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Twenty Years Ago, Tina Fey Was on the Rise. How Do We Feel About Her Now?

I’m not sure if “Reunion” is 30 Rock’s greatest episode, but it’s the one I think about the most. 

Airing on December 4, 2008, “Reunion” aired during the show’s third season, the A-story concerning Liz Lemon reluctantly going to her high school reunion, fearful of reliving a miserable childhood in which she was mocked for being a bookish, socially awkward nerd. (We’d seen enough proof of this from flashbacks throughout the series’ run to believe that her assessment of her youth is accurate.) But when Liz arrives at the event, she’s stunned to learn that her classmates aren’t happy to see her, but for an entirely different reason: To their mind, she was a jerk who bullied them with her withering put-downs.

The Movie Siskel and Ebert Called ‘The Worst Comedy Ever Made’

Movie critic Gene Siskel named this comedy the worst movie of 1992, “as depressing an experience as I've ever had going to the movies. That's 23 years of going to the movies professionally, maybe six, seven thousand pictures.” Siskel’s partner-in-criticism, Roger Ebert, went him one better: “This is perhaps the worst comedy ever made.” The movie in question? It’s Corbin (L.A. Law) Bernsen and Shelley (Cheers) Long, two of the 1980’s biggest TV stars, in Frozen Assets. 

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