Product Description
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Relive the second season of the Primetime Emmy Award-winning
comedy 30 Rock, the show that the guy who writes stuff on DVD
boxes calls “my current assignment” and that Gillian Flynn of
Entertainment Weekly has named “simply the best TV.” Created by
Golden Globe and SAG Award winner Tina Fey, 30 Rock features Fey
(as TV writer Liz Lemon), Golden Globe and SAG Award winner Alec
Baldwin (as corporate executive Jack Donaghy), Tracy Morgan and
Jane Krakowski (as Lemon’s unpredictable stars, Tracy Jordan and
Jenna Maroney) and Jack McBrayer (as the naive NBC page Kenneth
Parcell). Co-workers and friends, they are all trying to balance
work and life, with the inevitable result of failed
relationships, disastrous parties, at-work drunkenness, hard-core
coffee addiction, world-class sandwich eating and occasional
attempts to chop down Christmas trees. Join in the
behind-the-scenes fun with lots of exclusive content and all
fifteen episodes of the accled second season of 30 Rock from
executive producer Lorne Michaels.
Bonus Content:
Disc 1 - 30 Rock Season 2:
* Jack Gets in the Game Commentary with Will Arnett
* The Collection Commentary with Jane Krakowski and Jack McBrayer
* Somebody to Love Commentary with Fred Arminsen
* Cougars Commentary with Judah Friedlander
* Episode 210 Commentary with Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond
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Disc 2 - 30 Rock Season 2:
* Audio Commentary - MILF Island with Scott Adsit
* Audio Commentary - Subway Hero with Tim Conway & Jack McBrayer
* Audio Commentary - Succession with Robert Carlock & John Riggi
* Audio Commentary - Sandwich Day with Tina Fey
* Audio Commentary - Cooter with Jane Krakowski & Jack McBrayer
* Deleted Scenes
* "Cooter" Table Read
* 30 Rock Live at the UCB Theater
* Tina Hosts SNL
* The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Presents: An Evening
with 30 Rock
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"I really feel like this is going to be my year," an
uncharacteristically optimistic Liz Lemmon procls in 30 Rock's
season two opener. Reality quickly intrudes on the hess Liz,
but for Tina Fey and 30 Rock, the year couldn't be better.
Nominated for 17 Emmys, the series repeated for Outstanding
Comedy Series and earned Outstanding Actress and Actor honors for
Fey and co-star Alec Baldwin as GM CEO-in-waiting Jack Donaghy.
TV icon Tim Conway was also honored as Outstanding Guest Actor as
Bucky Bright in "Subway Hero"--just one of the strike-shortened
season's benchmark episodes--as a faded TV star from the 1940s
and '50s who shatters the illusions of television-loving NBC page
Kenneth (Jack McBrayer) with appalling (and unprintable) stories
about "the good old days." If you're going to make a television
show, Bucky tells him, "things are going to get weird." And from
one of Kenneth's lame parties that turns dark and twisted to the
"Page Off" between Kenneth and his nemesis (Human Giant's Paul
Scheer) things get really weird behind the scenes of TGS, the
SNL-ish sketch show where Liz oversees a motley crew of writers
and her tempermental, demanding stars, insecure diva Jenna
Maroney (Jane Krakowski) and all kinds of crazy Tracy Jordan
(Tracy Morgan). 30 Rock is rarefied television, each episode
brimming with quotable dialogue ("Never go with a hippie to a
second location"), brilliantly absurd bits (Tracy Jordan's
novelty hit, "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah," the TV series "MILF Island,"
Liz's Cathy moment), and edge of the frame silliness that rewards
close attention ("Anne Heche Leaves Husband for Pony," reads a
network news scroll in the episode, "Somebody to Love"). Stellar
guest stars rise to the occasion. Edie Falco was an Emmy nominee
for her recurring role as "C.C.", the liberal Democratic
Congresswoman who becomes conservative Republican Jack's "hippie
dippy mama," as was Carrie Fisher as former Laugh-In writer
Rosemary in the instant classic episode, "Rosemary's Baby." It's
this episode which features Tracy's therapy session during which
Jack channels Fred Sanford and J.J. from Good Times. Making
welcome returns this season are Will Arnett as Jack's corporate
rival, Devon Banks, Chris Parnell as unethical Dr. Spaceman,
Elaine Stritch as Jack's castrating mother, and Dean Winters as
Dennis Duffy, Liz's sleazy former boyfriend and New York's
unlikeliest hero. But the real muffin top on this two disc set
are the awesome bonus features, including a revelatory table read
of the season finale, "Cooter," the benefit live performance of
the episode "Secrets and Lies" (complete with an improvised
commercial), a 30 Rock panel discussion with cast and creators
moderated by Brian Williams, and a backstage look at Fey's
Saturday Night Live homecoming last season. Most sitcoms are as
bad for you as the offbrand Mexican Cheetos that Liz gorges
herself on, and as Jenna tells Liz at one point, employing "a
weak metaphor," you deserve a good meal. 30 Rock is a feast.
--Donald Liebenson
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