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30 Rock Episode Recap: "The Natural Order"

• May 1, 2009 08:56 AM ET
• by Matt Mitovich
• 17 Comments

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 ... read more

30 Rock Episode Recap: "The Ones"

• Apr 24, 2009 08:56 AM ET
• by Mickey O'Connor
• 19 Comments

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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30 Rock Episode Recap: "Jackie Jormp-Jomp"

• Apr 17, 2009 01:01 PM ET
• by Mickey O'Connor
• 12 Comments

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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30 Rock Episode Recap: "Cutbacks"

• Apr 10, 2009 10:19 AM ET
• by Mickey O'Connor
• 16 Comments

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). read more

30 Rock Episode Discussion: "Apollo, Apollo"

• Mar 27, 2009 09:08 AM ET
• by Matt Mitovich
• 22 Comments

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 ... read more

30 Rock Episode Recap: "The Bubble"

• Mar 20, 2009 09:22 AM ET
• by Matt Mitovich
• 19 Comments

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 ... read more

30 Rock Episode Recap: "The Funcooker"

• Mar 13, 2009 09:14 AM ET
• by Matt Mitovich
• 14 Comments

This week on NBC's 30 Rock, with Liz on jury duty, Jack enlisted the "TGS" writers to name a new product, Tracy tested TV's boundaries, and Jenna used an experimental drug to stay awake. Here now, the recap!

Poor Liz. Just as she launches her (latest) campaign to take charge of her life and start anew "like a phoenix rising from the ashes," she gets mowed down by a bike messenger, summoned to jury duty and slapped with a PR crisis caused by ... read more

30 Rock Episode Recap: "Goodbye, My Friend"

• Mar 6, 2009 09:35 AM ET
• by Matt Mitovich
• 14 Comments

This week on NBC's 30 Rock, baby-crazy Liz pursued a pregnant girl's Dunkin' munchkin, things got Harry as Jack took Frank under his wing, and Jenna struggled to share the birthday spotlight with Tracy. Ready, set, recap!

OK, this was a better show than last week's, thanks in large part to two things. One, when the show latches onto something obscure-ish yet vaguely memorable — e.g. Harry and the Hendersons —that's always fun, especially when it helps drive home a message. (And a drop-by from the film's star never hurts!) Secondly, I personally am a big fan of the B-stories that play off of Jenna's selfishness ... read more

30 Rock Episode Recap: "Larry King"

• Feb 27, 2009 08:44 AM ET
• by Matt Mitovich
• 21 Comments

This week on NBC's 30 Rock, Tracy's visit to Larry King Live managed to put Liz's life - and Jack's love life - in jeopardy.

Yeah, so ... this week's episode was pretty blah. Something about it just seemed drab and lifeless, as if the writers and cast were in a mad dash to break for Christmas. Still, let's talk about what went down.

The linchpin for this episode is Tracy's appearance on Larry King Live, which innocently (if randomly) enough starts with ... read more

30 Rock Episode Recap: "St. Valentine's Day"

• Feb 13, 2009 09:39 AM ET
• by Matt Mitovich
• 33 Comments

This week on 30 Rock, Liz and Dr. Baird, Jack and Elisa, and Kenneth and the prettiest, blindest girl ever went on strange Valentine's dates. Here now the recap!

So, Liz lands her date with Jon Hamm's Dr. Baird, only to have it take a cue from CBS' Worst Week when mishap after mortifying mishap befells our poor heroine. First, in the midst of what was touted as a "very interesting" story of how she was born on the Maryland-Pennsylvania border, Liz's boob ... read more