I thought this was an absolutely amazing episode… in particular, the Amadeus references were so well done while being so totally absurd (video game porn and Amadeus?), and Liz as an executive was hilarious.
I agree. Great episode.
“Hire someone you trust.”
“Well, that rules out the Federal Reserve…”
Another vote for a top-notch episode. But what was with the slapping?
(BTW, was watching some of “American Splendor” last weekend and while scanning the credits noticed Judah Friedlander as Toby. Wow. I still can’t see this guy as the same guy who said “I’m a very spiritual person.”)
Fantastic episode.
So many great moments. Liz offering Kenneth to Devin in the elevator, and his reaction. Jack crying when Geiss told him the CEO job was his. Dr. Spaceman running through the corridors in a cape to the sound of Mozart. His squeamishness when giving Geiss an injection. The slapping. “Business drunk”. Geiss’s weird daughter, and her love of enclosed spaces. Jack: “Why do I smell fake tan and teeth whitener?” Frank’s cry to heaven when Tracey perfected the porn video game in one day. “Button classic”
How did they fit it all into one half-hour episode?
The funniest moment for me was Dr. Spaceman calling 411 (because he wasn’t sure whether it was 411 or 911 for emergencies) and asking for, “uh, I don’t know…diabetes repair?”
Tracy was genius at “Bring your Dad to School Day”. He walks in, sees what’s happening, and in the next scene, is shirtless, holding the banner, dancing and crying “If I’m such a bad dad, why are we all dancing?” Nobody else was.
I cracked up at Tracy’s “Everybody calm down!” after a perfectly innocuous suggestion from Dot Com (or Grizz; don’t remember who said it or the line).
His explanation of the Uncanny Valley to Tracy. “This is R2D2 . . . This is Tom Hanks in the Polar Express”
It was a great episode.
Liz, explaining her security-camera plan to Jack: “I got through it by pretending he was a sandwich.”
Dammit. We had a Tivo triple-conflict: CSI, Grey’s Anatomy and 30 Rock, and 30 Rock lost the coin toss.
Judging from the Grey’s that I saw, and the absence of any threads about how great CSI was…I made the wrong choice.
Hooray for Hulu. (If you have broadband.)
I think the suggestion was openning a school in Africa like Oprah.
Hee, I was just rewatching this, and I noticed that when Tracy got his idea for video game porn, the video game he’s holding, “Army: Death War,” or something like that, is rated “Y.” You just have to love the props and set dressing people on this show.
Speaking of which, did anyone catch the blurbs on Jack’s “Bulb” cover? The only thing I could make out was “Jack Be N.I.M.B.L.E.”