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I kinda wish the “porno” Lemon had been played by Sarah Palin.
I turned it off when Tracy started ranting. Ha-ha! Tracy is so stupid he doesn’t get why his wife would be angry that he has a necklace that says: Open marriage. That is hysterical.
He was actually ranting about how Liz basically used his life for her book. But you wouldn’t know that, because you turned it off.
Also, I pretty sure that Porn-Liz was the same actress who played Palin in the Palin porn.
Tracy is indeed the weak link on this show. I’d rather it be more about the writer-characters than about the actor-characters. If we need whacky comic relief, there’s always Kenneth.
I loved this one. The whole plot about Liz’ book (although the laugh was on the men, since they were making her royalties by buying the book) was terrific. Go down unto the chasm, Liz.
Will Arnett always brings the funny. And Jack’s begging not to be thrown into the briar patch of subsidies was a brilliant end to his story.
I totally don’t get the people who dislike Tracy. Not every bit works, but the ones that do are generally the funniest moments on the show.
Jack: Tracy, listen. You can’t go into space. Your contract expressly prohibits dangerous activities like extreme sports or riding the subway on St. Patrick’s Day.
Tracy: What is this? Horseville? 'Cause I am surrounded by neigh-sayers. Word play!
Lemon: That is solid.
Tracy: Look, when I was a kid in the projects, I would look up at the stars and dream of going into space – of escaping the slums, of killing a Ewok! Now the man that kid has become can make those dreams come true! Do you know what that’s like?
Jack: Oh, I do.
Tracy: Then you know why I have to do this! As Robert Browning once wrote, “Oh, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what is a heaven for?” I was prepared for the possibility of this meeting!
I agree with VarlosZ, I kind of like Tracy and I don’t get all the hate.
Tracy’s bizarre but has some of the best lines. Like last night, when he showed up at Liz’s door b/c his wife threw him out (paraphrased):
Tracy: “…so instead of staying at some expensive hotel, or on my houseboat (which, by the way, I can’t find), I’m moving in with you!”
“Too soon!”
BTW, the scenes with Alec Baldwin and Will Arnett were gold, all of them. But I especially liked the Pizza discussion…and the laser gun and laser shield…and the pseudo-gay talk…and the questioning at the hearing…and…well you get the picture.
Tracy is the funniest thing on the show hands down.
It’s supposed to be a corny “joke.” It’s not about a punchline. The humor is in the forced delivery of “someone who’s funny by not being funny.” Like Andy Kaufman, you’re not laughing at the gag; you’re laughing at the execution of the gag, all while wondering whether you’re just supposed to be laughing at the gag or whetehr you should be laughing at all. Dude’s a genius.
Some very funny stuff in this one, the part where they started building a microwave and ended up with a car was my favorite.
I think the show could only improve without him. They do write him decent lines, but his reading of them has me wondering half the time whether he understands what he’s saying.
If I were Morgan, I’d be socking away as much as I could into my post-“30 Rock” nest egg. I don’t foresee fortuitous lightning striking twice for him.
It’s his reading that’s funny. Like I said, it’s not about the jokes. It’s about his delivery. Is he really that wooden? Does he even know what he’s saying? Why are some things he says stupid and some brilliant? It’s this uncertainty that makes it funny.
This was the best line of the show.
Not to mention that his wife was apparently fine with the necklace until it was in a book.
I thought the best line of the show was Tracy saying, “A book hasn’t caused me this much trouble since Where’s Waldo went to the barber pole factory.” Took me a second to parse, but I :D’d when I did.
He had a few years run on SNL, where I thought the only funny thing he did was “Astronaut Jones”.
I think the Tracy Morgan character is supposed to demonstrate to the audience how impossible talented funny people can be to work with because they are so weird. We don’t see him in the show much, and never “killing”, but he is supposed to be funny when he’s working. Jenna is supposed to be the pain the in ass that we are more familiar with.
I generally don’t care for his 30 Rock stuff, but I do remember his impressions of the others are hilarious.
I just watched it on tape and nearly fell out of my chair laughing at the “I have mercury poisoning from obsessively taking my rectal temperature” line. Exactly how many people has Jeremy Piven pissed off?