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Scrubs used to do alright in its Tuesday slot, but now the network's lacking another sitcom of any worth to support a move. They should give Patton Oswalt a show of his own.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

How about a totally sincere West Wing-style show, except Brian Posehn plays the president?

― nabisco, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

Nah. Dude's got a face for comedy if anyone ever did.

― kenan, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

I'd actually like to see a trad-style sitcom featuring all the players from the Comedians of Comedy tour. 30 new minutes of Maria Bamford every week would by heavenly.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

"Take care of my family, I don't want my kids to have to go to college!"

― ryan, Friday, 9 March 2007 00:37 (nineteen years ago)

"I believe there are 31 letters in the white alphabet."

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 9 March 2007 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or missing the highbrow premise of my awesome President Posehn idea!

― nabisco, Friday, 9 March 2007 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

Disney jail

― A B C, Friday, 9 March 2007 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

St. Michael and St. Patrick , Tip O'Neill and Bobby Sands , Bono and Sandra Day O'Connor

― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 9 March 2007 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

now i dont gotta have my parties in international waters

― and what, Friday, 9 March 2007 03:30 (nineteen years ago)

i need a new religion and hers sounds expensive and gay

― and what, Friday, 9 March 2007 03:33 (nineteen years ago)

The look on Liz's face when she realized she was Bizzaro Liz's boss was so insanely cute.

― en i see kay, Friday, 9 March 2007 05:34 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was "31 letters in the right alphabet"?

i need a new religion and hers sounds expensive and gay

^^^^^favorite line!

― horseshoe, Friday, 9 March 2007 05:37 (nineteen years ago)

so that was "my girl" anna chlumsky as other liz!!

how the hell can one network have raines AND medium on at the same time. same show. almost.

― scott seward, Friday, 9 March 2007 05:50 (nineteen years ago)

Not the best episode...the less Tracy any episode has the less funny it has. Loved the Disney jail line though.

― musically, Friday, 9 March 2007 06:53 (nineteen years ago)

"I'm gonna go talk to some food about this."

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 9 March 2007 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

ANNA CHLUMSKY? From My Girl? Fuck, I'm old.

Last week's "ZOMG BLACK JOEKS" cavalcade was really corny, but this one ("ZOMG DRUNK IRISHES JOEKS") was 1000% better.

My company shd employ the "aw, cute panda" gambit when breaking bad news. Like, send out news about the Bristol branch closing w/ a pitcure of a pug attached.

― David R., Friday, 9 March 2007 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Decider Liz was HOTT.

― David R., Friday, 9 March 2007 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

so I saw this last night for the first time (funny enough the first episode discussed on the this thread way up top was the late re-run after The Office. I got a bit distracted honestly because apparently 75% of the show is Tina Fey getting blown out of the water by a far more talented supporting cast (moreso in the new episode than the rerun, and I realize the cameos last night were a few notches above fucking Conan), but is this really the way it plays out most of the time? Tracy + Alec's arcs consistently putting the main protagonist in the shadow? I mean nobody on Newsradio could hold a candle to Stephen Root or Phil Hartman but the ensemble just seemed to work better.

Maybe I should shut up on this thread because Tina Fey just ain't my thing anyhow and her being cute is like a big part of the show

― TOMBOT, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, Julia!

― Jenny, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

so that was "my girl" anna chlumsky as other liz!!

Weird! I knew that I recognized the other liz from somewhere, but I had no idea it was Anna Chlumsky.

― Nicole, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.starpulse.com/Photos/pv/Anna%20Chlumsky-3.jpg

― scott seward, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

apparently, she still has her, um, fans:

http://www.annachlumsky.net/news.php

― scott seward, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Between this revelation, and seeing Justine Bateman on an episode of Arrested Development, and learning that Christian Bale's only 4 months older than me, um, fuck I'm old.

― David R., Friday, 9 March 2007 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

"Chlumsky graduated from the University of Chicago in 2002 and had worked in New York City as a researcher for Zagat, a restaurant review company, for a short while."

when chlumsky dissed your confit, your confit had been most properly dissed, my friend.

― scott seward, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

who played the sister who wasnt molly shannon or the younger illegitimate one??

― and what, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

the redhead? she used to be on snl, siobhan fallon i think?

― chicago kevin, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

hahhaha oh man thats it - she was d'onon'frio's wife in men in black!!!

― and what, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

ah yes she used to do the Chelsea Clinton bit right?

― will, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Tom, the Tina F plotlines are usually kind of the straight-man arc to the others' broad comedy, but if you get attached enough to the character, they can wind up being more entertaining -- e.g. her "that astronaut woman had a plan" argument from last night was the highlight of the whole thing for me.

Also still totally in love with Dennis taking the cheeseburger back at the end of the Conan one.

― nabisco, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

watched this for the second or third time last night. why don't I regularly watch it? (maybe b/c like Tom said Tina Fey just doesn't do it for me.) However whenever I do see it I laugh out loud more than with anything else I watch. (same as the office which I also almost never watch.) nbc comedies always be slippin' my mind. . .

― Ms Misery, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

No, I think Julia Sweeney did Chelsea Clinton. Siobhan Fallon never did anything very memorable. Except maybe that "White Person's Guide To Surviving the Apollo" sketch.

― The Yellow Kid, Friday, 9 March 2007 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Sioban Fallon is probably best known as one of the "Delta Delta Delta, can I help ya, help ya, help ya?" girls who weren't Melanie Hutsell. Nothing against Ms. Fallon but I'm hoping this was a pointed "Look who we DIDN'T invite" gesture directed at all the other former SNL cast members of Irish descent named "Fallon."

― slugbuggy, Friday, 9 March 2007 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

I think my favorite part in that episode was Jenna busting out the newsboy hat in the Hip-Hop aerobics class at the very beginning. Perfect characterization!

― sous les paves, Saturday, 10 March 2007 02:17 (nineteen years ago)

I watched this again pre-dinner and I guess I disagree with Tom more specifically now: the Liz-fit stuff was my favorite aspect of this last one, and I think I'm usually more amused by Liz stuff, if just by virtue of caring more. Biggest re-viewing laugh line was the great bitter firing:

- You have a kid?
- Well, I'm in a relationship, so in five years I'm sure I'll be living in the suburbs, raising a couple kids, and having it all.
- YOU'RE FIRED.

(Her brand of this kind of "hahaha omg I'm adorably childish and pathetic" humor has always cut across the way that the guy-version of this is often not entirely compelling to women and the woman-version of this is often totally lost on men -- like the fact that some of the best Weekend Update jokes during her tenure were about gynecology seemed to prove something about that distinction being fairly unnecessary.)

― nabisco, Saturday, 10 March 2007 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't think this one was very funny. Nathan Lane wasn't funny at all, and there was all round too much plot and not enough joke. Although, much as I normally hate drunken, fightin' Irish humour, that whole family bit was particularly funny.

― accentmonkey, Saturday, 10 March 2007 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOhKrL5DB1Y

Almost as good as Tracy Jordan on Conan.

― Nicole, Monday, 12 March 2007 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still haunted by Fey's scary crooked witch-finger when she says "things are finally looking up for ol' Liz Lemon."

― nabisco, Monday, 12 March 2007 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

Also amused by how her tactic for word-emphasis has always been this two-handed MC-style throw-down gesture (seen here on "there's a guy I like in the building").

― nabisco, Monday, 12 March 2007 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

That Tracy clip from the El Paso morning show is hilarious!

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 12 March 2007 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2006/09/TRACYMORGAN.JPG

― nickalicious, Monday, 12 March 2007 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

OMG

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

holy shit @ nicole's clip!

― ^@^, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

I just saw Tracy in a new Digiorno pizza commercial. Did I dream this or has anyone else seen it?

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

I never noticed that the poster was spelled "Who Dat Ninga?"

― kenan, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 00:48 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's just a backwards "J."

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

no, I think it's "Who dat nigga?" only different.

― kenan, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

take your hate elsewhere, kenan

― Wrinklepaws, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

I think wrinklepaws is musically talented, but not a great swimmer.

― kenan, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 02:07 (nineteen years ago)

btw douche, it's Grizz and Darquan, not Dotcom

― Wrinklepaws, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 02:14 (nineteen years ago)

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