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Nothing says season finales like a vow renewals and baby plans! Except in the 30 Rock universe, that really means divorce and finding a nice Chinese girl to be a surrogate plant mother.
Let’s hand out this week’s 30 Rock-Does-Things awards…
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If we look at this week’s episode as a chapter of a weekly television series with continuing storylines, the live episode is pretty lightweight, even for this season’s relatively lax standards. But as a twenty-one minute piece of blatant yet absolutely enjoyable fan service? ‘Live from Studio 6H’ passes with flying colors – while wearing angel wings and singing “Zou Bisou Bisou.”
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You had me at Elaine Stritch. This week we get the return of everyone’s favorite passive-aggressive matriarch Colleen Donaghy, bringing out the best the show has to offer.
Let’s hand out this week’s 30 Rock-Does-Things…with sass! Awards…
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Is it too easy to point out that the writers on 30 Rock aren’t doing themselves any favours by naming an episode of an uneven season quality-wise, ‘Nothing Left to Lose’? It is? All right.
Instead, let’s hand out this week’s awards…
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Double the 30 Rock, double the business cases and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles references! While neither of the nights two episodes were groundbreaking or side-splittingly hysterical, they were, for the most part, consistent character-wise and joke-wise. And really, that’s all I need from this show.
And this week’s winners are…
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It’s 30 Rock‘s third holiday episode in six weeks, which is plenty of time for the writers to learn that these themed episodes just aren’t working What next? Jack learns that hippies aren’t all evil on Arbor Day?
Here are the winners of this week’s 30 Rock-Does-Things-Frustratingly Awards: