"The Cold Open" | |
Season One, Episode 2 | |
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Air date | September 25, 2006 |
Written by | Aaron Sorkin, Christina Booth |
Directed by | Thomas Schlamme |
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The Cold Open is the second episode of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. It was written by Aaron Sorkin and Christina Booth and directed by Thomas Schlamme. It premiered September 25, 2006.
Summary[]
Matt and Danny have five days to put together their first show, which is receiving enormous media attention and Harriet tries her best to work with Matt. In the meantime, Jordan puts her new job on the line by facing down pressure due to a controversial sketch amidst criticism from sponsors and affiliates scared of alienating Christians. Also, staff writers Ricky and Ron — who were catalysts to Matt and Danny's initial departure — express their dismay at being made to work for Matt.
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Trivia[]
- Jack Rudolph says to Jordan McDeere "You know what, Mary? You've got spunk. I hate spunk." This is the famous line that Ed Asner said to Mary Tyler Moore on the Mary Tyler Moore show. Ed Asner appeared in the Studio 60 pilot episode as Wilson White.
- When Matt and Danny search for an office, they mention that Lorne Michaels works in New York. This, along with a later explicit reference to Saturday Night Live, make it clear that SNL still exists in the Studio 60 universe.
- Evan Handler and Carlos Jacott join the starring cast with this episode after not appearing in the pilot.
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Quotes[]
- Harriet Hayes: You are an adolescent, oversexed, whoremonger, with the sensitivity of a head of cabbage.
The Cold Open Lyrics[]
- We'll be the very model of a modern network TV show
- Each time that we walk into this august and famous studio
- We're starting out from scratch after a run of twenty years and so
- We hope that you don't mind that our producer was caught doing blow
- They hope that you don't mind that their producer was caught doing blow
- They hope that you don't mind that their producer was caught doing blow
- They hope that you don't mind that their producer was caught doing lots of blow
- Yes it's hard to be a player when at heart you've always had a hunch
- To bite the hand that feeds you is a scary way of doing lunch
- But still when we walk in to this august and famous studio
- We'll be the very model of a modern network TV show
- But still when they walk into this august and famous studio
- They'll be the very model of a modern network TV show
- I am a Christian tried and true baptized at age eleven
- So unlike the liberals, gays, and Jews I'm going straight to heaven
- That if you feel you've been cheated and our sordid content lets you down
- We'll happily do the favor of an intellectual reach around
- They'll happily do the favor of an intellectual reacharound
- They'll happily do the favor of an intellectual reacharound
- They'll happily do the favor of a hundred dollar hooker's reacharound
- (That wasn't the same thing we said…)
- They'll happily do the favor of a verbal euphemistic reacharound
- We know the Evangelicals are lining up to tag our toe
- And then the corporations will not hesitate to pull their dough
- But still when we walk into this august and famous studio
- We'll be the very model of a modern network TV show
- But still when they walk into this august and famous studio
- They'll be the very model of a modern network TV show
- But still when they walk into this august and famous studio
- They'll be the very model of a modern network TV show
References[]
- Schlamme, T. & Sorkin, A. (Executive Producers). (2006, September 25). Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip [Television program]. Burbank, California: Warner Bros. Television.
- Lyrics to "The Cold Open"
- TV.com Trivia
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