The 30 Rock Book by Roe Mike;

Author:Roe, Mike;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abrams, Inc.
Published: 2021-11-30T00:00:00+00:00

In episode 14, “The Funcooker,” Liz once again tries using her Princess Leia costume to get out of jury duty. But this time around, she fails.

This was also the episode where one of the Writers Who Never Talk, Sue, gets her first actual lines after years as an extra—and when she does speak, we discover she has an absurd Franco-Dutch accent.

The real Sue is from outside of Philadelphia. Sue Galloway joined John Lutz using part of her real name for her character: Sue LaRoche-Van der Hout. Lutz and Galloway had also been dating before appearing on the show, and ended up getting married. See, 30 Rock really does love a happy ending.

Also in this episode, Jenna finally finds her star vehicle. Well, a significantly discounted one, at least. While she was cast in a Janis Joplin biopic earlier this season, it’s one without Joplin’s life rights, or songs. She starts shooting the film, using pills from Dr. Spaceman to stay awake as she shoots the biopic at night and TGS by day.

But these pills are from the world’s quackiest doctor, and it turns out they might kill her if she doesn’t go to sleep. Spaceman tries knocking her out during a TGS taping, at which point Tracy drops trou and shows off his “funcooker”—which Kenneth had pitched as a name for a pocket microwave being marketed by GE, not remembering that he heard that term before from Tracy.

The short-lived run of Dr. Drew Baird as Liz’s boyfriend comes to an end in episode 15, “The Bubble,” as Liz is confronted by his complete idiocy and the fact that all his success comes from his immense handsomeness. Jack explains the phenomenon to Liz, showing a photo to her of himself when he was younger and even more incredibly handsome. He describes it as a bubble, changing the way that you experience life and protecting you from reality, and he encourages Liz to enjoy living that life with Drew.

Years before Hannibal Buress’s stand-up put Bill Cosby on the public hotseat, and even longer before he eventually faced charges and was convicted, this episode features a joke taking on Bill Cosby’s alleged sexual assaults. When Jack tries to get Tracy to come back on the show after quitting, he has one of his employees do a Bill Cosby impression, with Cosby meant to entice Tracy to come back. Tracy’s enraged response: “You’ve got a lot of nerve getting on the phone with me after what you did to my Aunt Paulette!” Buress was a writer for 30 Rock as well, and it was an issue Fey went after Cosby for all the way back on Weekend Update.

The episode features a cameo from Calvin Klein (the father of 30 Rock executive producer Marci Klein) offering Drew a job as an underwear model. And sharp viewers may catch Tracy dropping a couple of M*A*S*H references, calling Kenneth his “Radar O’Reilly” and telling him to rub his feet “until you hear a chopper coming”—just a few episodes before M*A*S*H star Alan Alda would show up on the program.

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