“30 Rock” — Rosemary’s Baby
Page-Off!!
Easily the funniest episode of the season, even if most of what I’m basing this on is the following statement from Jack Donaghy after awarding Liz the GE Followship Award…
“When I think of the Liz Lemon I met just one year ago — so resistant to cross promotion, product integration and adverlingus — it pleases me how well she’s learned to follow.”
Yes, you’ve heard it hear first, “adverlingus” is officially the funniest word since truthiness. I like to think of it as a combination of Bee Movie TV Juniors and those annoying mid-episode recappers that have been airing during Friday Night Lights. More after the jump…
Of course a close second in the episode would have to have been the exchange between Jack and Tracy where Jack ask, “What is the one thing I told you not to do?” to which Tracy responds, “That 2-2-7 movie, New Jack-ay City.”
Other highlights, presented for you now with limited commercial interuption:
- Kenneth’s shrieks of pain as he sees his jacket being set on fire.
- Jonathan’s shrieks of shock after Jack fires him (which caused me to laugh really loudly in the wee hours of the morning).
- Carrie Fisher’s description of a sketch she wanted to produce (”We open on a New Orleans abortion clinic…”)
- Carrie Fisher
- Tracy’s desire to dog fight… not because he wants to, but because he has to.
- Jack’s schizophrenic therapy session with Tracy which wasn’t so much funny as it was fun to watch.
- The Page-Off, but more specifically the notion that NBC had a show in 1975 called “Supercomputer”
Is this show breaking new creative ground? Not so much. That being said, when it is on (as in “good,” not as in “airing”)Â there is no better place to find rock-solid laughs — though I heard Big Bang Theory recently didn’t some pretty cutting edge material on the quadratic equation.
October 27th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
The best thing about “Supercomputer” is that it’s clearly based on the actual, 1979, NBC show “Supertrain“.
October 30th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
That therapy session might be the funniest thing I’ve seen on television in quite some time. I laugh myself to tears every time I watch the scene.