TGS is looking to add a star to its roster and Liz is in charge of finding said star. She's narrowed it down to her final pick but she needs to make the decision look like Jack's green light call. Ergo, she brings in a slew of horribly untalented "talents." (We even get a flashback to Liz's early career auditions — hysterical!) Her goal is to rig the audition and force Jack into "choosing" her dream talent.
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Liz and Jack go on a star search, landing in Kenneth's Southern hometown to find new talent. As for Jenna, she tries to cement her place on the show by befriending the writers. Meanwhile, two celebs have died, and Tracy fears he'll be the third to go.
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"Another successful interaction with a man!" I'm sure you've all seen it in the preview. Liz passes a bookstore and a clerk is setting up her own display in the window, one for her new book that boasts the (at least in my own opinion) hysterical catch-phrase: THAT'S A DEALBREAKER, LADIES!
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Now, there are few things that'll keep me home on a Thursday night. Papa John's is one of them. Ben & Jerry's is up there too. But the one, true thing that's really kept me homebound this evening is something that I've been looking forward to for months now: the Season 4 opener to my ultimate favorite show on television, 30 Rock.
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This week on NBC's 30 Rock, Liz and Tracy experimented with equality in the workplace, Jack's investigation of his mother's boyfriend led to a startling revelation and Jenna became a grandmother. Sort of. On with the recap!
Wow, between cable TV snafus, vacations and covering the Grey's-yard shift last week, it feels like the last time I recapped the Rock, Rachel Dratch was ...
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Thursday's 30 Rock is about Jack, Jenna and Tracy realizing that they've found their perfect mates: "the ones." Jack wants to propose to Elisa, but she has a secret. Jenna wants to reconnect with her one heterosexual fan, even it means killing Kenneth in the process. And Tracy has a terrible secret as well: He's faithful to his wife.
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On Thursday's 30 Rock, Liz explores the world outside of TGS and finds a group of ladies who lunch —and punch. Meanwhile, Jack fakes Jenna's death to promote her struggling Janis Joplin biopic (she's now called Jackie Jormp-Jomp), and Tracy mediates a lover's quarrel among Dotcom, Kenneth and a TGS dancer named Daphne.
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On Thursday's 30 Rock, it's the 50th episode of TGS with Tracy Jordan — hooray! — and to celebrate, parent company Sheinhardt Wigs announces its first quarterly loss since the Civil War, so it's time for cutbacks — the opposite of hooray! "The days of wild Coke parties are over," Jack tells Liz, and yes, he does mean the soda. Jack even had to fire his devoted assistant Jonathan (the very funny Maulik Pancholy), who greets the news by crooning Jack a few farewell verses of "Without You." (warning: disturbing YouTube link). Hilariously, Kenneth is reassigned to replace him. "I feel like I'm in The Pelican Brief," he enthuses (which becomes the night's recurring arbitrary film reference since it's on everyone's mind because Showtime is running it a lot lately).
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This week on NBC's 30 Rock, Jack's 50th birthday prompts him to recreate one of his happiest moments as a boy, Dennis "The Beeper King" comes clean to Liz about an addiction (stirring up drama between Liz and Jenna), and Kenneth and Pete conspire to make Tracy's childhood dream come true.
It all sounds very funny, and I am sure it was, but ...
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This week on NBC's 30 Rock, Liz learns that her perfect boyfriend has been living in a perfectly absurd reality, and Jack botches Tracy's contract talks. And now, as the French say, "Giddybon bejoo do voojah" ("On with the recap!")
I don't know how this is hitting Liz only now, but the crux of this episode revolves around the realization that Drew (Jon Hamm) skates through life - and obliviously at that - on his stupendously good looks. Strangers pay him compliments, Calvin Klein offers him jobs, hostesses rush him tables and women hire him as a tennis pro even though he profoundly sucks at the sport.
I must be honest, and I'll preface this with the usual "I love 30 Rock deeply and was one of its very first champions" asterisk: This A-story was ridiculous ...
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