tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post812983246813685388..comments2024-03-28T18:01:28.997-04:00Comments on What's Alan Watching?: 30 Rock, "Generalissimo": Vegetarian HammAlan Sepinwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03388147774725646742noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-5382336015778623842009-02-10T21:32:00.000-05:002009-02-10T21:32:00.000-05:00I thought this episode was really great. I'm shock...I thought this episode was really great. I'm shocked by your review Alan... normally agree with you almost 100%.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-16838520368962730562009-02-09T13:49:00.000-05:002009-02-09T13:49:00.000-05:00and not fact that the quality has gone down at an ...<I>and not fact that the quality has gone down at an equal rate that the guest stars have gone up.</I><BR/><BR/>this isn't good. it's winning awards, people are starting to watch it (shouldn't those two things happen in the opposite order?) and it's nt as good as it was?<BR/>people are starting to tune in to see a shadow of what it used to be??<BR/>oh well, at least it's not studio 60 (and it makes those promos of Alec Baldwin looking forward to meeting Aaron Sorki even funnier! wonder if those are on youtube...)Pamela Jayehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06135379188588301400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-61215356448767629562009-02-09T12:14:00.000-05:002009-02-09T12:14:00.000-05:00I thought this was the best episode of the season ...I thought this was the best episode of the season by far. It had me smiling and laughing throughout.baggseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01126205345158158957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-10138153847062755322009-02-07T21:56:00.000-05:002009-02-07T21:56:00.000-05:00Loved this episode. Laughed out loud and thought i...Loved this episode. Laughed out loud and thought it meshed together quite well. Guess not every episode will hit everyone the same way, but I thought this one was really as good as 30 Rock gets. I'm still laughing about it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-50359112506612456432009-02-07T21:45:00.000-05:002009-02-07T21:45:00.000-05:00I'm late to the party, but really liked this one. ...I'm late to the party, but really liked this one. Many good lines. Loved it when Salma Hayek says to "Lemon" that "she edited the script and took out all the Star Wars references."<BR/><BR/>Didn't love the Tracy subplot. Thought it was worth 1 joke.<BR/><BR/>But I'll continue to wish for more involvement from the rest of the cast. Where's Josh? More Lutz. And MORE Jenna! She's the most under-used lead character -- I love her hyper ego!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-6144971906259408762009-02-07T16:25:00.000-05:002009-02-07T16:25:00.000-05:00Dam you Alan,Can't you see we want you to tell us ...Dam you Alan,<BR/><BR/>Can't you see we want you to tell us how great every 30Rock episode is? If you don't like an episode, and there have been many subpar ones this season, just "cut" and "paste" and old review from last season. We don't care, we just want to be reminded how funny this show used to be, and not fact that the quality has gone down at an equal rate that the guest stars have gone up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-81819742252235640062009-02-07T10:21:00.000-05:002009-02-07T10:21:00.000-05:00My way of judging how much I love an episode is ho...My way of judging how much I love an episode is how many times I can re-watch it and still laugh. I've seen this 6 or 7 times in a 24-hour time period, so yeah, LOVED IT! Loved the evil Liz laugh, the Sabor de Soledad callback, the fact that Elisa called Liz "Lemon," Tracy using his porn video game money to buy Lehman Brothers, the double-dose of Baldwin, and of course... Jon Hamm. Mmmmm. Oh and Tina Fey/Liz Lemon totally rocked that dress!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-43358529195077516362009-02-07T10:09:00.000-05:002009-02-07T10:09:00.000-05:00She pretty much had me at "He looks like a cartoon...She pretty much had me at "He looks like a cartoon pilot."<BR/><BR/>It's funny, because it's true.<BR/><BR/>I understand why Alan was cringing, but I have to say I found myself laughing out loud an AWFUL lot.<BR/><BR/>And yes--the untranslatedness of "Ahora con mas semen del toro" was priceless.Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01288100796201737845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-28881525052863127972009-02-07T00:02:00.000-05:002009-02-07T00:02:00.000-05:00@Eldo - Many thanks!@Eldo - Many thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-29770640698336292402009-02-06T20:38:00.000-05:002009-02-06T20:38:00.000-05:00Alan, I agree with many of the posters that this w...<I>Alan, I agree with many of the posters that this was a very funny episode, but I also wanted to add: How great is it that the funniest line in the episode was delivered in untranslated Spanish?<BR/><BR/>"Ahora con mas semon del toro!"</I><BR/><BR/>I loved that so much that I had to get up and go tell someone. It was the untranslatedness of it that got me. (is that the correct word in Spanish for semen? We didn't cover that in High School)<BR/><BR/>I think I also liked it a lot because, other than Jon Hamm, there was a lot of Simple Spanish and it was fun to see if i could translate (most of the time)<BR/><BR/>plus, I looked up the lyrics - finally! - to Guantanamera. which i've been wondering about for years - but apparently not since I found out that you can find lyrics on the web. Wikipedia even has the translation.<BR/>I guess i always wanted to know because there we some sentences that I *could* understand, and I wanted to know what the rest were.<BR/>I mean when you hear - before I die, I want to... you want to know what he wants to *do.*Pamela Jayehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06135379188588301400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-10804109580425998342009-02-06T20:34:00.000-05:002009-02-06T20:34:00.000-05:00I'm one of those who thinks 30 Rock has been off t...I'm one of those who thinks 30 Rock has been off this season, but last night's was my favorite ep so far. Not just because of my love of Jon Hamm, cartoon pilot. :-) I really thought, for the first time in a long time, that Tracy's subplot was hilarious. <BR/><BR/>I want to go to there. Thank you, Alice Fey.Stefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10024186205791001584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-35567391452034584892009-02-06T20:03:00.000-05:002009-02-06T20:03:00.000-05:00oh my goodness - between the slicked back hair and...oh my goodness - between the slicked back hair and the smoking, you don't notice it on Mad Men, but that is one good looking man!<BR/><BR/>okay, now to read your post/blog/article/review - that's itPamela Jayehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06135379188588301400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-80241179807052950792009-02-06T18:10:00.000-05:002009-02-06T18:10:00.000-05:00Yulie Harris in the Belle of Amherst! Of course, ...Yulie Harris in the Belle of Amherst! Of course, Julie Harris!<BR/><BR/>Damn....I got it in my head he switched around Harris Yulin and that mind-pic really screwed me up!Toby O'Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06999037844031101965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-60843295355259517922009-02-06T17:05:00.000-05:002009-02-06T17:05:00.000-05:00I found myself laughing out loud at this ep even a...I found myself laughing out loud at this ep even as I knew in my head that a lot of it was cheesy. 30 Rock is at its best when it is clever and takes novel twists on old cliches, but for me this was a case of "funny forgives a lot."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-45725745935934981462009-02-06T16:36:00.000-05:002009-02-06T16:36:00.000-05:00This is in response to someone waaay upthread, but...This is in response to someone waaay upthread, but the first time I remember seeing Jon Hamm was in the gadawful Lifetime lady-cop series The Division. He and everyone else had angsty-ridden Lifetimey lives.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-38279795318259554802009-02-06T16:15:00.000-05:002009-02-06T16:15:00.000-05:00Another vote for hilarious from me. The telenovel...Another vote for hilarious from me. The telenovela subplot with Jack was hysterical.Otto Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14051682366565874144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-82410128658627032702009-02-06T15:46:00.000-05:002009-02-06T15:46:00.000-05:00I recognized the melody of Guantanamera and it has...I recognized the melody of Guantanamera and it has made me realize how woefully and obviously wrong either my high school Spanish teacher's explanation of the song or my recollection of her explanation was. For some reason I had it in my mind that Guantanamera was a person from Puerto Rico. So I was like "hey that makes sense" because Salma's character and her grandmother are Puerto Rican. But...duh. Anyone who speaks any Spanish should be able to see clearly that Guanatamera would be a woman from Guantanamo, and seeing as how that's probably the most (in)famous place in the Caribbean for at least the past 5 years, I probably should have made the connection with Cuba.<BR/><BR/>TV: I LEARN THINGS FROM IT.<BR/><BR/>And now I'll have that song in my head for the whole weekend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-41746034203286448152009-02-06T14:53:00.000-05:002009-02-06T14:53:00.000-05:00In an interesting bit of coincidental timing, yest...In an interesting bit of coincidental timing, yesterday's episode of Gilmore Girls on ABC Family featured Jon Hamm as a handsome crushed on guy (who turned out to be a lame rich dude who only talked about himself, his cars, and wine).Bixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03924119954199649577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-29294273146394990852009-02-06T13:47:00.000-05:002009-02-06T13:47:00.000-05:00Yulie Harris in the Belle of Amherst! Plus the Tel...Yulie Harris in the Belle of Amherst! Plus the Telemundo studios are exact replicas of the TGS studios excdept painted in bright tropical colors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-287351579919245822009-02-06T13:42:00.000-05:002009-02-06T13:42:00.000-05:00You can download the Simmons podcast from ESPN Pod...You can download the Simmons podcast from ESPN Podcenter at:<BR/><BR/>http://sports.espn.go.com/espnradio/podcast/archive?id=2864045<BR/><BR/>It's the 2/4 edition.<BR/><BR/>Jon Hamm was also on Dave Dameshek's podcast a while back too. Here's the link to that one:<BR/><BR/>http://podloc.andomedia.com/dloadTrack.mp3?prm=5802xhttp://query-origin.andohs.net/8000A6/content-root3.andomedia.com/origin/mp3/stations/989/dameshek/dameshek081218.mp3Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-79551245386754142962009-02-06T13:32:00.000-05:002009-02-06T13:32:00.000-05:00I laughed out loud more times during this episode ...I laughed out loud more times during this episode than I have any episode this season.<BR/><BR/>I can see how some of it might have rung as contrived, though.Comb & Razorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11912912211584098914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-17726696992911884342009-02-06T13:25:00.000-05:002009-02-06T13:25:00.000-05:00@Amy - Where can we find this Bill Simmons podcast...@Amy - <BR/><BR/>Where can we find this Bill Simmons podcast? I for one would love to listen. Many thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-36206531907052280432009-02-06T13:10:00.000-05:002009-02-06T13:10:00.000-05:00The song that El Generalissimo played on the guita...The song that El Generalissimo played on the guitar is called. "Guantanamera." Here's a link to Celia Cruz singing it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js0rKmv-0Iw&feature=relatedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-65730494687044147052009-02-06T12:45:00.000-05:002009-02-06T12:45:00.000-05:00Does anyone know the name of the somewhat Spanish ...Does anyone know the name of the somewhat Spanish song that played? Sounded like "One Tanta Mara." Thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-88341931638738588622009-02-06T12:34:00.000-05:002009-02-06T12:34:00.000-05:00Sorry Alan, I'm with the peanut gallery. This was...Sorry Alan, I'm with the peanut gallery. This was pretty funny. It didn't all come together as well as we might expect from 30 Rock, but had a lot of funny moments. By far the best Selma Hayek episode/ best use of her and Jack. I had read about the Generalissimo plot before and i still laughed pretty loud when the grandmother scowls at Jack after watching her telenovella. and Matt Lauer at the end? "and now, pictures of adorable Latino children and the music of Tito Puente" C'mon!<BR/><BR/>I actually thought the whole Tracy subplot was pretty pointless. the one thing i didn't like.ZeppJetshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03173037727479142959noreply@blogger.com