The Morning After: Snitting with Borpoh
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I watched last night's 30 Rock weeks ago, but my new motto of life remains, There are only two things I love: Everybody, and television. This was simply one of those episodes where everything clicked: Kenneth's moral dilemma and Jack's determination to tempt him; the Olympics parody ("octuples tennis"); the Black. White. racial switch ("See Liz Lemon? You're already treating me with more respect!"); and above all, the genius way the script conceived to have Oprah appear in the show with out Oprah really appearing on the show (i.e., as a hallucination). And above all, Tina Fey's Princess Leia getup, one of the funniest quick scenes 30 Rock has ever done.
Because as CNN so ably taught us: Princess Leia—never not funny.
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As a commenter over on Alan Sepinwall's blog noted, between election night and 30 Rock, Oprah (Grant Park celebration/sitting next to Liz Lemon) and Princess Leia (CNN holograms, Liz's costume) are having the Best. Week. Ever.
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@Chaddogg: Not to mention Tina Fey. It's like a ten-car zeitgeist pileup here.
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Proof again that 30 Rock is the most pop-culturally relevant show on television. I mean, they unwittingly predicted/commented on Princess Leia's fame this week, PLUS managed to put Oprah on as a guest star the very same week that she loomed largest in the public's eye as part of the Grant Park Obama-thon. Throw in the ingenious comments on racial/ethnic identities (Jack bemoaning the fate of white men while telling Kenneth he's more of an inner-city Latina) at a time when exit polls were breaking everyone down into racial/age/gender cohorts....well, I love 30 Rock.
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I have to admit, I'm a little disappointed at this review. I was hoping it would be muuuuuuuuuuuch longer so I could relive the hilarity of this episode...
All I can say is God bless the inventor of DVR because I was watching scenes over and over last night. -
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Once again, 30 Rock solidifies itself in the position of "The Best Show on Network Television That Is Not Lost."
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@packsox - I recently watched the show online after reading this review and found that James has an amazing talent of spoiling without spoiling at all. The hallucination mention was a bit spoiler-ish, but he should be applauded for packaging hilarity in brevity.
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