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

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yeah, they moved 30 rock to 12:30 AM EST. you didn't hear?

SNF is scheduled until 11:30. I don't know where that listing is from but it's inaccurate.

it's west coast

You should tell tvguide.com they're wrong. xpost

oh, so i guess only west coast gets new eps of 30 rock now :'(

if it's tv guide why do you need to ask here? click on the listing and see that it's a rerun. xp

This isn't coming back until January.

o man is house in jail?

this week is the most outrageous episode ever!!111

has house finally gone tooooo far??

ha

they should just make house a straight-up racist

So this is back tonight, yes?

yes

earlier though - in the community timeslot i believe (8 eastern 7 central)

I'm about to get raw with you

Go jump BACK up your mother

lol at kenneth's "time to die"

damn already missed it. never thought they'd make 30 rock the first thing after wheel of fortune.

Tracey's pause after "Kwanzaa"

El Bandito Blanco

this ep had tiny little funny bits, mostly revolving around jenna but it wasn't a GREAT episode or even a B-

Fans of Tracy Morgan might enjoy Where is the love for Corn Chip Nail Tips?

timeless torches was pretty lol

Never thought about this, but was Avery kidnapped so that she could play Effie in Hunger Games?

(The actress, obvs.)

EBanks has been in like 5 movies a year since well before her 30 Rock stint, i think Avery was planned from the jump as a temporary/occasional character and the kidnapping was just a weirder, funnier way to write her out of the show for a while than a breakup.

good point.

This episode kinda sucked, but it had moments.

felt 'off' in some ways but it WAS the first episode back after the longest break in the show's history, and still some pretty big laughs. just happy to have it back after overdosing on Comedy Central reruns, really.

^^ otm, a subpar 30 Rock episode is still worth having around in these dark Community-less times

the people crossword killed me

"What is Jenna Moroney's first name?"

Oh yeah that was great.

the whole America's Kidz Got Singing thing was inspired

at the end of the episode i imagined someday a 30 Rock series finale that ends with NBC finally completely collapsing and then that exact thing happening over the following summer, would be kind of perfect

it was a series of easy gags but I think John McEnroe is being underrated

also I lost my shit at the Christmas dickey

mcenroe was very funny but the whole bit was kind of dulled by the fact that it's like the 18th time i've seen him subvert his image in a comedic way in a tv show/movie/commercial.

^^^ otm

i liked the american idol-y arrangements of "turkey in the straw" and "camptown races"

Tracey's pause after "Kwanzaa"

― encarta it (Gukbe), Thursday, January 12, 2012 8:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this made me LOL the hardest, not even sure why
thought this was pretty consistent with the last couple of seasons, ie great

i liked the american idol-y arrangements of "turkey in the straw" and "camptown races"

Public Domain week was hilarious.

^ otm

best part was at the beginning where liz is giving the "dance like nobody's watching" speech in the writer's room and they cut to lutz on the couch, lost in thought. just for a second.

a subpar 30 Rock episode is still worth having around in these dark Community-less times

I laughed at this subpar 30 Rock more often than I do with Community.

Lutz trying to take Frank's hand on the beach at the end was great as well.

mcenroe was very funny but the whole bit was kind of dulled by the fact that it's like the 18th time i've seen him subvert his image in a comedic way in a tv show/movie/commercial.

― lame adele rey (some dude), Friday, 13 January 2012 15:21 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i only ever see him do this as a recurring character on 30 rock, so i am totally down with him as the hold of Gold Case, leading figure in the arts and shouting and now this.

I really need to rewatch the series all the way through to see if the drop in quality is really as precipitous as it feels. Because it feels pretty precipitous, especially for a show I considered the best comedy on TV until not too terribly long ago. I can't quite put my finger on what the problem is. I think there's a weird Family Guy-ification going on, and whatever tenuous connection the show ever had to reality (and being a show about real-ish people with real-ish motivations) is slipping quickly away. And, worst of all, it is in large part just not that funny anymore. Watching Parks and Rec immediately afterwards does it no favors whatsoever.

I'm guessing, since no one else has posted about this episode in over an hour after it aired, that I'm probably not alone here?

addressing tracy morgan's homophobic breakdown isn't all that effective when the shit his character said on the show is so so so so much less awful than the shit he actually said. also cheap denise richards lol is zzzzzz