30 Rock

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Michael Neal: A | 2011 USERS: B-
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The Oprah Effect

Actually she's dressed as Princess Lela for jury duty. "I don't think it's fair for me to be on a jury because I can read thoughts." "Dismissed." Lemon takes the flight back from Chicago to New York and enjoys a glass of wine and a Jack pill before takeoff. Jack calls her to let her know that Tyler Brody will be appearing on The Girlie Show starring Tracy Jordan in order to prevent him from alerting the media to the tetherball scandal. He's also still hung up on Kenneth's sudden loss of respect for him. Then Tracy and Jenna both call her separately to complain about how unfairly the other is treating them because of race/gender. Tracy yells in the phone: "You can't fix this, Liz Lemon! It's about race. It's about being a woman. It's about money. It's about being on TV, and no one understands all that." Enter OPRAH. She sits down next to Lemon. Lemon smells her. She tries to make small talk with OPRAH but is so crazy on pills she unloads all of her problems within a second, including the bad blood between Jenna and Tracy. OPRAH tells her to control her decisions. She's letting Jenna and Tracy fill the role of children in her life as she seeks adoption. Then OPRAH offers her salt-water taffy from Rhode Island. It's one of her favorite things along with sweater capes and calypso music. I'm writing all this down, making my own O List and checking it twice. OPRAH offers to help Lemon with her Tracy/Jenna problem by coming into 30 Rock and settling the dispute. "You are the best person in the whole world," says Lemon. Then she falls asleep in OPRAH'S lap.

Jack has Kenneth up to his office for a lecture on civics. Jack deals in moral shades of grey but for Kenneth it's purely black and white. He does the right thing even when tempted to do the opposite. For instance, Kenneth can't afford cable but refuses to steal it even though he loves TV and there is an illegal cable wire hanging by his window.

30 Rock

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