― Johnny Fever, Friday, 23 February 2007 03:47 (seventeen years ago) link
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― 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."
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― 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