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30 Rock: Somebody to Love

The plots are simple:

Jack meets C.C. (Edie Falco) at a political event, and they go back to his place and do things on his ottoman. Turns out, she's actually Celeste Cunningham, a Congresswoman (D-VT). She is equally horrified when she learns he's that Jack Donaghy (who works for NBC, a subsidiary of the Sheinhardt Wig Company, the corrupt business she's trying to bring down). But they can't keep away from each other, and decide to have a top secret affair.

Liz suspects her new neighbor, Raheem, is a terrorist. He won't shake her hand; he has maps pinned up all over his apartment; he's good with electronics and he receives lots of suspicious packages. Plus, she catches him filming top secret physical training in the park. She turns him in... and then learns he's in training for "The Amazing Race." When the feds finally let him go a week later, he's angry, with a desire for spectacular revenge.

Kenneth loses a pair of Jack's $2,500 tuxedo pants, then agrees to a series of horrifying challenges to raise the money for a new pair. He succeeds, buys the replacement, and turns them over to Jonathan, who puts them in Jack's top secret closet -- filled with dozens of pants.

Now, let's get to the good part: Practically every single moment. The best:

* Tracy practicing his Rerun Dance while Jack and Liz wait to die from Northrax.

* Jack asking to look like Ronald Reagan. The barber's response: "Right, like that's a stretch."

Jack: Your hair is your head suit.

Liz: Have fun! Don't get peer pressured into invading Iran.

Kenneth: Let me just take this plastic off... 'cause I saw on "Martha Stewart" how we're all doing everything wrong.

Kenneth: Uncle Butch is right. I'm just a stupid country bumpkin with great skin and soft hands.

Liz: Raheem... That's my mother's name.

Liz: Pete, you know me. I never make assumptions about race. Remember, I asked that black guy if he had seen, "Sideways"?

Jack (To Tom Delay, whose hair he covets): This rich chestnut color is natural?

C.C.: Whiskey, straight up.
Jack: I'll have a white rum, with diet ginger ale and a splash of lime.
C.C.: Wow, I never would have pegged you for a University of Tennessee sorority girl.

Bartender: Sir, here's your Nancy Drew.
Jack: For men it's called a Hardy Boy.

Kenneth: Yes, Obvious Twins.

* Jack singing and playing the piano on, "What the World Needs Now."

* C.C. waking up in bed, still wearing her pearl necklace.

Jack: And thank you for letting me try that thing I tried. I'm sorry... I dropped you.
(Hmm, Jack -- was it the Helio Castroneves last second of the dance routine kiss / drop? Because that's just wrong.)

* The Orange Children, victims of the Sheinhardt Wig Company dumping wig dye into rivers.

The scroll on MSNBC: Anne Heche leaves husband for pony.

C.C.: I'm helping Hillary retool her Universal Health Care platform.
Jack: I want to kiss you on the mouth to stop you from saying such ridiculous things.

Jack: I'm up for Chairman, and I don't want to risk that. They give you a helicopter, you know.
C.C.: How about me? How can I look those little Orange Children in the eye?
Jack: They have no other documented health problems.
C.C.: They're orange.

C.C.'s Lifetime Movie Title: "A Dog Took My Face and Gave Me a Better Face To Change the World."

Jack: You know, I thought you made love like an ugly girl. So... present. So grateful.

Jack: We're just on opposite sides of a feud.
Tracy: Oh, I get it. Romeo and Juliet. Capulets and Romulans. Mm, hmm. I been there! I'm black, she's white. I'm black, she's light-skinned black. I'm black, she's 17.

Kenneth: No, sir. We Parcells are neither wealthy nor circumcised, but we are proud.

* After eating really old ketchup for money, Kenneth absent-mindedly slurps the last bit off his finger.

* Raheem moving in for a hug with Pete. Pete raising Raheem's hand for a more acceptable hand slap.

* Jack watching C.C.'s TV movie, with such great concern.
Jack: Get the gun away from the dog! What's wrong with you people?

Lutz: Ape attack! Ape attack!

* Frank altering his Sheinhardt T-shirt to say, "Pig Company" -- but still wearing it anyway.

* The lipstick kisses all over Kenneth's face and collar, clearly related to the little old lady who thinks he's her dead husband challenge.

Jonathan (regarding the pants Kenneth bought Jack): Oh, you must love him as much as I do!

* Tracy thinking he's some sort of Cyrano to Jack and C.C. -- and hiding in plain sight behind the garbage can, offering suggestions.

Jack: What you said to that dog about soul mates? I think I might be that dog!

Raheem: They put the electrodes on my testicals, Liz.
Liz: Who did? Oh! You remembered my name.

What the Title Means:

"Somebody to Love" is C.C.'s ring tone.

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Posted by Chad on November 16, 2007 10:56 AM
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