Episode Report Card Lady Lola: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Low Blows
By Lady Lola | Season 4 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.22.2009
Lemon's (and Tracy's) apartment. The phone rings at 2 a.m. It's Jenna, calling to explain that there were some unforeseen production delays on her film. Namely that the country is so far north the sun never sets, which creates a bit of a problem for a werewolf-themed movie. Jenna tells her not to worry because tomorrow they'll be getting a full minute of darkness. She throws it in Lemon's face again that she can just use the new cast member and hangs up. Tracy asks her what's wrong, and she says her employees are driving her crazy, so she's going to kill them in her sleep tonight. Tracy laughs heartily, and they fall into a one-upping, demented laughing contest. Lemon takes the last laugh and starts to go back to bed.
The phone rings again. It's Jack, asking her about a sexist microwave program. She hangs up on him. Before she can leave the room, Tracy asks if she wants to talk about the elephant in the room. She points to an actual statue of an elephant and says she doesn't even know why he brought that thing. He snaps back, "I mean the figurative elephant!" He starts reading passages from her book that are directly aimed at him. He says that's why Angie broke up with him and that Lemon stole his life. The least she could have done was pay for it. She wonders how he could possibly make her life any worse than it is right now. Cut to the Page desk at 30 Rock. Kenneth's posted a sign that reads, "Volunteers needed to adopt a dog! It's God backwards!" Tracy says he'll take all of them.
Over in Lemon's office, she moans to Pete about Tracy and Jenna's antics. He offers some advice, but it's not a good fit. Before he heads off, he casually mentions that his wife read Lemon's book, then shoves Lemon into the wall.
Jack sashays into the writers' room with a light bulb and calls a brainstorming session. Of course, he tells Lutz to stop mouth-breathing first. He introduces them to an engineer from the microwave decision and tells the writers that all he needs is "one idea that is as good as the light bulb." Frank pitches in with a tearful story about how sometimes burritos are too big the microwave and won't rotate. Jack supports the idea of bigger microwaves, moving on. Toofer suggests making microwaves that break down more easily so people are force to buy new ones more often. And now we're talking: "Bigger and not as well made." Pete points out that that line of thinking seemed to be the operative philosophy of the auto industry. And that turned out well! Jack insists that GE isn't the auto industry and that, so help them God, they'll make a giant, flimsy microwave for America. Jack leaves, and Lutz lets out a deluge of mouth breaths.