Hear, hear! For me, combining those two separate and individually funny concepts into four words makes it the most perfectly crafted joke in the whole of 30 Rock.

I had JUST got my life back on track!

I must say, I feel a bit sorry for Mary. Although she could by all accounts be standoffish and odd in real life, many of the things she was criticised for - like 'faking' illness to avoid shows - aren't so bad when you consider she suffered stage fright and only became involved in the show to help Jack.

Suicide was a jarringly common subject of humour in those days, it seems. I remember Benny's radio show not only doing the suicidal store clerk skit, but a recurring joke about Jack being caught trying to gas himself to death after failing to win any Oscars in the episode following that year's Academy Awards.

Ffffuuuuu… that was her in Modern Family? I remember that episode gave me a permanent ambivalence about Gloria which ultimately contributed to me drifting away from the show. And I've heard it got worse, so thanks Stephanie, I guess.

Gone With The Wind is perfect hangover material. The reassurance you won't need to move again for four hours is the best cure of all.

Never realised before, but "anti-narratives" are the cornerstone of British kids TV. All the shows I loved as a child were insanely low stakes compared to US shows - Bernard's Watch, Wizardora, Kipper etc etc. Whole episodes revolved around posting a letter or buying a friend a birthday present. Not sure how our…

No mention of Bad TV by Craig Nelson? A compendium of exactly what it says on the tin, it's my go-to bath book. Hilariously deadpan synopses of shows that never should have made it to air. Also includes a brilliant quasi-scientific table comparing all the TV movies of the Amy Fisher story.

Oh god, me too! At least I'm not the only jessie on the block.

Yeah, she plays that tone really well (to the point where it's annoying sometimes, which is just more credit to her performance really!).

I'm not 100% sure, but I think the whole 'relationship Rashomon' sitcom plot ultimately derives from a Dick van Dyke Show episode where they show an argument taking place twice from the perspectives of Rob and Laura, with very clever differences which hit home pretty hard if you've ever had one of those arguments. I…

To be honest, I always feel that there's no point championing Jess or Logan or whoever, because one of the biggest flaws of GG is that at some point, all of the men who the Gilmores date WILL have a complete personality flip. Sometimes they'll have two or three, in fact, just to get the story going in a certain way.…

Agreed. The way it's often casually paired with The Ladykillers as Coen 'duds' is astonishing. The two don't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath. Intolerable Cruelty is within a hair's breadth of being as funny as Burn After Reading, whereas the memory of the 15 minutes of The Ladykillers I forced myself…

Good luck making it gayer than the original, where James Mason stalks the boat in a quilted dressing gown making passes at a bemused (but not entirely unreceptive) Paul Lukas. Culminating in feeding him some 'sperm whale' sauce.

Oh boy, you're gonna hate Duggan and Dershowitz.

Oh yeah, it's got it all, including a very early instance of a 'walk this way' gag. But the sequels by definition can never quite reach the "this is so new and cool" punch of the original, IMO at least.

"The Thin Man, produced way back in 1934, just isn't that funny any more."

After the Thin Man but not The Thin Man? What a world!

Is that… is that Pauline Quirke standing alongside Rob Lowe? What a time to be alive!

He was so good to his mother…