So here’s me, majorly slacking yet again. But!
Now you get two reviews for the price of one, aren’t you excited??
30 Rock
So, to start with the episode on the tenth…
Liz is going
through fertility treatments(with Dr. Spaceman, natch), and is super emotional.
Annnnd….that’s about her whole plot: fertility treatments make Liz emotional,
and so she decides to forgo them in favor of adoption, and may even get an
older kid after realizing she has tons of experience with children in running
TGS for seven years.
In the only other plot in this episode, Jack learns he needs to work fast to finish his master “become CEO
of NBC” plan: Hank Hooper is going to announce his decision to give the company
to Kaylie, his granddaughter. Jack hires
Len to spy on her, and he finds…dun dun dun! Banks in cahoots with her. Jack finds him in as an instructor in a gym,
and they concoct a plan to out Kaylie as not a Hooper. They get a glass, and convoluted Jenna mess,
and bada bing bada boom, paternatiy test, except oops! Banks never switched
sides, but Jack knew that was going to happen, so he just distracted Kaylie
long enough to not call her grandpa Hank, and so she loses out on running
Kabletown, giving the company to Jack due to him sending him a card instead of
the DNA sample like Banks thought. And
if you thought that was a confusing read, imagine watching it.
The long and the short of it is Jack is CEO of Kabletown,
and Kaylie’s going to have to marry a finance guy and do fundraisers and
things, eww(in her words).
Oh, I lied about that being the only other plot: Tracy’s
movie started shooting, and Octavia Spencer is Tracy a la season one. The whole point of this little plot was to
make Liz see she would be fine adopting an older kid, so it almost doesn’t even
merit a mention.
This was an OK episode, and a nice beginning of the end for
Jack and Liz’s respective stories
A couple of funny lines for you:
Bev the adoption
agent, regarding adopting an older kid: “I can get you a 6 year-old yesterday!”
Liz, in disgust
of herself when helping Jack try to ruin Kalie: “I do anything for approval…I
would have been a Nazi!”
But that’s not all for
30 Rock
On the seventeenth, we learned more about Jack’s mom…
Liz and Jack head
to Florida to settle his mother’s estate, and find a housekeeper who describes
Jack’s mother as ‘Mrs. Smiley,’ and a very happy person. Jack is immediately suspicious, as he thinks
the housekeeper just wants to scam on the money, but Liz is seeing it a bit
differently. She goes into his mother’s
room, and it looks like the housekeeper so much a housekeeper as a lover. Jack is terribly confused considering his
mother’s rampant homophobia, but it seems to be true, what with the photographic
evidence, not to mention the incredibly dusty second bedroom. Jack eventually comes to terms with his
mother living a completely different life than he expected, and they head back
to New York, where…
Tracy and Jenna
decided they were in charge since Liz and Jack had been gone, and they made a
complete mess of everything.
They placed orders for giant carts full of oranges, they
store office supplies in the elevator, and they get everyone to sign an affidavit
that no sexual harassment had ever happened on premises. And why do they need that? Because Hazel has decided to file suit since
she’s a vindictive little hoo-ha. Tracy
and Jenna convince Kenneth to sign the form over his rather strenuous
objections, but then they feel bad, and have him take it back just in time for
Jack and Tina to come back.
Too bad their presence couldn’t even fix this mess, as Hazel’s
general craziness makes Hank Hooper decide that TGS needs to be cancelled like,
yesterday, so their next show is their last show. Oops.
I even got a couple funny lines from this episode, too!
Liz, when Jack
mocks her for her lack of spontaneity: “I’m spontaneous, for example, I started
talking before I had an example of me being spontaneous”
Jack, while
looking thorugh his mother’s things: “The baby shoes she found after the
fire…she loved looting”
The Lawyer, when
Tracy and Jenna ask a legal question: “And I didn’t super duper finish law
school, soo…”
Park and Rec next time, when I hopefully learn how to
control my rampant procrastination!
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