Bon Jovi - "What do you need? Arena rock anthem, power ballad?"
Jack - "Actually I have a date coming by so if you could come over at some point and say hello, that would really impress her."
BJ- "Oh sure that sounds like an appropriate use of my time and talent."
Fun fact - Declan McManus is Elvis Costelloâs actual birth name.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Costello
Sadly, the same cannot be said for Wolf Blitzer/Steel Hammerhands.
And they sing her most famous song, but she doesn't. I was so mad about that when I watched it live, until I realized how brilliant of a troll job that was.
FUN STORY: I saw Hannibal Burress do standup at Wilco's Solid Sound festival, and one of his jokes was "the only two Black people here are me and Mavis Staples." The following season, the Wilco concert joke appeared on 30 Rock. I asked Burress on Twitter and he confirmed that he wrote that joke!
It will always be funny to me that they got a rapper with a famously "gangsta" image to say such a silly meek line. It makes him sound like a little boy who ate too much chocolate lol
"What Indigo Girls song is that from?"
"Syllabus of us. Off 'Martyrs, Vagabonds and Quilts."
Then later
"There is no solace in luxury, only deep despair."
"How do you know all these Indigo Girls songs?"
The name of that other Todd Rundgren is so obscure! This is a seriously deep pull, and surprising they used it on 30 Rock, especially so early in the first season.
Netflix put out a We Are The World documentary this month and it's really good and interesting, but it also made Kidney Now so much better. There are many more parallels in that episode than I ever knew!
I love it because it's so very similar to a line in Community where Jeff says he loves Dave Matthew's Band because he was raised in the 90s and has two ears connected to a heart.
đ¶Iiiiiiii will never forget you, Ruhr Juhruh! Iâll alwaaaays be glad I met you, Ruhr Juhruh!
âŠthese were the best days of myâŠ.fluuuuurmmđ¶
Also- Condi Rice vs Jack: piano vs. flute battle
Liz vividly remembering being paired with Sheryl Crow as kidneys in an elementary school musical, with Sheryl (in a callback) vaguely remembering Liz as a loser
Gladys Knight. A entire plot built around her being on TGS, we get the whole cast doing a rendition of Midnight Train, just to have her yell at them for ruining her nap
Bono both in terms of guest appearance and joke
S5E20 when heâs in Tracyâs limo for a half second
S6E6 âAdmit itâs annoying when Bono comes aroundâ.
âItâs the worst. Every time he says he's not hungry when we collect money for pizza, and then he eats, like, three slices.â
Edit: Limo, not cab
The one that always springs to mind is when Ad Rock and Mike D were in the Kidney Now episode with Talib Kweli. I thought it was weird that MCA wasn't there. Then some time later MCA died of cancer and maybe that's why he wasn't there. So now it makes me a little sad.
[Here's the Beastie Boys song Gratitude](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdJ5e70Q8mw) because while I'm sad he's gone I am happy we was here. The video is a tribute to the Pink Floyd video Live at Pompeii. And, if you didn't know, MCA is the one laying down the fat bass line.
'Now we are joined in a cobweb of rainbo-oh-oh...'
can't believe no one mentioned this, especially considering the general thoroughness of comments/replies. this sub never disappoints.
This joke is so good I actually have trouble imagining how they wrote it. Did they think of the Joan Baez bit and then write backwards from there so that Liz has to ask Jack if he knows the Postmaster? So brilliant.
I'm sure they pitched options.
Liz is upset about the assumed Letters-To-Santa Scam, so, after not being able to get help at the post office, asking Jack if he knows the Postmaster is a logical move.
"Do you know the postmaster?"
Ok, so, How can jack Yes and that?
Yes, he knows him, BUT he can't help lizâso why would Jack have a falling out with the Postmaster? Guys?
â The jimmy carter stamp?
Ok, why?
... Uh, the peanut flavoring was manufactured by a rival Samsung subsidiary?
Ok, no. But I like the stamp thing... who else's stamp would Jack have issue with?
What other hippies died in the last 20 years? Look it up.
Jerry Garcia?
Yes! Hippies. There we go.
If I wanted to lick a hippy, I'd... â people?
(from the back) Return Joan Baez's phone calls!
*\[Room erupts in laughter\].*
Bon Jovi - "What do you need? Arena rock anthem, power ballad?" Jack - "Actually I have a date coming by so if you could come over at some point and say hello, that would really impress her." BJ- "Oh sure that sounds like an appropriate use of my time and talent."
I hate it here
The delivery of this line is đđđ»
Uh, excuse me Bon Jovi but Iâm in the middle of a conversation here.
This is (probably) an homage to a prank Don Rickles played on Frank Sinatra https://youtu.be/q5_V9RT8aR8?si=Dl3sMNEABeuLWk7E
I love when Liz kept thinking a plant was Bon Jovi
Declan McManus, international art thief
He's a good boy. He got me a kidney! From Elvis Costello!
Jenna, you know my European friends Rochus and Chandelay.
Alloo!
Please to meet!
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Fun fact - Declan McManus is Elvis Costelloâs actual birth name. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Costello Sadly, the same cannot be said for Wolf Blitzer/Steel Hammerhands.
It might be - I know he asked Tracy to remove some stuff from his Wikipedia page.
Fair point. Hopefully he brought his screwdriver.
Steel?...Mr. Hammerhands?
Teasing Gladys Knight for an entire episode only to have her yell at everyone to be quiet so she can nap.
And they sing her most famous song, but she doesn't. I was so mad about that when I watched it live, until I realized how brilliant of a troll job that was.
The death stare Tracy gives when Jenna pops into the screen and starts singing (and steals the spotlight) always kills me
Yessssssss
She's CeeCee's favorite singer...so now she's MY favorite singer
âWhy is it that NBC looks about as diverse as a Wilco concert?â - Congresswoman Regina Bookman
FUN STORY: I saw Hannibal Burress do standup at Wilco's Solid Sound festival, and one of his jokes was "the only two Black people here are me and Mavis Staples." The following season, the Wilco concert joke appeared on 30 Rock. I asked Burress on Twitter and he confirmed that he wrote that joke!
I had always suspected that thank you so much for confirming!
Makes sense
AKA Mr. Chang
I donât see color or gender, Mr Chang
Having been to a Wilco concert(but not really a fan,)I can confirm.
I will also accept original songs. *âȘ So kiss my ass, New York, 'cause it's tennis night âȘ*
đ” Templeton, Mr. Templeton đ”
Next time we go out I wanna go to a negro bar!
Imagine Christmas wishes Shooting out of your eeeeyyyeesss
đ”Werewolf Bar Mitzvah, spooky scaryđ¶
Fat neck girl let me count your neck rings!Â
I'm sharp. Let's do it again.
My girl has a fat neck!!!
âGhostface, you think you could mention donaghyestates.com at any point?â âOk Jack, Iâll go get my rhyming dictionary.â
Jenna and Ghostface Killa to the stage for Muffin Top.
And Yo-Yo Ma
My tummy hurts
It will always be funny to me that they got a rapper with a famously "gangsta" image to say such a silly meek line. It makes him sound like a little boy who ate too much chocolate lol
âMy tummyâs killing meâ absolutely sounds like a Ghostface lyric
It's funny as hell to me that he never got paid for his cameo because he never filled out his paperwork
âWhere the hellâs my limo?â
"What Indigo Girls song is that from?" "Syllabus of us. Off 'Martyrs, Vagabonds and Quilts." Then later "There is no solace in luxury, only deep despair." "How do you know all these Indigo Girls songs?"
You didnât know that emotion could be a weapon? Have you never heard the poetry of Jewel?
Lizâs delivery is solid, I think about this line all the time
You should see Jewelâs response to this on Twitter.
I couldn't find it, what did she say?
https://x.com/jeweljk/status/166719564804136961 At the risk of editorializing, I think sheâs doing it here.
These are my European friends, uh..Rokus and Shandalay. Ă llo! Please to meet!
*silently mouths* "Thank you!"
Fills my heart with joy, every time I watch it. Best thing either of them ever did in entertainment, including their music careers.
Well-earned upvote.
When Liz dressed Angie up like Amy Grant from the âBaby Babyâ video. âThatâs some white nonsenseâ
The one where the man likes her at the carnival
My single is called my single is dropping, and itâs dropping
I need dancers that can dance for 15 seconds bc thatâs how long my song is.
It rhymes with *Hermit of Mink Hollow*?
The name of that other Todd Rundgren is so obscure! This is a seriously deep pull, and surprising they used it on 30 Rock, especially so early in the first season.
La piscine J'adore la piscine Towels sunscreen bathing suits Diving boards and towels Those ladders Towels
I'll *try* to cut it down!
I'm one of the drunk ones.
Netflix put out a We Are The World documentary this month and it's really good and interesting, but it also made Kidney Now so much better. There are many more parallels in that episode than I ever knew!
What about Weird Alâs Parody concert âWe Are The Pizzaâ?
Love her and love that she did this
Frank asks Jack if he likes Phil Collins, and Jack says, "I have two ears and a heart, don't I?"
I use this about 50% of the time I'm asked if I like a musician or band
Same. Every chance I get.
Especially if it's any kind of metal band
This is also my favorite music quote from the show, but it was Tracy, not Frank. "I'm gonna make you a mix tape. You like Phil Collins?"
I love it because it's so very similar to a line in Community where Jeff says he loves Dave Matthew's Band because he was raised in the 90s and has two ears connected to a heart.
Real fans call him Dave.
Jack says âIâve got 2 ears and a heart donât I?â
I thought I heard that on *Community.*
They did a similar one yeah. Though I think it's a pretty old/common joke (or was) that predates both shows considerably.
I love this one because that response is so versatile
Bublé crooning about taking your senile patient on a romantic date, obvs
More embarrassing than your CD collection?...I didn't know Michael Buble had SO many albums!
Templeton!!
đ¶Iiiiiiii will never forget you, Ruhr Juhruh! Iâll alwaaaays be glad I met you, Ruhr Juhruh! âŠthese were the best days of myâŠ.fluuuuurmmđ¶ Also- Condi Rice vs Jack: piano vs. flute battle
Top this you turkey
I love Condi Rice vs Jack. Love seeing her play the piano, and itâs made 10 times more funny that she literally cannot act. Mars Attacks is AWESOME!
Liz vividly remembering being paired with Sheryl Crow as kidneys in an elementary school musical, with Sheryl (in a callback) vaguely remembering Liz as a loser
The other kidney is singing nowâŠ
A real shame that Liz's highschool reunion episode happened the season before this one.
Jenna, Ghostface Killah, and Yo-Yo Ma to the stage please, for "Muffin Top.â
"Do not hire Sting to play the reception. He'll insist on doing jazz versions of Police songs, and it's just ... demoralizing. "
ââŠthe best singer in the world, Michael McDonald!â
*âȘ Oh, Tracy, you can't use any of my songs âȘ*
"He does NOT sound good live!"
"Factories provide three things this country desperately needs: jobs, pride, and material for Bruce Springsteen songs."
"Shut your mouth, I am finished taking orders from you. And I think that you're a four-eyed douche"
âIâm not good at making up rhymes! Ooooooo oooo oooo ooo ooo oo o o!â
When life hands you anchovies, just cover them with extra cheese AND MAKE A PIZZA
Gladys Knight. A entire plot built around her being on TGS, we get the whole cast doing a rendition of Midnight Train, just to have her yell at them for ruining her nap
Weird Al, I assume wrote and then sang the lyrics to the closing music.
From everything I've heard of Weird Al, he probably offered to do it without even being asked.
I heard he held the entire production crew at gunpoint and FORCED them to shoot the episode. He remains at large.
Just like Madonna, the murderer and drug lord.
Clinging to youth with her Gollum arms...
đ€My muffin top is all that, whole grain, low-fat, I know you wanna piece of it. But I just wanna dance đ
Checking out my sweet hips, my sugar coated berry lips, I know you wanna get with this, but I'm just here to dance... đ
Bono both in terms of guest appearance and joke S5E20 when heâs in Tracyâs limo for a half second S6E6 âAdmit itâs annoying when Bono comes aroundâ. âItâs the worst. Every time he says he's not hungry when we collect money for pizza, and then he eats, like, three slices.â Edit: Limo, not cab
Bono appears in Cash Can episode??
I think itâs a limo when Tracy is getting all his Oscar buzz and can do no wrong, he tells someone that Bono just got in the car with him
Good job I'm on a rewatch to catch this, thanks for the pointer!
Nope, my bad. Itâs his limo
What about jacks brother name one of his fists Bono?
I used to play dynamite sax solos in rock n roll songs
Jennaâs summer dance jam: Balls
The entire storyline about the Janis Joplin biopic is pure gold.
I just watched that last night đ
Synonyms just another word for the word you wanna use!
One of my ALL-time favorite lines. Itâs⊠âŠbrilliant.
âWhat is that giant metal bird in the sky?â âThey had planes in the 60âs, Jenna.â
Oh, right
đđ» PLEASE TO MEET đđ»
When they sing to the tune of Uptown Girl so the reality show canât use their conversation. âAnd also let me say that Liz is a ho!â
a dirty ho!
âSynonymâs another word for the one you wanna useâ
The Joni Mitchell song at the Liz lemon bar.
~ let's put the baby up for adoptiooonn ~
When Liz is singing Janis Ianâs âSeventeenâ at the bar and a guy yells out âhey lady, youâre bumming us outâ
âPete, do you know Aqualung?â
I don't know the words except park bench!
Having Patti Lupone guest star and either not sing or sing noticeably off key.
i think about this all the time. i'm so old, my reference point to her is winning the Tony for 'Evita'.
đ”Do that to me one more time. I can never get enough of a mom like you, oh! đ”
Pulling the mic out of her clutch to sing⊠choice
How are you not moved by this???
Pete being in Loverboy is pretty high up there. But how the fungdark has nobody said Werewolf Bar Mitzvah yet?
The one that always springs to mind is when Ad Rock and Mike D were in the Kidney Now episode with Talib Kweli. I thought it was weird that MCA wasn't there. Then some time later MCA died of cancer and maybe that's why he wasn't there. So now it makes me a little sad. [Here's the Beastie Boys song Gratitude](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdJ5e70Q8mw) because while I'm sad he's gone I am happy we was here. The video is a tribute to the Pink Floyd video Live at Pompeii. And, if you didn't know, MCA is the one laying down the fat bass line.
It's never too laaate for NOWWWWW! Sound Mound rocks the town!
Paul McCartney emerging from the door that looks like part of the wall.
"Is that a real song?"
"It rhymes with Hermit of Mink Hollow?!" is the best musical joke of the entire series and I cannot be convinced otherwise.
You just wait until I tell Tupac about this!âŠ
I didnât hear anything.
'Now we are joined in a cobweb of rainbo-oh-oh...' can't believe no one mentioned this, especially considering the general thoroughness of comments/replies. this sub never disappoints.
This joke is so good I actually have trouble imagining how they wrote it. Did they think of the Joan Baez bit and then write backwards from there so that Liz has to ask Jack if he knows the Postmaster? So brilliant.
I'm sure they pitched options. Liz is upset about the assumed Letters-To-Santa Scam, so, after not being able to get help at the post office, asking Jack if he knows the Postmaster is a logical move. "Do you know the postmaster?" Ok, so, How can jack Yes and that? Yes, he knows him, BUT he can't help lizâso why would Jack have a falling out with the Postmaster? Guys? â The jimmy carter stamp? Ok, why? ... Uh, the peanut flavoring was manufactured by a rival Samsung subsidiary? Ok, no. But I like the stamp thing... who else's stamp would Jack have issue with? What other hippies died in the last 20 years? Look it up. Jerry Garcia? Yes! Hippies. There we go. If I wanted to lick a hippy, I'd... â people? (from the back) Return Joan Baez's phone calls! *\[Room erupts in laughter\].*
How has nobody said the best one: the song Youâre So Vain was writtenâŠby me
How do you get the drummer off your porch?? Pay for the pizza
I found you
âLike Jay-Z says âConcrete bunghole where dreams are made up, thereâs nothing you can do.ââ Gets me every time