SHARK WEEK!

That's right everyone, it's that time of year again, Shark Week on the Discovery Channel!! I don't know why this is so exciting, but it really is--and made even more exciting by the fact that I can watch some of the shark related programming in High Definition.

Don't be put off by the fact that this video is from Family Guy. Whenever I watch it I laugh, but I kind of feel like Liz Lemon when she says "All right, that was a pretty good burn Patrice." I just say, "All right, that was a pretty good joke Seth..."


P.S. When Shark Week ends, remember the lessons it taught you, so like Tracy Jordan, you can "live every week like it's Shark Week."

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I Just Love 30 Rock

The following isn't so much a viral video as a dark mirror reflecting my extraordinarily awkward future. Well, clearly I won't have that much hair but otherwise. Or maybe it's a strong case for keeping the elderly off the internet... or protecting them from nursing home abuse. I guess it could be NBC's new, terrifying, low-budget marketing campaign.

Lemon out!

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around the web...

Poor little Pop Cultured, being all neglected by your bloggers...

Well, since the economy has effected my job to a point where I have nothing to do but constantly refresh Twitter and Facebook/read items in my Google Reader all day, perhaps I can swing a post filled with news items and things from other people's blogs.

-Clearly, I'm excited about the opening of Watchmen tomorrow, and I'm pretty sure I've made that extremely clear on this blog, since I think I've posted at least 50% of the footage.

-Speaking of Watchmen, the city of London celebrated it's opening in unique fashion.

-Tatiana del Toro was chosen to compete in the wild card competition on American Idol, so she's baaaacccckkk (at least for one episode). Actually, I didn't mind Tatiana the last time I saw her, she was way more subdued and likable. I know David finds that boring...but we can't agree on everything :). Anoop was also chosen, and he is awesome.

-The Public Enemies trailer was released the other day, which is exciting for 2 reasons, not only would I watch anything starring Johnny and Christian, but also, Johnny used footage from the USC Newsfilm Library (where I'm an intern), as a guide for his Dillinger character.

-There is a new 30 Rock tonight, so that's exciting...

Well, that was an odd grab bag of things to be excited about...

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Liz Lemon Meets Don Draper

This sneak preview of this weeks 30 Rock is AMAZING! Jon Hamm and the return of "I want to go to there."

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Mr. Temptleton from 30 Rock

Michael Bublé's brilliant song from last Thursday's 30 Rock is on YouTube. Listening to it this way is so much easier than rewinding my TiVo over and over again.

Jack and his girlfriend take her elderly, patient on their date and musical montage brilliance ensues.

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What the Frak?!?

Frak is my favorite word ever and the following clip shows you the many ways it can be used:

All the Fraks from Battlestar Galactica Season One:

More about Frak after the jump!

Veronica Mars Fraks with you!

The Office - Jim tells you all about BSG

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30 Rock - Do-Over

Blogging about 30 Rock is difficult because I love it so much that I can't even begin to have a sense of objectivity or perspective. Including watching this online before it aired and re-watching it on TiVo I've already seen this episode 5 times. I'm pretty sure that in my ideal version of this post I'd just copy the entire script and put my favorite parts (which would be everything but the commercials) in bold. Keeping that in mind... here are the things I learned from this week's 30 Rock:

Dick Cheney is mostly metal.

Devon doesn’t even care when we should have cake for people whose birthdays are on the weekend… the Friday before at lunch.

Liz has gotten rid of all her Colin Firth movies in case they’re considered erotica. That man can wear a sweater.

The only thing Kathy and Devon need assistance with is deciding which John Mayer song to do it to.

That theme park fire didn’t destroy any of the stuff it was supposed to.

Rumors make a “ru” out of “mor” and “s”.

Jenna still doesn’t know how that Japanese commercial advertised Tokyo University but she’s going to use this $300 to buy us all some new boots for her.

Liz entertains gentlemen sex guests once a year, maybe, but she’d be open to cutting that down.

More after the jump! 

Jenna has a stalker named Yolanda who sends her headless dolls. 

GE is just G. Devon sold the e to Samsung. They’re Samesung now.

Tracy’s has a giant piece of bling that says "Dong Slayer".

Tracy and Liz go back like spinal chords and car seats. That's not an expression.

Kathy and Jack hug it out to Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch's “Good Vibrations”

Jack paid his way through Princeton by working that day shift at that graveyard and that graveyard shift at that Days Inn.

Kathy Geis wears Dora the explorer panties clearly made for an obese child

The best part of soap operas is when someone’s twin interrupts a wedding or someone pulls a gun at the fitness center.

Jack and Liz aren't the worst people. Graduate students are the worst.

Liz will make both of you disappear just like she did with Vivienne and Patch. She's just been paranoid ever since that incident with the weather machine.

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Top 9 Fictional Character's Halloween Costumes

Since it's Halloweek and pretty much everyone is scrambling for an amazing, cheap last minute costume, I thought I'd take a look at some of my favorite tv and film character's Halloween costumes.

9. Willow Rosenberg as Ghost / Ghost of a Hooker

When Willow dresses up like a slut to get Xander's attention, she chickens out at the last moment putting a ghost sheet on top of it, a sheet which causes her to actually become a ghost (albeit one dressed in her outfit underneath). Prompting Giles, when told that her costume had turned her into a real ghost, to ask "The ghost of what exactly?" 

8. Liz Lemon & Kenneth as Harry Potter and Austin Powers

I love that they're dancing to "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah" in this pic. Also, Kenneth lets out a "Happy Halloween, baby!"

The other seven after the jump! 

7. Karen Smith as... a Mouse, duh!

6. Willow & Oz as Joan of Arc and her pal God

Willow decided to be Joan of Arc because they have so much in common. They were both burned at the stake (episode: "Gingerbread") and they both have a close, personal relationship with God.  They also both turned out to be lesbians and not that Jewish. Wait, what? 

5. Kyle Broflovski as Chewbacca

Mostly I love this because it's not really a costume so much as Kyle with a Chewbacca face... and that makes me laugh. Heh. 

3. Jim as Three Hole Punch Jim

He's also available in Regular Jim. 

3. Strong Bad as Beetlejuice

Nothing I can say is going to top the awesomeness of that image.

2. Bart Simpson as Alex DeLarge

This one is completely biased. I have a really creepy love for A Clockwork Orange in general and Alex in particular. "Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?"

1. Ross Gellar as Spudnik

You're not laughing... you don't get it? Like Sputnik but a potato. See. It's funny. Sweet Jesus I love puns, the nerdier the better. 

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Werewolf Bar Mitzvah

This is hands down the moment I watched the most times from the second season of 30 Rock. I hit the 30 second skip backwards button on the TiVo at least a hundred times to watch this repeatedly the week this episode aired. Also, why does Tracy have a key to the city of Gary, Indiana?

"Werewolf bar mitzvah! Spooky! Scary! Boys becoming men. Men becoming wolves.!"

After the jump... the full version of Werewolf Barmitzvah!


It makes me deeply happy that Harvey Lemmings gets a mention in the full version. He never misses a party!



"This whole premise is sweaty!"

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30 Rock Season Premiere

For those of you who haven't heard... the third season premiere of 30 Rock is currently available on NBC.com until it airs on Thurday night. So if you just can't wait to watch it... now you don't have to.

30 Rock - Do-over on NBC.com

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Quarter to Midnight Train to Georgia

Here's a little 30 Rock for you on this sunday afternoon...

"Do you wanna get drunk?" "No. There's too many phones in here."

"And, uh you shouldn't torture whales."

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You Might Notice We're Distracted Today

I got the 30 Rock Season Two DVD yesterday and I can't stop watching the commentaries. Literally, it's like smack. And frankly now that I've given up cheese, fried foods, snacking in general and anything that tastes good.. Liz Lemon is all I have left.

Just so you're not all lonely out there in cyberspace, here's some of Tina Fey from the Sandwhich Day commentary, revealing just how much she doesn't have a foot fetish:

"Yeah. Liz Lemon sleeps with socks on because nobody in TV land needs to see my feet. They're private. Let's all remember that when we wear flip-flops on planes, nonsense like that. I would rather see your genitals."

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Jenna Maroney - Muffin Top

Jenna Maroney, star of The Rural Juror, sings her hit song, Muffin Top. It's #1 in Israel and #4 in Belgium.

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Things I'm Obsessed With: Liz Lemon

It's difficult to express all my love for my TV alter ego, Elizabeth Conworthy (not her middle name) Lemon, and to write about anything having to do with 30 Rock without writing everything about 30 Rock. But if I were a female 30-something television producer, I would definitely want to be her or Jane Epsenson, but probably Liz. The producer of the fictional TGS with Tracy Jordan on 30 Rock has added so much to my every day vocabulary:

"Blerg." - Yes, Lemon, blerg!

"Dag!" - As in, "Dag, who does that?!?"

"Shut it down!"

"It is ill."

All the reasons I love Liz and video tributes, after the jump.

She has an unaccredited degree in Theater Tech.
She goes up on her roof all the time!

She doesn’t want to get drunk because there’s too many phones in here.
She eats El Sabor de Soledad cheese puffs from the Spanish deli in her neighborhood.

She has a laundry and newspaper pile.

If she was a Sex and the City character, she would be the lady at home who watches it.
She thinks gay dudes should be able to adopt kids and we should all drive hybrid cars but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t love America
She's going to tell all her friends she's voting for Barack Obama, but really she's voting for John McCain. (Mostly that one's amazing because it's from an episode from January 2007.)

The 30 Rock season premiere is October 30 and it can't come soon enough. So here's some of Liz in her own words.

Liz on Business


Liz on Frankfurt


Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate


Liz on Lots of Things - A 90 second Quote Compilation



Jack on Liz



Liz on Food - A Fan Made Music Video
This is set to that song from the Josie and the Pussycats Movie which only makes it more awesome. Did anyone else forget that movie had Rosario Dawson, Alan Cumming, and Parker Posey in it? Also, what happened to Rachel Leigh Cook?

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