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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chris L on February 23, 2007, 11:29:20 AM
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I love this show and last night's episode was the funniest one yet. "OK, the crab is getting aroused. Shut it down.... shut it down."
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I love this show and last night's episode was the funniest one yet. "OK, the crab is getting aroused. Shut it down.... shut it down."
Correct. The show is on fiyah.
Another choice moment: Kenneth, seemingly baffled and intrigued: "Pregnant cornbread ..."
Fey and Baldwin are unstoppable, untoppable, etc.
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best show on television, which means it will be cancelled within the year.
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Do the worm!
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The manatee has become the Mento.
Agreed this is the best show on tee vee these days. Much more funnier than The Office, which I still find pretty funny. I hope it never stops.
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this show is just hitting it's stride.
"yeah, I do read the paper. suck it"
also, my favorites are griz and dotcom.
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Black Crusaders!
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Ooooh, this whole thing with Alec Baldwin and his daughter.
I don't know, maybe it's over, and it's a shame.
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Man, I'm glad the show already got renewed.
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Unfortunately, I'm one of those annoying people that doesn't have a television. I'm in "Spike mode" as I wait for my wife and children to relocate to the Left Coast. I'm assuming 30 Rock will find its way to DVD one day ...
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NBC pretty much puts all their shows online to watch on their site. Or you can always go the torrent way
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NBC.com has the most recent shows. You can catch up on the older ones here:
http://www.tv-links.co.uk/show.do/1/1641
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Ew boy, all those upcoming guest stars. Seinfeld didn't exactly rock my world. At what price renewal, Tina? At what price?
"MILF Island" was awesome, though.
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Nah. The show had guest stars all through the first season, too, and that worked out fine. I'll admit that Seinfeld wasn't great, but so what?
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Nah. The show had guest stars all through the first season, too, and that worked out fine. I'll admit that Seinfeld wasn't great, but so what?
Perhaps. NBC's promo just made it look like an onslaught. Then again, NBC's promos have a long tradition of cringeworthiness.
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I say bring on the guest stars if it means it'll bring in more viewers. I want this show to last a long time, namean?
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Nah. The show had guest stars all through the first season, too, and that worked out fine. I'll admit that Seinfeld wasn't great, but so what?
Perhaps. NBC's promo just made it look like an onslaught. Then again, NBC's promos have a long tradition of cringeworthiness.
My thoughts exactly. The inferior quality of NBC's promos is really the elephant in the living room of the television industry. People need to know about this.
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People need to live every week like it's Shark Week.
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People need to live every week like it's Shark Week.
This is an awesome statement on so many levels.
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So I naively googled "Lemon Party" after last week's episode and am now traumatized beyond belief. Mission accomplished, 30 Rock writers. I should've known to just consult Laurie first.
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So I naively googled "Lemon Party" after last week's episode and am now traumatized beyond belief. Mission accomplished, 30 Rock writers. I should've known to just consult Laurie first.
I don't feel sorry for kids who see their mom on the internet for the first time anymore. It can always be worse.
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Aw, let the geezers have their fun. By all accounts, life in a retirement home is awfully dreary.
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Aw, let the geezers have their fun. By all accounts, life in a retirement home is awfully dreary.
What about all those stories about crazy Florida nursing homes and wild humping? Lemon party was a documentary.
30 Rock is one of the few things I'm missing during the strike. I saw a UCB show with the guy who plays Kenneth the Page, and it's funny and strange to see him doing coke jokes.
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I've decided not to read the entirety of this thread until I'm finished with the last few episodes of the first season. I'm absolutely in love with the show.. Very funny stuff, and the kind of person Fey portrays is extremely relateable.
Anybody know how I can catch up with Season 2 without getting punished?
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I've decided not to read the entirety of this thread until I'm finished with the last few episodes of the first season. I'm absolutely in love with the show.. Very funny stuff, and the kind of person Fey portrays is extremely relateable.
Anybody know how I can catch up with Season 2 without getting punished?
Were you really defending that show 30 Rock? NBC (http://www.nbc.com/30_Rock/video/episodes.shtml#vid=195024)'s gonna ankle that laffer, mark my words.
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If you support the writers, don't click that link.
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If you support the writers, don't click that link.
Off topic, but wouldn't watching it online prove how valuable such a service is?
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If you support the writers, don't click that link.
Off topic, but wouldn't watching it online prove how valuable such a service is?
Or if you missed the episode when it airs, are you encouraged to not watch their work at all or download it illegally?
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I support the writers. Do NOT get me wrong about that, and I think you know that's true. :P
However I was under the impression that the writers don't even get paid for the DVDs that are released of shows, so am I not to watch any of my DVDs I own as well?
Also - is the fact that I'm watching Season 1 on Netflix make me unsupportive of the writers strike?
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I support the writers. Do NOT get me wrong about that, and I think you know that's true. :P
However I was under the impression that the writers don't even get paid for the DVDs that are released of shows, so am I not to watch any of my DVDs I own as well?
Also - is the fact that I'm watching Season 1 on Netflix make me unsupportive of the writers strike?
4 cents! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Writers_Guild_of_America_strike#DVD_residuals)
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If you support the writers, don't click that link.
Off topic, but wouldn't watching it online prove how valuable such a service is?
Or if you missed the episode when it airs, are you encouraged to not watch their work at all or download it illegally?
Ideally you should try to find a friend who might have recorded it, or catch a rerun at some point. I think, though, that downloading it illegally is better than going through official channels, and here's why: network websites have embedded advertisements in their streaming content, which they make money from (and the writers do not). Long story short, if you're watching there, you're supporting the executives, not the writers, since this is the central issue of the strike. Downloading from a torrent site or similar place is the lesser of the evils, if you ask me.
Swiss, I'm sure you do support the writers. I never doubted that, believe me. I was just pointing out that if you want to take the extra step in your support, then you might choose not to watch online for the time being.
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Swiss, I'm sure you do support the writers. I never doubted that, believe me. I was just pointing out that if you want to take the extra step in your support, then you might choose not to watch online for the time being.
Thanks I appreciate that you took the time out to type out your thoughts. I haven't really been able to keep up to date or inform myself about the strike as I have other things going on. :) I wasn't trying to be defensive or anything either, I just really am ignorant about the subject right now.
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But are the writers asking for residuals from viewings that are occurring now? I could see in the future this being an issue, but I don't get how you could have any 'moral' problem with this at the present time. The content that is available now was created under a contract that didn't make provisions for online streaming. Whether or not that contract should/could have included such provisions is moot; it's not there.
I guess I'm just asking why it matters to the writers whether or not a person watches a streaming video right now. The way I understand the current situation is this:
WATCH VIDEO: advertiser gives money to network; writer gets nothing
DON'T WATCH VIDEO: advertiser keeps money; writer gets nothing
What, exactly, is the difference? Does a writer get paid when you watch it on a tape a friend made you?
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But are the writers asking for residuals from viewings that are occurring now? I could see in the future this being an issue, but I don't get how you could have any 'moral' problem with this at the present time. The content that is available now was created under a contract that didn't make provisions for online streaming. Whether or not that contract should/could have included such provisions is moot; it's not there.
I guess I'm just asking why it matters to the writers whether or not a person watches a streaming video right now. The way I understand the current situation is this:
WATCH VIDEO: advertiser gives money to network; writer gets nothing
DON'T WATCH VIDEO: advertiser keeps money; writer gets nothing
What, exactly, is the difference? Does a writer get paid when you watch it on a tape a friend made you?
You wrote the difference already: WATCH VIDEO: advertiser gives money to network, DON'T WATCH VIDEO: advertiser keeps money. I think you're confusing a gesture of support with literal support. The writers don't get paid either way, but the networks do, in one scenario. Naturally, it's up to you.
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I saw Tracy Morgan on the street last week. Hope that doesn't count for crossing WGA lines.
He was carrying four bags from the Hershey's store in Times Square. He's just like us!
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I've been watching this show online all month, not because I hate writers, but because fuck if I''m going to wait around for it to come on t.v., and I'm already spending all my internet energies on the friendsoftom forum, with nothing left to bother with ripping bittorrent DVD realplayer.wav files of pretty-good-not-great shows that are all about acquiescing to the demands of NBC in the first place, and now I don't watch online anymore because they ran out of new shows, and so the writer's strike is officially starting to work.
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Or you could've rented or bought the DVDs. I know you're flush with Christmas cash, John Junk, admit it.
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Any moneys I receive this christmas will be going towards paying off the plane fare to visit my family, as well as the $400 I still owe Guitar Center for that damned (and awesome) Fender Twin I bought last month. And I'm stockpiling 5 dollar bills so I can catch every performance of Myspace that UCBTLA does next year. Am I right, Joustman?
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You are right!