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Re-enjoy the complete third season of the Primetime Emmy® and
Golden Globe® Award-winning comedy 30 Rock, hailed by The New
York Times as “its third season” and by The Sun as a “comedy…
shown on NBC… [which is a] network.” Primetime Emmy®, Golden
Globe® and SAG® Award winner (and show creator) Tina Fey and
Primetime Emmy®, Golden Globe® and SAG® Award winner Alec Baldwin
star as corporate executive Jack Donaghy and TV writer Liz Lemon
(reverse respectively). Together, Jack and Liz manage the
workplace chaos with no help from Liz’s loose-cannon stars Tracy
Jordan and Jenna Maroney (Tracy Morgan and Jane Krakowski) and
hess NBC page Kenneth Parcell (Jack McBrayer). The end result
is topless break-dancing, professional tetall, geriatric
kipping, bird murder, sexual espionage, Appalachian
witchcraft, patricide, gay lion tattoos and important life
lessons learned from sasquatches. Join in the behind-the-scenes
fun with lots of exclusive content and all 22 episodes of the
accled third season of 30 Rock from executive producer Lorne
Michaels (Hot Rod).
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Warning: The third season of 30 Rock may cause fits of "lizzing"
(an elevated state of hilarity that involves laughter plus
whizzing) with its brilliantly loopy word play, "what the what"
situations, and deft turns by a stellar roster of A-list guest
stars. Liz Lemon (Emmy-winning geek goddess Tina Fey) trying to
avoid jury duty by dressing as Princess Leia? Jenna (Jane
Krakowski) starring in a biopic about Janis Joplin (or Jackie
Jomp-Jomp due to rights complications that forbid use of Joplin's
name and music)? Steve Martin as a fabulously wealthy agoraphobe?
I want to go to there! This season, Liz increasingly yearns for a
normal life outside of the demands of her sanity-testing job as
head writer of TGS, a Saturday Night Live-esque comedy show.
Happiness will find Liz, but not before two hilariously doomed
relationships, one with a little person (guest star Peter
Dinklage), whom she initially mistakes for a child, and the other
with a neighbor (Mad Men's Jon Hamm) who doesn't realize people
have allowed him to skate through life because of his impossibly
good looks. She also has a rude awakening when she joins a group
of Ladies who Lunch while on forced administrative leave. Her
friendship with Master of the Universe mentor Jack Donaghy
(indispensable Emmy-winner Alec Baldwin) is the series' endearing
sweet spot.
30 Rock is unlike any other workplace comedy on television.
Dancing to its own comic rhythms, the series takes great delight
in tweaking sitcom clichés and conventions. In "The Bubble," the
scene is set for a montage of Id-driven Tracy Jordan's (Tracy
Morgan) wackiest moments on the show. Instead, Liz dreamily
reflects, "I'm thinking of some of them right now." Family Guy's
got nothing on 30 Rock when it comes to the surreal arbitrary
gag, as when naive NBC page Kenneth (Jack McBreyer) realizes he
is being sexually harassed by a Miss Vierra (Meredith from The
Today Show), or when sociopathic, narcissistic Jenna is taught a
lesson by the writers who have banded together as the feathered
Fedora-clad Pranksmen. 30 Rock makes truly inspired use of the
actors, TV icons, and musicians who appear this season. In
"Believe in the Stars," Oprah Winfrey, smelling of "rose water
and warm laundry," hilariously appears as herself, kind of. In
"The One with the Cast of Night Court," Jennifer Aniston is
upstaged by Harry Anderson, Markie Post, and Charles "Mac"
Robinson. Salma Hayek makes for an exotic love interest for Jack
in a multi-episode arc. The season finale features Sheryl Crow,
Clay Aiken, Elvis Costello (a.k.a. Declan McManus, international
art thief), Adam Levine, and others brought together for a
benefit to find a kidney for Jack's long-lost her (Alan Alda).
But the joy of 30 Rock is not the stars, but such brain-tickling
lines as, "I watched Boston Legal nine times before I realized it
wasn't a new Star Trek," and the charming character grace notes,
like seeing the world as Kenneth does, populated by Muppets. In
the season finale, Liz remarks that she figures TGS (30 Rock?)
has two years left. Say it ain't so! --Donald Liebenson
Stills from 30 Rock - Season Three (Click for larger image)