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Watch Rachel Dratch as Jenna in '30 Rock's Original Unaired Pilot

by | January 7th, 2013

Back in 2006, when 30 Rock's original pilot was being developed and produced, Tina Fey's longtime SNL and Second City collaborator Rachel Dratch was cast as Jenna DeCarlo, the star of TGS, the show-within-the-show. A second pilot was then commissioned and shot with Jane Krakowski replacing Dratch and the role (and the show) being changed drastically. Now, Popfocal has compiled all of Rachel Dratch's scenes from the original pilot into this video, and it's a pretty astounding to see how different the show was and would have been with Dratch in the role. Don't worry though, Tracy Morgan is still playing Tracy Jordan.

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Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly in BTTF's Fading Photos

by | October 13th, 2010

Yesterday, I showed you a video clip of Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly in Back to the Future. Today? Here's the famous "fading photo" with Stoltz in place of Michael J. Fox. It is weird! And there's another one, with an alternate Jennifer you may recognize:

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Patton Oswalt Was Supposed to Write for the Fifth Season of 'Mr. Show'

by | November 19th, 2012

In an interview with The A.V. Club today, Patton Oswalt revealed that he was supposed to write for the fifth season of Bob Odenkirk and David Cross's mythic HBO sketch series Mr. Show, which didn't end up happening. Oswalt, who was a frequent collaborator of Mr. Show actor/writer Brian Posehn, made background appearances in a couple of episodes, but he was busy working as a writer on MADtv's first two seasons for most of Mr. Show's run. Here's Oswalt telling the story:

"after they didn’t bring me back to MADtv—rightfully so, because I was such an asshole over there—Mr. Show asked me to submit a packet. So I rushed and wrote [...]

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Watch All 7 of Last Week's Community Timelines Simultaneously

by | October 18th, 2011

We can all agree that Dan Harmon is great/has totally lost his mind, yes? In case you were wondering what happens when you play all 7 of Community's alternate timelines from last week's "Remedial Chaos Theory" episode at the same time, the answer is: you remember how the single best moment is still Troy screaming as he drops all those pizzas.

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