30 Rock running thread

[Versatile]

This thread largely has lost steam, but the end is here.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

This thread lost steam about the same time the show did...

Still funny, but not nearly as funny as it was during the first few seasons...

 

[Webster]

I think that this season has been great. It dropped down my DVR list until last season, when it got funny again.

Last line is "shut it down"?

 

[Versatile]

It really hit its stride again at the end. I didn't think I was so emotionally connected to these characters, but that was a touching and funny finale. And the episode before it, last week, was even better. Here was a show that won three Emmys for best comedy, lasted seven mostly funny seasons and went out with its head held high. The finale felt right, from the timing to the humor to the plot lines.

30 Rock was a show that raised the bar for humor. It did more for women in comedy than any show since I Love Lucy. It didn't draw a huge audience, but it drew a smart audience. The legacy, though, should be that 30 Rock was an adventurous, bold show with great acting and writing that never took the cheap way out for ratings. The show runners could have turned it into the Tracy Morgan show or turned up the emotional dial on Liz's life, but they didn't. The last season was uneven, but the final handful of episodes were strong in the same ways that defined the show.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

I thought it was an excellent final episode full of laughs. Oddly, 30 Rock is really good for syndication, because you can watch the same episode three times and get something new each time.

 

[93Devil]

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8900291/30-rock-race-identity-politics

 

[93Devil]

Like a waitress.

What am I? A farmer?

 

[Big Circus]

Just watched the finale, which was fantastic. That might have been Lutz's finest hour.

 

[Dick Whitman]

The scenes of Liz Lemon compulsively opening her laptop, against her better judgment, to argue on a message board hit a little to close to home!

(Also: My wife couldn't stop laughing because she said that the scene was a spot-on representation of Internet mommy board culture.)

 

[Versatile]

Is your wife the 2012 Master Debator of Moms.com?