What it means: The oligarchic dad of Jacqueline’s boyfriend Russ is a parody of Donald Trump. “If he wasn’t my son, perhaps I’d be dating him” In Kimmy Schmidt he plays a weatherman called Drench Thunderman.ġ5.
In 30 Rock he played NBC’s head of standards and practices called Gaylord Felcher. What it means: Actor Michael Torpey’s work with Tina Fey has become something of a running joke, because of the silly names of his characters. It’s taken from Fiddler on the Roof‘s ‘If I Were A Rich Man’, and you later see Artie singing “ Biddy biddy bum” to himself.įrom: S3E7 – ‘Kimmy Learns About The Weather!’ What it means: When asked if her bf Artie is rich, Lillian says yes, adding the above phrase. In episode 8, featuring the hilarious Maya Rudolph as Dionne Warwick, there’s a blink-and-you-miss-it callback, where it’s revealed that her character taught Titus the warmup lines. What it means: When you first hear this vocal warmup, Titus is preparing to record backing vocals. “Welcome to the singing laundromat / We are not responsible for theft” What it means: Speaking to Titus, Mikey subtly references the fact that actor Tituss Burgess played Sebastian the crab in a Broadway version of The Little Mermaid.ġ2. “I’m really glad you’re not a giant crab” What it means: This throwaway line from Kimmy’s landlord is of course a reference to the lyrics of Sean Kingston ‘Fire Burning’.ġ1. What it means: While in a fancy restaurant with Titus, Kimmy pretends to speak French, but the only words she can say are names of Beauty and the Beast characters.ġ0. “When is Deblasio gonna put an end to these senseless shorty fires burning on the dance floor?” In Fey’s universe, it seems to have developed into a public holiday. What it means: In a memorable scene of 30 Rock, the uncontrollable comic Tracy Jordan tells NBC employee Kenneth: “Live every week like it’s Shark Week”. “Mikey told me Shark Week is now a union holiday”
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In Xenophon’s Symposium he describes her as “the hardest to get along with of all the women there are,” and Socrates says he married her because “I know full well, if I can tolerate her spirit, I can with ease attach myself to every human being else.” A similar relationship is presented between the ultra-positive Kimmy and the grumpy teenage Xan.Ĩ. What it means: Jacqueline’s daughter Xanthippe is named in honour of Socrates’ wife. What it means: Jacqueline’s highbrow nemesis goes full-on Classics scholar in this analogy comparing their relationship to the famous rivalry between two fifth-century BC Athenians, (which Alcibiades won by having Eupolis drowned). “She has returned in full like Alcibiades to Athens, and I have become her Eupolis” Dong, one of Kimmy’s love interests, does the same, only he’s trying to get inside because Kimmy is on a date with another man.Ħ. What it means: The final scene of this season 1 episode is almost a shot-for-shot recreation of the below scene from Ghostbusters, in which Rick Moranis is being chased and is desperately trying to get inside a restaurant. In the last episode of Mad Men, Draper comes up with the ’70s Coca-Cola tagline.
What it means: It’s a play on the fact that John Hamm, who plays the Reverend, was also Mad Men‘s Don Draper. “The Reverend claimed he came up with the ‘I’d like to buy the world a Coke’ commercial” But what about the other jokes – the obscure ones designed to go over your head? Here are 17 you might have missed. 2017’s season 3 had Kimmy’s roomie Titus Andromedon re-enacting scenes from Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ after discovering his boyfriend might be cheating on him. In season 2 the show imagined the creation of ‘Pizza Rat Boulevard’ in New York City, to honour the rat that went viral for its pizza-carrying abilities. In season 1, Kimmy – a kidnap victim freed after years of imprisonment – picked apart Katy Perry‘s ‘Firework’ after hearing it for the first time. Like her NBC sitcom 30 Rock, Tina Fey’s Netflix show Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is crammed with pop culture references.
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