I ONCE SAW A BABY GIVE ANOTHER BABY A TATTOO! THEY WERE VERY DRUNK!
On a more meta level, I feel pretty comfortable that 30 Rock in general was satirizing not the experience of the urban poor, but rather the cynical way that Hollywood and the privileged would capitalize on it, or that the cluelessly well-meaning could fall into toxic patterns. It can be a fine line though, and for that reason I’m also not too bent out of shape that Tina et al didn’t fight to keep the blackface episodes more readily available. The author is just as dead to a racist asshole as she is to an open-minded audience member assuming good intentions.
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On a more meta level, I feel pretty comfortable that 30 Rock in general was satirizing not the experience of the urban poor, but rather the cynical way that Hollywood and the privileged would capitalize on it
Absolutely. When the show was produced, we were at a point where it actually seemed like we were finally moving past a lot of the racism in society, so the show took the opportunity to poke fun at it. Unfortunately, that aged like milk, but I can see how the showrunners had good intentions.
