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

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Let me (hopefully) get this thread back on track by stating a fact I had somehow forgotten about:
GRIZZ WAS IN THE NAVY

― Sparkle Motion, Monday, 26 March 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Biggest sailor suit EVAR

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 March 2007 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

the E! website is doing a "save our show" poll to decide what show to campaign for its network to not cancel:

http://www.eonline.com/gossip/kristin/blog/index.jsp?uuid=52af6b98-eb72-45a0-b27b-7798e6bf906f

No idea how much a difference it makes (apparently they helped save One Tree Hill last year? ugh), but I went ahead and voted for 30 Rock anyway (after briefly deliberating as to whether I wanted to throw my vote at How I Met Your Mother or Veronica Mars instead).

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 29 March 2007 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

# The Class
# Close to Home
# Friday Night Lights
# Jericho
# The Nine
# One Tree Hill
# Six Degrees
# Supernatural
# What About Brian

^^^^ wtf are these shows

― and what, Thursday, 29 March 2007 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

# Crossing Jordan

^^ stfu al

― and what, Thursday, 29 March 2007 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

# The Class -Servicable Friends-like sitcom on CBS
# Friday Night Lights -TV version of the movie
# Supernatural -dude from Smallville and Days of Our Lives and Dean from Gilmore Girls (Rory's 1st boff) drive around in an '67 Chevy and be angsty and fight ghosts and shit

― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 29 March 2007 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

Friday Night Lights is based on the book/movie of that same title.

Jericho is about a post-nuclear holocaust American town I think.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 29 March 2007 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

# Crossing Jordan -Morgue worker Jill Hennssey solves crimes with Miguel Ferrer and Jerry O'Connell. Notable for being a crime science drama that predates CSI, Bones, and the like.

― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 29 March 2007 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

# One Tree Hill -a youth drama that's like Dawson's Creek and The OC, only not as good.

― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 29 March 2007 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

youll notice crossing jordan was not on my wtf list :-[

― and what, Thursday, 29 March 2007 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Miguel Ferrer is on CJ? I love him! I might give it a watch.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 29 March 2007 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

The Class turned into a decent show after they hit the reset button about mid-season and got rid of everything/everyone that was weighing it down. I hope it comes back.

NBC keeps saying the Friday Night Lights and 30 Rock are safe from the axe, and I hope so. I love them both.

Crossing Jordan is pretty much a disaster of a show. I can't believe it's lasted so long.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 March 2007 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, ultimate buried reference at the end of the second episode, after the yacht thing, with Jack talking to Liz in the elevator: "Everyone loved your little LEMON PARTY."

(If you don't recognize that as a potential reference, I wouldn't, like, Google Image Search it until you get home from work.)

nabisco on Thursday, March 22, 2007 1:04 PM (1 week ago)

this was the first episode I saw, and that joke singlehandedly convinced me that the show was worth watching

― bernard snowy, Thursday, 29 March 2007 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

also: I assume everyone has also seen the Tracy Morgan interviews with Jimmy Kimmel and David Letterman? they're on youtube, and although there's some degree of joke overlap between them and that El Paso clip, they're all massively hilarious

― bernard snowy, Thursday, 29 March 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

U cant stop Jill Hennessey, she so fine they named a cognac for her and Madonna checked out her ass one day in Central Park and was like DAYUMM

― Dimension 5ive, Thursday, 29 March 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

# Close to Home - if I remember correctly this involves that gawky blonde actress Jennifer Finnigan (who is evidently with Jonathan Silverman*, which is WTF on near Rebecca Romijn-Jerry O'Connel levels) starring as an Indianpolis prosecutor who makes lots of determined faces while tucking her hair behind her ears

# Six Degrees - would appear to be largely in the style of those "spare crap channel created by UPN/WB merger" every-night soaps, except with some sort of concept that allegedly makes it not stupid and/or campy

(* = I saw the beginning of Silverman's new show, which details how all the characters wound up washed up and failed and living together, except it seemed more like it should be about the actors' careers, like "I can't believe I didn't really go anywhere from Weekend at Bernie's, man, people always confuse me with Jon Cryer, who has a way more successful sitcom, and even Arye Gross was on Ellen's sitcom, and don't even get me started on fucking Patrick Dempsey, that part in Loverboy should have been MINE ... so now I live with David Arquette, best known via his wife, drag-queen sibling, and a bunch of 1-800-COLLECT commercials from way back when ... and Gregg German, who, okay, that guy from Ally McBeal that nobody gives any decent work except for Nicole Holofcener, once and ... are we the second crap show that got briefly picked up that had Dr Quinn Medicine Woman getting all Sexy Older Lady on us, or am I confusing this wasteland with something else?")

― nabisco, Thursday, 29 March 2007 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

Is Jonathon Sarah Silverman's brother? I bet imdb knows.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 29 March 2007 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently not.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 29 March 2007 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

i like crossing jordan. it's hokey but sort of loveable to me. i like the doofy english goth dude.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 29 March 2007 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

those "spare crap channel created by UPN/WB merger" every-night soaps

hahaha i cant watch simpsons reruns now w/o a million TONIGHT ON... DANGEROUS GAMES ads

― and what, Thursday, 29 March 2007 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

I seriously think the biggest consideration in doing those nightly soaps was "OMG we have a crapload of time to fill!!!!!"

― nabisco, Thursday, 29 March 2007 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

"Do you realize how much it costs to get syndicated episodes of The Parkers?? Someone get Tatum O'Neal on the phone!"

― nabisco, Thursday, 29 March 2007 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://nbcumv.com/entertainment/release_detail.nbc/entertainment-20070404000000-nbcrenews03930.html

Hooray!

― Nicole, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

NADER!

― David R., Wednesday, 4 April 2007 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

nader?

― kenan, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

"I think I voted for Nader! NADER!"

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah. "I once tried to make mashed potatoes with laundry detergent!"

― kenan, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray indeed!

"...and NOT the Minister Farrakhan you're thinking of!"

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Also: Will Arnett & Alec Baldwin having a manly-man voice-off!

― David R., Wednesday, 4 April 2007 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

THURSDAY!

― David R., Wednesday, 4 April 2007 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

I know, I think I may faint.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

Also rounding out the cast in the half-hour comedy are: Jane Krakowski ("Ally McBeal") as Jenna Maroney, the other star of "TGS With Tracy Jordan"; Scott Adsit as Pete Hornberger, the variety show's producer; Jack McBrayer as Kenneth the Page, the over-eager NBC Page -- a highly sought-after, entry-level position with the network; and Judah Friedlander as Frank, the crass and wisecracking writer. Rachel Dratch, also from "Saturday Night Live," appears in multiple episodes, playing a variety of different characters on the series.

Dratch but no Dr Spaceman mention = heart, broken.

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Oh snap, 40 (er more like 30+ commercials, whatever) minute episode!

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

I think 30 Rock has become my favorite show, though Dratch is my least favorite aspect of it. She's such a terrible actor, and it always seems like they're just trying to shoehorn her in so much of the time. Although I did enjoy her turn as the Blue Dude.

― Sparkle Motion, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, they also neglected to mention Ghostface! What's that mean? Mind grapes!

― David R., Wednesday, 4 April 2007 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, c'mon... Dratch as the lesbian cat wrangler is amazing!

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

WILL ARNETT

― musically, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

"Blind Date" has been nominated for "Outstanding Individual Episode (in a series without a regular gay character)" by GLAAD. Good times.

― caek, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

those shoes are def. bi curious

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Thursday, 5 April 2007 00:43 (nineteen years ago)

i love all the quotes on this thread

what a show

― cutty, Thursday, 5 April 2007 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, I read that hours ago and for some reason assumed it referred to an episode of the show "Blind Date." But the question of a "regular gay character" is vexed by the ongoing half-joke with Twofer on that front!

― nabisco, Thursday, 5 April 2007 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

you can now play "Marry, Boff, or Kill" on the NBC website:

http://www.nbc.com/30_Rock/games/MBKgame.shtml

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 5 April 2007 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

i love how this show torrents so fast. one sign that it's popular?

― jergïns, Thursday, 5 April 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

wait this doesnt mean dr spaceman is gone does it?? he just wasnt mentioned cuz parnell doesnt reappear in other words a la dratch. er, right?

he has been away too long :(

― deeznuts, Thursday, 5 April 2007 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

he was only ever in, like, 3 episodes, wasn't he? I remember 2 episodes with Dr. Spaceman and then another where he played a different character, but I may be wrong about that. Either way, I don't think of him as a regular like Dratch is, but then I'm still hoping he turns up in a good post-SNL project with a more prominent role. Dude's so underrated.

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 5 April 2007 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

I think his main function now is that any time anyone has any kind of medical problem, Alec Baldwin gets to say "have you called Dr. Spaceman?"

― nabisco, Thursday, 5 April 2007 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

medical degree from the ho chi min school of medicine

― nickalicious, Thursday, 5 April 2007 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

Or whatever.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 5 April 2007 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

well yeah but if thats the case 30 rock needs more syphilis

― deeznuts, Thursday, 5 April 2007 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

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