"Lemon, you look terrible, and I once watched you eat oysters while you had a cold."
30 Rock Created Queen of Jordan to Save Money
I drank all the throwing wine.
Imagination
30 Rock's Reality
What other channels could the show's fictional reality series air on? Speculate
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slideshows
SlideshowThe Many Facial Expressions of 30 Rock's Kenneth the Page
Interview
Elizabeth Banks's Hunger Game
The 30 Rock star sat down with us to talk about Our Idiot Brother, Hunger Games, and girls pooping in the movies.
About the show
- Schedule
- Thursdays, 9:30 p.m.
- NBC
- Cast
- Tina Fey
- 'Liz Lemon'
- Alec Baldwin
- 'Jack Donaghy'
- Tracy Morgan
- 'Tracy Jordan'
- Jane Krakowski
- 'Jenna Maroney'
- Jack McBrayer
- 'Kenneth Parcell'
- Judah Friedlander
- 'Frank Rossitano'
- Scott Adsit
- 'Pete Hornberger'
- Keith Powell
- 'Toofer'
- Katrina Bowden
- 'Cerie'
- Creator
- Tina Fey
- Executive Producers
- Lorne Michaels
- Tina Fey
- Marci Klein
- David Miner
- Robert Carlock
- Debut
- October 11, 2006
- Official Site
- http://www.nbc.com/30-rock/
More 30 Rock news...
30 Rock Will Have a Seventh and Final Season
Consisting of a mere thirteen episodes.
30 Rock’s Final Season May Be Shortened
As may other NBC comedies' seasons.
The 26 Differences Between 30 Rock’s East Coast and West Coast Live Episodes
So many different jokes!
Tina Fey Wants to Be Able to Plan 30 Rock’s End
"We work for NBC, so we'll see what they say."
Alec Baldwin Continues to Hint That 30 Rock Will End Soon
Though he's said that before and it kept going.
Donald Glover Will Play Tracy Jordan on 30 Rock’s Live Show
Gambino up in Rock Center.
Tina Fey: Alec Baldwin Isn’t Leaving 30 Rock ... Yet
"He just means that the end of the show is on the horizon."
30 Rock Will Do Another Live Episode
In April, says Alec Baldwin.
Blow Up NBC’s Thursday Comedy Block, and Four Other TV Scheduling Suggestions for Next Season
Plus, The Good Wife needs to move an hour later, and we have the perfect lead-in in mind.
Video: What We’ve Learned About Jenna Maroney’s Celebrity-Studded Past on 30 Rock
Sex partners include Tony Shalhoub, Mickey Rourke, and two Backstreet Boys.
Eating at Benihana With Tracy Morgan
"When they put Benihana on 30 Rock — all the writers know that I love this place — that was the greatest compliment they could show me."
See Jim Carrey Looking Nuts on the Set Of 30 Rock
Wait, didn't Mr. Popper's Penguins already come out?
What Are the Odds That 26 As-Yet-Unrenewed ‘Bubble’ TV Shows Will Come Back?
We rate 26 shows' odds of survival, on a scale of Work It (as good as dead) to 2 Broke Girls (a slam dunk for coming back next season).
Recaps
Ep.22 - What Will Happen to the Gang Next Year?
30 Rock Recap: The Marriage Plots
Last night’s season finale felt like the ideal blend of plot, topical jokes, and callbacks.
Ep.21 - The Return of Avery Jessup
30 Rock Recap: Wearing the Pants
Avery returns from North Korea while Liz and Criss argue over gender roles.
Ep.20 - Queen of Jordan 2: The Mystery of the Phantom Pooper
30 Rock Recap: The Queen of Jordan Returns
Last week, we got 30 Rock’s second live episode. This time around, it’s the show’s second episode set entirely inside a reality show.
Ep.19 - Live From Studio 6H
30 Rock Recap: The Year’s Best SNL Episode
Last night's live episode felt like the platonic ideal of a sketch comedy show.
Ep.18 - Murphy Brown Lied to Us
30 Rock Recap: You Are Being So Transvaginal
Having a celebrity breakdown is the new sex tape.
Ep.17 - Meet the Woggels
30 Rock Recap: The Talk, Times Three
Jenna tries to Yoko a children's band.
Ep.16 - Nothing Left to Lose
30 Rock Recap: Who’s Your Dad-Smell?
Vintage 30 Rock by way of a Simpsons plot point.
Ep.15 - The Shower Principle
30 Rock Recap: Liz and the Viewers Feel Stuck in a Rut
The problem with a show as meta as 30 Rock is that when characters make cracks about things getting stale, even those jokes feel repetitive.
Ep.14 - Kidnapped by Danger
30 Rock Recap: Billy Baldwin Does His Best Jack Donaghy
And Jenna gets Normal Al'd by Weird Al.
Ep.13 - Grandmentor
30 Rock Recap: Raising Hazel Wassername
Featuring Liz Lemon's hip-hop alter ego Lemonem.
Ep.11 - Standards and Practices
30 Rock Recap: Jack Versus Kaylie Round Two Colon No Subtitle Necessary
“She’s a teenaged girl. She’s vicious and vulnerable.”
Ep.10 - Alexis Goodlooking and the Case of the Missing Whisky
30 Rock Recap: Frank & Liz & Lynn & Sylvia
Ten Poles Rammed In, the porn version of Temple Grandin.
Ep.09 - Leap Day
30 Rock Recap: Rebecca Birdstein
Classic Leap Day traditions include wearing yellow and blue, eating rhubarb, and telling tales of Leap Day William, who lives in the Mariana Trench and emerges every four years to trade children’s tears for candy.
Ep.08 - The Tuxedo Begins
30 Rock Recap: Batman & Lemon
"How could we pay their salaries without using their money?”
Ep.6 and 7 - Hey Baby, What’s Wrong?
30 Rock Recap: Like Owner, Like Lizard
“If those teeth were in your vagina, you’d be considered a monster."
Ep.05 - Today You Are A Man
30 Rock Recap: It’s a Jack-Off
Liz and Jack negotiate, and Tracy, Jenna, and Kenneth cycle through story lines from previous seasons.
Ep.04 - The Ballad of Kenneth Parcell
30 Rock Recap: Knob Kardashian
“Look out, world! Liz Lemon is 41, covered in paint, and looking for a new best friend.”
Ep.03 - Idiots Are People Three
30 Rock Recap: Private Schooled
Because of you there might be an Entourage movie.
Ep.02 - Idiots Are People Two!
30 Rock Recap: Boycott
The real life Tracy Morgan controversy gets the meta treatment.
Ep.01 - Dance Like Nobody’s Watching
30 Rock Recap: Keep on Dancing Till the World Ends
“You don’t have a little rat face, you opposite of a turd with eyes."
Ep.12 - St. Patrick’s Day
30 Rock Recap: Hulk Hands and Irish Nonsense
In which Tracy tells his iPhone, “Siri, kill Jenna.”
Ep. - Episode
30 Rock Recap: The Season Ends With a Whaaaa?
It felt like a collection of leftover plot points deemed too weird earlier in the season.
Ep.21 - Everything Sunny All the Time Always
30 Rock Recap: Korea Opportunities
When a hot blonde goes to a weird place, things go pear shaped.
Ep.20 - 100
30 Rock Recap: Gaseous Play
Happy 100th episode. Let's get weird.
Ep.19 - I Heart Connecticut
30 Rock Recap: Over-the-Top
It begins with the words!
Ep.18 - Plan B
30 Rock Recap: Powerwagging
Aaron Sorkin and Will Arnett stop by.
Ep.17 - Queen of Jordan
30 Rock Recap: Reality Check
'Queen of Jordan' takes over '30 Rock' and introduces us all to Blurry Face Syndrome.
Ep.16 - TGS Hates Women
30 Rock Recap: Talkin’ ’Bout a Femolution
"Female jealousy is an evolutionary fact, Lemon. If you try and breed it out of them, you wind up with a lesbian with hip dysplasia."
Ep.15 - It’s Never Too Late for Now
30 Rock Recap: The Spinsterhood of the Drawstring Pants
Until now, the only thing keeping Liz Lemon from being a full-on cat lady has been the fact that she didn’t actually own a cat.
Ep.14 - Double-Edged Sword
30 Rock Recap: Take Off
Just as Canadians have become indispensable to modern comedy, so have jokes about Canadians. And '30 Rock' is a master of the art form.
Ep.13 - Episode 13
30 Rock Recap: The Cabinet of Dr. Rufus T. Barleysheath
“Some dude jacked me and now his sperm is growing in my stomach.”
Ep.12 - Operation Righteous Cowboy Lightning
30 Rock Recap: Help the People the Thing That Happened Happened To
This was chaotic even by '30 Rock' standards.
Ep.11 - Mrs. Donaghy
30 Rock Recap: Scenes From a Marriage
"My alarm clock died in a cockfight last night."
Ep.10 - Christmas Attack Zone
30 Rock Recap: The Mentaliz
"Obesity is killing the African-American community with laughter!"
Ep.09 - Chain Reaction of Mental Anguish
30 Rock Recap: In Treatment
"If you’re not covered in bite marks after intercourse, then something’s wrong."
Ep.08 - College
30 Rock Recap: Community
It’s no big surprise that the perennially awkward Liz Lemon had a rough time in college, what with the Richard Marx hair and the pilonidal cyst. (Do not look that up.)
Ep.07 - Brooklyn Without Limits
30 Rock Recap: Wunderhinder
Both Carl Paladino and Dov Charney would find a lot to cringe about in this episode.
Ep.06 - Gentleman's Intermission
30 Rock Recap: Looking for D.I.H.C.
There may not be a richer, more rewarding relationship on television right now than that between Jack Donaghy and Liz Lemon.
Ep.05 - Reaganing
30 Rock Recap: What’s New, Pussycat?
"Those ice-cream saps will rue the day they ever tangled with the Best Friends Gang."
Ep.04 - Episode 04
30 Rock Recap: Live! From New York! It’s TGS!
It was just a network sitcom. Only funny.
Ep.03 - Episode 03
30 Rock Recap: Fart Barfunkel
"As diverse as a Wilco concert."
Ep.02 - When It Rains, It Pours
30 Rock: Sex, Lies, and Videotape
"The secret to a healthy head of hair is Dove ... blood."
Ep.01 - The Fabian Strategy
30 Rock Premiere Recap: Grown-up Love
"Okay, season five, here we go." How else would television's most meta sitcom launch into its fifth season?
Ep.23 - I Do I Do
30 Rock Recap: Yes, Shma’am
Three weddings, a pilot, and a baby! And a half-Cher–half-Jenna hybrid man, obviously.
Ep.22 - I Do Do
30 Rock Recap: Onan
Best episode ever?
Ep.20 - The Moms
30 Rock Recap: I Walked on Your Face
The best Mother's Day episode of any show, ever.
Ep.19 - Argus
30 Rock Recap: Feyoncé
Outrageous and funny, without relying on any cheap insults to trannies!
Ep.17-18 - 'Lee Marvin vs. Derek Jeter' & 'Khonani'
30 Rock Recap: Conan-Leno Jokes Are Past Their Expiration Date
One of the double-shot of episodes re-creates the late-night battle as a janitorial power play. Great idea, three months ago.
Ep.16 - Floyd
30 Rock Recap: Audi 5000
Almost anything would have been less of a gratuitous bummer than Liz's encounter with Floyd.
Ep.15 - Don Geiss, America and Hope
30 Rock Recap: Gangway for Foot Cycle!
Predictably hilarious!
Ep.14 - Future Husband
30 Rock Recap: Bobsled
Liz finds her "Future Husband." Whatever!
Ep.13 - Anna Howard Shaw Day
30 Rock Recap: I, the Alone ...
Rote as a Valentine's Day dinner out — but for one scary-brilliant clip.
Ep.12 - Verna
30 Rock Recap: Cornholes!
Jan Hook rocks feather earrings and a tattoo of a mermaid “doing it with Captain Morgan”!
Ep.11 - Winter Madness
30 Rock Recap: Julianne Moore, Welcome to the Bad Boston Accent Hall of Fame!
See video!
Ep.10 - Black Light Attack!
30 Rock Recap: Scrumpnugget
Tina Fey, the first true female Woody Allen, bends some gender assumptions.
Ep.09 - Klaus and Greta
30 Rock Recap: Lemoned!
James Franco hitches his art-cart to our favorite sitcom!
Ep.08 - Secret Santa
30 Rock Recap: Who Are YouFacing?
Status: weirdsies.
Ep.07 - Dealbreakers Talk Show No. 0001
30 Rock: Teenage Grandpa?
This week: black jokes for white people!
Ep.06 - Sun Tea
30 Rock: And Yet You Won’t Tell Me
‘Sun Tea,’ by I.P. Freely.
Ep.05 - The Problem Solvers
30 Rock: Sexy Time!
Pure fan fiction, minus the part where Jack tells Liz to take off everything but her glasses.
Ep.04 - Audition Day
30 Rock Auditions for Middle-of-the-road Sitcom
Which would be fine with us, except that what this seems to mean is fewer and less absurd jokes.
Ep.03 - Stone Mountain
No Dunham Bump for 30 Rock Ratings
Guest star (and Comedy Central ratings magnet) Jeff Dunham couldn't pull more viewers, sadly.
Ep.02 - Episode 02
30 Rock Takes a Gentle Poke at Ben Silverman’s Post-NBC Plans
"I'll have you know that Barry Diller and I are working on a whole new approach to media!"
Ep.01 - Season 4
Last Night’s 30 Rock Made Even More Meta by Low Ratings
Ratings for last night's season premiere were down 27 percent from last year's.
