Yay, my favorite day of the week! We start, as always, with…
30 Rock
This was kind of an odd episode. There were so many visual jokes that really
don’t translate well to the written word, but on the other hand, a bunch of them
didn’t hit, either, so there was that.
Starting with Liz and
Jenna, Liz is all happy because she’s married now, but Jenna is terribly
put off that Liz stole her thunder, namely her secret wedding and awards,
because, oh, by the way, Liz is getting an award too. Which is being broadcast live on Lifetime.
Dot com. Slash garbage file. At the
awards ceremony, Liz figures out that Jenna is trying to ruin her big day, and ruminates
with Gayle, Oprah friend, about how their respective best friends continuously
try to overshadow them at every turn.
Liz, though, gets the last laugh when she befriends the lighting
specialist, who lit the stage in a completely unflattering light, cause Jenna
to run in panic, not wanting to look like an old hag. After some news from Jack, Liz realizes that
life’s short, and she and Jenna shouldn’t be fighting, and Jenna took a pill
that makes her feel feelings, and she’s happy for Liz. Then the pill wears off, and Liz has mom
arms.
Jack, on the
other hand, is having mother issues. His
mother in is town for Christmas, and he isn’t going to do anything for the
entire time, just so he can’t disappoint her.
Of course, she manages to die at a most inconvenient time, and with her
last wish, told Jack she only wants him to be happy. Jack takes this to mean she’s disappointed in
him in some round about way, and goes off to write the eulogy.
At the funeral, Jack eulogizes that the disapproval of his
mother is what made him the man he is today, and then he lists off all his
accomplishments, including the greatest eulogy of all time. Cut in between various cuts of said eulogy,
we see the crowd lapping it up, and it apparently is the greatest eulogy
ever. But how could it not be, with
Kermit, and Paul McCartney and Jack playing a flute piece. And then, SURPRISE WEDDING! Jenna and Paul get married in their strange
costumes, and Paul takes her name. It’s
as weird as you might think.
Kenneth, lastly,
is feeling down in the dumps because Hazel was fired, and then she broke up
with him. Tracy tries to cheer him up by making things like a TV show, since
that how Kenneth wants it. First, he
invites Florence Henderson, but she turns out to be a right bitch, and then he
gets them stuck in a elevator to talk and learn things(with Florence Henderson
again), but all it manages to do is depress Kenneth even more due to everything
not working out how he expected.
But then, at the funeral, Kenneth realizes that his life is
way better than TV, since he had a TV star trying to cheer him up for two
straight day, and when has that ever happened on a TV show?
I was amused by this show, but the second viewing didn’t do
much for me.
I did get a funny line:
Liz and Jenna, after
Liz thwarts Jenna’s plans: “You’re not the center of the universe, JENNA.” “I am too! I’m the moon!”
The Office
This was not a great episode. Christmas episode are usually a highlight,
but this one failed miserably.
In a couple of smaller plots, Erin and Pete are talking for some reason, and we find out that a)
Erin has never seen Die Hard, and b) Pete knows the whole thing by heart. He starts reciting it for her, but after a
text from Andy, where he tells her
he is staying in the Bahamas for another couple of weeks, Erin gets upset, and
decides she and Pete should watch the actual movie, and not just hear the
words. They do, and Pete even puts his
arm around her, and Erin doesn’t protest.
In kitchenette news, Nelly
gets Toby talking about his
experience on the Scranton Strangler jury, and he literally talks for
hours. Nelly finally kisses him to get
him to stop, but it doesn’t stop after the initial contact. Is it sad that I like Nelly a bit more that I’ve
watched the fourth season of Doctor Who?
Finally, in the big plot, Angela forgot about the Christmas party due to being completely
focused on other things. After an
emergency meeting of the party planning committee, where Pam gets everyone to go along with Dwight’s plan of a traditional Pennsylvania Dutch Christmas, it is
on.
First, Dwight show up in his hairy costume, and it is
actually a real thing in German folklore, so completely creepy, as well. He has this weird wine, and a ham stomach,
and people are generally grossed out.
Then, Jim
announced he has to leave, and Dwight is completely broken up about it, for
some reason. Dwight really didn’t want
Jim to leave, and it was so out of character, I really didn’t know what to
think.
Third, Daryl is
all pissed that Jim has forgotten about his promise of Jim bringing Daryl with
to Philly, and so imbibes rather heavily in the weird wine Dwight brought. However, when Jim decides to come back for
the night(realizing that there is a bus at 5am, and he doesn’t need to leave
the day before), Daryl confronts him, only to find out that Jim has hooked him
up with an interview at a to be determined date.
And that was basically it.
Nothing of consequence happened, beyond the Jim/Daryl thing, and even
that felt forced and not earned.
I did get a couple of funny lines:
Oscar, after
agreeing with Angela several times in the span of ten minutes: “I didn’t
realize how many of Angela’s positions I agree with until she tried to have me
kneecapped for sleeping with her husband.”
Creed’s suggestion
for Christmas party theme: “Topless swiss miss!”
Parks and Recreation
This was a great episode!
Tons of funny stuff, and great visuals as well.
In the main plot, Ron
has been nominated for an award: he build a chair, and it was good. Leslie
accompanies him to the ceremony, along with Diane, who is Ron’s actual
date. While they are mingling, Leslie
spots a very unwanted guest: Tammy II.
Tammy is all predatory, in hopes of entangling Ron in her
wily ways again. She uses suggestive
movements, shows her cootch, and generally makes a nuisance of herself. Leslie uses her self-appointed guardianship
to guard Ron, but Ron still manages to nearly escape anyway.
Leslie and Diane are talking about the Tammy II issue, and
Diane drops a bombshell: she’s more threatened by Leslie’s relationship with
Ron than Tammy’s psychoticness. Diane
then hightails It out of there, not impressed with the whole shebang.
When Ron returns, Leslie lets him know that Diane left, and
about her fears about Leslie. Ron tells
Leslie to keep Tammy II busy in his car, while he takes Leslie’s car to get
Diane and brings her to share his biggest secret: He is Duke Silver. It’s super cute, even with the pissed off
audience-goers threatening Diane.
In our only other plot of the evening, the rest of the gang,
including April, Andy, Tom, and Donna, have
a ‘mean jar’ for every time Jerry
does something dumb. They put the money
in the jar, and then treat themselves at the end of the year. This year, they have over $500.00 to
spend. Ann is not impressed, and thinks they should invite Jerry to this
dinner, but the four decline.
On the way to the restaurant, Donna has second thoughts, and
drives the group to Jerry’s to invite him to the dinner. BUT! Jerry is having a party already! And Ann, and Ben and Chris are going in. The
group gets Ann to come to the side door, and she say that they can come in if! They
do something nice for Jerry. Donna
explains that she drove over to invite Jerry to their dinner, so Ann lets her
in. The rest are stuck in the cold
outside.
Tom finally has an epiphany: Jerry filter! The gang had gotten tired of Jerry’s inane
forwards, and so they put a filter on their email that made everything from Jerry
go to the spam folder. Once they found
their invitations, they went to the front door, and gawked at the oddity of
Jerry and his beautiful family.
There was so much funny is this episode, it was great. I got
a couple of funny lines for you, too:
Andy, as Ann
walks into Jerry’s house: “I didn’t even know Ann knew Jerry!”
April, after Ann
pacifies her with a mere wrist grab: “It’s because of your man hands and
strength, Man Perkins.”
Donna, after
gaining entry to the party: “Merry Christmas, bitches!”
Diane, on why she’s
not worried about Tammy II: “I’m a middle school principal, I deal with hormonal
psychopaths all day long.”
Chris and Ben, in
watching Jerry and family perform a Christmas song: “So Gayle and Jerry?” “...I
thought about it a lot, there are no logical explanations.”
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