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

captain beefheart reference?

i seriously LOL'd at the IM BLACK

also when tracy goes... "BANTER!!"

"World's #4 Dad"

At first I wasn't really feeling this episode, but I pretty much lost my shit right before they cut to commercial and Jack said "everybody looks good in a Sheinhardt."

"This company has a very strict bros over hoes policy."

this is not up on nbc.com yet and it brings me down.

"This company has a very strict bros over hoes policy."

-- petey_carnum, Friday, December 7, 2007 2:56 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

this one made me laugh the hardest i think

The Tracy Jordan ramblings were probably the most hilarious part, but I can't even begin to parse the dialog in my memory. haha BANTER!

"Not in front of the gays!"

wait, did everyone know that Jane Krakowski was Cousin Vicki in Vacation?

this is not up on nbc.com yet and it brings me down.

meeee tooooo u_u

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I did, but I only figured it out when I saw it on cable again over the summer.

"I call the movie Risky Business Risky It, cause 'It' means 'Business.'"

"Cajun-style"

you tryin to steal candy from a vending machine?

let me show how it's done.

ok, this week was great. i love when the stories revolve around the actual cast of the show, rather than the guests :)

"here's your john legend cd" is the winner

haha that was such a weird reference I wasn't even sure whether to take it as a joke and whether it was funny if it was

omg I had completely forgot Carville, best cameo of the series

Offshore Gentlemen's Barge

The lesbian scene from Mullholland Drive

I do not want to disappoint my Japanese public -- especially Godzilla. Ha aha haha! Just kidding. I know he doesn't care what humans do.

I drag myself out of bed at 4 in the morning, go home, get dressed...

The Twofer-Frank rivalry has finally exploded.
No one cares!

The Twofer-Frank rivalry has finally exploded

i was trying to remember this line. for some reason it totally killed me. also the meat 'lovers' pizza ref. lol.

BANTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

considering the mulholland drive reference in that mini-commercial, does anyone think "shut it down" from the cougar episode was also a mulholland drive reference?

hmmm...

"shut it down" has been in like 50 episodes!

name one other?

anyway it was called "GENTLEMAN'S LUNCH"!

It's actually a rape whistle but the whistle part fell off and... I just liked how it looked...

kenneth's game show (shut it down), liz lemon dating her cousin (shut it down), i seriously think they say it every show

Stage manager (Brendan Walsh) - shouts "shut it down!" at the end of each of the two episodes he appears in

Donaghy says it when the crab starts getting turned on by the worm.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/30_Rock = good times.

No mind grapes, no cred.

i was trying to remember this line. for some reason it totally killed me

I like to think it's a shout out to all the people complaining about guest stars in this season.

samurai iamurai

No on Hula = :(

*not

I think it's "samurai I-am-awry," which is even better!

also, "well I gave up caffeine so I've been going to bed at 5:30." stop living all over my life, Lemon!

where are the french fries I did not ask for? you guys gotta anticipate me!

that was my favorite I'm gonna start saying it randomly now

it's definitely samurai i-am-awry, wtf are you thinking

samurai iamaurai is a play on SAM I AM

Just watched. Amazing stuff.

uh, i meant its deifnitely NOT "awry"

are britishes watching this?

why cant it both be a play on sam i am AND be "samurai-i-am-awry"

because it's funnier if it's iamurai

are britishes watching this?

-- cutty, Sunday, December 9, 2007 3:24 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Link

they started showing series one recently here, but hardly anyone watches it. caek and me and a few others watch it and post to this thread, but weirdly very few of the british comedy "posse".

this was a great tracy ep.

also jenna's entourage's attempts at burnage.

All my attempts to to get friends into it have failed. I think you have to be pretty immersed in US culture to get a lot of the cultural references.

i don't get all of them obv but it can't be obscure as, say, 'the mighty boosh' is! or even 'fawlty towers'. i know what the nba is.

viewing figures in the uk are about 400,000 -- a 3% share or something.

I guess the main element there is that 30 Rock actually focuses in trad sitcom style on particular characters dealing with particular issues, whereas Arrested Development's humor is more often about characters' repetitive / predictable wacky behavior -- I can't recall it ever grounding itself in anything so straightforward as, you know, "Liz Lemon struggles to balance her role as hard-assed boss with her desire to be well-liked and 'feminine.'"

-- nabisco, Monday, February 26, 2007 9:50 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Link

RONG. so much of AD was about people trying to fit into roles in that exact same way.