another great throwaway

O nooo

We are all in agreement on this, thanks.

Thank you Tracy Jordan

Happy birthday, Will Ferrell!

My doctor prescribed a daily colostrum supplement derived from bovine blood serum!

We all know K sounds are the funniest!

“"Obama's bailout would never have worked if big business hadn't heroically taken it. But where's our parade”

I don't choose Democrat or Republican because choosing is a sin, so I just write in the Lord's name." — Kenneth Parcell"That's Republican; we count those." — Jack

“Jonathan's going to round up all the cool Republican celebrities.

“The first generation works their fingers to the bone making things, the next generation goes to college and innovates new ideas, the third generation... snowboards and takes improv classes.”

“I'm not a creative type like you, with your work sneakers and left-handedness

“Barrack Obama would have you believe Black Americans are better off under his leadership , but I just got 10 million dollars from Mitt Romeny for appearing in an ad” (technically not Jack but he wrote the ad)

Just in case you’re on this sub, I thought this bore striking similarities to Liz’s be-fringed Deal Breakers Lizaster.

Claudia Winkleman quits chat show after one series

Shut it down!

A group of disruptive youths were playing high frequency sounds and annoying other people in my shop. I alerted a coworker that I asked them to leave, though I totally clarified that I could hear it too!

Before running the network she was a NYC OBGYN on the OG Law and Order (S8E14).

EDIT 1: And Cunningham in the same episode as a defense attorney?!

EDIT 2: THE SUSPECT IS THE GD VAMPIRE FROM THE UN! - THIS EPISODE IS STACKED

I’ll be here always. When the rain falls in Wales.

So there was a parody of Friends that broadcast in the UK called Chums albeit not quite a sitcom for young adults.

It was a skit on a Saturday Morning Children's show called SM:TV Live. Ant & Dec (yep those guys) and Cat Deeley would host this show for kids, introducing cartoons, doing call ins for kids to win prizes, reading fan mail, and having pop-stars as guests. Within that show/time slot there was always a 5 - 10 minute parody of Friends called Chums that had typical British Soapy storylines i.e. will they won't they, and silly cliffhangers every episode (with very little continuity!). They always tried to shoe-horn in the guest of the show into the Chums in some way or the other: i.e. theyhosting a dinner party so hire a chef, and the chef turns out to be Ed Sheeran (its that kind of nonsense. They also leaned into the Friends parody by making their only set look like Monica's apartment meets Central Perk.

You can find almost all the episodes up on YouTube if you don't mind the potato quality.

As a bit of BTS, the main hosts got back together to do a SM:TV reunion after 20 years since it first broadcast. In the beginning, all the hosts literally had no interest in hosting a Saturday morning kids TV show. They only wanted to do the more attractive music show that came on afterwards CD:UK which was music news, interviewing artists, and broadcasting the performances. Eventually the kids show grew in popularity and creativity that the musical guests on CD:UK were more interested in the preceding kids show SM:TV especially getting to be a guest on Chums.

A bit of UK trivia from an ol'Brit like Wesley

One of my biggest TV pet peeves is when shows stop simply writing good material and start kinda "playing to the crowd." I don't want to get too deep in the weeds on this, but one example is Rickety Cricket on Always Sunny. People liked the character (I mean he's hilarious in The Gang Exploits a Miracle), and the actor worked on the show, so they just leaned into Cricket really hard, eventually doing a whole episode from his perspective -- an episode that I personally think is one of their worst.

This isn't the IASIP sub, so what I'm saying here is: I'm really glad we never got, like, a Jonathan episode or a Subhas episode. Characters like Jonathan especially are funny in relation to the other characters, i.e. he loves and adulates Jack but hates Liz because she takes Jack's attention away. He's not funny on his own, and the writers were wise enough to understand this.

Obviously they did recognize that fans responded to certain characters, notably Kenneth and Lutz, but again, they didn't overdo it. Kenneth gets a few B stories, and becomes a little more of a main character at the end, but for the majority of the show, he is an element in other people's stories, again funny because of the way he interacts with those people. (Although I would say that Kenneth is also funny on his own. He's my favorite character after Jenna.)

Lutz is sort of a couple tiers down. He was initially supposed to just have the one single "runt" line, but people liked him so they brought him back -- but not excessively so. It never feels like they're trying to write Lutz in there just to have him, he always fits whatever the broader bit is.

I think this is one of ten million examples of how the writing team for 30 Rock was just so super smart, and also so deliberate in their crafting of the show. Obviously things sometimes went awry and plans changed -- I don't care whether you're making an omelet, a baby, or a television show; things are gonna get weird -- but I really respect how much thought clearly went into the writing here.

Now where's my Followship Award?