Tracy Does Conan

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30 Rock episode
“Tracy Does Conan”
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 7
Writer(s)	Tina Fey
Director	Adam Bernstein
Production no.	108
Original airdate	December 7, 2006
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"Tracy Does Conan" is the seventh episode in the situation comedy series 30 Rock, which aired December 7, 2006.

1 Overview
2 Trivia
3 See also
4 Guest starring
5 Featuring

[edit] Overview

Jack angers Jenna by cancelling her appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien by booking Tracy on the show in her place, especially as she prepares to promote her new film The Rural Juror, but Jack says the reason he did it was that Tracy is more promotable than she is and uses her past experience as the spokesperson for ShopRite--and was fired afterwards because of that--as a example. However, Tracy complicates things by going off his meds, which could potentially ruin his appearance on Conan, who had him on the show once when he tried to stab him and was forced into booking him by Jack, who told him if he didn't he would make Conan do a Christmas show every year from Kabul until the "War on Terror" was over. This prompts Liz, Pete and Kenneth to go into crisis mode to get his pills at a pharmacy, and after a 2 hour scramble the threesome come through and Tracy makes his appearance on Conan, only to fall asleep after he sits down just as he was about to interview him.

In other scenarios, after seeing Pete put on a Stone Phillips-type wig, Jack says it looks good on him. But Pete would later learn that Jack was serious and that he wanted Pete to keep wearing it. While it may have looked good on Pete for a while, Liz thought otherwise and ripped it off after they took care of the situation with Tracy.

Meanwhile, Liz contemplates breaking up with her boyfriend Dennis, whose behavior has her questioning whether she should tell him, but is distracted by Jack asking her for material he wants to use at a dinner for Jack Welch (which won't happen until February), Tracy's panic attacks, and after giving blood, trying to search for something sweet to control her low blood sugar count. Unfortunately, when she does return home, she tells Dennis that she forgot what she was going to tell him and fall asleep as he concentrates on playing Halo in their bedroom.

[edit] Trivia

There were also a great couple lines with a joke around "mind grapes," both mentioned within seconds of each other, first from Jack and from Tracy.
The "mind grapes" were also evident in scenes involving "The Blue Man," an invisible being in a blue furry outfit that looks like a grape, which is visible only to Tracy during his unstable state and later on by Liz during her sugar panic.
In the third episode it was mentioned that Liz once dated Conan. Their past was addressed in this episode, where Conan told Liz that he would like to forget about their brief relationship after he asked her about Dennis.
This is the third episode to make a Star Wars referrence, when Tracy starts speaking like Chewbacca.