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Posted May 15th 2009 12:17AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: OpEd, 30 Rock, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S03E22) "There's no such thing as bisexual. That's just something invented in the 90s so they could sell more hair products." - LizOK, so how long before "We Need A Kidney" is available for download from the
NBC site or from iTunes? I suspect it will be up before you finish reading this review.
I was going to talk about how this episode was a little disappointing, but then I hit rewind on my DVR and watched it again and realized, wow, they actually hit all of the season finale notes rather perfectly. Not in a "we're having a baby!" or "he has amnesia!" way, but in a way that symbolized that "this is the end of the season but we're not going to go overboard" way. Some might think that having 20 big-name musical guest stars on a season finale actually
is over the top, but it didn't turn out that way. This episode was quite funny.
Continue reading 30 Rock: Kidney Now! (season finale)
Posted May 1st 2009 1:05AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: OpEd, 30 Rock, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S03E20) "It's the biggest regret of my life, Lemon. And I once made love to Kathy Hilton." - Jack, about not confronting his dadOh,
come on. There's no way that Liz Lemon would be
that incompetent when it comes to replacing a water bottle. It was like she was a mixture of Steve Urkel and Barney Fife, dropping the bottle, getting herself soaked. I mean, she could have at least known that you take the empty jug off before you attempt to put the new one on. That whole scene was odd. It went on a lot longer and was more slapstick-oriented than most
30 Rock gags.
Continue reading 30 Rock: The Natural Order
Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:16AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: OpEd, 30 Rock, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S03E19) "It's not product placement, I just like it!" - Liz, wearing a SlanketOK, can we settle this once and for all? Liz Lemon/Tina Fey is not an unattractive woman. I don't care if she's wearing a rumpled TGS sweatshirt or a casual jacket or has glasses on or has her hair tied back or if she's wearing a potato sack or even a track suit. There's no way a snooty jewelry store clerk would look at her and doubt that Alec Baldwin/Jack would marry her.
Yes, she even looks great in a Slanket. Interesting they didn't go with the Snuggie, but also great that they didn't go with the Snuggie (and kudos to Fey for the above shout-out to viewers).
Continue reading 30 Rock: The Ones
Posted Apr 17th 2009 12:20AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: OpEd, 30 Rock, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S03E18) As longtime readers of these reviews know, I like to list a lot of lines from each episode of
30 Rock. Each episode of the show has a ton of great one-liners and jokes, but there are so many that sometimes I feel like I should forget writing a traditional review and just print a damn transcript of the entire episode. It's seems like that's what I'm on the edge of doing every week anyway.
But there's more to the show than just rapid-fire comedy.
Continue reading 30 Rock: Jackie Jormp-Jomp
Posted Mar 27th 2009 1:43AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: OpEd, 30 Rock, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S03E16) "Computer, when do I get my tang? Also I'm thirsty. Word play!" - TracyTo put it bluntly, I think this was one of the most explosively hysterical and imaginative half hours of TV this season, and one of this show's best episodes ever.
30 Rock embodies that idea you have of what a great TV comedy can be, the one that is non-stop funny and unpredictable and wild. This episode was a bizarre combination of sex addiction apologies, surreal
Muppet appearances, videos of old birthday parties, faked space travel, vomiting, and old late-night chat line commercials.
That paragraph makes it seem like it was a bizarre mess, but it all seems to make sense and come together in the
TGS/NBC world.
Continue reading 30 Rock: Apollo, Apollo
Posted Mar 20th 2009 12:45AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: OpEd, 30 Rock, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S03E15) "His video game made a fortune and he invested all of it in a company that dismantles bank signs. They're doing very well." - Jack, about TracyI have to really disagree with Jack and Cerie: Liz Lemon
is a bubble person.
Sure, Cerie is hot, but Jack himself admits that he hasn't been great looking since he was 25 and still had really blue eyes. They think Liz is merely nice and "pleasant looking"? That's crazy talk. Tina Fey is a bubble person.
That's a line I never thought I'd actually type, but she is. She really is. Liz should get what she wants a lot more than she does.
Continue reading 30 Rock: The Bubble
Posted Mar 13th 2009 2:40AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: OpEd, 30 Rock, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S03E14) "Passing out? Cursing? On St. Patrick's Day? Is nothing sacred?" - JackWasn't it great to see an episode of
30 Rock that revolved around NBC and
TGS and the work of the staff? Sure, there was the plot with Liz trying to get out of jury duty, but even that was tied into her work life at the studio. We've had a lot of episodes that had the various characters scattered away from each other, involved with people and places that had nothing to do with NBC, so it's great to see the writing staff working together, Jenna going crazy at the studio, Tracy wanting to take over all of the advertising on the show, and Jack working on a new microwave product.
Continue reading 30 Rock: The Funcooker
Posted Mar 6th 2009 2:03AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: OpEd, 30 Rock, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S03E13) "Donuts and then bed. What are you depressed about or celebrating?" - Pete, to LizHoly crap, Josh was in this episode! Sure, he only had one line and wasn't on screen for too long, but Josh was in this episode! It's good to see that he's still a writer on this show (and that Lonny Ross is still a member of the cast).
It's also good to see a TV show whose plot is based around the 1987 film
Harry and the Hendersons. There aren't enough TV shows based on the 1987 film
Harry and the Hendersons.
Continue reading 30 Rock: Goodbye, My Friend
Posted Jan 22nd 2009 11:25PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: OpEd, 30 Rock, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S03E09) "Did you know that Janis Joplin speed walked everywhere and was scared of toilets?" - Frank, editing Joplin's Wikipedia pageOK, so I learned three things from tonight's episode. One, Jack revealed how he left the Bush administration at the end of last season (that gay bomb really did take effect), I never want to see Jenna and Frank make out again, and I'm never going to try any drink with the word "schlong" in it, even if it was inspired by
30 Rock.
I liked this episode, though it's the second week in a row where one of the plots was way too over the top for me. And I'm not even talking about Frank almost tricking Jenna into eating a live cat.
Continue reading 30 Rock: Retreat to Move Forward
Posted Jan 16th 2009 12:33AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: OpEd, 30 Rock, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S03E08) "I need this job, or I'd have to go to work on the late shift at Dunkin' Donuts. The customers are so sad." - ElisaIs it just me or was this one of the more lacking episodes of
30 Rock? It's not that it was terrible - as I've said before, even a so-so episode of this show is better than the best episodes of most sitcoms - but this one just seemed to meander. It wasn't as funny as other episodes, despite the quotes I list after the jump, and that whole crew-as-zombies-with-the-flu stuff was a little bit
too surreal, even for this show.
I'm also still missing Josh and Toofer and Frank.
Continue reading 30 Rock: Flu Shot
Posted Jan 9th 2009 8:02AM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: OpEd, 30 Rock, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S03E07) Love was in the air in this episode of
30 Rock. It seems as though everyone had something going on in their personal life. Jack fell in love with his mother's nurse, Liz found a little person to fill the baby-shaped hole in her heart, Tracy and Angie reignited the spark in their marriage, and Frank, well, Frank got to watch Tracy and Angie do it on Kenneth's desk. So everyone was a winner!
Generally, I think
30 Rock does a great job with guest stars, but this season has been a little disappointing so far. With the exception of the Oprah episode, the constant stunt casting has made it feel a little bit like the last seasons of
Will and Grace. However, this week's episode, despite having three guest stars, didn't feel like that at all. Maybe it's because there were three, but they fit into the episode, instead of feeling like the episode was written around them.
Continue reading 30 Rock: Senor Macho Solo
Posted Dec 12th 2008 11:00AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: OpEd, 30 Rock, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S03E06) "What's the past tense of scam? Is it scrumped? Liz Lemon, I think you've just been scrumped." - Tracy
Isn't it interesting how a funny, fast-paced, irreverent, sometimes surreal comedy like
30 Rock can also somehow grab you emotionally? Maybe it's because it's funny and irreverent 98% of the time the emotional parts hit you a little bit harder. They're unexpected and really welcome. Like the end of tonight's episode. Who could have expected the show would end with a piano duet between Jack and his mother? I've always liked Jack's mom, and it was really nice to see their relationship get better amidst all the usual
TGS craziness. Some shows just have a Christmas show that isn't much different than their regular episodes, only with more lights and tinsel. Good to see this show actually make the holiday count.
I'm a sucker for Christmas episodes.
Continue reading 30 Rock: Christmas Special
Posted Dec 5th 2008 9:04AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: OpEd, 30 Rock, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S03E05) "We all have ways of coping. I use sex and awesomeness." - Jack
I haven't gone to any of the many reunions my high school class has had over the past 25 years. I mean, one of the great things about graduating from high school is that you don't have to see these people anymore. I have a few friends from high school I'm still good friends with, and that's enough.
I was certainly more liked in high school than Liz Lemon was (I think we all were!), but this episode just confirms my suspicions that going to a high school reunion would be a very, very bad idea.
Continue reading 30 Rock: Reunion
Posted Nov 13th 2008 11:31PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: OpEd, 30 Rock, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S03E03) "What if Heroes had this new hero whose power was close-up magic?" - Harry Anderson
Holy crap, how did we miss the news that the cast of
Night Court was going to be on tonight's episode of
30 Rock? Maybe all of the talk about Jennifer Aniston being a guest on the show (and Oprah and Steve Martin in the coming weeks) overshadowed that news, or maybe they didn't think it was big enough news to announce. But God I think it's even bigger news! Hey, Aniston is fine, but let me repeat:
this episode features a reunion of the cast of Night Court! One NBC sitcom classic meets another.
And the reason they're on the show is even better...
Continue reading 30 Rock: The One With The Cast Of Night Court
Posted Nov 6th 2008 11:55PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: OpEd, 30 Rock, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S03E02) "I watched Boston Legal nine times before I realized it wasn't the new Star Trek." - Tracy Jordan
Tina Fey was on
The Oprah Winfrey Show today and mentioned that the day they filmed their scene together (a Saturday, a day they don't usually tape on but had to so Oprah could appear) was the same day that Fey first appeared as Sarah Palin on
Saturday Night Live.
That story has nothing to do with tonight's episode but I thought it was a cool piece of trivia. Fey also said she's never going to play Palin again.
Continue reading 30 Rock: Believe in the Stars
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