# God, 30 Rock is good. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 15, 2009, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-30-rock-is-good/496483 "2009-05-15T01:59:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-30-rock-is-good/496483/1 "2009-05-15T01:59:47Z")
“Kidney Now” is the single greatest 5 minutes of television, well, ever. “I’m one of the drunk ones!” :D:D ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-30-rock-is-good/496483/2 "2009-05-15T02:04:48Z")
“My Mary J Blige foundation is celebrating it’s 10th year of searching for the loch ness monster.” ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-30-rock-is-good/496483/3 "2009-05-15T02:11:48Z")
I am not usually partial to Kenneth, preferring the Liz/Donaghy interaction, but his line about his favorite part of science class being the Old Testament was priceless. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2009, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-30-rock-is-good/496483/4 "2009-05-15T02:18:29Z")
“The other kidneys are singing now.” ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-30-rock-is-good/496483/5 "2009-05-15T02:21:50Z")
Could anyone name all of the celebs without going online or watching the credits? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-30-rock-is-good/496483/6 "2009-05-15T02:42:32Z")
“We’ve had a great year…” “It’s only May.” “Shh!” ---
**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-30-rock-is-good/496483/7 "2009-05-15T02:48:46Z")
“A grown man crying about a chicken and a baby? I thought this was a comedy show.” Brutal and awesome at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-30-rock-is-good/496483/8 "2009-05-15T02:54:19Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Could anyone name all of the celebs without going online or watching the credits? Hell, I couldn’t name half of them when I saw their NAMES! Nice to see Robert Randolph back with NBC, after they flogged “Ain’t Nothing Wrong With That” to DEATH a couple years ago. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-30-rock-is-good/496483/9 "2009-05-15T03:15:43Z")
> [@LateComer](#): > > “A grown man crying about a chicken and a baby? I thought this was a comedy show.” Brutal and awesome at the same time. I laughed, but I wonder how many people had no idea what that was about. I had to explain it to my husband and my BF. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2009, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-30-rock-is-good/496483/10 "2009-05-15T03:20:41Z")
> [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > I had to explain it to my husband and my BF. Me next! ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-30-rock-is-good/496483/11 "2009-05-15T03:28:05Z")
**Bryan** , you are a better man than I. I refuse to stoop to admitting I don’t get a cultural reference. Except the half of the celebs I didn’t recognize, because their music is not cool enough for me. However, with **PLG** ’s input, I can pretend I knew it all along when my daughter gets it. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-30-rock-is-good/496483/12 "2009-05-15T04:07:16Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > **Bryan** , you are a better man than I. I refuse to stoop to admitting I don’t get a cultural reference. Except the half of the celebs I didn’t recognize, because their music is not cool enough for me. > > However, with **PLG** ’s input, I can pretend I knew it all along when my daughter gets it. It’s a reference to the MASH finale. [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye,_Farewell_and_Amen)sums it up: > [@](#): > > Pierce’s memories of what led to his breakdown have become repressed, and as he and Freedman draw them forth, Pierce at first remembers the details inaccurately. In Pierce’s first recollection, he was on a bus, riding back to the 4077th after a day of drinking and partying at the beaches of Incheon. He called for a bottle of whiskey to be passed back to someone who “can’t wait”; later, he is able to more accurately recall this person was a wounded soldier, that the item for which Pierce had called because the man couldn’t wait was not whiskey, but plasma. The bus then picked up some South Korean refugees, followed by some wounded soldiers who brought news of an enemy patrol in the area. As Pierce relives the memories, he recalls that the bus pulled off the road and everyone was told to stay quiet so they would not be discovered by the enemy. One woman carried a live chicken that would not stop squawking, prompting Pierce to angrily admonish her to “keep that damn chicken quiet!” – after which the noise soon stopped. > > This last detail causes Pierce to break down sobbing as he finally reveals the true ending of the story. When Hawkeye snapped at the woman, he had not told her to keep a chicken quiet, but in fact had insisted that she keep her baby quiet. Pierce now accurately recalls that the noise which had been endangering the lives of everyone on the bus was not really a chicken that would not stop squawking; in actuality, it had been the woman’s baby who would not stop crying. After Pierce’s imperative, and with all of her other, desperate efforts to quiet the baby having failed, the woman made the decision to smother her own child to silence its cries and thus protect the lives of the people on the bus. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2009, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-30-rock-is-good/496483/13 "2009-05-15T04:11:46Z")
> [@Sam\_Lowry](#): > > It’s a reference to the MASH finale. Click! Of course. ---
**Author:** ![Clark\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@Clark\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clark_K)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-30-rock-is-good/496483/14 "2009-05-15T04:18:09Z")
I nearly had a stroke laughing at the MASH parody. My wife nearly had a heart attack when I burst out laughing. It was pure genius and why I think “30 Rock” is the best comedy on TV (with all due respect to "The Office). I also want to brag about the fact that I got it while Tracy was still talking \_ _before_ Alda showed up to deliver his line about "I thought this was a comedy. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2009, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-30-rock-is-good/496483/15 "2009-05-15T04:41:35Z")
From memory, here is who I saw singing Kidney Now: Adam Levine (Maroon 5) Sheryl Crow Cindy Lauper Rhett Miller (Old 97s) Rachel Yamagata Mary J. Blige Rick Rubin (wasn’t he the guy w/ the big crazy beard?) Two of the Beastie Boys Michael McDonald Elvis Costello Clay Aiken Moby That’s all I got… ---
**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:** [May 15, 2009, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-30-rock-is-good/496483/16 "2009-05-15T04:44:52Z")
And according to [NBC.com](http://NBC.com), we also had: Sara Bareilles Wyclef Jean Norah Jones Talib Kweli Robert Randolph ---
**Author:** ![Tarwater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@Tarwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarwater)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-30-rock-is-good/496483/17 "2009-05-15T04:47:05Z")
> [@HelloNinja](#): > > From memory, here is who I saw singing Kidney Now: > > Rick Rubin (wasn’t he the guy w/ the big crazy beard?) > > That’s all I got… Are you thinking of Steve Earle? ---
**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:** [May 15, 2009, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-30-rock-is-good/496483/18 "2009-05-15T04:47:52Z")
> [@Tarwater](#): > > Are you thinking of Steve Earle? You know, after I posted I was looking of pics of Rick Rubin and thought that I was probably wrong. Then I thought maybe it was Earle (as I’ve seen him a lot recently on The Wire.) Good eye. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-30-rock-is-good/496483/19 "2009-05-15T04:58:57Z")
> [@Sam\_Lowry](#): > > It’s a reference to the MASH finale. [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye,_Farewell_and_Amen)sums it up: I repressed that and thought the finale was about BJ’s Harley. Or thought it was a different episode. Or mistook it for the umpteen shows where escapees smother a crying baby rather than betray the majority. Which I know has happened. ---
**Author:** ![McPdx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@McPdx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McPdx)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-30-rock-is-good/496483/20 "2009-05-15T06:12:18Z")
How about Frank Lucas High School? Lucas was the Harlem gangster and drug dealer that the movie American Gangster was based on. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-30-rock-is-good/496483.md?page=2)