Dearest Gemstones! Can you believe we've made it to the end of this journey?! Thank you so much for spending time with us watching the funniest show ever. We've all got a little (or a lot) of Liz, Jack, Tracy and Jenna in our hearts and our jokes. Enjoy this send off to a joyful rewatch (re-act) of a show that brings us so much joy, and keep an eye…

We’ve reached the end of the 30 Rock series and are as distressed as the writer’s faced with Blimpies for lunch, as emotional as Jack after a fight with Liz and as satisfied as Kenneth planning the future of NBC programming. These really have been the best days of our flurm. Join us next week for a series wrap wrap wrap-up! Original Air Date: Janua…

Liz’s plate and DVR are full as she and Criss discover their twins are arriving in a matter of days, TGS has just one chance to avoid cancellation, and she has been avoiding diving into Treme. Meanwhile, Jack and Kenneth tour prospective NBC CEOs around the building and Tracy and Jenna go on national tv and do nothing to help the TGS cause. Origina…

Tracy tells Liz to be more spontaneous before she becomes a mother, so she joins Jack in Florida and gets arrested at Harry Potter world. Liz’s magic misdemeanors are a welcome distraction for Jack, as unfathomable truths about his late mother come to light. And Tracy and Jenna take on management tasks in a Liz-free 30 Rock and wind up with 3 milli…

Jack makes his biggest play yet to take down high school girl Kaylie Hooper (Chloe Grace Moretz) and be appointed CEO of Kabletown with the unlikely assist from Devin Banks (Will Arnett) and Jenna. Meanwhile, Tracy tries to channel his inner Liz Lemon in order to wrangle Octavia Spencer. Original Air Date: January 10, 2013 Love the pod? Join our Pa…

Ms. Liz Lemon is a married woman who is receiving an award and in doing so is stealing Jenna’s life-spanning thunder, Colleen (Elaine Stritch) comes to New York for a final visit with Jack and a laundry list of tasks and wishes for her death, and Kenneth is upset so Tracy tries to cheer him up with Florence Henderson and tv inspired hijinks. Origin…

Liz and Criss are getting married! Top gun style. For practical adoption reasons. Until a very purple turtleneck and memories from beneath her underwear ball, encourage Liz to embrace her special day. All are invited and in lieu of gifts they will accept popcorn. Original Air Date: November 29, 2012 Love the pod? Join our Patreon party! You can fin…

Jack inspires laughter everywhere he goes thanks to Tracy’s new Aunt Phatso movie which uses Jack as villainous inspiration, Liz needs bunion surgery to prove she can be a mother and Hazel Wassername returns sensing a rhythmic gymnastic opportunity. Original Air Date: November 15, 2012 Love the pod? Join our Patreon party! You can find us at patreo…

Liz and Jack take the stage in a debate about which presidential candidate will be the best for Jenna Maroney, Pete desperately tries to re-ignite that 2008 Obama-based spark with the security guard Maria, and Kenneth casts his first ballot on the wings of an eagle. Original Air Date: October 31, 2012 Love the pod? Join our Patreon party! You can f…

Jenna has become a northern Florida sensation with her Jimmy Buffet-esque song and her Crabcatcher following has taken over the 30 Rock plaza. Jack invites Liz to be his bait …errr chum at a Republican fundraiser and Tracy winds up helping Liz to fight for the side of ideas and Obama. Original Air Date: October 25, 2012 Love the pod? Join our Patre…

Jack thought he was Steve McQueen in The Great Escape but it turns out he’s just an aging Pokemon, Jenna decides to lean into getting older, and Liz is determined to prove to Tracy that women are funny…or at least funnier than a monkey. Original Air Date: October 18, 2012 Love the pod? Join our Patreon party! You can find us at patreon.com/takespod…

Jack and Liz’s plans to destroy NBC are derailed by a Vice Presidential candidate who looks like Tracy and is comedic gold. Meanwhile Kenneth’s mom (Catherine O’Hara) and her friend Ron (Bryan Cranston) come to visit and Jenna tries to steal helps bring their family together. Original Air Date: October 11, 2012 Love the pod? Join our Patreon party!…

Big things are happening as we enter the final season of 30 Rock: Liz and Criss are thinking about starting family, Jenna is going to get married, Tracy owns his own movie studio, Jack’s going to tank NBC and Kenneth hosts a dinner party! Original Air Date: October 4, 2012 Love the pod? Join our Patreon party! You can find us at patreon.com/takespo…

Jack and Avery attempt to defeat their past year by renewing their vows, Tracy looks for a role model and Jenna helps Kenneth see Hazel’s evil ways. Meanwhile Liz and Criss get closer to having a plant - squee! Original Air Date: May 17, 2012 Love the pod? Join our Patreon party! You can find us at patreon.com/takespod and choose the level (adventu…

Avery’s back! Let the psycho-sexual mind games begin. Criss is earning his keep and his rewards from Liz with Crisspoints and Jenna is being trained like a southern "Fair Lady” by Kenneth and Tracy to prepare for her wedding sponsorship. Original Air Date: May 10, 2012 Love the pod? Join our Patreon party! You can find us at patreon.com/takespod an…

We’re back in Angie’s (Sherri Shephard’s) world and there is an excess of rude. Jack and Diana (Mary Steenburgen) cover up their forbidden desires with Gus and Rus, Liz gets into a feud with baby Virginia and Kenneth fights a cord - all during Angie’s fashion show! Original Air Date: May 3, 2012 Love the pod? Join our Patreon party! You can find us…

Liz and Criss (James Marsden) consider parenthood, Jack tries to make bad couches happen and Jenna goes full crisis mode over Paul and Tracy lends a hand. Original Air Date: April 19, 2012 Love the pod? Join our Patreon party! You can find us at patreon.com/takespod and choose the level (adventure) that works for you. Want more Nick and Julie? Chec…

Jack’s mother Colleen (Elaine Stritch) is in town for heart surgery just in time to ruin his couch factory opening. Tracy’s trying to convince his son not to go to college and Jenna is dating a Woggel. Original Air Date: April 12, 2012 Love the pod? Join our Patreon party! You can find us at patreon.com/takespod and choose the level (adventure) tha…

Jack doesn’t want to read the team’s self-evaluations, so he messes with Pete’s life instead. Meanwhile the writers are messing with Jenna, Kenneth is being very honest with her, and Liz is Tracy’s new dad thanks to her hair pomade and his renewed sense of smell. Original Air Date: April 5, 2012 Love the pod? Join our Patreon party! You can find us…

After a meeting with her accountant, Liz realizes she may be in a bit of a rut. She turns to meditation while Jack tries put-put, but really they both just need each other to work through their problems. Meanwhile Tracy works on his taxes and Jenna avoids the theater (when she should have been avoiding Hazel). Original Air Date: March 29, 2012 Love…

It’s time to start working on Kidnapped By Danger - the Avery Jessup TV movie. Jack and Liz are having creative differences in the script writing process, Jenna and Tracy are trying to rewrite the song for the film so that Weird Al can’t parody it, and Avery’s mother, Diana (Mary Steenburgen), strikes up a romance with the actor playing Jack (Willi…

Jack’s getting desperate to get Avery back, so desperate he’ll talk to Matt Lauer and hire Jenna to play her in a TV movie. Meanwhile, Liz takes on Hazel Wassername as a mentee and Kenneth gets chosen as the contest winner for a walk-on role on TGS - where he forces Tracy to take his medicine. Original Air Date: March 22, 2012 Love the pod? Join ou…

It’s Irish mayhem and Liz thinks she can hide away from it all with Criss (James Marsden), but celebratory chaos shows up at her door in the form of Dennis Duffy (Dean Winters). Meanwhile, Jack becomes very invested in a Settlers-type board game with the writers and Hazel makes Jenna and Tracy rivals again. Original Air Date: March 12, 2012 Love th…

For the holiday week, we're taking a little break and bringing back one of our favorite 30 Rock Christmas episodes. Jack accidentally hits Colleen with his car, Liz get overly invested in Letters to Santa and Pete wants quadruple overtime. Happy Holidays Gemstones!! We're so grateful for you all!

The finale of America’s Kids Got Singing is sabotaged by Jack’s nemesis Kaylie Hooper (Chloe Grace Moretz), so he goes into battle mode and Kenneth goes into censor mode on all late night tv, including TGS. While Liz tries to fight off Kenneth’s restrictions, Jenna tries maintain popularity by introducing the world to her brood of donor egg childre…

Patti LuPone busts back onto the scene as Frank’s mother, Silvia, who is pissed but mostly thrilled that Frankie and Liz are in love. Unfortunately, Frank’s girlfriend Lynn (Susan Sarandon) is under the desk and the truth will come out, putting Liz in the middle (of a mouse pile). Meanwhile, Jack teaches Kenneth paranoia and gets a visit from Stanl…

It’s Leap Day and everyone but Liz is in the holiday spirit. Liz and Jenna end up in a slut off, Tracy tries to find a Leap Day miracle at Benihana, Kenneth has to show Jack the true meaning of the holiday, and in the background Jim Carrey and Andie MacDowell play out the Hollywood version of the holiday. Original Air Date: February 23, 2012 Love t…

Jack feels called to political/vigilante duty after being mugged and Liz feels called away from a life of upright citizenship after receiving indecent and infectious treatment on the subway Only one can prevail as the two battle for the soul and future of NYC. Meanwhile, Jenna and Paul try normaling and Tracy helps Jack with his political campaign …

606+607 | Hey, Baby, What’s Wrong It’s a big one! This double episode opens with the Criss (James Marsden) serenading Liz and closes with Hazel Wassername (Kristen Schaal) going full single white female. And in the meantime, Jack and Avery’s mother, Diana (Mary Steenburgen), fight their feelings, Jenna prepares to sing live through the yips with so…

Liz finds herself in a Jack off as she and Jack renegotiate her contract using the Donaghy Method, Kenneth is hurt because no one noticed his absence and ditches the TGS crew for Suze Orman, and Tracy and Jenna perform as robots at a Bar Mitzvah and learn valuable life lessons. Original Air Date: February 2, 2012 Love the pod? Join our Patreon part…

Jenna has gotten too famous and she and Liz have a falling out. But in their pursuit of friends more like themselves, they realize variety really is the spice of life. Meanwhile Tracy really wants presents so he, Hank Hooper (Ken Howard) is sad, and Jack fired the pages and then made an oopsie daisy. Original Air Date: January 26, 2012 Love the pod…

Jack’s meddling and official disapproval have caused some complications in the Criss/Liz relationship. Meanwhile Jenneth and Kelsey Grammer execute their plan to move a passed-out Pete, Tracy and Denise Richards get Liz to issue a normal apology to the idiot community, and Jack helps Devin Banks (Will Arnett) get his gaybies into private school. Or…

We finally get to meet Criss Chros (James Marsden) and he’s an adorable master of both craft hot dogs and M&M studded pancakes who Jack firmly disapproves of. Meanwhile, Jenna and Kenneth’s light bulb high jinks turn into a rescue mission for Pete that requires the assistance of their old pal Kelsey Grammar and Tracy starts and idiot protest. Origi…

Jenna’s found a new level of cruelty and fame as a judge of America’s Kids Got Singing, alongside John McEnroe and D’Fwan (Tituss Burgess). Liz is uncharacteristically happy after the break and it is freaking Tracy and Jack out. Meanwhile, no one’s worried about Kenneth’s declarations of the end of the times. Original Air Date: January 12, 2012 Lov…

As the TGS team winds down season 5, Jack is in a pretty bad place with the loss of Avery and seeks the comfort of Kenneth, the writers are stuck in the writer’s room in a never-ending video game, and Liz just wants to get away to spend the summer with shapeless clothes and Ina Garten in the Hamptons. Nothing goes to plan - Jenna and Paul can’t be …

Jack accidentally wishes for Avery to stay away more and now she’s a North Korean hostage who’s been married to Kim Jong-un. Liz decides to clean up her other apartment (aka Tracy’s hideout) but quickly get distracted by a single plastic bag in a tree and Tracy can’t accept that his entourage found something funny while he was gone. Original Air Da…

Everyone made it to episode 100! Almost. Hank Hooper (Ken Howard) wants to cut TGS short because of how bad it is without Tracy Jordan and he shows no sign of returning as long as his prestigious reputation remains intact. For added fun, a gas leak in 30 Rock triggers flashbacks, hallucinations and bad decisions. Guest stars galore, including Miche…

Liz and Kenneth can’t stand Tracy’s absence any longer and their hunt finally finds a successful conclusion. With the continued lack of a regular tv show, Jenna does a horror movie in Connecticut, Pete arm wrestles Rob Riggle and Jack brings in Phil Rosenthal (of Everybody Loves Raymond fame) to clean up Take My Hand. Original Air Date: April 14, 2…

With Tracy still hiding out in fake Africa, TGS is put on a forced hiatus and the whole cast and crew looks to their plan Bs. Which is when Liz realizes she doesn’t have one. Jack would love to help, but isn’t doing well at his own job and has to call in gay nemesis Devon Banks (Will Arnett) to help save his new network: TWINKS. Original Air Date: …

We take a break from our typical 30 Rock format and dive straight into Angie’s (Sherri Shepherd) world in an episode of Queen of Jordan. She brings drama, colorful characters and catchphrases galore (ham!). Meanwhile, Frank’s middle school romance with a teacher comes back when Lynn Onkman (Susan Sarandon) gets out of prison. Original Air Date: Mar…

TGS gets (not wrongly) accused of being misogynistic after a series of episodes with Jenna portraying powerful women who are thwarted by their periods. So Liz decides to bring in another writer - Abby Flynn (Cristin Milioti) a comedian who is using her sexuality and baby talk even more blatantly than Jenna. Meanwhile, Jack goes toe-to-toe with a 14…

After her breakup with Carol, Liz has decided to lean full spinster, down to the chip clip turned hair accessory. The entire TGS gang decides to go above and beyond to help Liz have a rebound with a man who turns out to be a Martha Stewart recommended sex worker (Eion Bailey) - it’s a good thing? Meanwhile, Jack is finding that fatherhood is bad fo…

Jack and Liz’s relationships come to a head as their similarities show themselves for the double-edged sword that they are. Jack and Avery head towards the Canadian border in a mobile meth lab (driven by John Cho) before Jack finally quits in deference to Avery and baby’s health. Meanwhile, Liz and Carol (Matt Damon) have an increasingly tense show…

Avery is continuing to hide her pregnancy from her coworkers at 8 months, so when she and Liz run into fellow reporter Carmen Chao (Vanessa Minnillo) Liz goes all-in on her cover that she’s actually the pregnant one. Meanwhile, Jack struggles to adjust to Kabletown’s collaborative culture and Jenna and Tracy fight over a sweatshirt. Original Air Da…

GE’s gone and the gang at 30 Rock works for Kabletown now. Jack decides to rise to the challenge and create the most successful reality tv program possible - a celebrity benefit for disaster relief (disaster TBD) featuring Robert De Niro. Meanwhile Tracy and Liz get into it to the tune of “Uptown Girl” in order to avoid their drama being aired on A…

There’s a mixup on a French Caribbean island and Liz winds up leaving Jack and Avery’s wedding as Mrs. Donaghy - chaos and many anguish squeals from Jonathan ensue. Jenna and Danny slip very quickly into the dynamic of a dysfunctional marriage and Tracy’s wife Angie (Sherri Shepherd) would like to give entertainment a try to ensure their family’s f…

Problematic communication abounds at 30 Rock this week: Liz tries to use Kenneth as her therapist, subsequently breaking both him and then Jack, Jenna and Paul seem to want different things in their relationship, despite looking so similar, and Tracy’s “son” Donald can’t seem to come up with a business name that isn’t already taken. Original Air Da…

Liz accidentally wins the TGS crew lottery and becomes the coolest girl in school when she uses the cash to buy them beer and ice cream. Jack’s past comes back to haunt him when his voice winds up on pronunciation websites and GE’s new microwaves. To cope he and Pete bond in true college fashion - with beer, acoustic guitar and ponchos. Original Ai…

Liz’s new jeans force her to choose between her moral compass and how good her butt looks, Jack’s merger fears lead him to back an increasingly insane and racist Steve Austin (John Slattery) as a pro-business congressional candidate, and Jenna’s jealousy almost ruins Tracy’s chances at a Golden Globe - but Hard to Watch is just too good. Original A…

After months of being charmed by the adorable weirdness of it, a hormonal Avery (Elizabeth Banks) decides she’s not okay with how close Liz and Jack are (and that Liz has a say in the baby’s name) so she insists Jack draw professional boundaries and seek a different mentee. Meanwhile, Liz is floundering watching her father (Buck Henry) come to town…