30 Rock: 2.10 ‘Episode 210’ Recap
Original Air Date: January 10, 2008
JACK advises LIZ to buy some real estate to beef up her finances, and TRACY buys the office a cappuccino machine to make up for a large costumed person attacking JANE in his dream. The delivery people put the appliance on KEN’s desk, who doesn’t want it there since he doesn’t even drink coffee or any other hot beverages. Why? Well, because hot is “the devil’s temperature,” silly.
Jack is also interested in purchasing Germany’s largest network to cut into Europe’s television market. Meanwhile, his relationship with C.C. is going well, with both of them agreeing to meet each other halfway. Jack even invites Gladys Knight, C.C.’s favorite singer, to The Girly Show.
At Jane’s suggestion, Liz checks out an available apartment in the Windmere co-op building, and Liz loves it enough to make an offer. All that’s left is getting approved by the co-op board.
Back at work, Ken takes a sip of Tracy’s coffee, and it’s instant addiction. Soon, he’s lapping up coffee straight out of the pot because the beverage makes him feel like his heart is trying to hug his brain. When Liz asks him later to watch some German tapes (Jack gave them to her to analyze) and write summaries so she can make it to her meeting with the co-op board, Ken’s so strung out on caffeine, it’s not clear whether he understands.
Jack takes C.C.’s suggestion that they meet each other halfway literally, and he sets up a get-together at a spot halfway in distance between New York and Washington D.C., the mining town Hockassin. As they walk in a park, both throw their cellphones into the pond.
At the co-op board meeting, Liz screws everything up royally for some reason. She acts really giddy, as if she’s high, noting such weird stuff as that she and all three members are white and that she thought she didn’t have to repay one of her student loans because the school lost its accreditation. The meeting ends with one member handing her a tissue while informing her she has something coming out of her nose.
The next day at work, Jane tells Liz she missed the sound check with Gladys Knight and asks Liz if she knew they replace the Pips every five years like in Menudo (Duh!). Liz is just anxious to hear back from the co-op board, who said they’d call. Then she gets agitated when Jack’s assistant tells her the Germans have arrived a day early and she has to deal with them since Jack’s nowhere to be found.
Ken’s off in an office pumped up with caffeine and playing around with pillows, so Liz puts on an appropriately ugly dress — because everyone knows Germans have no fashion sense — and meets with the three Germans. Her broken German serves just fine … until one of the visitors replies in rapid-fire speech that goes way over Liz’s head. She responds by buying their television studio.
Tracy finally gets rid of the espresso machine due to Ken’s inability to handle caffeine. Ken feels as if it’s too late, though. He’s already been “sodomized” by New York, the 21st century city of Sodom, because he not only “rode the brown serpent” (as Tracy calls it), but saw a PG-13 movie, tried a Jewish donut, and bought a pair of sunglasses.
That night, Liz gets drunk on wine and makes a series of increasingly threatening and ridiculous phone calls to the co-op board. Then she returns to work the next morning with a hangover to learn the worst news possible. She didn’t buy the German TV studio. She actually sold NBC to the Germans because she mixed up the verbs “verkaufen” (“to sell” in German) and “kaufen” (“to buy”).
Jack’s not too angry, however. To him, the incident just underscores why it’s impossible to have success and love, both of which require everything from a person. That’ why he has to decide between his job and C.C.
So, Jack returns to Hockassin and speaks with C.C. on the phone. He learns she missed a voting session when she was last with him, and she’s decided that she can’t continue their relationship. Jack has chosen her, but when his boss Don Geiss calls while she’s rambling on the phone, he takes the call. When he returns to the line with C.C., they break up with the hope they can make it work in another life.
At 30 Rock, Ken gets all dolled up again in his farmboy jean overalls and bids goodbye to Tracy, DOT COM, and GRIZZ, who are all shocked that he plans to return to Georgia. Tracy is hurt that he’ll have no one to help him tell white people apart now, and Grizz is sad to lose his speed-dating wingman. Ken claims he’ll miss Grizz the most.
As Ken walks out the doors, Tracy and his boys start singing “Midnight Train to Georgia” with Jane, Liz, Jack, C.C., and Ken all eventually joining in. During the number, Liz bumps into the co-op board on the street and learns the apartment is going to another woman, and Ken returns when he misses his train. Gladys Knight gets the last laugh in, though, when she asks what’s going on with all the singing when she’s trying to take a nap.
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