30 Rock won back its crown (with a wedding episode, no less!), turning back a decent effort from The Office and a mediocre League. I hate writing these intro parts, so let’s just dive right in, shall we?
We get a bonus episode of The League tonight, so I have four shows to review.
This was SitCombat for December 6, 2012:
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30 Rock (NBC) – “My Whole Life is Thunder”
Tonight’s Episode: Jenna is none-too-pleased when she finds out that Liz got married so close to her own wedding, Jack deals with his ongoing mother-related issues, and Tracy tries to cheer Kenneth up after his break-up with Hazel.
Good Stuff: “You got married?!? To what?” . . . “Hathanobody” . . . “I’m 42, Cerie.” “I don’t know what that is” . . . 80 Under 80 . . . “Backslash ‘Garbage File?!?’” . . . “She insists on traveling on Pearl Harbor Day to, and I quote, ‘show the Emperor we’re not afraid’”. . . “Do you have any idea where she is, little boy?” . . . “I told the black guy – no Brady stuff!” . . . Liz’s picture in the program . . . Jack’s three appropriate subjects of paintings: (1) horses, (2) ships with sails, (3) men holding up swords while staring off into the distance . . . “Apex Technical School puts students first…(turns to camera) and the perfect time to enroll is NOW!” . . . I loved that all the women at the Women in Media banquet went to the bathroom together and can’t figure out A/V equipment . . . “It’s all right! The lack of oxygen is making me orgasm!” . . . I think killing off Jack’s mom was the right call. It gave the character closure, and I think it was the right time to wrap things up from Elaine Stritch’s perspective . . . “Jenna! I mean…Liz” . . . “Where else but real life would a millionaire movie star care so much about a Hillbilly janitor that he would spend two days trying to cheer him up?” . . . Frank’s “APPROPRIATE” hat . . . “The man who, in 1984, wore a tuxedo so well that he broke up the Go-Go’s” . . . Reverend Gimp was definitely voiced by Lorne Michaels.
Non-good Stuff: The Jenna “Abusive / crazy male from my past doing something outrageous to me” lines are getting a little “mad-libby” . . . The Oprah stuff doesn’t really resonate with me.
Line of the Night: “Someone’s looking lovely today! . . . What a burn. I could have meant someone else…although I didn’t. She’s radient!” – Kenneth, trying to be mean (and failing)
Overall: Good show. I loved a lot of the little things, like Dot Com’s line about Apex Technical. I think ending the Mrs. Donaghy storyline is appropriate at this point in Elaine Stritch’s life, not to mention the increasingly-limited life of the show itself. There weren’t as many huge laughs as last week, though. This was a good, solid, all-around episode with lots of fun cameos, but the highs weren’t as high as the best shows that the 30 Rock writers create, possibly because a character, you know, died on the show.
GRADE: B
When last we “met,” I discussed the 
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Of course, all is not lost for the “other” NBC show. The Office showed great promise early on in its final season, and the fact that this is the end may ultimately be as “freeing” as I had hoped several weeks back.
Christmas Shopping = Complete
Divining gift ideas gets less fun and more difficult as we get older. One reason for this phenomenon is that people get grandfathered into our gift-giving list for years after we stop seeing them on a regular basis. Of the people for whom I’ll be buying gifts this year, over 50% of that elite group are in the same room as I am approximately once a year.
So, you can imagine my elation when I was browsing the featured books at Barnes & Noble this week, when the solution to this problem appeared before me. There, front and center among the books in the biography section, was this Christmas gift panacea:
I purchased every copy they had.
So, friends and relatives, please be advised that you will be receiving the definitely-not-ghostwritten autobiography of 25-year-old waitress-turned-“singer” Ke$ha, entitled My Crazy Beautiful Life. This 192-page tome is packed with dozens of exclusive photos from the road, as well as a detailed account of Ke$ha’s rags-to-riches tale.
But don’t take my word for it. Here’s Ke$ha—in her own words:
What more can you say? If you’re not sold after reading that, I would humbly direct you to Ke$ha’s Wikipedia page, which astutely points out that “Ke$ha’s debut single combines yodeling and video game music, with its lyricism centering around alcohol consumption and parties.”
You’re welcome.
Merry Christmas!
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