The Morning After: Searching for Carrie Fisher

30 Rock was terrific. I wish we could have actually seen what happens in a "Page off."

Re: The Office. What I liked about this one is that once every 10-12 episodes they do something that shows that Michael isn't a complete idiot, and is indeed somewhat talented, therefore deserving his title as boss. The commercial was great.

This isn't really my field, but I think feminist historians use "first wave" feminism to describe earlier efforts for civil rights like the women's suffrage movement, and "second wave" to describe the kind of feminism that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. I don't think there's any consensus about what might comprise "third wave" feminism, but the characters are certainly distinct in their worldviews. I'd read them both as liberal feminists, but Fisher's character is wrapped up in the antiestablisment politics of an imagined sixties. Anyway, I thought the use of those terms was imprecise.

I know she looks the part, but isn't Carrie Fisher, like, 10 years too young to play a pioneering Laugh-In writer? That makes me sad.

@Fleming: Sort of. It looked like they were placing her on a fictional NBC show that looked exactly like Laugh-In, but had a later run (eveidenced by the Ford-era "pardon" joke). Perhaps it was finally cancelled and replaced by Supercomputer.

Alec Baldwin = comic genius. that whole therapy scene was the funniest thing i've seen on TV in a long time.

"I'll assume that's a Haldeman reference, and I thank you."

"Never follow a hippie to a second location."

Plus the whole therapy scene...Alec Baldwin is amazing.

"This is Phil Specter's entourage all over again."

"Who knew there were so many words, it's like a Mos Def album."

I can honestly say this was probably the best ep of 30 Rock I have seen.

Ahhh! A reference to meee! I didn't even read the whole post, I just skimmed it and saw my name.

If I must be constricted by such titles, I would say First wave American feminist humor meeting Third wave, even though Carrie (born 1956) probably wasn't old to write for Laugh-In (aired 1968-1973). Left to my own devices, I'd totally nerd out with references to Joely Fisher and Carrie's cameo on Ellen, leading to Ellen's second sitcom with guest appearances by Cloris Leachman, Betty White and Mary Tyler Moore, before I could make a coherent historical paragraph.

Also, I did watch that Menudo show. The whole time I swore that JG was a less fortunate Rachel Dratch-type woman. Oh well. He's gone now.