# 30 Rock! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 28, 2020, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock/850484 "2020-03-28T02:32:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock/850484/41 "2020-03-30T04:52:55Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > When did gum get so soft, you sons of bitches? You know what this country use to chew? Tree bark. Glass. Shotgun shells. The broken swords of our vanquished enemies. That’s why I buy Bazooka Joe Gum. It’s like chewing a mountain that someone shot a freeze ray into. I hear Stacy Keach saying that in my head every time an episode of _American Greed_ comes on. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock/850484/42 "2020-03-30T08:02:19Z")
JACK: Uh, Tracy, you do know that “Googling yourself” means looking yourself UP on the internet. TRACY: I did not know that! That explains why Liz Lemon was so cool the other day! (Flashback to the other day) TRACY: Liz Lemon. You mind if I google myself in your office? LIZ: Sure, Tracy! TRACY: You mind if I use your computer? LIZ: How else are you gonna do it? TRACY (Points happily at Liz) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock/850484/43 "2020-03-30T12:01:36Z")
I want to go to MILF Island. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock/850484/44 "2020-03-30T12:14:27Z")
Actually, one of the few problems I had with \*30 Rock \*was its obsession with trashy reality shows. I didn’t get any of the jokes, for the simple reason that I don’t watch those shows - I watch shows like _30 Rock_. ---
**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 30, 2020, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock/850484/45 "2020-03-30T12:30:10Z")
I can’t find the actual line, but Tracy’s joke about car seats and spinal injuries is a little awkward now. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock/850484/46 "2020-03-30T13:01:57Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Actually, one of the few problems I had with \*30 Rock \*was its obsession with trashy reality shows. I didn’t get any of the jokes, for the simple reason that I don’t watch those shows - I watch shows like _30 Rock_. I don’t either but I got the gist of them. And under any circumstances, the way Angie says “HAM!!” is just funny. ---
**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 30, 2020, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock/850484/47 "2020-03-30T13:13:58Z")
(from Kenneth’s tour of the studio) Now you may have heard of J. Fred Muggs, the chimpanzee that was on the Today Show in the '50s, but what most people don’t know is that NBC is still a network. […] Okay, now please follow me to Brian Williams’ bathroom which is also J. Fred Muggs’ skull. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock/850484/48 "2020-03-30T13:26:19Z")
“My father didn’t kill dozens of Germans so that his daughter could die in a van!” “But he wasn’t even in the war!” Don’t get me started with Coleen quotes. ---
**Author:** ![puddleglum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puddleglum/32/137_2.png) [@puddleglum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puddleglum)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock/850484/49 "2020-03-30T15:56:17Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I want to go to MILF Island. Have you heard about DeBorahs’s story? Before MILF Island she was just a struggling actress living in L.A.? ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock/850484/50 "2020-03-30T16:16:30Z")
Tracy: “But then he scores a basket, even though he’s not a wolf anymore.” Larry King: “That was Tracy Jordan describing the entire plot of the movie Teen Wolf.” ---
**Author:** ![flaming\_yawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cab0a1/32.png) [@flaming\_yawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flaming_yawn)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock/850484/51 "2020-03-30T16:29:36Z")
> [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser](#): > > JACK: Uh, Tracy, you do know that “Googling yourself” means looking yourself UP on the internet. > TRACY: I did not know that! That explains why Liz Lemon was so cool the other day! > (Flashback to the other day) > TRACY: Liz Lemon. You mind if I google myself in your office? > LIZ: Sure, Tracy! > TRACY: You mind if I use your computer? > LIZ: How else are you gonna do it? > TRACY (Points happily at Liz) This is what I was going to put! thank you! ---
**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 30, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock/850484/52 "2020-03-30T18:02:11Z")
I love the idea of making up holiday traditions out of nothing. So therefore, both the Leap Day episode and the idea of Merlinpeen have amused me greatly. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock/850484/53 "2020-04-03T02:41:52Z")
Dr. Spaceman: Now, Mrs. Jordan, I’ve already administered the epidural, so… would you like one as well? ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock/850484/54 "2020-04-09T14:42:12Z")
All-purpose: “Shut … it … down…” ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock/850484/55 "2020-04-09T14:58:49Z")
One of my favorite lines is from the very first episode, when Liz and Pete are meeting with Jack for the first time in his office. Liz makes a sarcastic comment of some sort, and Jack says: “I like you. You have the boldness of a much younger woman.” There’s another one, later in Season 1, when Liz makes a suggestion to Jack about a speech he has to give, and Jack replies: “Lemon, this is not open-mic night at the Bryn Mawr student union.” ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock/850484/56 "2020-04-09T15:07:37Z")
In the episode where Tracy’s wife gives birth. (And where Tracy naturally arrived late.) TRACY: Why is that baby covered in goop? DR SPACEMAN: Because everything about this is disgusting! Earlier in the same episode, in the middle of labor, an alarm clock goes off in the birthing room. Dr. Spaceman snaps off his gloves and says (to the effect): “I need to go feed the meter”, and leaves the room. ---
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock/850484/57 "2020-04-09T15:45:20Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > I can’t find the actual line, but Tracy’s joke about car seats and spinal injuries is a little awkward now. Another one that’s cringe-worthy today (paraphrased from memory, so it might not be the exact quote) is from the Weird Al Yankovic episode when Jenna explains that she’s not afraid to stand up to anybody because “I’ve turned down Harvey Weinstein on three separate occasions… out of five.” ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock/850484/58 "2020-04-09T17:33:54Z")
I’d love to quiz Tina Fey for hours on 30 Rock How they went from a fairly grounded first season to Pete Hornburger was in Loverboy and an Olympic archer. From Liz having a realisticish relationship with Jason Sudekis to marrying a former model. Not to mention Kenneth being immortal. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock/850484/59 "2020-04-09T18:26:53Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > I’d love to quiz Tina Fey for hours on 30 Rock > > How they went from a fairly grounded first season to Pete Hornburger was in Loverboy and an Olympic archer. From Liz having a realisticish relationship with Jason Sudekis to marrying a former model. Not to mention Kenneth being immortal. Her autobiography _Bossypants_ describes some of the early _30 Rock_ production, having been published about midway though the show’s run. It doesn’t discuss the later-season surrealism, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-rock/850484.md?page=2)