Blerg! A 30 Rock Podcast

Jack is having a perfect day, or “Reaganing.” Within 24 hours, he’s coined a term (innoventually), invented a reality show, and even got Tracy to remember his lines. But can he solve Liz’s intimacy issues before the clock runs out? Only time will tell. Meanwhile, Jenna, Kenneth and Kelsey Grammar decide to con Carvel for dozens of dollars. Original Air Date: October 21, 2010 Love the pod? Join our...

30 Rock goes live in two time zones! The ‘West Coast’ version is more widely available but Nick helps to track the differences between this and the earlier airing. In plot points, everyone forgot Liz’s birthday, Jack isn’t drinking and Tracy get into breaking. And in guest stars, Jadwiga is back (Rachel Dratch), Liz in flashbacks has Seinfeld money (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), Dr. Drew does a hand repla...

Liz wants someone else to feel how lonely it is at the top and Queen Latifah wants NBC to be more diverse, so Toofer - I mean James - gets a promotion to co-head writer and a lot of respect really quickly. Meanwhile, Kenneth’s page program interview turns Jenna into a stage mom and Tracy, Dot Com and Grizz are creating a tv show. Original Air Date: October 7, 2010 Love the pod? Join our Patreon pa...

Liz  makes a joke about Jack being an old dad that sends him into a video-recording frenzy, Liz’s mojo has attracted the attention of Ritchie from the editing bay (Paul Giamatti) and Tracy is on his way to be with Angie at the birth of their daughter - but first he has to answer a series of trivia questions in the Cash Cab (with Ben Bailey). Original Air Date: September 30, 2010 Love the pod?...

Jack is settling in blissfully with Avery and encourages Liz to get into an “adult dude” situation with Carol (Matt Damon) instead of living in a hotel-centric limbo. Meanwhile, Jenna comes back for season 5 as a producer/business slut and Kenneth tries to adjust to life at CBS. Original Air Date: September 23, 2010 Love the pod? Join our Patreon party! This month we've got a bonus episode on Matt...

Season 4 wraps with the day of a thousand weddings! Or at least 3, all of which Liz is in. After overstaying her welcome on Floyd and Kaitlin’s alter, Liz runs an errand to Wesley Snipes’ office that may change her life (it’s Matt Damon). Jack finally has to make a decision between Nancy and Avery, Jenna learns to share with Cher and Kenneth gets fired and has one of the most heartfelt drunk rants...

Liz Lemon is entirely fine showing up to most of the upcoming weddings alone - but not Floyd's. So she goes through her ex-boyfriend rolodex and checks in with Dr. Drew (Jon Hamm) who now has hooks for hands, Dennis Duffy (Dean Winters) who is attempting an even better “balloon boy” stunt, and finally lands on Wesley Snipes (Michael Sheen) as his only downside is that she hates him. Meanwhile Jack...

There are guest stars galore as all the moms come back for a special Mother’s Day episode of TGS. Colleen (Elaine Stritch) pulls the cord on Jack dating both Avery and Nancy, Margaret Lemon (Anita Gillette) convinces Liz to settle (while also revealing that Buzz Aldrin was her first love), Jan Hooks returns as Jenna’s manipulative mother Verna (with rompers in tow) and Novella Nelson plays herself...

Wedding season approaches at 30 Rock and now Grizz is getting in on the action, with the big question being: who will be the best man? Jack inherits a peacock (Argus) from Don Geiss’ estate and the living dinosaur is able to help Jack come to terms with his loss, we meet Jenna’s new boyfriend/her impersonator, Paul (Will Forte), and Liz just keeps trying to get to the gym. Original Air Date: April...

To avoid the looming Avery v. Nancy decision, Jack turns his attention instead to an urgent janitorial negotiation between Khonani (Kapil Bawa) and Subhas (Subhas Ramasaywack). Liz is very unhappy to find she’s been excluded from her work family’s weekly karaoke night, but eventually finds strength in her role as mama dog for the TGS cast and crew and gets her windmill high five with her pal/co-ma...

Jack is boasting about his easy, breezy relationship with Avery (Elizabeth Banks), when Nancy Donovan (Julianne Moore) bursts back into his office and life and forces the eternal question: Lee Marvin or Derek Jeter? Liz is hitting up the YMCA dating circuit, and Toofer stands up the affirmative action. Original Air Date: April 22, 2010 Love the pod? Join our Patreon party! You can find us at patre...

Liz’s ex-boyfriend Floyd (Jason Sudeikis) is waiting outside her window… to win a Today Show wedding with his new girlfriend Kaitlin. Liz decides to make him pay for her heartbreak in booze-laden salmon - a bold move, but not enough to earn her silver panther status with Jack and Danny. Meanwhile, Pete’s strategy for keeping Jenna and Tracy distracted is facial plaster casts and lots and lots and...

Don Geiss, America and Hope Jack struggles to navigate the dual trauma of losing his mentor, Dan Goose, and being bought out by Kabletown until he invents porn for women (featuring Astronaut Mike Dexter). And Liz feels fated to continue dating Wesley Snipes (Michael Sheen) until she resolves not to settle and discovers Astronaut Mike Dexter on a new cable channel. Original Air Date: March 18, 2010...

Liz is intrigued when she realizes that she added a new contact called ‘future husband’ while under the influence of post-root canal anesthesia - and then disappointed when the universe continues to pair her with the dull and cruel Wesley (Michael Sheen). Jack and Avery (Elizabeth Banks) face their first real test as a couple when GE’s (and Jack’s) future look uncertain and Avery wants the scoop a...

Liz decides to face down cupid by scheduling a root canal for February 14 and renaming it ‘Anna Howard Shaw’ day. Meanwhile, Jack meets a match while appearing on ‘The Hot Box’ with Avery Jessup (Elizabeth Banks) and Jenna mourns the loss of her stalker (Horatio Sanz). Post-surgery, Liz hallucinates her all-star lineup of exes (Dean Winters, Jason Sudeikis and Jon Hamm) who are put to, as Jon Bon...

Jenna’s got drama when her opportunistic mother, Verna, shows up (played by Jan Hooks). Luckily, Jack’s got a presentation and detailed plan of how to handle manipulative mothers. Meanwhile, Liz and Frank become roommates and try to make each other better through shame, competition and night vision spy cams and Kenneth has many stories to tell to an increasingly unwell Pete. Original Air Date: Feb...

It’s January and everyone’s feeling cranky at TGS, so Liz and Pete decide to bring the show to Florida for the week. However, the plan gets hi-Jacked and everybody has to go to Boston so Jack can continue his accent and espionage-laden pursuit of Nancy Donovan (Julianne Moore). Original Air Date: January 21, 2010 Want more Nick and Julie? Check out their other podcast: Takes All Over the Place - w...

A black light TGS afterparty reveals a lot: Kenneth’s wooden teeth, Lutz’s bra, and evidence of Danny, the actor/robot, on our favorite head writer. When Jack finds out, he decides Liz’s dalliances may cost him a rare bromance so he sabotages it the only way he knows how - with lies painfully disguised as confessions. Meanwhile, Jenna’s gonna be Madonna and Sue is infantilized in Tracy’s entourage...

It’s a new year at 30 Rock and everyone is celebrating their start to 2010: Liz’s cousin Randy came out to the family (she outed him), Jack drank and purged toxic wine (and left a drunken message on Julianne Moore’s answering machine), Jenna committed herself (a human woman), to a faux relationship with James Franco, and Tracy believes he conceived his baby girl (details spared). Let the New Years...

Liz and Jack take a big step in their relationship and decide to give each other gifts this holiday season. Jack convinces Liz to commit to thoughtful gift-giving, Liz convinces Jack that they should spend zero dollars, and guest appearances from their high school crushes ensue (Julianne Moore and Larry Wilcox). Meanwhile in the writer’s room the boys are trying to get out of Kenneth’s Secret Sant...

Liz is ready to host her very own talk show, Dealbreakers, until Jack totally freaks out and ruins everything - but mostly Liz’s hair. As Liz descends into actor madness, Frank has to step up into her head writer spot (which gets weird) and Tracy seeks the council of Whoopi Goldberg in his pursuit of an EGOT and a daughter (they’re related). Original Air Date: December 3, 2009 Want more Nick and J...

Liz gets several unpleasant surprises in this episode - first with the news that her apartment building is being turned into condos and then when she realizes what Frank’s really been putting in those jars in the window (it’s pee). But that’s nothing compared to the devastation Jack faces watching Don Geiss publicly suffer because of his children. Jack and Tracy resolve to get matching vasectomies...

The natural 30 Rock order is undone by the arrival of new cast member Danny (formerly Jack) Baker (Cheyenne Jackson). Liz and Jack go on a romantic date and then launch into a vindictive battle over the Dealbreakers talk show, Tracy and Jenna join forces to solve the problems of others, and Kenneth’s brain almost breaks when Danny refuses his services. It must be Opposite Day. Original Air Date: N...

The big day has finally arrived, Liz and Pete have found their new actor - Jayden Michael Tyler (Nick Fondulis) - they just need to employ the Hornberger system to get Jack to believe Jayden is his pick. Jenna crashes the party and calls Tracy to an actor emergency where they scour the streets of New York to turn Liz and Jack’s carefully formulated audition day into a talent show free-for-all. Dis...

Liz and Jack continue the quest to find a new cast member, but it turns out Kenneth’s home town of Stone Mountain, Georgia is a more of a dead-end than the “Real America” comedy haven they were hoping to find. Back at 30 Rock, the writers finally see a reason to be Jenna’s friend and Tracy is worried that he may be the next celebrity to die - unless he can kill Betty White or Jimmy Fallon first… O...