All the good stuff was on, so lets get right into it.
30 Rock
This episode kind of lacked a bit in plot, but the lines,
they were great.
Jenna had a photo spread that said she was 56, and Liz and
crew go to great lengths to keep it from her.
However, it turns out she wanted to be thought of as old, so as to take
advantage of the Helen Mirren effect.
In an effort to prove to Tracy that women are funny, Liz and
Jenna put on a scene from their two-woman show, where Liz plays a doctor, and Jenna
plays a child. In doing this, they
proved Tracy wrong, and got Jenna her coveted Geezerchair endorsement, so it
was win win for everyone!
In other news, Jack is dating several different women at the
same time, because he gets different things from each one. He’s pissed when he finds one of his girls
dating someone else as well, until he realizes she will feed him soup and laugh
at his vaguely racist comments because he’s her father figure boyfriend. Oh, and Ryan Lochte’s a sex idiot, for some
reason.
Anyway, the funny lines!
Liz, when Tracy tells her women aren’t funny: “NERDRAGE!”
Sarina to Jack, when they run into each other, in reference
to her *other* boy toy: “Ryan is my sex idiot”
Sarina, after Jack tells her about his ‘Great Escape’ dating
philosophy: “My generation calls it ‘Pokemoning’…gotta catch em all!”
Tracy, when acknowledging Liz: “Elizabeth Q Lemonade!”
Up All Night
This…was not a great episode. Reagan and Chris decide they need to get out
more, but all the good babysitters are taken.
So of course, they poach a neighbor’s sitter, and get called out,
creepily, by said neighbor.
Reagan’s brother comes over and saves the day, though,
watching Amy so Chris and Reagan can go to a show and act like drunken idiots,
eventually getting them kicked out of the bar.
It then occurs to them that they are parents, and should probably act
like it, so no growth, and pointless plot…check and check.
There were a couple of funny bits, however.
Reagan, after Chris asks what his Tupperware surprise meal
is: “Cream of breast milk.”
Chris and Reagan after they come back early from a bar,
drinking out of Buddha mugs: “Hey, your [drink] is really good!” “Suck it!” “I
was sucking it…”
The Office
And here we had another rather pointless episode. I don’t think we really needed an entire
episode of Jim making up his stupidness to Pam, and yet, here we are.
So apparently, there is a bunch of EMF’s in the office
building, and, after Jim convinces Dwight his manliness is at stake, Dwight
rents a ‘work bus’ to cram everyone into while he gets the wiring fixed.
Not that that was Jim’s plan(he had hoped for a week off),
but he parlayed the bus action into a road trip to get Pam’s favorite pies for
Lulane’s pies and tires.
Oh, and Nellie still wants to adopt, but Andy is a dick for
no good reason, until his antics makes Erin cry, which makes him partially
realizes his dickishness, and so he sign’s Nellie’s character reference.
This episode was short on laughs, but high on character
interaction, so it kind of settled into a high D/low C grade for me. Too bad there were no real quotables from it.
Parks and Recreation
It has come to Leslie’s attention that the STD rate among
the senior citizen population is exploding, so she decides to have a Sex Ed for
Seniors class. It’s going along
swimmingly until the morality police show up and kill the fun.
And no, that wasn’t a sarcastic thing, I’m pretty sure that’s
what the husband and wife team call themselves.
The thing I was least impressed with this plot was it’s stereotypical
treatment of this couple. They want
abstinence education only, even for completely voluntary exercises. They have pet names for everything, and use a
typical lefty understanding of the religious right to explain their views, if
that makes sense. The husband is clearly
gay, for God’s sake. If they’d made the
opposing view a bit less vile, and more believable, I think it would have been
better, but as it stood, the over-the-top antics really drew away from the
story.
ANYway, Leslie eventually says screw it, teaches the Seniors
about condoms anyway, and gets a censure from the mayor, since as the
abstinence bill is written, it prohibits any type of education beyond
abstinence by any government official for any purpose. Like I said, way over-the-top, and very
nearly story breaking.
In other news, Tom got in an accident because he was
tweeting and driving, and so got his screens taken away for a week. As an avid internet user myself, I can vouch
for how terrible that must have been. In
order to take his mind off of it, Ron offered to take him camping. He instructed Tom to basically spill his
guts, and get all the tech stuff out of his system, expecting it would take
five minutes. Ron clearly underestimated
Tom’s addiction, so the spewing took the better part of the rest of the day.
To thank Ron for bringing him out, Tom offered to buy some
steaks with Ron’s car as his ride. Of
course, he goes to Best Buy, gets a phone, and immediately crashes into a tree.
Ron had every right to turn him in to
the judge, but decides to have Tom help him fix his car, first by reading a ‘non-electronic’
auto mechanic manual, and then probably just watch Ron work. It did end on a nice sentiment, though, which
I’ll chare below.
Finally, Ben and April finally meet the congressperson they
are working for, and he is a robot. Ok,
not really. But he sure acts like one,
at least when cameras aren’t on him.
This led to the cute tag, where Ben was pretending to be a robot, as
April slowly at first, but then quickly after caught on.
I liked this episode.
It showed what kind of councilwoman Leslie is going to be, and gave us
the Perd-verts. I don’t think we could
ask for more.
You want lines? I got
lines!
Tom to the bailiff, as his phone was being taken away: “Press
send, bailiff, press send!”
Leslie, with Andy’s reaction, about the status of old people
in Pawnee: “Lots of old people have Chlamydia!” “Woo!”
Leslie to the crowd, with their answers, at the Sex Ed
conference: “Does anyone know what we risk when we have unprotected sex?” “Heart
attack!” “Dislocated hip!” “Partner dies on top of you!”
Ron, to Tom after they get themselves sorted out: "Tom, if you ever need to talk things out, go find Leslie, she's really into that kind of thing."
All in all, a decent night, bookended by two good
episodes. Here’s hoping for similar or
better next week!
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