"Rosemary's Baby"
I literally was in tears for the last five minutes. Definitely one of
30 Rock's best episodes ever. Without a doubt! My only grievance? We were robbed of an actual Page-off!
Carrie Fisher, who earlier this season guested on
Weeds, is making quite the second career out of playing the outrageous, cussing rabble-rouser. I loved how her former
Laugh-In writer gradually was revealed to be lost in time, out of touch with reality and, well, simply a bit demented. And then it all led up to that great, glorious wink to
Star Wars fans: "Help me, Liz Lemon! You're my only hope!" God bless them for going there. (Which raises a question: Was Liz perhaps transferring her
Star Wars fandom onto this woman who resembled Leia?)
The stories, though, that really got my waterworks going played elsewhere. It started with Jack doing a rather dead-on Redd Foxx (the closed captioning even said, "Imitates Redd Foxx") as he role-played Tracy's dad. Jack then trotted out a whole cast of characters, inlcuding a "Dyn-o-mite"-spouting Tracy, prompting the NBC therapist to protest, "I think we're just doing
Good Times now." I was dying.
But then came the Page-off, complete with murmuring pages, bell-ringing and Jenna training Kenneth on his NBC trivia. (Did I miss "Supercomputer" during its 1975-to-1975 run?) Damn Pete for breaking it up! But to be fair, "There's no one seating the
Conan audience." Can't have that!
The bullets:
" Liz reluctant to accept the Followship Award (honoring followers) until she hears it comes with 10 grand.
" "Adverlingus"?
" The "GE Microwavehead" skit
" Kenneth wailing, "Oh god, it hurts!!" as his jacket caught fire.
" Young Liz enjoying subversive
Laugh-In : "It's funny 'cause it's true."
" Liz deeming Rosemary a heroine as in lady hero, not that "I want to inject you and listen to jazz."
" Tracy running into Jack's office re: his "Star-spangled Banner" rendition: "If you desecrate something, is that bad?"
" Dot-com: "This is Phil Spector's entourage all over again."
" "I built a dogfighting pit in my basement for this?"
" The idea of a
227 movie titled "New Jackée City."
" Jack re: Rosemary: "Don't make me ever talk to a woman that old again."
" "I'm going to assume that's a Haldeman reference."
" Pensive Tracy: "This spotlight is the only place I could go to get away from it all."
" Rosemary's Little Chechnya neighborhood; the F-train roaring past her window (shades of
Take the Money and Run)
" After role-playing, Jack noting that he had a Howard Cosell impression in his pocket.
" Liz wanting her job back via "proud begging, like those kids that dance on the subway."
