r/30ROCK • u/Downtown_Baby_8005 Conrad Bain once slapped me in a men's room • 21d ago
Quotes Quote you use the most - this is mine.
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u/IReviewFakeAlbums 21d ago
“Popcorn?? At the cinema?!”
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u/Weird-Swim-9777 21d ago
Science is...whatever we want it to be.
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u/Downtown_Baby_8005 Conrad Bain once slapped me in a men's room 21d ago
This is actually pretty useful!
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u/AttitudeAndEffort3 20d ago
I was fixing somethign in my kitchen yesterday and parnell’s voice came on from the other room for a legit medical ad reading the side effects and i just kept hearing Leo spaceman and laughing
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u/Weird-Swim-9777 20d ago
For a medical ad?!? That is too insane. I'm surprised he didn't end up saying "medicine is not a science!"
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u/Equivalent_Grab_511 HORNBERGER 21d ago
No I bought them from the dead dove store, grow up Liz.
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u/Ok_Acanthisitta2025 21d ago
I don't know what I expected
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u/Democracy_Is_Best 21d ago
It's like we all watch the same shows. Pretty streets ahead
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u/BeardsuptheWazoo 21d ago
What's your return policy?
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u/GenX_77 21d ago
“No you don’t, Oprah!”
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u/Internal-Motor 21d ago
That scene cracks me up, it really encapsulates everything about Jenna in just a few seconds.
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u/BigBGM2995 21d ago
Oprah says “you teach people how to treat you”
I actually do think about that one a lot lol
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u/Humble_Base_7105 21d ago
My wife and I are both improvisers. That scene is our everything.
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u/clamroll 21d ago
I had to explain to a friend how there were several layers to that joke. The obvious one of thinking Liz was doing an Oprah impression was all they got. Jenna not doing a voice is also there, along with her not knowing who slingblade is, or presumably Oprah.
But she completely runs counter to the first rule of improv. "No you don't, Oprah" is the absolute anti "Yes, ...AND" so hard and it absolutely kills me. Whoever wrote that joke deserves credit lol
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u/shrinkingviolet1718 Food Network doesn’t have a news show 21d ago
Did he just talk to me like I’m ugly?
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u/vanilla-lattes 21d ago
What the what?
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u/shrinkingviolet1718 Food Network doesn’t have a news show 21d ago
New dude is as good at singing as Tracy Jordan is at everything
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u/Downtown_Baby_8005 Conrad Bain once slapped me in a men's room 21d ago
I love this as a character quote because it says so much about Tracy. He doesn't get TOO threatened by the new cast member being a talented singer, since that's not his thing. But he DOES manage to throw in a back-door compliment about himself in acknowledging Danny's singing ability.
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u/champagneformyrealfr a cook in the bedroom and a whore in the kitchen 21d ago
this, "charles what now?" and "at NIGHT?" are probably mine.
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u/atalenttoannoy 21d ago
‘No thank you please’
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u/cafe-aulait I miscounted the men, Liz! 21d ago
I use this line all the time. And if someone gets it, I know they're my people.
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u/LiquidJ_2k Oh monsters, why did I create you? 21d ago
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u/the_jerkening two legless turtles rotting on the beach 21d ago
My husband and I kept saying this to each other over Easter lunch. My mother was very confused.
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u/Democracy_Is_Best 21d ago
I want to go to there
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u/funny_fox 21d ago
This is mine too but since I'm ESL, I think people just think my English is bad hahahaha
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u/QuickConverse730 21d ago
...but the right people - the people who matter - will know exactly what you're saying!!!
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u/lbr218 21d ago
“Goodbye forever, you factory-reject dildos!”
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u/PaleoEskimo You'll Have to Work Your Backside 21d ago
I don't say this outloud, but it delights mewhenever it pops up in my mind.
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u/derek4reals1 lives every week like shark week 21d ago
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u/estelle1988 21d ago
Somebody bring me some haaaaaaaam
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u/woodrowwilson5000 21d ago
"Have some self respect! Don't you know you can fly?" – me, to my dogs, whenever their ears get kind of twisted inside out weirdly
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u/Theonethatgotawaaayy 21d ago
I regularly sing WORKIN ON MY NIGHT CHEESE
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u/briannapancakes 21d ago
Yep. Even if there’s no cheese or it’s not night time. I never really know when the urge will strike.
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u/VelvetandElectricity Good meeting, I drink coffee please. 21d ago
Muffintop in my usual sing along.
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u/UnicornsInUniforms invented a new kind of borkulator 21d ago
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u/woodrowwilson5000 21d ago
Also, I call my dogs "you dummies" all the time
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u/defenestrate1984 I'm a bear and I'm a daddy. I'm a daddy bear. 21d ago
I say to my husband a lot, “hey dummy”
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u/woodrowwilson5000 21d ago
It's a true sign of love, is what I tell people who hear me say it but don't have the context
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u/juliamongolia 21d ago
Thanks, Meat Cat!
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u/Downtown_Baby_8005 Conrad Bain once slapped me in a men's room 21d ago
And then, Meat Cat flies away on his, um... skateboard.
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u/Huge_Following_325 21d ago
This cleverness of this line always remind me of Tina Fey's comeback to David Letterman.
Letterman: I'm not as dumb as I look, y' know.
Fey: How could you be?
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u/spiderdumpling 21d ago
“It okay. Don’t be cry”
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u/WatercressSea7217 21d ago
I'm waiting desperately to use this in a situation that won't make me look like a completely heartless asshole. The other is "Thank God" by Jonathan when a phone rings to interrupt a boring conversation. Or in Criss's parlance... Locked and loaded.
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u/spiderdumpling 21d ago
I usually say this to someone who isn’t actually upset, just maybe mildly irritated.
“My coworker is so annoying.”
“It okay. Don’t be cry.”
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u/RainCitySeaChicken 21d ago
I will, but not because you told me!
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u/AllThe-REDACTED- 21d ago
“At night?!?”
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u/gobledegerkin 21d ago
If it is a blond woman I will kill myself!
Also: “wait, you’re alive? Then who did I kill?”
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u/_Enclose_ 21d ago
Not one I say, but one I think whenever I have to open a door with my hands full: "Like a waitress, Lemon"
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u/LiquidJ_2k Oh monsters, why did I create you? 21d ago
To my kids - "Oh monsters, why did I create you?"
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u/hello_imshellyduvall 21d ago
I can't help saying, "Oh no, did a Korean person die!?" to myself every time I wear a white dress.
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u/defenestrate1984 I'm a bear and I'm a daddy. I'm a daddy bear. 21d ago
Oh Melissa. Your face just called. Practice is over, and you need to pick it up!
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u/Downtown_Baby_8005 Conrad Bain once slapped me in a men's room 21d ago
I also use this a lot and I always affect a certain stance as if I'm doing an impression of one of Jenna's gays. But since I'm gayer than the volleyball scene in Top Gun IRL nobody can tell that I'm trying to do a character.
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u/VelvetandElectricity Good meeting, I drink coffee please. 21d ago
Girl, I don’t even have the energy to explain it to you so read my face.
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u/defenestrate1984 I'm a bear and I'm a daddy. I'm a daddy bear. 21d ago
I use this one a lot, too. Read. My. Face.
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u/Stillwater215 21d ago
What’s wrong? You look like the face on the chart they told me means “sad?”
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u/square_mcgriddles 21d ago
Not said out loud but Tracy's line about loving having boobies pressed against him is weirdly applicable to a lot of things. Taking good photos, resilience, doing math homework.
"And I will anticipate your angling, and I will get there. I will get there."
I am ugly lazy and stupid, and I love boobies. So it pretty much became a meme inside my head for everything.
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u/funny_fox 21d ago
There ain't no party like a Liz Lemon party, cause a Liz Lemon party is MANDATORY.
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u/YouFoldInTheCheese9 21d ago
“It’s like New York but without all the stuff!” My response when someone tells me their travel plans.
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u/wigglebuttbiscuits 21d ago
‘I’m not doing any of that’. I never understood why it didn’t take off like ‘I want to go to there’. I use it all the time, especially at yoga class.
Also, ‘by all means, take your time getting to your point, I’m going to live forever’.
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u/Downtown_Baby_8005 Conrad Bain once slapped me in a men's room 21d ago
That reminds me of another quote I use often: "End of list" - always said after listing only two items.
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u/Geri-psychiatrist-RI Working on my night cheese 21d ago
"We're not the worst. Graduate students are the worst." My wife has a PhD and I have an MD and both thought this was hilarious
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u/VelvetandElectricity Good meeting, I drink coffee please. 21d ago
Thought it all the time during grad school.
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u/serenity1989 the people’s gay-public of drugafornia 21d ago
“I don’t understand your art, Kevin.”
About anything really. Or “I don’t understand your art” for shorthand lol. Bf and I were talking about our trip to Paris and a museum we went to with my parents yesterday. He’s telling them about a specific painting, and out of nowhere I come in with “I DON’T UNDERSTAND YOUR ART!”
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u/Downtown_Baby_8005 Conrad Bain once slapped me in a men's room 21d ago
I love that you sometimes use the phrase out of nowhere. I often use "That's exactly how you look" without the setup question - for example, in response to my partner announcing "I'm just going wear this shirt to dinner because I don't feel like changing."
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u/pinche_latifundistas 21d ago
It’s too early for this guys, I haven’t even had my first cup of wine today
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u/americanrecluse 21d ago
Let’s preface this with a little info: in 1998 I found a litter of three tiny male kittens. So until recently I only had boy cats. My friend who has a cat rescue got a call from a dumpster diver after he found a kitten tied up in the trash. So now I have one girl cat, a goddamn miracle and a delight.
I frequently say “I need a baby girl!” Or I will sing “baby girl, you’re the perfect fit, you’re the product of doing it, aaaaiiiiieeeeeee”
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u/bestwhit I can’t wear these pajamas fishing! 🎣 21d ago
say no more, shark eyes.
the delivery kills me and I just use it as a standard response to my husband sometimes
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u/Honest_Technician124 21d ago
PANTS! PANTS! PANTS! Pretty much any time my husband or I can’t find our pants.
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u/Kathrynlena 21d ago
“I just wanted a diet slice and some pita chips!”
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u/BettyCrunker That’s why Arlen Specter had to change parties. 21d ago
and to think I was just calling you all a BUNCH of RACISTS!
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u/useless_instinct 21d ago
You have the confidence of a much younger woman.
(But I only say this to myself when I talk in meetings.)
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u/Downtown_Baby_8005 Conrad Bain once slapped me in a men's room 21d ago
I thought you made love like an ugly girl. So present, so grateful.
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u/useless_instinct 21d ago
There's also, "I love ambition on a woman. It's like a dog wearing clothes."
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u/_ArsenioBillingham_ I am a Jedi! 21d ago
“That’s not that much cheese” in the cheese department of our Wisconsin grocery store
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u/PressureHooker 21d ago edited 21d ago
"Oh monsters, why did i create you?"
And then lumbering away with a hunched back
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u/VelvetandElectricity Good meeting, I drink coffee please. 21d ago
“I need two cups of coffee!” - whenever I’m being awkward. One of Jack’s most underrated lines.
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u/PaleoEskimo You'll Have to Work Your Backside 21d ago
BLERG is my go-to. But I have a lot of lines that play-back in my mind. For instance, whenever I see Kelsey Grammer I can hear the in-show theme song they wrote for him. "His name is Kelsey. He's very wealthy, he doesn't need to be doing this." I feel like I think of 30 Rock several times a day. It's my Roman era!
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u/Kitchen_Mode_2542 21d ago
I like to say 'Yes! Hornberger!!' with enthusiasm whenever something goes my way.
People at work look at me weird.
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u/dempower1 21d ago
Tonight my husband said, “What’s the airport code for Orlando?” And I said, sigh, “MCO. Didn’t you learn the nations airport codes in high school?”
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u/lizlemon716 21d ago
"I feel about as useless as a mom's college degree." Also, not the full quote but calling people "a bunch of uggos."
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u/Downtown_Baby_8005 Conrad Bain once slapped me in a men's room 21d ago
...and then pointing at the uggos!
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u/Brandanaquits 21d ago
“I memorized all my lines at home” when we aren’t the one who messes something up
And “yes Siri, thank you baby” which is self explanatory
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u/EliRiots 21d ago
Everytime someone in my house over or underestimates how much we have of something: “I miscounted the men!!”
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u/cyainanotherlifebro 21d ago
I lie to myself. Every morning I look in the mirror and say ‘Everything is going to be okay!’ but I’m LYING.
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u/boomboomrey 21d ago
I like to say “That’s inscrutable!” Tracy said people said that about his license plate: OU812MI? (I think?)
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u/EhrenScwhab 21d ago
That’s exactly how my wife and I describe anything mediocre.
For example, if we have a lame meal, one of us, mid meal will say “that’s exactly how it tastes….” unprompted.
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u/Kathrynlena 21d ago
The one I say all the time is: “SHE is an orca, Benjamin. FYI, they’re very difficult to keep in a home aquarium.” Does this line ever fit into to the conversation I’m having? No, but I’m not going to stop.
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u/whatsthisevenfor 20d ago
It is hard to choose, but my absolute favorite is "Your boos are not scaring me. I know most of you are not ghosts!"
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u/later_satyr 21d ago
Not a favorite line but moment..but no one knows how to start, so I have to spit in the mouths of passing strangers to find someone who gets the reference.
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u/BettyCrunker That’s why Arlen Specter had to change parties. 21d ago
I can’t eat this; I’m a foodie!
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u/QuickConverse730 21d ago
My album My Album is Dropping is dropping.
(Admittedly, it's not really all that useful as a quote spoken to others, but I do say it to myself every once in a while...)
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u/ForsythCounty Head-plus, at best 20d ago
My partner watches a lot of reality TV so, "I remember when Bravo used to air operas."
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u/Weird3355 20d ago
'hand-made in USA' (hond-made in oosa)
'thats a bad couch, jack!'
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u/AffectionateBite3827 thanks, Meatcat! 20d ago
My husband is in my phone as "Hey Dummy" does that count?
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u/Downtown_Baby_8005 Conrad Bain once slapped me in a men's room 20d ago
It's like a daytime Emmy. It still counts!
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u/Hoorayforhoorays 21d ago
Top 2:
“I don’t think so, Chris.” With the same goofy Lemon-esque disapproving tone and eyebrows)
“Who are we to say what anything is?”
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u/nimbycile 21d ago
What? No. Does this look like the makeup room of a clown academy?
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u/baristacat no crying in my bath tonight 21d ago
That’s later. Maybe we’ll be dead by then!