In ‘Unwindulax’ we see 30
Rock get political all over the place as Liz Lemon fights for the
representation of ideas and her support for Barack Obama, and Jack Donaghy
tries to prove that money is power and that is why Mitt Romney will win. Seeing
that this is a television review and not a political forum, I want to avoid
pushing any of my own opinions here when it comes to how I feel about the two
characters perspectives and ideals. However, viewing it as more of a satire of
political stereotypes, I did enjoy this episode but I thought it was the weakest to date in this the show's final season.
There were two big points in the episode that stood out to
me the most. The first was when Liz could no longer stand by and listen to the
men at Jack’s Republican fundraiser mock her fellow democrats and she starts a
rant that amusingly not very well thought out but it is her best attempt to
express her feelings about the ignorance these people in her opinion choose to
have. This apparently was Jack’s plan all along as he uses this outburst as
evidence to raise more money to keep “people like that” out of the White House.
The second main point was Jack’s own speech about why Liz’s
belief that people want to hear good ideas is nonsense: “ Americans don’t want
that that. They want their Honey’s Boo Boo and their Sunday Night Feetball, which
is the plural of football. Americans don’t want to think, they want men like me
to pick their Presidents for them.” This was truly a shot at all of us and it
was spot one. Say what you will about either candidate, but the biggest problem
…. Sorry …. I don’t want to break my own rule that this is a review and not a
political forum. So I’ll just say I thoroughly enjoyed Jack right there.
So this was also a part one of two episode where we find out
at the end that one person may indeed make a difference in the election as
Jenna is currently the biggest celebrity in the world of the Unwindulaxers that
preside in the one truly undecided part of America, Northern Florida.
A few of my favorite moments:
- “You people in New York don’t know what’s going on in the rest of the country. Truck races, swamp parties, mall fires.” – Unwindulaxer man played by the great Gary Cole.
- “What do I do, press a button? No. It’s different from every other camera.” Pete being truly annoyed at the typical tourist.
- “It’s an original Leonard Ni’moy” – Liz’s justification of her semi-nude photograph.
- “Ed Begley Jr. wasn’t available because the sail on his car broke.”- Jack
- Only Pete could sprain his own neck by accidentally closing it in a window.
- TGS has never been the most cutting edge comedy show as proven by the characters of Baseball Mitt Romney and Barack O’llama.
- Florida. The penis of America.
What did everyone else
think? Comments are always welcome.
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