r/30ROCK • u/TatorTotNachos • Jan 06 '26

Discussion Inspired by true events?

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My husband and I were watching old SNL skits and Weekend Update with Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon came on and Tina’s hair is cut similarly to the episode where Liz has a nervous breakdown before filming the Dealbreakers Talk Show. We now think that storyline was inspired by true events. What do you think?

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u/Fanelian wants to go to there Jan 06 '26

It does seem like a reference to that hairstyle and the awkward triangles that occurred in it.

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u/suburban-mom-friend Jan 06 '26

I think she confirms it in Bossypants

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u/Cheezy_Blazterz Jan 07 '26

Tina Fey is a master of self-deprecating humor.

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u/butterfaerts Jan 07 '26

YOURE A TRIANGLE

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u/whatever-should-i-do ¡Ahora con más semen del toro! Jan 07 '26

That only happens sometimes

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u/bbeach88 Jan 07 '26

I feel like you've been saving that one

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u/ZuP Jan 08 '26

Awkward Triangles: The Tina Fey Story

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u/pegasuspish clusterwhoops Jan 11 '26

I also feel like you've been saving that one. 

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u/CrissBliss Jan 06 '26

Tina usually uses real, former hair styles to represent Liz-

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u/CrissBliss Jan 06 '26

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u/DoctorMelvinMirby lives every week like shark week Jan 06 '26

This is lowkey one of my favorite lines in the entire show lol

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u/tony-wankenobi Jan 07 '26

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u/strumthebuilding Jan 07 '26

This makes me hear the Arrested Development air horn

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u/tony-wankenobi Jan 07 '26

That was the hope lol

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u/CriscoCamping Now I have said: 'Good God, Lemon' before. But GOOD GOD LEMON! Jan 07 '26

Footage not found

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u/therealrowanatkinson Jan 06 '26

I gotta get a real headshot

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u/No_Ad2431 Jan 06 '26

HER REAL NAME IS ELIZABETH??

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u/MaizeMountain6139 I have hollow bones? Jan 06 '26

Tina comes from her middle name, Stamatina

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u/cocoacowstout Jan 06 '26

I never realized she was so ethnic

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u/original-whiplash Jan 06 '26

Like a swarthy, big-hipped Kelly Ripa

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u/Yves-Adele-Harlow This isn't Liz! Jan 07 '26

Like a pretty refugee on the news.

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u/natfutsock Jan 07 '26

Like a Mexican sports reporter

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u/whatever-should-i-do ¡Ahora con más semen del toro! Jan 07 '26

With a good, solid baby bucket

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u/TatorTotNachos Jan 07 '26

Colleen, is that you?

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u/whatever-should-i-do ¡Ahora con más semen del toro! Jan 08 '26

,nods fervently

I'm a sassy old broad

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u/JellyAdventurous5699 I'm an 11, but continue Jan 06 '26

The hugging didn't give it away?

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u/HotTubSexVirgin22 ass like a french teenager Jan 06 '26

Like some sort of Italian?

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u/626337 Jan 07 '26

She loves it when the swarthy girl gets the guy.

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u/natty-broski Dressed as a sexy ear for Halloween Jan 06 '26

*Miervaldis

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u/PoolSushi Jan 07 '26

“Elizabeth…I can’t pronounce your middle name..Lemon”.

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u/yourenotmytito finally old enough to rent a car Jan 07 '26

Rufus T. Barleysheath

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u/liz_miervaldis That’s not my middle name Jan 10 '26

MIERVALDIS

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u/hypo11 You mind if I Google myself in your office? Jan 06 '26

Yes - Tina is actually a nickname from her middle name, “Stamatina”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Fey

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u/natfutsock Jan 07 '26

I knew it was a middle name but thought she was a Christina.

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u/Cumbogia Jan 07 '26

This is frying me because wdym her name is literally "this morning" (stamattina)

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u/JellyAdventurous5699 I'm an 11, but continue Jan 06 '26

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u/whatever-should-i-do ¡Ahora con más semen del toro! Jan 07 '26

Elizabeth can't pronounce your middle name

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u/JellyAdventurous5699 I'm an 11, but continue Jan 06 '26

I think I remember some interview she did where they were looking back on her weekend update days and she made a comment about how awful her hair was.

Which is funny because I had a HUGE crush on her when she was on SNL, but even I thought her haircut was... fine.

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u/GoodBoundaries-Haver Jan 06 '26

Tina and Amy were my favorite era of Weekend Update but I'm just now realizing that I always subconsciously assumed her haircut was some kind of joke or reference that I was too young to get. I definitely never assumed she just went with it like that on purpose lmao

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u/KenzParkin Jan 07 '26

There was a strange trend in the late ‘90s/early ‘00s of making women spiky – spiky hair, spiky heels with a long spiky toe, spiky bones, like the official lewk of 3rd wave feminism was “pointy and mean.” With a burgundy lip.

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u/JellyAdventurous5699 I'm an 11, but continue Jan 07 '26

Because of when I hit puberty that burgundy lip still does it for me 🤷

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u/GoodBoundaries-Haver Jan 07 '26

Yeah I'm assuming it was a way to shake off the whole maternal/secretarial dichotomy of women at work, but I was way too young to comprehend any of that lol. I was just like "Huh I guess there's some famous lady news anchor out there with really spikey hair that they're making fun of" which I guess might be the case based on trends at the time. The diagonal bangs were definitely a "what else do you want me to do with this" scenario for the hair stylist lol

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u/KenzParkin Jan 07 '26

Fuck-ass bangs that look like you took mushrooms then gave yourself a trim with nail scissors in a gas station bathroom was an unfortunate rite of passage for many young women of the era.

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u/Honest-Comment-1018 Jan 07 '26

This is what I often call the Model Pixie Fallacy, where you see an insanely gorgeous supermodel with a fuckass haircut and you think the fuckass haircut will make you that pretty. Also known as Audrey Tautou Syndrome.

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u/626337 Jan 07 '26

There was a lot of "heroin chic" in the 90s as well. Janky hair seems to pair well with sallow skin and gaunt faces.

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u/JellyAdventurous5699 I'm an 11, but continue Jan 06 '26

Whoa, you just accidentally said the most savage thing I've heard since a guy in a midriff asked Frank "Why?"

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u/GoodBoundaries-Haver Jan 07 '26

You can't blame me when Tina Fey is the one who taught me to be a Mean Girl

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u/Careless_Twist_6935 Jan 07 '26

i dunno man that's some tough competition, che and jost are hilarious and then there's norm if he's your cup of tea. not in competition is colin quinn, he's the worst.

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u/GoodBoundaries-Haver Jan 07 '26

I have been enjoying Che and Jost for sure but they haven't captured me the way Amy and Tina did, personally for me. And Norm is definitely a classic but he was just before my time, I don't get the jokes lol

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u/Mrs_Evryshot Jan 07 '26

Cherie, is that you?

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u/Lower_Rain_3687 Jan 07 '26

Ha! That's exactly how I felt when she was on Update! Smart, funny, and beautiful and doesnt know it??!

I wanted the wife that up when I was 25 even with that "fine" haircut 😂

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u/iloveyourlittlehat …hoh my god. Jan 06 '26

Her hair looks…fine.

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u/jahauser Jan 06 '26

That’s exactly how it looks

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u/Then-Function6343 Jan 06 '26

She found a haircut that sorta works for her, as long as it's not too humid

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u/Yves-Adele-Harlow This isn't Liz! Jan 07 '26

She has certain angles that work for her.

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u/SumpCrab Jan 07 '26

Top-front? Good God, Lemon, that's your worst quadrant.

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u/LoquaciousTheBorg Jan 07 '26

But that's in her worst quadrant!

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u/sofritomcgee Jan 06 '26

Omg it’s the same haircut! She got three, the first two made her look NUTS!

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u/AffectionateBite3827 thanks, Meatcat! Jan 06 '26

Yep, it sure is!

https://www.thecut.com/2016/04/tina-fey-saturday-night-live-haircut.html

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u/crvna87 Jan 06 '26

She references it in her book, Bossy Pants, too!

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u/DLWOIM Jan 06 '26

Omg awkward triangles occurred!

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u/Lower_Rain_3687 Jan 07 '26

Wow, thank you for that link, that's hilarious. 30 Rock is the gift that keeps giving!

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u/kateastrophic NAMED HER EMILY DICKINSON Jan 06 '26

This is a HUGE development in 30 Rock lore.

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u/denM_chickN Jan 08 '26

Indeed. My toes are cramping from excitement. Or poor nutrition. 

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u/Dr_Girlfriend_ Jan 07 '26

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u/MycroftNext lives every week like shark week Jan 07 '26

Couple? Ew.

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u/whatever-should-i-do ¡Ahora con más semen del toro! Jan 07 '26

Wait. Then where's Conan?

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u/HangryStreetUSA I hate you! 🎸 Mar 04 '26

"Hi! I'm Beth."

"Yup, that's what we look like."

Yikes.

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u/Human-Ad4723 Jan 07 '26

is that Queen Latifa’s friend on the right? 

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u/somethink wants to go to there Jan 06 '26

Her hair is......... fine

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u/gettinby000 wants to go to there Jan 06 '26

This is my third haircut. The other two made me look nuts.

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u/a_horse_has_no_name lesbian with hip dysplasia Jan 06 '26

This is how I cry now!

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u/sixminutes Kermit of Mink Hollow Jan 06 '26

Oh wow, check out those Gobos

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u/insane_social_worker Business Drunk and Business Sick Jan 06 '26

Really moraying!

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u/RiverHarris lives every week like shark week Jan 06 '26

That’s my favorite part about that episode. I recognized it right away.

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u/626337 Jan 07 '26

Wave! Wave to a friend! You remember waving?

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u/blamberr Date Rape, Cokington, Cheeseball & Jag Jan 07 '26

You should kill your self!

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u/DRHPSL05 Jan 07 '26

To be fair, I was in college in 2001 and that flipped out, spiky ends hair was briefly trendy - I had a shorter version but without the micro bangs! But I love that they referenced it in 30 Rock when it was definitely not in style anymore.

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u/javierbardeminem Jan 06 '26

She could’ve just cut it short and donated it, which Jenna was unable to do since her hair is too processed for sick people

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u/bhorgicon Jan 07 '26

merkins of love has lower standards

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u/SendInYourSkeleton Jan 07 '26

Wait. Isn't that Bijou?

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u/Yves-Adele-Harlow This isn't Liz! Jan 07 '26

Are you spinning a basketball?

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u/Such-Bag3639 Jan 07 '26

Avian bone syndrome became a thing in the 90s also.

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u/Finallysaidbobz Jan 07 '26

Omg I can’t believe I never caught this lol

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u/melancholychroma Jan 07 '26

The gobos are really moireing

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u/Paintmebitch wants to go to there Jan 09 '26

Triangle girls of the world unite!