30 Rock: Blame Canada

by Rachel Sklar | 12:59 pm, November 14th, 2009

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This week’s 30 Rock made news on Gawker for apparently sending secret coded messages to the check-signers at NBC that they suck — but it made news in my heart for the wondeful Canadian sub-plot. New cast member Danny (aka “The Robot” from last week’s “Audition Day”) is Canadian, and he has to get rid of that pesky, tell-tale “Aboot.” (BTW, we don’t say it like that, but anyway.) I especially loved the flashback to Danny’s football movie in Ottawa: “We’re gonna make this a Boxing Day the Prime Minister will never forget!” (Though, as a quibble, Boxing Day in Ottawa would be on Dec. 26th, and hence snow-submerged and in sub-zero temperatures, so a small ding there for non-verisimilitude.) Either way — it should be seen. So, in keeping with our Hulu-plundering weekend TV rerun posts, if you missed it, here you go.

… and if you missed “Audition Day,” which features the much-publicized cameo of NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, here you go as well. He joins NBC fixtures like Al Roker and Meredith Vieira on the cameo list. Gee, NBC sure must be miffed at 30 Rock for not promoting them!

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New cast member Danny (aka “The Robot” from last week’s “Audition Day”) is Canadian, and he has to get rid of that pesky, tell-tale “Aboot.” (BTW, we don’t say it like that, but anyway.)

Actually Rachel, you do talk that way (“alloo-ing your spoose?” and “ootspoken”): LINK

I don’t get why Canadians are defensive about the way they talk. I think Canadian accents are very sexy. Let’s face it -”aboot” rhymes with “cute”!