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Ep. 208, “Secrets and Lies”
TRACY: Don’t want to disappoint my Japanese public. Especially Godzilla. I’m just kidding. I know he doesn’t care what humans do.
“It’s always nice to blend Tracy Morgan’s love of monster movies with Tracy Jordan’s character. Sometimes we take stuff from his act, but this is just the writers goofing around, doing their thing.”
Ep. 215, “Cooter”
LIZ: Oh, you’re the only person in the world allowed to make sex mistakes?! You had a three-way with Roseanne and Tom Arnold!
JENNA: That was two years ago!
“That’s an old-school joke: Just a jokey joke. There are jokes that come from characters or from situations, and that is just a joke. Like a set-up, punchline joke.”
Ep. 301, “Do-Over”
KENNETH: I think adoption is a wonderful thing. Three of my nine siblings were adopted. And someday I’m gonna find them.
“That has a nice, little sneaky structure that sneaks up on you a little bit. Kenneth is another character, who, if we wrote up all the details of his life, it would probably be pretty tragic. We could have a tragedy-off between him and Tracy and Jenna.”
Ep. 305, “Reunion”
LIZ: How is this even working? You’re 12 years older than everyone here.
JACK: Rich 50 is middle class 38, Lemon.
“This was Matt Hubbard’s script. He won an Emmy for this episode. This was one of the most intact scripts we ever had. Usually, writers turn in a script and everyone tries to add more jokes to it. This script, as Matt wrote it, was the most fully formed one we ever had. I remember one of my notes was, ‘Do we need a joke to justify how Jack is passing in this crowd?’ The writers very quickly sent this joke back up.”
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bryanlevi
30 Rock is the best thing on broadcast TV, obviously. But it is also as funny or funnier than anything else in the entire cable stratosphere, too.
bigwurzz
Yeah, they are doing a great job. I don't see this one getting stale a la the office. Keep it up!
jgardner100
Best thing on broadcast TV? maybe in the US at the moment, but you should try to see some "MIghty Bosch", "Flight of the Conchords" or "Hungry Beast" all of which are trying something new rather than just paying homage to the old greats like Night Court and Soap.
PoliticalBoy21
No, this is better than Hungry Beast (people in their bedroom make more insightful things on YouTube), Flight and far more intelligent than the Boosh, how could you even compare this to the mighty boosh.
SCMax101
30 is my favorite show on television. Any episode with Chris Parnell is great.
my3sons
I so am Liz Lemon. My husband just laughs. I love the show and Alec Baldwin is just fantastic.
my3sons
During a very turbulent flight I watched the episode with Paul Reubens and his tiny hands and smiled the entire time. Thanks
Mercy1981
My favorite episode is Tracy does Conan - classic.
Fun Read!
yeschef
The best two minutes in television, let alone 30 Rock, is the therapy scene in Rosemary's Baby where Jack channels Tracey's dad. Tracey gives Jack the byline..."He's from funky north Philly who worked in a Campbell's soup factory and he had a droopy lip due to an unattended root canal" and he runs with it. HILARIOUS! Alec Baldwin is in a class by himself.
luciblue
What about the episode where Tracy might have diabetes (and Dr. Spaceman doesn't know how to pronounce the condition), thinks its okay, and simply wants to replace his foot with a wheel like Rosie from the Jetsons? That was ACES.
bananaloggirl
LOVE THIS! Love Tina Fey, love Tracy Morgan. So much goodness and hilarity.
Mojohand
These are great, but one of my favorites was the 'Studio 60' jab, which went something like: "This is going to be a terrible show." "Worse than that time we did that Gilbert and Sullivan parody?" "Well, no, not that bad."
Anyone recall which Season 1 ep that was?
TheGeneral
The episode with Jack getting bedbugs and having to ride the subway was good, but not a bucket of laughs UNTIL that last bit with Jack singing and passing the basket. I laughed so damn hard I fell out of my chair. Seriously haven't laughed that hard in years. Alec Baldwin is brilliant. If you're like me and ride the subway every day, you appreciate what a strange world it is down there and this little bit and the earlier speech to the assembled train was bitingly satirical without being mean-spirited.
darrend
"Tell it to me in Star Wars."
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namedujour
I'm sorry, but NOBODY beats Kathy Geiss in any episode. When she pulled a Susan Boyle in last week's Auditions episode, I choked. Then when Liz Lemon later remarks that she pulled her underpants off at the end of the song, I fell off my chair.
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cathtray
Yes, all killers, I agree. My all-time favorite, however, is Paul Ruben's "Thank you for coming to my birthday." It makes me cry.
cathtray
Mmmmm, that's Reubens.
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