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

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (8492 of them)

Comedy tends to work better when people's motivations and reactions make sense, no matter how ridiculous the situations they're put in!

― nabisco, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:24 (seventeen years ago) link

oh come on, the aman-da thing was perfect

― cutty, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Dude, I'm not saying it wasn't totally funny, just that 30 Rock can do way better than stretching for the sloppy seconds of awkward-race-thing humor!

― nabisco, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha I preferred Kenneth's "I will try the other location, but franky, Ladonica, I don't think you've been very helpful."

― nabisco, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:45 (seventeen years ago) link

my friend sent me one of those alec baldwin msgs on my voicemail, it was pretty funny!

― and what, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link

What's your schedule mañana? Cuz this is gonna be ooone serious negosh.

Loved that guy.

― Øystein, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Kenneth's annunciation and emphasis on certain words in his lines is what kills me the most.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link

katrina bowden (cerie) was born in 1988. it is now becoming more and more commonplace for actors and actresses on my favourite shows/films to be more than five years younger than me, and I'm beginning to feel old.

― Gukbe, Saturday, 3 March 2007 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I started high school in 1988.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 3 March 2007 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I started kindergarten in 1988.

A gag thrown away in the midst of a big gag: Tracy has a beef with MC Skat Kat

Is this week the last one before the hiatus?

― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link

What was the line that Tracy had about going through the stages of grief with anger, denial, horniness... Boy oh boy did I LOL. I was sort of iffy on this show but I'm on board now, thanks mostly to this last episode. (they're metal penises! HA!) The reactions I read here make me think I need to start at the beginning for maximum funny.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

jenny this show has effectively killed thirsty thursdays as we knew them. at least until after the may sweeps. ;_;

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that what happened? Surely there's a bar in this shithole city where we could combine our shared love of drunkenness and clever situation comedy! We can't let NBC tear us apart like this.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

i've taken to going out after 30 rock. i've found that if i leave when it ends it takes me about an hour to get to the bar in uptown. best of both worlds.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I love 30 Rock but I am excited for Andy Richter's new show. I hope it's more "Andy Richter Controls the Universe" than "Quintuplets".

― musically, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link

On Thursday evening, Nathan Lane guest stars as Jack's (Alec Baldwin) bad brother on the last "30 Rock" (NBC, 9:30 p.m. EST) before the show goes on hiatus

!!!

― musically, Thursday, 8 March 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

There will be more. And re-watching the episodes is still fun.

― kenan, Thursday, 8 March 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm going to miss this terribly for the next five weeks (after tonight).

There's another show starting next Thursday on NBC too with Jeff Goldblum, but what's it replacing? Is it 30 or 60 mins? If the Office goes on hiatus, Thursdays will return to suckitude.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 March 2007 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

jenny, here are tracy's stages of grief: fear, denial, horniness, wisdom, sleepiness, depression.

i stopped my vcr and rewound last week so i could write them down.

― JuliaA, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

"wisdom" was totally the stage that made me laugh in that bit.

the Goldblum show, Raines, is a 60 minute drama, and it's actually going in the 10pm timeslot, so it won't effect the comedy block. is that the first time anything has been put in ER's timeslot, even temporarily, like, ever?

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, whew! ER's a dinosaur and needs a break. I like Goldblum and may check it out (like I need to watch more tv anyway).

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

ER was at least part of the remaining 15% of shows on TV where nobody communicates with ghosts.

― nabisco, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Since the dawn of ~~man~~ ER.

If the new Thursday lineup becomes Earl -> Office -> Andy Richter -> 30 Rock -> Raines I will literally dance around this office right.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

where would scurbs go? they can't cancel it, they just gave braff an assload more money.

― kenan, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Disney jail

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

now i dont gotta have my parties in international waters

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

i need a new religion and hers sounds expensive and gay

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, Decider Liz was HOTT.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks, Julia!

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

apparently, she still has her, um, fans:

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

"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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

Skipping 8392 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.