30 Rock: Governor Dunston

30 Rock had a great premiere episode last week and “Governor Dunston” continued the laugh riot tonight as we saw Liz Lemon’s continued pursuit of getting pregnant, Jack’s continued pursuit of tanking NBC, Tracy’s look-a-like Governor Dunston replace Paul Ryan for vice president candidacy, and we got to meet Kenneth’s Mom and her special friend Ron.

Liz getting all turned-on by organizing missed the mark for me considering how established Liz is for being a constant mess and we’ve seen this joke done so many times before on other shows, most notably by Monica Gellar on Friends. Based on the way they went about it in this episode, I’d rather see her get pregnant sooner rather than later.

 I wish we could have gotten more Bryan Cranston in the episode and have him interact with the likes of Liz, Jack and Tracy; however, he was a great edition to the episode and I’ll never complain too much if we get to see him with a weird southern accent singing about how his honeymoon.

Another great guest star, Matthew Broderick, returns as Cooter in the same episode that Bryan Cranston guest stars on. I’m pretty sure it was just coincidental they both appeared at the same time, but it’s kind of funny considering Broderick was originally considered for the part of Walter White on Breaking Bad. I really liked Cooter as the incompetent political adviser when he first showed up so it was great to see him back as an adviser to the Romney public relations team.

Some other quick thoughts and funny quotes:

• “Turns out he was born in Kenya. Not a lot we can say about that.” – Jack on the reason why Paul Ryan had to drop out of the running.
• “No political stuff. We don’t want an unexpected boost in ratings.” – Jack’s direction to Lemon after the appearance of Governor Dunston. Is Jack also giving the same advice to SNL in real life? For an election year Saturday Night Live has been soft of both the Romney and Obama campaigns so far this season.
• “It’s like I’m Don Draper and you’re Meghan. No. It’s like your Glen and I’m Sally.” – Liz to Chris on attempting to have sex in her office.
• “NBC.com had over 100 hits today!”
• “My opponent would have you believe that Mitt Romney is a merman. Now I know that Mitt Romney does not live in the sea.” –Governor Dunston

It’s really refreshing to see a great comedy like 30 Rock to both be going out on its own terms and still continuing to put out fantastic episodes this late into its run… cough… The Office… cough…. How I Met Your Mother… cough. Only 11 episodes left and here’s hoping they’re all as great as the first two have been.

Comments are certainly welcome, whether they are for agreement, disagreement, or indifference.