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Added by Ryan Davis on Dec. 3, 2008

Quick, where's the nearest Medieval Madness machine!
Quick, where's the nearest Medieval Madness machine!
Like so many comedy nerds, I've had a creepy crush on Tina Fey for a long time now. She was the head writer at SNL during one of my personal favorite eras of that show, she somehow managed to salvage Weekend Update from the charisma-free Colin Quinn while simultaneously preventing a giggly Jimmy Fallon from ruining it all over again, and I maintain that 30 Rock has been the funniest show on TV for the past three years running. She's smart, she's funny, she's self-deprecating, and she's got a bookish, accessible quality to her. Like I said, it's a creepy crush.

While I've had to suppress my elitist early-adopter knee-jerk reaction to her recent meteoric rise following her popular/divisive Sarah Palin impression (it dilutes the illusion of attainability,) it has certainly allowed further insight into her life. Turns out, she's got a weird bit of arcade trivia hidden in her past. Vanity Fair has a nice article for Fey obsessives, revealing how she got that mysterious scar on her chin, as well as teasing the fact that she provided some voices for an unnamed pinball game back when she was living in Chicago. Kotaku's Brian Crecente did some legwork and discovered that the game in question is Medieval Madness, a machine released in 1997 by Williams. Even sweeter, the folks at Pinball News have a clip from Pinball Expo 2004 where Medieval Madness sound designer Dan Forden plays a few takes of a mid-20s Tina Fey that didn't make it into the game. It's all a little too perfect, you know? Like she's a cyborg sent back in time for me to get weird about.

Filed under : Tina Fey, Medieval Madness

51 Comments

Black_Rose
on Dec. 3, 2008
Sweet, Tina Fey is awesome.

MasterSplinter
on Dec. 3, 2008
Umm.. there is nothing creepy about having a crush on Tina Fey.

Jeff is online
on Dec. 3, 2008
You don't understand the way Ryan crushes, then.

GiantGUS
on Dec. 3, 2008
wow, cool, I like 30 Rock too, and that audio clip is just weird, but now Dan Forden is an easy link between Tina Fey and Mortal Kombat

Charleslegrand
on Dec. 3, 2008
Pinball voices?  I wonder if she puts it on her resume.  I know I would!  
On the plus side, if you ever get to meet her, you have one awesome discussion starter!

TripMasterMunky
on Dec. 3, 2008
Whoo! A Tina Fey page! lol.

Kamasama
on Dec. 3, 2008
Yup, a little creepy. I'd say her being married to a man with whom she has a daughter dilutes the illusion of attainability far more. And hell yea about 30 Rock!

Anyway, her geekiness is quite apparent, so this doesn't seem like much of a surprise; still interesting though.

EDIT: Changed wording to not sound so pedophiliac.

Roger_Klotz
on Dec. 3, 2008
I think Ryan wants to show Tina some pinballs,  if you catch my drift....

AngeTheDude
on Dec. 3, 2008
Can't go wrong with Tina Fey.

NinjaHunter is online
on Dec. 3, 2008
Yeah, Tina Fey's cool.

Ping5000
on Dec. 3, 2008
Tina Fey. I want her.

TheGreatGuero
on Dec. 3, 2008
"Even sweeter, the folks at Pinball News have a clip from Pinball Expo 2004 where

Medieval Madness sound designer Dan Forden

plays a few takes of a mid-20s Tina Fey that didn't make it into the game."

Time out there, Ryan. This is how you introduce Mortal Kombat's Dan "Toasty" Forden? I am surprised Jeff did not intervene to object. It's okay, though. I'm sure you both know who he is, so this time I will forgive you.

Black_Rose
on Dec. 3, 2008
Roger_Klotz said:
"I think Ryan wants to show Tina some pinballs,  if you catch my drift...."
I lol'd

Benjamin_Sisko
on Dec. 3, 2008
Only you Ryan....Only you...

MasterSplinter
on Dec. 3, 2008
Jeff said:
"You don't understand the way Ryan crushes, then."
... like Brian Adams?
... like Brian Adams?

Jeff is online
on Dec. 3, 2008
MasterSplinter said:
"Jeff said:
"You don't understand the way Ryan crushes, then."
... like Brian Adams?
... like Brian Adams?
"
Oh, so I guess you do understand.

EvilTwin
on Dec. 3, 2008
Ryan said:
"She's smart, she's funny, she's self-deprecating, and she's got a bookish, accessible quality to her."
I think the word "accessible" has a great opportunity, henceforth, to be used in many trashy pick-up lines.  Awesome.

ColumnBreaker
on Dec. 3, 2008
Jeff said:
"MasterSplinter said:
"Jeff said:
"You don't understand the way Ryan crushes, then."
... like Brian Adams?
... like Brian Adams?
"
Oh, so I guess you do understand."
Hot. I hope Ryan develops a crush on me sometime.

YoctoYotta
on Dec. 3, 2008
Are we talking pentagram-and-candles-crush, or stalk-and-murder-and-cut-face-off-and-wear-it-and-i'm-so-pretty-so-very-very-pretty-crush?

MisterWaingro
on Dec. 4, 2008
Funniest show on TV?  For the past 3 years?  Clearly Ryan hasn't seen Xavier Renegade Angel.


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