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"30 Rock" Fever Reaching, Um, Fever Pitch

Posted by Bryan Christian

So, people are starting to get excited about 30 Rock coming back at the end of the month. We can't help but think -- against all our hopes -- that this will end badly. We've said as much before, but it's starting to reach a fever pitch now that Tina Fey is ruining Sarah Palin's life, so we'll say it again -- 30 Rock is a cult show, people. The happier its numbers make Ben Silverman and the suits at the real 30 Rock, the more money they stand to make from it, and the more they can stunt cast bug stars in little cameos, the LESS FUNNY IT WILL BE.

Jerry Seinfeld wasn't funny when he was on it; Jack MacBrayer doing the Seinfeld theme song a cappella was funny. Alec Baldwin runnuing up against someone more powerful than he was, that was funny. But Seinfeld himself? Meh.

In the midst of all these guest stars, do you think that we are likely to see more of Pete? Cerie? Frank? Twofer? Cerie? No. Dammit, we're not even sure we're gonna get enough Tracy Morgan this year with all these interlopers running around Rockefeller Plaza.

All right, we're done. No more until the new season actually starts. Which, by the way, is officially October 23 now that NBC is showing the season premiere on Hulu a week early. Hooray! Also: fingers crossed.

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Bryan Christian has worked as a writer for Epicurious, GenArt and ID magazine; a web producer for WWD and Condé Nast; and a cameraman for his friends. He's married and lives in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

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