Each week, our smart yet neurotic lead character has to manage a group of wacky misfits and put on a weekly sketch comedy show. Which show am I talking about? 30 ROCK plays like NBC went to JJ Abrams and told him to reboot THE MUPPET SHOW. “Do what you did with STAR TREK. Make it hipper, more adult. Maybe lose the puppets to allow more time for product placement.”
Liz Lemon = Kermit, Jenny Marone = Miss Piggy, Tracy = Gonzo, etc, etc. (via kottke)
Enhance, zoom. (see CSI’s serious version)
Watch NOW. You’re welcome.
I will always remember watching Christina Ricci tell some interviewer that she was a reviled, geeky prude in high school. Gosh, for some reason I have a hard time believing that. I can’t imagine Ricci stalking glumly through the halls of Self-Delusion High while the popular kids gawked and pointed and hissed, “Hey look, there’s that horrible Christina Ricci nerd with her amazing breasts and millions of dollars and international fame and movie star friends. Hey, Ricci, why don’t you go hang out with Johnny Depp? Let’s go hang with someone really cool, like that girl that works at Olive Garden after school.”
Last night’s episode was great.
