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Jack Gets In The Game

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This may be the most hilarious episode of 30 Rock yet - really really funny. So I want to download it right away, right? Just like I did on iTunes. But no. I have to download yet another media player (note to programers - enough already!!!). First time, it changes my windows settings. Doesn't work yet, though - I have to download it again. It takes just under an hour to install. And I still do not have the copy of LAST week's episode I bought last night. Will I ever see this week's? Hard to say - it is still not available. Come on Amazon - why couldn't you have used Windows Media Player? Love this tv show - but this is senseless - I subscribed to the season, but I wish I had waitd for the DVDs. I'd be a lot less frustrated.

Minor spoilers!

After a rough off-season for Alec Baldwin -- complete with rumors that he wanted to leave 30 ROCK and a parenting controversy that kept him in the tabloids for a spell -- and a surprisingly disappointing season premiere, both Baldwin and the show can be said to be completely back on track. As the Amazon description reports, the A plot focuses on Jack's effort to outposition Devon Banks (marvelously portrayed by Will Arnett in a reprise of his Season One guest appearance) to become Don Geiss's replacement at GE, the parent company to NBC Universal. The struggle is quite funny. Devon, who is a lightly closeted gay, has "turned straight" and is courting Geiss's daughter. He is also using the fact of Jack's heart attack, which he has attempted to keep quiet, to lessen his position within the corporation. In response, Jack merely recruits a young, very handsome dude who tempts Devon beyond his powers to resist. All in all, it is gamesmanship on a very funny level.

The B plot is quite as good. Jenna is still very overweight from all her pizza consumption during her involvement in a stage version of MYSTIC PIZZA during the summer break. The writers attempt to take advantage of her weight gain by having her character shout "Me want food!" onstage, which Jenna adamantly refuses to do. But when a skit falls apart onstage, she panicks and ad libs the line she said she wouldn't say. Surprisingly, she is delighted when the line becomes a national catch phrase. Suddenly, the extra weight gain, previously a liability, is now her good fortune. Unfortunately, she now has to keep her weight up.

The first episode of the season had been a serious disappointment, mainly because they stopped doing what they do well in order to restructure the episode around Jerry Seinfeld. But this episode shows the series completely back on track. It ramains one of the two or three funniest shows on TV.

itunes was easy, accessable and WORKED ON MY MAC! Obviously NBC wants to try and beat apple at the game they will ineviably win. No offense to amazon, you're great for meeting alot of my online shopping needs but a Windows exclusive non-ipod compatable video download might as well be a paper weight to me. BOOOO.