So, tonight the best new comedy of the season finds itself ending its season outside of the usually comfy spot of May Sweeps. Usually, this would be a sign for concern, but against the odds NBC renewed the show for a second season. Instead, 30 Rock is ending early since it had to return earlier due to Andy Barker’s struggles, and so it can make way for Supersized editions of The Office, My Name is Earl and Scrubs throughout May. But, I figure that tonight’s finale is actually continuing quite a few storylines, so here’s a little bit of catchup for those interested.
Liz Lemon (Tina Fey)
Her Life Thus Far: Started show as showrunner for The Girlie Show, a sketch comedy show on NBC, had to hire an unstable comedy actor due to new management, was forced to change the name of her show, was set up with a woman and considered her sexuality, got back together with her ex-boyfriend who sells pagers, found out that her ex-boyfriend was a pervert when he was on “To Catch a Predator,” almost made out with a relative, got attacked by her boss’ ex-wife for stealing him away from her, struggled to keep her writing staff in check, shot someone at the Source Awards, mistakingly received flowers meant for someone else’s girlfriend, was charmed by said flower-giver, attempted to break up his relationship by getting his girlfriend fired, failed, but she left anyways, and then she started dating Floyd, who was good to her, but he ended up breaking up with her to go to Sunny Cleveland to his perfect life while she remains toiling in New York trying to figure out a way to make Jack see that his fiancé is a manipulative gold-digging whore. [Video: Liz in Retrospect (Plus a Preview of the Finale)]
Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin)
His Life Thus Far: Took over Television and Microwave Oven Programming for General Electric, which put him in direct control of The Girlie Show, which he changed the name of, and whose creator he felt needed serious help, who he then forced to write a product integration skit which he ended up acting in despite a hilarious 5-day shoot for an informational video, which he followed with a relationship with Condeleeza Rice, followed by a battle with his ex-wife (Played delightfully by Isabella Rossellini, who should totally be a regular next season), and then portrayed his powers of negotiation and comedy and weird doctors, and then proved his inability to think about all of this when he set off fireworks in the middle of New York City, which was an absolute failure and resulted in GE trying to take away his control over the Microwave Oven division, which put him down in the dumps, which resulted in him buying pretty art pieces from a creepy fake-British woman with hollow bones (like a bird, we get it Phoebe) who Jack proposes to out of desperation, flies to Paris with her, falls asleep during sex, and then is convinced by the fiancé that Liz is just jealous when she attempts to convince him out of his crazy plan. [Video: Jack’s Words of Wisdom (YouTube)]
Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan)
His Life Thus Far: Comedy film star who went insane and ran down a freeway screaming that he was a Jedi, was invited to The Girlie Show in order to bring it some strength in non-female demographics, danced instead of actually doing anything in his first performance, failed at reading cue cards or reading scripts, they thought he was illiterate, has an entourage of large African-American men who sit on him when he’s over-stimulated, plays Halo and always wins since his entourage lets him, takes mind-altering medications, has a pet snake who needs its tummy rubbed so it will poo, is always looking for someone to harmonize with, has intimacy issues with his wife especially when his bosses stop by to visit, always wants to take things behind middle schools and impregnating them, had a rap singer basically trying to kill him at the Source Awards, discovered that he is a distant relative of Thomas Jefferson, decided to develop a film based on Jefferson’s life with him playing three parts (Like Norbit? No, it’s a drama, clearly), had it refused by the head of GE instead looking for a sequel to a talking dog film, and then decided to finance the film himself, but then discovered that the Black Crusaders were after him for both “Jefferson” and for his cover album of Michael MacDonald songs, so he went on the run trying to stay alive. [Video: Tracy explains the Black Crusaders (Sound is off, but it’s fantastic)]
Jenna Maloney (Jane Krasinski)
Her Life Thus Far: Started as the star of the Girlie Show, and Liz’s best friend, then Tracy came along and took her spot as the star, and then she became more or less a bit of a joke, likes to use her sexuality to get her way by sleeping with a random extra who she thought was a bigwig, enjoyed a #1 hit in Israel (4th in Belgium) with “Muffin Top f. Ghostface Killah,” brought on a hate campaign due to a Maxim spread which labeled her as a truth-hater, thinks that Tucker Carlson is hot, confused Barack Obama and Osama Bin Laden, most recently disappeared from the show for multiple episodes, no one misses her, and now has no recurring storyline that you really need to be aware of, thus making her existence for the second season entirely unimportant, which is why I hope she takes a bullet for someone this evening, or perhaps is poisoned. [Video: Jenna discusses politics on Hardball]
Kenneth the NBC Page (Jack McBrayer)
His Life Thus Far: As an NBC page Kenneth serves as the gopher for all of the office, makes important phone calls, cleans Brian Williams’ office after his daily rampage regarding Katie Couric, gets people’s lunch for them, is a brilliant poker player due to his indiscernible intelligence level, develops a new game show for NBC called Gold Case which gets him a clock radio, as well as all sorts of perks related to the show’s production, fights as an angel on the side of staying faithful in one’s marriage, talks to his skeleton of a mother, as far as we can tell based on a single incident, is a terrible entourage member thanks to his honesty streak and his Halo skills, is nonetheless a great harmonier, and in general provides the show’s most laughs while never really getting a storyline for himself, so all you really need to know for the finale is that he’s funny, and a little slow, but awesome, and is currently out looking for the missing Tracy Jordan. [Video: Kenneth and “Moonvest” on Gold Case]
Everyone Else
Their Life Thus Far: Topher and Frank are the two head writers, and in general they don’t seem to do much of anything except offer up occasional interactions for other characters, like when Frank witnessed Jenna “pooting,” Pete is the Producer who is having marital problems, who wears a toupee because Jack makes him believe it brings power, and who we believe runs the show when Liz is off adventuring, Cerie is the hot secretary who just stands around being hot, Phoebe is the aforementioned fiancé who is clearly just out to get his money, and that’s about it.
The Season Finale of 30 Rock airs tonight on NBC at 9pm EST. Catch up on some episodes online, or just waltz in for the finale, and you’re sure to enjoy yourself.
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