The Baby Show (30 Rock episode)

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“The Baby Show”
30 Rock episode
Liz brings the baby back to the office.
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 9
Written by	Jack Burditt
Directed by	Michael Engler
Production no.	112
Original airdate	January 4, 2007
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"The Baby Show" is the ninth episode in the situation comedy series 30 Rock. The episode first aired in the U.S. on January 4, 2007, attracting 5.89 million viewers;^[1] it ranked third in its timeslot (behind a new episode of CSI and a Grey's Anatomy rerun),^[2] and 76th in Nielsen's prime-time television rankings for the week.^[1]

1 Overview
2 Trivia
3 Guest starring
4 Featuring
5 References

[edit] Overview

At a birthday for Jenna, and just as she serenades them with "Greatest Love of All," Cerie announces her engagement to a rich Greek heir. The news prompts Liz to question her own marital and maternal status, but after she tells Jenna about having a baby, everyone wants to be the sperm donor. Later on that day at the makeup room Jenna's makeup designer gives Liz her baby daughter to watch...but a second later they show up in Liz's apartment (It appears that the baby put Liz under some sort of hypnosis)! Having realizing this, she returns the baby but Pete covers. In the end she decides that she'll wait awhile before thinking about motherhood.

Meanwhile, a series of "mommy issues" causes Jack to start softening up as his mother keeps calling him, causing Jack to eat constantly. It turns out that she wants to move in with Jack and he is not happy as he yells at her at every opportunity.

As for Tracy, he is not impressed with Josh hanging around him and acting more like Tracy, so Tracy wants Liz to fix it, but to no avail as Josh uses phony phone calls to convince Tracy not to go to Jack. When Liz learns of Josh's pranks she tells him to turn it around by calling Jack so he won't intervene on Tracy's behalf. However Tracy and Jack would later find out, resulting in Josh being forced into impersonating Jack on the phone to talk to Jack's mother and afterwards has to impersonate Tracy when he calls Tracy's wife for a apology.

[edit] Trivia

This is the second episode (following the show's pilot) in which Dratch played cat wrangler Greta Johansen, who is revealed to be the owner of a ferret farm.
Greta is the first of Dratch's characters on the show to become recurring.
Jack gets mad at his assistant Jonathan for letting a 407 area code in to him. 407 is an area code in the Orlando metro area of Florida, where Jack's mother lives.