Cool thing to buy this week: ’30 Rock’ season 7, the final season

30 Rock Season 7 This week the outrageous seventh season of everybody’s favorite TV series, 30 Rock hits stores! Though it is still sad that the show had to come to an end, and we think we gave the show the proper send off it deserved here, it doesn’t mean that you can’t relive all of your favorite moments from the series’ final and terrific season.

From Tracy Jordan’s shocking medical news, Kenneth’s new girlfriend, Jenna’s surprise wedding, Lemon’s princess Leia wedding to Chriss Cross and baby adoption, plus Jack’s business crossroads.

Season 7 wrapped up an excellently written series of comedic content that was as consistently great as any other great sitcoms that came before it. So, get working on your night cheese and pick it up today and complete your 30 Rock collection! Read the rest of this entry

Long Live Liz Lemon and her Ben & Jerry’s yogurt

Liz Lemon B&J It’s a sweet ending to a fun run for the cast of 30 Rock as promised Ben & Jerry’s revealed their newest flavor in honor of Tina Fey’s lead character, “Liz Lemon Greek Yogurt.” The surprise was shared at a 30 Rock party in New York City.

The new flavor is lemon with a blueberry lavender swirl through each batch. The flavor will become available throughout New York City and nation over the next few weeks.

30 Rock has been nominated for 22 Emmys as its final episode aired last Thursday night.

This is not the first time Ben & Jerry’s created a flavor for a 30 Rock actor. In 2012 they released a Schweddy Balls flavor in tribute to the skit played by Alec Baldwin on Saturday Night Live. This batch of ice cream was vanilla flavored with fudge and rum-covered maltballs…baller!

30 Reasons We’ll Miss “30 Rock”

For 7 years and 138 episodes Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tracy Morgan, Jane Krakowski, Jack McBrayer and the rest of the 30 Rock entertained us. Tomorrow night the series will end its run and go quietly into the night. The idea for the show started off really different in Fey’s mind – she wanted it to be a news show with a conservative host (“Alec Baldwin if we could ever get him”) and she was the new producer assigned to right the sinking ship. While that initial pitch was rejected, Fey went back and re-wrote the show based on her experience as the first female head writer of Saturday Night Live and the characters that surround it. Baldwin agreed to the pilot and the rest is proverbial history, and also laid out in way more detail in her book, Bossypants. There’s also a really great history of the show by The AV Club.

With the show ending, we thought we’d look back and pick out 30 trends, running gags, jokes, memes, catchprases, character traits, and clips that we will miss about 30 Rock. Read the rest of this entry

Ben & Jerry’s will unveil a 30 Rock-inspired ice cream flavor

Liz Lemon Word on the street is that legendary Ice Cream makers Ben & Jerry are developing an ice cream based on Tina Fey’s 30 Rock. The ice cream Wonkas announced this yesterday as an homage to the series finale. One thing they didn’t reaveal was the name of said ice cream. That information will be revealed this Thursday night at the finale party. While this is hardly B&J’s first foray into doing this take in point Schweedy Balls, Americone Dreams and Late Night Snack, but it’s the first one that we think could develop a really great name.

I have a feeling they’ll pick something punny like “30 Rock (y) Road” or “Liz Lemon Swirl.” But if they had any balls they might go for my dream marrying ice cream and cheese, “Cheesy Cake Blaster Surprise” or “Workin’ on My Night Cheese Cake”. Don’t let me down Ben and/or Jerry, don’t you dare!

Seth MacFarlane live action sitcom gets ordered by FOX and other piloty news

Seth MacFarlane I love pilot season, and for a few reasons…

First, we get to talk about all the new comedy that could make it to the air this upcoming fall season. Secondly, we get to take guesses as to what will make it. Thirdly we can wonder out loud what the heck networks were thinking when some of these plots were pitched. Crazy plot ideas, like a sitcom based on the Geico Cavemen. Remember when someone actually greenlit that thing? We barely do either.

Here’s the latest. Read the rest of this entry

I think Frank would probably move to an old age home and make a porn or something

“I think Frank would probably move to an old age home and make a porn or something,” he joked. “It’s good exercise, as long as it doesn’t get too rough, and it gets people to know each other, and it’s probably a little healthy on some level.” – Judah Friedlander tells The Hollywood Reporter the ending he’d write for his 30 Rock character Frank Rossitano.

The final season of 30 Rock begins tonight

That’s right, the final season of the Tina Fey brainchild of 30 Rock begins it’s 7th and final season tonight on NBC. Rather than complain about this bittersweet moment it’s more appropriate to celebrate the show that was about the fictional TV show.

Here’s a video clip of all the mentions of TGS sketchs in the show. Read the rest of this entry

Tina Fey is on the cover of this week’s Entertainment Weekly

Tina Fey on EW cover Tina Fey is this week’s cover story on Entertainment Weekly. In the article, breaks down everything from wrapping up the seventh and final season of 30 Rock including a plotline where Tracey Jordan believes that women aren’t funny.

Fey also talks about her early Saturday Night Live days where her “transformation from frumpy behind-the-scenes writer to bespectacled “Weekend Update” sex symbol.” Later going on to discuss her turn making comedy films like Mean Girls, Baby Mama, and the underrated Date Night. Read up.