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

"Hugging is so ethnic."

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I guess that rules out the federal reserve!

at first i was elated that gob was back, but then he said that line about clay aiken leaving the show to jack and now i wonder if they're replacing alec baldwin with him! that would not be good.

business juice

"business sick"!

here's your starting salary.
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(mouthed) i know.

MORE PETE

that was one of the best episodes yet

all the Amadeus stuff was great "are you getting this?" "You're going to fast!"

How closely were they following Amadeus? I've never actually seen the whole thing.

i think that might have been my favorite episode of all time

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OMG Liz handing Jack a tampon

"another Lemon zinger"

it wasn't all A++ for me ("thoughtsicles" seemed like a very deliberate attempt at a new "mindgrapes") but yeah, pretty good.

wow what a great episode

they basically recreated the final act of Amadeus replacying Salieri with Josh, Mozart with Tracy, and Mozart's Requiem with a pornographic video game. The lines I quoted, with Tracy all frantic "are you getting this?" was the main part, but Dr. Spacemen wearing the cape running through the halls is Salieri in the Don Giovanni costume.

I love how Tracy Jordan says "Liz Lemon" -- it sounds like "Ms. Lemon" so he sounds like he's addressing a teacher (and really she is the most adult)

business drunk, its like rich drunk, its legal to drive

Don't forget Kenneth as Constanze! (Too bad he didn't call Tracy "Jordy")

I'd love to, but we have no way of knowing where the heart is.

Dr Spaceman is my favorite television character.

I love Dr. Spacemen, but at times he's kinda just like Dr. Nick.

"another Lemon zinger" = ok, someone needs to assemble a complete guide to all the low-lying puns in the writing for this show, because I would never have caught this

(I would like to take credit for having noticed "Lemon party" upthread, but I'm pretty sure someone pointed that out to me)

i think that might have been my favorite episode of all time

OTM. My Facebook status is "... had dreams. He was going to live with the gorillas."

wau

I've thought "Diabetes repair?" at least twenty times today.

A little too much plot in that episode, but so many great lines.

'You get one cry in life, good choice'

"If I'm such a bad dad, why are we all dancing?"

"who's got two thumbs, speaks limited french, and hasn't cried once today"

"THIS MOI!"

"ill go see him every week - until spamalot closes...or he leaves the show" w/ the last said in will arnett's dramavoice was the biggest laugh for me

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BTW, dunno if it's nationwide, but I just bought s1 @ Target for $20!!!!

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the frenetic pace of the amadeus scenes was so well done. i was dying with slo-mo spa-che-man.

executives are like "RUHRUHRUHRUH" and I'm more like "Laaaaaaaaaalaaaaaaaalaaaaa"

i think i asked this once before but what do the british think of this show? is it too american?

it's our crown jewel of sitcomedy right now

It's a niche thing here. The second season was bought, so I guess the first did OK. It probably is too American. Family Guy has at least as many references that are impenetrable to a British audience, but that did OK over here, so I don't think it's that. I think perhaps it's the style of humour and writing, both of which are very American.

it wasn't all A++ for me ("thoughtsicles" seemed like a very deliberate attempt at a new "mindgrapes") but yeah, pretty good.

-- Alex in Baltimore, Friday, April 25, 2008 7:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

yes because mindgrapes was such a national sensation!

I think perhaps it's the style of humour and writing, both of which are very American.

-- caek, Saturday, April 26, 2008 11:00 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

more on this? what other tv shows are very american? are you really saying 30 rock is more american than family guy??

in england they would say Rock 30

Maybe some of pop culture stuff is "too American"? For example, how big was the Michael Vick scandal over there?

i think me and caek are the only ilx britishes who follow it -- it plays on a minor channel here and no-one i know watches it. it did get good reviews, but so did 'seinfeld' and no-one saw that either. but since 'friends', 'frasier', and 'satc' went away there hasn't been a really big US sitcom hit here (unless you count 'ugly betty'). shit, even 'will and grace' got more play than '30 rock'.

'SNL' was never a thing here, so there's that. uh and iirc when i saw it shown on TV they'd cut some of tracy's scenes out, so i guess there's the racism thing too. i dunno what 'too american' means, british people love lots of american stuff.

s1ocki, considering that "mindgrapes" has probably been quoted more times in this thread than any other line, I think it's fair to say that's one of the better known lines among people who watch to show and employing a similiar phrase in a similiar way just seemed kinda weak to me.

thoughtsicles was obviously a reference to mindgrapes and it was excellent at that