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

Once customers have savored the delicacy, they get to keep the golden spoon and $300 Baccarat Harcourt crystal goblet.

So the actual sundae costs less than $700. Reasonable!

fuck the goblet, pour it in my hand for $700

when are you gonna axe out that sexy mr magoo

^ this & patron saint of judgmental statues made me lol

Imagine a dessert for two, Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream in a pool of cognac, drizzled in the world's most expensive chocolate, Amadei Porcelana, covered with shaved white, black, and clear truffles, topped with edible 25-carat gold leaf.

^ forgot about the clear truffles

Prayer bit was so so brilliant.

"Clear truffles" -- there is a density of jokes in this thing that makes me want to pause after each line and repeat the words to myself. I'd guess this is one of the things that keeps it from being more popular, actually -- it doesn't even give you time to laugh at the jokes. Somewhere between the moment of getting it and the moment of it really sinking in, another joke comes along and supplants it.

(There were at least a dozen things in this last episode that I thought were super-hilarious; I doubt I could remember more than four of them now.)

the awesome thing about this show is that it seems like no matter how amny people love this, there's no one who comes in with the seemingly-inevitable "it's not all that" challops afaik (except that tracy morgan hater a couple months ago who was essentially just trolling)

yeah. the closest anyone gets to complaining is "omg, this one episode had about 2 minutes where it wasn't as good as the impossibly high standards i hold it to, it was just 'very good' instead."

"I know love at first sight when I see it. I saw it when I met Angie, and I saw it the first time Dotcom laid eyes on Grizz's fiancee."

oh and as everyone already pointed out "stop showing off Dot Com" is just O_O

Wait, so you guys are forgetting the day that o. nate and I bitched about how the show is too "writerly" or whatever?

oh i do remember that now. still think it's 100% rong; being 'writerly' is one of its best qualities imo

i was confused by the show at first, because it didn't seem to have a fixed tone. the jokes came at me from so many angles it was hard to process (didn't like tracy/jane at first cuz the comedy was so broad relative to tina/alec). over time, this has become on of my favorite things about the show.

shot on film, this is also the cause of the breaks every few weeks.

― Ed, Friday, February 13, 2009 3:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

1) this show is not shot on film
2) why would being shot on film cause a break every few weeks?
3) what break every few weeks?

lol a cascade of RONG

great episode. virtuoso writing and acting.

Wait, so you guys are forgetting the day that o. nate and I bitched about how the show is too "writerly" or whatever?

y'all are too overthinkerly.

(There were at least a dozen things in this last episode that I thought were super-hilarious; I doubt I could remember more than four of them now.)

― nabisco, Friday, February 13, 2009 9:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

thats why this show stands up so well on repeat viewings

y'all are too overthinkerly.

holy shit lololololol

The "the express train is leaving" "I'm on the train" made me :')

:..)

good morning, regular person lemon

lollll the way the music fades when jack goes into explaining what the best dessert in the world actually is! it's the little things that count

hahaha i KNEW there was something more to liz saying "it'll be ok, so you'll go to church with elisa and then you'll go to plunder"
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=plunder

seriously is a-cut-above shit

'then i'm going to take my girlfriend to plunder, where the pope himself could not get a table'

also possibly-but-unlikely a desperate housewives ref (?) w/r/t dr baird's sister being his mother

ok most likely not

and wtf at elisa grabbing the coupon out of the collection basket

ok apparently im the only one who didnt immediately get the plunder thing

I didn't exactly GET "Plunder" but every time

sheesh

"Plunder" just sounded dirty to me and Tinafey confirmed as much reacting to the Plunder desert.

there's nothing to get. plunder is a word that is found in real dictionaries other than URBAN dictionary. you either know what it means or you don't.

They are paid to insert all the iPhone shots, right?

must be. crazy tons of product placement on this show.

also possibly-but-unlikely a desperate housewives ref (?) w/r/t dr baird's sister being his mother

― Jewish Lager (k3vin k.), Saturday, February 14, 2009 7:31 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark

i thought it was a jack nicholson reference but did they do that on desperate housewives?

(britisher) That or it's a Kat/Zoe reference. But that seems unlikely. (/britisher)

ha yeah it was a relatively short arc but the daughter of one of the housewives had a babby and her mother did the 'pretend it's hers' thing. like all things on that show, it turned out to be stupid and inconsequential, i wish i could stop watching it

xpost

You're all over-thinking this, clearly it's a Sarah Palin reference, you know TINA FEY WINK WINK MAVERICK.

i loved the Generalissimo episode very much - liz drugging dr baird was a little eye roll but jack as the Generalissimo is classic for all time. i think the best throwaway line was about tracy getting serious and playing arthur ashe lolll

HELLO NBC BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH THANK YOU

tracy's been killing it so hard this season

YES INDEEDY CORNCOBS

http://videogum.com/archives/sitcoms/30-rock-is-winking-at-us_052521.html

hmm.

lollllll corncobs

"HELLO NBC BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH THANK YOU"

I think he actually said "HELLO ABC BLAH BLAH BLAH"

liz drugging dr baird was a little eye roll

Yeah, but it led to a couple of the best moments of the episode: "That's not your dog!" "Just RELAX." "I am the Generalissimo!" "I don't know what that means!", so I feel like it was worth it.

Am I nuts, or does this show reward/lend itself to repeated viewings like no other show since the Simpsons in its prime?

You are not nuts.

I am certain I've seen every episode from the first 2 seasons at least twice, with particular scenes (Jack & Tracy's therapy scene for example) many, many more times than that.

not nuts

Sometimes I wonder if the viewers out there who aren't watching 30 Rock are dismissing it because they don't get the little obscure references and nerd-bait easter eggs, because for me, aside from Liz and Jack's complex and fascinating relationship, the little pop culture nods are the best part of the show.

who is this dickweed who thinks "Liz and Jack's complex and fascinating relationship" is the best part of this show?!?!?

WHAT AN ASSHOLE!!!!!

haha. i thought it was sweet in the first episode of this season when at the end, Liz said, "I just like seeing you back there," or something to Jack. does this make me a dickweed y/n

i'm not saying it's not an aspect of the show i enjoy, but if someone makes a list of favorite things about 30 Rock that looks like "1. jack and liz!!! 2. jokes" then something is wrong with them.