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30 Rock: The Collection

October 22nd 2007 02:18

Jack hires an investigator to investigate himself since he’s up for a promotion and the worse the PI can find out is Jack has a massive collection of cookie jars. He warns him to get rid of them immediately if he wants to get ahead in his career. Jenna’s career takes off now that she’s gained weight. But once things start going so well she starts to lose the weight and Jack assigns Kenneth to make sure she keeps eating. Unfortunately, she turns to be the “wrong kind of crazy”, and it’s not food she turns to when Kenneth starts insulting her to get her to eat, it’s Kenneth.


Tracy’s wife gets mad at Liz for not keeping Tracy under control when she leaves the studio, and suddenly decides every decision about her husband will now have to go through her. As she put it to Liz, “I trusted you! You wear glasses!” Liz stands up to her, telling her they were getting nothing done around there with her making all of Tracy’s decisions, and Tracy has to come between them--thus forcing him to be the adult, which he doesn’t like one bit. His wife on the other hand, does, and they immediately make up, forcing Liz to stagger out of the room with a, “Wow, you guys start with that?”

Jack eventually packs up his beloved cookie jar collection, keeping only the one with the upside-down “WoW” on it...He assures Liz his obsession with cookie jars has nothing to do with the fact that his mom wouldn’t let him have any when he was a kid. Kenneth comes in and says he really likes the cookie jar, especially the upside-down wow part, and Jack has a shining-moment of respect for Kenneth. He gives him his last cookie jar.


Favorite quotes of the week:

“You can’t ask a bird not to fly. You can’t ask a fish not to swim. You can’t ask a tiger not to change back to a Chinese dude at midnight!”--Tracy to Liz when she tries to stop him from going out to cheat on his wife.

When Liz finally decides that she’s just going to have to stand up and fight Tracy’s wife…

Jack: I’m impressed, you’re beginning to think like a businessman.
Liz: You mean businesswoman
Jack: I don’t think that’s a word.

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Studio 60 vs. 30 Rock

June 26th 2007 22:07

One’s a comedy by SNL alum Tina Fey, the other’s a drama that brings together one of our friends from Friends and a former cast member of The West Wing. I say, why do we have to choose, why not both?

When I heard there were going to be two SNL-ish TV shows, I admit I was more excited about 30 Rock only because I knew Tina Fey was its creator. However, when both shows came on the air, due to scheduling constraints, I could only watch Studio 60. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of Mathew Perry, and the bickering between the main characters of Matt and Danny (played by Bradley Whitford) can be a lot of fun, but I soon found I was mostly watching for the set design.

I just recently caught up with all episodes of both shows, and I can now say I like them both for different reasons.

30 Rock is hilarious. Tina Fey is great, as is Alec Baldwin, who I’m normally not that big of fan of but does a very funny job playing Liz Lemon’s (Tina Fey) new boss Jack Donaghy. The cameos with Rachel Dratch (SNL) are a lot of fun to watch, and Tracy Morgan plays a crazy movie-turned-TV-star Tracy Jordan. The show takes you behind the scenes of the variety show The Girly Show (renamed TGS with Tracy Jordan much to the former star, Jenna Maroney’s (Jane Krakowski) dismay). If you just want to watch half an hour of good writing with fun characters, 30 Rock is for you.

On the other end of the spectrum we have Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Although it’s sometimes funny to watch Matt and Danny bicker back and forth while they run through an amazing backstage set of their late-night SNL-type show, this is definitely a drama. Studio executives, on-and-off-again relationships, the war, politics, and religion are just a few of the driving themes on Studio 60. But when you’re running a late night comedy sketch show, how can they not be? While I was starting to feel like every show was a little too much of the same story, I still watch when I get the chance. The ensemble cast, which also includes Amanda Peet and D.L. Hughley, does a great job, and it’s entertaining to watch the behind-the-scenes action.

Unfortunately it seems viewers and the executives have decided we can only have one and 30 Rock is it. Although I hate to see another show I was starting to watch get cancelled, when I really sit down and think about it, I would have to agree. In any case, I say, “Bravo!” to both shows for all their hard work and effort!

Which do you choose?

Click here to watch online episodes of 30 Rock, and here for the most recent episodes of studio 60.

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