
30 Rock (NBC, 8 p.m.) — Season premiere. I mean, jeez, it’s the only reason we watch the show.
The Big Bang Theory (CBS, 8 p.m.) — Or, what not to watch when 30 Rock‘s on.
Person of Interest (CBS, 9 p.m.) — Evidently some character with the name Finch has disappeared? I only mention this because I wanted to watch this video of Finchy from The Office. Respect your elders.
The Office (NBC, 9 p.m.) — “Dwight teaches a language to Erin,” specifically, Dothraki, and now everyone’s imagining as Ellie Kemper as Khaleesi, aren’t they? Yeah. Anyway, this is the second NBC Thursday night show to reference Game of Thrones, but unless Up All Night decides to dedicate an episode to that time when the boring white guy sat down and didn’t do anything for, roughly, 22 minutes, then we’ll never get all four.
Parks and Recreation (NBC, 9:30 p.m.) — Lucy Lawless drops by as a woman that Ron falls for head over…whatever the manly man version of heels are. Some kind of ugly brown boot covered in beer, blood, semen, and pictures of various meats in large cones?
Elementary (CBS, 10 p.m.) — The season premiere wasn’t that bad. It’s no Sherlock, but it’s also no every other drama on CBS that isn’t The Good Wife. Someone’s going to write a really good essay about Lucy Liu and her freckles some day, and I will read it.
LATE NIGHT GUESTS: Craig Ferguson and Anna Kendrick on Letterman; Ben Affleck and Octavia Spencer on Leno; Zac Efron and Tenacious D on Kimmel; Roseanne Barr on Ferguson; Daniel Craig, Archie Panjabi, and Animal Collective on Fallon; Jenny McCarthy, J.J. Abrams, and Slash on Conan; Bill O’Reilly on Stewart; and Dr. George Church on Colbert.



Is there no Weekend Update Thursday this week because of 30 Rock’s return? – I was kinda looking forward to that- but I guess that means a debate cold open on Saturday
That would require foresight and/or thought, two things NBC programming lacks.
I would do more to Lucy Liu’s freckles than write an essay, if ya know what I mean.
*spins bowtie, continues to mix up what sex and an Eskimo kiss is in blissful ignorance.*
Are Liz/Jack shippers still a thing? I mean, that’s like Tracy Jordan sans meds craziness.
I hope not.
GoT references: There was also that one episode where April deletes all the files, and she and Andy plan to run away, possibly to Winterfell. And I woulda sworn that 30 Rock has referred to it at some point, too.
One of the things Liz’s boyfriend gets points for is calling her Khaleesi.
Ah, there ya go!
I wish Norm MacDonald was on Conan tonight just to see him eviscerate Jenny McCarthy about being a child-killing idiot for an hour.
If you could somehow get that suggestion over to Norm, it sounds like the kind of thing he would actually do.
Conan’s father is a doctor, and Conan is presumably an educated man. One would hope that he’d have the marbles to destroy her himself, but that’ll never happen.
“everyone’s imagining as Ellie Kemper as Khaleesi, aren’t they”
I don’t want to nitpick here, but Khaleesi is a title not a name. Emilia Clark plays Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, Mother of Dragons, Queen of the Andals and the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea on Game of Thrones. And that’s leaving out the extra spoiler titles that haven’t happened yet.
Anyway..not to nitpick.
Liz and Jack kissed last season. It was everything it should be and more.