loled at ryan lochte

Another winner.

Yep. This season is on fire.

Yeah good stuff. I recently rewatched S1-4 and Baldwins weight gain/loss is pretty impressive.

Someone explain Ken Tremendous to me!

Schur pseudonym.

Also liked the Fremulon reference.

This episode was great. This season has been great. Also love any Ken Tremendous reference. Even the use of Ryan Lochte (which I was scared of) was pretty hilarious.

I was thinking this and saw this on the AV club -- 30 Rock has basically spent all of its seasons mocking NBC non-stop, but having an episode with a subplot about how monkeys are inherently funny air the same day an actual NBC comedy about how monkeys are inherently funny gets cancelled is some next level NBC trolling. Well done Tina Fey.

"Are you thinking or doing Kegels?"
"Yes."

lots of jokes went over my head - ken tremendous, kegels, fremulon. no idea what any of that is. also this thing about monkeys that avalanche said.

If you squeeze the muscle that stops you from peeing, that's a Kegel exercise. It can help men last longer and can help women "squeeze" their partner some during sex.

I have no clue what a fremulon or Ken Tremendous is.

Ken Tremendous is the name Michael Schur uses online. Michael Schur was a writer and actor on The Office (he played Mose) and he's now the showrunner for Parks and Rec. Fremulon is his production company (I think).

He's maybe more popular around here because he wrote the awesome baseball blog Fire Joe Morgan.

The monkey thing I mentioned is that the show Animal Practice got cancelled yesterday, which from the promos, seemed to just be about "lol look at this monkey." It made me laugh, because that was essential what Tracy said at the end.

Another thing I noticed on rewatch - Liz and Jenna played a Sleater-Kinney track right before their show. More awesomeness.

He also worked at SNL when Fey was there.

lol...I noticed this, too. Very cool.

Odd episode in that it feels like a response to a 5 year old Christopher Hitchens article that Fey took exception to. Why wait?

I assumed it was a response to what Adam Carolla said like 4 months ago.

It's a reminder that Christopher Hitchens once said women aren't funny... and now he's dead! That's just how women in comedy do!

thought the episode was pretty terrible TBH. lame in-jokes (wtf is funny in dropping a guy's name that worked on some shows and the name of his production company?) and the whole women not funny/women vs monkeys thing was just bland and boring.

I think it's pretty bad when a show has to resort to jokes like that and stuff like the animal practice parallel (if that is indeed what it was meant to be)

Parks and Rec is the worst show in the world.

It was funny, but the inside joke stuff wasn't. Except for Ken Tremendous, and that was only because of his hair. I love it when people blow the little easter egg stuff out of proportion for the sole reason that they're in the know, and want everyone else to know that they're in the know. Just because you know these minuscule details does not automatically make a shows mention of them funny. It's these same idiots that hold Community in such unwarranted high regard.

Nice SQE I hear that.

Smooth post, Ferguson.

LOL

Ken Tremendous is just a funny name, worked on that level for me.