Roger Bart On '30 Rock'!
Last night's episode definitely had one of my favourite guest stars! Roger Bart appeared as a guy sent from Corporate to evaluate the show and make necessary cutbacks! He was great! I kept thinking that he would at some point throw pen and paper to the side and burst into a verse of "Keep It Gay!"
Anyhoo, the episode revolved around how cutbacks had to be made and everyone had to work around them. Jonathon was fired (what the what??) and Kenneth took over his duties while still holding his page position. In the meantime Kenneth asks Tracy to go to his house to feed his bird but cautions him NOT to enter his bedroom. This off course makes Tracy think that Kenneth’s a murderer. He and Jenna go to his apartment and somehow end up killing his bird. I found the interaction where Kenneth gives Tracy the keys quite interesting as it was basically a reversal of roles. In the end, in order to make it up to him they fill his apartment with a variety of bird which he has to name. The last line uttered by Kenneth, must be one of the most epic lines ever.
Liz is trying desperately to figure out what she has to cut back but refuses to fire anyone, give up her food or stop buying straws as the building is rodent infested (Jack fired the exterminators). While waiting to enter Jack’s office she meets another woman who has decided she’s going to try and seduce Jack in order to keep her job. She decides this is what she should do as well in order to avoid cutbacks of her staff. She goes out with Brad - the cutback guy - and thinks that he’s agreed to make out with her in order to avoid cutbacks when in fact he makes out with her only because he has to move on, after the death of his wife! Oh oh! Brad is traumatised by her deceit and is transferred elsewhere, leaving Jack in charge of the cutbacks of her show!
And now for the shipper moments! In the beginning where Jack informs her about the cutbacks and tells her ‘that’s my girl!’ Squeeeee! Also, when Jack takes over responsibilities for Liz’s show. Is he hoping Liz will try what she tried on Brad in order to avoid cutbacks? Hmmmm?? Hmmmmmm?? God, I hope so! Also, when the mediator is in the office with Jack and Liz announcing that Brad has filed a complaint against Liz, did anyone else notice how Liz is looking at Jack when she finds out that he took over for Brad? Or rather how they’re looking at each other? They’re not even listening to the mediator! Tina Fey, stop torturing us!! And what woman could ever resist Alec Baldwin’s crazy handsome man eyes?
Highlights: Jonathon getting fired and serenading Jack with Mariah Carey’s “I Can’t Live (Without You), multiple references to “The Pelican Brief”, Roger Bart (can’t state it enough!), the Dwight bobble-head in Kenneth’s apartment (win!)
Favourite Quotes
Jack: I have some more downsizing to do upstairs so I’ve got no time for hand holding. Let’s get this right.
Liz: I’ve got some Trix up my sleeve.
Jack: That’s my girl
Liz: No, Trix the cereal. There’s some filling my sleeves. It’s sticking to the fibbers…
Kenneth: I feel like I’m in the “Pelican Brief”! Oh, do I already know too much?
Kenneth: DO NOT GO INTO MY BEDROOM.
Liz: Holster. You look hot in those trousers. How ‘bout we grab drinks tonight?
[Liz has to get ready for her date with Brad]
Liz: Lee, I need that dress Jenna wore for the hooker sketch, the heels Tracy wears when he plays Michelle Obama and double, no, triple spanks. I need a make-up artist! [one appears] No! The slutier one!
Jack: [in relation to Liz’s behaviour] I’m convinced that this sexual outburst was brought on by menopause.
Kenneth: [sees all the birds] Looks like I’ve got some naming to do! Pat. Balthazar. Donna. Lorne. Michael.
I wonder if Lorne Michaels knew Tina was going to indirectly write him into the show!