'30 Rock': 5 Things We Loved
After a lackluster episode last week, Thursday night's "30 Rock" got its mojo back.
The summary: Jack and C.C. (with an assist from James Carville) go public with their affair. Jenna is tired of Tracy's prima donna treatment, so she decides she needs to try her hand at being a diva. And Tracy is honored with a phony "Pacific Rim Emmy," complete with a mock broadcast.
The Five Things We Loved:
1. Before he reveals his romance to the world, Jack introduces C.C. to Liz (who has stumbled onto one of their pre-work assignations) as a "business colleague" named Lakisha Gutierrez Arafat.
2. Jack finally spills his secret while lunching with C.C. among his stiff-necked peers in the corporate dining room. That prompts a round of confessions from the assembled, including "I gave to NPR last year." Swept up in the confessional fervor, uber-liberal C.C. reveals her deepest darkest secret: "I voted for Ronald Reagan in 1984."
3. James Carville and his exhortations to do things "Cajun-style," a technique apparently good for everything from getting out ahead of a story to breaking into a vending machine.
4. Jack invites Liz to a get-together with he and C.C., advising her, "try not to dress like a small-town lesbian."
5. At that get-together, Kenneth (the only other guest besides Liz) reads from index cards in an attempt to make dinner-party conversation. Among his gambits: "What's your favorite pizza topping?" and "Liz, Tell me a painful story from your teenage years."
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"Jack invites Liz to a get-together with he and C.C."
Okay, I'll admit it. I'm an English teacher, but I have to say that I'm getting pretty sick of the misuse of subjects and objects in major publications such as "Newsday." It seems that basic grammar should be a required course for those who are going into writing as a profession. Of course, one would think that an editor would know enough about grammar to catch this sort of thing.
Let's try that sentence like this: "Jack invites Liz to a get-together with he. . ." See the problem?
Of course, we are living in an era when the President of the United States thinks "nuclear" is pronounced "nukular."