Episode Report Card Lady Lola: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT 100% Chance of Pain
By Lady Lola | Season 5 | Episode 20 | Aired on 04.21.2011
Danny and Jenna (a.k.a. a very pregnant Jane Krakowski) practice a skit about "Pam, The Overly Confident Morbidly Obese Woman." Her catchphrase is, "I can't sit in a booth!" Pete congratulates them all on doing Pam 107 times in 100 shows. Jenna asks Danny, "Can you believe we've been doing this five years?" Danny reminds her he wasn't around five years ago, it was some other guy. Jenna snips, "I don't think so." Kenneth walks up to give Jenna a bouquet of flowers (to cover JK's baby bump). She says it's been an amazing run. Cue flashbacks of Jenna screaming, "I will choke you to death with your boyfriend's wig!" slapping Lemon and Kenneth, and going Springer-style on someone. Danny asks if they can reminisce about something that's happened since he came to the show -- that way he can see the memories.
Kenneth says he'll never forget what Jenna said to him after the first show: "If this turkey goes 100 episodes, I'll have your baby." Danny somehow saw that memory and begins to freak out that he might be dead. "Well," jokes Kenneth, "it's been 100 episodes. I better lay you across my grandmother's lap in the mating shed!" In some more meta-ness re: Krakowski, Danny wonders what it would actually be like if Jenna were a mother. "It would be horrible! The only thing I want latched to my funbags are celebrity DJs." Kenneth thinks she'd make a wonderful parent, singing to the baby and playing all the witch roles in fairy tale re-enactments. She shrugs it off, calling Kenneth an "albino goon." He hrmphs, "I wish! Albino's get to be watchers in the mating shed." Kenneth steps away, and Danny continues to muse over the horror that would be a pregnant Jenna. He imagines a picture of Jenna opposite one of Natalie Portman in Us Weekly's "Who Wore It Best?" Jenna reflexes, "I did. I wore it best!" Then she has an idea: A baby gets you attention.
Lemon interrupts for a little all-staff pep talk. Or to tell them to watch their asses because the show will be cancelled if they don't get back Tracy and pull off their greatest show ever that night. Frank says that they can forget if they're counting on Tracy. He pulls off his "SITTING OVATION" hat to reveal a teeny-tiny baseball cap that reads "I GIVE UP." Lemon orders him to put his bigger hat back on. She says they've been through bad times before. Flashbacks: Writers throwing food at Lemon, Jenna falling off the roof of a set, Jack having a heart attack, Tracy passing out on roofies, and Lemon flipping over a table as she rages, "Where's my mac and cheese!" Back in the present, she spins, "And we've had some good times. The only clip is of Lutz tripping and spilling an entire tray of chocolate mousse. Boy, Jack and Lemon sure had a good laugh over that one. Or it was an outtake. Lemon tells everyone it's their moment to shine. "Tonight TGS won't be the worst thing on television," she rallies. "It'll be John Stossel! Who's with me?" As everyone claps, Lemon hallucinates that she's seeing a little blue creature (Rachel Dratch).