It was the very model of a modern late night TV show.
30 Rock
A community for the fans and critics of the show 30 Rock.
Discussion of the show, pictures from the show and anything else 30 Rock related.
Rules:
- All DubVee instance rules apply. See the sidebar at https://dubvee.org. Those are pretty comprehensive, so we don't really need to add much to those.
- No politics outside of what's referenced on the show. Let's leave that drama elsewhere since there's plenty of it.
- All posts must be 30 Rock related or adjacent. You dummies are awesome, so I don't think I've ever had to mod any posts for this, but codifying it for good measure.
- Less a rule and more of a guideline, but please try to provide alt text if your instance + client combination support it. If not, then please try to make an effort to provide a description of any image posts in the post body. Let's be an a11y when we can :)
- Don't make fun of people for misusing dated cultural references. Are we all cowabunga on this?
- No talking about Krang. It would be a waste of time to talk about Krang on ~~television~~ the internet.
Is that supposed to be an insult or a compliment? Lol
It's from the first episode: "The Cold Open"
There I go proving that I never watched it I guess 😆
I loved Studio 60. Such a great show
"A Jewish guy calls his mother. His mouth is full..."
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
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Funnily enough, I just watched it for the first time a couple of weeks ago.
I think it might have been a different viewing experience when it was new, but it's hard to not view it through the modern lens where 30 Rock made it - and therefore defined the "genre" of show-about-a-SNL-type-show - and Studio 60 didn't.
Wikipedia indeed includes an entire section about this in the pages for both shows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_60_on_the_Sunset_Strip#Similarities_to_30_Rock / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_Rock#Similarities_to_other_media
But it does answer the question of "what if in a parallel universe, 30 Rock was a slightly weirdly paced character drama?".
Yeah, I'll never understand why NBC couldn't keep them both. How does the slightest topic overlap require them to kill one?
Studio 60 was too good to survive more than 1 season.