The show used to be great because you knew exactly what kind of a company Dunder Mifflin was, and how it was possible for this one weirdo branch to kind of fly under the corporate radar because their sales were good enough. Establish expectations + subvert those expectations = humor.

Most people—even if they watch a show—don't know who's starring in it. And even if they remember the name from the credits, it's not like anyone in the show would pronounce the actresses name out loud.

Yeah, I don't know how much influence the "Creator, Writer, Star and Executive Producer" has over her show before the pilot has even aired. I always figured it was a network executive decision to cast Krakowski, and Tina kept putting Dratch in those bit parts out of loyalty to her friend/because she genuinely thinks…

Meanwhile, Cathy tried to seduce her married co-worker inside his hotel room while a separate camera crew filmed it all.

I know Kenneth is supposed to be elderly, but was that the first reference to him being bald as well?

The worst, of course, is Eagleton.

I wonder if it was a network note to sex her up a little bit?
Not complaining, though.

Creepy, but funny. I couldn't believe that was John Cullum from Nothern Exposure. Man, that guy got OLD(er).

I thought it was funny how NBC used all the Jim Carrey stuff, and only Jim Carrey stuff, in their commercial, despite the fact that he had gills and didn't interact with any of the 30 Rock cast and it made zero sense out of context.

If you print that thing out at 300 dpi, it's like 24 inches by 18 inches.

I feel like Pawnee is about 80% Springfield and 20% the Vermont town from "Newhart."

"Schedulin' conflicts."

Also I had a boner like the whole time

I saw this movie in the early 90s when Martin Scorsese got it re-released. Didn't know anything about it, but my dumbass friends and I thought "Martin Scorsese Presents Belle De Jour" meant that he directed it and there would be gangsters or something in it so we got someone's older brother to drive us into the city…

That neighbor chick banged Michael Scott on the Office a year or 2 ago and she is still lookin pretty hot

"Suddenly Susan."

Or hook up with the Philly Phanatic.

I've never seen any of those Friedberg/Seltzer movies, but this reads exactly like the summaries of them on Wikipedia.

Yeah, someone with low self-esteem would want to appear as pretty as possible at all times, because they couldn't handle appearing weird or ugly. I'd say the fact that she's willing to make herself ugly shows that she's got enough confidence in her real self to do wacky things for the sake of funny TV.

Dot Com typically has the most lines; I think he's the better actor of the two. But yeah, that is a pretty weird/obvious money-saving measure.