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

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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

the redhead? she used to be on snl, siobhan fallon i think?

― chicago kevin, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

hahhaha oh man thats it - she was d'onon'frio's wife in men in black!!!

― and what, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

ah yes she used to do the Chelsea Clinton bit right?

― will, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, Tom, the Tina F plotlines are usually kind of the straight-man arc to the others' broad comedy, but if you get attached enough to the character, they can wind up being more entertaining -- e.g. her "that astronaut woman had a plan" argument from last night was the highlight of the whole thing for me.

Also still totally in love with Dennis taking the cheeseburger back at the end of the Conan one.

― nabisco, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

watched this for the second or third time last night. why don't I regularly watch it? (maybe b/c like Tom said Tina Fey just doesn't do it for me.) However whenever I do see it I laugh out loud more than with anything else I watch. (same as the office which I also almost never watch.) nbc comedies always be slippin' my mind. . .

― Ms Misery, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

No, I think Julia Sweeney did Chelsea Clinton. Siobhan Fallon never did anything very memorable. Except maybe that "White Person's Guide To Surviving the Apollo" sketch.

― The Yellow Kid, Friday, 9 March 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Sioban Fallon is probably best known as one of the "Delta Delta Delta, can I help ya, help ya, help ya?" girls who weren't Melanie Hutsell. Nothing against Ms. Fallon but I'm hoping this was a pointed "Look who we DIDN'T invite" gesture directed at all the other former SNL cast members of Irish descent named "Fallon."

― slugbuggy, Friday, 9 March 2007 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I think my favorite part in that episode was Jenna busting out the newsboy hat in the Hip-Hop aerobics class at the very beginning. Perfect characterization!

― sous les paves, Saturday, 10 March 2007 02:17 (seventeen years ago) link

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