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

i love this show

que it was a PACMAN joke iirc

ie no geese

duh i am so stupid

def. not as smart as 'granny dainger'

last wednesday he was like 'sigh i guess we're getting a ghost meat joke tomorrow siiiiiiiigh'

yeah the awesome thing about this show is it's just PACked with jokes that you don't always get the first time around

only thing more predictible is ile defensiveness and looking to paint people in the most negative light possible.

ile dfensivensss = god i knew someone would take that that way. seriously go fuck yourself you insecure fuck.

lighten up!

i guess we should have just patted you on the back

because you have a handle on this show by... what season is it?

yes cause rather than just remarking on how i've grown accustomed to the show's humor and so it doesn't hit me as strong as it did initially (which has happened with every show ever) it's clear that i wanted a pat on the back.

why are you still doing it

*pat*

when Kenneth opened the pizza box it was full of ~waffles~

that was fucking excellent

yeah that was actually an amazing gag to me

really the whole thing about him being ~ancient and immortal~ was weirdly hilarious

(don't know if someone mentioned it upthread, i opened up the thread before watching the episode and just bookmarked it w/o reading so i wouldn't have any jokes ruiend)

y'all need to take a trip to the Chuckle Hut yo

like it sorta felt like they were overdoing it but the waffle joke sorta dissipated whatever they were doing

really the whole thing about him being ~ancient and immortal~ was weirdly hilarious

also the prospect of him taking over NBC completely

the waffles gag was amazing

waffles invite

i think plenty of the jokes are telegraphed/verging on dad-joke territory, but a) they're hilarious and b) just as many ~aren't~

― lots of jerks (gbx), Friday, November 13, 2009 12:18 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is true, but they're also great at the bait and switch, like, I knew there were gonna be gags involving Jenna and Tracy's shirts, but every time I tried to guess what they'd be I was wrong and pleasantly surprised

^^^ totally! they know that nerds are half-smugly anticipating the punchline (guilty), so the switch is even funnier

really the whole thing about him being ~ancient and immortal~ was weirdly hilarious

Kinda wondering if this, coupled with the "VAMPYRA!" thing he did to jenna last episode is setting up some kind a kenneth is a vampire true blood thing?

was that sam rockwell?

padma!

― see-those-tit-ies (J0rdan S.), Friday, 13 November 2009 02:55 (7 hours ago) Bookmark

i have no idea who this woman is but wowee.

I thought you were English! (She hosts Top Chef, was married to Salman Rushdie, Miss Universe?)

In rewatching the show from the beginning, I'm struck by the high level of quality throughout. Sure, some of the guest shots were a little unnecessary and there have been a few lulls, but there's something funny in every episode and most of the episodes are stellar. I would say that the only thing that stands out to me as a distinct wrong move was Sean Hayes as Kenneth's cousin. I hope they never, ever, ever, ever bring him back. Otherwise, this show is effing golden from top to bottom.

i am english. the only cooking shows i watch are - saturday kitchen and nigel slater. and masterchef.

married to salman rushdie? really? seeing hot girlz w/ crepey freaks makes me sad& a lit bit mo' lonely.

Also: in poking around the internet, I keep seeing subtle hints that Cheyenne Jackson (Danny/Jack) may officially be part of the cast now. Like I noted somewhere above, they haven't significantly changed the status quo since episode 1, so I'm still waiting for them to figure out a way to jettison him. But he seems like he might be a good fit if he sticks around!

ha, it's funny that the seeing-the-joke-coming spat is followed by talk about the waffles, because of course the whole thing with the waffles is that you do kinda know there are going to be waffles in there -- the whole point is that he just said Kenneth knows what he wants before he does -- but the follow-through is still awesome and satisfying and the actual sight of the waffles all lined up like that in waffletastic glory is itself awesome and hilarious

on the other hand I am totally smart enough to know that Tracy and Jenna would wear very different sizes of t-shirt, and they explicitly decided to trade, and yet the sizing after that jump-cut was still a delightful surprise

I just realized where I've seen Danny/Jack! He played Sonny in "Xanadu" on Broadway! (I had family in town and they wanted to see a show. I like the movie, but this was most definitely not the movie. It was painful.)

lol the movie is terrible!

lol his name is cheyenne?

"Spitake" as this year's "Cat sound!"

ha my favorite gag in that vein was last year's (iirc) "don't jump!" (to tracy) followed by a jump cut

xpost to Shakey: You really have to like camp to enjoy it. But the Broadway version tried to explain why every little absurd bit was funny (e.g. jokes about the main character's wacky Australian accent), which ruined the whole thing.

Xanadu the movie is fucking awesome

it's weird that this week both 30 rock & community had running gags about one character being able to predict what another was going to say & saying it at the same time

that's true but 30R's was kinda typically tossed off and Community's was kind of a plot and put a welcome twist on what looked at first to be kind of garden variety meta, so i didn't even think of the parallel til you mentioned it

i hope eventually they pair those shows up on the schedule so i can just watch the snappy jokey shows i like and not find something to do during the hour in between that i'm trying to avoid slow-ass mockumentary shows

yeah i only realized it cuz i just watched them back to back on hulu

only just caught the continuity joke in the opening

i was pretty surprised that there was nothing overtly meta about the final shot of jack & liz spinning in a circle as they were talking to each other, esp after the super meta continuity joke - i expected them to pan back and have them on some sort of rotating device or something idk

liz's delivery on "founding father's diet" XD

slow-ass mockumentary shows

Miss P&R at your peril.

tbh dude the title of your thread about that show has put me off it almost as much as anything about the show itself

lol

If you remember at the time it debuted, Amy Poehler was literally EVERYWHERE. It seemed appropriate.

p&r has gotten pretty good and i really thought it was lousy at first