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Xealot posted:(Another instance: Lillian at one point drinks a tallboy can of "Old Spanish," a fictitious drink that first appeared on 30 Rock, and that a character orders on Mad Men as a nod to that. It's apparently red wine, tonic water, and olives...which sounds absolutely disgusting.) I thought the joke was just that it was an off-brand somehow-worse Olde English. The one great Mad Men reference is when Kimmy says to Gretchen "The Reverend was a psycho liar who claimed he came up with the Buy The World a Coke commercial!"
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FactsAreUseless posted:That said, it's not a great episode. Suddenly dropping the Mickey story in favor of something else was probably a mistake when trying to pace such a short season, although I did like Lillian's part in the episode. Mickeying hasn't been a thing in the community for years., though.
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I loved Lillian getting mad at Methhead Charlie and referring to him as Methadone H Charles. Season 2 was great and I'm sad that I binged it all so soon 
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Apr 22, 2016 03:39
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I SMELL A MAN! Amy Sedaris knocked everything out of the park.
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Illinois Smith posted:On the other hand I just tried to read the AVclub thing about that episode and I think it's put me off reading episode criticisms of anything forever. I thought it was pretty accurate, tbh. That episode was dumb and I do think it missed the point. But even then it had some pretty great jokes (Top 5 Hitlers, Internet talking like Chandlers). And FWIW the Binge Watch review from AV Club was much more positive. I like how every character seems to exist in the same universe as a show the actors have been in based on all the references - Lisa Kudrow + Friends, Ellie Kemper + The Office, even "Kim Blake Nelson." Favorite jokes were the puppet and Ice T's eulogy. I was dying at the "yes and" of his final words. Also nobody has mentioned that the family owning the Redskins were even called the Snyders. Wonder if Dan himself will throw a fit and accuse Fey of antisemitism. Henchman of Santa fucked around with this message at 06:04 on Apr 22, 2016 |
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Henchman of Santa posted:That episode was dumb and I do think it missed the point.
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Rewatching season 1, there's a ton of stuff they reference. The Velcro, Kimmy being an uber driver, Alabama!, and I'm sure more.
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This show is mostly kind of boring for me. Best parts were the "NOW: That's like music" gag episode. Kimmy making a theme song for kitty and bunny, but the absolute best was Tina Fey's cameo in the later episodes. She is great and seeing her bounce between straight and joke characters was fantastic. Feels like this show underutilized Jane K. a lot, I thought she'd have a lot more range in the first season but they've really kind of just said "gently caress is she's her dumb 30 rock character with a Native American heritge joke tagged on". The romance with her asian BF didn't go anywhere and I hoped we'd move past that..which we did by the end. Enjoyable, not A list comedy but enough good jokes and it's easy to watch. B+
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Jeff Richmond is a huge part of what makes Tina Fey / Robert Carlock shows so funny: the music direction is on point. There's the obvious stuff like the song parody episode ("I'm Freaking Out" is comedy perfection) but even just the normal scoring is consistently great. e.g. the upbeat music in the montage where Kimmy is letting Gretchen make her own (terrible) decisions really drives it along with a great energy and makes the jokes land harder. Jeff Richmond is their secret comedy John Williams.
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thanks alot assbag posted:I loved Lillian getting mad at Methhead Charlie and referring to him as Methadone H Charles. Hahaha holy poo poo how did I miss this, this is basically the same joke as when Tracy called Liz "Elizabeth Lemonade"
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Titus song about outside bones is the hardest I have laughed at anything in a long time. I keep chuckling just thinking about it.
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Tituss Burgess could read the back of a shampoo bottle and I'd be on the floor. His timing and delivery are just so consistently excellent. I want to see him in more stuff, especially if it's comedy.
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Onion Knight posted:Tituss Burgess could read the back of a shampoo bottle and I'd be on the floor. His timing and delivery are just so consistently excellent. Line read of the season might be "I've been exploited in the past. I once went to an open audition that was just a bumfight."
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Onion Knight posted:Tituss Burgess could read the back of a shampoo bottle and I'd be on the floor. His timing and delivery are just so consistently excellent. The 30 Rock episodes he's in are really hilarious, purely becuase of his presance. Da'Fawn has forgotten his catch phrase... Xealot posted:I don't put it past Tina Fey. Between this and 30 Rock, there are probably dozens of cross-references to Mad Men. Also relevant to this point: Anna Camp played Bethany Van Nuys, a woman Don dates after divorcing Betty who's essentially a younger version of Betty. I need to rewatch Mad Men, I barely remember that. And the Olde Spanish sounds like one of the drinks Doctor Venture makes on the Venture Bros. A Doctail.
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twistedmentat posted:I need to rewatch Mad Men, I barely remember that. Ted Chaough orders one at a bar. I don't actually remember the episode though!
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Was feeling pretty depressed the past couple days. Spending my Friday night rewatching episodes 9 and 10 is great therapy, though.
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Xealot posted:I don't put it past Tina Fey. Between this and 30 Rock, there are probably dozens of cross-references to Mad Men. Also relevant to this point: Anna Camp played Bethany Van Nuys, a woman Don dates after divorcing Betty who's essentially a younger version of Betty. Yep, there's also Sam Harris, who plays the former soldier that Kimmy meets in Ep 7. He also played Joan's husband who volunteered to go to Vietnam in Mad Men, although he's a much less lovely person on UBS.
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Sash! posted:Ted Chaough orders one at a bar. I don't actually remember the episode though! It's the episode where they've just done a pitch to the ketchup people. Henchman of Santa posted:Line read of the season might be "I've been exploited in the past. I once went to an open audition that was just a bumfight." Didn't Titus mention being on a Bumfights DVD in season one? Ah, Bumfights. I wonder what happened to that guy.
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SEX BURRITO posted:It's the episode where they've just done a pitch to the ketchup people. I've never seen anything about Bumfights aside from the maker's Dr. Phil interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x1hsC-YKAA You can't tell me that Dr. Phil knew all of that would happen; the Bumfights guy is definitely a piece of poo poo but he knows how to make a good joke. Couldn't stop laughing when he walked onto the stage. Edit: I wanted to make a prison rape joke but I don't think the Bumfights guy ever got arrested.
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I thought Jeff Goldblum was supposed to be more Dr. Oz than Dr. Phil.
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Sober posted:I thought Jeff Goldblum was supposed to be more Dr. Oz than Dr. Phil. Naw, Dr. Oz is more of a snake oil salesman. If Goldbloom was shilling some miracle cure then it would be more Oz.
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Okay I'm pretty sure there's a robot sighting in every episode.
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Robot high five is the best.
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The lead on this show is absolutely fantastic and was wasted on this office
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AAA DOLFAN posted:The lead on this show is absolutely fantastic and was wasted on this office I loved her on The Office. Easily the best character they added in the later seasons. 
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BROCK LESBIAN posted:I SMELL A MAN! It's great how she owns this role completely, and also the role of her total opposite, Princess Caroline.
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I could ask this in general chat but trust you guys right now. If i was to finally watch 30 rock would it be ok to start with season 2? I feel most comedies seem to really get going there.
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It's a good plan
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Lampsacus posted:I could ask this in general chat but trust you guys right now. If i was to finally watch 30 rock would it be ok to start with season 2? I feel most comedies seem to really get going there.
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Lampsacus posted:I could ask this in general chat but trust you guys right now. If i was to finally watch 30 rock would it be ok to start with season 2? I feel most comedies seem to really get going there. Pretty much. The joke pace is way slower in the first season, there's a lot less of Jane Krakowski's character and it took them awhile to figure out Alec Baldwin's character.
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You have to at least watch Tracy Does Conan from season one. It's one of my favorite episodes of the whole show.
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FactsAreUseless posted:No, 30 Rock has a strong first season. I like the early episodes more than most people, but there's some great stuff starting around 3 or 4, and around 6 it really comes together. The last half of S1 and all of S2 are probably the show's strongest run. Agreed. Ep. 4: Jack sits in on the writers' room Ep. 5: Jack acts in a sketch Ep. 6: Jack meets Dennis Ep. 7: Tracy does Conan That's one of the strongest runs in the entire series and it sets up a lot of the characters. I wouldn't skip it.
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Jack's bad acting in episode 5 is incredible. "It's called racial integration... wait, is that right?"
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Yea skipping Jack meets Dennis would be a crime. "Does he know you're the beeper king?" FactsAreUseless posted:Jack's bad acting in episode 5 is incredible. "It's called racial integration... wait, is that right?" "Intergortion?"
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Can I get two cups? or New synergy, new synergy... Does that sound like news energy to anyone?
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Also you miss Jack whispering apologies at Liz before exploding into berating her for addressing him by his Christian name in front of Ron Gordon and Bob Obermeyer, the gentleman from Fairfield. Ever since then, I have referred to pizza as greasy peasant food.
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I really enjoyed this season. I liked it even more than the first one. It was really spot on in every way.
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Good season. I think this might have gotten the biggest laugh from me:
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