Don Geiss, America and Hope

Season 4, Episode 15, Aired
go
Netflix
Subscription
Amazon
Buy
iTunes
Buy
Comcast
Subscription
VUDU
Buy

Episode Summary

EDIT
8.7
out of 10
EPISODE RATING: Great
181 votes
  • Your Rating: 10
    "Perfect"
  • Your Rating: 9.5
    "Superb"
  • Your Rating: 9
    "Superb"
  • Your Rating: 8.5
    "Great"
  • Your Rating: 8
    "Great"
  • Your Rating: 7.5
    "Good"
  • Your Rating: 7
    "Good"
  • Your Rating: 6.5
    "Fair"
  • Your Rating: 6
    "Fair"
  • Your Rating: 5.5
    "Mediocre"
  • Your Rating: 5
    "Mediocre"
  • Your Rating: 4.5
    "Poor"
  • Your Rating: 4
    "Poor"
  • Your Rating: 3.5
    "Bad"
  • Your Rating: 3
    "Bad"
  • Your Rating: 2.5
    "Terrible"
  • Your Rating: 2
    "Terrible"
  • Your Rating: 1.5
    "Abysmal"
  • Your Rating: 1
    "Abysmal"
Rate Now!
Jack needs to reestablish himself within the new corporate structure. Liz and Wesley continually run into each other, making them consider fate's role in their lives. Tracy's nanny writes an exposé.
WRITE A REVIEW

Cast & Crew

See All EDIT

Watch Online

Netflix
Subscription
Amazon
Buy
iTunes
Buy
Comcast
Subscription
VUDU
Buy

Fan Episode Reviews (2)

See All

  • Finally, a good 30 Rock.

    8.4
    "Great"
    By thefanof, Apr 24, 2010
    30 Rock has been pretty stagnant this season, but this episode single handedly restored my faith in this show and proved why this is the best comedy on TV. The "if you blink you miss it" jokes were there with too many to count (Jenna eating the pig from Babe, the LA representatives using LegoLand as proof their city is good) and Tracy was absolutely hilarious in a funny parody of the Tiger Woods situation (as opposed to what South Park did last night.)

    Even Wesley was pretty funny tonight. I'm glad he will be returning in May. Just a brilliant, hilarious episode tonight and probably my favorite episode of TV this week.moreless

  • Part comedy gold, part lazy stereotypes.

    8.0
    "Great"
    By Spoontown, Apr 19, 2010
    Video pod, foot cycle? Show me an English person that uses words like that and I'll eat my socks. Just the height of laziness, English people are often stereotyped as eccentric, let's make up some ridiculous sounding words and claim that's how they speak, after all no one will complain. We must be the last group of people that writers can be so lazy with and not be accused of racism.

    Michael Sheen is normally brilliant, but he sounded like an English person that has lived in Wales and started to pick up the accent, probably something that most viewers in America won't pick up on. The actor is Welsh and obviously thought 'no one will notice so I won't try to nail the accent'. Again, laziness and from a fine actor that actually knows the difference between a Welsh person and an English person.

    Aside from these gripes, the rest of the episode was great, but that is even sadder, they worked to make this episode work well but couldn't be bothered to portray us as we actually are.

    In summary, Don Geiss frozen like Han Solo/porn for women, both brilliant, claiming that I and 50 odd million other people would call a video camera a video pod just dumb.moreless
WRITE A REVIEW
 

Photos

See All

Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions

See All

FILTER BY TYPE

  • TRIVIA (2)

    ADD TRIVIA

  • QUOTES (7)

    ADD QUOTES

    • Jack: I thought I'd work at GE forever, but my future opportunities at the company died with Don Geiss. I have to accept that and move on to this exciting new challenge. Kenneth: A friend of mine has been worried they will be bringing in new page rules: like age limits... and age verification— Jack: (ignoring Kenneth) Truth be told, I haven't learned a lot about Kabletown. It's a whole different business model. Kenneth: (excitedly) My cousin in Atlanta is a business model. She holds up staplers in catalogs.

    • Jack: [Don] built GE into the greatest company on Earth and the Earth into one of the top three planets in the universe!

    • Liz: 'Settling soul mates'? That is grim... and I've played Monopoly alone!

    • Jack: "And Alexander wept for there were no more worlds to conquer." Hans Gruber, Die Hard.

    • Dotcom: Yet another black superstar taken down by his personal life. Jenna: Just like my favorite golfer, O.J. Simpson.

    • Liz: (to Tracy) Your Ben & Jerry's flavor is called Adultaraisin.

    • Tracy: Our old nanny wrote a tell-all book about me. Liz: Oh, no. Tracy: It's bad. I just got the call from a friend at Little Brown. Liz: The publishing house? Tracy: No, the premier talent agency for black dwarves.

  • NOTES (3)

    ADD NOTES

  • ALLUSIONS (1)

    ADD ALLUSIONS

    • Don Geiss' state of "cryogenic freezing" at his funeral is a mimicry of Han Solo's freezing in carbonite in Irvin Kershner's 1980 film, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.

30 Rock Forums


Add a Topic See All
Last Activity
Replies

Watch 30 Rock Full Episodes

See All

Related Shows

Season 4 Episodes

See All
Ep 22
I Do Do (2)
Ep 21
Emanuelle Goes to Dinosaur...
Ep 20
The Moms
Ep 19
Argus
Ep 18
Khonani
Ep 17
Lee Marvin vs. Derek Jeter
Ep 16
Floyd
Ep 15
Don Geiss, America and Hope
Ep 14
Future Husband
Ep 13
Anna Howard Shaw Day
Ep 12
Verna
Ep 11
Winter Madness
Ep 10
Black Light Attack!
Ep 9
Klaus and Greta
Ep 8
Secret Santa
Ep 7
Dealbreakers Talk Show No....
Ep 6
Sun Tea
Ep 5
The Problem Solvers
Ep 4
Audition Day
Ep 3
Stone Mountain
Ep 2
Into the Crevasse
Ep 1
Season 4

Contributors

Become a contributor
More
Less

TV Listings

Full Listings
TV.com Properties | Shows | Videos | News | Listings | Forums | People | Photos | TV.com Blog

CBS Entertainment | About TV.com | About CBS Interactive | Jobs | Advertise

© 2012 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. | Privacy Policy | Ad Choice | Terms of Use