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Since we’re also discussing: does anyone know if 30 Rock actually has a CCTV setup where the various stages can be viewed for rehearsals as depicted in the show?
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# ? Nov 27, 2023 18:10 |
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# ? Jun 3, 2024 16:27 |
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One thing I've always loved about 30 Rock is they rarely actually showed us TGS sketches. We often see maybe the start or end of an episode/sketch, as well as random clips or flashes of weird characters in costumes, but that's about it. A lesser show would LOVE to have the excuse of just showing "bad comedy sketch" as a time-filler for a few minutes each episode, but 30 Rock was above that.
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# ? Nov 27, 2023 21:27 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:One thing I've always loved about 30 Rock is they rarely actually showed us TGS sketches. We often see maybe the start or end of an episode/sketch, as well as random clips or flashes of weird characters in costumes, but that's about it. A lesser show would LOVE to have the excuse of just showing "bad comedy sketch" as a time-filler for a few minutes each episode, but 30 Rock was above that. While there are many reasons it failed, this was listed (by Speinwall maybe, I think) as one of the biggest for why Studio 60 flamed out so fast. They were trying to write two shows at the same time and make funny/interesting bits while 30 Rock was just like "here's Fart Doctor".
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# ? Nov 27, 2023 21:45 |
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Josh to the stage, please, for "Homophobic Gays"
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# ? Nov 27, 2023 21:47 |
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Duck
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# ? Nov 27, 2023 23:13 |
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Hey, that was $10!
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# ? Nov 27, 2023 23:40 |
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swickles posted:While there are many reasons it failed, this was listed (by Speinwall maybe, I think) as one of the biggest for why Studio 60 flamed out so fast. They were trying to write two shows at the same time and make funny/interesting bits while 30 Rock was just like "here's Fart Doctor". I love the episode where Tracy and Twofer finally come to an understanding and work together on an amazing skit.... and then Tracy decides at the last minute he wants to do the skit where the lady in the kitchen farts so much it expands her dress instead. Twofer is shocked, then watches Tracy flailing about and farting and goes,"....actually, this is way funnier." Edit: The best "skit" though is the one where the cast dress up as robots, then Dr. Spaceman races onto the set and starts wailing punches on Jenna to save her life. Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 01:12 on Nov 28, 2023 |
# ? Nov 28, 2023 01:09 |
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Me want food
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# ? Nov 28, 2023 01:52 |
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Jerusalem posted:
JENNA NEEDS TO SLEEP OR SHE'S GOING TO DIE
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# ? Nov 28, 2023 02:00 |
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Prince William and Prince: Time-traveling Fart Detectives
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# ? Nov 28, 2023 02:33 |
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Also, now that I've finished the show...Grassy Knowles posted:
Seriously, what!?!
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# ? Nov 28, 2023 02:42 |
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Jerusalem posted:Also, now that I've finished the show... Right?!
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# ? Nov 28, 2023 02:44 |
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Haaaaaaaaammmm
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# ? Nov 28, 2023 02:54 |
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Workin' on my night cheese
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# ? Nov 28, 2023 02:56 |
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My single my single is dropping is dropping
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# ? Nov 28, 2023 03:07 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:One thing I've always loved about 30 Rock is they rarely actually showed us TGS sketches. We often see maybe the start or end of an episode/sketch, as well as random clips or flashes of weird characters in costumes, but that's about it. A lesser show would LOVE to have the excuse of just showing "bad comedy sketch" as a time-filler for a few minutes each episode, but 30 Rock was above that. swickles posted:While there are many reasons it failed, this was listed (by Speinwall maybe, I think) as one of the biggest for why Studio 60 flamed out so fast. They were trying to write two shows at the same time and make funny/interesting bits while 30 Rock was just like "here's Fart Doctor". Poque posted:Josh to the stage, please, for "Homophobic Gays" Jerusalem posted:I love the episode where Tracy and Twofer finally come to an understanding and work together on an amazing skit.... and then Tracy decides at the last minute he wants to do the skit where the lady in the kitchen farts so much it expands her dress instead. Twofer is shocked, then watches Tracy flailing about and farting and goes,"....actually, this is way funnier."
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# ? Nov 28, 2023 08:29 |
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And in the live show when she (for unexplained reasons) is like a Lady Gaga alien-thing. Missing in the caption but I love the emphasis on, "The BIG one"! So we know Jenna has mis-matched nipples/areola.
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# ? Nov 28, 2023 17:24 |
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Why do you have a monster claw?!
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# ? Nov 28, 2023 17:36 |
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What’s wrong, Ken? You’ve got wife-eyes.
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# ? Nov 30, 2023 11:00 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:So we know Jenna has mis-matched nipples/areola. It was an ADULT picture.... for once they were facing the same direction!
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# ? Nov 30, 2023 11:52 |
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You know how hard it is to get teenagers out of bed in the morning Well yes but not in the way you’re talking about
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# ? Dec 1, 2023 20:59 |
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There are four things I want to do this summer, but they’re roommates so it’s tricky.
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# ? Dec 1, 2023 21:06 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:One thing I've always loved about 30 Rock is they rarely actually showed us TGS sketches. We often see maybe the start or end of an episode/sketch, as well as random clips or flashes of weird characters in costumes, but that's about it. A lesser show would LOVE to have the excuse of just showing "bad comedy sketch" as a time-filler for a few minutes each episode, but 30 Rock was above that. They were actually going to have the sketches available to view on NBC.com, but they quickly decided it'd be too much work/too expensive to film real skits as well as the show.
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# ? Dec 1, 2023 23:14 |
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Why don't Catholics eat meat on Fridays? I'll tell you why: because the Pope owns Long John Silvers."
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 19:41 |
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Davros1 posted:They were actually going to have the sketches available to view on NBC.com, but they quickly decided it'd be too much work/too expensive to film real skits as well as the show. This was certainly a good call -- the in-show running joke that TGS is unwatchable garbage produces far more laughs in the long-term than a couple of semi-canon sketches that would inevitably be lost to internet entropy
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 21:44 |
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Loved it when Liz had her and Jenna do one of their old skits for the crew to prove a point to Tracy, and everybody laughed their asses off before Frank genuinely complimented Liz on how funny it was... then asked,"So how come the show we do now sucks?"
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# ? Dec 3, 2023 22:06 |
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Davros1 posted:Why don't Catholics eat meat on Fridays? I'll tell you why: because the Pope owns Long John Silvers." Karl Robe, you say?
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# ? Dec 4, 2023 20:51 |
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Sash! posted:Karl Robe, you say?
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# ? Dec 4, 2023 20:57 |
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Lord Hydronium posted:You know someone named Arsenio Billingham?
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# ? Dec 4, 2023 20:59 |
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It's farting! Farting like a Turk!
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# ? Dec 4, 2023 22:13 |
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I'd have watched Black Frasier if it was a real show. I mean, Frasier's upstairs neighbor was Black Frasier.
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# ? Dec 5, 2023 19:06 |
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Jerusalem posted:Loved it when Liz had her and Jenna do one of their old skits for the crew to prove a point to Tracy, and everybody laughed their asses off before Frank genuinely complimented Liz on how funny it was... then asked,"So how come the show we do now sucks?" TBF, they were only laughing at it because the very idea of a woman doctor was funny to them. They didn't pay attention at all to whatever was actually funny in the sketch. Although that might be as different scene I'm thinking of? In that one, I think it's Tracy who was laughing at the idea of a woman doctor.
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# ? Dec 5, 2023 19:20 |
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Want to see me shotgun this?
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# ? Dec 5, 2023 19:39 |
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Sash! posted:I'd have watched Black Frasier if it was a real show. I mean, Frasier's upstairs neighbor was Black Frasier. I thought something in this thread was fruity and precocious
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# ? Dec 5, 2023 19:48 |
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It was huge on BET, every Thursday night at about 9, 9:15
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# ? Dec 5, 2023 19:58 |
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bentacos posted:Want to see me shotgun this?
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# ? Dec 5, 2023 21:40 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:TBF, they were only laughing at it because the very idea of a woman doctor was funny to them. They didn't pay attention at all to whatever was actually funny in the sketch. Tracy definitely says that he thought it was funny because the idea of a woman doctor was hilarious to him (wonderfully the end of the episode he discovers the monkey he thought was hilarious was female), but the rest of the crew seemed to genuinely think it was funny and Frank gives genuine praise to it before the backhanded bit about TGS sucking.
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# ? Dec 6, 2023 00:34 |
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When is modern science going to find a cure for a woman's mouth?
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# ? Dec 6, 2023 01:02 |
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chocolate chocolate chocolate gahhhh
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# ? Dec 6, 2023 05:15 |
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# ? Jun 3, 2024 16:27 |
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How could a company from Philadelphia buy a company from New York? That would be like Vietnam defeating the United States in a ground war.
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# ? Dec 6, 2023 07:08 |