The night in which Chicks with Steve Buscemeyes got WAY too literal.
- 30 Rock: There were too many highlights to name them all ("Oh good, you're black," Steve Buscemi as a woman, Hank Hooper's birthday card, Rizz and Dot Gov, Tina Fey's general performance, Jack's cannon painting, the general reassuring, confusing presence of Chloë Grace Moretz, etc. etc. etc.), but Tracy Morgan summed up my feelings for "Game Over" and 30 Rock in general when he sang the Boyz II Men version of "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" on Fallon last night. Replace "yesterday" with Dr. Spaceman, and yes.
- The Office: Andy's dead. Let's start with that. The ostensible lead of The Office has been gone for three straight episodes in its final season. That's insane, though it's been wonderful for the quality of the show, because even though "Lice" was a major step down from "Dwight Christmas," it still featured exactly zero appearances from the Nard Dog. Good. The bad: Jim continues to be a smug ass and what the hell is his job exactly? It's tough to care about that plot when we don't know what "playing basketball with Dr. J in a scene straight from a Full House episode" means for him, for Pam, for the show. He's just...not in Scranton, away from his wife, who was unfairly reduced to her meek early-season self. Dr. Spaceman becoming Surgeon General felt more honest to the character than what the writers did to Pam, and then everyone spread mayonnaise on their coworkers. The end.
- 1600 Penn: I'll never 100% hate Josh Gad because he was in The Book of Mormon, one of the funniest MASTERPIECES I've ever seen, and it's not his fault he came along at the wrong time, after the nation had already had its fill of fat, loud, "lovable" oaf comedians in Jonah Hill. Let's just say I 99.9% hate him then, or at least his character on 1600 Penn, who makes an otherwise "meh" show tedious and terrible. He's so infuriatingly off-putting. Also, Bill Pullman, awesome action movie monologue-giver, awful sitcom line-deliverer.
Don't worry, guys, Parks and Recreation is back next week.
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I’m still in awe of how well 30 Rock juggled that many guest appearances. It was Ryan Lochte usage levels of impressive.
Chloe Moretz gifs make me incredibly uncomfortable.
There are thoughts that I think.
I’ve said too much.
As does scheming to obtain her DNA.
She’ll be 16 in a month. that’s my personal moral age limit. i stumbled across her birthday, guys. that’s how i know.
GIFs: 9 of 30 Rock, 1 of The Office.
Seems to follow my exact viewing pattern last night, except it would be 0 Office GIFs and one, just-out-of-curiosity-turned-immediately-to-hatred GIF of 1600 Penn.
The Internet didn’t even bother making 1600 Penn GIFs, which, yeah.
I turned off 1600 penn quicker than I turned over Outsourced. That says something.
Also, you forgot Bill Pullman, awesomeman, star of Space Balls.
I raced to change the channel so quickly, it flipped over to “This Old House.”
The pilot was one of the worst episodes of TV that I have ever watched. I don’t even want to bother with last night’s episode.
Jack vs. Kaylie in cutthroat corporate death matches is always awesome.
I can’t make myself care about The Office. As much as I want something else that’s funny to watch after 30 Rock, it just isn’t there.
I miss Sondheim-singing, dance-off-having, orange pants-wearing Andy. However, I do not miss whatever they’ve replaced him with this season.
AND I AM GOING TO MISS LIZ LEMON SO MUCH, Y’ALL. She is my spirit animal.
I miss that Andy, too. RIPA BEEP-BOP GIMME THE BEAT BOY AND FREE MY SOUL.
The Office: Andy’s dead. Let’s start with that. The ostensible lead of The Office has been gone for three straight episodes in its final season.
Jesus, man, where have you been? Andy’s been taken hostage and shot forty-three times.
That said, he went out with a bang.
Well played, Otto.
I’m pulling for Octavia Spencer to get her own sitcom.
I’ll second that.
At the very least I want to see her on an episode of The Queen of Jordan.
“Oh good, you’re black” had me dying, as did her “OS” necklace.
30 Rock killed it last night. All the little references and quick jokes just had me giggling.
Also: I AM A JEDI!!!
So, for those keeping score at home, in the past few seasons on 30 Rock: Lemon Party reference: Check. Tubgirl reference: Check.
I didn’t even know what that was.
And now I need to scrub my browser history.
Not to mention your soul.
oh man, the tubgirl reference had be dying.
Also, I think the solution for Josh Gad would be to cancel 1600 Penn and make Bear Claw a regular or recurring character on New Girl.
agreed. poor Bear Claw. he deserves better.
Octavia Spencer was hilarious. Too bad they didn’t come up with that character earlier in the series.
I tried to like 1600 Penn assuming it was a continuation of Bill Pullman’s presidency after he defeated the aliens in Independence Day.
It did not work.
I didn’t LOVE 1600 Penn, but I went in assuming the worst and it made me laugh a few times. Plus the daughter is pretty cute. She’s about to get fat though (SPOILER ALERT but you weren’t going to watch it anyway, so whatever) what with the baby and all. I hope they make it a little more zany and cartoony as it goes along. Get rid of the actual MSNBC reporters doing news stories and put in ridiculous characters, etc. It could be a nice replacement for 30 Rock if done right. But they won’t… it’ll be “heart warming” and what not instead.
Oh, maybe make Leo Spaceman the attorney general for President Pullman? That one was free, NBC.
Did you get a sense though that when they went to cast the daughter they said “Let’s get an Alison Brie type”? Because that was what I get thinking. Of course it was FAIL.
That’s My Bush was hilarious, so it shouldn’t be hard to make 1600 Penn funny.
That’s My Bush was great because W. was such an easy target. But I’m gonna wait to stop watching 1600 because even Parks and Rec was horrible at the start.
I thought Parks was gonna be on last night. “Parks and Recreation returns tonight after a short winter hiatus.” Curse you, Dustin! But 30 Rock was enough, anyway.
I thought that too had a mini freakout when I didn’t see it on my DVR last night.
JESUS. Jack’s “like me with paintings of cannons” line and then the inconspicuous look he gave after had me doing an ab work-out for sure. All great guest stars too. I hate to say this, but Will Arnett is looking gooooooood. I hope Amy notices and they get back together. Cause in my scenario, she initiated the d-word. That’s just how my brain processed that whole terrible situation.
I think we can all agree that Steve Buscemi is a, well, unique looking dude. But in drag? He’s pure nightmare fuel.
I may never look at Nucky Thompson the same way again.
I’m having a crisis over here: Who is going to be my role model once there’s no more Liz Lemon? THESE ARE VERY REAL CONCERNS, PEOPLE.
Am I alone in thinking Tina Fey’s boobs were looking bigger than usual last night? It was quite a treat.
You are not alone. I assumed it was just my TV.
I thought they did that on purpose as a side effect of the hormones she took. But yes, they were bigger.
They looked bigger to me as well.
They made a joke about that. It was her left boob from the hormone shots.
ah ok. there’s just too many jokes in this show to keep up with
I loved the dig at NBC’s promotions department in 30 Rock.
“Series Rap for Leo Spaceman, Suckers”
No GIF of Dwight getting bug bombed?
Godspeed Dr. Spaceman.
We’d be in a better country if he was telling us how our blood tastes
Oh hell, I’ll be that guy.
Paintings of CANONS? Is it paintings of the cameras or paintings of Vatican Law? Or maybe an ode to Pachalbel????? HUHHHHH????
I would rather be wrongfully sent to Guantanamo Bay and water boarded than watch a single episode of “1600 Penn”. Bill Pullman deserves better.
I’m still hating on SNL crap. It’s become over used hype and BS, too political and down right STUPID!
Spaceman was the best.