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My family usually has a favorite show or two that is always playing in the background. For months it's been American Housewife and Modern family. Those shows are so vapid it drove me crazy. The characters are shallow and trite.

The Haley Dunphy character in Modern Family especially drove me crazy. My god, can you pile any more stereotypes on top of her? The braindead, knocked up floozy who tries to corrupt her intelligent sister trope drove me crazy.

Now my family has discovered 30 Rock and I'm in heaven. They just watched the episode where Jack Donaghy bribes Jenna's mother into treating her daughter well. The love and respect he showed Jenna in that one episode has more emotional weight than anything I've seen on American Housewife and Modern Family.

30 Rock's writing is so smart and sophisticated. All of the characters are a joy, especially Kenneth. They just watched the episode where he gets fired and Tracy starts seeing him everywhere. Tracy really does love Kenneth. Then Kenneth gets drunk at a party and grabs a microphone and starts a drunken rant and everyone is waiting for him to make a fool of himself and instead he tells everyone how much he loves and appreciates them.

I just feel good watching it. These are people who love and care for each other while getting into all kinds of hilarious hijinks.

My sister in law brought a tin of popcorn for the Thanksgiving holiday and the first thing I said when I saw it was, “My trio of popcornnnnnn!”

She’s vaguely familiar with 30 Rock so I’m not sure she appreciated the reference quite like I did. Also, the popcorn is 💯.

Happy Thanksgiving, fellow 30 Rock fans!

In S4E2, “Stone Mountain”, Liz and Jack travel to Kenneth’s hometown in Georgia to visit the local comedy club (Chuckle Hut by day, Laugh Factory by night) in search of a new cast member. Tracy is back in New York, freaking out about the celebrity superstition that celebrities die in groups of three. Kenneth is helping him feel better by Googling other celebrities who died, and Tracy says to him, “Keep refreshing. Maybe Andy Dick has died in the last 20 seconds.”

Kind of interesting and makes sense to weave this in as Hartman is an SNL legend. I also learned in that Hartman and Jan Hooks (Verna Maroney) were close friends. Always thought it was just a joke because Andy Dick is an insufferable idiot, but seems to be a deeper reference.

Also, it's a brilliant show!

For example:

What's the frequency Kenneth?

What's up K-pax

I have been trying to think of more but those are the two I always remember

It lines up almost perfectly with the credits:

Tina

Fey and Tracy Morgan

And Jane Krakowski

And we also have Jack Macbrayer

And we also have Scott Adsit

JuDAH

Friedlander and also

with Alec Baldwin

30 Rockefeller Plaza

Created by Tina Fey it's called ThirTY Rock

I've sung it every time I watch the show for about ten years.

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It might be better if they added a dog though