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"Tracy Jordan is the third heat"

― Ruud Comes to Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 12 October 2006 01:51 (nineteen years ago)

some very good lines, some were just pretty good

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 12 October 2006 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

And that's supposed to be bad?

― Ruud Comes to Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 12 October 2006 01:58 (nineteen years ago)

I AM A JEDI! I AM A JEDI!

Tina Fey = nu-goddess

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Thursday, 12 October 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

i just watched on nbc.com. i liked it! so glad dratch isn't the lead girly. wasn't that that deal with it? they had to re-do the pilot or something? she was the worst thing about the pilot. she has a problem with the whole "acting" thing. i already like it more than studio 60. they should make it an hour and get rid of sorkin.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 12 October 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

favorite thing: one of the guys in Tracy's posse sporting BLAZERS GEAR, that is honestly so New York

second favorite thing: Alec Baldwin effortlessly sliming on all women in the cast except Tina (well and Dratchy too); his best line reading in a whole field of them was "Oh, you don't want me to guess your weight."

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 12 October 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

Tina Fey in her Hilary dress rocking the strip club t-shirt on stage = NERD LUST.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and I laughed. Nice to see bald producer dude will be sticking around.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

It's kind of a dream cast, really.

― Ruud Comes to Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

What the hell are you eating before bedtime that your dream cast includes Tracy Morgan & Judah Friedlander?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

And I know that Rachel D is Tina's best bud and everything, but I don't see how she would have worked in that role, or whatever the role was before they tinkered with it.
(xpost)

― Ruud Comes to Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I need recourse to any Scrooge-like digestion-based explanations for this particular dream, David R.

― Ruud Comes to Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

it's already way more believable than studio 60 too.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

Hilarious when Alec speaks, pretty funny when Morgan speaks, occasionally funny when Tina speaks, a little funny when the page speaks, not funny when jane krakowskis in the room.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

I prefer this to S60 already. I don't want to see some dude get whiny about being arrested for cocaine possesion, I can get that from ilx.

― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

I liked how on the show they talked about a new super oven from GE, and then during the commercial break there was an ad for a new super oven from GE.

"About five inches, but it's thick."

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

"I don't want to see some dude get whiny about being arrested for cocaine possesion, I can get that from ilx."

having your own funny thread has obviously inspired you. and you are as right as rain.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

"he's got charimsa"

"no, charisma's over there...."

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

KARL ROBE!!

my friend is on this show!!

SIKED!

― BONERTIME! (ddb1), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

AIDS in the chicken nuggets!

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 12 October 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

THAT'S A METAPHOR!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 12 October 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

What do you think Martin Lawrence's take on Morgan's character is?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 12 October 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

best parts of the show:

1)"white man putting AIDS in the chicken nuggets"
2) me wondering aloud if a trivection oven could really be possible, gf dismissing it offhandedly, then a real ad for the GE trivection oven comes on, massive ownage ensues
3) they shot the restaraunt scene at M&Gs, my favorite soul food restaraunt ever
http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/m-and-g-diner/

― ▒█▄█ ▄▄▄ ▒█▄█ , Thursday, 12 October 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

I really, really want that trivection oven. Mission accomplished, GE!

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Thursday, 12 October 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

you forgot:

4) alec baldwin owning the world

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 12 October 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

"NBC/GE/KMART"

"we own kmart now?"

"no, but why do you dress like we do?"

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 12 October 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

"well, wherever you're putting it...it's working."

it's almost not fair having him on a half hour sitcom.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 12 October 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

OMG OMG OMG, this show!

"you don't need to hide in a supply closet"
"this is my office"
...
"it's nice to see you bring a woman's touch to everything"

― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

"gimme TEN beers"

― Jimmy_tango (Jimmy_tango), Thursday, 19 October 2006 02:36 (nineteen years ago)

alec baldwin is genius in this show. his delivery!

the deadpan tone of the whole thing, punctuated by tracy being nutz and weird shit like everyone throwing their lunch on tina, is kind of disturbing, actually. which i like. but the whole show is hard to guage, (only saw one ep a couple nights ago) but will watch again and see. (because, y'know, i need yet another tv show to watch...)

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Thursday, 19 October 2006 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

The Billy Joel acapella was pretty funny.

There's definitely a lot of potential with this cast, and I don't even mind Krakowski so far.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 19 October 2006 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

"I'm Bill Cosby jello sweaters."

― Chris L (Chris L), Thursday, 19 October 2006 04:27 (nineteen years ago)

Is that one kid's whole existence on this show a long, drawn-out swipe at Jimmy Fallon?

― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't know about Dratch being demoted. seems like the 2nd episode was kind of making reference to it, now that I think about it. still, I think the thing they seemed to be doing w/ her playing a different character in every episode might turn out to be a good recurring gag.

the fact that they cast that trucker hat guy from the Dave Matthews Band video makes me want to dislike this show, but it is pretty good. Baldwin in this kind of reminds me of Jimmy James from Newsradio (=ridiculously high praise).

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

i love this show. tracey is genuinely funny on it too. so sad that he wasted all those years on snl.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

wasted? Astronaut Jones, Brian Fellow and Dominican Lou = classic. only waste of his time was that lame attempt at a family sitcom.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

otm

― researching ur life (grady), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

I got this one guy named Ching Chong, he likes to play ping pong...I just made that up right now!

― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

the first astronaut jones was one of the funniest things I'd ever seen on tv.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Great, great show so far.

It's really so simple; good writing and good comedic timing. Why do so many shows fail at this?

― Super Cub (Debito), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

haha, okay, that tracey line nick quoted and the bill cosby jello sweaters line that's still cracking me up are making me like this show more. Yes, it's in the timing!

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

which is sort of where arrested development excelled - timing.

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

"We go togther like chicken... and a chicken container"

hee hee

― schwantz (schwantz), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

what about that freaky deaky line! i still say tracey never got to show what he could really do. he has done more funny stuff in these two episodes than a whole season of snl. and i did like brian fellow.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 20 October 2006 02:17 (nineteen years ago)

I GOT THE AIDS MONKEY BONES

Can we get AIDS into every episode, plz?

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 20 October 2006 04:32 (nineteen years ago)

Ratings are apparently not good. :(

― Chris L (Chris L), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

They need to move it to Thursdays. Fuck Deal or No Deal.

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

it's a no laugh-track comedy, it should be aligned with The Office and Earl or at least Scrubs, or it should be on before Studio 60.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

If they bring Scrubs back, they should put it on Thursdays as well. Welcome back "Must See TV"

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i feel like 30 Rock should be a later-in-prime-time show - it's on at 7:30 here! right after flipping btwn access hollywood and coronation street and before something like The Nine or other semi-interesting hr-long drama. which is wrong/weird. i'm most likely going to end up just dloading it and doing usual choose yr own adventure tv time! randomness!

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

nbc only has 4 sitcoms. they can't all be on the same night. and they have to make two one-hour blocks out of the shows they have, thus, 8 to 9 two nights a week. they can't put one of them on later.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

ALABAMA FREAKOUT!
ONE CARD STUD!

― researching ur life (grady), Thursday, 26 October 2006 05:00 (nineteen years ago)

"those shoes are definitely bi-curious."

alec baldwin continues to kill me - and that southern accent taunting across the poker table! hahaha

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Thursday, 26 October 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, we saw the last half of this last night. High number of lols per minute watched. must watch again.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

i love this show.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

this show is so much better than studio 60. i totally put my money on the wrong one!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

3) they shot the restaraunt scene at M&Gs, my favorite soul food restaraunt ever
http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/m-and-g-diner/

oh man after i saw that scene i wanted to go so bad... i was planning on hunting for that place when i'm in ny for 48hrs this wknd... thanks for the tip!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

hosers be soulfoodin

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

the sorkin show is total loserville. this show rocks.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

I like both, but I like 30 Rock better.

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, Scott - so you don't like Studio 60, is that what you're trying to say?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

no offense to ilxor west wing fans, but sorkin tends to write about and for people i hate. whereas i genuinely enjoy the characters on 30 rock and they remind me of people i've known/worked with/worked for. in a good way.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't really want to fire you, I just wanted to remind you that I could.

― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

i gave studio 60 a shot! i'll still probably watch it. it makes me wince though. west wing made me wince. kinda like steven bochco makes me wince.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

making flower beds out of old railroad ties!

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

also LOLd @ her ex-bf list, "that gangly red-haired guy that never stopped playing guitar" "Conan"

The show on after this with Jeffrey Tambor & John Lithgow is a lot funnier than I expected, but it's still a regular sitcom, which is so much harder to watch now post Arrested Development/Office/etc.

― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

I couldn't get past the opening scene of the Lithgow/Tambor sitcom where they were playing basketball. I think they should join the cast of 30 Rock.

― lk (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

studio 60 is such a misfire... everything about it is so wrong.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

"You look like a fancy prostitute."

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

(page gets on bike and rides down hallway)

"In five years we'll either be working for him or dead by his hand"

― lk (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

that was funny.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

nbc only has 4 sitcoms. they can't all be on the same night

From today's Washington Post:

And, in a move that can only be called PR genius, NBC announced "30 Rock," Tina Fey's sendup of "Saturday Night Live," and mothballed doctor comedy "Scrubs" would join "My Name Is Earl" and "The Office" for a four-comedy block on Thursday night, harkening back to the golden days of NBC, long before it became just another cog in the great GE/NBC Universal 2.0 mandala.

Based on early exit polling, it worked like gangbusters. Critics seemed to like it; ditto members of the Hollywood TV community. The move "at least gives the network an identity" on one night of the week, said one industry suit who wished to remain anonymous because private schools aren't cheap.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

RETURN OF MUST-SEE TV

This is saddening in a way though because now once again there will be nothing decent on tv in the hour before LOST on Wed.

― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

well there you go. it's just like I said, you can always have your only four sitcoms air on one night if you want.

(they just wanted to prove me wrong. they are ALWAYS doing that.)

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

The show on after this with Jeffrey Tambor & John Lithgow is a lot funnier than I expected, but it's still a regular sitcom, which is so much harder to watch now post Arrested Development/Office/etc.

bulllllshit, three-camera/studio audience sitcoms are still, as a format, way better than all that steadicam/awkward-silences-with-no-laugh-track stuff that's trendy now (although I do like what 30 Rock does with it), and judging from CBS's Monday night lineup there's still some good shows being made in that style.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Friday, 27 October 2006 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

although I haven't been able to bring myself to watch a minute of 20 Good Years, even with 30 Rock as a lead-in.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Friday, 27 October 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

Pretend that I don't know how to Google. When is this fucking show on? I have consistently not even heard about it. Yay, NBC, way to promote your new show starring brilliant writer Tina Fey, you fucking douchebags.

― Portable Dorkness (Dick Butkus), Friday, 27 October 2006 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

Amused that Fey was watching Deal or No Deal when she started choking. I'm still wondering about her range as an actress, but I think she is doing good for now.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 27 October 2006 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

You can watch the last episode at NBC.com (link)

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 27 October 2006 01:47 (nineteen years ago)

"Yay, NBC, way to promote your new show starring brilliant writer Tina Fey, you fucking douchebags."

they had promos up the butt for months! they looked like snl promos.

"and judging from CBS's Monday night lineup there's still some good shows being made in that style."

other than lost, and now 30 rock, these are the only shows i watch. i dig how i met your mother, and 2 & a half men, and old christine. the class is pretty bad though. maybe even worse than the one with the fonz and stockard channing that is gone now i think.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 27 October 2006 02:23 (nineteen years ago)

The promo where Alec Baldwin thought he was on "the new Alan Sorkin show about late night TV" was fucking hilarious.

― researching ur life (grady), Friday, 27 October 2006 02:27 (nineteen years ago)

PROMOS

― researching ur life (grady), Friday, 27 October 2006 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

Ok so that was the month I was drunk.

― Portable Dorkness (Dick Butkus), Friday, 27 October 2006 02:36 (nineteen years ago)

roffles at promos
oh that alec

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Friday, 27 October 2006 03:49 (nineteen years ago)

The show with Tambor and Lithgow has been cancelled, says the LA Times today. It ranked 67th last week. Nov 8 will be the last one shown. I watched the first one and the overdone laugh track made it unbearable, but I wouldn't have stuck with it anyway.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 27 October 2006 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

scott, do you like THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE?!?!

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 27 October 2006 05:28 (nineteen years ago)

The Jennifer Jason Lee gag also had me rolling.

And I didn't even realize that Gretchen was played by Law & Order alum Stephanie March.

20 Good Years was doomed from the start, it was basically targeted to everyone outside the 18-49 bracket. Smart.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 27 October 2006 06:13 (nineteen years ago)

"scott, do you like THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE?!?!"

yes! i mentioned that one. it's not great, but it has its moments. and andy richter as creepy japan-obsessed oral sex king is worth watching. her brother is weird. like he dropped in from an indie movie or something. definitely laugh out loud moments to be had.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 27 October 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

Did alec Baldwin get a new agent or something? He seems to be everywhere at the moment. Just last night we watched him in 30 Rock, and then flicked through some trailers to see him crop up in The Departed and Running With Scissors.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Saturday, 28 October 2006 07:14 (nineteen years ago)

He's having the Best Week Ever!

― Jimmy_tango (Jimmy_tango), Saturday, 28 October 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

unlike his younger brother, the creepy christian right evangelist

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 28 October 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha, "work that vajayjay."

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 2 November 2006 01:22 (nineteen years ago)

INDEED, ALSO "SYNERGIZING THE BACKWARDS OVERFLOW"

Alec Baldwin for president!

― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 November 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

I was kind of hoping for a Chamillionaire cameo. A Cameoillionaire.

― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 November 2006 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

live every week like it's shark week.

― Jimmy_tango (Jimmy_tango), Thursday, 2 November 2006 01:31 (nineteen years ago)

This may have been the funniest episode yet. FART NUGGETS.

― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 November 2006 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

do y'all have cell phones? what's your plan?

― sometimes my entire life be like DAMNNN! (tehresa), Thursday, 2 November 2006 01:43 (nineteen years ago)

so, was that a sorkin dissssssssss or what?

"did we just walk in a circle?"

"nice walk & talk"

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 2 November 2006 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

already posted, but shit:

LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE ITS SHARK WEEK.

― researching ur life (grady), Thursday, 2 November 2006 05:47 (nineteen years ago)

Liked it, but has Krakowski completely disappeared?

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 2 November 2006 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

What was the last line of the episode? Baldwin said something about the pizza, but I couldn't understand it.

― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Thursday, 2 November 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

something like "go easy on the pizza"
i love how sometimes tina fey looks gorgeous and sometimes she looks just normal, casual, whatever - it's like real life! and then of course juxtaposed to the assistant and her outfits (and her hair! and "they kinda just stay up on their own"), it's pretty brilliant.

SHARK WEEK

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Thursday, 2 November 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

haha wtf was that thing assistant girl was wearing, the one that was like plastic panties and a piece of foam over her torso!?

― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 November 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha yeah! - it was like pink underwear with orange lace trim (which i noted b/c that colour combination is great) and a big pink poncho!

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Thursday, 2 November 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

I want to marry rich and design handbags, too.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Ann Coulter's 60th birthday!

Actuall thought this ep was slightly weaker than the others. Still good though.

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Thursday, 2 November 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

That was a jacket?!

― mizzzell (mizzzell), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

That was a jacket?!

that slayed me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

"Nuts to you, McGillicuddy!"

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Friday, 3 November 2006 03:45 (nineteen years ago)

Forgot the Ann Coulter thing, but I can't imagine how, as I played it back five times.

― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Friday, 3 November 2006 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

BTW: Thanks, Rrrobyn, the episode's still on my TiVo and you're right on that line. And yeah, that's a great color combo.

― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Friday, 3 November 2006 08:11 (nineteen years ago)

The other thing I love about this show, and that none of the reviews seems to have mentioned, is how utterly lame every sketch on the fantasy show is. Fey's ultimate joke on latter-day SNL, obviously.

― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Friday, 3 November 2006 08:14 (nineteen years ago)

fart nuggets.

― researching ur life (grady), Friday, 3 November 2006 08:16 (nineteen years ago)

So next Thursday, then?

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Friday, 10 November 2006 03:43 (nineteen years ago)

when is this fuckin show on?

― Scorpion Tea (Dick Butkus), Friday, 10 November 2006 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

Thursday now, starting on the 16th.

― From the Moon to Pluto Back Down to Earth (Rrrickey), Friday, 10 November 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, Ghostface cameo.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 17 November 2006 04:31 (nineteen years ago)

plz to show up on torrentspy

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Friday, 17 November 2006 04:52 (nineteen years ago)

so many roffles, so little time

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 17 November 2006 05:48 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno...I think it's Tina vs. the "ordinary" sitcom writers who she says helps her make it work, because half the jokes are totally hilarious and half are totally staid sitcom jokes that fall flat.

My favorite part was the crossword puzzle.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 17 November 2006 06:01 (nineteen years ago)

half the jokes are totally hilarious and half are totally staid sitcom jokes that fall flat

i thought that was the point.

GAYBERHAM LINCOLN.

― researching ur life (grady), Friday, 17 November 2006 06:59 (nineteen years ago)

if they actually had yo-yo ma in that scene the joke would have been a billion times funnier.

― researching ur life (grady), Friday, 17 November 2006 07:02 (nineteen years ago)

plz to show up on torrentspy

For some reason this always takes ages with this programme.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 17 November 2006 07:11 (nineteen years ago)

It's like jazz music that you laugh at!

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Friday, 17 November 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

Okay and "Muffintop" was funny.

Also the stuff about placing the products in the show was so fucking funny, especially after the Staples mentions & the shredder thing in The Office.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Friday, 17 November 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

I don't mean the jokes that are supposed to fall flat falling flat bothers me, I mean the jokes that are supposed to be funny but are stale, like Jane saying "put my song in" and pete saying "ok" then Jane saying "c'mon put my song in". Oldest joke in the world.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Also the stuff about placing the products in the show was so fucking funny, especially after the Staples mentions & the shredder thing in The Office.

but was it funny or was it an opportunity for them to make money and then try to make us think they were just being clever?

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

AMBIGUITY

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

I honestly think a little bit of both.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

if the fish had daddy issues!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 18 November 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

a comedy show starring tina fey about people who make television shows in new york. this is what this is, right? if so it was DESIGNED BY ROBOTS TO MAKE ME HATE IT.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 18 November 2006 02:27 (nineteen years ago)

It's funny. You just don't know.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Saturday, 18 November 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

muffin top!

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 18 November 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

also, non-dairy creamer scene made me laugh out loud for real.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 18 November 2006 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

xpost to tracer
I mean, a show could be about hillbilly child molesters, but if the material was handled properly and the jokes were funny, I'd watch it.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Saturday, 18 November 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

I tried pitching a sitcom tonight about a threesome where the "extra girl" falls in love with the couple and no one was buying! I SUE YOU NBC IF YOU TRY THIS!

― Factory Sample Not For Sale (Rrrickey), Saturday, 18 November 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

Uh, pitching at a bar, that is.

P.S. Tina Fey, call me.

― Factory Sample Not For Sale (Rrrickey), Saturday, 18 November 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

I mean this really even if I don't get a date w/ Tina Fey

― Factory Sample Not For Sale (Rrrickey), Saturday, 18 November 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

i could have sworn i posted this before, but:

tina fey = nu-kennedy

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 18 November 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Why would you have posted something so off the money TWICE? That's not your style, Tracer Hand!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 18 November 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

yeah that's really an insult to TF

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Saturday, 18 November 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

you don't say

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 18 November 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

kennedy? the republican veejay kennedy? was she even a writer?

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 18 November 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

cuz they both wear glasses?

kennedy never had the tina fey look:

Classic Or Dud:The Tina Fey Look

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 18 November 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

both = endlessly sarcastic and pleased with themselves; both counterintuitively conservatives at heart

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 18 November 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

tracerhand = nu-kennedy

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 18 November 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

blount OTM

― songs and ballads of the bituminous miners (sanskrit), Saturday, 18 November 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

the only reason tina fey doesn't say "buh-JORK", like kennedy used to, is because she's too old for the irony to be a given

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 18 November 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

Since it's a rerun, I revive old thread and reprint the quote nicklicious pulled:
"I'm an improviser. My acting style is like jazz- jazz that you laugh at!"

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Friday, 26 January 2007 02:35 (eighteen years ago)

integORTION?

― the art of pretend non-lawyering. (tehresa), Friday, 26 January 2007 02:43 (eighteen years ago)

This was my favorite episode already.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 04:08 (eighteen years ago)

"My shameful secret is out!"

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Saturday, 27 January 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Ms. Fey breaking the fourth wall, right before the swastikas lit up = Revenge of Cuddlestein!

This week's Hilarious Stupid Shit: "European kissing." Or House Dressing Jenna.

― David R., Friday, 23 February 2007 03:41 (eighteen years ago)

Along with, um, everything else.

― David R., Friday, 23 February 2007 03:45 (eighteen years ago)

My favorite show EVAR! (I realize I say this every week, but it keeps being true)

"Okay, now the crab is getting aroused."

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 23 February 2007 03:47 (eighteen years ago)

TELEVISION ON! PORNOGRAPHY!

― impudent harlot, Friday, 23 February 2007 03:51 (eighteen years ago)

we were just being silly

― A B C, Friday, 23 February 2007 04:06 (eighteen years ago)

I love Grizz and Dot Com. "This is a very special day."

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 23 February 2007 04:46 (eighteen years ago)

Is "Ya Burnt" a new catchphrase I'm not aware of?

Great episode all around.

― Michael F Gill, Friday, 23 February 2007 04:55 (eighteen years ago)

Tonight's episode was so great I want to take it behind the middle school and get it pregnant.

I love this show, but I am really looking forward to Andy Richter's new show...that and 30 Rock back to back would be the greatest thing.

― musically, Friday, 23 February 2007 06:02 (eighteen years ago)

"The worm...it's so degrading. Is it German in origin?"

― sous les paves, Friday, 23 February 2007 06:04 (eighteen years ago)

I was wondering what he said!

― David R., Friday, 23 February 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

BEST EPISODE EVAR!

― jh0shea, Friday, 23 February 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

Tracey Morgan in WHO DAT NINJA?

― Trip Maker, Friday, 23 February 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

"mysterious visitor from future wins lottery again."

― Gukbe, Friday, 23 February 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://www.slate.com/id/2217712/pagenum/all/#p2

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 17:54 (sixteen years ago)

so weird to see the first 30 Rock thread active again

that article is idiotic

― cumlord millionaire (some dude), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 17:56 (sixteen years ago)

five months pass...

yesssssssssssssssssssss

http://twitter.com/RealTracyMorgan

― pariah carey (Mr. Que), Thursday, 8 October 2009 20:53 (sixteen years ago)

http://twitter.com/help/verified

― tehresa, Thursday, 8 October 2009 20:55 (sixteen years ago)

my dickhead is shaped liked a darth vadar helmet. my dick is so fat it looks like r2d2.

okay maybe I will start using Twitter

― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Thursday, 8 October 2009 20:56 (sixteen years ago)

two months pass...

I've started watching the first season. So so funny! The density of jokes in incredible. I haven't had so many laughs at a TV show for a long time.

― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Thursday, 10 December 2009 17:46 (sixteen years ago)

So much more to come!

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 10 December 2009 17:49 (sixteen years ago)

Can't stop chuckling at 'The Rural Juror'.

― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Thursday, 10 December 2009 17:51 (sixteen years ago)

One quibble: the incidental music's pretty annoying.

― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Thursday, 10 December 2009 21:33 (sixteen years ago)

Been netflixing this - it was entertaining enough from the beginning but I'm late in season 2 now and it's really going to another level. Sometimes the show gets a little too zany-upon-zany, but the writing, the character development, Baldwin's performance especially carry it beyond that.

Loved this exchange:

Liz: Everything in my life is work, but not Dennis Duffy. I don’t have to shave. I don’t have to bathe. I don’t have to be clever or nice.

Jenna: Love is hiding who you really are at all times, even when you’re sleeping. Love is wearing make up to bed, and going downstairs to the Burger King to poop, and hiding alcohol in perfume bottles. That’s love.

Liz: Being with Dennis is easy. If you give into it, you start to feel kind of numb and warm. And then you just get sleepy.

Jenna: That’s exactly what they say happens when you freeze to death.

...

Also Jack's line when he hears he's going to be CEO - "When will this be made public, sir? I want my mother to know before she dies so goes to her grave a defeated woman."

― Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 03:26 (sixteen years ago)

I've been watching season 1 - it's pretty funny already

― =皿= (dyao), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 03:35 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

Season 4. Problem Solvers episode was incredible.

"I didn't get a bathroom door that looks like a wall by being bad at business"

― Kevin Love and Ricky Rubio ARE: Timblr Whites (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 16:38 (thirteen years ago)

watching these in syndication, in semi-random order, really accentuates how funny the show has been throughout its entire run

― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 18:21 (thirteen years ago)

Season 4 has been the best so far IMO, writing is unbelievable. However watching Julianne Moore try to play Boston Irish is just excruciating and I wish it would stop.

― happiness is the new productivity (Hurting 2), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:27 (thirteen years ago)

yeah that's totally more grating than funny

― Alshipleyan Goalpostmover (some dude), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:28 (thirteen years ago)

Love the loony tunes sound effects.

― s.clover, Friday, 10 February 2012 03:37 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiAQeJrEHB4

― happiness is the new productivity (Hurting 2), Friday, 10 February 2012 03:48 (thirteen years ago)

Wait, this is the RONG 30 Rock thread, the one that can't be found.

― I Can't Give You Any Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 February 2012 05:06 (thirteen years ago)

seven months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-bvHlb2Fe8

― barthes simpson, Sunday, 23 September 2012 01:55 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/the-unfuckables/

this probably needs to be at least 3x longer but it's pretty well-done. i have to think about it more

― k3vin k., Thursday, 3 October 2013 04:17 (twelve years ago)

Jesus, I wasn't aware that happened to Dratch.

― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 3 October 2013 04:42 (twelve years ago)

There is a Salon piece that was posted in the other 30 Rock that responded to this discussion pretty well. I'll try to find it.

― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 3 October 2013 04:53 (twelve years ago)

The Tina Fey Backlash

― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 3 October 2013 04:57 (twelve years ago)

"If a politician applied Fey’s feminist rationale to public policy, he would be one of those blinders-wearing classists to the point of fascism."

― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 3 October 2013 13:22 (twelve years ago)

four months pass...

i started watching all of these through for the first time (i've seen episodes here and there of course), and i have to say this show has totally flipped my opinion of tina fey

― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, 17 February 2014 22:37 (eleven years ago)

from negative to positive? positive to negative?

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 17 February 2014 23:21 (eleven years ago)

pos to neg. show is like a damn cathy comic strip

― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, 17 February 2014 23:25 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbCT5fXdhhc

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 17 February 2014 23:28 (eleven years ago)

not so much in the first 2 seasons imo, but yeah liz lemon does basically turn into a cartoon character distressingly fast.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 17 February 2014 23:28 (eleven years ago)

it's weird how jack donaghy is really the only main character who stays fairly nuanced and un-cartoony throughout the run of the series.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 17 February 2014 23:28 (eleven years ago)

it seems like if she's gonna make that joke she should have the self awareness to not make the show 90% about how hilarious/pathetic it is when old ladies of 35 cant bag a man or w/e! also soooo many jokes about fat ppl being gross

― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, 17 February 2014 23:29 (eleven years ago)

It's so weird to single out Liz Lemon as a "cartoon character" on a show full of cartoon characters. I mean, c'mon. Pretty much every main character, and I would definitely include Donaghy as a cartoon, is one.

― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 17 February 2014 23:39 (eleven years ago)

yeah theyre all cartoon characters, she's just an extremely lame cartoon character

― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, 17 February 2014 23:40 (eleven years ago)

i guess i feel like the show treats jack's relationships more seriously than it treats liz's -- hers are mainly treated for laughs, there's no liz equivalent of the episodes where jack's torn between two girlfriends who are both right for him, etc. obv he's kind of a cartoon in many ways -- quoting reagan, etc -- but the show gives him more depth than liz most of the time.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 17 February 2014 23:43 (eleven years ago)

90% about how hilarious/pathetic it is when old ladies of 35 cant bag a man or w/e

I'm not really getting this at all. Maybe at the beginning? idk

― kinder, Monday, 17 February 2014 23:45 (eleven years ago)

I'm in the middle of a s5/s6 binge. I think I love Grizz & dotcom the best

― kinder, Monday, 17 February 2014 23:46 (eleven years ago)

there's a really weird dynamic on a lot of TV shows that i think 30 Rock accidentally epitomizes, where married successful people are constantly playing unmarried unsuccessful people because, unless it's a 'family show' or a satire of success or something, it's considered not sexy enough or not funny enough to show people who are settled down or w/e and so you end up with these slightly icky situations where Tina Fey, in an effort not have a show about Tina Fey being awesome and winning at life, creates this 'lol pathetic spinster alternative universe me' character that gets kicked in the shins over and over. it's especially odd because Liz Lemon seems to keep encountering this "work vs. personal life" dilemma that Fey doesn't seem to have struggled with at all.

― Waluigi Weingarten (some dude), Monday, 17 February 2014 23:48 (eleven years ago)

Seinfeld to Fey: do you miss 30 rock?
Fey: No!

The workload was apparently nuts.

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 02:31 (eleven years ago)

yeah...some SNL alumni have said that in a way sitcoms are actually a harder grind, because instead of writing and rehearsing and then performing a show in 6 days and being done with it, you've gotta go through long hours of multiple takes and editing, etc. being a star/writer/producer of a show like that must be exhausting.

― Waluigi Weingarten (some dude), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 02:47 (eleven years ago)

also it wouldn't surprise me if Tina put more of the work and the pressure on her shoulders than Jerry ever did.

― Waluigi Weingarten (some dude), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 02:48 (eleven years ago)

I read an interview where she admitted that she kept the show going because of all the jobs of her friends and crew that were riding on it, so maybe the show is actually an idealized version of the work/life struggle, whereas real tina fey was in a nightmare hellhole.

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 19:05 (eleven years ago)

i could believe that. there was a lot of hamster-wheeling going on during the last few seasons, though it was still enjoyable

― Nhex, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 20:03 (eleven years ago)

three years pass...

"greenzo" is so good, kenneth's party, david schwimmer, lol

― k3vin k., Monday, 17 April 2017 03:59 (eight years ago)

three years pass...

...lol

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Monday, 17 April 2017 05:23 (eight years ago)

there's no season 2 thread!

― k3vin k., Monday, 17 April 2017 05:28 (eight years ago)

We went in to the sandbox about a 1/3 of the way into the 1st season. After we got out, a new thread was started and it carried us through the rest of the series.

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 17 April 2017 06:11 (eight years ago)

Obvs. this was back before we really started doing devoted seasonal threads for shows.

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 17 April 2017 06:12 (eight years ago)

two years pass...

thinking a lot lately about the scene where jack goes to work for the bush administration and he walks into a room and looks up and goes "um, the ceiling appears to be leaking" and matthew broderick cheerfully responds "no. it's not. we've looked into it, and it's not."

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 23:40 (five years ago)

one year passes...

A pack of wild dogs took over and successfully ran a ‘Wendy’s

― caddy lac brougham? (will), Saturday, 2 October 2021 02:52 (four years ago)

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