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It’s three days later and you’re just getting around to 30 Rock?

October
28

So it might have been the funniest episode since last season’s The Fighting Irish or the Rural Juror, but I couldn’t give it its blogger’s due because of a crazy, hectic weekend.

I don’t mean “hanging around Little Checnhya drinking wine and engaging in adverlingus all day” crazy. But crazy nonetheless. Better late than never, though, right? And rather than saddle you with a tedious recap of an episode you should have rewatched three times by now, I give you the blogger’s saving grace: a list.

rosemarys-baby-1.jpgWhat follows is merely the Top 16 lines and exchanges from “Rosemary’s Baby.” I arrived at 16 after I realized that when you go back and try to pull out the best parts out of a 30 Rock episode, you find yourself transcribing every word. And I ranked them first to last rather than best to least best because I’m lazy—and because I’m pretty sure “least best” isn’t grammatically correct.

(Oh, and while I can’t possibly describe it, and because it’s possibly the funniest 100 or so seconds in this show’s brief history—  and because I can’t find an embed code to just post it here—I share with you this link to Alec Baldwin zen. He may well have won an Emmy right here.)

Jack to Liz upon presenting her with the GE Followship Award and $10,000 prize:


Jack: Where do you invest your money Liz?

Liz: I have 12 grand in checking

Jack: Are you an immigrant?


Kenneth to Jenna, who’s no longer wearing prosthetic cellulite:


Kenneth: Ms. Mulroney I can’t be how fast you lost the weight.

Jenna: If I can’t be Monique fat, I have to be Terry Hatcher thin. Either way, you’re laughing.


Liz, on meeting Rosemary, her writing idol:



rosemarys-baby-2.jpg


Liz: Hi, I don ‘t want to sound like a weirdo fan, but I am obsessed with everything you’ve ever done. I used to make my friends act out your skits the next day. When I say my friends, I mean my Fisher Price My Friend dolls because I didn’t have a lot of friends. Oh my, am I still talking?

Rosemary: You’re going to kill me, aren’t you?


Liz to Rosemary, a moment later:


Liz: You are my heroine. And by heroine I don’t mean I want to inject you and listen to jazz.

Tracy to Jack on how he forgot the words to The Star Spangled Banner before a packed stadium:


Tracy: Who would have ever knew there were so many words? It was like a Mos Def CD.

Dot Com to Grizz, after Tracy announces he’s taking up dogfighting:


Dot Com: Man, this is Phil Spector’s entourage all over again.

Liz and Rosemary over lunch:


Liz: Well you know we do hire guest writers every now and then. I don’t know if that’s something you would even be interested in.

Rosemary: That’d be great. You know I haven’t been in that building in so long. Does everyone still do blow in Joe Garagiola’s office?

Liz: Which one is blow? Is that cocaine?


Jenna to Donnie in the bowels of 30 Rock, trying to save Kenneth’s job:


Jenna: Oh boy, here’s what we’re going to do. You’ve obviously never seen breasts before. So I’m going to lean over this desk, and you’re going to give me a new page jacket.

Donnie: Please. I breastfed until I was 11. So I’ve forgotten more about a women’s chest than you’ll ever know.


Rosemary offering sketch ideas in the writer’s meeting:


Rosemary: I have an idea we open on a New Orleans abortion clinic where a beautiful mulatto-

Liz: I don’t think we’re allowed to say any of those words.


rosemarys-baby-3.jpgJack, on learning Tracy intends to take up dogfighting:


Jack: Tracy what is the one think I asked you not to do?

Tracy: That 227 movie, New Jackee City?


Liz asserting her creative freedom to Jack:


Liz: You are a suit. You feed off the creativity and hard work of other people and turn it in to commercials and pie charts and triangle graphs.

Jack: What’s a triangle graph?

Liz: I don’t know. It sounded real. This is my show—
Jack: No this is my show and once a week I rent it out to the good people at the erectile dysfunction companies.


Rosemary and Liz, after being fired by Jack:


rosemarys-baby-4.jpgRosemary: Oh screw him. Now that you’re free we can work on something together.

Liz: Yeah, and we can start our own network and call it Bitch TV. Or the second idea that we think of.


Tracy, on meeting the GE in-house therapist:


Tracy: Who’s crazier, me or Ann Curry?

Suzanne: Hello Tracy. Jack informed me of the talk you had earlier, and if you don’t mind I’d like to hop right in and start with some role play.

Tracy: You mean like my wife and I do? Cool. You be the maid. I want you to scream. Donaghy, you play the matador.


Rosemary, channeling Princess Leia:


Rosemary: Help me Liz Lemon! You’re my only hope!

Jenna, coaching Kenneth for his “Page-Off” versus Head Page Donnie:


Jenna: Which NBC series spun off, among others, Cosby, Miami Vice, Cheers and Highway to Heaven?

Kenneth: Supercomputer!

Jenna: You’re gonna do great!


Liz, begging for her job back:


Liz: it was terrible. I went to her apartment. I don’t think she has a toilet. I saw my future.

Jack: Never go with a hippie to a second location.

This entry was posted on Sunday, October 28th, 2007 at 11:26 pm by Brian Howard.
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2 Responses to “It’s three days later and you’re just getting around to 30 Rock?”

  1. King

    Must have been Star Wars week at NBC, they used the same “help me, you’re my only hope” joke in Chuck, too. Clever or lazy? Who knows? It’s definitely funnier coming from Carrie Fisher.

    Don’t you think the “immigrant” line was a product placement? They had just been talking about Liz’s willingness to do product placements in the show and Immigrant is a high-yield/high-balance on-line savings account where she might have put her 12 grand.

  2. Amy Vernon

    This has got to rank as one of the funniest half hours of television, EVER.

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