Bed bugs, Kathy Geiss as Susan Boyle, the return of Moon Vest, and the knowledge that Kenneth speaks Latin: Ah, “Audition Day,” you had your moments. These are the ten best lines from last night’s 30 Rock, in chronological order:
“I’m already not liking some of these people. It reminds me of being on the bus.” — Jack, who knows what will one day be your tomb
“Sorry I’m not a robot!” “We all are.” — Liz and Jack
“It’s going to be a disaster! Like Katrina! Do you remember Katrina, that crazy girl from hair and make-up?” — Jenna, who does her lady characters
“Looks like you got a bad case of the chew-daddies. Ozark kisses? The woodsman’s companion?” — Kenneth, who knows anyone can get bed bugs, even the horse mayor
“You know my fontanelle never closed!” — Liz
“The more people you add, the less effective it is. Like a neighborhood dad garage band.” — Pete
“Ooooh, he’s evil comma Tracy.” — Tracy, who had those masks at the ready
“Happy?” “No, not since I was a child.” — Pete and Liz, who are my favorite BFFs on TV
“My mom used to send me articles about how older virgins are considered good luck in Mexico.” — Liz
“Was describing your sandwich necessary to our understanding of what happened?” — Tracy, who I guess didn’t recognize Liz’s beloved meatball sub
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“No, but I’m bi-larious!”
Fey has too many dreams of a movie career to put any real thought into this show anymore.
Who could blame her?
You are awful.
Thanks for that…
Omg, I almost fell to the floor at that part!
You missed how 30 Rock is slowly going down hill. The overload of Cisco Systems wasn’t funny or cute. This is the second time they’ve done product placement in the 4th season. It’s a bit ridiculous. Go back to being simply a hilarious show.
Are you aware of contractual obligations? Or of how these kinds of placement deals are crammed down the showrunners’ throats because the network they work for is struggling? The fact that the product placement (Verizon, Snapple, Cisco, Olympics on NBC) has always been hilarious is a testament to the talent of the writers and actors. The show’s nowhere close to going downhill.
Only a few funny spots. Totally hated the extended commercial. If they keep this up, I won’t watch.
Thanks for crapping on what was otherwise a humorous recapping of 30 Rock, Samantha! Here, want to kick my puppy while you’re at it?
Please. That show was horrible last night. HORRIBLE.
Oh I agree, the Verizon and Snapple appearances were hilarious. And I’m very aware of how product placement works, thanks. It’s NBC who are being stupid, but 30 Rock is running out of ways of making it funny. This season just isn’t strong.
And yes, I think I will kick your puppy. Thanks for asking.
Don’t you get it? They are mocking the constant overbearing product placement found on TV nowadays while also taking part in it. That’s the irony.
The first time it was mocking. Now it’s just obnoxious and depressing. :-/
So many of us skip the commercials these days. They couldn’t possibly be getting the same money for commercials that they used to. And yet we all expect the exact same product, for free, without giving anything in return. If these funny product placements keep 30 Rock on the air, then I love them.
I don’t think they actually get paid for most of their “product placements”, that’s kinda the joke.
I hope they bring back Rockford Files – the best episode is easily “Sleight of Hand” from season 1
My love of 30 Rock has waned greatly over time. I can’t exactly pinpoint it but I just don’t like it all that much anymore. I think it might actually be Liz, I find her so annoying.
I’m with you. Thought I think it’s because the show is just not that funny anymore, and all the characters are grating.
WTF is wrong with you guys? Try watching a really bad sitcom like According to Jim or that new Jenna Elfman show and then you’ll realize 30 Rock, even when not at its peak, is still funny. And I disagree. I actually like Tracy more now when in the past I hated him, and God do I still love Jenna.
I’m with Alan on this one. Sure, it’s not at its best right now, but the same thing happened to The Office in its fourth season, and it bounced back in a big bad way. 30 Rock is still one of the best shows on TV (I agree about the Jenna Elfman crapfest. I gave that show a few episodes but I just can’t stomach it anymore).
So, wait a second: You’re saying that, because 30 Rock isn’t According To Jim, we should love every single thing it does and never speak badly of it? There’s nothing “wrong” with the people who think the show is weaker these days, but I’m pretty sure there’s something wrong with not being able to criticize something you love.
@Alan: Gezus. I’m not going to compare 30 rock to According to Jim. I’m comparing 30 Rock to 30 Rock. Ive seen it be a better show and I want it to get back to that level.
No, it’s Jenna. During the perfect season 1 she wasn’t on every episode but when she did pop up she was funny. Now that she’s on all the time, it really shows how unfunny she actually is.
I think Jane Krakowski is brilliant, and Jenna’s self-centered worldview is one of my favorite parts of the show.
They’ve made her incredibly one-dimensional. Even Tracey has a more developed personality.
I thought the line was “Like a neighborhood DEAD garage band.”
…That doesn’t make sense.
Yeah, it was “Dad.” “Dead” doesn’t make any sense.
a Grateful DEAD cover band ….
nope
The pilot of 30 Rock was nothing but product placement for GE Trivection Ovens! Fantastic episode, the product placement was great like all placements on 30 Rock they don’t try to hide like on 24, they make jokes out of it.
Yea, the Winter Olympics product placement was hilarious.
…this February on NBC. Thought that was funny too because it just came out of nowhere.
30 Rock is still a little funny, but I sure would like to see the characters’s grow more. It’s the same old, same old this season. And I want Liz to stop being such a disaster as a woman. Really, in NYC, she can’t find stylish clothes to accentuate her natural beauty, or find a man who appreciates her intelligence and quirks? I don’t buy it.
There are literally thousands of poorly dressed women who can’t find a man in New York City. Don’t be silly.
HAHA. Yeah, it’s pretty easy to find a guy who appreciates a woman’s “intelligence and quirks.” That’s why the only single women on earth are dumb fembots. Right.
She’s not unstylish. She works about 22 hours a day, so her looks reflect that. You really think a TV show producer who has to run around all day is coming to waltz around in stillettos and Gucci? Yes, I’d like to see her land a man, but lots of career women who are pretty and smart can’t find a man. I know many women like that in my real life.
Sorry they may be smart but if they were pretty they would have a man, unless they happen to be pyschotic
This was a good episode. Not great like some others, but good. The Susan Boyle bit was funny. You forgot Brian Williams!!
I love Brian Williams on this show.
Yes! Brian Williams was hysterical! “Fuhgettabouit”
I know 30 Rock won Best Comedy emmy for last Season, but I thought it was a dramatic decrease from season 2 (and also I thought HIMYM was much, MUCH better than 30 Rock last season), but this season has been so much Worse! Everything seems so forced. The jokes, the acting, all of it. What happened to 30 Rock?
HIMYM is awful yuppie trash
Yes, because 30 Rock is about the average Joe who works a 9-to-5 and cracks a Schlitz when he gets home from his construction job. So not about corporate executives and 30’s-ish TV stars removed from the real world. Yeah.
Once you say that HIMYM is better than 30 Rock you lose any credibility you may have had.
Look, I own the dvds for both 30 Rock and HIMYM and they’re like my children. I love them both. But 30 Rock is also like my first kid… I love it way, way more.
Kathy Geiss as Susan Boyle = genius
as was the line about removing her underpants
I thought the show was hilarious all the way through. Why are people so determined to hate this show? Jack’s shame filled plea for someone to tell him how to transfer trains? Freaking hilarious. I don’t understand all the ill will
People always want to hate and naysay. It’s so easy to do. I think the naysayers feel left out? Maybe they don’t get it?
I’m not determined to hate it! I want to like it so badly! It’s just been disappointing me lately. Especially last season when the supporting stars were pretty much ignored and every episode focused on Jack and Liz 100%.
I agree with you Sarah. 30 Rock is still better than almost every other show. I think the 3-years-in-a-row Emmy win is making people look for a way to smash it down. Would they prefer a sitcom like “Yes, Dear”? or “According to Jim”? BOOOOO to the naysayers, 30 Rock is still great.
Backlash seems to always be an auttomatic response, especially with web posters. 30 Rock is a great show that will have ups and downs like any other, but it’s zany-smart-ridiculous tone is not to be matched, we just take it for granted now.
Jack was too funny last night. Loved him with the singing group on the subway at the end.
I stopped watching HIMYM last season. the endless one-note sex jokes got to be a bore. that show is no match for the inspired lunacy of 30 Rock. of course, it’s in its 4th season and like all shows will compared unfavorably to its earlier years.
MUGABE’S CONCUBINES!!! Oh man, that was a great one!
PARANOIA! WHERE?
“Line?” ‘Lines’ “…Lines!”
oh my gosh, I was going to say this one!! I loved “paranoia! where?” I have it as my facebook status.
Some of these people must have been watching another show, as I thought last night’s EP was one of the best “Rocks” I have ever seen. I was hollering! Jack’s shameless plug about the Winter Olympics, after having just said how irrelevent they are, was priceless! Not sure why Liz couldn’t have figured out those voices on the phone were fake, her BS-meter is usually on and poppin’. Tracy and Jenna in that Hummer sunroof, trolling for potential auditioners, was great! I loved the whole show- Jack on the subway, never thought I would see it…
Wow, HIMYM is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO not funny!!
Thank you !!!!!!!!!!!
This show has won Emmys!
Hahahahahahaha!
You know what’s funny? Not you!
“I know you are but what am I?”
I really loved this episode. best so far of the season.
This show has slid downhill since it’s first season.
It’s like when SNL beats a skit to death. The original is great but gets tiresome with each new one.
Haters back off.
My favorite part wasn’t a line per se, but when Jenna somehow freakishly sauntered up to Kenneth. That and Kathy Geiss.
Ha! Yea that part with Jenna was great. But I couldn’t make out what Kenneth said when he saw her. Do you know what he said?
vampyr! (the old school vampires lisa simpson spoke of in the simps halloween special)
LOL Awesome! I can’t believe he said Vampyr! Thanks deep!
“Haters?”
This show was once promising and now it isn’t.
If you can’t handle critiques, then you need to stay out of here.
What about the black lady with her donut? That had me laughing hysterically. Plus, Brian Williams was epic.
My favorite line: “Get lost Grizz or Dot Come.” – Jenna
(I loved seeing Dot Com get the spotlight a bit.)
My least favorite line was the Katrina one. It’s not a bad line in itself, but it’s similar to a joke this show has used MANY times. (Example: when Tracy is talking about an entourage and says, “It’s like that HBO show…John Adams.”
*Dot Com (please EW, make it so we can edit our own posts one day.)
Dot Com is my favorite character on this show!
Also, how about the fact that they got Scorcese, Walken, and Gottfried to do quick voice cameos (the crazy new comedian’s voice was obviously dubbed.)
(Ok, it’s not THAT impressive that they got Gottfried.)
Ahaha, I loved Liz’s impression: “I figured…out…ya game!”
“If you can’t handle critiques, then you need to stay out of here.”
Oh really? How about, unless you can write a sitcom funnier than 30 Rock (and you and I both know you cannot), maybe YOU should stay out of here.
Personally, I thought last night’s episode was hilarious. Wish I could write something so funny. I agree with many of the funniest line choices.
I think a lot of you really need to learn that it’s okay to criticize the things you love. Some people feel 30 Rock is weaker than usual, these days. Why is that wrong? Disagree if you like, but why get upset with their critiques? As long as they’re being rational (and please don’t mistake “saying things you disagree with” for “being irrational”) then just try to accept their differing opinions. And you know, you might try considering that even your favorite TV shows might not actually be perfect. Be fair and balanced, guys. (Curse you, FOX, for ruining that phrase!)
The scene when Liz discovers the guy she wants to hire is a psycho ; the jokes about his genitals and his face were so funny !! “What’s wrong with… them ?” And of course, Susan Boyle !
yes, the genitals part was GREAT…his face was hilarious!
So far 2 episodes have been off the mark, last night being one, but still there are gems in those episode that make me laugh. Every season has had a few clunker episodes, all shows on tv do, but 30 Rock always rebounds with more great episodes. And I still can not understand why people who don’t watch shows come on message boards for the shows? I never watch Survivor or Glee and other shows and have NO interest in reading or posting on their message boards.
This was a classic episode. Absolutely hilarious and fun.
I loved this episode! One of my favorite lines was from Jack: “Human empathy, it’s as useless as the Winter Olympics…this February on NBC.”
And Kathy Geiss as Susan Boyle was all win.
Plus, Jenna when she said “Get lost Grizz or Dot Com.” I laughed so hard at this, probably because it took me about 2 years of watching 30 Rock to realize which is which.
Oh and another great line from Jenna: “You don’t think I’ve been brought in on a million auditions just to make Kim Cattrall seem grounded and human?” Haha!