30 Rock: Flu Shot

30 Rock: Flu Shot
NBC
January 15, 2009
Sitcom
DVD
B-

Jon Pollack wrote this story where Liz initially refuses a flu shot when she finds out that there are only five available and thus the crew won't be able to receive any.  However, when, as Cerie puts it in text, "UR VAC8SH1 IS BAGON," Liz sells out and gets a shot, even dancing for Dr. Spaceman.  Meanwhile, in the weakest thread, Tracy and Jenna want to do something nice for the crew but have absolutely no idea how.  And Jack, having learned from his experience with C.C., decides to make time for Elisa, even if it means they have to take a feeble old man along on their dates, with Michael Bublé providing the "Mr. Templeton" song as background music.

Scott Bryce, who was Steve Barton on Who's the Boss?, is Michael Templeton here and would later be a character named Dave.  The Dave in this episode is played by Joseph D'Onofrio, who would later be a nameless Crew Guy.  Intoxicated Star Michel E. Bell had recently played an Audience Member.  Jimmy Palumbo, playing Matt Dowd here, would later be Enzo.  Staff writer Jack Burditt makes an uncredited appearance as Man in Donut Shop and in 2013 would twice play the Colonel.  Seventy-five-year-old George Bartenieff didn't work on any of my other shows, but he was Nitro in the campy movie Hercules in New York almost forty years earlier.  This time "30 Rock regulars" really only covers Lutz and Cerie, as much of the supporting cast is absent.