Items20The creator’s order
  1. 130 Rock (2006)30 Rock (2006) 8.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired Oct 11, 2006"Jack-Tor," Season 1, Episode 5 The first episode where the show clicks. Jack orders the writers to slip GE product plugs into TGS, 30 Rock itself piles on shameless Snapple plugs (a man in a Snapple costume included), and Jack ends up acting in a sketch, badly. It is a satire of the network that…0
  2. 230 Rock (2006)30 Rock (2006) 8.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired Oct 11, 2006"Tracy Does Conan," Season 1, Episode 7 Tracy is booked on Conan O'Brien's show and everything that can go wrong backstage does, with Conan playing himself in the middle of it. This is the season one episode for anyone who wants pure chaos: Tracy at his most unmanageable, Liz scrambling to hold a…0
  3. 330 Rock (2006)30 Rock (2006) 8.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired Oct 11, 2006"SeinfeldVision," Season 2, Episode 1 Jack's big plan for the new season is to digitally insert Jerry Seinfeld into every NBC show, and a furious Seinfeld turns up at 30 Rock to object in person. It is the show mocking its own network's desperation with a real star playing along, and the premise…0
  4. 430 Rock (2006)30 Rock (2006) 8.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired Oct 11, 2006"Rosemary's Baby," Season 2, Episode 4 Carrie Fisher guest stars as Rosemary Howard, the trailblazing comedy writer Liz idolizes until she sees her own future in her. Fisher is superb, but the scene people rewind is Alec Baldwin hijacking Tracy's therapy session and role-playing everyone in…0
  5. 530 Rock (2006)30 Rock (2006) 8.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired Oct 11, 2006"Greenzo," Season 2, Episode 5 David Schwimmer plays Greenzo, NBC's new green mascot, who lets the attention go straight to his head, and Al Gore turns up in person. The target is corporate greenwashing, which makes it feel more current than its 2007 air date. Schwimmer commits fully to a…0
  6. 630 Rock (2006)30 Rock (2006) 8.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired Oct 11, 2006"Succession," Season 2, Episode 13 Jack starts grooming Liz as his successor, and Corporate Liz is a joy: Tina Fey in power-suit mode, out of her depth and overcommitting. Pete finally gets to slap Liz, a payoff that works precisely because he is usually the calmest person in the building. Pick…0
  7. 730 Rock (2006)30 Rock (2006) 8.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired Oct 11, 2006"Sandwich Day," Season 2, Episode 14 Once a year the Teamsters bring in sandwiches from a secret spot in Brooklyn, and the writers treat it like a holy day. Liz's sandwich becomes the episode's running obsession, ending with her wolfing the whole sub at airport security rather than surrender it.…0
  8. 830 Rock (2006)30 Rock (2006) 8.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired Oct 11, 2006"Cooter," Season 2, Episode 15 The season two finale won Tina Fey the 2008 Emmy for comedy writing, and it earns it. Jack is exiled to a job at Homeland Security, Matthew Broderick plays the hapless official Cooter Burger, and the back half of the episode stacks up reveals and callbacks at a pace…0
  9. 930 Rock (2006)30 Rock (2006) 8.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired Oct 11, 2006"Reunion," Season 3, Episode 5 Liz goes back for her 20-year high school reunion expecting to be pitied as the old nerd and discovers her classmates remember her as the mean one. Jack tags along and passes himself off as a missing classmate, Larry Braverman. The episode turns Liz's self-image…0
  10. 1030 Rock (2006)30 Rock (2006) 8.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired Oct 11, 2006"Generalissimo," Season 3, Episode 10 Two Alec Baldwins for the price of one. Jack discovers that the star of a Spanish telenovela looks uncannily like him, so Baldwin plays both men, while Salma Hayek continues her run as Jack's girlfriend Elisa. The telenovela clips are a parody inside a parody,…0