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i just watched the last two on nbc.com having missed them. I thought they were pretty good...I just wanted more of a finale with Phoebe, I expected some kind of back-story about here being a gold-digger from cleveland or something, something about her losing the accent.

― dan selzer, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

What the hell was Phoebe saying at dinner "Petunlia"? or something. Stritich's comeback was beautiful. I can't paraphrase it to give it justice.

― brownie, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

something about petunias (flowers)

― akm, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

yeah but wasn't she mispronouncing it?

― brownie, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

or am I insane

― brownie, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

I WILL CUT YOU OPEN LIKE A TAUN TAUN

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

she wasn't mispronouncing it

― akm, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

Kenneth's "By the Hammer of Thor!" was almost as genius as his self-sacrificial tumble.

― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

I WILL CUT YOU OPEN LIKE A TAUN TAUN

-- Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Friday, April 27, 2007 12:50 PM (2 minutes ago)

hahaha i missed that, i guess it was during liz & jack's stereo berating of kenneth?

― and what, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

I WANT LOBSTER. I WANT 2 LOBSTERS. TOTALLING 5 LBS OF LOBSTER MEAT

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

Are my eyes really that far apart? I look like Admiral Akbar!

So there has been at least one Star Wars ref each episode, hasn't there?

― nickalicious, Friday, 27 April 2007 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

oooo good question

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Friday, 27 April 2007 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

has to have been

― kenan, Friday, 27 April 2007 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think there were any in the 1st episode.

― David R., Friday, 27 April 2007 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

BTW, RIP Scrubs (about 2 seasons too late) :\

― David R., Friday, 27 April 2007 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think there were any in the 1st episode.

Wasn't Tracy's "I AM A JEDI" public freakout in that ep though?

― nickalicious, Friday, 27 April 2007 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

yes

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Friday, 27 April 2007 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

I'M BUGGIN OUT

― David R., Friday, 27 April 2007 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

(not quoting, am bugging)

― David R., Friday, 27 April 2007 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

wau

http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman/publish/article_11737.asp

― kenan, Friday, 27 April 2007 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

"Chewbacca, can I speak to Tracy?"

― The Yellow Kid, Friday, 27 April 2007 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

Stritich's comeback was beautiful. I can't paraphrase it to give it justice.

"I can hear you fine, dear. I just wanted to make sure you could hear you."

also: "Tell him his Mother's here! And that she loves him... but not in a queer way!"

― will, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

IT'S COWBOY HAY-HAY

― max, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

i am upset we didn't get to see cowboy hay hay

― cutty, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

Kenneth is the best character on the show, ~~sometimes~~most of the time.

― tehresa, Friday, 27 April 2007 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

scrubs got cancelled? i thought it was moving to abc or something

― akm, Friday, 27 April 2007 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

So I'm watching fully half of NBC's thursday night line-up, which is the first time that's happened since the Seinfeld days. And it accounts for about half of the shows that I make sure to watch in a given week. And I'm guessing that I'm far from the only one for whom that is true, and for whom it's true because NBC is airing actual real-life great shows. My feeling is that the smart money is on NBC continuing to back quality in at least the short-term (e.g. giving 30 Rock a full-season renewal in order to let it find an audience). Because, otherwise, they're going to have a full hour on thursday to fill with new and untested material or old and tired material shifted from another part of the schedule. This might be their strongest line-up in years (possibly ever...judge for yourself), and it would be a shame to fuck that up.

― Deric W. Haircare, Saturday, 28 April 2007 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

The audience for The Office and 30 Rock is probably a pretty attractive one to advertisers, too, small or not.

― nabisco, Saturday, 28 April 2007 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

aye, for thursday nights, it is incredibly strong.

they also have Heroes and, more imporantly, Friday Night Lights, which makes them the best network on TV. Obviously not counting HBO.

― Gukbe, Saturday, 28 April 2007 00:43 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, the whole night is good, if you want to sell cool sneakers and Volkswagens to the 20-something college-grad demographic and start up some brand loyalty with their teenage equivalents -- those shows just happen to be the two I care about. I suppose they're kinda competing with cheaper cable stuff for those markets, though.

― nabisco, Saturday, 28 April 2007 00:44 (nineteen years ago)

The best all-time lineup (CBS though):

All in the Family
M*A*S*H
Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Bob Newhart Show
The Carol Burnett Show

'30 Rock + The Office' is the new 'All In the Family + M*A*S*H' 1-2 punch.

― musically, Saturday, 28 April 2007 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

but how many of us were alive to remember that 1-2 punch?

― cutty, Saturday, 28 April 2007 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

I certainly wasn't then but I'm alive now and watch them both on DVD so I can assume watching them on television was roughly similar.

― musically, Saturday, 28 April 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

watched some of this. not v funny

― RJG, Saturday, 28 April 2007 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

RJG = WRONG

― Gukbe, Saturday, 28 April 2007 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

and stupid

― Gukbe, Saturday, 28 April 2007 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

alec baldwin is funny. I like tracy morgan. there have been some funny bits but it is v inconsistent and sometimes there are bits that are so obviously supposed to be funny but they are not

― RJG, Saturday, 28 April 2007 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

HONKEY RJG BE TRIPPIN'!

― Gukbe, Saturday, 28 April 2007 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

I like chris parnell, too

― RJG, Saturday, 28 April 2007 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

stritch said "i heard you, i just wanted to make sure you heard you."

zzzzing!

― s1ocki, Sunday, 29 April 2007 06:23 (nineteen years ago)

for every otm thing said here, there are 10 rong things sed. this show rly hasnt misstepped yet.

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Sunday, 29 April 2007 07:15 (nineteen years ago)

rjg is wrong

― That one guy that quit, Sunday, 29 April 2007 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

there are a lot of bum notes and predictable bum notes

― RJG, Sunday, 29 April 2007 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

<i>haha the rural juror stuff was killing me, i kinda hope it reaches a 'bob loblaw's law blog' type conclusion</i>

it does seem like a weak attempt at that (and others)

― RJG, Sunday, 29 April 2007 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

it's a funny joke, the 'rural juror'. she doesn't know the name of the film! i lolled without shame.

― That one guy that quit, Sunday, 29 April 2007 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

it is slightly funny

― RJG, Sunday, 29 April 2007 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

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

this has people shouting and weeping w/ laughter, upthread

it is slightly funny

― RJG, Sunday, 29 April 2007 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

alec baldwin is funny, though

― RJG, Sunday, 29 April 2007 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really like it.

Apart just not finding it funny a lot of the time, the race-related jokes make me uncomfortable. I have not read all this thread, it seems that no-one else has been offended by this, but I will try to explain anyway.

I think there is a big difference between jokes that are about questions of race, drawing humour from the awkwardness and taboo nature of the subject (eg Curb Your Enthusiasm) and jokes that just play on racist assumptions for their humour. Sometimes, though, it gets a bit hard for me to tell the difference.

30 Rock has a black character whose hilarious quirk is that he is well-educated and pretentious. In one episode (was it the first episode?), the other guy says to him "Are there any other black nerds or is it just you and Urkel?"

I am really not well acquainted with the ins and outs of American race relations, but can someone tell me why exactly that is not a racist joke? Is it just because the writers are clearly liberals who have no racist intentions?

― Cathy, Sunday, 29 April 2007 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

"30 Rock has a black character whose hilarious quirk is that he is well-educated and pretentious."

no.

― That one guy that quit, Sunday, 29 April 2007 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

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