30 Rock Today You Are a Man Review

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xxx Rock
Today Y'all Are A Man

Original Air Date: February 2, 2012

Valentina D. – Senior Reviewer
valentina@thetwocentscorp.com

This calendar week, TGS goes through some major behind the scenes milkshake-ups. Liz is greeted past her old agent Simon (in his signature oversized adapt, no less), who tells her the six-year-one-time contract she originally signed is well-nigh up and Jack has sent her a new one. She's a smart one, though, as she refuses to sign the aforementioned deal and tries her paw at negotiating kickoff.

Kenneth is back after his brief dismissal and he'due south thrilled to be serving the TGS team once again. He's shocked and hurt when he realizes the writers' room didn't even notice he was missing. Is this the last harbinger for our favourite NBC page? Find out later on the bound!

Liz confronts Jack about new contract negotiations and makes her demands known, including a existent hospital bed in her office. Jack has other things on his mind, all the same, as he realizes in that location are no challenges left at Kabletown and he's feeling quite useless. In one case a shark, he now tries to fight the notion that he no longer has any seize with teeth. Feeling desperate, Liz meets Simon to go over demands at the library and finds a DVD that will make this ordeal a lot easier for her: a seminar called "Negotiating to Win," presented by none other than Jack Donaghy. For once, Liz officially has the upper manus.

In the writers' room, the scribes are surprised to find that Kenneth has switched assignments with Hazel (the very funny Kristen Schaal, who some might remember from Flight of the Conchords) and he now works over at The Suze Orman Show. The merely offset to feel the loss of Kenneth when Hazel gives Frank peanuts (he'due south allergic) and Toofer's Starbucks cup reads "the black one." The writers concur that they demand to beg Kenneth to come up back to TGS. Except…what if Kenneth doesn't want to come back?

On his new consignment, Kenneth is spilling his feelings to Suze Orman who helps him realize he has money problems and not emotional problems. He seems unsure only when the writers come up calling and fail to reply his 1 question ("When is my birthday?"), Kenneth declares he's going to quit the page programme once and for all and notice a existent, well-paying job.

The next time we come across Liz, she'south in Jack's office and she'southward dressed in a business suit with her hair harshly pulled back. She's obviously been taking notes from Jack's school of negotiation and he picks upwards on it right away, just surprisingly, he isn't fazed. Jack claims this act has leveled the playing field between the both of them and now, information technology's like he's negotiating with himself, or as Jack likes to telephone call it, it'south now a "Jack-Off."

The two meet at Tasti D-Lite, or Liz'due south version of an "role." She tries to one-upwards Jack but he matches and goes beyond every tactic she pulls out. Recall, Jack basically wrote the book on business organisation negotiation. When it looks like she lost, Jack confronts himself in the mirror and negotiates with himself, and the coming together ends with Liz winning through Jack! Back at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, Jack gives Liz the contract she asked for and admitting he was e'er going to take care of her anyway.

Under the guise of a "Bye Kenneth" brunch, Kenneth is lured back to TGS to mind to a speech by Jenna and Tracy, who have just spent the day entertaining at their auditor's son's Bar Mitzvah. While at the commemoration, the infamously difficult duo learned to compromise and go more agreeable in gild for the festivities to go smoothly. The writers are sure Tracy will convince Kenneth to stay since he depends on Kenneth for generally everything, but their expectations are met with a huge curveball. Tracy tells Kenneth to get because the page program is a dead end for him and information technology would be selfish to enquire him to stay.

With Tracy'southward blessing, Kenneth marches into Jack'due south role and says he's set to discuss new opportunities because later on six years, he's finally quitting the page plan.

What did yous think of this episode? Are you shocked that Kenneth is set up to hang up his folio's jacket? Maybe he can be a new assistant for Liz? Share your TwoCents beneath!

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