30 Rock

[Shauno]

She'll have to fight for more screentime. It's a doggy dog world out there.

[isoS]

For all intensive purposes, I think her cameo is over.

[aenemaTron]

Uh, edited-in malapropism.

Did I miss something or did they jump from the boyfriend having his back turned to just revealing that it's Cyclops without any acknowledgement of how it was "a reveal?" I was confused, OK, I do think of other things in between Thursdays.

[BillBrasky]

Yeah, as far as I can tell, they just suddenly introduced Marsden's character with no explanation.

In the closeup of the check, you can see that his full name is "Criss Chros", continuing the joke of Liz's boyfriends having stupid names.

[Monty]

He showed up in the commercials over the intervening week, so I guess they decided it wasn't worth having a reveal?

[pissedpissedofferson]

Yeah, that godawful season 6 preview spoiled two big reveals: Marsden, and Criss Chros being

Spoiler:  

a hot dog cart guy.

[mattmanser]

They revealed Liz was seeing someone last week, what more do you need? (Maybe I don't care because I don't know who this cyclops fella is.)

[aenemaTron]

Yeah, that godawful season 6 preview spoiled two big reveals: Marsden, and Criss Chros being

Spoiler:  

a hot dog cart guy.

That's not the only thing that spoiled those reveals!

[isoS]

They revealed Liz was seeing someone last week, what more do you need? (Maybe I don't care because I don't know who this cyclops fella is.)

That's exactly the point: they concealed his identity at the end of the last episode, creating an expectation that there would be mystery surrounding it. Instead of paying that off, they unceremoniously introduced him lying on a couch.

[isoS]

They revealed Liz was seeing someone last week, what more do you need? (Maybe I don't care because I don't know who this cyclops fella is.)

That's exactly the point: they concealed his identity at the end of the last episode, creating an expectation that there would be mystery surrounding it. Instead of paying that off, they unceremoniously introduced him lying on a couch.

[Adult Ed]

I was jarred by the non-reveal reveal of Criss Chros but ... whatever.* They used the hidden boyfriend as a device to get to Jack needing subterfuge to find out who he was.

I thought this was a much tighter episode that the season premiere.

* This sounds dismissive in a way that I didn't intend. My guess is that a more drawn out reveal was either edited out or ended up on the cutting room floor. The weirdness of not following through on the last episode was the price of getting better jokes into this one.

[mattmanser]

That's exactly the point: they concealed his identity at the end of the last episode, creating an expectation that there would be mystery surrounding it. Instead of paying that off, they unceremoniously introduced him lying on a couch.

Ah, I guess I had lower expectations than everyone else.

[BFH]

If Criss Chros on the couch bothered y'all, you'd hate "Glee." They gloss over and toss plot out there all willy-nilly. Sometimes, I actually admire their gall.

[smartbunny]

you'd hate "Glee."

I bet I would!

[BillBrasky]

http://www.eonline.com/news/did_kels...camille/288137

I guess this was kind of a subtle joke, that the woman Kelsey is shooting at looks like his ex-wife Camille. I could see Tina doing that intentionally, she's a fan of all that "Real Housewives" stuff.

[isoS]

"I'm a ghost now."

[J.B.]

Yes! "I'm a ghost now," and the concern about the hat, and "I did, you son of a bitch. I'm excellent at rearranging bathrooms!" were all brilliant moments. This episode was as good as the show can be.

[BillBrasky]

Did it seem to anyone else like the second episode last night was shot way before the first episode? Not that I was looking too much, but Tina's boobs looked a lot bigger in the second episode, like she had just given birth, whereas in the first episode she was a lot thinner.
Also, the second episode didn't mention Chris Chros at all, and the whole concept of the episode (Liz looking for "new friends") didn't really make sense in the context of her being in a relationship with Chris.
It seemed weird to have the two-part episode spread out over two weeks and then have this other episode thrown in there like that, when they could have just shown both parts of the two-parter last week and then showed this episode this week, or saved it for later in the run, when it was kind of a stand-alone episode.

[Popinjay-Z]

Knob Kardashian.

Brasky's probably right about the episode production order, but 30 Rock is pure Simpsons to me. I don't care about ongoing storylines or character development. No show on TV makes me laugh harder, and I want it be a thing for all eternity.

My biggest gripe that no one cares about? The music seems to get busier and louder every week. The score for this show telegraphs things as if it was a silent movie, which is especially frustrating given how fast and joke-dense the dialogue is. Take it down a notch, Mr. Fey.

[Monty]

I liked how they highlighted the Outback Steakhouse product placement and then tried to sneak Barnes & Noble in without lampshading it. Doing both in one episode let me decide which I prefer!