An Unsolicited Stream of Consciousness

bossypants:

end of the tv year

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The first two lines of 30 Rock.

seven years later and the show is still surprising me with its intelligence

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30 Rock + TV Tropes
↳ ’Getting Stuff Past the Radar’:
The practice — usually found on but not limited to comedies — of getting content inappropriate for the target demographic (such as profanity or sexual content) past the network censors by putting it under some sort of guise. Robin Williams has probably made the greatest (known) effort along these lines in television history, allegedly researching and exhausting several different languages in an attempt to find genuinely dirty words the censors would not recognize, and coming up with sequences that would seem utterly innocent on paper, but which would carry vast quantities of implied prurience — often hilarious — when executed.
This is where Western animation shines; there’s pages and pages of it, even when you don’t include all the people who are just reading too much into things.
(‘Bite’ is ‘d*ck’ in French, and Neuker is ‘f*cker’ in Dutch. See UrbanDictionary.com for the other references).

30 Rock + TV Tropes
↳ ’Painting the Medium’:
Modifying the presentation of a story in order to convey information about the story. This is typically done for one of three reasons:
- To imply something about a character or scene without actually stating it, or to give a feeling that helps remind the reader that things aren’t quite the normal and mundane that they’re used to.
- To drag the reader from the narrative and blatantly point out that it is messing with our preconceptions about how the medium should behave. If this is done well, it creates a sense of confused surreality.
- To gain basic laughs from its audience.
By using this trope, a writer turns a transparent tool — meant to show the work behind it — into a part of the work.

another reason this show is perfect

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30 Rock + TV Tropes
↳ ’Product Placement’ #1:
The practice of prominently displaying or talking about a recognizable product in a program, in exchange for some consideration from the manufacturer, usually monetary. This trope isn’t always invoked for mercenary reasons though. For example, many times it just wouldn’t be plausible for a character in a shopping mall to walk past nothing but unnamed Brand X. Real brands add veritas in such cases. Sometimes, a brand mention is presented so blatantly, it’s obvious that they’re contractually obligated to add it in. This is called an “enforced plug”.
(The gratuitous McFlurry references in episode 3x11 actually weren’t for pay, as many people thought [x]. Fey and the writers just like McFlurries. The situation was parodied a few episodes later in 3x19, involving Liz’s new Slanket.)