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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

I watched this again pre-dinner and I guess I disagree with Tom more specifically now: the Liz-fit stuff was my favorite aspect of this last one, and I think I'm usually more amused by Liz stuff, if just by virtue of caring more. Biggest re-viewing laugh line was the great bitter firing:

- You have a kid?
- Well, I'm in a relationship, so in five years I'm sure I'll be living in the suburbs, raising a couple kids, and having it all.
- YOU'RE FIRED.

(Her brand of this kind of "hahaha omg I'm adorably childish and pathetic" humor has always cut across the way that the guy-version of this is often not entirely compelling to women and the woman-version of this is often totally lost on men -- like the fact that some of the best Weekend Update jokes during her tenure were about gynecology seemed to prove something about that distinction being fairly unnecessary.)

― nabisco, Saturday, 10 March 2007 02:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't think this one was very funny. Nathan Lane wasn't funny at all, and there was all round too much plot and not enough joke. Although, much as I normally hate drunken, fightin' Irish humour, that whole family bit was particularly funny.

― accentmonkey, Saturday, 10 March 2007 09:00 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOhKrL5DB1Y

Almost as good as Tracy Jordan on Conan.

― Nicole, Monday, 12 March 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm still haunted by Fey's scary crooked witch-finger when she says "things are finally looking up for ol' Liz Lemon."

― nabisco, Monday, 12 March 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Also amused by how her tactic for word-emphasis has always been this two-handed MC-style throw-down gesture (seen here on "there's a guy I like in the building").

― nabisco, Monday, 12 March 2007 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

That Tracy clip from the El Paso morning show is hilarious!

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 12 March 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2006/09/TRACYMORGAN.JPG

― nickalicious, Monday, 12 March 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link

holy shit @ nicole's clip!

― ^@^, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I just saw Tracy in a new Digiorno pizza commercial. Did I dream this or has anyone else seen it?

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 00:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I never noticed that the poster was spelled "Who Dat Ninga?"

― kenan, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 00:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I think it's just a backwards "J."

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 01:37 (seventeen years ago) link

no, I think it's "Who dat nigga?" only different.

― kenan, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link

take your hate elsewhere, kenan

― Wrinklepaws, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 02:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I think wrinklepaws is musically talented, but not a great swimmer.

― kenan, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 02:07 (seventeen years ago) link

btw douche, it's Grizz and Darquan, not Dotcom

― Wrinklepaws, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 02:14 (seventeen years ago) link

i love that "black cop white cop" is a joke on "black cat white cat"

also, this episode was very entertaining if not the funniest, but the line "i believe vampires are the greatest golfers and their real curse is they can never prove it" cracked me up for most of it

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 03:26 (seventeen years ago) link

oh, wrinklepaws but it is dotcom

― jhøshea, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 03:34 (seventeen years ago) link

omg haha that clip - repetitive joke drunkenness is never funnier than when on live morning-show tv, e.g., somebody gonna get pregnant = gold

that vampire golf line killed me too
and alec baldwin's body language is just getting funnier and funnier

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 04:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh right! "I believe vampires are the world's best golfers, only their curse is they can never prove it"!!!! I forgot.

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link

All right, after skimming the thread I guess I better catch up on the few episodes I missed now that I know half the jokes that will be on them.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link

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, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Kenneth the Page played a bumpkin in a skit on Conan last night!

― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Why oh why did I GIS that reference at all? Awful.

― Sparkle Motion, Thursday, 22 March 2007 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link

i like when tracy grabs the phone from dude and goes "CLICK... AWHHH..." and then hangs up the phone.

― s1ocki, Friday, 23 March 2007 00:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Woah. Well spotted, nabisco.

"You'll have to get through Tip O'Neill and Bobby Sands first!"

And now, because it cheers me up, stills!

http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/9414/picture1zv2.png
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/151/picture2xu3.png
http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/6270/picture3ab1.png

― caek, Friday, 23 March 2007 02:48 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― caek, Friday, 23 March 2007 02:49 (seventeen years ago) link

What is NBC doing? Here's a new show that has buzz and momentum (not sure what the ratings look like though). It looks like it might get some traction. People are saying, "hey friend, check out this show on Thursday. It's funny." Friend can't find it. Why? Because the network braintrust made the brilliant decision to yank the show from the schedule for a month or whatever.

I really wonder if these people have any clue what they are doing.

― Super Cub, Sunday, 25 March 2007 00:54 (seventeen years ago) link

It's called a mid-season replacement, shit happens all the time, give 'em a break. I mean, practically no show is on every single week these days, except for the big hits where they can make a profit even off reruns. NBC actually decided to make 30 Rock's hiatus 2 weeks shorter than they'd originally planned, so it'll be back next week (I feel back for Andy Barker P.I. getting the shaft, but at least all the episodes are online already), and supposedly Kevin Reilly has thrown a lot of support behind the show so think odds are good that it'll be back next season.

Elaine Stritch is supposed to play Jack Donaghy's mother in an upcoming episode! Could be awesome.

― Alex in Baltimore, Sunday, 25 March 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe I'll check out the Office marathon on Thursday and see what the fuss is about.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 25 March 2007 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I hope they pick some good episodes for the Office marathon and not ones that focus too heavily on the Jim/Pam arc. You'd get the wrong impression.

Toby's hosting it, though!

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 25 March 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

"Lemon, this is not open mic night at the Bryn Mawr Student Union, this a a thousand-dollar-a-plate fund raiser."

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 25 March 2007 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I hope they pick some good episodes for the Office marathon and not ones that focus too heavily on the Jim/Pam arc. You'd get the wrong impression.

They're doing a 5-ep mix of eps from all three seasons, all of which Toby figures into one way or another.

IIRC, they will be:

"Diversity Day" &"Health Care" (season 1)
"Sexual Harassment" & "The Injury" (season 2)
"Gay Witch Hunt" (season 3)

― C. Grisso/McCain, Monday, 26 March 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

"The Injury" is prob the best Office ever.

― Sparkle Motion, Monday, 26 March 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Mindy Kaling wrote it!

― horseshoe, Monday, 26 March 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah well I wrote Mindy Kaling.

― nabisco, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

waht

― horseshoe, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

i may have to renounce mindy kaling soon

― and what, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

WAHT

― horseshoe, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

we're reaching a level of corny motherfucker consensus unseen since the great hollertronix southern rap dickriding of 2004

― and what, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

oh ok that's a dumb reason

― horseshoe, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

just sayin it might be worth backing away til the heat is off - she can still call me

― and what, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

also,

"Crossing Over with John Edward" (1999) TV Series (production assistant)

is a turn-off

― and what, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

i read an interview where she said that she believed that john edward could speak with the dead.

― max, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Dude, I can't think of anything that could fine-tune your sense of humor faster than working as a PA on "Crossing Over with John Edward."

― nabisco, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Never before has a sentiment been so shat on by its xpost. :(

― nabisco, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

wow thats even worse than my theory that was cynically exploiting her work on the show like you would a ponzi scheme or something

― and what, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

JK: That show, you PA'ed on, according to your IMDb profile, was...

MK: Crossing Over with John Edward!

JK: Right. I don't know if you saw the profile I did of you a while ago...

MK: I did see it. Someone copied the text and sent it to me... It was so nice... I don't think there ever has been a profile done of me... thank you so much!

JK: You're welcome. What I did say in that profile, though, is that the fact that you worked on that program showed right there that you had a good sense of humor.

MK: (laughs) It did. I look back and -- when I was working there, I really believed that his powers were real. I don't remember ever coming to work and thinking that I worked for, like, a charlatan. But since then, I feel like, how would that be possible, and also, why would that show have been cancelled if it was a real thing? I mean I've questioned it since then. But that was a fun experience.

whatevs. everyone needs a lame first job.

― horseshoe, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

He can speak TO the dead, at least.

― nabisco, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

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