Season 5 » Episode #18 - Plan B
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Aaron Sorkin: [Liz is in a reception area waiting to meet with Nick Lachey about a writing job] You here for the "Sing-Off" gig?
Liz Lemon: Yeah. Do I know you?
Aaron Sorkin: You know my work. Walk with me.
Aaron Sorkin: I'm Aaron Sorkin. "The West Wing," A Few Good Men, The Social Network.
Liz Lemon: "Studio 60"?
Aaron Sorkin: Shut up.
Aaron Sorkin: Do you know Nick Lachey? I hear he doesn't even let you sit in the meeting; he just screams at you to see how you react.
Liz Lemon: Wait, you're not really applying for this job, are you?
Aaron Sorkin: 'Course I am. You've got to take work where you find it, especially now. Our craft is dying while people are playing "Angry Birds" and poking each other on Facebook. What is poking anyway? Why won't anybody do it to me? I'm cool.
Liz Lemon: So it's really that bad out there. I mean, you're Aaron Sorkin. Speaking of "Angry Birds," do you know how to beat 11-4? It's just a red guy and a green guy.
Aaron Sorkin: The key is do not use the green guy as a boomerang.
Liz Lemon: Did we just go in a circle?
Aaron Sorkin: Listen, lady - a gender I write extremely well if the story calls for it - this is serious. We make horse buggies. The first Model T just rolled into town.
Liz Lemon: We're dinosaurs.
Aaron Sorkin: We don't need two metaphors. That's bad writing. Not that it matters.
Assistant: Mr. Sorkin? Mr. Lachey will see you now.
Aaron Sorkin: [Sorkin walks into the office] Mr. Lachey. Huge fan! Huge fan. I have all your albums.
Liz Lemon: Yeah. Do I know you?
Aaron Sorkin: You know my work. Walk with me.
Aaron Sorkin: I'm Aaron Sorkin. "The West Wing," A Few Good Men, The Social Network.
Liz Lemon: "Studio 60"?
Aaron Sorkin: Shut up.
Aaron Sorkin: Do you know Nick Lachey? I hear he doesn't even let you sit in the meeting; he just screams at you to see how you react.
Liz Lemon: Wait, you're not really applying for this job, are you?
Aaron Sorkin: 'Course I am. You've got to take work where you find it, especially now. Our craft is dying while people are playing "Angry Birds" and poking each other on Facebook. What is poking anyway? Why won't anybody do it to me? I'm cool.
Liz Lemon: So it's really that bad out there. I mean, you're Aaron Sorkin. Speaking of "Angry Birds," do you know how to beat 11-4? It's just a red guy and a green guy.
Aaron Sorkin: The key is do not use the green guy as a boomerang.
Liz Lemon: Did we just go in a circle?
Aaron Sorkin: Listen, lady - a gender I write extremely well if the story calls for it - this is serious. We make horse buggies. The first Model T just rolled into town.
Liz Lemon: We're dinosaurs.
Aaron Sorkin: We don't need two metaphors. That's bad writing. Not that it matters.
Assistant: Mr. Sorkin? Mr. Lachey will see you now.
Aaron Sorkin: [Sorkin walks into the office] Mr. Lachey. Huge fan! Huge fan. I have all your albums.
Liz Lemon: Kenneth! you beautiful goon! He's not in Africa; he's somewhere in the delivery zone of Federici's Pizza! We can find him and bring him back here, and no more forced hiatus!
Kenneth Parcell: I did it! I saved the show! Now I won't have to go to News.
Liz Lemon: And I won't have to be the world's worst hooker!
Liz Lemon: [scene changes to an alley where Liz is leaning into a car wearing a sweatshirt and a blue wig:] You wanna party? It's $500 for kissing and $10,000 for snuggling. End of list.
[More Quotes]Kenneth Parcell: I did it! I saved the show! Now I won't have to go to News.
Liz Lemon: And I won't have to be the world's worst hooker!
Liz Lemon: [scene changes to an alley where Liz is leaning into a car wearing a sweatshirt and a blue wig:] You wanna party? It's $500 for kissing and $10,000 for snuggling. End of list.
Mistakes/Goofs
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Trivia
- The director of "Transformers 5" is Nick Bernardone, a writer for the show, and its producer, Jerry Kupfer, is a producer for the show.
- In her 2011 book, "Bossypants," Tina Fey said that she first met Aaron Sorkin while she was an undergraduate theater major at the University of Virginia. Sorkin, then best known as a playwright, came to UVA to be an artist in residence.
- The same year that "30 Rock" started airing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, another show set behind the scenes of a fictional Saturday Night Live-type show, also premiered. Even though there were many differences between them (including "30 Rock" being a half-hour sitcom while "Studio 60" was an hour-long drama), many critics compared the two shows and engaged in speculation about which one would survive. "Studio 60" was canceled after one season. This is why, when Aaron Sorkin lists some of his most famous movie and TV credits and Liz adds "Studio 60," Sorkin tells her to shut up.
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