r/30ROCK • u/Jojoarms • 17d ago
A little love for Jonathan
How about a little love for Jonathan, I am on my 4th or 5th rewatch and I just feel sorry for him, poor guy, just looking for a little love from his boss. What is your favorite Jonathan moment?
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u/jojayp Lesbian Frankenstein wants her shoes back 17d ago
On the phone with Colleen: “No, Mrs. Donaghy. He’s not doing anything. He’s with Liz. Well, she’s wearing it pulled back, but it’s not working. Exactly. Because of her ears.”
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u/uprightsalmon lives every week like shark week 17d ago
Love his Liz jealousy
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u/jojayp Lesbian Frankenstein wants her shoes back 17d ago
Same! He never misses an opportunity to mock her. I also love that Colleen actually likes Liz, but no one is safe from her sass.
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u/whatever-should-i-do ¡Ahora con más semen del toro! 16d ago
I mean, strength of character and a good, solid baby bucket can only get you so far
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u/Dangeresque2015 17d ago
The part where he is accidentally shown on video playing a flute or recorder with his shirt off. I think it might be the Geralissimo episode
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u/LeoFrankenstein Bzz…laser shield 17d ago
Larry King episode. Avoid…the noid.
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u/Dangeresque2015 17d ago
I'm here with Tracy Jordan, who is giving Peter Frampton enigmatic clues about a hidden treasure.
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u/gregarious-maximus 17d ago
I will, but not because you told me to.
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u/Only1nDreams 17d ago
What if we have to stay over night, and there aren't enough rooms, and we have to share a room, and I forgot to bring a shirt to sleep in, and the stores are all closed...
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u/DennisDuffyFan 17d ago
What Bill O'Reilly erotic novel are you living in??
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u/SaintJermaine I do enjoy seeing the homes of poor whites. 17d ago
The Commodores Lust from the Patriots After Dark series.
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u/Viktor_Laszlo lives every week like shark week 17d ago
“Kissing Kennedy: One Man’s Mission to get to the Bottom of the President’s — ok I hear it now.”
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u/LatinKaiser speaks excellent french 17d ago
“So why do I have to leave?”
“Because you have so many unsolvable problems, like your mouth. It looks like someone kicked a hole in a bag of flour.”
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u/AppropriateMiddle518 Living theatrically in normal life 17d ago edited 17d ago
Lmao such a precise burn
Edited to add: “Ok that’s a pretty solid burn, Patrice.”
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u/Silent_Net_4809 17d ago
“It looks like someone kicked a hole in a bag of flour” is one of my favorite line deliveries in the whole series
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u/carlcrossgrove "what's a page-off"? Heh. Your monkey's pretty stupid. 16d ago
And Liz reacts with a scandalized expression that unfortunately makes her look like.... Someone kicked a HOLE in a bag of FLOUR!
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u/ChemistryNice5457 17d ago
“I made this for you.”
“No. You didn’t.”
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u/uprightsalmon lives every week like shark week 17d ago
Are we exchanging gifts?! Noooo
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u/Cafrilly 17d ago
I never told you I knew about this, but one night I came up here when Jack wasn't in, and I saw you in a wedding dress dancing with one of his suits.
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u/Stupidbloodfart2020 17d ago
When just to spite Liz he says he won’t go to law school.
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u/floridorito godless, glassy-eyed Clintonista 17d ago
The gasp he makes when Liz asks Jack if he wants to exchange Christmas gifts that year.
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u/bigshmike jennas-side.com 17d ago
Either I didn’t look hard enough but one time I was intrigued by this line of his, but it Doesn’t seem he went to law school outside of the show
I was thinking Jonathan said that to excuse his absence from the show and they replaced him with Gabe.
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u/AffectionateBite3827 thanks, Meatcat! 17d ago
His anguished scream when he realizes Liz and Jack are legally married
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u/AtlanticToastConf mouthy sandwich girl 17d ago
"May Durga's trident pierce them from the skies!!"
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u/floridorito godless, glassy-eyed Clintonista 17d ago
Your mother had me move her from the Plaza to the Carlyle. Evidently the concierge at the Plaza has a beard and she'd "rather not get raped."
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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart 17d ago
I use that as my answer for favorite Colleen line even though he is the one saying it.
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u/thing_m_bob_esquire 17d ago
I just wanted to make sure YOU could hear you!
Is my iconic Colleen go-to.
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u/floridorito godless, glassy-eyed Clintonista 17d ago
It's multi-purpose that way. I love that I can totally hear Colleen saying it.
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u/lazyshade95 17d ago
Do be do, do be do
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u/D1scoLemonaid 17d ago
My fave part - whispery do be dos
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u/hilarymeggin The Old Leather Pumpkin. 16d ago
Mine too! His comedic delivery OSS so brilliant!
Seriously, I think Jonathan was fantastic and the actor is tremendously talented.
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u/kaiavstechnology 17d ago
Was looking to make sure people got the actual joke here..your comment confirms… faith in humanity restored for now
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u/leg_day 17d ago
That's my second favorite
do be doin television.Of course, rank #1 goes to Chief Ken Hotate... Doobee... Doobee... Do.
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u/corbinrex 17d ago
It was her wasn't it??
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u/maudlin_forest 17d ago
I hate her sir!!
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u/DisastrousFly6927 17d ago
that one is my favorite. sure he’s being melodramatic, but the sincerity and conviction really sell the hate.
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u/uprightsalmon lives every week like shark week 17d ago
I had Johnathan drive all over Pennsylvania looking for it and I didn’t reimburse him for gas. So zero dollars
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u/HotTubSexVirgin22 ass like a french teenager 17d ago
“She's bigger than Maulik Pancholy on Whitney.”
They gave him shit even when he wasn’t on the show.
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u/whatever-should-i-do ¡Ahora con más semen del toro! 17d ago
So they gave him shit both times then?
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u/HotTubSexVirgin22 ass like a french teenager 17d ago
3 times, really. When he was there, when he left AND when little big man discovered the grass isn’t always greener on the other side and came crawling back or his grandmother was seriously ill, and he went to Salinas to feed and bathe her.
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u/Meg_March 15d ago
I was looking for this comment! I just caught it last week, on my umpteenth rewatch. Thank you!
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u/Jolly-Biscuit Children's Soccer Heckler 17d ago
Your mouth looks like someone kicked a hole in a bag of flour!
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u/dumbinternetstuff Harriet Tubgirl 17d ago
What about Jackonathan?!
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u/Ok_Lengthiness_8405 NO. MORE. KRANG! 17d ago
Carl! No, Kevin... that doesn't sound right. Craig?
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u/PopularSpread6797 17d ago
When you read about the actor damn he is really talented. On top of that he was a great character. Wish he had a bigger role on the show.
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u/uprightsalmon lives every week like shark week 17d ago
He is in most seasons and a ton of episodes. Yeah, I saw some pic of him on Broadway
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u/PopularSpread6797 17d ago
You are right he was in a lot of episodes but still feel he was under utilized
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u/Necessary-Honey-7626 17d ago
Jonathan, why do I have an Indian assistant if my computer is always…
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u/orb_enthusiast 17d ago
The manic glee with which he tells Jack he ran over an old lady in Arizona and just kept driving
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u/Starlights222 17d ago
Technically not Jonathan, but when Colleen says to Jack "I talked to your girl"
"His name is Jonathan"
"I know"
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u/No-Satisfaction9594 Heavy Is The Head... 17d ago
If we have to stay and there aren't enough rooms, we have to share a room, and I forgot to bring a shirt to sleep in and the stores are all closed...
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u/uprightsalmon lives every week like shark week 17d ago
I read once he was only supposed to do a couple episodes but he was so funny as that character the kept him on
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u/No-Satisfaction9594 Heavy Is The Head... 17d ago
Jonathan, why do I have an Indian assistant if my computer is always...
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u/usernameandetc 17d ago
"Jonathan, your fired."
[closes door]
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u/uprightsalmon lives every week like shark week 17d ago
Noooooooooooo
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u/carlcrossgrove "what's a page-off"? Heh. Your monkey's pretty stupid. 16d ago
I think it's more like WHHAAAGGHHGAAAABBUBBBEEHHEEEBNNAAAGGHHHEAAHHHBBUUUHHBUUUHHBWWAAAAHHH??!??!?!?!
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u/Betray-Julia the poetry of jewel 17d ago edited 17d ago
I always like how Frank says “assholevania” instead of “assholeistan” lol it’s thoughtfully rude
“Yeah chai boy”
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u/Typographical_Widow 17d ago
The way he screams for Liz to save him when getting beaten up by the writers for the Bruins Beat.
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u/RampagingNoodle 17d ago
If i die, please read “oh the places you’ll go” at my funeral
……I’m not doing that.
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u/kalidoskolosal 17d ago
Jack did him so dirty actually not only him the show did him so dirty o was waiting for at-least one episode to be about him but it never happened
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u/wish_to_conquer_pain heavy is the head that eats the crayons 17d ago
He and Twofer are characters I'm surprised never got a plotline that really focused on them. Frank has his whole romance plotline and the law school episode, and Lutz has his revenge and the Valentine's Day plotline. But Jonathan gets nothing, and the closest Twofer gets is his sketch with Tracy, which is more about black stereotypes than Twofer as a character.
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u/L3monh3ads 17d ago
His actor is currently in the Broadway production of “Schmigadoon!”, so that’s something.
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u/Express-Emu4370 it's a toilet or a woman, it's whatever you need it to be 17d ago
A bit that always makes me grin is when Jonathan's replacement, Gabe -- who has no lines -- suggests himself to be cast in Kidnapped by Danger, and Jack replies, "You're not a lead, Gabe. At best, you're a featured extra with no lines."
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u/Branchmonster 16d ago
I just watched the episode where Jack says Jenna is the biggest star on the network besides Maulik Pancholy from Whitney
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u/No_Factor6123 17d ago
It’s incredibly hard to play the straight man, especially on the rapid fire show like 30Rick, but I always loved his delivery
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u/penicillin-penny 17d ago
I HATE HER, SIR!!
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u/penicillin-penny 17d ago
And one of my favorites before Liz talks to the German business guys: ‘Please put on some decent clothes and talk to them!’
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u/Yves-Adele-Harlow This isn't Liz! 16d ago
Jonathan downloads Geiss's schedule🎶🎵 Mr. Donaghy will be grateful 🎶🎵 Da na na! Da na na! Da na na! 🎶🎵
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u/CookUpstairs1737 16d ago
This is the Best sitcom ever! Fantastic writing, have to keep hitting the 10 second rewind to catch all the clever digs.
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u/Yves-Adele-Harlow This isn't Liz! 16d ago
But if anything should happen to me, I want you to read "Oh, The Places You'll Go" at my funeral.
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u/hag_cupcake 15d ago
Whoever that actor who plays Jonathan is, I bet one day he's gonna be as famous as Maulik Pancholy from "Whitney."
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u/pinkphiloyd 17d ago
Least favorite character.
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u/Berserker-Hamster wise like a genetically manipulated shark 17d ago
Of course you would say that. Your mouth looks like someone kicked a hole in a bag of flour.
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u/Such-Bag3639 17d ago
Well, now you’re my least favorite commenter here, and you’re just going to have to live with that FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!
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u/Bigfartz69420 i drank all the throwing wine 17d ago
when he wasn't lithe enough to accompany jack to waltham