season 1 was amazing. season 2 was the shit (minus a couple post-writers strike stuff). season 3 had amazing highs and lows. and season 4 (for me anyway) has been absolutely brutal as a whole. i know my standards are ridiculously high but i feel really disappointed so far this year.
Since Gawker already announced that the only NBC show they watch is 30 Rock, you missed the fact that The Office limited their "green" part to a Dwight joke at the very beginning of the episode, and Community satirized Green Week by having the dean of the community college start a Green Week that no one was interested in.
@VioletViolet: I feel the urge to reply because I enjoy Community so much. And a college named Greendale being renamed Envirodale and everyone rolling their eyes? Classic.
Tina Fey is funny, 30 Rock is funny, but they aren't THAT funny. Clever - yes. Overly hipster - yes. But her reign at NBC has only produced the kind of humor that relies too heavily on the moment. I have a hard time watching reruns of her work, and she still gets beat by Family Guy and South Park in terms of water-cooler conversation (except in NYC, where the rest of the world doesn't exist). When I watch 30 Rock I do a lot of smiling but not much laughing. And why hasn't Cathy Guisewite, the author of the "Cathy" comic strip, sued Tina Fey for copyright infringement. Tina does a great Sarah Palin, but then again Sarah does the actual writing.
I work at NBC. The TVs and computers stay on all night. Everywhere. You get scolded by the techie guys if you turn them off. And every kitchen is stocked with those one-serve coffee machines with the little plastic cups of coffee grounds, which NBC does not recycle. But hey, at least the peacock is green.
Only Tina Fey can save television, but she's going to have to do it by writing Saturday Night Live and producing Project Runway, while also staying with 30 Rock. Please, Tina, please.
I am quite sure that requiring little bits cheerleading for generic green is much cheaper than cleaning up the vast lakes of PCB spewed into the rivers by GE over decades. And why is it the corporations who whine about government interference always shuck off the results of their own enterprise onto taxpayers? Read all about it in this month's Harpers, and laugh at 30 Rock, and don't never ever fish in the Hudson, ever.
@scroll_lock: Was at a rather intimate event Wednesday night and Alec showed up looking dapper- straight from a 30 Rock taping. He touched my arm at the bar. I wanted to reference 30 Rock/Jack Donaghy soooo badly, but it just turned into a dorky "I'm a big fan. You are funny," at the end of the night....I'm way cooler in my head. Sigh.
Tonight's episode was hilarious; I loved every bit of it. And, honestly, I think my favorite part was Liz's reaction when the gay hipster cop said that the fireplace's lack of a duct caused his apartment to smell like Burger King all day and Cinnabon all night.
@pureblarney: Oh, yes -- definitely -- I absolutely love it when we're graced with a mention of/appearance by Kathy Geiss. The episode where they were trying to take her portrait was epic.
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