DJariya

By djariya at 2012-01-11

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Episode 8 of 22

DJariya

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Rex Fenestrarum

Really liked this episode for some reason.

I guess I'm weird, but Jenna really turns me on when she's being dirty in person (i.e. on the screen)... but I'm sick to death of her sexually perverted one-liners. It's almost like any time anyone refers to anything with Jenna in the room, she has to make a crack about it. Ya know? Like Jack can say "I love Scotch" in front of Jenna, and I fully expect her to say "I did too... until that time Sean Connery locked me in a closet for a week". Or Liz can say "I just want a burger", and I'll expect Jenna to say "you know I can't eat burgers after Ronald McDonald molested me at that restaurant in Macon, Georgia". Or some shit like that.

Is it just me? (either thinking Jenna's hot, being sick of her one-liners or both)

JeffTheAlpaca

This was probably the weakest show and it felt like it came from season 5.

Hope this is just a glitch since the season so far has been pretty impressive.

The names of the writers should be included in future threads so we can rate which shows are the best and probably come up with a pattern of which writers on 30 Rock have the most funny material.

JTH182

I thought it was fucking hilarious when Liz turned around and I thought "haha, she looks like the Joker," only to then realize the whole thing was a Batman spoof... Awesome!

Goat3001

I liked that it all turned out to be a Batman spoof.

No wonder this show doesn't do so well in the ratings, half the jokes are about living/working in New York City. I thought the subway stuff was good because it's a parody of what I see everyday. But I can't imagine why someone in Wisconsin would find it funny at all.

Goat3001

Those jokes really bug me. For a show that is generally pretty clever these jokes are too "Family Guy-ish". Pick a celebrity, pick a random place and pick a weird sexual thing and make a sentence out of it. Everything else Jenna does is hilarious.

Claytonian

You guys are just "normaling".

Goat3001....I'm from Wisconsin and I find this show hilarious. I've not yet been to New York, but I can still appreciate the humor based on things read, heard, viewed, and imagined.

I thought this episode was a little less memorable than others, but obviously still very funny and entertaining. A few lines I laughed at:

"Come on Donaghy. You've skied Mount St. Helen's, made eye contact with Michelle Bachman, been trapped under a boulder for 128 hours, you're not scared of anything." (loved how he stressed the "8")

"I'm gonna say to you what I say to all my sharks right before they die: Let's go outside."

"How black was this dude...on a scale from Lisa Bonet, to Dot Com?"

CharlieK

Jenna has always bugged me. I don't like her character and her face distracts me with the way it looks like skin stretched taut over a bird's skull. Her depravity seems forced and I've rarely found her to be funny. Still, I liked her tonight. I always thought their marriage was more out of convenience, or simply being with someone as wacky as they are. For the first time I got the sense they really cared for each other which helped humanize Jenna a little bit for me.

Liz as crazy cat lady was pure gold.

grenier

I'm from Wisconsin and find it hilarious.

Goat3001

I'm happy that I'm wrong about that. I guess it's just me but if it were flipped, I don't know if I'd enjoy the show much.

Claytonian

lol

Did you like Happy Days or Laverne & Shirley? That 70's Show?

majorjoe23

I'm from Iowa (so obviously much more metropolitan than a Wisconsonite), but the jokes work for me too. In addition to people visiting New York on vacation, the city has been the setting for seemingly 75% of films and TV shows.

Even if the average viewer has never set foot in New York, they at least know New York.

Goat3001

I love That 70's Show but there are only a few jokes about them being from Wisconsin. A lot of which were Packers jokes. I just feel that 30 Rock's bread and butter jokes are about living in New York. Though I guess there are a lot of New York stereotypes that everyone knows, one of which being that everyone on the subway is insane.

majorjoe23

I liked Tracy telling Jack to rate the blackness of his mugger on a scale of Lisa Bonet to Dot Com.

DaveNinja

there was some name that Tracy made up early on and then the same name showed up later in the episode but i cant remember why i thought it was funny.

clckworang

I always thought the same thing about King of the Hill. I wondered how people who didn't live in Texas could really appreciate many of the jokes. I guess the answer is that you apply what you know. Have I ever been on a New York subway? No, but I have been on a crowded bus. I understand they are different, but I think my experience with rude people on one crowded mode of transportation can be pretty easily transferred to another. Just one example anyway. Plus, as you and others have said, there are a lot of New York stereotypes that people know just from so many TV shows and movies.

SpanishTechno

I thought it was a weak episode but it was redeemed somewhat by how far they took the ridiculous Batman parody.

Strafe

C'mon! "Was that brain? I hope it wasn't an important parg of my blurn.", the return of Cerie, Batman and the Joker?! That's good stuff!

whotony

Loved this ep.

Anyone else notice that Jenna husband was naked from the bottom of his shirt down at the end when he ran away?

The Bus

The subway announcing it was now "Express for no reason" was hilarious.

JeffTheAlpaca

I did not know Hank Hooper (Ken Howard) was the president of SAG

majorjoe23

And Alec Baldwin is the president of the Film Actors Guild.