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haha x2!!!! I watched that show for the first time last night because I was too lazy to change the channel, it was so incredibly unfunny, and on top of that totally missed the mark as far as compelling drama. I actually felt sorry for it.

― nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Studio 60 was supposed to be funny?

― Outcast Lemon Mode (sandglocks), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

There were a couple times it tried really hard ("Metric Conversion"!).

party frock with plunging decolletage

Okay I'm imagining Kenneth guy saying this all starry-eyed and full of wonderment and LOLing. That kid has turned out to be a highlight of this show.

― nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Last night's 60 was a trainwreck-bad episode, but it isn't a good series even at its best. Sorkin's response to failing ratings seems to be to beef up the show's worst aspects.

(It's never funny. It's people reading scripts stoically and saying, "This is really funny" in Joe Friday monotone.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I had it on in the background last night. I couldn't get past all the "Perry on teh drugs" stuff, which was beyond overwrought.

x-post

― Outcast Lemon Mode (sandglocks), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

BRING BACK SPORTS NIGHT

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I was hoping the sly little digs in the promo spots & the first few weeks was the end of the stupid Sorkin "rivalry" thing, since A) they're playing for the same team, B) they're both treading water, and C) they're not competing for anything in any which way. Tina needs to just cut bait on the Sorkin hate & stick w/ the big beef & being funny stuff.

I'd defend yesterday's ep, & the series in toto (which I like despite its armor chinks), but y'all are gonna shout me down, so fuggit.

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh so it's all "shut up woman" now is it? DAVE STOP DIXIE CHICKING TINA FEY DAMMIT

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link

& stick w/ the big beef & being funny stuff

What's the big beef? And isn't she funny regardless?

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll defend its potential, but the show is cut off at the knees by its inability to show us any comedy that's funny. When SNL's been so spotty for so long, it really takes work -- or a complete lack of comic sense -- to show us material that makes it look brilliant by comparison, especially when we only see pieces of sketches and the writers don't have to worry about paying off the jokes. At this point he may as well just have Dane Cook reading printouts of the excelsior thread in front of a greenscreen of cats making squinchy faces, and then Matt and Danny can prance around to the side, stalking chicks and pouting.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

the big beef and cheddar? xpost

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link

This is exactly why Tep needs to be a writer for Studio 60!

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link

xxpost Meanwhile, Fey is happy to make fun of how lame SNL is. "Pull your own wisdom teeth."

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link

"Big beef and cheddar" did not make me lol, because it seemed like it was reaching, and reaching toward a corporate endorsement at that.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

"Big beef and cheddar" did not make me lol, because it seemed like it was reaching, and reaching toward a corporate endorsement at that.

Also, I saw that on the show promo at least 5 times before the show, so it was not so funny at official time of joke arrival.

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes it was definitely a bit of in-show product placement (remember the Staples shredder episode?), but I just...even if it hadn't been funny, it would've been incredible enough on the basis of holy shit Isabella Roselini loves big beef and cheddars!

― nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost someone just said the same thing to me in chat. I never see the promos.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Off this line of discussion, but have they ever run the ep where Tracy and Jack go golfing? It was gonna air when the show was on Wednesdays, but then it got bumped and the show was moved.

― Outcast Lemon Mode (sandglocks), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Speaking of product placement: how quickly we forget about the prolonged Snapple bit (& the Snapple cameo last week)!

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

snapple was on seinfeld, too. and i like snapple. so it gets a pass, imo.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

plus they handled the snapple bit all meta.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

actually, it was kinda meta-meta, since obv NBC makes them put products in the show, so they made a show about how NBC makes them put products in their show within a show.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

and that's actually my favorite episode so far.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

tep, what's my opinion on 30 rock?

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

You like Alec Baldwin despite being worried that they'd trap him in Meet the Parents-esque DeNiro-lite nonsense, but you're not really crazy about Judah Friedlander.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Chances of Kenneth getting lucky before the show goes on pre-sweeps hiatus?

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

but you're not really crazy about Judah Friedlander

Why doesn't Kevin like Judah Friedlander? He's minor and harmless and funny enough.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i was kind of wondering about that myself. actually, i don't like him but i have nothing against his character.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link

one of my favorite Jenna moments is her calling the Friedlander character on being as invested in a certain persona as she is in hers.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

It's not that Kevin dislikes him, he's just not crazy about him. Kevin would say that Friedlander is fine in the show to date, it's just that he wouldn't want to see him become more prominent or fleshed-out, because he suspects he'd be less funny in larger doses.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

TEH TRUCKER HAT IS A JOKE ON HIM, do u see?

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

one of my favorite Jenna moments is "Muffin Top"

― nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Jenna's the show's secret weapon:

- "my SEXUALITY"
- "I remind myself of Grace Kelly"
- her "impromptu" song on Tracy's borrowed yacht

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I feel like Jenna is a part that you have to be egoless to play, so kudos to Krakowski.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

her "impromptu" song on Tracy's borrowed yacht

is that a real song?

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link

imdb judah friedlander thread titles

This guy is a genius
i cant stand this guy
Great comedian. Great person.
Why this guy use the same clothes in every film/series?
Paul?
Am I the only one out there who loves Judah?
Whats up with the hat?
IS this him?

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

imdb photo

http://ia.ec.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/55/01/78m.jpg

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

i can't really imagine rachel dratch in the jenna role at all, it's weird that she was originally cast in it. although maybe the character really shaped up differently after krakowski was cast.

― akm (akmonday), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 23:21 (seventeen years ago) link

needs more ghostface

― La Monte Jr. (LaMonte Jr.), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 01:30 (seventeen years ago) link

srsly though, i wish this was on right after the office so i wouldn't have to be all "what the fuck, scrubs isn't cancelled yet?!" every week.

― La Monte Jr. (LaMonte Jr.), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 01:32 (seventeen years ago) link

i dunno i kinda like a half hour breather between the only 2 shows i watch

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 01:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Scrubs is great. Spend more time with it. Let it in. You will be rewarded.

― dan selzer (dan selzer), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 04:43 (seventeen years ago) link

"I studied fried chicken at the school of hard knocks."

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 16 February 2007 06:25 (seventeen years ago) link

"truth bombs"

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

lol @ all the Designing Women jokes. and also i liked how they let Tracy play off his "crazy black dude" image and do something different.

― Al (Alex In Baltimore), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Sherlock Homo!

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

and the case of the gay sweater!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

America's Next Top Hobo!

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

False alarm -- it turns out she ASKED him to take it out!

― The RealJTMod (Real JT Mod of Team Courage), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

"God, it's like dating Katie Couric all over again."

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

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