A new 30 Rock thread because I can't find the old one

shaky start

i really did not laugh all that much :(

I liked it but AV Club is OTM.

http://www.avclub.com/content/node/67647

i think it will get better. alec baldwin and tracy morgan are just too good. seinfeld was kind of lame, i think that was part of my problem w/this. but i thought it was still pretty good!

seinfeld seemed like he was trying hard to be not-funny. best part was jack's summer reality shows.

country in europe only rich people know about=very very funny

kenneth doing seinfeld them in elevator lol

theme

that Rabin thing is the height of Comic Book Guy handwringing. "omg the characters were slightly different in the season premiere, they must be like that in EVERY FUTURE EPISODE NOW"

The look on Kenneth's face as the elevator door closed with Seinfeld in it was 100% wonderful.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/Uncle-Jemima-main.jpg

lol Kenneth's gargling laugh whenever he got starstruck by JS

this was... ok

loved 'you have four million dollars?' and tracys wife getting custody of grizz

I might be a capt. save-a-seinfeldvision on here just because I watched the mini-marathon on Bravo on Sunday and was reminded that even my favorite episodes have been pretty hit-and-miss as far as the joke ratio but are still pretty awesome. If I watched this with the mythical greatness of season 1 still being built up in my mind all summer I might sound like Rabin.

yeah if we could find the old thread there were tons of people going 'oh lordy i don't know about this show'

what about "she either needs to lose 30 pounds or gain 60, there's no room on television for what she is now"

yeah if we could find the old thread there were tons of people going 'oh lordy i don't know about this show'
I think those tons of people were you, Matt.
30 Rock

um after doing due diligence you are RONG, are u now james REDD IN THE FACE GET IT

i liked the thing where tracy was like 'i know what me and kenneth has looks perfect on the outside, but it's work, damn it! it's work.'

also "$4,000 ham napkin"

yes!

but those two moments were at the end of the episode. the rest was making me sit there going 'when do i get to laugh?!'

"Kenneth Parcell, will you take this ring...and sell it in the Jewish part of midtown and use the money to get us a Ninteno Wii?"
"Yes, Yes, a thousand times Yes!!!"

"I did a fake survey."
"You did the fake survey?!"
"What is the deal with my life?!"
"Are you imitating me?"
"No! This is what I sound like when I cry."
"I think I'm a little insulted."
"You're insulted?! I'm crying!"

That scene was funny on the commercials but kinda random and flat in the show (probably because I had seen so many commercials).

one-sided conversation...

"How old are you?

"Uh huh... how much do you weight>

"Oh. When was the last time you had intercourse...?"

"America's Next Top Pirate!"

How much less effective would Arrested Development have been if Jason Bateman were just as screwed up as the rest of his family? With Donaghy and Liz Lemon both coming apart at the seams, it fell upon Pete Hornberger to ground the show in common sense, but he was largely absent from this episode.

this dude is totally wrong! AD got steadily funnier as it revealed how crazy bateman actually was

Art Director credit for this show = Peter Baran

"you can be freaky-deaky and do data entry."

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2251/1495265988_ee3816f80e_m.jpg

"She needs to lose thirty pounds or gain sixty. Anything inbetween has no place in television."

"Women your age are more likely to mauled at the zoo than get married."
"Good to see you. Bye!"

Jack sniffing that picture was funny, but the fact that Liz has it in her office is awesome.

liz is single and old subplots = not funny anymore

i still laughed hard in this episode tho

guys, Tracy had all the funniest moments this episode, right?

how many years have you known me?
one.
then you know I like to minister to transvestite prostitutes.
I did not know that, actually.
It's true; he doesn't mess with them, he just tries to put them through computer school.

i dunno jack was pretty lol too, esp him smelling the picture

liz was kind of a dud this ep tho

Tracy has the funniest moments every episode.

My favorite part of the episode is when Seinfeld suggested he'd buy NBC and Donaghy says, "Yeah, like you have seven million dollars just laying around..."

still laughing at "oh no, did a korean person die?"

guys, Tracy had all the funniest moments this episode, right?

-- horseshoe, Saturday, 6 October 2007 18:37 (5 hours ago) Link

totally.

"who's gonna write my blogs?"

it did feel a bit 'off' somehow -- it's not usually that meta --but there were a lot of lols to be had.

"kill screen" hat

"...and they mistook 'shim' for Mrs. Jordan, yes ma'am."

while the walk 'n' talk is a film-structure standard, I wonder if the walk 'n' talk to start the show was another slap at Sorkin...

I'm a REAL good sex person! I know ALL the different ways!

WEREWOLF BAR MITZVA

BOYS: BECOME MEN

MEN: BECOME WOLVES!

oh you fucking beat me!

I've NEVER laughed that hard.

Seriously I almost passed out.

You Do the Meth! == best

much better 2nd episode!

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