Episode Report Card Lady Lola: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Babies on Board
By Lady Lola | Season 5 | Episode 14 | Aired on 02.10.2011
30 Rock. Kenneth gives Tracy his itinerary for the next day. He is once again annoyed by his responsibilities. Pete introduces him to the "Peter Principle," which says that people are apt to rise to the level of their incompetence. "But my incompetence knows no bounds," moans Tracy. Pete says he would hide out until people forgot about him, but qualifies it by saying that Hornbergers are famous cowards. For example, his grandfather, who wore a German uniform under his American one during D-Day... just in case. Pete leaves, and Kenneth mumbles that there's a reason men like Pete aren't destined for greatness. He wonders how some people can sleep at night if they turn their backs on their community and the world. Tracy ponders what Kenneth is saying but is still scared about the responsibilities that have befallen him since EGOT-ing. Kenneth laughs at this because Tracy doesn't know the meaning of scared -- Kenneth has had to look it up for him at least eight times.
Back up in the Great White North, Jack and Avery finally find a ride. In a van with John Cho! On two conditions: They have to drive and can't smoke. Their new Canadian friend Lorne (John Cho) chuckles that, if they're cops, they have to tell them, then accidentally leaves open the curtains to the back of the van and reveals a mobile meth lab. Jack thinks it might be a wise time to quit, but Avery will have none of it, so they agree to "drive this bomb to Buffalo and get this little bitch" born.
More plane. More crying. More tubby, middle-aged men walking down the aisles shirtless. Lemon, now stripped down to only a camisole on top, heads to the galley to suck on a used tea bag from the garbage. Carol finds her there to tell her they've been offered a gate, so they can head back to the lounge with reclining chairs and turkey wraps. "Tuuuuuurkey wraaaaaaps," growls Lemon's stomach. But he'll only go if Lemon makes a plane-wide announcement that she was wrong. They descend into a verbal slapping match about all the things they hate about each other. She insults him, oversees a show with such timely fare as "Austin Powers on Crossfire," and won't admit she's wrong even when there's irrefutable evidence. He has no compunction to make passengers suffer for his pride, uses a goofy voice on the intercom, and builds bookshelves so the books will slide off (or so he claims). It all boils down the fact that they're both stubborn as mules. The argument wraps up with Lemon saying she'd rather die on the plane than bow to his authority. He tells her that can be arranged.