You know, it's impossible to pick a favorite episode.
I'll tell you the truth!
I promise!
[German accent] Of course you vill, Dr. Solomon.
Oh, God.
I think the one that still stands out the most to me is the 3-D episode.
I love that episode.
I just-- There's something very different about it,
and it's its own beast.
♪ [Women singing]
I'd say when we're first discovering our ethnicity, our race.
♪ --Anybody know we was leavin' ♪
♪ Lord I might just lay my head down and die ♪
Tommy, what are you doing?
Well, I-I'm black now.
Without a doubt, it would be the episode where we find out
that we're Jewish.
Who knew that Solomon was a Jewish name
when we took it off the side of that truck?
Go figure.
And it was the most fun to do, so... They were Jewish.
I don't know what to say.
Mazel tov.
There again, I could make a list of 40 top 40 favorites,
all of which I hope will be included in the reel.
I am red-freakin'-hot!
The first one that comes to mind is frying bacon naked,
which I think is a lot of fun.
Ah, ah, ah, ah!
Aaagh!
There's this one moment that I always see
when they play the highlight reel, you know,
of when French and I are feeding the baby.
Hey! He likes it! Oh!
Maybe not.
It's a hilarious thing, and that was such a funny scene,
but I always resent seeing it 'cause I mess up
and I laugh at the end, and they kept it.
The other one would be, um,
an episode where I get hypnotized by Tommy and Sally
and I end up going to a restaurant to confront the Big Giant Head,
and he keeps saying the words that sort of set off my hypnosis.
[screams]
My shoes are on fire!
I love that scene.
In terms of Sally, I would have to say,
and this is the se-- third episode we ever shot,
and it's the episode where she kicks down the door.
She wears this hot red dress.
This guy's not calling her back,
and she goes to a bar with Jane and Simbi
and just screams in rage.
You've got to let it out.
Come on. Open up.
[piercing scream]
I certainly do remember what I think is the funniest moment,
which was when I stormed upstairs in drag...
Well, that was a wash.
...and yanked off my wig and earrings
and said I need... ...some herbal tea and a fat-free cookie.
We did two passes, and only on the second pass
Bonnie came-- ran forward and said, "Can you yank your wig off,
and your earrings," so it was virtually an improvised moment.
I just thought it was hilarious.
I think my biggest challenge playing Harry is keeping him moronic.
You're really only operating with a brain stem.
[Woman, on TV] And 1, and 2,
and there you go, that's it!
You are not.
[burps]
I didn't really know much about slapstick, one, two, three,
all that stuff.
So it was challenging, you know, getting to yell, you know, to the back row.
Yow!
I think generally just maintaining the energy for it,
the high pitch, and somehow, sometimes it's so strenuous.
The most difficult thing ever was doing the Stomp parody,
and the week afterwards.
All of us were, like, stunned by how much it made our legs ache.
Oh, it was just murder. We couldn't move after that.
And the thing with 3rd Rock is you never know when you're gonna be--
something like that is gonna be thrown at you.
I mean, I started training halfway through 3rd Rock
'cause I just knew that any day now,
they could ask me to lift a pickup truck or something.
The biggest challenge in playing Sally is probably answering questions
like, you know, what's it like being a man in a woman's body?
Hey, what do you think?
They seem to have greater power when they collide.
I'm not wrong, am I?
That was why it was so fun to do that show with John
where we switched personalities.
Oh my God!
I'm gorgeous!
Because I really didn't think it was very different than Sally at all,
but apparently a lot of other people did.
For all the men of Rutherford,
beneath this pretty package is a mind!
Do you hear me? A mind!
You know, you just never wanna cross a line and be too manly,
and she loves the fact that she's a woman,
yet she also is very-- you know, has a lot of derision towards it.
Would you look at these breasts?
Hey, Dick, can we touch 'em?
Be my guest. They're not mine.
[Dick] Hey!
I think the thing that 3rd Rock does best, as opposed to other sitcoms,
is it's unabashedly goofy.
I think it's-- I think it knows it's a sitcom.
And I think it's not afraid to be that.
But all the while sort of winking at the fact that it's a sitcom.
And I love that.
What I'm always proud of is that it doesn't--
it never takes itself seriously, ever.
Hey, Donny!
You got room for a cop out on your roof?
Sure!
I think, in that way, we really kept more integrity
than any other show on TV.
I don't think that there's a show on television
that I've personally seen in the last ten years
that has the physical comedy that we do.
I need you to find out what's funny.
Oh, I can't; I gotta build the shelving in the closet.
How am I supposed to know what's funny?
I think it's a pretty all-balls-out attitude
from the get-go, and that's certainly led by John,
without a doubt.
And we just follow and go for it.
This is brilliant!
We're entitled to go absolutely anywhere
and do anything, mainly 'cause we don't know
there's anything wrong with what we're doing.
Uh, we can be dirty or we can be more outrageous.
We can be politically incorrect.
I'm out.
I'm out of the closet!
We didn't know. Don't blame us.
We didn't know; we're aliens.
Isn't it great to always have that excuse?
Yes, it definitely is. Sorry, I'm an alien.
It's a permit that we have that nobody else has.
I'm just gettin' a cookie.
Look, me and the rest of the cast,
we just really wanna thank you for what you've done for us
for the past six years.
I think the thing I'll remember most is...
really, just the day-to-day workings,
which is, you know, coming in and you've got a cast and crew
that sort of becomes your family.
[Joseph] Everybody's cool and I like everybody.
I've never been on another set that's like that.
That there's not at least
some people at each other's throats.
[John] We spend our days laughing...
laughing and laughing and laughing,
trying to figure out how to make other people laugh.
And I had always loved the performances,
but I loved it when we got to laugh,
mainly, when Jane broke up.
[laughing]
I'm gonna need you to stand very, very--
[holding back laughter] [wheezing laugh]
Let me kiss you again.
[laughing]
Stay with it. Stay with it, girl.
Stay with it. Okay.
I just needed some pain.
There's nothing more sort of exquisite
than seeing Jane Curtin break up, 'cause you know
this is gonna go on for another 20 minutes.
[laughing]
We'll get it.
Stay with us. Stay with us.
[Director] And...
These three guys, John, French, and Joey,
that I feel like, literally, are my brothers,
and they've helped me learn so much about myself
and so much about acting,
and I will miss that more than anything.
[audience cheering, applauding]
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