Stupid stupid football game forced me to watch these on
Friday night, but the OMG in one of the shows more than made up for it.
In case you’ve been living under a rock, there will be
massive spoilers following, especially for Parks and Rec, which I urge you to
watch before reading this!
30 Rock
This was kind of a meh episode. There weren’t a whole lot of laughs, and the
plot was really just filler, but the end cap was pretty great.
Jack invites Liz to his Republican luncheon as long as she
promises not to be obnoxious with her liberalism. She fails after the shrimp does, and busts
out with this huge long spiel that only gets the Republicans there to donate
more money to Jack’s super PAC.
Jack uses the money raised to buy ad time for a terrible
commercial, and is angry when it doesn’t work.
He goes to his super Pac committee, and they look through the electoral
map to try to figure out who they need to pitch to, which ends up being the
stoners in Florida’s pan handle…
Which is precisely the group Tracy has just described to
Liz, after she vented her frustration to him.
He, though, explained how he knew people’s voting patterns based on
stand up gigs throughout the country.
Luckily for all involved, this leads right to Jenna’s subplot…
She had another hit song, “Catching Crabs,” and has amassed
a massive following who call themselves the Crab Catchers. Of course, as a twist in the end, these are
the same group of people that will swing the election either way, so we end on
Jack and Liz both racing to Jenna to try and get her to pimp one candidate over
the other. “To be continued…” says
Kenneth to a spider as the very end, so we’ll find out next week who Jenna will
go for, unless they are just doing some sort of meta commentary, and do
something completely different. I guess
we’ll see.
Anyway, the very best part of the episode was the explaining
how the country will go, and explaining Florida hilariously. There were other funny things, though!
Jenna, singing her newest hit: “I caught crabs in paradise,
and yes, I mean both kinds of crabs.”
Jack and Liz, after Liz’s outburst at the luncheon: “You are
my chum...the bait I throw in the water to attract the big fish.” “Dammit, second meaning!”
Up All Night
This episode was completely and utterly forgettable.
Chris videos too much stuff, and doesn’t see the world
except through a screen. Reagan gets
called ma’am, and freaks out about getting old.
Ava’s neighbors hate her, so she makes a completely inappropriate
haunted house for the neighborhood kids.
And the plots all end predictably: Chris makes a video to
show Reagan how beautiful he thinks she is, and Ava’s creepy old guy neighbor
is impressed with her effort, the end.
No funny lines either, which is unfortunate.
The Office
Another blah episode, though we did get just a smidgen of
plot movement.
Pam is still mad at Jim, but is allowing him to go through
with the sport marketing business idea.
He blunders at the lunch business meeting, and invests more money than
he needed to, pissing Pam off some more.
Dwight finds a pill on the ground, and learns it is an
anxiety medication, so he goes on a witch hunt to figure out whose it is. Turns out it’s Nellie’s, and when she finally
fesses up, they talk about how it is helpful in managing daily life and
whatnot, blah blah blah boring PSA fishcakes.
Andy has Cornell’s current a capella group, the one he was a
part of, come in to serenade everyone at the party, and he is a complete spaz,
as normal. Steven Colbert makes a guest
appearance via a skype like program as Broccoli Rob, Andy’s college rival, and
there is much rivaling going on. It was
honestly kind of lame, and the songs were not done terribly well, mostly do to
poor sound mixing, I think.
Oh, and the Senator comes to the party, and makes googley
eyes at Oscar the whole time, and at the last second, they are caught on film
making out. Yeah, I’m sure that’s going
to end well. Stupid sub-plot.
No funny lines here either, so on to…
Parks and Rec!!!
Oh, my goodness, such a good episode.
So the campaign Ben and April have been working on is
basically done, they are up huge, and the other guy isn’t even campaigning, so
Ben’s boss asks if he would like to move on to bigger and better things, like a
governor’s campaign, to be run out of Florida.
He spends nearly the entire episode figuring out what to do, and leaves
Leslie wondering about their future.
She had just put a lease deposit down on a new house, since
Ben didn’t want to live in her hoarder’s nest, apparently, and when Ben tells
her about the new job in Florida, she begins freaking out.
After unintentionally scaring Jerry enough to *channels
Chris* literally give him a heart attack, she and Ann set up a fundraiser for
him, with a garage sale and
auction. Leslie, in full freak out mode,
tries to auction a date with Ann off, which goes about as well as you would
expect.
Oh, and in the middle of Leslie freaking out, Tom actually
has a good business idea, renting out formal attire for ‘teens, tweens’ and
in-betweens,’ starting with a coat he was going to sell at the fundraiser.
Anyway, after Leslie fully freaks out, she goes back to the
house she was going to rent to take back her offer, since Ben is clearly going
to take the great job in Florida, so they won’t be able to move in together.
But!
The landlady walks out of the living room, and who should
walk in, but Ben! He drops to one knee,
and they are engaged. If you thought the
Jim and Pam engagement was the squee heard round the world, it was nothing
compared to this, I’m sure.
Oh, and Ron is dating Diane, and they get ina fight, but
April gets them to make up, whatever.
BESLIE FORVER!
Quotables:
Diane and Andy, on Diane’s princess costume to match her
daughters: “All princesses, all the time.”
“Sounds fun!” “It’s a nightmare.”
Leslie and Ben, when Ben tells her about the Florida Job
offer: “They have sharks in florida, and swamps…and swamp sharks!” “Do you mean alligators?” “Maybe”
Ben and Leslie, you know when: “Leslie Knope, will you…” “Yes!”
*kiss kiss kiss*” …marry me?” “What? Oh yes,
of course!”
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