# 30 Rock 6.13, "Grandmentor," March 22, 2012 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 23, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-6-13-grandmentor-march-22-2012/616597 "2012-03-23T13:42:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-6-13-grandmentor-march-22-2012/616597/1 "2012-03-23T13:42:28Z")
It has been a while since I thought that _30 Rock_ was exceptional, but I had to note at least one laugh-out-loud moment in this episode. Kenneth: If Tracy doesn’t get at least 14 hours of sleep, he starts to go crazy! Tracy (from inside a locked dressing room): We’re on a show-within-a-show! My real name is Tracy Morgan! I also chuckled when Hazel and her boyfriend both took the opportunity to ogle Liz’s rack. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-6-13-grandmentor-march-22-2012/616597/2 "2012-03-23T13:45:06Z")
I thought there were lots of hilarious lines in this one and the other one (“Kidnapped By Danger”). Billy Baldwin’s impersonation was awesome! Where is toilet pail? Razmig must make mud. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-6-13-grandmentor-march-22-2012/616597/3 "2012-03-23T13:45:34Z")
When was it on? I tuned in at 8 but community was on. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-6-13-grandmentor-march-22-2012/616597/4 "2012-03-23T13:52:08Z")
There was an episode at 8:30 and an episode at 9:00. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-6-13-grandmentor-march-22-2012/616597/5 "2012-03-23T14:13:11Z")
Liz was sitting at her desk talking to Hazel and my wife said “Tina Fey’s breasts are huge right now because she is breastfeeding.” Then immediately Hazel comments on Liz’s nice rack. That made us laugh. Does anyone else worry that in the series finale Kenny is going to kill everyone and blow up 30 Rock on live TV? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-6-13-grandmentor-march-22-2012/616597/6 "2012-03-23T14:16:53Z")
Two very good episodes. I especially liked the way Kenneth (as Jack noted as the end) is now lower on the totem pole than ever, although I don’t think he’ll stay there very long. Kristen Schaal gets more unsettling every week. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-6-13-grandmentor-march-22-2012/616597/7 "2012-03-23T14:49:23Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > Does anyone else worry that in the series finale Kenny is going to kill everyone and blow up 30 Rock on live TV? Well, Jack did predict 5 years ago “In five years, we’ll all either be working for Kenneth or dead by his hand.” And since Kenneth’s plan to become President of Television has hit a snag… ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-6-13-grandmentor-march-22-2012/616597/8 "2012-03-23T14:55:09Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > There was an episode at 8:30 and an episode at 9:00. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-6-13-grandmentor-march-22-2012/616597/9 "2012-03-23T15:13:21Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Well, Jack did predict 5 years ago “In five years, we’ll all either be working for Kenneth or dead by his hand.” And since Kenneth’s plan to become President of Television has hit a snag… I wasn’t watching the show five years ago, but I do wish they’d moved Kenneth up the corporate ladder sooner. He didn’t have to stay an intern through five-plus seasons, and since they have periodically emphasized the similarities of Kenneth and Jack, I would’ve liked to see Jack’s prediction come closer to the truth. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-6-13-grandmentor-march-22-2012/616597/10 "2012-03-23T16:06:10Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > It has been a while since I thought that _30 Rock_ was exceptional, but I had to note at least one laugh-out-loud moment in this episode. > > Kenneth: If Tracy doesn’t get at least 14 hours of sleep, he starts to go crazy! > > Tracy (from inside a locked dressing room): We’re on a show-within-a-show! My real name is Tracy Morgan! That line had me laughing out loud! I don’t think there was a 30 Rock thread last week, but there was another Tracy joke I found really funny: Tracy and Jenna are at odds with each other and are having an argument over something. Tracy shouts a command into his iPhone, “Siri, kill Jenna!” The scene with Tracy and Jenna continues a little longer and as their argument continues you can hear Tracy’s phone–in the voice of Siri–say “I killed Jenna Elfman. Is that right?” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-6-13-grandmentor-march-22-2012/616597/11 "2012-03-23T16:07:17Z")
I love Weird Al ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-6-13-grandmentor-march-22-2012/616597/12 "2012-03-23T18:48:01Z")
I got one of those shudder/laugh deals out of the joke about Liz writing MythBusters slash. It occurred to me a while ago that that must exist somewhere on the 'net (no links, please). ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-6-13-grandmentor-march-22-2012/616597/13 "2012-03-23T18:59:16Z")
For some reason I got a really big kick out of the throwaway bit about the Featured Extra (“Has a name but no lines”) and then they repeatedly called Jack’s silent assistant by his name (Gary? I forget). That plus the storyline of having to write a contest winner into the show makes me think that the guy playing Jack’s assistant was actually a contest winner of that sort. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-6-13-grandmentor-march-22-2012/616597/14 "2012-03-23T19:03:53Z")
Gabriel hasn’t done much, but he’s apepared a few times this year. The guy who played Jack’s previous assistant, Jonathan, got a bigger part on Whitney this season. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-6-13-grandmentor-march-22-2012/616597/15 "2012-03-23T19:14:06Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Tracy and Jenna are at odds with each other and are having an argument over something. Tracy shouts a command into his iPhone, “Siri, kill Jenna!” The scene with Tracy and Jenna continues a little longer and as their argument continues you can hear Tracy’s phone–in the voice of Siri–say “I killed Jenna Elfman. Is that right?” > 😃 That was possibly one of the funniest lines from the show’s history. I’d put it right up there with The Generalissimo wooing the Puerto Rican grandmother. “But first, let us go to McDonalds and order only coffee.” ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2012, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-6-13-grandmentor-march-22-2012/616597/16 "2012-03-24T02:46:49Z")
I thought Mary had some funny lines in the second episode– _“…and I didn’t dream that I was a sex slave to a squidlike alien with your head…”_ _“The train was disgusting…I flew here but I saw a train from the window.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2012, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-6-13-grandmentor-march-22-2012/616597/17 "2012-03-24T03:16:07Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I got one of those shudder/laugh deals out of the joke about Liz writing MythBusters slash. It occurred to me a while ago that that must exist somewhere on the 'net (no links, please). I stumbled on West Wing erotic fanfiction; anything’s possible. _whispers_ \*It’s out there… \* ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2012, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-6-13-grandmentor-march-22-2012/616597/18 "2012-03-24T20:23:10Z")
We’ve come back to watching “30 Rock” since it’s usually on in re-runs after “How I Met Your Mother” re-runs (my tv viewing habits are a whole ‘nother thread), and I don’t think I could ever pick a favourite line from any episode since they are all stuffed full of good lines. The way it mixes lampooning what (I assume) is the ridiculous real world of tv with over-the-top scenarios is friggin’ brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2012, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-6-13-grandmentor-march-22-2012/616597/19 "2012-03-24T20:42:09Z")
I got a big kick out of Al coming up w/ lyrics for the instrumental theme song; they were nonsense, mostly, but still… ---
**Author:** ![koufax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7ea924/32.png) [@koufax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koufax)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2012, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock-6-13-grandmentor-march-22-2012/616597/20 "2012-03-25T03:42:21Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > Damn. > **[Stream TV and Movies Live and Online | Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/welcome)** > > Watch TV shows and movies online. Stream TV episodes of Shōgun, Grey's Anatomy, This Is Us, Bob's Burgers, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Empire, SNL, and popular movies on your favorite devices. Bundle with Disney+ for $10.99.