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Veep Joe Biden finally makes his welcomed cameo, but in an episode stocked with career shake-ups, office rivalries, and Orin’s people farm, his visit is probably the least surprising event this week.
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Election day is drawing ever closer, and Americans Jenna (Jane Krakowski) must make a tough choice – which candidate will be the first pro-Jenna president? It’s a question that probably shouldn’t be the focus of two of the last thirteen episodes of the series, but at least it’s one that leads to some of the season’s funniest moments.
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Jenna is the decider of the 2012 election? And Pete is a Crab Catcher? After a few weeks of building towards a great finale, 30 Rock takes a strange detour this week a we enter into the world of Florida’s undecideds.
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One week after Liz (Tina Fey) discovers the orgasmic pleasure of filing, and suddenly she’s a regular Carrie Bradshaw. This season keeps pushing our characters further than they’ve been before and it’s taking the series to new heights.
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Another solid outing from our fellow Pawneeans, or as Perd Hapley would prefer we call them, ‘Perdverts’. However, there are signs that the series may have hit a rough patch creatively now that we’ve seen the same conflict for the past three episodes.
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30 Rock’s forward momentum towards the series finale isn’t letting up. Jack’s (Alec Baldwin) epic NBC tanking continues, Liz (Tina Fey) finally takes a serious step towards having her baby with Criss (James Marsden), and Jenna’s (Jane Krakowski) recent single “Balls” burns up the charts makes her $90. So maybe not all of the storylines work, but since the episode gifts us with a Ghost remake involving a CD tower at Staples, this episode counts as a success.
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