30 Rock Season Two Ends With A Bang

I almost couldn't process just how funny the season finale for 30 Rock was this week. Part of the reason for that reaction, I guess, is that generally Season Two hadn't been quite as funny - for me, anyway - as the inaugural year. At times in the second season it just felt like they were trying too hard, whereas the laughs had come free and easy when no one had had any expectations about the show a year earlier.

Although there were too many hilarious moments in the finale to list them all, I have to give special mention to the following:

• Jack lifting the shade off the government office lamp to reveal a candle
• Liz defending herself by saying that she's "been sexually active since I was 25"
• the look on Jack's face as he listened to Liz's many voicemails about her attitude toward being pregnant
• Matthew Broderick scratching out a phone number with a paperclip because his government agency can't get any pens ("We're not in a recession!"), and answering the phone by lifting it up and putting it back down again
• the reveal that ex-boyfriend Dennis, the epitome of all things messed-up, is actually an Islanders fan! (it explains so much!!)
  
• the scene where GE's new CEO pulls the toy car out of her mouth, in her office filled to overflowing with stuffed unicorns

I'm sure the fact that Tiny Fey wrote this episode had something to do with how wonderful it was.

The WGA Strike Was The Best Thing to Happen to Canadian Television in the Last 5 Years

Let's see what's on Canadian TV. Well there's Hockey and then there are American Pay TV imports. I like Hockey, but love Big Love. And Dexter, and the last season of the Sopranos and the Glen Close legal drama 'Damages', and the fact that Intelligence may turn into a Fox re-make all simply because those pesky American writers chose to stand up for their convergent media rights!

Big Love, Thursdays at 10 on Global has got me. About half the first season has been broadcast with the wonderful tale of Bill Henrickson's brood, wives and hardware coming to a great conclusion. I tell you, to see Harry Dean Stanton and Bruce Dern chew up the scenery is fantastic and I would like officially to invite Jeanne Trippelhorn and Ginnifer Goodwin to join me in a plural marriage. With God and the Prophet's blessing, Cathie and I can make it work. Honest.

Oh, while looking for Big Love jpegs, I found this:


Also like to thank God and the Prophets that 30 Rock is back.