30 Rock
30 Rock

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DeAnn Welker: B- | 960 USERS: B-
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Pregnancy Scare
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Inside 30 Rock, Lemon's directing a TGS scene when Jack barges in and interrupts, asking them to "gather up" - everyone, even the robot. He lets them know that Hank Hooper, the owner of Kabletown, will be touring today so he needs them to be their most normal. Lame Tracy joke (he thinks dinosaurs come from "the underwater city of Syronocon). Less lame Jenna joke (when asked to get all her crazy out now, she shrieks at the guy next to her about volumizing her hair). Lamest Frank joke (his "armpit thing" is almost touching his "thigh thing.") He reminds them not to be themselves, and then asks Lemon to meet him in his office. She wonders if he needs sex advice, and offers this tip: "Sometimes a woman likes to leave her blazer on." He rightly walks away. Kenneth presents Jenna and Tracy with a gift to the stars from Hank Hooper. They're all fake happy and fake into it, and fake enjoying the fact that there's two of everything in the box: two new Apple computers, two fancy watches. They're praising themselves for not fighting about anything anymore, until they get to the bottom of the box, where there is only one gray Kabletown hoodie. They pull on it until Tracy tells her he wants her to "selfishly take the best sweatshirt in the world." She's so happy.

Jack's office. He wants Lemon to take Avery shopping "for baby things": a crib, small clothes, a tiny desk with a miniature pen set on it. Luckily, he adds that he doesn't know a lot about babies, but he's sure Avery would enjoy having another woman go with her. Lemon's cool with that, but surprised Avery wouldn't want to take her terrifying best friend. Jack says her sister's institutionalized for nerves (actually, for being a lesbian), and her work friends can't go because she's trying to keep her pregnancy a secret. That would seem tough at eight months along, but Jack pulled some strings with Michael Kors (they own a gay race horse together), and got him to make wizard capes fashionable for ladies this winter. Lemon: "It's my fault for asking!" Jack says the problem is that Avery's up for a new job (financial reporter for NBC Nightly News), and she won't get the job if anyone finds out she's pregnant. Lemon uses this as an opportunity to talk about her one-act play about men getting pregnant, The Seahorses of Warwickshire Abbey, but Jack continues that Avery has to keep her condition under wraps until her contract is signed. Unfortunately, her competition is Carmen Chao of MSNBC. Lemon asks what ethnicity she is anyway, and Jack says no one knows. Cut to a scene of Vanessa Minnillo doing a news report. She speaks perfect Spanish, Chinese (I don't speak it, but I'm assuming based on the name Chao), and Jamaican. Cut back to Jack telling Lemon that if Carmen finds out she'll destroy Avery. Carmen, he says, is very sneaky. "And that's not racist, because I don't know what she is." Lemon invites Jack to a new popcorn place for lunch, but he's going to the executive dining room to meet with Hank Hooper. He can't wait to shake his hand, since you can tell a lot about someone by their handshake. Lemon and Jack shake, and she says he's confident. He, in turn, says she ate dinner in front of the mirror last night. Lemon doesn't even try to deny it: "Carol's away a lot."

30 Rock