Yeah, not a very good episode… the best part was when the TV turned off during that hotel skit. They did a pretty good job of trying to fix it, but the look on Peter Sarsgaard’s face was funny.
I am jealous, you did have a more enjoyable night. 
It is sad but the only other recurring character I can think of is Rachel Dretch’s annoying and depressing character.
When will Horatio be kicked off the show?
Jim
Not soon enough.
I think they need to fire everyone after they’ve been on the show for, say, 3-4 years.
If they did do a major purging of the cast, I’d want them to keep Chris Parnell, Amy Poehler, Seth Meyers, Kenan Thompson, Bill Hader, Andy Samberg (and his Lonely Island partners, the writers Jorma and Akiva), and Kristen Wiig. At this point, I wouldn’t miss any of the others, even fair Tina. Since she was head writer for so long, I wonder exactly how much of the show’s low points in the last few years can be blamed on her, vs. Lorne or any other specific parties.
I would even drop Seth Meyers, otherwise I like the list. Maybe Tina could be demoted to NewsReader and a new Headwriter could be appointed. She is good at the News.
Jim
I don’t mind Sarsgaard, but there was little to watch here except Young Chuck Norris.
How could “Carol!” have survived this long?
Dead-from-the-neck-up writers.
It’s a lot easier to try and get audience reaction from recognition, as opposed to quality.
Meh. I didn’t think it was horrid, especially compared to the other eps this season. But then again, I do find Sarsgaard quite foxy, so that helps.
I was moderately surprised and amused by the Shattered Glass parody, a movie that didn’t even get theatrical release. I wasn’t even sure that’s what they were going for until I realized that Peter Sarsgaard played the same roll in the movie that he was playing in the skit.
I thought that the pirate skit was funny too so I guess that shows that I’m too easily amused.
But surely they could have somehow had Amy Poehler and Tiny Fey fondling her ACTUAL breasts instead. Would’ve been better.
Baraqiyal writes:
> I was moderately surprised and amused by the Shattered Glass parody, a
> movie that didn’t even get theatrical release.
Yes, it did. It didn’t get a very big theatrical release, but it got one. According to the IMDb, the most screens that it was showing on simultaneously (in the U.S.) was 215, which isn’t a big release, but it is a release.
Yeah it did. I saw it in the theater. It wasn’t a big release though.
I think the big problem has to be Tina Fey. She’s the head writer, so the blame has to fall on her. The case is plenty talented and has all the comedy chops they need. It’s just the writing and skit selection that’s putrid.
I have hopes that will change. The new guys on the cast, especially Bill Hader and Andy Samberg, are excellent, and it seems that Lorne knows it because those two have been showing in new skits faster than any other ‘rookies’ I can remember. Usually new cast members have to fight for air time and you see very little of them until they prove themselves. But these guys are getting featured roles already. Bill Hader’s Vincent Price show a few episodes ago was absolutely hilarious.
They need to let the new writers from Lonely Island have more work, tone down Tina Fey and her clique, and dump Horatio and a couple of others. And while I used to like him, I haven’t seen Seth Myers do anything funny in quite a while. He might have to go.
Wow. Rotten episode.
I’ve liked Sarsgaard as an actor, but geez. . .Steinbrenner flubbed fewer lines when he hosted.
Now I wonder if Sarsgaard is just a “one trick pony” actor. He always seemed really good to me, but he didn’t seem to have much here.
The “Young Chuck Norris” seemed like Parnell and Samberg trying to keep the momentum going from Narnia, but it was just lame. Forgettable lyrics. Forgettable tune. Forgettable graphics.
But I did think the pirate skit was funny.