30 Rock- Season 5 Episode 5- “Reaganing”
This week’s 30 Rock was just chock full of characters with problems: Kenneth’s family was having money troubles, Tracy was being Tracy, and Liz was going to break up with Carol because her junk closed up last time she was with him. Thank God Jack was Reaganing, going 24 straight hours without failing to solve a problem.
This week’s episode kind of kept everyone separate from one another, with Jack and Liz stuck in a limousine for most of the episode getting to the bottom of Liz’s sexual problems. Turns out, when she was 9, due to an unfortunate set of circumstances, she was caught writhing with her underpants down under a Tom Jones poster. Her mom took all her posters away after that, forever locking in Liz’s mind that sex makes the people go away. Jack, was, understandably befuddled by this problem, and it ultimately stopped him from Reaganing. By the end of the episode, though, he had talked Liz out of breaking up with Carol by figuring out that Tom Jones is the trigger.
Tracy, meanwhile, was filming a commercial for the Boys and Girls Club of America, because he can’t turn down community service or that judge will make him join the coast guard. However, Tracy, because he’s Tracy, refuses to say the line, befuddling the director. Thankfully, Jack showed up and figured out that he could stuff Tracy’s mouth full of Jelly Beans and does the line himself.
Back at 30 Rock, Jenna figured out that she and Kenneth could con Carvel, which had given her a free Ice Cream for life card for appearing on Carvel’s float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade. Kenneth didn’t know what he was doing at first, but, after being convinced by Jenna that it wasn’t hurting anyone and his family could use the money, went along with it. Once Jenna got caught, Kenneth, who must have been drinking hot beverages because he had some of the devil in him this week, decided to pull a long con on Carvel, brining in Kelsey Grammar, who had also been on the float. After seeing a fired Carvel employee due to their con, though, Kenneth’s conscience reappears, and he pulls out of the Best Friends Gang.
Overall, it was a strong week for 30 Rock, with Jack in particular delivering funny line after funny line. Speaking of funny lines, here were my 10 favorites:
“I’ll drop you off at the airport, then I’ll swing by MSNBC. I have to talk to Rachel Maddow. Only one of us can have this haircut.”- Jack
“I don’t watch the Macy’s parade. If I want to see a 50 foot spiderman, I’ll just go into my rec room, thank you.”- Tracy
“You and I have never had an adult conversation about boning.”- Jack
“That does happen to men, I’ve faced it myself with Greta Van Sustern before her head transplant.”- Jack, on male performance issues.
“You have more sexual hangups than an adult chatline run by Gilbert Gottfried”- Jack, from the computer program they’re developing to replace Liz
“I’m sorry, I have an erection. I think it’s the sound of skateboard.”- Tracy
“Which everyone thought was a Dorothy Hamill, but was actually a Pete Rose.”- Liz, on her new haircut at age 9.
“With enough money, they could buy those magic beans from that hermit. We’d be rich! Hang on, why isn’t the hermit rich? Wait, he is, he has a lot of friends.”- Kenneth Ellen Parcell’s magical thought process.
“I mean, Frajer? Come on. I should throw some tossed salad and scrambled eggs at you.”- Frajer himself, Kelsey Grammar.
“Hey, you two want some party? $20 for a party, $60 to bite me during it, I’ll do stuff with a dog, but I get to pick the dog.”- The hooker who thought Jack and Liz were pretty uptight for hanging out under a bridge.
-Nate (LevyOnTV)
