4.02 – Into the Crevasse
Originally Aired: October 22th, 2009
Written by: Robert Carlcok
Directed by: Beth McCarthy Miller
Summary: DEVIN (GUEST STAR WILL ARNETT) RETURNS TO SEEK REVENGE ON JACK (ALEC BALDWIN). — When Devin (guest star Will Arnett) returns to plot revenge against Jack (Alec Baldwin), he needs to find a way to protect the company and his job’s safety. Meanwhile, Tracy (Tracy Morgan) and Jenna (Jane Krakowski) both have reason to be angry with Liz (Tina Fey) and are determined to make her life miserable. Liz has to find a way to regain order over her life and the show. Outside of the studio, Kenneth (Jack McBrayer) devotes some of his spare time to volunteering at an animal shelter. Judah Friedlander and Keith Powell also star. (NBC).
Promotional Pictures: High Quality
Quotes:
Book Cover: From Peanut to President. By Milton Green.
Book Cover: The Cigarette Diet. By Dr. Leo Spaceman.
Book Cover: dealbreakers – a girl’s guide to shutting it down” by liz lemon.
Liz: I wrote that! I’m Liz Lemon! [
Liz: Hey if you’re going to DC, I lost my retainer there during a junior high field trip.
Liz: I wanted to give you a copy of my book. They used your blurb.
Jack: [
Jack: Ever since these buffoons from
Jack: The American love affair with the microwave oven has cooled since its post-war heyday.
Singer: [Singing] Angie told her daddy that she was doing the microwave. Do the Microwave. Lalalala.. Do the Microwave. Waba daba waba daba.
Liz: Did that happen?
Jack: Now, where was the last place you remember having your retainer.
Liz: I took it out to eat astronaut ice cream at the Air and
Jack: [Writing] Air and Space…
Frank: If your man collects action figures, that’s a dealbreaker?
Liz: What? Oh yeah.
Frank: Last week I picked up this girl after practicing Jedi moves in
Liz: Also a deal breaker.
Frank: Took her back to my house on the handle bars of my bike…
Liz: As is that.
Frank: Snuck her inside past my mom…
Liz: Wow that’s four.
Frank: She sees my mint condition Hellboy figurines…
Liz: Five.
Frank: And started quoting your dumb book!
Lutz: Also my girlfriend is mad… in
Kenneth: Would it be aright if I only worked 20 hours today?
Liz: Of course, I didn’t know you did volunteer work.
Kenneth: I also help out at the pants for zoo animals, and Big Brother.
Liz: I did Big Sister in college. That little girl taught me how to use tampons.
Kenneth: Big Brother isn’t affiliated with the mentoring program. It’s a secret organization that watches people and makes sure they’re behaving properly.
Jenna: Liz, I don’t know if you saw the craw on the TV Guide channel, but I have agreed to star in a sexy supernatural thriller in the vein of Twilight and True Blood.
Liz: Oh, that’s good! Vampire movies are hot right now.
Jenna: But this is actually a werewolf picture that for tax reasons is shooting in
Jenna: Punish you? Please, Liz. I’ve just always wanted to shoot a student werewolf movie, in
Jack: This will take 10 minutes. Lets hit the Meadow lands racetrack on the way home. I’ve got a betting system based on horse penis size.
Jack: Yes. And no. Yes that didn’t happen, no that didn’t not happen.
Jack: Silly Willy’s fees was advertized over all birthdays company wide.
Jack: Yes but I have a system.
Devon: In 2007, a GE officer used company funds to throw a Cabaret themed Halloween party on
Jack: As I recall that was you.
Jack: Why do you have a gravel? This isn’t the Congress.
Kenneth: I never even had a dog because, as my mother would say, “you can’t eat love.” And as my mom’s friend Ron would say, “The donkey died. You’re the donkey now, Kenneth.”
Kenneth: Yup, just another animal… might as well be a rat… an adorable rat… who shows you it’s ok to be scared during a thunderstorm. Why it seems crazy to me that you’d even give a dog like this a name… for example Bandit. And that ones Reggi. And up there’s Digger.
Shetler Worker: The one with red tags are scheduled to be put down today.
Kenneth: I will adopt all of them!
Jack: You prefer cold pizza?
Jack: Better than hot pizza? That’s insane!
Jack: What kind of gun was that?
Jack: Listen to me, Banks. Keep your spray tanned little hands off this country.
Jack: You did! You weaked it!
Jack: Think of the pensions, the employees, the kittens we use to test microwave strength.
Jack: I’ll make this company so fast the only headline will be “Donaghy saves GE, Marries your Mom.”
Jack: Laser shield.
Jenna: Night Stalkers has encountered some production speed bumps that are complicating my schedule.
Liz: Well I need you back by Friday, what kind of speed bumps?
Jenna:
Jenna: You might not know this because you’ve never played a moon scientist, but werewolves only come out at night.
Liz: Yes, I remember that from the Thriller video.
Liz: Well two of my workers are driving me insane so I’m going to kill them in their sleep tonight.
[Epic Laugh Off]
Jack: Ok. As a single woman, would you be more likely to but a microwave if it can be programmed to ask about your day? Before you answer, consider your loneliness.
Liz: No I don’t even know why you bought that thing.
Sign: Volunteers Needed. To adopt a Dog! It’s God backwards!
Pete: And like children, you can’t reason with them when their upset. All you can do is turn the heat up, turn the heat up, poor some whisky in their juice, and wait for seep to save you.
Liz: Well that’s not going to work for me, because Jenna is immune to whisky and
Pete: Oh and not to add to your problems, but Paula read your book. [Shoves Liz]
Jack: Lutz, try to stop mouth breathing for one minute.
Jack: All Denish and I need from you is one idea that is good as the light bulb.
Frank: It’s kind of annoying when you’re trying to microwave a burrito, burrito won’t rotate because it’s too big. It just gets caught up against the sides. And and the tray under it rotates but it doesn’t rotate.
Toofer: What if microwaves broke down more easily so people would have to buy new ones more often.
Jack: Yes. Shottier, excellent. Bigger and not as well made.
Pete: Wow that sounds like the philosophy that almost destroyed the
Jack: We’re GE, dammit. And were going to make a giant flimsy microwave.
Jack: Forget it. Four smaller doors.
Toofer: Yes! We’ll crack this yet.
Jack: Wheel! But wheels on it.
Jenna: Great day everyone! You guys are the real stars.
Jack: Since I have neither the time nor the energy to even pretend that your situation is a real problem, I will cut the baby in half.
Liz:
Jenna: Night Stalkers is taking a brief permanent hiatus.
Jenna: No it’s not acting out. I have mercury poisoning from obsessively taking my rectal temperature.
Jack: Lets get rid of the oven and replace it with an AM FM radio. Ok. It’s a car. We invented the Pontiac Aztec
Liz: Roomie, did you order pay per view at my apartment?
Liz: No I’m not paying for this. You ordered six adult movies in 2 days. The Curious Case of Benjamin Butt. Lovely. Im a do us. What does that even mean?
Liz: I need you to build a set that looks like my apartment and get all the hand sanitizer you can find.
Pete: Wait, why do you need?
Liz:
Jack: Sure maybe you’ll ruin my career, maybe you’ll never see my again. But if you had forced me to take government bale out money. You’d be my boss.
Jack: I’d roll over and let you give it to me.
Jack: No one is this is just happening.
Jenna: Oh Liz, thank you for giving me the hotter porn lady.
Liz: My retainer! Now my dad won’t be mad at me!
Porn Jack: Lemon, it’s Wednesday. But it’s not all bad news.
Porn Liz: My retainer! How will I ever thank you?
Ratings: 6.841 Million Viewers. 4.1/6 Share. 3.3/8 in the demo.
October 8th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
One of my grammatical pet peeves happened in this summary. In the first sentence, the first clause starts with “When Devin,” and then the second clause starts with “he.” So it sounds like Devin needs to find a way to protect the company and his job’s safety, when really it’s Jack who needs to protect the company and his own job’s safety. I had to read the sentence a couple of times to understand it properly. Very minor, but kind of annoying. Sorry, had to vent somewhere!
October 15th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
What Arsenio said. Clearly NBC isn’t paying their summary writers’ overtime anymore…
[Also, looking forward to seeing Toofer next week.]
October 18th, 2009 at 3:59 am
how excited are we that Devon’s back? VERY. holla!
October 18th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Devon Banks Devon Banks Devon Banks!!!
(Can you tell I’m excited?!)
October 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
YOU CANT TELL ME WHAT KIND OF PIZZA TO LIKE!! lol
October 21st, 2009 at 11:45 am
What did Kenneth say as he talk to Jack about honesty of the Parcells?
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:05 pm
A book hasn’t caused me this much trouble since Where’s Waldo went to that barber pole factory!
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:24 pm
I’m sad to say that I didn’t love tonight’s episode as much as I thought I would.
Am I the only one? IMO, last week’s ep was funnier. I did love the Liz/Jack scenes though! All two of them, haha. It was funny how the writers kind of shot down the Liz/Jack pairing at the very end… they wouldn’t even get together in a porn movie! I wish the porn parody had taken up more time, though. It felt a little rushed.
I also thought the Liz/Tracy storyline was interesting, considering Tracy Morgan’s book just came out. And I loved the scene where the two of them had a laugh-off.
Aaand yeah, there were a few other lines here and there that I liked, but can’t remember at the moment. Will be watching the episode again tomorrow!
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:30 pm
That was fantastic! Easily one of my all time favorites, and I’ve only watched it once. I might be biased since Devon Banks makes my 30 Rock world go round. I loved the Tracy Liz interactions especially their laugh off.
Nice to see the writers were included. And what little Pete we had was great. That shove was perfect.
Loved the real writers mocking Liz/Jack shipping with the end bit. “That’s disgusting, Shut it Down.” I don’t think this will stop them though
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October 22nd, 2009 at 11:05 pm
The hardest I’ve laughed at the show in a long time, concerning Kenneth being a “big brother”. Great episode.
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:39 pm
I loved the shots of “From Peanut to President” and “The Cigarette Diet” in the bookstore at the beginning!
October 23rd, 2009 at 1:52 am
i thought this episode was much better than the last. From kenneth’s big brother, to everything devon banks, to jack writing down where to find liz’s retainer. excellent episode.
October 23rd, 2009 at 5:48 am
- kenneth’s subsubplot was forgettable
- kills me to even think this but liz lemon ain’t bringing the funny as hard as she used to, compared with the rest of the main cast… her cupcake pjs were freakin adorable though
- devon please be my BFF
- “i will take the top half for that is the half with the face”. LOL oh tracy
- jack’s “laser shield”. win.
- porn liz and jenna. making out. with jenna watching. and liking it. reowr
- i guess the jack/liz porno almost-hookup can be interpreted as a shout out to us shippers who can turn such an ordinary conversation, such as the retainer one, into something completely ungodly… eg. either the real liz’s lemon’s final words in that ep were a deliberate and crude
sexual innuendo or i just need to get me mind out of the gutter…
October 23rd, 2009 at 8:46 am
Hmm. Yeah. After re-watching the episode a few times, I take back what I said last night – this ep was funnier than I originally thought! I loved all of Tracy’s lines, Jack’s laser shield, and the Jack/Devon unintentionally gay dialogue. But I still like the season premiere more, just because Liz was funnier in it
And zinaxena, I’d like to think Liz’s final words were a deliberate “that’s what she said” moment.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:07 am
I LOOOOOVE this episode! Pure awesomeness!

-Jack’s “laser shield”
-Kenneth in the microwave video
-Tracy staying at Liz’s
-Devon being friends with Malia
-Jack actually getting information from Liz about where she lost her retainer so he could get it for her
-Jack trying to make a “better” microwave oven
October 23rd, 2009 at 11:08 am
Kenneth’s story line was part of iParticipate. Where this week 60+ shows on NBC, ABC, and CBS wrote story lines involving volunteering. So yeah it was out of place. Though from other shows I watched, this might have been the best in corporate. 30 Rock does great with these forced plot lines, like Greenzo and Green week.
October 24th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
loved the episode but i can’t for the life of me understand what liz (and, later, porn star liz) says at the end of the episode: “it all worked out for jenna, tracy and…” i can’t understand the last thing she lists and it’s driving me nuts!
October 24th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
zac- i know, i can’t either!
i just rewatched this for the third time- i keep noticing new things!
like kenneth’s sign that says “adopt a dog- it’s god spelled backwards!”
October 25th, 2009 at 5:41 am
Zac – she says the name of the guy who empties her trashcan onto the floor in her office, the Indian (?) guy who says ‘You are the dealbreaker’
October 25th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
effie – thanks. i never would have gotten that. it was making me crazy!
October 30th, 2009 at 1:21 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cp2Z712XtY
Zzzzzzzmm…Laser shield~
October 30th, 2009 at 10:53 am
My favourite quote from the episode was when Liz was yelling at Tracy for buying pornography at her house, and he says:
“You caused this whole ________, until you adequately debase, you will subsidize my predilection for erotica! … oh yeah, and I used your credit card to buy a vocabulary course from a teaching company.”
What does he say?! With his accent, plus it being an obscurish word, I have no idea. It sounds like “fireroll” or “frarro” or something, but I can’t find it.
Anyway, I loved this episode. I was in tears watching it!
November 3rd, 2009 at 2:15 am
#22: “folderol”