This season of 30 Rock continues to look promising as this episode, while not as good as last week's, was still very funny and a lot better than most of what this show put out last season. You know, I think I should probably provide a basic description of the premise in the opening paragraph of each review. Might as well start now. In this installment, Jack appears before congress to get the Kabletown merger approved, the TGS staff is being mean to Liz again so she promotes Twofer, and Jenna helps Kenneth try and get back into the NBC page program.
-This episode had many notable cameos and guest appearances. Rob Reiner as Congressman Rob Reiner was hilarious. I also enjoyed Reg E. Cathey as a soulful talk show host in the painfully (and hilariously) awkward talk show scene. Queen Latifah was good as a congressmen, although her "passionate speech" stuff was a prety obvious joke. She nailed her delivery on her first line "Why is NBC so racist?" which is especially funny during a night chockful of Outsourced promos. Speaking of Outcourced...
-"Outsourced is the new Friends!"
- 30 Rock was really in full NBC-bashing mode last night:
- Jack: "We're a top ten network!"
- Jack: "Law and Order, which is just about to start its 21st season and features...What?! Why would we do that?" And later, Tracy's "It was a tent pole! A tent pole!"
- Jack: “Diversity means new ideas and new markets. It is our best hope for new innovation.”
Liz: "Did you tell all that to Congresswoman Bookman?”
Jack: “No, I was too busy trying to remember the name of the black kid on Community."
Liz: "Don-ald Glover."
30 Rock appears to be back to some form of its glory days and I'm especially looking forward to next week's live episode.
8.4/10
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