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    Image of IpsoFacto IpsoFacto
    11/20/09

    In reply to The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock: Green Week Is a Stupid Idea
    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.
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    Image of homoviper homoviper
    11/21/09

    @IpsoFacto: I felt like this episode was the first time they've been in top form so far 4th season.
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    Image of VioletViolet VioletViolet
    11/20/09

    In reply to The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock: Green Week Is a Stupid Idea
    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.
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    Image of Hiroine Protagonist Hiroine Protagonist
    11/21/09

    @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.
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    Image of VioletViolet VioletViolet
    11/21/09

    @Hiroine Protagonist: Thank you. I wish the people at Gawker watched that show.

    #tips
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    Image of sensitivitycop sensitivitycop
    11/20/09

    In reply to The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock: Green Week Is a Stupid Idea
    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.
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    If_I_Had_a_Poodle promoted this comment sensitivitycop was starred sensitivitycop was unstarred
    Image of Aatom Aatom
    11/20/09

    In reply to The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock: Green Week Is a Stupid Idea
    Also: The Office seems to be on a tear against middle management types recently.
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    Edited by Aatom at 11/20/09 4:00 PM Aatom was starred Aatom was unstarred
    Image of jerseybiscuit001 jerseybiscuit001
    11/20/09

    In reply to The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock: Green Week Is a Stupid Idea
    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.
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    11/20/09

    In reply to The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock: Green Week Is a Stupid Idea
    Imagine the possibilities if this Comcast deal goes through?
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    Image of Jill7 Jill7
    11/20/09

    In reply to The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock: Green Week Is a Stupid Idea
    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.
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    Image of SpicyMeatball SpicyMeatball
    11/20/09

    In reply to The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock: Green Week Is a Stupid Idea
    Maybe I'm numb to it, but I'm not reading these jokes as snubs as put-downs in an actual sense.
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    11/20/09

    In reply to The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock: Green Week Is a Stupid Idea
    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.
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    Image of A Pimp Named DaveR A Pimp Named DaveR
    11/20/09

    @Tremonius: I'm sorry, "Debbie Downer" is an SNL sketch, not a 30 Rock sketch.
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    11/20/09

    @A Pimp Named DaveR: Oh. Then maybe it wasn't Harpers?

    #tips
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    Image of TheUptightMidwesterner TheUptightMidwesterner
    11/20/09

    In reply to The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock: Green Week Is a Stupid Idea
    The green peacock was bugging the crap out of me, so Kenneth slyly eyeballing it was the best.
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    Image of BBooms BBooms
    11/13/09

    In reply to The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock
    That's a stretch. The Glad joke was certainly poking fun at "Top Chef" for its overt shilling, but in the process 30 Rock dedicated an entire scene to sandwich bags. I doubt Glad is too unhappy about that. #30rock
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    Image of hotpinklovesofa hotpinklovesofa
    11/13/09

    In reply to The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock
    30 Rock is the only thing on NBC right now worth watching every week. I watched it on my DVR this morning and was laughing my butt off. It's probably the only thing that NBC doesn't completely sanitize before reaching the airwaves. I love that they take digs at the network and whether it's b/c the Lornes/Fey team is powerful enough to get away with it or the people at the network are too stupid to get it (it's definitely possible,) I'm all for it. I highly doubt it'll be the digs that get them canceled but the ratings should they fall low enough, not that NBC can afford to lose any more programming at this point.

    I love Jack's reaction when Padma showed him that she was pregnant. It's a reminder of what all women experience when they announce their pregnancy to superiors, no matter their job or industry. Meanwhile, you could come to work and announce to everyone that you had herpes and the reaction wouldn't be any worse.

    Side note: Padma needs to stick to presenting on Top Chef. Her monotone robotic delivery doesn't really work for anything else. Some girls (and also boys) need to accept that a pretty face can only take you so far. #30rock
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    Image of ngonzogo ngonzogo
    11/13/09

    In reply to The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock
    Veering off topic, kinda' but I've seen a few episodes of Jay Leno's show where he takes shots at NBC. WTF? Does anyone have less cause to dis' his employer than Leno?
    Then again I saw him step on a children's toy because it was annoying. I guess he's just trying to be edgy. #30rock
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    Image of b4nt4 b4nt4
    11/13/09

    In reply to The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock
    Padma Lakshmi can't act her way out of a Glad bag. I cringed during that whole scene. Josh Fadem as Liz Lemon's agent on the other hand...brilliant. #30rock
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    Image of Aatom Aatom
    11/13/09

    @b4nt4: I cringed through most of Padma's horrid performance, until she started stealing food (in a Glad bag!) at the end. That deserved a chuckle, but only because she wasn't actually saying anything. #30rock
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    Image of Aatom Aatom
    11/13/09

    In reply to The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock
    I think this analysis is completely backwards. 30 Rock has made dissing the actual product and product placement itself a form of product placement. Like Jack says in the Jack-Tor episode in season 1, it's like "Letterman dissing the suits. Hippy humor." Look, NBC is in on the joke, they're cool! Seems odd that Gawker wouldn't be able to grasp this type of thing, since it built an online empire doing pretty much the same thing re: media.

    The sandwich bag jokes are pretty clearly subtle product placement, not a "real kick in the shins". We all know she shills for Glad, and here she is taking credit for inventing the sandwich bag! Buy Glad!

    That's the way I saw it last night, at least.
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    Edited by Aatom at 11/13/09 3:50 PM Aatom was starred Aatom was unstarred
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