Episode Report Card Lady Lola: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Lemon and Jack Get Schooled
By Lady Lola | Season 5 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.18.2010
Over in the studio, Lemon gets her first chance to pound it out with one of the crew guys. She walks into Tracy's room and bubbles over telling Tracy and Jenna about her new popularity. She hearkens back to the two weeks she was popular in college and wonders what went wrong. Jenna consoles her that she didn't do anything wrong. "You were just you," she says. "The popular people figured that out and treated you accordingly." Lemon is bound and determined to make sure her moment of approval isn't so transient this time. Jenna warns Lemon she doesn't have what it takes for popularity. As in college, everyone at TGS has a role to fulfill. She classifies herself the hot blonde, and Tracy says he's the nerd who takes off his glasses and everyone realizes he's handsome. Lemon, unfortunately, is the R.A. "Only if R.A. stands for 'Really Awesome,'" Lemon retorts.
Over in the writers' room, Frank mans the computer while Toofer puts on the speaker phone and calls Pete. After Pete jumps to defend himself from the sexual harassment claims of Suzanne from Ad Sales, the writer launch into an elaborate prank conversation between Pete and "Jack." He asks Pete to be his friend and to bust out a freestyle rap for him. MC Hornberger has this to offer: "Rollin' with my homey, me and Jackie D. Bitches get ready for a sex par-ty!"
Studio. Lemon walks in, and someone tells her to "think fast." Naturally she does not catch the football flying at her, so it careens into a light stand. She tells them "This is why we don't play football in the studio," then corrects herself, "because it's too fun!" She christens herself "The Liz-ard" and goes for a high-five with a crew guy, but Chris stops him. He blames her for leaving out the recovering alcoholics in her crew-wide gift. "The BLiz-zard" proves that she can think fast with the words by claiming she got them a gift, too, but it hasn't come yet and only "The BLizbian" knows. Chris lets her back into his good graces with a high-five, and she breathes a sigh of relief. She walks over to Jenna and Tracy, who hold their ground that she can't keep this ruse up. Lemon insists people can change their perceptions. Tracy, who is wearing horn-rimmed glasses, insists he's just Ogbert the nerd. Lemon leaves in frustration. Tracy removes his glasses to "clean them," and Jenna is suddenly smitten with his handsome mien.
GE Microwave Lab. Jack enters victoriously, but he doesn't recognize any of the engineers. In the place of his hires Dinesh, Kumar and Sunaba have come Ajay, Raj and Ramesh. They tell him he's not allowed to enter. He explains his 25-year tenure at the company, but they tell "John Donovan" that all their names and faces seem the same. He tells them he spearheaded the trivection oven, and one of them jokes, "What is this, 2009?" They point to a new model they consider the perfect microwave. It has five vections and a voice feature (conveniently Jack's voice from the linguistics lab days). "Oh my God," gasps Jack. "Which one?" asks the engineer. Jack reminds them he's still the head of his division and bars them from shipping any microwaves until he okays it. He further insists that they could not have built the perfect microwave without his guidance. He vows to find the flaws in their design and make them wish they'd never been born. The engineer wonders, "Which time?"