30 Rock I love you. It is no wonder the show is a ratings disaster, they are clearly writing it with people of my ilk in mind. Memo to NBC: most people in America don’t read above a 5th grade level – they don’t get irony, stories about nerds, or Tracey Jordan doing a music video for a song called Werewolf Bar Mitzvah. Those Star Wars jokes and references – fantastic, but check out the success of Fanboys for evidence of success around that strategy. (can’t even get out to theatres!) Please NBC, we need some lowest common denominator humor or I’m going to lose another show: give us a person slipping on a banana peel, fat person falling on a table and breaking it – you know, Farley level stuff.
Liz just mentioned she was feeling nervous about an “away poop” situation – awesome. Larry David already covered the topic in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, but I loved the way they dropped that in. I refuse to poop at work as well and hate getting stuck in an away poop situation: gross seat, bad toilet paper, no home base reading material, wearing shoes, etc. Luckily I live 5 minutes from work so I can race back in an emergency scenario.
What the hell ever happened to Rachel Dratch? One of our shining Dartmouth celebrities has just disappeared from the face of the earth! (luckily we’ve still got the delicious Connie Briton who plays Coach Taylor’s wife in Friday Night Lights and the hot chick who plays Sarah on Prison Break who was apparently at Dartmouth when I was there – she must not have played pong in the Pit at GDX!) Now Rachel Dratch was never really hot, but she was funny because she looked weird.
She was originally going to play Jenna, but the execs at NBC thought she was too grim so they got the secretary from Ally McBeal. Tina Fey didn’t totally throw Rachel under the bus bringing her on for cameo roles as Baba Wawa and a Zookeeper - but now that Tina is big time, she’s just tossed Dratch-bat under the bus! Those “lover” bits she used to do with Will Ferrell in the hot tub were gold – way better than the awful awful shit that’s on SNL now. They should have brought Rachel back instead of that fatso they brought in to replace Amy Poehler – she sucks. Rachel – where are you!? I’ve sent suck up emails to her Dartmouth account in the hopes of a response, maybe she’s got her name in Google Alerts and will be a special guest on our world premiere Groundhog Day podcast?
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