Baldwin makes this show. It’s a shame I have to sit through Jordan to get to his lines. When Tina and Jane were making up, he was the best part of the scene:
I really get the feeling that Baldwin and Fey think he’s funny.
But he’s so hit or miss. The episode where he was worried about appearing normal was funny.
“That picture looks like I’m walking out of Starbucks normally. But I was really walking in backwards, doing the robot, and I stole that dog. Yeah, that’s right. I steal dogs.”
But the one (was it the same ep) where he was off his medication was really bad. He was just being wild and not being funny. Although, it did have the clip of him on Conan going, “I am a stabbing robot.”
I think it’s funny that he travels with an entourage, and they make jokes about how stupid he is with his money.
All right, fuck it. I love him. But only 95% of the time.
I loved the organizational chart on Alec Baldwin’s window shade. Especially the bit about NBC being owned by a wig company.
The “Rural Juror” confusion was kind of funny, but it could only happen in a universe without the internet. Either that, or all the characters are just too lazy to bother looking something up on IMDB.
Just posting to add that I have come to really enjoy this show, too. I buy the characters and yes, Baldwin is walking away with the entire show - whatever appropriate reward recognition he can qualify for, he deserves.
At first I didn’t buy the Fey and Krakowski friendship - K is so, well her, that it just made no sense that someone rational like the Liz character would be friends with her. But seeing how Liz makes some bad choices for reasonable reasons and also that scene the other night where they were reminisicing about the past made it see much more plausible.
Good stuff - and Kenneth - the Georgette in this Mary Tyler More redux - is priceless…
Hmmm - now how would that work:
Mary = Liz
Mr. Grant = Baldwin
Ted Baxter = Tracy Jordan
Murray = bald producer guy
Georgette = Kenneth
But does Jane = Sue Ann? Rhoda? Phyllis?
Okay - maybe Jane is really Ted Baxter, now that I think about it - but what does that make Tracy?
Doesn’t have to fit perfectly - but the parallels are there. Good show.
It’s been mentioned before; I love this show’s ability to make a completely cliched situation hilarious. I about died at the tension between Kenny and the prop guy. Yes, the unexplained feud is an old joke, but that was hilarious.
“Has this ever happened to you?”
<cut to shot of someone trying to pick up a slice of bread, and for some reason the entire loaf winds up scattered all over the place>
<Audience nods in agreement that bread is extremely tricky to handle>
“Meat is the new bread!”
The show is definitely taking a welcome-yet-strange turn into slapstick and bizarre humor. Like how they ended the Barbara Walters interview with complete gibberish.
