February 2007 03:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― David R., Friday, 23 February 2007 03:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 23 February 2007 03:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― impudent harlot, Friday, 23 February 2007 03:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― A B C, Friday, 23 February 2007 04:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 23 February 2007 04:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill, Friday, 23 February 2007 04:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― musically, Friday, 23 February 2007 06:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― sous les paves, Friday, 23 February 2007 06:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― David R., Friday, 23 February 2007 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― jh0shea, Friday, 23 February 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Trip Maker, Friday, 23 February 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Gukbe, Friday, 23 February 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/id/2217712/pagenum/all/#p2
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link
so weird to see the first 30 Rock thread active again
that article is idiotic
― cumlord millionaire (some dude), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link
yesssssssssssssssssssss
http://twitter.com/RealTracyMorgan
― pariah carey (Mr. Que), Thursday, 8 October 2009 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/help/verified
― tehresa, Thursday, 8 October 2009 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link
my dickhead is shaped liked a darth vadar helmet. my dick is so fat it looks like r2d2.
okay maybe I will start using Twitter
― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Thursday, 8 October 2009 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I've started watching the first season. So so funny! The density of jokes in incredible. I haven't had so many laughs at a TV show for a long time.
― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Thursday, 10 December 2009 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
So much more to come!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 10 December 2009 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Can't stop chuckling at 'The Rural Juror'.
― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Thursday, 10 December 2009 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
One quibble: the incidental music's pretty annoying.
― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Thursday, 10 December 2009 21:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Been netflixing this - it was entertaining enough from the beginning but I'm late in season 2 now and it's really going to another level. Sometimes the show gets a little too zany-upon-zany, but the writing, the character development, Baldwin's performance especially carry it beyond that.
Loved this exchange:
Liz: Everything in my life is work, but not Dennis Duffy. I don’t have to shave. I don’t have to bathe. I don’t have to be clever or nice.
Jenna: Love is hiding who you really are at all times, even when you’re sleeping. Love is wearing make up to bed, and going downstairs to the Burger King to poop, and hiding alcohol in perfume bottles. That’s love.
Liz: Being with Dennis is easy. If you give into it, you start to feel kind of numb and warm. And then you just get sleepy.
Jenna: That’s exactly what they say happens when you freeze to death.
...
Also Jack's line when he hears he's going to be CEO - "When will this be made public, sir? I want my mother to know before she dies so goes to her grave a defeated woman."
― Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 03:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I've been watching season 1 - it's pretty funny already
― =皿= (dyao), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 03:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Season 4. Problem Solvers episode was incredible.
"I didn't get a bathroom door that looks like a wall by being bad at business"
― Kevin Love and Ricky Rubio ARE: Timblr Whites (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
watching these in syndication, in semi-random order, really accentuates how funny the show has been throughout its entire run
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
Season 4 has been the best so far IMO, writing is unbelievable. However watching Julianne Moore try to play Boston Irish is just excruciating and I wish it would stop.
― happiness is the new productivity (Hurting 2), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that's totally more grating than funny
― Alshipleyan Goalpostmover (some dude), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
Love the loony tunes sound effects.
― s.clover, Friday, 10 February 2012 03:37 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiAQeJrEHB4
― happiness is the new productivity (Hurting 2), Friday, 10 February 2012 03:48 (twelve years ago) link
Wait, this is the RONG 30 Rock thread, the one that can't be found.
― I Can't Give You Any Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 February 2012 05:06 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-bvHlb2Fe8
― barthes simpson, Sunday, 23 September 2012 01:55 (eleven years ago) link
http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/the-unfuckables/
this probably needs to be at least 3x longer but it's pretty well-done. i have to think about it more
― k3vin k., Thursday, 3 October 2013 04:17 (ten years ago) link
Jesus, I wasn't aware that happened to Dratch.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 3 October 2013 04:42 (ten years ago) link
There is a Salon piece that was posted in the other 30 Rock that responded to this discussion pretty well. I'll try to find it.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 3 October 2013 04:53 (ten years ago) link
The Tina Fey Backlash
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 3 October 2013 04:57 (ten years ago) link
"If a politician applied Fey’s feminist rationale to public policy, he would be one of those blinders-wearing classists to the point of fascism."
er
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 3 October 2013 13:22 (ten years ago) link
i started watching all of these through for the first time (i've seen episodes here and there of course), and i have to say this show has totally flipped my opinion of tina fey
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, 17 February 2014 22:37 (ten years ago) link
from negative to positive? positive to negative?
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 17 February 2014 23:21 (ten years ago) link
pos to neg. show is like a damn cathy comic strip
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, 17 February 2014 23:25 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbCT5fXdhhc
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 17 February 2014 23:28 (ten years ago) link
not so much in the first 2 seasons imo, but yeah liz lemon does basically turn into a cartoon character distressingly fast.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 17 February 2014 23:28 (ten years ago) link
it's weird how jack donaghy is really the only main character who stays fairly nuanced and un-cartoony throughout the run of the series.
it seems like if she's gonna make that joke she should have the self awareness to not make the show 90% about how hilarious/pathetic it is when old ladies of 35 cant bag a man or w/e! also soooo many jokes about fat ppl being gross
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, 17 February 2014 23:29 (ten years ago) link
It's so weird to single out Liz Lemon as a "cartoon character" on a show full of cartoon characters. I mean, c'mon. Pretty much every main character, and I would definitely include Donaghy as a cartoon, is one.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 17 February 2014 23:39 (ten years ago) link
yeah theyre all cartoon characters, she's just an extremely lame cartoon character
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, 17 February 2014 23:40 (ten years ago) link
i guess i feel like the show treats jack's relationships more seriously than it treats liz's -- hers are mainly treated for laughs, there's no liz equivalent of the episodes where jack's torn between two girlfriends who are both right for him, etc. obv he's kind of a cartoon in many ways -- quoting reagan, etc -- but the show gives him more depth than liz most of the time.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 17 February 2014 23:43 (ten years ago) link
90% about how hilarious/pathetic it is when old ladies of 35 cant bag a man or w/e
I'm not really getting this at all. Maybe at the beginning? idk
― kinder, Monday, 17 February 2014 23:45 (ten years ago) link
I'm in the middle of a s5/s6 binge. I think I love Grizz & dotcom the best
― kinder, Monday, 17 February 2014 23:46 (ten years ago) link
there's a really weird dynamic on a lot of TV shows that i think 30 Rock accidentally epitomizes, where married successful people are constantly playing unmarried unsuccessful people because, unless it's a 'family show' or a satire of success or something, it's considered not sexy enough or not funny enough to show people who are settled down or w/e and so you end up with these slightly icky situations where Tina Fey, in an effort not have a show about Tina Fey being awesome and winning at life, creates this 'lol pathetic spinster alternative universe me' character that gets kicked in the shins over and over. it's especially odd because Liz Lemon seems to keep encountering this "work vs. personal life" dilemma that Fey doesn't seem to have struggled with at all.
― Waluigi Weingarten (some dude), Monday, 17 February 2014 23:48 (ten years ago) link
Seinfeld to Fey: do you miss 30 rock?Fey: No!
The workload was apparently nuts.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 02:31 (ten years ago) link
yeah...some SNL alumni have said that in a way sitcoms are actually a harder grind, because instead of writing and rehearsing and then performing a show in 6 days and being done with it, you've gotta go through long hours of multiple takes and editing, etc. being a star/writer/producer of a show like that must be exhausting.
― Waluigi Weingarten (some dude), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 02:47 (ten years ago) link
also it wouldn't surprise me if Tina put more of the work and the pressure on her shoulders than Jerry ever did.
― Waluigi Weingarten (some dude), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 02:48 (ten years ago) link
I read an interview where she admitted that she kept the show going because of all the jobs of her friends and crew that were riding on it, so maybe the show is actually an idealized version of the work/life struggle, whereas real tina fey was in a nightmare hellhole.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 19:05 (ten years ago) link
i could believe that. there was a lot of hamster-wheeling going on during the last few seasons, though it was still enjoyable
― Nhex, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 20:03 (ten years ago) link
"greenzo" is so good, kenneth's party, david schwimmer, lol
― k3vin k., Monday, 17 April 2017 03:59 (seven years ago) link
three years pass...
...lol
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Monday, 17 April 2017 05:23 (seven years ago) link
there's no season 2 thread!
― k3vin k., Monday, 17 April 2017 05:28 (seven years ago) link
We went in to the sandbox about a 1/3 of the way into the 1st season. After we got out, a new thread was started and it carried us through the rest of the series.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 17 April 2017 06:11 (seven years ago) link
Obvs. this was back before we really started doing devoted seasonal threads for shows.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 17 April 2017 06:12 (seven years ago) link
thinking a lot lately about the scene where jack goes to work for the bush administration and he walks into a room and looks up and goes "um, the ceiling appears to be leaking" and matthew broderick cheerfully responds "no. it's not. we've looked into it, and it's not."
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 23:40 (four years ago) link
A pack of wild dogs took over and successfully ran a ‘Wendy’s
― caddy lac brougham? (will), Saturday, 2 October 2021 02:52 (two years ago) link