30 ROCK “A Chain Of Mental Anguish” Review

30 ROCK “A Chain Of Mental Anguish” Season 5 Episode 9 – Last night’s episode was probably the best I’ve seen of the fifth season of 30 Rock. The show went on an absolute looper as Tracy’s son Donald, who is two years his senior, shows up to borrow money from Tracy. He has good intentions: starting up a restaurant. Unfortunately his intentions suck. He organizes a Japanese monster fight at the brand new restaurant called Staples (tables are not required at this restaurant) and when Jack rips his plans down, he goes on to bigger, better and bolder things, including a microwave yogurt company called “Micro-soft” or an air hotline called “American Airlines.” I have to say, Jack’s protein and amino acids speech was the best laugh out loud moment of the episode. And I literally laughed out loud.

Meanwhile Jenna’s relationship with Paul, her drag queen look a like, is deteriorating. Not only does he want to take her to the “soo-borbs” (Liz: “suburbs”) to meet his parents, but he refuses, sadly, to make a sex tape with her (he’s just not the gentleman Jenna thought he was). One again Jane Krakowski nails the totally over the top, wacko, hyper sexualized comedy to a tea.

Liz seeks relationship counsel (again) this time from Kenneth, who takes on a Dr Freudesque persona as he delves into her issues, which brings up some of the hilarious childhood sequences from her including eggs and Santa betrayals (where the child Liz is hilariously portrayed by a young boy), and some repressed childhood memories.

Some of the funniest lines of this highly quotable episode were:

Paul: “Jenna and I are mirroring until we achieve touchless orgasms. Eh…finished.”

Jack to Liz: “I’m tired of talking this much to a woman I’m not having sex with.”

Liz: “Jack, what makes a guy get bored in a dating situation.”
Jack: “That’s an excellent question. The answer is: questions like that.”

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