Last night’s 30 Rock reminded us of the importance of family, clued us in that the property of urine that makes flowers grow, and taught us all some valuable lessons about rules in Italy. Here are the 10 best lines from “Sun Tea.”
“Holding up one finger to get someone stop talking? He invented that.” — Jack, who puts it to perfect use
“He’s agreed to let a Yale sweatshirt be our designated fart dampener.” — Twofer, who doesn’t mind Frank’s Howard Hughes hobby
“I, Bertram Geiss, am still daddy’s fancy boy.” — Bertram Geiss, who is no match for a Teddy Ruxpin
“It is menial?” — Kenneth, who uses triple quotes
“If he was a monkey, then why was he killed by a monkey?” — Kenneth, who’s going to be grumpy until the end of this sentence
“The apartment smells like Burger King all day and Cinnabon all night.” — Brian, who thrives on drama
“The Cosby Show was a lie!” — Tracy, who still knows that Sandra was the boring one
“I know what that means!” “And yet you won’t tell me.” — Tracy Jr. and Tracy, an even better father-son duo than Don and Bertram
“What about ‘Cheers lied to me’?” — Dr. Spaceman, who knows the doctor code
“Iiiiiiiit!” — Liz, whose drama-queen mode backfired
The running jokes about the New York Post — “pun on ‘disgrace’” — were pretty excellent, too. What’d you think, PopWatchers? Was it like check-in at an Italian airport, or did “Sun Tea” make you want to grab a vase?
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As a child of the 80s…it’s Teddy Ruxpin, not Ruxbin.
I LOVED the Teddy Ruxpin bit.
I thought it was the best of the season. You should’ve posted Al Gore’s “recycled” joke, which I was feverishly hoping for and actually squealed when he used it.
Much better than last week. Loved it.
….this show sucks comment.
I just hope they bring back David Schwimmer’s Greenzo!
no lines, but did anyone notice the picture of Jack with Sarah Palin in his office?? and gotta love Liz almost swooning when she learned that she would be smelling Burger King and Cinnabon all day long
Haha yes Liz was swooning over that! Who wouldn’t want to smell Cinnabons all night?!?!?!?!
great episode! poor dot com, lol. love him and griz. and the kid who plays tracy’s son is hilarious. i think he played raven’s annoying neighbor on “that’s so raven”. nate was funny too! i hope he makes a return to the show sometime. you should have added liz’s quote about the gay hipster cop, lol.
Bobb’e (Tracy Jr.) was also one of Tracy’s sons on his short-lived sitcom. That kid is awesome!
Another stellar episode of the the best show on television. Tracy Jr. is FANTASTIC!
Great episode – but as a side note, don’t you think that the formner VP of America should invest some money into his teeth? My lord those are some nasty looking teeth.
Yes! I said the exact same thing during the episode. I don’t remember him having terrible teeth when he was in office.
I loved Liz’s quote about the “stupid green peacock” after which she looked down…at the stupid green peacock haha
Come on – funniest line From one to Chris Brown, how mad was he?
Wrong show – but a great moment from Aziz on ‘P&R’.
I’m a Democrat, an environmentalist and a huge fan of Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Having said that, WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED TO AL GORE’S TEETH!?!?!?
Prolly got into the “sun tea…”
It was just “meh” for me. I thought the Al Gore bit was predictable and tired. The funniest line was the last one: “Smell my flowers, Kenneth.”
That was the whole point of the Al Gore bit. 30 Rock was taking a jab at NBC for forcing shows to incorporate the environment into the show.
Here’s the video of Tracy’s Cosby Show hallucination:
http://www.gotchamediablog.com/2009/11/30-rock-tracys-cosby-show-hallucination.html
Since when does retelling ten lines count as a recap?
I dunno…it seems to work for a show like this that’s a lot less about story and plot and more about the jokes.
I’m confused. Is it your position that comedy shows shouldn’t tell jokes and, you know, be funny?
No no…but some comedies spend lots more time than “30″ on character and plot development (“The Office” would be one example, “How I Met Your Mother” might also count). For shows like this, yeah, a full recap makes more sense. For shows where there’s no over-arching story or focus on character development (and “30″ fits this mold, in my view), they’re less necessary. Not saying it’s wrong to focus all your energy on jokes, so long as they’re funny.
But yeah, you can read between the lines here and see that for me at least, the jokes on 30 Rock are wearing thin and aren’t as sharp as they used to be.
Right. Turning a character who smugly smirks all the time at his idiot boss into said boss totally constitutes engaging character development that great comedies achieve.