‘30 Rock’ Kicks ‘Studio 60’ One Last Time

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Happily, the passing of time — and of Studio 60, which is long gone — has not lessened Fey's ire. She took one final shot at Sorkin's show last night.
Tim Conway showed up on 30 Rock as a onetime NBC star who's given a tour of the studio by Kenneth the Page. The subplot was an eerie throwback to Eli Wallach's guest spot on Studio 60, in one of the first episodes that made us get that "Uh-oh, maybe this whole thing is gonna suck" feeling, where Wallach played a former TV writer who returns to the studio to teach everyone a Valuable Lesson about The Blacklist and The Way Things Used to Be. Because this is 30 Rock, though, Tim Conway taught Kenneth that back in his day, pages were called "sandwich girls" for totally obscene reasons, male NBC stars all slept with each other, the NBC peacock got eaten, and the writers' room used to be called "the Jew room."
And that, if you're wondering, is why 30 Rock is better than Studio 60. But it's okay, Tina Fey! You can let it go. You won!

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