30 ROCK: APOLLO, APOLLO (TV)
Summary
One in this comedy series about the cast and production team of a sketch comedy television show. In this episode, Jack prepares for his fiftieth birthday celebration, and Liz is exasperated to learn that Tracy intends to travel into space. Her odious ex-boyfriend Dennis then arrives and announces that he is a sex addict and wants to make amends, though she quickly throws him out. At the office, Jack views a home movie of an early birthday, amused at his own youthful exuberance, and realizes that he has nearly completed his childhood list of life goals and only needs to meet Batman to finish it. As Jenna prepares to play Peter Pan in a sketch, Liz is shocked when Dennis calls Jenna's phone and makes the same apology speech regarding their sexual history. Jack decides to humor Tracy and allow him to "fulfill" his childhood dream by elaborately faking a space-shuttle launch, and Liz confronts Jenna about sleeping with her ex, but declares that she will not allow him to destroy their "strong female friendship." Jack realizes that he is not at all "happier than ever," thanks to some unintentionally pointed comments from Kenneth and his unique worldview. Jenna and Liz find Dennis and inform him that he means nothing to either one of them, though Liz is upset to learn that their dalliance took place in her own home.
A depressed Jack dismisses all of his partygoers, including special guest Adam West, and tells Liz that he wants to recapture the innocent happiness he felt at his childhood birthday. Pete and the others work diligently to convince a blindfolded Tracy that he has arrived in Cape Canaveral, and Jenna is outraged when Liz "tries to kill her" by allowing her to crash to the ground during the Peter Pan rehearsal, though Liz suggests that they are now "even." Jack learns that the present depicted in the video had something to do with "Apollo" and buys himself an expensive lunar module model, and an excited Tracy calls in from "outer space," having been successfully fooled into believing that he is on a shuttle. Determined to win Jenna's forgiveness, Liz reluctantly allows her to tell the writers one of her more embarrassing secrets, and they are all delighted to view her somewhat-less-than-sexy "chat line" commercial from her early days as a wannabe-actress. Jack finds himself greatly amused by the video as well, and concludes that Liz is greatly important to his life. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: March 26, 2009 9:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:21:17
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: 110449
- GENRE: Comedy
- SUBJECT HEADING: African-American Collection - Comedy; Comedy; Television writers; Women's Collection - Comedy
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 2006-2013
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Marci Klein … Executive Producer
- David Miner … Executive Producer
- Lorne Michaels … Executive Producer
- Tina Fey … Executive Producer, Created by
- Robert Carlock … Executive Producer, Writer
- John Riggi … Co-Executive Producer
- Jack Burditt … Co-Executive Producer
- Ron Weiner … Co-Executive Producer
- Matt Hubbard … Supervising Producer
- Jeff Richmond … Supervising Producer, Music by
- Alec Baldwin … Producer
- Jerry Kupfer … Producer
- Don Scardino … Producer
- Diana Schmidt … Co-Producer
- Irene Burns … Co-Producer
- Lindsay Shookus … Associate Producer
- Eric Gurian … Associate Producer
- Andrew Singer … Associate Producer
- Shannon J. Fogarty … Associate Producer
- Jon Pollack … Consulting Producer
- Millicent Shelton … Director
- Tina Fey … Cast, Liz Lemon
- Tracy Morgan … Cast, Tracy Jordan
- Jane Krakowski … Cast, Jenna Maroney
- Jack McBrayer … Cast, Kenneth Parcell
- Scott Adsit … Cast, Pete Hornberger
- Judah Friedlander … Cast, Frank Rossitano
- Alec Baldwin … Cast, Jack Donaghy
- Katrina Bowden … Cast, Cerie
- Keith Powell … Cast, Toofer
- Kevin Brown … Cast, Dot Com
- Grizz Chapman … Cast, Grizz
- Maulik Pancholy … Cast, Jonathan
- Dean Winters … Cast, Dennis Duffy
- Adam West … Cast, Himself
- John Lutz … Cast, J.D. Lutz
- Mark Lotito … Cast, Jimmy
- Timothy Mandala … Cast, Mark
- Dylan Marshall … Cast, Young Jack
- Leslie Meisel … Cast, Wendy
- Joey Mazzarino … Cast, Puppeteer
- Carmen Osbahr … Cast, Puppeteer
- Theo Stockman … Cast, Ephraim
- Matt Vogel … Cast, Puppeteer