This week's episode of 30 Rock had me laughing out loud much more than last weeks. Dare I say it, I might actually be enamored by the cuteness of the show. I once again find the jingly music, the character names, and the subject material absolutely whimsical.
This week's episode poked fun at popular forms of internet networking, as well as religion; let's call this episode "Win" in my book.
One major thing I noticed- does Liz have a crush on Jack? Wow! How depressingly sweet and futile! If what I saw proves correct, then 30 Rock actually has substance! A heart even!
So what happened? Jack reconnects with an old high school crush Nancy through a networking website called YouFace (read: Facebook). His and Liz's olbliviousness to textual cues hinted at by the site (and picked up by Liz's assistant) highlight the generational differences in technology use. Nancy and her sons visit NYC, Jack and Nancy go on a date, and ... love interest? Perhaps. The two share a "high-school style" no-tongue kiss, like "old times".
Liz and Jack decide to exchange gifts this year, and Liz comes to find out that Jack is an expert gift-giver and wants to one-up him. Shenanigans ensue, and they put a monetary limit on their gifts - $0. More shenanigans, ending up with Jack getting a framed ticket from The Crucible, the "gender-blind" play Liz performed in in high school, framed with wood from the stage. And Liz calls a bomb threat in to the train station, allowing Jack to spend more time with Nancy.
The writers try to escape the wrath of the studio Christmas gift exchange by saying it is against their religion - Verducchianism (yes, found the spelling on TWOP). They trick Kenneth into believing it is a legitimate religion, and he is only brought to the truth by Tracy, who also accidentally talks him out of believing in any God. He feels that if God truly did exist, the writers would receive retribution for their actions; at the end of the episode they are taken into custody for a "bomb threat" at the train station.
As it turns out, Canadian new-guy Danny might not be able to detect sarcasm (although he is getting better!) but he sure has some pipes! And he was set to sing with Jenna on the holiday show, but being the spotlight hog that she is, she is angry. She eventually feeds him a sob story about how "she's never had a good Christmas" and that singing was her only happiness (the truth of which may be debatable, from a newbie's standpoint at least), so Danny ends up botching his part for her benefit. All is well at 30 Rock.
I hope I find the next episode even more enjoyable!
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First off, congrats on spelling Verducchianism, I could barley pronounce it and my spell check does not like it. I don't know if I agree completely on loving this episode, I just have an issues with Christmas episodes. Non the less nice little sum up that reminded me of parts I forgot about.
ReplyDeleteI thought Lemon had a crush on Jack as well, there is definitely something brewing underneath and it appeared she was jealous of Nancy everytime Jack brought her up. Great post!
ReplyDeleteI am sure Lemon has the hots for Jack, but maybe more in a seatofpower/daddy sort of way. I think my favorite part of this episode was the whole exchanging gifts thing that most people seemed to be trying to avoid, even to the extent of creating a new religion and celebrating merlinpene - which might have been a reference to Merlin's penis....I dunno but I was laughing excessively.
ReplyDeleteYeah, kudos for the spelling (and the TWoP reference)! The thought of Lemon and Jack in *that* way just grosses me out, though--I'm with Chris on the seat of power version, although I don't think Lemon aspires to suit-dom. I'll have to start paying more attention to that dynamic, then.
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