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How Lemon Spent Her Summer

Respawn - Tracy thwarts Lemon's plans for a normal summer. Kenneth unwittingly becomes Jack's Avery substitute. Jenna lands a new gig that hurts her relationship with Paul.

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Lizbianism

Everything Sunny All the Time Always - Lemon adopts a new philosophy to remedy her personal life -- with disastrous results. Avery ventures into Northern Korea -- with disastrous results. Tracy thinks it's disastrous that Kenneth and his entourage have become friends in his absence.

100% Chance of Pain

100 - Cancellation looms for TGS as its 100th episode nears, and both Jack and Lemon doubt the paths they've chosen. Tracy tries to reclaim his bad boy reputation. Jenna considers motherhood.

Chasing Tracy

I Heart Connecticut - Lemon and Kenneth track down Tracy. Jack and Jenna join forces on the worst movie ever. Pete finds something he's good at.

TWINK(ie)S

Plan B - A forced hiatus for TGS makes Lemon explore other options and Jack face his nemesis Devin Banks once again.

Real Housewives of 30 Rock

Queen of Jordan - In Tracy's absence, the TGS gang takes a star turn on Angie's reality show Queen of Jordan. Lemon tries in vain to get Tracy back from "Africa." Jack repeats himself on about a million levels. Frank has a sordid sexual past with his eighth grade teacher. And Jenna has a drinking problem.

The Women Who Hate Women or The Girl with the Lemon Tattoo

TGS Hates Women - Lemon's attempt to bring another female writer to TGS goes predictably awry. Jack finds unexpectedly fierce competition to succeed Kabletown's current CEO.

One-Hit Blunders

It's Never Too Late for Now - Newly single Lemon tries her hand at flirting... with spinsterhood. Jack stumbles over negotiations both personal and professional. Frank and Pete form a band.

Babies on Board

Double-Edged Sword - Jack and Avery finally have their baby... in Canada. Lemon and Carol's similarities undo their relationship. And Tracy discovers the downside of EGOT-ing.

Pregnancy Scare

Que Sorpresa! - No one thinks they're pregnant in this episode, but it's more than a little scary to see the lengths Lemon will go to convince folks she is.

All's Well That Ends Mel

Operation Righteous Cowboy Lightning - Jack finds a foolproof ratings winner -- pre-taped disaster telethons. The writers compete for Lutz's favor. Lemon and Tracy make their reality TV debut.

Mixed Marital Arts

Mrs. Donaghy - Lemon and Jack accidentally get married and battle it out over the terms of the divorce. Tracy and Angie address the family's welfare after he's gone... with a reality show. And Kenneth suffers the scars of an unfortunate domestic arrangement between Jenna and Danny.

Murphy's Law

Christmas Attack Zone - Jack brings new meaning to the term "blended family." Tracy reconciles his comic and dramatic sides. Jenna and 'Gina reunite in predictably dramatic fashion.

"I Ate My Father-Pig!"

Chain Reaction of Mental Anguish - Lemon's mundane relationship worries have profound psychological ripples as Kenneth recalls another traumatic gem from his childhood, Jenna undermines her relationship with 'Gina, and Jack discourages, then blesses, Tracy's decision to throw money into the unholy conflagration of his "son" Donald's business ideas.

Lemon and Jack Get Schooled

College - When everyone looks back to college, Lemon gets an 'F' in Fun 101, the writers discover Jack's voice in an online dictionary and use it to prank Pete, and a quarterly report forces Jack to realize that his glory days are behind him.

Skinny Jeans & Shattered Dreams

Brooklyn Without Limits - Lemon finds the perfect jeans. Jack finds the imperfect congressional candidate. Tracy wins Jenna's support for his awards season campaign.

Fun with Dick & DIHC

Gentleman's Intermission - Jack searches for a new mentee at Avery's request. Lemon stresses when her father visits and announces he wants a break from her mother. Tracy and Jenna obsess over their obituaries.

Sex Bomb

Reaganing - Jack has a perfect problem-solving day, despite Lemon's weird sexual hang-ups and Tracy's general failure at everything -- in this case, a commercial shoot. Also, Jenna and Kenneth enlist Kelsey Grammer in an ice cream caper.

40 Candles

40 Candles - The show goes live, everyone forgets Lemon's birthday, Tracy and Jenna get all diva up in here, and Jack gives up booze for about 32 seconds. In other words, total chaos.

Race to the Finish

Let's Stay Together - A congresswoman threatens to thwart the Kabletown merger if Jack doesn't diversify NBC, which inadvertently unearths an inconvenient current of racial tension at TGS.

Absolutely Cab-ulous

When It Rains, It Pours - Tracy tries his darndest to get to the hospital -- and wins cash prizes along the way! -- when Angie goes into labor. Aging father Jack records a series of DIY Life instructional tapes for his child. And Lemon finds herself in a rumored office romance.

Everything's Coming Up Kenneth

The Fabian Strategy - Lemon's relationship with Carol progresses. Avery moves in and beats Jack at his own game. Jenna proves really good at producing, then quits. And Tracy runs into Kenneth at his new job and steals his tote bag.

Aisle Be Damned

I Do Do - Lemon discovers fate is kinder than previously thought -- well, maybe not to Wesley. Jack finally makes a decision about his love triangle, and it's immediately reversed for him. Kenneth gets canned and tanked, and he's still full of sunshine. Jenna and 'Gina discover they really can have it all.

Prenuptial Disagreements

Emmanuelle Goes to Dinosaur Land - Lemon revisits all her ex-boyfriends in the hope one of them won't suck as much as she remember. No dice. Jack gets in deeper with Nancy while Avery's away. And Tracy resumes his EGOTry.

Mama Drama

The Moms - The TGS staffers' moms show up and wreak havoc. Colleen narcs on Jack's double-dipping to Avery. Mrs. Lemon challenges her daughter's notions of love and marriage. Verna, one breast implant richer, is up to her old tricks. Naturally, Tracy isn't even sure of his real mother's name, so he hires a nice lady to play her. And don't even get me started on Mrs. Lutz.

My Lover/Myself

Argus - Jack believes Don Geiss's soul has nested inside an ailing peacock. Jenna finally finds her soul mate -- herself(ish). And Lemon appears to be the sole person at TGS who's not getting married on May 20.

Late-Night Wars

Khonani - Jack arbitrates a heated contract negotiation between two talk show hosts... um, I mean janitors. Tracy braves an electric fence to be a better husband. And Lemon nearly throws a party.

Action Pact

Lee Marvin vs. Derek Jeter - Jack semi-successfully dates two women while Lemon doggedly prowls singles events and comes up empty-handed. Toofer takes offense at the possibility he may have benefited from affirmative action and quits TGS, only to return and be even more offended at the new nicknames his colleagues suggest for him.

Dis Engagement

Floyd - Lemon's old love Floyd comes a-callin' -- with his new fiancée. Danny's rising profile launches a prank war between Jack and the writers. And Pete's attempt to rein in Jenna and Tracy's jealousy of Danny results in some very erotic dreams about our beloved Kenneth.

Lie of the Tiger

Don Geiss, America and Hope - Lemon finally wraps up her no-mance with Future Husband Wesley. Jack makes a name for himself at Kabletown with a pornovation. And Tracy fights the shame and stigma of being the anti-Tiger Woods.

Backing into the Future

Future Husband - A lost wallet reduces Kenneth to donkey braying. A missed connection with her would-be future husband reduces Lemon to an accent identity crisis. A corporate takeover reduces Jack to job insecurity. And a Tony quest reduces Tracy to phone book recitation, with theatrical coaching from Jenna.

Ex, Lies and Duct Tape

Anna Howard Shaw Day - Lemon's scheme to stand up Valentine's Day falls apart when she needs a special someone to escort her home from the oral surgery she scheduled. Jack has a fling with a CNBC anchor. Jenna mourns the loss of her stalker to sanity. And Tracy and Angie get down and dirty in a heart-shaped hot tub full of chili -- mercifully off screen.

So's Your Mom

Verna - Jenna's mooching mother comes to New York to mooch. It's the mooching capital of the world, you know.

January Jones

Winter Madness - A TGS road trip goes horribly wrong for Lemon and the gang but spells divorce-y delight for Jack's paramour Nancy Donovan.

Age Before Beauty

Black Light Attack! - Jack puts the kibosh on Lemon's brief, yet torrid, office romance with Danny. Jenna comes face-to-Botoxed-face with her age when she auditions for a role as a mother in Gossip Girl. And Tracy gets paternal.

Franco-phile

Klaus and Greta - Jack, Lemon, Tracy and Jenna face the consequences of their raucous New Year's Eve celebrations. It's a big, gay, adulterous, booty-houndin' sham of a time!

Jingle Bell 30 Rock

Secret Santa - The entire staff struggles with Secret Santa. Jack struggles with temptation in the form of a red-headed high school flame (Julianne Moore). And Jenna struggles with the thought of anyone else holding a steady tune.

EGOT Game

Dealbreakers Talk Show #0001 - Lemon mangles her one shot at fame and fortune by turning into Jenna. Tracy aspires to have a baby and win all four major entertainment awards, though not necessarily in that order.

Taking the Piss

Sun Tea - TGS gets green, one mini-fridge and jar of Frank's urine at a time. Lemon schemes to run out her upstairs neighbor so she can expand into his apartment. And Tracy and Jack consider, then reject vasectomies.

99 Problems, But a Book Ain't One

The Problem Solvers - Lemon worries about doing business with Jack on a new Dealbreakers show. The new cast member renders Kenneth temporarily useless. Tracy and Jenna moonlight, albeit disastrously, as fixers.

Don't Try Out Loud

Audition Day - As audition day for the new cast member approaches, Lemon is beset with challenges. Jenna is beset with even more paranoiac instincts than usual and enlists Tracy to pile yet more problems on Lemon. Jack, meanwhile, is beset with bed bugs, forcing him to reconnect with the Average Joe within himself. Yes, it exists. At least until next episode.

Smack Talk for Dummies

Stone Mountain - Jack forces Lemon to journey to Kenneth's hometown with him in search of the simple folk and their folksy humor. Disaster and a dummy brawl ensue. Tracy thinks he's marked for death. The writers and Jenna enter a symbiotic relationship.

Low Blows

Into the Crevasse - Lemon's Dealbreakers book gets her in trouble. While Tracy enacts his unique brand of revenge on her, Jenna is still acting up about the new cast member. Naturally, all of this is resolved through porn. Jack scrambles to save GE but ultimately forfeits his power to new government official Devon.

Picket! Picket Good!

Season 4 - Kenneth simultaneously loses his overtime and learns that Jack gets bonus checks with an unimaginable amount of zeroes. Lemon is tasked with finding a new, Middle-America-friendly cast member without Jenna finding out. Tracy tries to remember what it was like not to be an eccentric, ridiculously rich Black megastar. All of this results in a misbegotten picket, plus Jenna recording a country-Western crossover song.

Community Organ-izers

Kidney Now - Lemon finds a fallback career -- watch out, Sue Johanson! Tracy finds his sensitive artist side. Jack finds a whole bunch of celebrities who owe him favors and uses them to coordinate the lamest charity concert this side of Bob Geldof.

Father, Faker

Mamma Mia - Jack finds a father. Tracy finds a son. Lemon finds her way into Jenna's spotlight.

Monkeyshines

The Natural Order - Lemon and Tracy learn a lesson about equality. Jenna learns motherhood is best suited to actual human child-rearing. Jack learns he's a bastard.

Tangiers the Gay Lion

The Ones - As Tracy, Jenna and Jack work hard to please, find or marry the ones they love, Liz is perfectly happy with night cheese and a Slanket.

Jackie Jormp-Jomp

Jackie Jormp-Jomp - Lemon flirts with a life of leisure during her sexual harassment-induced sabbatical. Jenna stumbles upon the best way of all to get attention: Premature death! Kenneth finds himself in a scuffle with Dot-Com, which results in Tracy bringing trannies to the TGS-iverse.

The Pelican Grief

Cutbacks - Lemon tries to barter her body to avoid the cutbacks plaguing the company. Tracy and Jenna briefly, erroneously, think Kenneth is a serial killer. There is much talk of pelicans.

But Where Was Dr. Spaceman?

Apollo, Apollo - Dennis creates a momentary rift between Lemon and Jenna. Jack longs for happier days. Tracy goes to the moon and back... ish.

Hey, Good Lookin', Don't Poison Me with Your Cookin'

The Bubble - Lemon, vis-à-vis Drew, discovers the perks and perils of beauty. When Tracy up and quits, Jack resorts to trickery to renew his contract. Jenna quite nearly cuts her hair.

I'd Rather Have A Dutch Oven

The Funcooker - Liz gets pushed too far and turns into a pyromaniac. At least jail has sandwiches.

Munchkins & Masochists

Goodbye, My Friend - Babies and big apes and wheelchairs, oh my! Liz lavishes her attention on a knocked-up donut slinger, with predictably selfish intentions. Jack lavishes his attention on a fatherless Frank, with predictably zany non-results. Birthday girl Jenna expects everyone to lavish their attention on her … but it's Jenna, so of course everyone bends over backward to accommodate Tracy instead.

Correcting the Market

Larry King - Tracy uses his appearance on Larry King Live as an opportunity to crumble the stock market, throw the city of New York into a panic and possibly end Jack and Elisa’s relationship. Oh, and Lemon loses her cell phone.

God Vs. McDonald's

St. Valentine's Day - In the Valentine's Day episode, Lemon has her first real date with Dr. Baird, but receives a final request. A blind woman sees past Kenneth. Jack and Elisa test the limits of faith and supersize their McFlurries. It's not a pun.

You've Got Male!

Generalissimo - Swarthy men invade Jack and Lemon's love lives. Jack discovers that an evil soap opera star on Telemundo -- his doppelganger -- is ruining Jack's chance at acceptance from Elisa's grandmother. But the same Latin lothario gives Lemon evil ideas of her own on how to seduce her completely handsome new neighbor.

Losing Your L.U.N.C.H.

Retreat to Move Forward - The Janis Joplin Wikipedia page incubates a love match between Frank and Jenna. Meanwhile, Jack and Lemon inch closer to mutual respect at a work retreat for acronym fetishists. Tracy may have diabetes (it’s funnier than it sounds).

Sickos

Flu Shot - We need a health care system that works for all of the people, not just Jack, Lemon, Tracy, Jenna and Dr. Leo Spaceman. It's these privileged five who receive a flu shot, while the rest of the crew is made to suffer under flu-like symptoms.

Life Makes You Sweet Food

Post-Nup - It would seem that Jack and Lemon are on opposite paths of love. Jack has a cancer scare and runs into the arms of Salma Hayek. Lemon, on the other hand, guilt dates a midget -- and a highly successful one at that. Love. How's that Janis Joplin song go? "Take a little chunk of my lung, sweet baby."

The Scrump That Screwed Christmas

Christmas Special - Jack gets along with his mother about as well as sweatpants with a gun. Fitting, then, that when he accidently hits her with a car, he is forced to look after her during Christmas. The spirit of Saint Nick gets further tested when Lemon believes she’s been scammed and "scrumped" by a charity program.

Revenge of the Wrath of the Nerd

Reunion - Don Geiss recovers from his coma and reclaims his position as CEO of GE. Jack celebrates this awesome blow to his professional career the only way he knows how, by getting stuck with Liz at her high school reunion. She's still an unpopular nerd but not for the reasons you think.

Vivid Entertainment

Gavin Volure - Is an agoraphobe still an agoraphobe when he’s wanted on taxes? Steve Martin has the answer but doesn’t spill it until he’s fallen for Lemon and wrecked Jack and Kenneth’s joint stock investment. Thank God for Tracy’s sex doll to make sense of all this.

Remember the Early '90s?

The One With the Cast of Night Court - 30 Rock resurrects one-half the cast of Night Court and one-sixth the cast of Friends for a one hundred percent NBC sitcom orgy. This one goes out to you, Brandon Tartikoff.

The Oprah Effect

Believe in the Stars - 30 Rock puts a post-mortem of sorts on the black men vs. white women debate by reaching out to truly the only healer capable enough to bridge such a divide: O.J. Ha! Just kidding. Oprah. They used Oprah.

Not So Fast, Shark

Do-Over - 30 Rock is brand new with an exciting premiere that tempts television fate by stoking the flames of romance between Lemon and Jack. Will they or won't they? Here's a hint: they might but they won't. Also, exciting special guest star Sarah Palin! Or is that Tina Fey? Wait, which one kills things and says maverick?

No Period? Exclamation Point!

Cooter - With all these ex-boyfriends entering back into the picture this was bound to happen, was it not? Lemon is faced with a life-altering event. Meanwhile Jack goes to Washington and Kenneth to Beijing, hopefully.

Your Sandwich, My Heart

Sandwich Day - The Floyd is back and I don't mean Roger Waters. Lemon's ex-issues continue this episode causing her to nearly lose her sanity and her lunch (not like that). Kenneth falls hard on the sword again and Jenna drinks Brian Dennehy under the table.

The Uncanny Valley

Succession - 30 Rock uses porn videogames to reference Amadeus, a movie over 23 years old. Guess what? Still funny. But Jack ain't laughing. He just lost his job to Banks, the mother of all beards.

Subway Hero

Subway Hero - Liz's ex Dennis is suddenly a hero. So he asks for her hand in marriage the way that Joe Pesci asks back a bad plate of fish. And Tracy delivers a Presidential speech on race that is full of hope … if you're Karl Rove.

MILF Island

MILF Island - It's the Decline of Western Civilization Part IV: The Lemon Years. We bear witness to the birth of a star on MILF Island and at the same time Lemon spirals downwards in lies and deceit.

Coffee & TV

Coffee & TV - "Love story" in German is "eine Liebegeschichte," possibly the two most unromantic words I've ever heard or tried to say. It's no wonder then that an episode packed with Germans would see love fade away, despite an awesome Gladys-Knight-inspired musical number.

Ludachristmas

Ludachristmas - The gang tries to party like rap stars but it gets shut down by Kenneth and his Reverend's gift of wood. Meanwhile, Lemon explores her family ties. Sha-na-na-na!

Secrets And Lies

Secrets And Lies - Lemon soothes egos, ignores a feud, endangers a love match, and forgets her birthday without ever using her American Express.

Cougars

Cougars - A very American episode, featuring baseball, gay exploration, mother issues, and a denunciation of the Iraq War...wait a minute that's un-American! The baseball threw us.

Somebody To Love

Somebody To Love - Some episodes are like love, which is like a battlefield, filled with jokes and one-liners and short-form explosives. But still other times episodes can be...how can I put this…not like battlefields? And while the jokes aren't literally blanketed across the field of endeavor, there may still be a big bang waiting to explode at the end, in the form of a gag about a dog and a shotgun.

Greenzo

Greenzo - Sexy Rock is more like it: Lemon makes out with Grizz, Pete makes out with his wife, tiger orgasms, drunken Dutch girls, foxy boxing, and Al Gore!

Rosemary's Baby

Rosemary's Baby - The episode looks at the parents we choose in -- horrors! -- the workplace. Also, there is a page-off.

The Collection

The Collection - Jack struggles with the demands of leadership -- and his secret cookie jar collection -- while Liz struggles with the demands of Tracy's marriage.

Jack Gets In The Game

Jack Gets In The Game - Jack grapples with Devin -- not like that -- for a favored spot with Sheinhart Wig Company CEO Geiss.

SeinfeldVision

SeinfeldVision - Liz comes back from vacation to Jack's latest bad idea, Jenna's latest professional setback, and Tracy's latest…life situation.

"Hanging Out With Tina"

The Scott Adsit Interview - That's what Scott Adsit says is his favourite thing about playing producer Pete on 30 Rock. Read on to find out more about his sartorial sense, his Second City notoriety, and what he had to do with Friends and Silly Putty.