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April 23, 2008
30 Rock - Succession S02E13
DirectTv Episode Description:
Don Geiss decides to name Jack his successor as the chairman of GE, but a shocking turn of events involving Geiss' health jeopardizes Jack's promotion; Tracy thinks his career embarrasses his son.
First aired: April 23, 2008 on NBC
To begin, this is an excellent episode. Don Geiss tells Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) that he will be the new GE Chairman, but Jack has to keep it a secret until the board meeting in three days. Jack can only tell his successor, so he tells Liz Lemon (Tina Fey). He promotes her to an executive (she initially refuses until he shows her a slip of paper with her new salary... she slaps him, but eventually 'pioneered the button classic campaign.')
At the same time, Tracy Jordan brings his son's flute to school and realizes his son neglected to invite him to 'bring your father to school day,' likely because he is embarrassed. (Tracy ends up dancing topless in front of his son's class.) So, feeling like a bad dad, Tracy decides he's going to do something to make his son proud of him. After seconds of thought, Tracy decides to combine his two passions in life (Video games and pornography) to make the never before done porn video game. Frank (Judah Frielander) tells him it cannot be done because of the uncanny valley (Frank pulls out a chart to explain:
Frank Rossitano: "as artificial representations of humans become more and more realistic, they reach a point where they stop being endearing and become creepy"
Tracy Jordan: "Tell it to me in Star Wars."
SNIP
Tracy Jordan:
"I was born to design a video game where characters get with each other for golden points. My genius will not be denied!
Anyhow, as Tracy (and Kenneth (Jack McBrayer)) work on the porn video game, Devon Banks (Will Arnett) attempts to hi-jack the GE chairmanship. Remember, despite being gay, Devon is marrying Don Geiss' daughter. Eventually, the episode ends with Don Geiss in a diabetic coma, and his daughter, who is totally dependent on Banks as chairman.
Best Quotes
• "The head of the stressball division hanged himself." - Jack Donaghy
• "You get one cry in life... you've chosen well." - Don Geiss
• "Uggh, Hugging, it's so ethnic." - Jack Donaghy
• "Suck it Monkeys, I'm goin' Corporate!" - Liz Lemon
Finally, Chris Parnell makes another hillarious appearance as Dr. Leo Spaceman. The scene with the slow mo running to save Don Geiss is hillarious. It involves a montage with the Star Wars soundtrack, Spaceman in a brown cape, Frank losing control because of Tracy's superior porn affinity, and Tracy finishing his video game too fast for Kenneth.
Chuckles: - 12
Belly laughs: - 1 (a little lower than normal)
By the Hammer of Thor's - a dissapointing 0, but one hilarious "Ah Blurg!"