Well that is just a load of crap. Sorry, it is very early in the morning, I apologise for the less than Wildean response.

R U Fing serious? Last night was the best episode this season. If only for the casting of Mr. Big himself-- Ferris Bueller. Or as I like to call him Cooter Burger. F-ing Genius.

Dear USA Today:

Quit being stupid.

Thanks,

Quality Television

PS Tina Fey smites you. Remember the Emperor's lighting bolts? Yeah, like that.

CC: Tina Fey (as God)

"By contrast, Two and A Half Men just keeps outdoing itself."

To: Robert Bianco

From: In Other News...

Re: "The show's fraying links to reality"

I wonder what the fuck show you are watching, because it sure as hell ain't 30 Rock. Why is it that when something good comes along, something genuinely good on network fucking TV, you guys want to see it destroyed? Are you really saying that this television show, which I think skewers celebrity, corporate America, it's own fucking network, the Bush administration, and the human fucking condition better than anything out there, including books, has jumped the shark? I suppose you'd rather stay with the standard-fare sitcom, which does NOT include references to archery, "woman moments," boxes full of pen caps, and people speaking Mandarin, but rather Britney Spears making guest appearances or shows about housewives who are desperate or "American Gladiators."

"Fraying links to reality"? Perhaps you've never actually worked in television - as I have - and knew producers, talent and hangers-on who have the same neuroses, quirk, hang-ups and benignly devious personalities as Tina Fey (who is GOD) and cast/crew manage to capture so perfectly in every. Single. Episode.

Robert Bianco, if the show dies, and it won't, but if it does, we'll hold you responsible for killing the Only Decent TV left. Besides The Office. And House. And CSI.

And, oh yeah? Print is dying. This stupid little review of yours? I read it on the Internet. What do you think about that?

Love,

In Other News...

@nevin: No, that was perfect. Four stars.

To everyone else who's commented thus far, I say: Hear fucking hear.

My girlfriend was laughing at last night's episode, and she wasn't even watching it.

@moff: Your girlfriend knows good shit when she doesn't see it.

Dear USA Today:

Uh, no. It's never been funnier.

When are you guys just going to give in and admit that you're not a real newspaper? At some point in I think it was maybe the 90s I woke up in a bad hotel and there you were, outside the door, and soon I realized that whenever I woke up in a bad hotel in a place that supported George Bush, there I would find your paper as something like a Welcome Mat. Leave Liz Lemon alone, okay? It's not FOR you. You're not cool enough to be watching it. Tina Fey rolls your paper up to hit her writers with, okay? Be grateful for that.

Yeah, yeah,

Koreanish

USA Today:

PS the sandwich episode was epic and amazing!!!!

And BTW. When Jack sits down to a slice and soda to listen to his voicemails, the portrayal in those 60 seconds of a woman (Lemon) slowly going maniacal ("Everything is happening!") to quasi-rapturous (the cribs) to sweet ("I'm happy") to heartbroken ("Never mind") - no other show can present a scene that funny yet poignant on TV today. I DARE you to argue otherwise. It sort of reminded me of that final scene in Tommy Boy, where Chris Farley is riding his little sailboat, and he starts talking to his dead father up there in heaven... and promptly gets his noggin knocked by the mast. Funny, poignant.

I say again that Robert Bianco is full of shit.

@Koreanish: Tina Fey says you're okay with her. Te gusta Sabor de Soledad?

Perhaps Mr. Bianco missed the part of "Sandwich Day" when Liz become The Hulk, screaming for her mac and cheese. Or maybe Mr. Bianco is just on his period.

@In Other News...: I might have cried a little during that scene. And kudos to Tina Fey for being able to convey so much in just a few little lines.

@In Other News...: Si. Also the other things I get at my Spanish deli: Cafe Bustelo, for example.

The episode where she's afraid of dying alone after home choking around the apartment hit WAY too close to home. But that's what I love about that show.

"I'll cut you so bad you'll have a chin! You'll ALL have chins!"

How can an actress who supports Hillary Clinton retain her sense of humor in these trying times?

@In Other News...:
That's Robert Dennis Bianco, I think.

I think Bianco is reading this comment thread right now, and is getting to the point where the anger seething within him over a bunch of anonies (did I just coin that?) questioning his obvious Alessandra-Stanley-like incomprehension of the medium which he claims to be an "expert" is about to explode. Well, let me send him over the top - Robert Bianco, you are a mess of an idiot. Did you actually watch the show? Did you once submit a spec script that you thought was actually pretty good, so good that it made it to a pilot, which got shitcanned, a la Quarterlife, causing you to be so obviously bitter toward a quality show that has too few viewers as it is?

@fileunder: As in Dennis the Menace, as in "let me menace all the good shows right off of broadcast TV"?

Full disclosure: Tina Fey is God.

@In Other News...: The scene with Jack listening to Liz's voice mails was AMAZING. And I did get a little choked up. I can't remember the last time a TV show conveyed an emotional connection between characters so unexpectedly and so poignantly.

@Our Lady of the Massacre: Yep.

@In Other News...: Heehee, nope - Dennis, her yucky 'boyfriend' or whatever.

@AuntPenny: Damn it, I should have said "woman times." Damn it damn it damn it.

I've got to agree. Fey is God.

Mr Bianco can eat my poo. Nope, still need more sleep damn it.

"a guaranteed disaster. like eating a burrito before sex."

@In Other News...:
"Why is it that when something good comes along, something genuinely good on network fucking TV, you guys want to see it destroyed?"

Because critics are are the pedantic also-rans of the entertainment business and aren't talented enough to write for a show as good as 30R.

Also, the ceiling is not leaking and we need some pens.

@winniemc: Yes she is.

@BL Ride: "Touch my knees butt."

@fileunder: "Can you come up? I need some lightbulbs changed."

@Koreanish: Bustelo! It's impossible for me not to shout it heartily every time I brew a pot. It tastes like shouting. And shortly afterward you don't realize it, but you are.

@BL Ride: Best-one-liner-that-I-almost-missed-because-I-was-laughing-at-something-else of the night.

@PandoraSpocks: "Pen Closet" might have been my favorite joke of the night. I really enjoy the non-verbal ones.

I've yet to see an episode of this show that wasn't infused with some kind of genius, great or small.

This thread/lovefest heartens me: not one non-adulatory word about the series and about last night's show, despite the primo opportuity to be on the vanguard of the 30 Rock backlash by flexing the acerbic/mean-spirited wit that Gawker commenters are reknown for.

Um, you guys okay?

@Zorica: "Tastes like shouting" is amazing.

They should give it to people who are trying to get off Meth. They would never do it again.

@ginger rant: We are awesome!!! But don't scroll down to the newer posts.

After the Gay Bomb accidentally goes off and Jack looks at Cooter Burger and says:

"Let's do this."

Genius.

@schnarky: if somebody fires USA Today critic Robert Bianco and the only job he can find is reviewing community theater in Grand Forks, then i'll be at Erection Cove.

I like the show too, but I think it IS trying too hard. I liked it better when it was more focussed on making the show itself. It is getting too soap opera-y now... I don't care about Liz Lemon having a baby. Though I really liked the Amadeus homage to the porn video game. More of the nerdy guy with the hat...