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

WE DIDN'T LAND ON PLYMOUTH ROCK, PLYMOUTH ROCK LANDED ON MARS

^ t-shirt, plz.

i would...nt

Any Boston-themed episode is awesome in my book. I walk by those guys dressed up in revolutionary garb on the Freedom Trail practically every day after work.

She's been silent for four seasons. I can see why all the sudden they gave her lines, but why haven't they done it all along?

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, January 21, 2010 9:39 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

They gave her a speaking line last year when they revealed her to be Dutch.

haha i used to work on the freedom trail
looking forward to 30 rock then!

George W. Ashington, btw

wish i could remember what hornberger's hypnotism command words were for getting liz to take her shirt off

nutmeg, rodeo

Nutmeg was the trigger word, but I can't remember what the stop word was.

oh yeah, rodeo.

what a sleazy S.O.B., that pete.

On the one hand, I like all the Boston humor. Being from Boston, it all hits home pretty hard. But every time that damn Julianne Moore opens her mouth, I want to stab pencils in my ears. The frustrating thing is that she's going to show up on many more episodes.

Salma Hayek was soooo much better!

No, not Tufts...

literal screamed laughter at my house

(mostly at Jenna's "SHUT UP.")

salma was great, but not for the first few episodes she was in. hoping julianne develops in the show in a similar way.

It's impossible unless she ditches the accent.

i feel like a dick for hating on every other multi-episode mini-plot they have, but fuck nancy

in moore's defense, boston accents are obnoxious and horrible anyway so i'm not gonna blame her -- i have family members who speak exactly like her character.

Yeah, after hearing people murder southern accents for laughs on television for decades, a little poke at a Boston accent by Julianne Moore is hilarious to me.

that's purrfect, like a cat's birthday!

Is it a real accent then? I couldn't work it out, but it was very off-putting.

it's a combination of that accent and some weird nervous energy she projects as the character. i've never been annoyed by her like that in her other roles.

idk, it's not a south boston accent (which is maybe why people think she's doing it wrong?) but it's pretty accurate for LOL waltham imo.

The accent isn't completely inaccurate, just overdone to the point of being obnoxious and distracting. She lays it on too thick to make it sound natural. Instead it sounds like Julianne Moore working real hard to do Waltham accent.

i don't have a problem with her accent, i just don't think she's very funny.

it is pretty much a running gag now that jack always hooks up with ladies with overplayed accents, isn't it?

I'd like to hear her bust out some Maude Lebowski lines with that accent. "Sex can be a natural, zesty enterprise."

well, phoebe had faked am english accent, but CC didn't have much of a Vermont accent that I remember.
xp

it's like she keeps slipping into that weird Newfoundlandian accent from The Shipping News

i appeciated the way they goofed on her accent ("salt the carport" / "wire a doorbell") but there were a bunch of Boston-specific lols in this ep. the Natalie Jacobson reference totally floored me.

xp isabella rossalini saying "damnit, Jack, you know i love my big beef & cheddar" in her accent was major rofl

according to wikipedia lutz is married to sue (the writer who tracy recruited into his entourage) in real life.

No, not Tufts...

literal screamed laughter at my house

― Vajazzle My Nazzle (HI DERE), Friday, January 22, 2010 8:37 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
(mostly at Jenna's "SHUT UP.")

― Vajazzle My Nazzle (HI DERE),

Is there any extra dimension to the H-dropping that us public university schlubs missed?

Also happy to see Liz really internalizing Jack's advice to never badmouth synergy.

uh, emily mortimer is rly britishes dood

she faked a US accent if that's what you mean

Toofer's entire spiel is almost word-for-word a de rigueur script used when a particularly insufferable type of Harvard grad wants you to know he/she went there really, really badly but doesn't want to seem like they're bragging by coming right out and saying it.

(The non-douchey iteration, or less-douchey anyway, is when you don't pre-emptively answer the next logical question and is usually used when you've been burned enough time by people turning into space-case freaks over where you went to school that you'd rather not mention it and want someone to form an opinion about you without having them immediately start calling you things like "EINSTEIN GENIUSPANTS" and "MR SMARTYFACE KNOWSEVERYTHING" before you actually have the chance to prove via normal conversation that you do actually think you know everything.)

btw someone did actually call me EINSTEIN GENIUSPANTS and pretty much disrupted every attempt I made to join in a group conversation with "Oooh, let the professor speak!" and "Oh of course he has to say something, he went to HARVARD". This woman was someone I really, really wanted to strangle.

she sounds like someone who didn't get into harvard; what an ass.

The bright spot was that everyone else there thought she was a total racist bitch, so I knew I wasn't actually being overbearingly knowledgeable about every fucking thing under the sun.

some harvard ppl are very overly concerned in expressing harvard is not *IN* boston, but it's *NEARBY* y/n?

oh that would be a ginormous Y

uh, emily mortimer is rly britishes dood

― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, January 22, 2010 5:22 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

but her character was revealed to be faking the british accent.

love history buff tj!

btw someone did actually call me EINSTEIN GENIUSPANTS

And she was an ADULT??

uh, emily mortimer is rly britishes dood

As a British, I'm pretty sure that she was hugely exaggerating her natural accent. No one talks like that outside of 40s films.

I go around saying "I love your little hat!" like that all the time!

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwogmpgXlY1qze4c7o1_500.png

^^^
Much as I like 30 Rock, I find most of their 4th wall-breaking moments like that overly knowing and a bit cringey.

♪♫ let's get divorced, you marry the butler and i'll be a gay octo-mom ♪♫

Just saw the Franco episode. Holy crap that was funny. Kenneth was killin' it!

that's purrfect, like a cat's birthday!

― you forgot what a hardcore blogger is (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, January 22, 2010 6:56 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark

^^^
tracey in the bwoston episode so funny