30 Rock — “Fireworks”
“Oh what’s that? MC Lite just murdered Danny Bonaduce?! Oh, thanks phone!”
You absolutely have to love the “gravely-voice-off” between Alec Baldwin and G.O.B. Will Arnett. It’s also hard not to love (or at least appreciate) any network comedy that ends an episode will the allusion to Manhattan buildings exploding — and still makes it funny.
30 Rock is on a roll (get it! Rock and roll! Bwahahahah!!… … yeah), which is saying something since it hadn’t aired in over a month. Last night’s episode had the perfect split of Jack’s megalomania (fireworks shaped like cowboy hats), Tracy Jordan’s insanity (”Thomas Jefferson: you are the father!”), Kenneth’s naiveté (gay bait for Devon Banks) and Liz Lemon’s neurosis (”…and I lied. I have had five donuts today).
In a way I think the real secret to this show (or any good show with a large cast) is dividing up the screen time equally. In the case of 30 Rock, Jack, Liz, Tracy and Kenneth come off as having no greater importance than any other. It keeps each of the characters present in the show and guarantees that their time on screen is used as efficiently as possible. It hard to keep characters fresh if one eats up most of the face time.
April 7th, 2007 at 1:27 am
i can’t help wishing that instead of saying “phone” he was saying “mi-KULL”
April 7th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
An extra slice of the storyline pie focused on Toofer and his discovery (thanks to Frank) that his ancestor was a black officer in the Confederate Army, and it just kept getting worse for him after that. For me it was a laugh-out-loud moment when Frank urged Toofer to give in to his heritage and kill Tracy.