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30 Rock: season 4, episode 12
"Verna"
February 4, 2010 - 09:02p.m.
A few weeks back I caught back-to-back new episodes of 30 Rock. I have to say it’s a lot easier to enjoy the show when you’re not reviewing it. As a critic, I feel like I have a ...
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30 Rock: season 4, episode 11
"Winter Madness"
January 21, 2010 - 09:01p.m.
Howdy, 30 Rockists! It's me, Leonard Pierce, better known as Cog #3 in the A.V. Club Conspiracy to Falsely Claim That This Show Is In Decline. I'm filling in for the illustrious Mr. Rabin tonight, as ...
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30 Rock: season 4, episode 9-10
"Klaus and Greta"/"Black Light Attack"
January 14, 2010 - 09:01p.m.
Hello, 30 Rock fans. I am here to continue the AV Club's senseless, corporate-mandated war on America's favorite comedy, insisting funny jokes are not funny, pointing out all of the blatant plot holes in said comedy and just ...
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30 Rock: season 4, episode 8
"Secret Santa"
December 10, 2009 - 11:12p.m.
At T.V Club we like to offer reviews for fans by fans. Oh sure, we can be less than reverent when documenting a tacky one-off or watching with trainwreck fascination as Heroes devolves into inconceivable awfulness (apparently, I’ve ...
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30 Rock: season 4, episode 7
"DEALBREAKERS TALK SHOW #0001"
December 3, 2009 - 11:12p.m.
Tonight’s episode of 30 Rock found the gang over at The Girly Show With Tracy Jordan indulging in a personality version of musical chairs. Frank morphed into Liz after taking over her job while she worked on the thankfully ...
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30 Rock: season 4, episode 6
"Sun Tea"
November 20, 2009 - 12:11a.m.
Hello, 30 Rockers! My name is Steve, and I’ll be covering the show tonight for The T.V. Club. I realize coming here and getting me rather than Nathan Rabin is like tuning in to Pardon The Interruption for ...
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30 Rock: season 4, episode 5
"The Problem Solvers"
November 12, 2009 - 10:11p.m.
I would like to begin this post by sharing a long, meandering, embarrassing personal story. That’s not terribly out of character; when you have as many embarrassing stories as I do you dole them out indiscriminately. Hell, I begin ...
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30 Rock: season 4, episode 4
"Audition Day"
November 5, 2009 - 10:11p.m.
One of the nice things about having written for the A.V Club for almost thirteen years is that I have the luxury of only writing about television shows I love (The Office, 30 Rock, Eastbound & Down) or am perversely ...
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30 Rock: season 4, episode 3
"Stone Mountain"
October 29, 2009 - 09:10p.m.
Hello, 30 Rock fans! Nathan Rabin is off engaging in some sort of tomfoolery, the nature of which will be revealed when we all read it in his next best-selling book. So I've stepped in to recap tonight's ...
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30 Rock: season 4, episode 2
"Into The Crevasse"
October 22, 2009 - 10:10p.m.
Some commenters razzed me last week for giving the premiere of 30 Rock a C+ and the last episode of Saturday Night Live a C. Was I suggesting that modern-day Saturday Night Live was nearly as good as 30 Rock ...
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30 Rock: season 4, episode 1
"Season 4"
October 15, 2009 - 08:10p.m.
A friend of mine was recently in a movie theater where a trailer of Where The Wild Things Are played. At the end of the trailer an older gentleman sitting behind him scoffed very loudly: “Boy, that looks like it ...
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30 Rock: season 3, episode 22
"Kidney Now!"
May 14, 2009 - 11:05p.m.
Tonight’s 30 Rock’s finale offered a bitches brew of questionable elements. Guest star after guest star after guest star! Catchphrase after catchphrase after catchphrase! Inside jokes up the wazoo! Father-son bonding! Spoofing a Jerry Springer Show-style trashy ...
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30 Rock: season 3, episode 21
"Mamma Mia"
May 7, 2009 - 10:05p.m.
Did anyone else notice that tonight’s episode featured both a variation on Flirting With Disaster’s plot—grown man goes looking for his real parents and runs into a few dead ends—and, if you factor in those obnoxious ...
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30 Rock: season 3, episode 20
"The Natural Order"
April 30, 2009 - 11:04p.m.
Oh man, do I love Elaine Stritch as Colleen Donaghy on 30 Rock. It takes a helluva a tough old broad to reduce a corporate titan/alpha-male like Jack Donaghy to a scared, confused little boy but every time Stritch ...
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30 Rock: season 3, episode 19
"The Ones"
April 23, 2009 - 10:04p.m.
30 Rock generally benefits from following The Office. Though they’re very different shows they tend to complement each other nicely. Sometimes, however, 30 Rock suffers by comparison. Alternately, sometimes The Office is the one that looks a little less ...
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30 Rock: season 3, episode 18
"Jackie Jormp-Jomp"
April 16, 2009 - 11:04p.m.
Tonight featured both Michael Scott and Liz Lemon in exile. When we last checked in with the gang at 30 Rock Liz had just been suspended from work for two weeks for accidental sexual harassment. I kept trying to explain ... -
30 Rock: season 3, episode 17
"Cutbacks"
April 9, 2009 - 09:04p.m.
Howdy, 30 Rock viewers! Whew...busy week for me. After filling in for a vacationing Claire Zulkey on American Idol, I got the call from Noel Murray, who has apparently been smote by a tornado, to stand in on 30 ... -
30 Rock: season 3, episode 16
"Apollo, Apollo"
March 26, 2009 - 10:03p.m.
30 Rock doesn’t necessarily have the emotional element of The Office but in tonight’s episode we delved a little deeper into the psyches of its characters as Jack Donaghy and Tracy Jordan each got to live out their ... -
30 Rock: season 3, episode 15
"The Bubble"
March 19, 2009 - 10:03p.m.
I’ve spent much of the past week watching 19 episodes of Andy Richter Controls The Universe for the DVD section of avclub.com. Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner was a writer/producer on the show and I singled out ... -
30 Rock: season 3, episode 14
"Funcooker"
March 11, 2009 - 09:03p.m.
Did you guys notice that Alec Baldwin became a producer on 30 Rock right about the time his character plunged into a red-hot relationship with Salma Hayek? Ah, the perks of working behind the scenes. Good old Liz Lemon meanwhile ...
