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30 Rock Season Premiere
Ah 30 Rock, it’s good to have you back. There is a reason 30 Rock won the best comedy Emmy for last year. It takes a deft hand to make the absolutely absurd sublimely hysterical. And last night’s 3rd season premiere was no different.
As an aside -- 30 Rock had hands down the funniest thing I’ve seen on TV since the Thanksgiving Turkey debacle (best line ever – “Oh lord the carnage…..I swear to God I thought they could fly”) on WKRP in Cincinnati – the Midnight Train to Georgia spoof. Just thinking about that entire episode from last season causes me to break out in giggles.
But onto thoughts, highlights and observations from “Do-Over”:
-- Say what you will about Jack, but the man will do anything (including a tryst with Cathy Geiss) to get his old job back.
-- Jack’s observation that Chaney is “made mostly of metal”
-- Devin selling of the E of GE to Samsung making them Samesung and his company just G.
-- Jack starting back out in the mail room and predicting his come back in nine years and then through a series of quick promotions in one day, predicting five years for his comeback to take over the studio again.
-- Megan Mullally’s return to comedy as Bev, Liz’s adoption evaluator. And the entire process being a disaster no matter how hard Liz tried to coach her coworkers. And despite the fact that Liz never ran a web cam ring out of her apartment and only has men stay over maybe once a year.
-- Tracy’s porn videogame being “more profitable then the war on terror”
-- Cathy touching Jack near his “swimsuit area”
-- Liz and Jack playing out the overdramatic soap opera scene in Cathy’s office.
-- Cathy signing the legal document making Jack her private consultant with decorative stickers.
Some of the best line:
Jack: "I paid my way through Princeton working the day shift at the graveyard and the graveyard shift at the Days Inn."
Liz: "I got rid of all my Colin Firth movies in case they consider them erotica."
Jack: “The man can wear a sweater”
Devin: "Keep your friends close and your enemies so close... that you're almost kissing."
Fred: "I'm Fred; Nick is the other black guy."
Liz: "Is it so wrong that I want to have one of these to grow up and resent me?"
Liz: "I thought it was a topless beach; it was a shipyard."
And the best exchange of the night:
Jack: "Did you need something else, Lemon?"
Liz: "No. I just like seeing you in there."
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Oct 31, 2008 9:43 AM
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I liked the part at the begining where Liz was telling Jack how bad Devon was and said, He doesn't even care when we have cake for the people who's birthdays are on the weekend. And Jack says, the friday before, at lunch.
Cathy talking for the first time(I think) KISS! KISS! KISS!
Liz telling Kenneth that it was imperative that he keep Devon from going to his office. You do know what imperative means? Kenneth: Tell me, tell me!
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Nov 1, 2008 2:36 PM
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Hi CA,
What a great start to the season. I love everything Jack does and says.
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Nov 1, 2008 10:39 PM
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