{"id":1186,"date":"2020-03-01T19:39:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T19:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2025-05-19T20:38:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T20:38:39","slug":"30-rock-2006-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/?p=1186","title":{"rendered":"30 Rock<\/em> (2006\u20132013)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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30 Rock<\/em> (2006\u20132013)<\/h1>\n

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I always had to watch NBC’s 30 Rock<\/em> on a delayed basis on my DVR. I had to do this in order to pause an episode as often as needed in order to look up some pop culture reference, meme, urban slang, or non-sequitur by one of the characters that otherwise would have escaped me.<\/p>\n

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This clip compiles the 10 quotes on “manipulation” from Jack Donaghy<\/strong> (Alec Baldwin) whose persona has been characterized as a thinly-disguised sendup of Jack Welch<\/a>, the former CEO of General Electric (which previously owned NBC).<\/p>\n

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Jack Welch<\/em><\/p>\n

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30 Rock<\/em> was wonderful in so many ways, including how it introduced new words and phrases (Twofer, Bottoms-Up-Day, jagweed, lizzing, MILF Island).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-television"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.oganovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/30-Rock-cast-members.jpg?fit=301%2C189&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3118,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/3118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}