Fireworks (30 Rock episode)
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| “Fireworks” | |
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| 30 Rock episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 18 |
| Written by | Dave Finkel & Brett Baer |
| Directed by | Beth McCarthy |
| Production no. | 118 |
| Original airdate | April 5, 2007 |
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"Fireworks" is the eighteenth episode of the situation comedy television series 30 Rock, and originally aired on April 5, 2007.
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Jack becomes worried when Devin Banks, the Vice President of West Coast News, Web Content, and Theme Park Talent Relations; comes to visit from Los Angeles. Jack fears that Devin is trying to take his job. After having his assistant Jonathan spy on Banks, he learns that Banks is gay and that he is interested in Kenneth. So, Jack sends Kenneth to try to gather information on what Banks is planning to do, but Kenneth is inept and fails at the task. Jack then enlists Liz to help him come up with some ideas so that he can impress the network and win the power coup over Banks. Jack sends Kenneth to seduce Banks again so that he will be late for the important meeting, but Banks sees through the plan and arrives at the meeting anyways.
Meanwhile, Liz sees Floyd, the corporate employee who she has a crush on, go into a church on a Tuesday afternoon. The next week, she follows him in and finds that he is an alcoholic and he is attending an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. Liz pretends to be an alcoholic so that she can get closer to Floyd and hear his secrets. After finding out that members of the same AA group aren't allowed to date, Liz confesses to Floyd that she was never an alcoholic and that she made it up to get close to him. He gets mad and feels betrayed, so she apologizes and tells him all of her secrets to make it up to him. Floyd forgives her and they begin dating.
When it comes time for Jack's important meeting with the network and showdown against Devin Banks, Liz is to busy pursuing Floyd to help Jack with his idea. Jack has to attend the meeting alone, but his idea for a fireworks special impresses the network and he successfully defends his job against Devin Banks. When the fireworks special actually airs, however, the fireworks are shot off in midtown New York outside Rockefeller Center and it ends up looking like a terrorist attack. Panic results and the mayor calls, causing the event to be unceremoniously ended.
Also, Tracy is served with paternity papers and insists that the child is not his. After the DNA test, Tracy learns that the child is not his but that he is a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson. The news angers Tracy and he talks to Toofer and Frank about it. Toofer learns that he is a direct descendant of Tobias Spurlock, a black Confederate soldier. Tracy and Toofer are upset about the news until Tracy has a dream in which Thomas Jefferson ("played" by Jack Donaghy) appears to him on The Maury Povich Show and tells him to forget his past. Tracy decides that he wants Toofer to write a movie about their experiences and Thomas Jefferson's life. Tracy intends to play all of the parts in the movie, like in Norbit, except he intends for the film to be a drama.
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- This will be the show's second supersized episode, after "Jack-tor".
- This marks the fourth episode not to feature Jane Krakowski (Jenna Maroney).
- The "ten-second Internet sitcom" that Devin Banks pioneered is actually five seconds long (seven with the credits.) The fictional webisode has the same credits as this episode, just sped up.
- Brendan Walsh previously played a character shouting "shut it down" in the episode "The Head and the Hair."
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Season One: Pilot • The Aftermath • Blind Date • Jack the Writer • Jack-tor • Jack Meets Dennis • Tracy Does Conan • The Break Up • The Baby Show • The Rural Juror • The Head and the Hair • Black Tie • Up All Night • The C Word • Hard Ball • The Source Awards • The Fighting Irish • Fireworks • Corporate Crush • Cleveland • Hiatus |
