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
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Kabletown exec Hank Hooper considers canceling TGS, so Jack asks him to watch the show's 100th episode and reconsider. As the show is being prepped, a gas leak in the studio leads to hallucinations that underscore both Jack and Lemon's doubts about their career decisions. Jack's delusions tell him to fire Lemon, while Lemon's tell her to reunite with Dennis. Everyone comes to his/her right mind before anything truly disastrous happens, but then Lemon realizes there is no show thanks to the gibberish gas-inspired musings of the writers. So what does she do? Cause another gas leak and save TGS!
After promising to have Kenneth's baby if TGS made it to 100 episodes, Jenna gets the thought of motherhood into her mind. First she thinks it would be a great PR move to make it seem like leaving the show was her choice, then reconnects with Paul/'Gina to explore her options, and finally tries to seduce Kenneth. Eventually, she develops a hysterical pregnancy that sorts itself out once the gas is gone.
Tracy hits the talk show circuit to alienate all the fans he developed while EGOT-ing, only the plan backfires, and everyone admires his bravery and honesty. Lemon tells him to take it to the streets, but this plan falls apart when he ends up saving a drowning man and becoming a hero. Jenna eventually suggests that the only way Tracy can reverse the goodwill is to murder someone. Guess which hapless page offers to take a bullet for the goodwill of the show. Before we mourn the loss of our beloved Kenneth, Jack gives Tracy his silver bullet -- do television. That will destroy his credibility once and for all.
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Want more? The full recap starts right below!Jack is tightening a Philadelphia Flyers tie as Lemon marches angrily into Jack's office, clucking, "This better be important, I was in the middle of bidding on a bag of bras on eBay." Jack tells her Hank Hooper is on his way to meet with them. Just then, Hank turns around Jack's chair. They have no idea how he got there. Jack says he was just sitting in the chair a minute before. Hank responds jollily, "Nope, that was me. What can I say? I smell like leather." He gives Lemon a big hug and smilingly tells her that TGS is terrible and he's going to cancel it. Jack tells Hank that tonight is the show's 100th episode, and they've been getting good media buzz lately -- "we got on Wikipedia this week." Hank is unmoved.
Lemon asks, "Really? You want to cancel the only show on your network starring a 42-year-old woman? A show that is number one among men 18-49... months left in prison?" She continues, "I thought this company was a family, but I guess it's that Austrian family, and I am the girl stuck in the basement..." Just as she starts to make completely, graphically clear just how Hank is the Kabletown Fritzl, Jack cuts her off. He announces that Tracy is back and asks if, as a personal favor, Hank will let TGS have its 100th episode, then reconsider. Says Hank, "You get one more shot -- just like the army doctor said to me after my weekend in Okinawa!" He adds that he's amazed how much Jack will stick his neck out for his staff. He credits that lack of cutthroat behavior to why Jack is still at Kabletown instead of CEO of GE. Hank means it as a compliment, but it plants a seed of discontent in Jack's mind.
After Hank leaves, Jack asks if Tracy really is back. Lemon promises to get it done, Lemon-style. Cut to flashbacks of her singing "Everybody Dance Now" and ripping off her shirt at a GE Six Sigma conference, threatening to cut off Kenneth's face if he doesn't get her a sandwich, using an old man as a human shield on the plane with a gun-wielding Carol, and weaseling her way out of jury duty by dressing up as Princess Leia and claiming she's a hologram. Jack asks what's the hold-up with Tracy, and Lemon updates him on Tracy's latest crisis -- too much respect. Lemon has already put a plan in motion to get Tracy on every morning show in New York so he can alienate all his fans once again. She says she's been prepping him all week. Flash to Lemon pretending to be Regis Philbin, then being cut off by Tracy, who screams, "Jesus was black!" and pushes Lemon to the ground. Jack tells her to get it together because he has a very full plate. Lemon perks up, "Really? Is it from that pie place?" Jack tells her he's tired of going to bat for her show. She says okay, then starts to ask for clarification. Jack snaps, "There is no pie!" Credits.