Not a question, just a statement! I just finished watching the first two seasons on Netflix (which has it for instant watch via your PC or Xbox) and this show is just amazingly funny, well written, and Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin are unbeliveably perfect for their roles.
The supporting roles fit perfectly, and even Tracy Morgan who I have never liked, is really, really funny.
“mind grapes”
“the cleve”
If your not watching it, get to it!
I prefer How I Met Your Mother for general consistency of writing and characterization, but when 30 Rock is on its game (Greenzo, Cougars), it’s really, really on.
I far prefer My Name is Earl or The Office.
30 Rock wheezes and tries waaay hard to be “wacky.” It’s like a person wearing a lampshade over his head while tap dancing over crocodiles in clown suits while shouting “Look at Me, I’m funn-eeeeeee.”
I am with the OP. *30 Rock *is bang-on.
It’s ok. I catch an episode, once in a while. I gotta admit when I do watch it’s because of stunt-casting. Sorry, sorry.
I’ve seen it a few times only because it comes on after The Office, which I love. I usually watch The Office on DVR but the few times that I’ve seen it live I’ll leave the TV on and try 30 Rock. I’ve never been able to get through about half of it before I turn it off. It just doesn’t work for me.
Best of the decade? Lucky the bar is set so low.
It’s a very good series. I have watched the first two seasons twice. But it’s only #6 so far.
How I Met Your Mother
Coupling (UK)
Flight of the Conchords
Lucky Louie (Can’t believe this series wasn’t continued. It’s about a lower class married couple, so I don’t relate to it at all, but I still think it’s great.)
The Office (UK)
30 Rock
30 Rock’s the best sitcom currently on the air. But I’d still call Arrested Development the best of this decade.
Y’know, I’m not usually a fan of stunt casting, but the episode with Oprah earlier this season was absolutely hilarious.
It’s mostly hit and miss for me, but I admit to laughing out loud several times while watching it, which I only currently do during one other show (The Office).
I thought last week’s episode with “The Generalissimo” was hilarious.
I’d have to say that for me Extras was the decade’s gold standard, with Arrested Development close behind.
This.
I might have said The Office for #2 if it had ended after its third season.
Yeah, I’d have to go with Arrested Development, too, though I like 30 Rock. Actually, at this point, I might even have to insert It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia in there.
Best sitcom of this decade is kind of like classiest airbrushed license plate, but FWIW . . . I think 30Rock is probably the worst television show I’ve ever had the misfortune of seeing in my entire life. That’s no exaggeration. Tina Fey is a plague on comedy. She’s the least funny person who gets paid to be funny except maybe Tracy Morgan. Put them together and I want to punch the tv within seconds.
The honkies! They got me!
It started a little slow, but since about halfway through the first season it’s been consistently great. Also, I never really thought Salma Hayek was all that until her run as Elisa.
–Cliffy
For me it’s The Office, then Arrested Development, and then 30 Rock. I choose the other two over 30 Rock because as imaginative and funny as it is – and it is often very, very funny – I just don’t care about the characters very much. I find that The Office goes deeper with its humor, and tends to be more observational and emotion-based (even when it does ‘wacky’ the characters’ emotions are rarely ignored completely). Arrested Development was definitely more wacky/outrageous and edgy than TO, and most of its gentler moments were played as satires of sitcom conventions, but even so, there was some genuine heart in the relationships – certainly between Michael and George Michael, but also between the siblings and occasionally even with their parents.
30 Rock is almost all edge/wacky and little warmth. Which I can appreciate and definitely enjoy on its own merits (after all, it’s a bland diet when all meals have the same ingredients). But in the end it leaves me feeling less involved than I am/was with TO and AD.
Sorta like the difference between The Simpsons and Family Guy or South Park, or (going earlier) between Newsradio and Seinfeld. There may be more laughs per minute in the latter, but I care about the people in the former.
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It’s a close one between:
Pulling (UK)
and
Summer Heights High (Australia)
They’re both fuckin hilarious.
They showed that here on HBO in December and it didn’t get a lot of notice. I thought that it was totally brilliant.
30 ROCK? Meh. I watched 3-4 episodes and quit. Contrived and not funny.