Don't know if anyone's mentioned this yet, but Jenna's line about breaking mirrors "because I thought it was a blonde woman mocking me" was the hardest I've laughed at her in a long time.

I'm late to the party on this (I watch on Hulu), but I take issue with Erik's apparent low grade because of class warfare tropes that he apparently found disagreeable. While, as another commenter said, I too have met some Nicks in my life, I felt like the show was not calling out a generation but Nick specifically……

So… Am I the only person who thought that Judy would somehow end up being Liz's daughter? Because Jenna stole one of her eggs somehow or something?

This is actually in reply to roare, but I can't reply to him directly. While I agree that 30 Rock has always been a primarily joke-based show, you're kidding yourself if you say that " the show has never gone for emotional investment." What about the montage of Liz's voice mails to Jack during her pregnancy scare in…

Again, I didn't mind the episode (I'd rate it a solid B).

While I thought the episode was all right (probably my favorite part was Tracy's "Fievel Goes West" line) Nathan did hit on something that I've been feeling since the middle of season five but haven't been able to put my finger on until now: the show, and Liz, in particular, is just meaner.

Gotta admit, I was enjoying the first episode quite a bit until Liz's preachy speech. It was still good, but the momentum was deflated a little bit there. It seemed much more mean-spirited than 30 Rock or Tina Fey usually get. Having recently read Bossypants, I found that Tina has a way of  skewering things she…