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he just said his name the way it's pronounced: "spuh-CHI-mun"

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

it's spelled "Spaceman" but properly pronounced "Spuh-CHEM-an." Tracy always says "Spaceman," though.

xpost

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

i fucking LOVE this show, and i love the shit out of tracy morgan, but...

when i saw him do standup a couple years ago he bombed, entirely, and spent about 10 minutes talking about wiping (anal sex) blood off of his dick with the window curtains before leaving.

actually that sounds sort of funny, but it was a lot less funny at the time.

― max (maxreax), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

best part of the last episoe = tracy's bald, less fat bodyguard doing the robot while tracy shows the meat machine to jack

― max (maxreax), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

wasnt he the dude with flowers when everyone thought liz wanted to have a baby with someone?

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i think him and grizz both had flowers

― max (maxreax), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

meat is the new bread

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

I think this is the third episode in a row where someone steals the page's sandwich.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

how come the page is in the credits but not the funny jew? hmm

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

I can't tell you how psyched I was when I checked my DVR and saw that yesterday's ep was called "THE RURAL JUROR."

The what?

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

i loved when baldwin said the rural juror perfectly

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

"I'm a huge Kevin Grisham fan."

― max (maxreax), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

hi, i'm whoopi goldberg and this is WORKING OUT WITH WHOOPI! ...

...

― joseph (joseph), Saturday, 13 January 2007 02:35 (nineteen years ago)

No, it's gotta be "oral germwhore".

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Saturday, 13 January 2007 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

ONE DELICIOUS FOODBALL

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Saturday, 13 January 2007 02:46 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry I'll stop, I'm watching and posting at the same time now.

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Saturday, 13 January 2007 02:47 (nineteen years ago)

this show makes me love tv comedy again
(even though i love the office and AD, this is so TV COMEDY and awesome at it)

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Saturday, 13 January 2007 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

the flashback bit to liz waiting backstage for jenna, and then the same flashback from jenna's perspective = classic tv! and funny!

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Saturday, 13 January 2007 03:15 (nineteen years ago)

"i'ma make you a mixtape! you like phil collins?"
"i have two ears and a heart, don't i?"

― joseph (joseph), Saturday, 13 January 2007 03:52 (nineteen years ago)

I think I shouted with laughter at that line.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 13 January 2007 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

"Cheese and crackers!"

― cws (cws), Saturday, 13 January 2007 04:55 (nineteen years ago)

laugh all you want, 97% of American didn't get the Maureen Dowd joke

― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Saturday, 13 January 2007 05:15 (nineteen years ago)

with the ratings it gets it would be a prime suspect fort cancelation if it weren't for the way it cozies up to NBC corporate culture -- and being a product of Lorne Michaels, it's relatively safe, especially with Sorkin's show tanking and getting a pity extension.

― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Saturday, 13 January 2007 05:17 (nineteen years ago)

don't get me wrong, it's the only sitcom i watch. even when i come home too late and miss The Office, this show destroys me.

― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Saturday, 13 January 2007 05:20 (nineteen years ago)

Here's the old thread.

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Saturday, 13 January 2007 07:02 (nineteen years ago)

(G00gle doesn't work but I just looked at New Questions Culture Television and it was right there)

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Saturday, 13 January 2007 07:04 (nineteen years ago)

"i'ma make you a mixtape! you like phil collins?"
"i have two ears and a heart, don't i?"

I wept when I heard that one.

― musically (musically), Saturday, 13 January 2007 07:08 (nineteen years ago)

97 percent? Maureen Dowd *is* a bestselling author. Sure, I have a crush on her, what of it?

― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Saturday, 13 January 2007 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

A few weeks ago, when Tina Fey's character discovers that Morgan's character isn't illiterate, as she'd thought, Morgan gets caught reading the op-ed page: "Damn, George Will just keeps getting more conservative!"

― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Saturday, 13 January 2007 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

What was the Maureen Dowd joke? I missed part of the episode.

― Nathan P1p (hoyanathan), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

Alec Baldwin's latest lover affair.

― Super Cub (Debito), Saturday, 13 January 2007 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

i can't believe how much i love this show.

"cheese and crackers!"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 14 January 2007 01:44 (nineteen years ago)

What was the Maureen Dowd joke?

Baldwin on the phone: "You hang up, Maureen ... no, you hang up ... okay, on three ... one, two, three ... no, I didn't hang up either, Maureen ... wait, Maureen, you're breaking up ... I lost the call." [proceeds to have whole other conversation, then turns to assistant] "Get me Maureen Dowd back on the phone."

― nabisco (nabisco), Sunday, 14 January 2007 02:21 (nineteen years ago)

that reminds me one of my favourite arrested development jokes, "you're supposed to say 'away'".

one-sided phone jokes are a very fertile source of humour! ask bob newhart

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 14 January 2007 02:47 (nineteen years ago)

Or Chevy Chase -- "no, you're not supposed to actually blow on it..."

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 14 January 2007 03:19 (nineteen years ago)

I have every episode of this downloaded, and have watched every one at least twice, save for the first couple, which I think everyone agrees aren't as good.

Anyway. Top five moments so far:

1. Dennis' speech to Liz. "I cried like a big dumb homo." And "You have chosen to abort me." (I miss Dennis.)
2. "I have two ears and a heart, don't I?"
3. Tracy falls asleep on Conan. It's all about the buildup to it.
4. "I already have a drink. Do you think he'll buy me mozzarella sticks?"
5. Pretty much every line delivered by Alec Baldwin. But maybe especially, "I know what I know. Next time I see Putin I'm going to kick his teeth in."
4.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 14 January 2007 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

And no, that's not Eugene Mirman.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 14 January 2007 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

Bread is one of the worst things in the world.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 14 January 2007 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

Big runner up: everything said by Tracy Morgan. "I once tried to make mashed potatoes with laundry detergent!"

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 14 January 2007 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

"Those shoes are definitely bi-curious."

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 14 January 2007 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

My fav line:

lemon: "You're wearing a TUXEDO?"

baldwin: "it's after 6, i'm not a farmer"

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 14 January 2007 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

i love it when he calls her pizza "greasy peasant food"

― max (maxreax), Sunday, 14 January 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Oprah and Stedman are the same person

― A B C (sparklecock), Sunday, 14 January 2007 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

My fav line:
lemon: "You're wearing a TUXEDO?"
baldwin: "it's after 6, i'm not a farmer"

-- M@tt He1geson (matt@game[remove]informer.com), January 14th, 2007. (Matt Helgeson) (later) (link)

i was trying to remember that one!

― zombierza (tehresa), Sunday, 14 January 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Dowd joke also a bit of a dig at Sorkin (she's one of his famous exes-- Lahti character on his show is based on her (just like Christian lady is based on ex Kristin Chenoweth... guess he's got ex issues)).

― sydz (sydz), Monday, 15 January 2007 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

I did not know that.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

I have asked about this before but we are all supposed to get that the skinny white guy is a mock-up of Jimmy Fallon, right? Hence the impersonations and overall annoyingness.

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

I had to re-watch the Meat Machine infomercial at least 4 times before I could stop laughing enough at one joke to hear the next.

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - Yeah, I've thought that too about skinny dude as Jimmy Fallon character.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

the way tracy chews that meat and talks is great

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

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― j., Monday, 29 June 2020 18:03 (five years ago)

esby: ilxors are woke hive-mind
nearly every ilxor on this thread: actually the blackface in 30 rock is cool
real woke people: tina fey must be killed

― Rik Waller-Bridge (jim in vancouver), Monday, 29 June 2020 18:07 (five years ago)

The context of the Tosh outburst wasn't "this statement is wrong", it was "stfu and stop interrupting my show", which is why comedians engage hecklers.

― shout-out to his family (DJP), Monday, 29 June 2020 18:09 (five years ago)

Esby is more like, "if you defend 30 rock, you must also defend my right to laugh at blackface, regardless of context."

― Tōne Locatelli Romano (PBKR), Monday, 29 June 2020 18:10 (five years ago)

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/peep-show-blackface-netflix-scene-removed-dance-class-a9591021.html

Was joking about this being removed and now it is.
It's a punchline as to how batshit Nancy is as she gets Jez to 'break more and more taboos' and iirc the reveal is he's in blackface going 'Are you sure this isn’t racist?' and she says 'f*** me and pretend I'm your mother'. So obviously meant to be all kinds of wrong.

― kinder, Monday, 29 June 2020 18:11 (five years ago)

People's taste for shock humor over the years seems to come in and out like the tide... it's either all the rage or causing it.

― Evan, Monday, 29 June 2020 18:17 (five years ago)

really thought the joke was p straightforwardly 'that man meets two corporate diversity check marks and will definitely be the hire' but interesting to hear other perspectives

This is what I and my partner got originally as well - it's not that we missed the lampooning of the old boys' club but it also seemed to be making this joke at the same time. I'm not sure it did critique the idea of the 'advantages' someone gains by 'ticking these boxes', esp since it is implied that Garkel might be faking his disability (whereas the irl response of the old boys' network would probably be closer to "ah, but then we'd have to install push buttons at the doors, which goes far beyond reasonable accommodations; sorry, guess my boy Floyd is the only practical choice" than "no way Floyd can compete with that"). And I'm not sure Tina Fey would have made this joke with a middle-aged white woman as the prop, in a wheelchair or otherwise.

― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Monday, 29 June 2020 19:20 (five years ago)

And I mean, Garkel got the job. I don't recall any suggestion that it was because of his qualifications - if anything, the larger joke was that merit doesn't enter into it one way or the other.

― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Monday, 29 June 2020 19:26 (five years ago)

one month passes...

https://i.chzbgr.com/original/6991674880/hB5A468F0/fake-criterion-the-rural-juror

― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 2 August 2020 18:36 (five years ago)

five years pass...

There’s a pretty distasteful joke in season 5 episode 1, where Pete talks about having sex with his wife while she was asleep. Not only does he say it, but they show you Paula Pell, snoring and being bounced up and down as if someone is having sex with her while she’s asleep. It’s gross. I don’t remember it from the first time round at all.

― trishyb, Wednesday, 20 May 2026 13:58 (two weeks ago)

Wow yeah no memory of that either :[ Just rewatched the very first episode last night and had no memory of much of it (like many I wasn't all in on the show first time round until RURJUR).

― nashwan, Wednesday, 20 May 2026 15:14 (two weeks ago)

From what I've heard, this was a joke written by Paula Pell, who was on a quest to get the worst possible jokes past the standards dept.

― The Quaker Gurvitz Army (President Keyes), Wednesday, 20 May 2026 15:18 (two weeks ago)

30 Rock and Arrested Development are both rife with all sorts of "edgy" or hipster racist jokes.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 20 May 2026 15:53 (two weeks ago)

From what I've heard, this was a joke written by Paula Pell, who was on a quest to get the worst possible jokes past the standards dept.

It is amazing that this was let through in 2010 and that none of us clocked it as being so awful at the time. It’s not THAT long ago. Although I suppose in terms of what we know about terrible people, it is a long time ago.

― trishyb, Wednesday, 20 May 2026 16:43 (two weeks ago)

At least one of us did (sort of)

Pete having sex with his wife was disturbing/hilarious.

― (¬_¬) (Nicole), Friday, September 24, 2010 10:05 AM (fifteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

― The Quaker Gurvitz Army (President Keyes), Wednesday, 20 May 2026 17:26 (two weeks ago)

What's the difference between your mom and a washing machine

― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 20 May 2026 17:40 (two weeks ago)

30 Rock is hilarious but has always had a mean streak that results in multiple punching down jokes

― fluffy tufts university (f. hazel), Wednesday, 20 May 2026 19:32 (two weeks ago)

Speaking of punching down, can you imagine writing a joke about Peter Dinklage being mistaken as a child in 2026?

― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Wednesday, 20 May 2026 19:38 (two weeks ago)

Dinklage is pretty great in that episode though

― tylerw, Wednesday, 20 May 2026 19:42 (two weeks ago)

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