Writer:	Aaron Sorkin
Director:	Thomas Schlamme
Star:	Bradley Whitford (Danny Tripp),  D.L. Hughley (Simon Stiles),  Matthew Perry (Matt Albie),  Michael Stuhlberg (Jerry Jones),  Timothy Busfield (Cal Shanley),  Nathan Corddry (Tom Jeter),  Sarah Paulson (Harriet Hayes),  Steven Weber (Jack Rudolph),  Amanda Peet (Jordan McDeere)
Recurring Role:	Ayda Field (Jeannie Whatley),  Simon Helberg (Alex Dwyer),  Merritt Wever (Suzanne),  Diana-Maria Riva (Lilly Rodriguez),  Nate Torrence (Dylan Killington),  Camille Chen (Samantha Li)
Guest Star:	Ben Murphy (II) (Louis),  Amir Talai (Fred),  Terry Urdang (Kathleen (Credited as Terri Walters)),  Bob Jesser (Bill),  John Carpenter (Herb Shelton),  Mark Edward Smith (Joe Reardon),  Jane Yamamoto (Tv Reporter),  Edward Stanley (Martin),  Ursula Garcia-Schmidt (Veronica),  Parissa Fitz- Henley (Celia),  Robin Karfo (Gail Winslow),  Bill Escudier (Mitch),  Chris Hogan (Hal),  John Ennis (Denny),  Wendy Phillips (Shelly),  Margaret Easley (Constance Gower),  John Mauceri (Himself),  John Cabrera (Elliot)

Music from this episode includes:

"Lush Life" by Billy Strayhorn, performed by John Coltrane
"Side 2 Side" by Three 6 Mafia
"Hippo Walk" by Mongo Santa Maria
"Faster Kill Pussycat (Feat. Brittany Murphy)" by Paul Oakenfold
"California Love" by Zapp and Roger
"Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie (edit) Evan Handler and Matthew Perry also worked together in the episode "T.O.W. Rachel Goes Back To Work" of "Friends". (edit) Carlos Jacott appears in the West Wing episode "Bartlett For America" as NH Marketing guy number 2. (edit)

(Danny phones the control booth)
Danny: How's it lookin' back there?
Cal: We got a problem.
Danny: What?
Cal: We blew a circuit and there was a small fire. The fire's out, but I'm only gonna have one camera for awhile.
Danny: What the hell are you talking about; I was just --
Cal: Nah! I'm just kidding; we're all set.
Danny: You scared the hell out of me.
Cal: Well it's a comedy show, dude; welcome back. (edit) Matt: (to the writer's room) We're going to act, dress, talk, write and behave professionally.
Harriet: (Bursting through the door) You are an adolescent, oversexed, whore monger with the sensitivity of a head of cabbage.
Matt: (to the writer's room) And all that will begin in just a few minutes. (edit) Matt: I'd rather sit in Lorne Michaels' office.
Danny: Well... Lorne's office is in New York, and he's still using it. So you're gonna use this one. (edit) Danny: Ricky and Ron
Matt: Dick and Dick, I don't even know anybody on the writing staff anymore. (edit) (To Matt)
Harriet: If I slow danced with Danny your head would explode and you know it. (edit)

Harriet said that Matt dated Marlo Thomas. She and Matthew Perry had worked together in "Friends". (edit) The lyrics for the song are as follows:

Studio 60 Cast:
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 20 years and so
We hope that you don't mind that our producer was caught doing blow.

Chorus:
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!

Studio 60 Men:
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 much
But still when we walk into this august and famous studio
We'll be the very model of a modern network TV show!

Chorus:
But still when they walk into this august and famous studio
They'll be the very model of a modern network TV show!

Harriet:
I am a Christian, tried and true, baptized at age eleven so
Unlike the lib'rals, gays and Jews, I'm going straight to heaven.

Studio 60 Ladies:
But if you feel you've been cheated and our sordid content lets you down
We'll happ'ly do the favor of an intellectual reach around!

Chorus:
They'll happ'ly do the favor of an intellectual reach around
They'll happ'ly do the favor of an intellectual reach around
They'll happ'ly do the favor of a hundred-dollar hooker's reach around!

Harriet (whispers):
That wasn't the same thing we said.

Chorus:
They'll happ'ly do the favor of a verbal euphamistic reach around!

Studio 60 Cast:
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!

Chorus:
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! (edit) 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. (edit) "Guest Host": Mark Wahlberg (edit)

The backwards-counting clock on Matt's office wall is labelled with the line, "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana." This is a quote from Groucho Marx. (edit) Jack: Jordan, I'm not sure that following Danny's rigorous honesty with a joke about being high was the way William Paley would've handled it.

William S. Paley (1901-1990) was the head of CBS during its greatest years. (edit) Matt: The man wrote for the Smothers Brothers. He wrote with Pryor, and he wrote with Cosby.

The Smothers Brothers, Tom and Dick, were a humorous folk-singing duo who hosted a comedy variety hour in the 1960's.
Richard Pryor was a stand-up comic, recording artist, actor and writer, who also wrote for movies and television.
Bill Cosby also had a stand-up and recording career before becoming most famous for his successful TV sitcom The Cosby Show (1984-1992).
(edit) Matt: I'd rather sit in Lorne Michaels' office.

Lorne Michaels is producer of Saturday Night Live. (edit) Tom: It's like we've all spent the last five years living in a Roger Corman film called "Revenge of the Hack".

Roger Corman directed a number of horror movies, including the original Little Shop of Horrors (1960).
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