Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: A- | 93 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Tangiers the Gay Lion
By DeAnn Welker | Season 3 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.23.2009
Salma's upset at herself for having a ring on her finger for a day and acting like Glenn Close in Attracion Fatal. Liz says it has a whole different title here (or... the same one in a different language). Salma turns to Liz and says, "Lemon, isn't there a Slanket somewhere you should be filling with your farts?" Liz sulks off, and I would say that's the best line of the episode, but then there is what comes next. She says she loves too deeply and, eventually, "It makes me loco for Choco Puffs." It's sort of the way she says it that's so awesome. I had no idea Salma Hayek was this funny. Jack tells her if she ever finds herself less in love with him, she should call. But if tonight's what they're going to be like, it's not going to work out. She says that wasn't a great breaking-up speech, but he blames that on her English. She gives the ring back, and they hug. Liz sneaks in in her Slanket and takes her cheese board.
At 30 Rock, Liz sees Jenna and says she looks happy. She wonders if Jenna settled the lawsuit over her exercise tape, but Jenna says it's even better: She had an amazing date last night, all thanks to Kenneth. Kenneth says it was nothing. Sure, he was dead for five minutes, but he did it for true love. Jenna says that actually, paramedic has full custody of his five-year-old son, so "Pfffft." She walks off and Kenneth looks annoyed. Liz asks if he was dead. He says he's fine, but thinks he brought something back with him. At his desk, a shadow passes over him, and we can see his breath, as if it suddenly got very cold.
Liz runs into shirtless Tracy and asks what's up. He says he might have had too much to drink last night, but she'll be proud, because he got the tattoo Angie wanted him to get. He calls Liz, "Liz Lemon Cool J," which is awesome. He shows her his back, which has the Tangiers lion tattoo instead of the Angie one. He asks how Liz likes him now. She doesn't answer before he walks off, but I think she doesn't. As we get our "Lorne Michaels" credit, she says, "Wow, that is one gay lion."
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