Blerg! A 30 Rock Podcast

Blamo! Liz’s book ‘Dealbreakers’ has hit the shelves and everyone’s pretty mad about it, even Mike, the bookstore employee (played by Jon Glaser). Devon Banks (Will Arnett) is back to hold Jack to account in a fit of congressional oversight and to engage in some gravel-voiced gay-smr. And Kenneth saves a lot of dogs and, of course, it somehow becomes Liz’s problem. Original Air Date: October 22, 2...

It’s Season 4 and the gang is celebrating with dinner at Season 4: a restaurant where you can eat like “the rest of America.” Cheesy blaster anyone? Jack’s on a mission to bring Tracy, Jenna and Liz back in touch with the heartland by telling them to meet people, go country and find a more relatable actor (respectively). Meanwhile, Kenneth leads a strike to get proof of Jack’s hypocrisy and deceit...

Jack’s new father, Milton Greene (Alan Alda), is excited to meet his son but also sad because he could die at any minute. Jack decides to do whatever he can (short of giving his own kidney) to save him and calls in favors from more music superstars than we can fit in this description to put on the benefit concert of Milton Greene’s life. Meanwhile Tracy goes on an emotional journey back to his hig...

Jack decides he needs to learn who is real father is and, to Liz’s delight, he chooses a Mamma Mia situation to lure the unsuspecting candidates to 30 Rock. Meanwhile, Tracy is funding a dojo/community center through Donald - a man who is not his son and Jenna is starting get buzz for the catchphrase “that’s a dealbreaker ladies” and Liz is totally fine with not getting the writing credit. Origina...

Liz and Tracy have a stand-off about fair treatment but quickly realize the grass is not greener, Jack is find himself defending Colleen (Elaine Stritch) and confronting his daddy issues, and Jenna puts several of her issues on display with her new child, the gibbon. Original Air Date: April 30, 2009 Want more Nick and Julie? Check out their other podcast: Takes All Over the Place - wherever you g...

Jack is ready to commit to Elisa (Salma Hayek), until he learns the origin story behind the hit song “La Viuda Negra,” Tracy has been committed to Angie for 20 years and needs to find the right gift to acknowledge the milestone, Jenna is committed to getting the cute EMT back to 30 Rock by any means necessary and Liz just wants to eat her night cheese. Original Air Date: April 23, 2009 Want more N...

Liz is on S-E-X probation but can’t get into the rhythm of not working, until she meets her neighbor Emily (Elizabeth Marvel) and joins her ladies group/fight club. Meanwhile Jenna’s movie about Janis Joplin, err Jackie Jormp-Jomp, is finally out and she and Jack head to the Kid’s Choice Awards to promote it. Original Air Date: April 16, 2009 Want more Nick and Julie? Check out their other podcast...

Times are tough at 30 Rock and Jack endures hard conversations and awkward propositions to deal with mandatory budget cuts. Meanwhile, Liz plays up her Steve Jobs energy and her sexuality to no avail, and Tracy and Jenna band together to become heroes by unmasking Kenneth as a murderer.  Original Air Date: April 9, 2009 Want more Nick and Julie? Check out their pop culture show: Takes All Ove...

Today we're off to space like a misguided, self-absorbed billionaire. Unlike the Bezos/Branson debacle, though, one of today's plots involves a misguided, self-absorbed *millionaire*. A man by the name of Tracy Jordan. In other plot points, Jack attempts to recapture the vomitous excitement of his youth and Liz & Jenna's already tenuous frenemyship is threatened by a recently self-diagnosed se...

Walking through life with Dr. Drew (Jon Hamm), Liz gets to experience how the hotter half lives: In a bubble of free drinks, off-menu ordering, and delusion. Rather than stay there with the handsome (but underwhelming) Drew, Liz decides to burst the bubble - it goes great! In other plots, Jack accidentally negotiates Tracy out of a job and threatens his relationship with Kenneth and Jenna seeks at...

Liz has new plastic containers and a new beginning…also jury duty. Jack has a microwave that fits in your pocket and can go in the shower…it just needs a name and legal’s approval. Jenna is trying an experimental upper along with the lab rats…that should be fine. And Tracy has enough money to say anything and pay any FCC fine…so no worries there. This could be the best day ever! Or the worst. Orig...

Without Elisa around, Jack finds himself bonding with Frank, Lutz, Harry and the Hendersons while Liz inappropriately befriends a pregnant teen hoping to snag that baby and Jenna has to do her favorite thing: share. Original Air Date: March 5, 2009 Want more Nick and Julie? Check out their other podcast: Takes All Over the Place - wherever you get your podcasts. They can also be found on social @t...

The whole of New York is whipped into a fearful frenzy during Tracy Jordan's chaotic, yet cryptic interview on Larry King. Will the relationships of 30 Rock survive the fallout? Honestly, probably. But, like counting luftballoons, it shan't be easy. Original Air Date: February 26, 2009 Want more Nick and Julie? Check out their other podcast: Takes All Over the Place - wherever you get your podcast...

It’s Valentine’s Day at 30 Rock and all the traditional romantic staples are in play: well-intentioned ventriloquy, intestinal distress, light sacrilege, and Michael MacDonald. Sort of. Just another normal holiday spent with the goons we most adore. Original airdate: February 12, 2009 Want more Nick and Julie? Check out their other podcast: Takes All Over the Place - wherever you get your podcasts...

This week’s 30 Rock provides the dramatic twists and turns of a telenovela: Jack must confront a gay, Latin version of himself to stay close to Salma Hayek (fair), Liz perpetrates crimes through the mail and otherwise to win the heart of Jon Hamm (also fair) and Tracy spends too much time trying to impress Wall Street date rapists (less fair). Original airdate: February 5, 2009 Want more Nick and...

Welcome to B.L.E.R.G! (Buddies Loquaciously Expressing Rudimentary Garbage). On this episode, we join Jack and Liz in the synergistic corporate mumbo-jumbo conference that is Six Sigma’s “Retreat to Move Forward.” Back at 30 Rock, Kenneth gets health conscious and tries to cure Tracy of diabetes and Jenna is arguably too committed to her Janis Joplin character development. Original airdate: Januar...

A nasty virus has overtaken the staff at 30 Rock and Liz has to decide if she’ll stand with the crew against the unjust vaccination policy, or get her shot so she can enjoy beach socks and a vacation lover. Meanwhile, Jack takes Elisa for a night on the town with her charge Mr. Templeton in tow and Tracy and Jenna forget to buy soup for the sick crew. Original airdate: January 15, 2009 Want more N...

Liz is baby crazy and has boundary issues so finds herself fearfully dating Stewart from the UN (Peter Dinklage), Jack - despite his best efforts to remain Señor Macho Solo - falls for his mother's new nurse Elisa (Selma Hayek), and Jenna gets into the character of Janis Joplin to the degree that copyright law will allow.  Original airdate: January 8, 2009 Want more Nick and Julie? Check out...

The holiday season has everyone keyed up: Jack accidentally breaks both of his mother’s hips (the incomparable Elaine Stritch), Liz tries to pacify lonliness and white guilt with the Letters to Santa program, Jenna’s drinking high-proof Christmas Spirit and Pete wants to make sure they get their quadruple overtime. Original airdate: December 11, 2008 Want more Nick and Julie? Check out their other...

Dreams are dashed and fantasies shattered as Jack finds out Don Geiss will live and rule forever, Liz learns she was a snarky, hated bully in high school, and Tracy and Jenna can’t stop Kenneth from being the funniest guy on the elevator. Featuring Robyn Lively, Janel Moloney, Diane Neal and Steve Witting as Liz’s classmates. Original airdate: December 4, 2008 Want more Nick and Julie? Check out t...

Liz and Jack are all dressed up because Steve Martin is guest starring as Gavin Volure, the successful businessman turned agoraphobic germaphobe (or did he?) and he’s having them to dinner. Also in attendance is the brief but brilliant (and loud) John McEnroe. Meanwhile, Tracy has become convinced that his boys are going to Menendez him and he is able to put the Japanese sex doll himself to good u...

Liz and Jenna get a surprise visit from their crazy friend Claire (Jennifer Aniston) who briefly tears through 30 Rock, doing some serious damage to Jack’s psyche and arrest record. Meanwhile, Tracy tries to mollify Kenneth’s uniform concerns by reuniting (some of) the cast of Night Court (Markie Post, Harry Anderson and Charlie Robinson). Original airdate: November 13, 2008 www.takespod.com/blerg...

Season 3 starts on a sunny note! Jack has returned from DC and is ready to work his way back up the GE ladder and Liz is interviewing for adoption agencies - both ready to take on long-term, exhaustive projects and accomplish them as quickly as possible, maybe 9 years, 15 tops! As the episode progresses, they lose some moral fortitude, but none of the commitment to meeting their goals. Featuring t...

It’s the Season 2 finale and all the things are happening! Jack’s in DC with his new boss Cooter Burger (the amazing Matthew Broderick), Liz thinks she’s pregnant with Dennis Duffy’s baby, Kenneth runs the gauntlet to be an NBC page at the Beijing Olympics and Tracy and Frank finally finish their porn video game. Original airdate: May 8, 2008 www.takespod.com Follow us @blergpodcast for new episod...

Floyd’s back (Jason Sudeikis) and Liz tries to have a Marcia moment. It would have been flawless except Floyd just won’t leave! In the writers room, “Sandwich Day” has filled everyone’s minds and bellies and, against their better judgment, the writers eat Liz’s sandwich…and then spend the rest of the episode in a drinking contest with the teamsters trying to get her another one. Original airdate:...