# 30 Rock- 12/14 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 15, 2006, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-12-14/384282 "2006-12-15T14:04:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Dob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dob)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-12-14/384282/1 "2006-12-15T14:04:56Z")
A slight turn downward for me on this episode, not as good as the previous couple but still some funny moments. The boyfriend talking to Chris Hansen had me rolling. I liked the cut of Putin grabbing Rice’s ass. that was good. Clever way of using the n-word with the only two black people on the show. good commentary there. Hmm, now that I think more about it, this was actually a pretty funny ep! ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-12-14/384282/2 "2006-12-15T14:47:46Z")
The thought of Alec Baldwin, not Jack, and Condi Rice gettin’ nasty was pretty funny, too. But they say opposites attract and maybe her cries of “Jack! Jack!” referred to Jack Ryan in “The Hunt for Red October.” The Chris Hansen twist was brilliant. “She said she was sixteen but I totally thought she was twenty-two,” was guys like Dennis all over. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-12-14/384282/3 "2006-12-15T14:52:23Z")
Oh, and that a mere VP at GE thought he was powerful enough to take on Putin was funny. Sure, Jack may hold more _real_ power than, oh, Tony Blair or Kofi Annan but he’d be outmatched by the guy who’s bringing back SMERSH. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-12-14/384282/4 "2006-12-15T14:59:52Z")
Jack better start carrying around a [GE Pocket Size Radiation Detector](http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/pr_1159904489609.shtm). 😃 I thought it was a great episode. Even if Studio 60 ran a parody of Dateline’s Predator Catcher first…Dean Winters rocks, hopefully we haven’t seen the last of him. ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-12-14/384282/5 "2006-12-15T15:54:23Z")
I’m loving this show. Random question - what are Tracy’s friends named? One sounded like “Dot com” maybe? Sounds like there’s a joke in there I’m missing. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-12-14/384282/6 "2006-12-15T16:05:05Z")
And when she tries to get back out there after dumping Dennis: “Is this seat taken?” “REALLY? C’mon, man, I have to move my coat when there’s all those empty seats down there?” “Um, he was trying to talk to you.” ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-12-14/384282/7 "2006-12-15T16:20:30Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] And when she tries to get back out there after dumping Dennis: “Is this seat taken?” “REALLY? C’mon, man, I have to move my coat when there’s all those empty seats down there?” “Um, he was trying to talk to you.” [/QUOTE] lol that was great. “He wanted to buy you a drink.” “But I already have a drink. Think he’ll buy me some fried mozzerella?” ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-12-14/384282/8 "2006-12-15T16:35:53Z")
They gave Twofer a name! I mean, he’s even Toofer in the IMDb credits. (Thoughshouldn’t that be Twofer?) This’ll be a trivia question from now on. ---
**Author:** ![Stringer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Stringer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringer)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-12-14/384282/9 "2006-12-15T16:49:27Z")
I had to pause the DVR I was laughing so hard from this joke: “Why are you crying, Lemon? Did the Liberty lose again last night?” ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-12-14/384282/10 "2006-12-15T17:17:18Z")
[QUOTE=micahjn] I had to pause the DVR I was laughing so hard from this joke: “Why are you crying, Lemon? Did the Liberty lose again last night?” [/QUOTE] I’ll admit to that one going over my head. Can a brother get a brief explanation? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-12-14/384282/11 "2006-12-15T17:18:00Z")
[QUOTE=Slacker] I’ll admit to that one going over my head. Can a brother get a brief explanation? [/QUOTE] [The New York Liberty](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Liberty) ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-12-14/384282/12 "2006-12-15T17:27:18Z")
With the implied implication that in being a WNBA fan, she’s a lesbian. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-12-14/384282/13 "2006-12-15T17:36:37Z")
And why “Twofer?” Is he Black AND a member of some other minority or group beloved of HR types, like a woman who is also a Vietnam-era vet? (Actually, she’d be over 50 so she’d be a three-fer. And if she were handicapped and Black with a Hispanic surname she’d be an HR goldmine.) ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-12-14/384282/14 "2006-12-15T17:55:46Z")
[QUOTE=dropzone] And why “Twofer?” Is he Black AND a member of some other minority or group beloved of HR types, [/QUOTE] I seem to recall that he was black and an Ivy Leaguer, two things every comedy writing staff is obliged to have at least one of (hence, Twofer). ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-12-14/384282/15 "2006-12-15T18:29:13Z")
So Frank isn’t an Ivy Leaguer? Thought he looked like a Brown man, myself. But not Cornell because that would be the wrong show. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-12-14/384282/16 "2006-12-15T18:52:11Z")
[QUOTE=Slacker] lol that was great. “He wanted to buy you a drink.” “But I already have a drink. Think he’ll buy me some fried mozzerella?” [/QUOTE] Yeah, and all the happy times she had with Dennis were when he offered her some huge fattening treat…baby, how about…cheesesteaks? ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2006, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-12-14/384282/17 "2006-12-16T11:07:43Z")
The whole Jack-Condi storyline fell flat, but the other two were great. The best line was after Toofer tried out the N word, and Lemon says “It sounds so full of hate when you say it!” The entire Lemon storyline was comedy gold; the boyfriend’s apology letter was fantastic. “As a woman, you have the right to choose, and you chose to abort me.” hehheh. And then the blond chick: “I don’t know, after last night, maybe you should stay with him.” Poor Rachel Dratch. What has she had, two scenes all season? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-12-14/384282/18 "2006-12-16T23:56:16Z")
Dratch had three scenes: cat wrangler, maid on the yacht, and sensitivity trainer. And how did they manage to get the footage of the Putin grabass on Condi? CGI or did that really happen? And what was Twofer’s name? ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-12-14/384282/19 "2006-12-17T00:48:33Z")
Wasn’t Dratch also Liz Taylor and the blue whatzit? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-12-14/384282/20 "2006-12-17T03:07:30Z")
[QUOTE=The Controvert] And how did they manage to get the footage of the Putin grabass on Condi? CGI or did that really happen? [/quote] They cut to a shot of a hand and an ass, and it obviously wasn’t the same two people as in the Condi/Putin shot. > [@](#): > > And what was Twofer’s name? James. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-12-14/384282.md?page=2)