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TV Recap: 30 Rock - Jackie Jormp JompAuthor: Cristin Curry
published: 2009-04-17 07:00:52
This week picks up right where last week left off. Liz is in sexual harassment training and is not allowed to be at work. She's supposed to go home after her "pervert seminars" but she can't handle being at home not working, she's addicted to the stress. Liz's sexual exploits are having an effect on the rest of the company as well. All employees are required to disclose any inter-office relationships they may have had or are having so Kenneth tells Jack about a TGS dancer he fantasizes about marrying. After he gets that off his chest, he soon realizes that Dotcom, Tracy's main entourage guy, is dating the same dancer he fantasized about.
Kenneth declares war on DotCom by refusing to get him extra mustard for his salad, a very hurtful gesture in Kenneth world. Tracy can't take the tension so he decides to fix the situation by firing the dancer himself. Jack tells Jenna that her Janice Joplin bio-pic is going to be canceled because audiences aren't taking to the lack of realism in the film. In order to help sell the movie Jenna needs to do some heavy PR so she and Jack head over to the Kid's Choice Awards to get her face out there and make herself relevant again. Turns out Jenna is dead to kids; literally. She is included in the memorial for the celebrities who died that year at the awards show. Jack decides to use this as a PR tactic and run with it. He sees this as a golden opportunity to "Tu-Pac" Jenna and use her dead image to sell in the movie. Let's face it; it's much easier to sell a movie starring a recently deceased celebrity than an alive C-list one. A special episode of TGS mourning Jenna airs and a photo of Jenna hung with her birth date and death date is featured in the background. Jenna freaks out when she realizes the world will know that she's actually 40 and not 32 so she crashes her own funeral and appears on stage singing her own memorial song. While Liz is at home, wandering the halls aimlessly she meets another resident of her building who notices her pain and offers her the secret to happiness: being a rich divorcee. Afternoon champagne, shopping at Bergdorf's, mani pedi's, botox, how much better can it get? After her days as a free woman Liz meets with her harassment counselor who tells her she can go back to work. He reminds her to stay stress free and not let the tedious, mundane tasks get to her day-in and day-out. A light bulb goes off in her head as she realizes that work is not all it's cracked up to be and decides that alcohol and shopping during the day is the way to live. She harasses her sexual harassment counselor in order to set herself free again –"drop your pants" – and then it's back to the ladies who lunch for six weeks! That is, until the day the truth comes out. Turns out you can't go on doing nothing in life forever or else your brain atrophies and you go nuts. To combat the crazy the divorcees fight each other tooth and nail for fun. All out, fists on faces rumbles. This is not the lunch club Liz was dreaming of, but a club that she's going to have to fight her way out of. With a face like Apollo Creed at the end of Rocky, Liz heads back to work more than happy to scold Tracy and Jenna with hugs. |