30 Rock: The FuncookerNBC
March 12, 2009
Sitcom
DVD
B
This, the first of four 30 Rock scripts by Tom Ceraulo, here co-writing with Donald Glover, is uneven but sometimes very funny. Liz gets stuck doing jury duty, when her Princess Leia scheme doesn't work as well as it did in Chicago. So of course chaos breaks out with no one in charge. (Pete is spending Spring Break with his kids.) Jack could help run TGS, but instead he puts the staff to work coming up with names for his new mini-microwave, hence the title of this episode. Meanwhile Dr. Spaceman prescribes extreme uppers for Jenna, and Tracy's wealth allows him to circumvent the FCC.
Nancy O'Dell appears as herself for the second time. Andrew Polk had previously played Executive #6 and here is Steven Spielberger [sic], director of the Janis-Joplin-ish biopic that Jenna is starring in and which has been referred to in a couple earlier episodes. Not only does Sue (Sue Galloway) finally get her first line after two and a half years, but we find out that she's Franco-Dutch. This is the first of six 30 Rock episodes directed by Ken Whittingham.
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