{"id":3701,"date":"2011-02-28T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wtf\/lieber-gott-die-tina-fey-ruft-mich-an\/"},"modified":"2011-03-08T12:06:12","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T18:06:12","slug":"lieber-gott-die-tina-fey-ruft-mich-an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/47\/lieber-gott-die-tina-fey-ruft-mich-an\/","title":{"rendered":"Lieber Gott! Die Tina Fey ruft mich an!"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, Tina Fey<\/a> did not literally call me and I don\u2019t recall whether the Germans are anything but literal with the verb anrufen<\/em>. Nevertheless, Tina Fey spoke to me last week through 30Rock<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1) Like Jack Donaghy, I was going to be a marine biologist. That may be the only thing Donaghy and I have in common. (No, wait, he speaks German, too. Well-played.)<\/p>\n

2) Liz Lemon, like Tina Fey, is smart enough to have placed out of first year German. Tina Fey and I studied German at UVa, albeit years apart. The German word for albeit is obwohl<\/em>. I don\u2019t normally take personally Tina Fey\u2019s frequent use of German in 30 Rock. (\u00abIch denke, da\u00df sie die sch\u00f6nste Sprache in der Welt ist.\u00bb Ja, das stimmt!<\/em>) However, with the first year reference plus the other items\u2026<\/p>\n

\"47<\/a>3) This shirt made me gasp! Why would a character appear in a scene with a 47<\/a> on her shirt? Note the IMDB clip is 1 minute 47 seconds long \u2013 no lie. As far as I know, Tina Fey is not in that cult of screenwriters (such as J.J. Abrams) who refer to 47 as a sly inside joke to other cultists. (On the radio this morning there was a discussion of economic indicators based on a survey of 47 economists. Now that\u2019s real stuff.)<\/p>\n

Believing celebrities or gods are speaking directly to you is a sign of madness, except when you are face-to-face with them. However, this is no goofy Da Vinci code or The Secret. Still, Tina, if you\u2019re really reaching out to me, use the phrase \u201cthat\u2019s crazy\u201d in an upcoming script. bis sp\u00e4ter. Dein, Mark<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, Tina Fey did not literally call me and I don\u2019t recall whether the Germans are anything but literal with the verb anrufen. Nevertheless, Tina Fey spoke to me last week through 30Rock. 1) Like Jack Donaghy, I was going to be a marine biologist. That may be the only thing Donaghy and I have … Continue reading Lieber Gott! Die Tina Fey ruft mich an!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-3701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-26","tag-tina-fey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}