A day late and a dollar short,
but I finally have your Thursday comedy reviews, starting with:
30 Rock
This episode followed two main
plots, but seemed very inconsequential.
Liz needs bunion surgery, which was turned into an metaphor for
Liz’s family ambitions. She doesn’t feel
like she can take time off, since the show collapse when she’s not there.
Hazel convinces Liz that she can take time off if she only had an
assistant, and Hazel is the obvious choice, of course. And it has nothing to do with her desire to
be famous by getting on to TGS at any cost, no sir.
Anyway, Liz gets the surgery,
Hazel is awesome at the job for like, a day, and tricks Liz into staying off
the show floor for the episode that night by showing a video that she claims is
a live feed, but is really just an old behind the scenes tape. Liz figures out this duplicitous trick when
she walks into frame.
Whoops.
She rushes to the floor on her
poor disfigured feet and shitcans Hazel on the spot, the end.
Jack and Tracy have a battle of wits, and Tracy manages to come out
on top, amazingly enough. Tracy has been
using Jack’s name as the villain in his urban movie series, and Jack doesn’t like
it one bit. He tries to get him to stop
by claiming liable, but Tracy outwits him at every turn. Jack did in fact shut down an urban youth
program by cancelling a sexually confused kids show, and he accosted an old
woman in a wheelchair when he yelled at Liz earlier(since she is off her feet
from her surgery).
However, he hasn’t caused an
orphanage to close, so Tracy huffs off, clearly planning something as Jack
insists the movie be shelfed. And that
something is a benefit for an orphanage based on ticket sales. Jack is stuck, since now he can’t stop the
movie, because the orphanage will close without the money, and then the liable
claim will be indefensible, so the movie release on schedule. Jack then finally watches the whole thing, and
realizes he’s not the villain anyway, so it didn’t matter in the slightest.
Oh, and Jenna and Kenneth have a thing where Jenna fails at listening for
about the millionth time.
This episode was amusing, which I
suppose is all a comedy needs to be, but sometimes I wish the character
development would be more of a focus for this show.
I did catch a funny line for you:
Liz, as she’s dragging herself to the show floor to expose Hazel: “Why
are my arms so weak? It’s like I did
that pushup last year for nothing!”
The Office
Today, we got a lot of
development, but not a lot of funny.
Jim attempted to have a phone conference with the board of his new business
venture in Philadelphia, and gets interrupted over and over by annoying
colleagues and other stuff. I think we
are finally coming up on the Jim leaves for the rest of the season, because his
business partners were not impressed, and told him they didn’t think this whole
thing was going to work. I’m assuming
this will be the impetus for him to leave.
Angela and Oscar have a Senator subplot, and it starts with Angela
confiding in Oscar that she thinks the Senator is having an affair. Oscar nearly shits a brick, but composes
himself enough to find out she thinks it’s his yoga instructor. They decide to go on a stake out, and find
out that the yoga instructor has a boyfriend, so Angela is not concerned
anymore. Of course, as soon as she turns
her back, the Senator gets cozy with another instructor, a male, which Oscar
sees, and is not impressed with. But
then! The Senator makes a call, which
Angela sees, and Oscar’s phone rings.
Dun dun DUUUN!
Dwight gets a call from David Wallace, the White Pages are dropping
their paper supplier, and Dunder Mifflin is up for the contract. The buyer is a woman, and the ladies of the
office are very concerned, since Dwight fails at selling to women. They go through a massive training with him,
and after an hour of work declare him completely unfit to sell to any woman,
ever. Pam decides to go with, and when they get there, they figure out
that the mysterious woman buyer is none other than Jan, who just wanted to ream
David Wallace, who is clearly not there.
Dwight, though, knows exactly what to do with Jan, and sets Pam to
distract. She asks Jan to see a picture,
and Jan agrees to one…slideshow, so Pam is set for Dwight to come back with one
of the baby-faced interns, which is appropriate due to Jan’s infatuation with
her baby-faced assistants from when she worked at Dunder Mifflin.
So, not a ton of funny material this week, especially since
NBC hardcore spoiled the Jan reveal. I
did get a couple of funny lines, though:
Erin, when
describing her feelings over Andy not taking her to the Bahamas: “I was kind of
sad, but then I remembered that Bob Marley song. NO, woman, NO cry.”
Erin and Dwight,
in the ‘teach Dwight to lady sale’ meeting: “It’s just a regular nod, up and
down, like a person.” “I am a person.”
Parks and Recreation
This was an interesting episode, in that the main plot kind
of blew, but all the side plots were fantastic.
Leslie and April have
a disagreement, and Ann
mediates. April wants to build a dog
park on Leslie’s pit lot, and Leslie is first happy that April is showing
initiative, but pissed that she wants to take her lot. They fight it out all the way to the council meeting,
where April has temporarily aligned with Councilor Jamm, who immediately turns
on her, and tries to push through a resolution selling the lot to a fast food
joint. Ann is not impressed, because the
lot is in her backyard, and the girls unite to have a 90 day period to get their
park crap together.
In more interesting plots, Ben is back in Pawnee, and has decided to take that job as an
accountant that he took and quit last season for the election. Before he starts, however, Tom asks him to look over his business
plan for the Rent-a-Swag business. Ben
is impressed, and goes with Tom to several business related things to help him
get started, and every single place offers Ben a job, first at a non-profit,
then as a political consultant, and even as the manager of a Urban Outfitters.
So, when Ben finally makes it to the accounting firm, he has
to quit again, because he want to do what he loves, blah blah blah
whatever. And then he says he’ll be Tom’s
CFO and Tom jumps in is arms, and it is adorbs.
The End.
Oh, and Andy’s
computer was taken from his desk, per his request to his office mates so he can
practice his policing skills. Andy interrogates
everyone at the office terribly, until he gets to Chris. Chris is surprised to
hear that Andy’s computer is missing, seeing as someone in another department
had their computer go missing as well.
Turns out there is a mystery going on, and they have to call in the real
police to solve it. Except oops, they
only write a report, and that’s about it.
Andy is very disheartened, but Chris gives him the opportunity to be the
weekend security guard, and Andy is super stoked to do it.
So this episode took the funniness of 30 Rock, and the
character development of The Office, and put it into one show. Oh, and there were a ton of funny lines for
you to peruse as well!
Ben, after
talking head about his new job at the accounting firm: “Just call me Bond…Municipal
Bond.”
Chris, on coming
to his desk for the day: “Ok, something is different about my desk…aha! My computer! It’s gone!”
Chris, when he
decides to investigate: “The game is the foot!”
Tom, when Ben
gets job opportunities wherever he goes: “What is happening!?!”
Ben, right after
he quit the accounting job: “Life is short, why be an accountant? Other than the stability, the health plan and
the above average pay…oh God, this better work out.”
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