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

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!!!!

drspacemanrunningthrough30rockadinfinitum.gif pls

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

There's no doubt that the references are too obscure, but there's more to it. I think 30 Rock's problem in the UK is that it's the American writer's room sit-com taken to its ultimate flawless conclusion. Not alternative comedy. Just perfect gags, lines and zingers. That's probably what I mean by too American. It's a particular type of sitcom that doesn't work here, as demonstrated by Seinfeld.

i mean every line in last night's episode was perfect. all killer no filler.

it's amazing they can have any plot at all when the jokes are so rapid fire

I'm from Scotland and I and lots of people in my circle of friends love 30 Rock but I remember once mentioning it in the office to a group of about ten people around my age (early 20s) and not one of them had heard of it and when I said it had Tina Fey and Tracy Morgan from Saturday Night Live in it they looked even more perplexed. Ah well, at least Alec Baldwin registered.

And although I love it I have no clue what channel they show it on so it must be a minor one. As Caek mentions though Seinfeld never took off here either, I remember having to stay up 'til 11 on a Tuesday to watch it when I was about ten years old.

And of course, 30 Rock isn't really "big" in the US to begin with.

I was really disappointed that there was nary a mention of giant lesbians when Tina was on Conan's show last night.

this ep made me love tv again or something

it's funny, I just caught up on a few recent episodes I missed this season on the NBC site, and out of the 4 or 5 I saw for the first this week, this past Thursday's was nowhere near my favorite, kinda surprised about all the love for it although it did have some great moments.

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

Wait, wait, what? That's a joke, right?

Also, never heard of the mindgrapes thing. I mean, whatever that is, it's not exactly "werewolf bar mitzvah" or "spa-cha-man" or even "shut it down" as a well-known 30 Rock joke.

What? The mindgrapes thing is one of the biggest 30 Rock jokes.

it was a good joke. let's all relax.

awesome ep.

this episode was so good i might just watch it a second time tomorrow!!

god, the amadeus stuff was amazing.

this episode was so good i'm gonna take it behind the middle school and get it pregnant!

I'm a brit following this and I think this is the nearest thing America has produced to a father ted or a black books. American sit coms tend to be in fairly normal situations where the comedy comes from the mundane in the character's lives. 30 rock exists in a much less realistic world with much more exaggerated characters. All lot of jokes are going to pass Brits by, (I miss out on some of the entertainment references, although I got Michael VIck, but then I read ILX and the NY times). That said, the main reason this isn't really registering over here is that it is on channel 5 and doesn't stay fixed in the schedule AFAIK, I only found it because my girlfried let me know about it.

This episode was great, especially on a second watching where I wasn't quite so pissed off with the world. It is a shame if Alec Baldwin is leaving as he brings some of my biggest ROFLs.

are they talking aobut him leaving again? i thought that was all over

Some people on this thread are speculating after his plot in the last episode, but I don't think anyone has any new information.

Your search - "alec baldwin leaving" - did not match any documents.

best episode in ages, btw.

he's not leaving folks.

good

He's gone. RIP Jack Donoughy.

evidence please

I blame Hillary

that's not evidence. he also said he'd move to france if Bush was elected to a second term...