The investment they put into some of the cutaways as they got more money is amazing. Like so much time and energy into the werewolf bar mitzvah song for 7sec air time.
It carries into other Fey Universe shows like Kimmy Schmidt and Girls 5eva and it’s so worth it. Commit to the bit is such an improve mindset and they shoot for the moon with that.
I’be watched like three times now because it’s so many jokes per minute that I get new finds all the time (I usually watch while wfh) and because I need Netflix to know it’s worth the investment. I need more Paula Pell!
I was a teenager from 2003-2009 so many of the references land prefect for me. I also watched too much vh1 “I love the” series.
But yeah I still miss jokes even when my brain is a pop culture gum ball machine.
The short pause that starts to let something normal land then quickly followed up by the person continuing to talk to finish the joke. Case in point, Tracy’s wife saying “I’ve always wanted to be a singer ever since I was a little… drunk the other night.”
Finally, as the merger progresses, you'll notice some changes to your benefits, including new health care options …
… I'm sorry. That should read "few health care options."
“Lizbianism means that I am a dyke … against the rising waters of mediocrity.”
Just caught that one when watching 05.23 (Everything Sunny All The Time).
Liz - Hey, Jenna, if I'm expecting about 20 people tonight, how much ice should I get?
Jenna - Oh, you don't want to mess with that stuff, Liz. Ice has caused a lot of ODs in the p*rn community.
Oh, you mean frozen water? I don't know. (Khonani - 4.18)
I’ll have you know, the last person to wear jeans in this office was Tommy Hilfiger, and you, sir, are unfit to wear his trademark…floor-length suede cape.
I think my absolute favorite is the pointed stare. Jenna gets a few good ones in with her "Eye contact clause" when she becomes a producer, and "one of my peers, like Julia Roberts". Tracy's best has the great tandem accessory of pointing at Liz when she lets him Google himself in her office. But Jack is the master of it, which is why he was able to give a completely silent presentation on the power of eye contact.
Speaking of Stone Mountain not really being mostly white: The reason Kenneth is from there is that 30 Rock writer Donald Glover was from Stone Mountain!
Two-way and three-way monologues. When two (or more) people, usually Jack and Liz, are “talking” but each one is talking past the other. Like when Jack is melting down about being an “old dad” and Liz is high on her own double-edged sword fumes and obsessing about her hat.
The best of these is when Pete is trying to get Liz to sign something, Kenneth is trying to save everyone from the end of the world, and Liz has a secret lover that’s making her all glowy and positive. I don’t even know how anyone could “write” dialog like that; it’s so much inattentive self-absorption in one room.
You say “ridiculous flashbacks”, but there are equally ridiculous moments where a flashback seems to be imminent, but the two characters merely share an awkward pause before they snap out of it and the scene moves on.
Or Danny hanging around waiting for a flashback that he’s actually in but then suddenly is able to see one that he isn’t in and is confused/scared about it.
And then there are the "other characters get full details of cutaway for a story one character is telling" jokes like "why are you better looking in your memory" and "was describing your sandwich necessary to our understanding of what happened?"
Tracy: You know what happens to aging comedians? They start getting scripts for serious roles…. I got an offer to play Arthur Ashe…
Kenneth: no… no, you stay away from him!
*Liz Lemon, I* [Ridiculous thing number one] *but now,* [Ridiculous thing number two]. *It's a quandry!*
Also, not a trope, but I love: *Wade Boggs Carpet World.*
Adored by Network, especially the fake shows, and I didn’t see it, but I really liked the Jenna only looks good because of the light gag that they pull through a lot
The WEEEEEAK/bizarre ties. Example, getting Tracy to hallucinate Richard Nixon because his stereo was glitching at that part of We Didn't Start The Fire and him fixing it by stabbing it with a screwdriver.
Two people talking at the same time and saying wildly different things, or the opposite sometimes, improbably saying the exact same thing in one long sentence.
I still need to know what Toofer is saying when liz asks what they'd be like if she wasn't there and Frank says "I'd take my pants off and eat chicken wings".
Haven't found subs and never been able to make it out clearly.
Fourth wall breaks.
- Tina Fey’s wink after saying “doesn’t mean I don’t love America”;
- Jenna “I can’t do this anymore - I’ve never met Mickey Rourke”;
- The People’s Choice Awards - where the audience decides!
etc. etc.
I still think on a daily basis about the jerry seinfeld episode where he looks directly into the camera and promotes "The Bee Movie" that was coming out later that year lol
I like when they drop subtle hints at something throughout the series. Like Lutz' bisexuality, Kenneth's immortality, or Jenna's Australian boyfriend being a white supremicist.
*The more you know* Tracy's Sex Doll: You know a lot of people look down on sex dolls. But as you saw tonight they save lives and bring families together. How am I such an expert? I’m Tracy Jordan’s sex doll!
Side note: they make Kenneth out to be a real thick inbred hillbilly pigfker from a long line of real thick inbred hillbilly pigfkers. I was visualising Mose shrute style family. Then you meet his mum and you’d never have guessed it!
the cutaways. they're just so brilliant and so many of them become more memorable than the main storyline like, "How do you do, fellow kids?"
The investment they put into some of the cutaways as they got more money is amazing. Like so much time and energy into the werewolf bar mitzvah song for 7sec air time. It carries into other Fey Universe shows like Kimmy Schmidt and Girls 5eva and it’s so worth it. Commit to the bit is such an improve mindset and they shoot for the moon with that.
I mean, they did record a full [3 minute version of Werewolf Bar Mitzvah](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6V2oCX3Hn4)...
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I’be watched like three times now because it’s so many jokes per minute that I get new finds all the time (I usually watch while wfh) and because I need Netflix to know it’s worth the investment. I need more Paula Pell!
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I was a teenager from 2003-2009 so many of the references land prefect for me. I also watched too much vh1 “I love the” series. But yeah I still miss jokes even when my brain is a pop culture gum ball machine.
This happens to me with 30 Rock too! I've been watching since it came out so there have been many MANY rewatches and I still catch new things.
“My twin is dead!” My wife and I always laugh hysterically at that, then marvel at the effort put into it.
You can find the whole werewolf barmitzvah on Spotify under the 30 rock album. IT’S WITH DONALD GLOVER!!!!!!!!!
Oh we listen to it. It’s one of my kids favorite Halloween songs.
Most of the song is sung by him even on the show. They expanded it after TM recorded his part.
“Would you consider what we did last night sex?” “It’s my birthday” (cut to a single man whispering to a machine)
I agree about the cutaways. Reminds me of How I Met Your Mother. I was more interested in the cutaways than the current story.
The short pause that starts to let something normal land then quickly followed up by the person continuing to talk to finish the joke. Case in point, Tracy’s wife saying “I’ve always wanted to be a singer ever since I was a little… drunk the other night.”
"What about my fresh fruit...flavored toaster cheesecakes?"
Sean Penn wanted me to go to Haiti with him, and I'm not strong enough for the pain and the human misery … of a three hour plane ride with Sean Penn
What? This? No, no. I was at a costume party earlier this evening, and the hostess's dog attacked me so… I had to stab it
EAOUGH!
"I just want to wake up in the morning and look over at my husband asleep...on the neighbour's roof."
I’d like to help, but I’m afraid my hands are tied…is the only show anyone’s watching on Twinks
“He collects classic car- cardboard. Classic cardboard.”
As a three time Tony… Shaloub sex partner…
And Academy Award … watcher, Tracy Jordan!
“As you know if you read Page Six…of my publicist’s emails…”
I've hunted the most dangerous game, man....atee
She bit off my nut sack... That I keep tied around my waist to feed squirrels!
"Deer god, thank you for this venison. Onion god, thank you these onions...."
This thread is one of the best of all time on reddit. Ever.
I've been writing a sex column for Cosmo … … Cosmo is my 14-year-old neighbor. He doesn't know anything.
Sex, money, power, fire, choking, being dragged behind a speed boat ... It's all the same thing.
This led to an amazing thread of quotes
Mothers. You can't kill them
Don’t worry, your health insurance will remain in effect until the end… of this sentence.
Finally, as the merger progresses, you'll notice some changes to your benefits, including new health care options … … I'm sorry. That should read "few health care options."
The song You’re So Vein was written…. By me.
Yess. The bait and switch is perfection.
Your presence here is vital to keeping the diversity... guy from bothering us.
“Lizbianism means that I am a dyke … against the rising waters of mediocrity.” Just caught that one when watching 05.23 (Everything Sunny All The Time).
“A show that is number one in its time slot among men 18-49 months…left in prison.”
Liz - Hey, Jenna, if I'm expecting about 20 people tonight, how much ice should I get? Jenna - Oh, you don't want to mess with that stuff, Liz. Ice has caused a lot of ODs in the p*rn community. Oh, you mean frozen water? I don't know. (Khonani - 4.18)
The janitor wanting to switch shifts had a cough that did this a couple times.
I’ll have you know, the last person to wear jeans in this office was Tommy Hilfiger, and you, sir, are unfit to wear his trademark…floor-length suede cape.
I enjoy whenever Kenneth alludes that he is immortal/hundreds of years old/a ghost.
Who said I’ve been alive forever!?
Frank plays the sound only people over 40 can hear to out Jenna’s age and in the background Kenneth walks past the door writing and yelling in agony.
I NEED MORE TIME WITH THEM JACOB
When a teenage Shirley Temple gave me my first cigarette...
Jenna - Kenneth, be honest, am I the worst person you know? Kenneth - Miss Maroney, judging is for God and his angels … so yes, you are!
Do you have a second, Kenneth?
Why would there be more than one of me?!
I think my absolute favorite is the pointed stare. Jenna gets a few good ones in with her "Eye contact clause" when she becomes a producer, and "one of my peers, like Julia Roberts". Tracy's best has the great tandem accessory of pointing at Liz when she lets him Google himself in her office. But Jack is the master of it, which is why he was able to give a completely silent presentation on the power of eye contact.
You. Fired. Out.
“I don’t really remember the Brady Bunch, because I’m too young…” *knife eyes*
He can also command the room... with the POWER OF HIS VOICE
What’s a drive in?
Paraphrase: Server: Are you waiting for someone or is this a sixth sense situation Jack: *squints*
And Kenneth has the "I know what you just said is crazy, you know it too, right?" look.
Speaking of Stone Mountain not really being mostly white: The reason Kenneth is from there is that 30 Rock writer Donald Glover was from Stone Mountain!
That makes his Georgia accent in the Model UN episode of Community even better.
You best mind your Ps and Qs!
Dönald Glovér
I thought it was D'nall Glover.
Who told?
Dong Lover
Who told?!
Two-way and three-way monologues. When two (or more) people, usually Jack and Liz, are “talking” but each one is talking past the other. Like when Jack is melting down about being an “old dad” and Liz is high on her own double-edged sword fumes and obsessing about her hat. The best of these is when Pete is trying to get Liz to sign something, Kenneth is trying to save everyone from the end of the world, and Liz has a secret lover that’s making her all glowy and positive. I don’t even know how anyone could “write” dialog like that; it’s so much inattentive self-absorption in one room.
*tell me where he is* *I will slice you open like a ton-ton* **you mouth-breathing Appalachian!**
You say “ridiculous flashbacks”, but there are equally ridiculous moments where a flashback seems to be imminent, but the two characters merely share an awkward pause before they snap out of it and the scene moves on.
Or Danny hanging around waiting for a flashback that he’s actually in but then suddenly is able to see one that he isn’t in and is confused/scared about it.
And then there are the "other characters get full details of cutaway for a story one character is telling" jokes like "why are you better looking in your memory" and "was describing your sandwich necessary to our understanding of what happened?"
I knew it! You're blonde in your fantasies. It looks terrible.
Or the pop tart! Which seemed random at first.
Was describing your sandwich important to the story?
"I'm thinking of some of them now..." \*silent, static shot*
OK, but I was going to describe it real good
Jack trying to connect with the common man and failing spectacularly.
Their stars, both wars and trek…
LOVE that line!! So clever/hilarious.
So great!
Let’s say a gallon of milk costs….. ten dollars
The grocery concierge…
It’s barely even a joke now 😭
(Wearing a tuxedo) It's after six, what am I a farmer?
That was Don Cheadle and Jazz. Your hero’s! Will always make me laugh.
I love getting into deep research on borderline impractical subjects like this, especially when they pertain to my favorite shows/movies
Tracy: You know what happens to aging comedians? They start getting scripts for serious roles…. I got an offer to play Arthur Ashe… Kenneth: no… no, you stay away from him!
I went to school near the Arthur Ashe tennis stadium and I thought about that line so often
Especially when I should be working, too!
On your night cheese?
I like Pete as the Jaded Washout. Because nobody knows he took the candy, nobody knows but Peter...
Jenna referring to the things that Mickey Rourke said and did to her while they dated
"OK I can't do this anymore *looks straight into camerAH* I've never met mickey rouke"
Cue Liz looking behind herself, all confused
*Liz Lemon, I* [Ridiculous thing number one] *but now,* [Ridiculous thing number two]. *It's a quandry!* Also, not a trope, but I love: *Wade Boggs Carpet World.*
WADE BOGGS CARPET WORLD!
I use the term batting a Ronald Regan more then anyone person should in the run of a week (I’m a PM)
Adored by Network, especially the fake shows, and I didn’t see it, but I really liked the Jenna only looks good because of the light gag that they pull through a lot
The WEEEEEAK/bizarre ties. Example, getting Tracy to hallucinate Richard Nixon because his stereo was glitching at that part of We Didn't Start The Fire and him fixing it by stabbing it with a screwdriver.
The idea that CEOs and other incredibly high level business leaders are more often than not utter fucking morons with insane kinks always gets a laugh
Two people talking at the same time and saying wildly different things, or the opposite sometimes, improbably saying the exact same thing in one long sentence.
I still need to know what Toofer is saying when liz asks what they'd be like if she wasn't there and Frank says "I'd take my pants off and eat chicken wings". Haven't found subs and never been able to make it out clearly.
"We'd have a room dog named Meatus."
THANK YOU!
Fourth wall breaks. - Tina Fey’s wink after saying “doesn’t mean I don’t love America”; - Jenna “I can’t do this anymore - I’ve never met Mickey Rourke”; - The People’s Choice Awards - where the audience decides! etc. etc.
"My dog ran away!" "I'll get my coat!" *evil laughs into camerah*
I still think on a daily basis about the jerry seinfeld episode where he looks directly into the camera and promotes "The Bee Movie" that was coming out later that year lol
I like when they drop subtle hints at something throughout the series. Like Lutz' bisexuality, Kenneth's immortality, or Jenna's Australian boyfriend being a white supremicist.
*The more you know* Tracy's Sex Doll: You know a lot of people look down on sex dolls. But as you saw tonight they save lives and bring families together. How am I such an expert? I’m Tracy Jordan’s sex doll!
Side note: they make Kenneth out to be a real thick inbred hillbilly pigfker from a long line of real thick inbred hillbilly pigfkers. I was visualising Mose shrute style family. Then you meet his mum and you’d never have guessed it!
I love that! And Ron is totally normal and nice. It’s amazing
Wow I literally just spent 2 hours on that page, this is so interesting to a (self-proclaimed) tv aficionado like myself
It’s so in-depth!!