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    Steve Carell and Tina Fey Love Starring in Films Together

    The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock: Facebook Edition

    The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock: Tina Fey's Vendetta

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    Image of D2theMatthews D2theMatthews
    12/17/09

    In reply to Steve Carell and Tina Fey Love Starring in Films Together
    Disney is doing the Yogi the Bear movie?
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    Image of Arken Arken
    12/17/09

    In reply to Steve Carell and Tina Fey Love Starring in Films Together
    Well you have to blame the Vikings for naming her Frigga (a.k.a. Frigg). She is the wife of Odin and mother of Thor and Loki, among others.

    Besides, the bible has people named Ham and Nimrod.

    On top of this, the Mormons believe that Joseph Smith received the text of the Book of Mormon on golden tablets delivered by an angel named Moroni.
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    Image of CrayonSmoothie CrayonSmoothie
    12/17/09

    @Arken: Moon Unit and Dweezil say 'you go' Arken!
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    12/17/09

    @Arken: I want to know who's playing Sleipnir, a name I have delighted in since finding it in a dusty Nordic Gods book in 1992.

    Just try it: Sleipnir! Sleipnir Sleipnir!
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    12/17/09

    @Arken: Frigga is gonna kick their asses at Gawker media.
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    Image of TedSez TedSez
    12/11/09

    In reply to The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock: Facebook Edition
    I'm pretty sure they would spell it u:Face.
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    Image of freakshowtime freakshowtime
    12/11/09

    In reply to The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock: Facebook Edition
    30 Rock was fun, and I think Jack Donaghy and Julianne Moore form just a sweet, sweet couple — it could be Jack and Nancy, if she would just lose that accent... would ya, please?

    But Community was freakin' awesome last night! The religion jokes (Agnostic? BOO! Lazy man's atheist!), that bully (Dude, my life is a gym!)... oh, and the guys suddenly taking off their shirts to fight? WTF epicness.
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    DahlELama promoted this comment Edited by freakshowtime at 12/11/09 1:58 PM freakshowtime was starred freakshowtime was unstarred
    Image of ima221 ima221
    12/11/09

    @freakshowtime: agreed-- that show keeps getting better except that Britta is not super-likable and her character still needs more development. But who cares when you have Abed and Troy-- those guys are hiliarious.
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    12/11/09

    @freakshowtime: I think last night's episode was my favorite so far. I am going to give everyone I meet "Forest Whitaker eye" from now on.
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    12/11/09

    @freakshowtime: Community is such a work of art. I am love with a TV show. I am even more happy about the return of Chevy Chase in a role that's perfect for him.

    I was watching the 1st season of SNL recently and boy howdy, was he hot.
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    12/11/09

    @freakshowtime: W.W.B.J.D.?
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    Image of Artur Van Asinine Artur Van Asinine
    12/11/09

    @DahlELama: HA! FWE ftw.

    Merry Happy everyone.
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    12/11/09

    [picasaweb.google.com]
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    12/11/09

    @ima221: Oh Christmas Troy, oh Christmas Troy!
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    12/11/09

    @freakshowtime: "Why does she have to be a black hot chick?"
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    Image of AgadorSpartacus AgadorSpartacus
    12/11/09

    @ima221: Oh yes, Troy was AWESOME last night!
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    Image of JennaW JennaW
    12/12/09

    @freakshowtime: I am so happy to see that others are as madly in love with Community as I am. I find myself yelling, "I fucking LOVE this show!" during and/or after every episode.
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    Image of Bipolar-Cop Bipolar-Cop
    12/11/09

    In reply to The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock: Facebook Edition
    ENOUGH!!!!

    Every time I watch 30 Rock after reading these "NBC bashing" posts I just shake my noggin in disbelief.

    You write as if they are really tearing the network a new one when in reality the jokes are pretty tame.

    OF COURSE there will be some NBC-related jokes. The show is set in the NBC corporate culture. What do you expect, that they will devote most of their time to poking fun at ABC, BBC, or the inner workings of Arby's? No, they are going to make inconsequential "not gonna REALLY piss anyone off" references to ongoing events at NBC, which is all they do.

    Stop trying to make a mountain out of a pimple.

    Yeesh.
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    12/11/09

    @Bipolar-Cop: I totally agree. I made precisely the same comment last week. Brian just doesn't seem to understand humor, or he's invested himself in this bizarre subtext of the show that only he can see, and thus, week after week, he's forced to dredge through the muck to come up with Tina Fey's SWEEEET joke in which she totally bashes NBC's nearly 3 year old totally forgotten social network!
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    12/12/09

    @Bipolar-Cop: I'm going to play devil's advocate and suggest that these posts aren't Brian's idea, but were possibly pitched to him by Denton and he had to go with it.
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    Image of Glanton Glanton
    12/11/09

    In reply to The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock: Facebook Edition
    "Nancy Donovan (played by Julianne Moore with an awesomely annoying Boston accent)"

    Dude... no. Just no. You're routinely wrong about all sorts of things, but this is the worst. That was the most terrible, awkward, mangled Southie accent this side of the Departed.
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    metoometoo promoted this comment Glanton was starred Glanton was unstarred
    Image of metoometoo metoometoo
    12/11/09

    @Glanton: Agreed. And Jack doesn't really pull off the Boston/Irish Catholic thing very convincingly either, so together it was just...meh.
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    Image of Brian Moylan Brian Moylan
    12/11/09

    @Glanton: Notice how it says "awesomely annoying" as in it was annoying to an awesome degree.
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    Image of Glanton Glanton
    12/11/09

    @Brian Moylan: Nothing was awesome about it, beyond the fact that it was awe-inspiringly terrible
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    Image of Brian Moylan Brian Moylan
    12/11/09

    @Glanton: There you go. Now you get it.
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    12/11/09

    @Brian Moylan: My bad! My first interpretation of "awesome" will likely always be as the colloquial "FUCKING SWEET"
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    12/11/09

    @Brian Moylan: Well I don't; I can't parse this. Is it specifically JM's execution of the accent that's annoying, or the accent itself?
    Because as Nico suggests, the accent in general is grade-A Abu Ghraib.
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    Image of maroidrage maroidrage
    12/11/09

    @Brian Moylan: That accent was mindfuckingly awful. It sounded like the Lucky Charms leprechaun after 20 years in Queens.
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    Image of GlasgowRose GlasgowRose
    12/05/09

    In reply to The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock: Tina Fey's Vendetta
    Tying this thread together: Will Arnett (I Canadian?) is married to Amy (Poehler? I married her!) of Parks & Rec.
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    Image of A Message To Rudy A Message To Rudy
    12/07/09

    @GlasgowRose: Yes. And the boss on Parks and Rec. (the guy with the moustache) is married to "Karen" from "Will and Grace" (forget her name at the moment) if you didn't know already.
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    Image of GlasgowRose GlasgowRose
    12/07/09

    @A Message To Rudy: I did not know that about Megan "Hey Ya!" Mulally.
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    Image of A Message To Rudy A Message To Rudy
    12/08/09

    @GlasgowRose: Yeah, she was actually on an episode of Parks a couple of weeks ago playing his ex-wife whom he couldn't resist sexually. Pretty funny.
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    Image of GlasgowRose GlasgowRose
    12/08/09

    @A Message To Rudy: Must Hulu that. Have to admit I haven't cottoned onto P&R, sounds like it deserves a shot (in a "Give P's a Chance" kind of way).
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    Image of Zlund Zlund
    12/05/09

    In reply to The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock: Tina Fey's Vendetta
    Well, Tina Fey was on the mainstage at Second City in Chicago before she was hired as a writer for SNL. Normally writers get hired because their performance experience is exceptional.
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    Image of JohanPaladin JohanPaladin
    12/04/09

    In reply to The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock: Tina Fey's Vendetta
    Why on earth did he tell her to raise the roof?
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    Matt Cherette promoted this comment JohanPaladin was starred JohanPaladin was unstarred
    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    12/04/09

    @JohanPaladin: That part took a close second to, "Wave! ... Like a human!"
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    Image of mimigoliath mimigoliath
    12/04/09

    In reply to The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock: Tina Fey's Vendetta
    Hey - Community is also really awesome.
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    Image of FriendlyFloyd FriendlyFloyd
    12/05/09

    @mimigoliath: and Parks and Recreation. Nick Offerman is one funny mofo.
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    12/07/09

    @FriendlyFloyd: Oh my god, he is hysterical. I was dying when he was shot.
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    Image of A8boy A8boy
    12/04/09

    In reply to The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock: Tina Fey's Vendetta
    Anyone else catch shirtless Obama behind Devin's desk? Hilarious.
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    Image of Solomon Grundy Solomon Grundy
    12/04/09

    @A8boy: Yeah that made me chuckle. Kinda loving gay Will Arnett.
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    Image of kelsey.imean.dustin kelsey.imean.dustin
    12/04/09

    In reply to The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock: Tina Fey's Vendetta
    did no one else get the 'egot' joke? egot is a slang term in the tagalog language to mean 'dark-skinned man, generally of african decent'.

    that's why whoopie has the 'colored man' line when tracie tries to steal her awards.
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    Image of A Message To Rudy A Message To Rudy
    12/04/09

    @kelsey.imean.dustin: 1) Good catch and 2) Nah, I don't think too many other people got it. Is "30 Rock" big in the Tagalog community or do they have one Tagalog write on their staff?

    But I like your slight amazement that no one else understand tagalog slang.
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    Image of Solomon Grundy Solomon Grundy
    12/04/09

    @kelsey.imean.dustin: If that was intentional, it was a pretty outre joke, because according to a quick IM from my Tagalog-speaking cousin, 'egot' is not exactly a nice word for Af-Am men.
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    Image of SuperBien SuperBien
    12/04/09

    @kelsey.imean.dustin: Ay nako . . . I can't ever imagine the 30 Rock writers even realizing that "egot" is a seriously God-awful, politically incorrect word in Tagalog. Tagalog isn't exactly a romance language, you know? I'm old and a Miami Vice fan and I remember Philip Michael Thomas in an Entertainment Tonight interview in the '80s showing off that crass E.G.O.T. necklace charm and looking like a complete dickweed explaining its meaning. The bottom line is that 30 Rock was simply making fun of Philip Michael Thomas and not at all using the Filipino language for evil.
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    12/04/09

    @kelsey.imean.dustin: Also make note that poking fun at Philip Michael Thomas is a good thing. I mean, hell, look it this . . . [www.youtube.com]
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    Edited by SuperBien at 12/04/09 4:43 PM SuperBien was starred SuperBien was unstarred
    Image of SuperBien SuperBien
    12/04/09

    @SuperBien: rats . . .
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    Image of sparklyharempants sparklyharempants
    12/05/09

    @SuperBien: Dear Lord. I don't remember this song, nor do I remember the EGOT incident.
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    SuperBien promoted this comment sparklyharempants was starred sparklyharempants was unstarred
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    12/06/09

    @sparklyharempants: That's 'coz you're either not an old like me, or you had more of a life in the 80's and Miami Vice and Entertainment Tonight dickweed interviews just didn't blip your radar . . . ;oD
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    Image of sparklyharempants sparklyharempants
    12/06/09

    @SuperBien: Ha! I DO remember this one, though:
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    Image of SuperBien SuperBien
    12/07/09

    @sparklyharempants: That is excellent!
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    12/04/09

    In reply to The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock: Tina Fey's Vendetta
    "Jack in HD" was great, though.
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    Image of tammanycall001 tammanycall001
    12/04/09

    In reply to The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock: Tina Fey's Vendetta
    Brian, you're off your rocker. Yes, Lorne made Fey the first female head writer of SNL. On NBC. NBC greenlit "30 Rock". Both Kevin Reilly and Ben Silverman kept the show around, despite very poor ratings. NBC has made a lot of poor decisions, both strategically and artistically, but the one person who has no right to complain is Tina Fey. The network has stuck by her when it would have acceptable to jettison her low-performing show. Even "Arrested Development" didn't get this level of coddling before FOX gave it the heave-ho.
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    Image of cpjones cpjones
    12/04/09

    In reply to The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock: Tina Fey's Vendetta
    The Dealbreakers opening credit jokes and the HD jokes that followed was the funniest stuff the show has done all season. It also used all of the characters perfectly for once, except no-show Cheyenne Jackson. And we got Bo and Hope from Days of our Lives too? Perfect.
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