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The 30 Best <em>30 Rock</em> Stories Mourning The Loss Of <em>30 Rock</em>
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Ben Yakas
Published Jan 31, 2013
Modified Jan 31, 2013
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In case you were too busy LIZZING on MILF ISLAND to have noticed, beloved NYC-based sitcom 30 Rock is airing its finale tonight after seven hilarious seasons filled with FUN COOKERS, GREENZO, THE CLEVE, THOUGHTSICLES and WEREWOLF BAR MITZVAH. At first, we were planning on putting together a post on how unrealistic Liz Lemon's apartment was, or asking our local bodega guy what they'll most miss about the show, or compiling a list of our favorite NYC moments from the show...until we took a look at our Twitter feed and realized dozens of TV critics and cultural websites had already written every possible listy permutation about the show. So instead, we've compiled our own list of the 30 best thinkpieces and lists about the end of 30 Rock, thereby creating the ultimate 30 Rock farewell compilation list of lists. Prepare yourself for overlap.
1. The 30 Best Liz Lemon Quotes—Paste Magazine
2. 45 of the Best '30 Rock' Quotes—Funny or Die
3. The 50 Most Important Lessons Learned From “30 Rock”—Buzzfeed
4. 12 Most Absurd ‘30 Rock’ Moments—The Daily Beast
5. 30 Rock's Most Hilarious Rap References—Village Voice
6. 20 Things We’ll Miss The Most About ‘30 Rock’—Uproxx
7. The 10 Best, Most Obscure 30 Rock Characters—Vulture
8. 10 Actors You Didn't Know Before '30 Rock'—Backstage
9. The End Of 30 Rock: 10 Must See Episodes!—E! Online
10. The Ten Best 30 Rock Episodes Ever—Vulture
11. 10 episodes that show how 30 Rock tweaked the sitcom formula—AV Club
12. Lizzing to keep from crying: Reflecting on “30 Rock’s” best episodes—Salon
13. What Are the Best 30 Rock Episodes?—Jezebel
14. Ranking Liz Lemon's "30 Rock" Boyfriends—Buzzfeed
15. From Oprah to Hamm to Kermit: Our favorite '30 Rock' guest stars—HitFix
16. What the what? '30 Rock' cast on their favorite show moments—CNN
17. '30 Rock' Stars Pick Their Favorite Episodes Including 'Apollo, Apollo' And 'Rosemary's Baby'—Huffington Post
18. The five best NYC scenes from 30 Rock—Time Out NY
19. 30 Things You Didn't Know About Tina Fey—Complex
20. Nine More Classic 30 Rock Jokes, Retold As Infographics—Vulture
21. From ‘Gaybraham Lincoln’ to ‘Barack A-Llama’: An Updated List of Every TGS Sketch or Pitch on 30 Rock—Vulture
22. 30 Rock Landed on Us—Grantland
23. 30 Rock's Rejection Of White Guilt—The Atlantic
24. We Want To Go To There: Fake Pop Culture From ‘30 Rock’ That Should Be Real—Hollywire
25. Leap Day William, Lizzing, Mind Grapes, and More: An Updated 30 Rock Glossary—Vulture
26. Jenna Maroney: An Appreciation—Grantland
27. How 30 Rock’s well-plotted final season echoes The Mary Tyler Moore Show—AV Club
28. Farewell to 30 Rock, the Show That Never Stopped Laughing at the Horrifying Loneliness of Being Human—Gawker
29. Celebrating seven seasons of '30 Rock'... We're glad we went to there—HitFix
30. “30 ROCK”: I LOVE THIS DIRTY SITCOM—New Yorker
In case you were wondering, Vulture definitely won...something. Although we would be remiss if we didn't give a special participation award to the Huffington Post for When Life Hands You Lemon: Liz Lemon's Life Lessons for Ladies.
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Ben Yakas is a former Gothamist reporter.
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