30 Rock

The episode begins with Tracy being 2½ hours late. They are trying to figure how he's late since all of them have messed up his sense of time. Tracy walks in and wants to know what time it is. He took his son to his cello recital at midnight. They tell him its 2:45 pm and he calls them a racist since they treat him like a child or a pageant girl with clip-on teeth. Liz explains that they only treat him like this because he refuses to accept responsibility for his actions. He gives her a race card which she accepts accidentally.



Liz lets Jack know that Tracy knows what time it is. Jonathan walks in and tells him that Jack's mother is in town and they have early dinner reservations. He explains to Liz that it is the anniversary of when his father left his mother and family. He tells her how he wanted to tell his father off and he always chickened out – the biggest regret of his life.



At rehearsal, Tracy sends a monkey to take his place. Grizz and DotCom read a prepared statement from Tracy saying that she treats him like a monkey that dances around for her amusement and to reduce the insect population. Tracy appears and starts to say that he wants to be treated like everyone else. Liz agrees – Tracy has to stop pointing at women and yell 'I want to get that pregnant,' be on time and know his lines. Tracy says he'll do it all but he'll have the last laugh. Liz and Tracy laugh trying to get the last laugh. Later, Grizz and DotCom approach Liz about her mistake of humiliating Tracy in front of everybody. They warn that he won't show up or he'll show up and act out in a worse way.



At the hotel, Jack picks up his mother for dinner. But he finds out that mother has brought a companion. They invite Jack to come to dinner as a third wheel.



At the studio, Grizz, DotCom and Kenneth are about to leave but see the monkey all alone. They are about to leave the monkey in the elevator with a sign that says take him to Indonesia, but Jenna sees him and wants to keep him. She loves that the monkey loves her and decides to name it Little Jenna.



The next day, Jack tells Liz that he doesn't like or trust Paul, his mother's companion. He wears a pinky ring and is four years younger. Jack runs off to see his private investigator. Cerie comes to get Liz since Tracy is here already to rehearse. Tracy is ready for rehearsal and is very professional. Liz thanks Tracy for his work and is about to apologize but Tracy has an actor announcement: no one should get preferential treatment. Then he asks her to get him some water. She is about to get him water but the 5-gallon bottle is out of water. She asks a man for help but Tracy says no, she should change it herself since everyone is equal. She struggles to get the bottle on and spills more than half of it on herself and on the floor. Tracy stops everyone from helping her.



Meanwhile, Jack finds his private investigator taking photos for his photography The PI gives him Paul's file – he is completely clean except the fact he is married.



At the studio, Jenna is playing with her friend Little Jenna. She dresses Little Jenna in a mariachi band outfit and asks Kenneth for a ukulele. He warns her that the monkey is not a person and it is a wild animal.



Liz and Pete talk about Tracy's good behavior and how she has to deal with Tracy's new revenge plan. Liz goes into the writers' room where Tracy tells the writers to treat her like as an equal. The writers tell her that they will stop treating her differently since she's a woman – they fart and invite her to Lutz's fake bachelor party.



Liz asks Jack if he treats her differently because she's a woman. He explains that because she is a woman, he pays her less and he has to have a conversation and talk things through more. He then tells hear about how his mother's companion is married. He plans to give Paul the speech he wrote for his deadbeat father.



Meanwhile, Kenneth is giving a tour of the studio, Jenna comes out with her monkey and the monkey's baby doll. She says Little Jenna had a baby last night and she's now a grandmother.



In the writers' room, the guys treat her like another guy. They are about to go to the bachelor party. Tracy says a dude boss would go to the bachelor party and a dude boss would even pay for it. Liz agrees to go but says Tracy can't go. Twist! Since they're all equals, Tracy needs to read the rewrite and give her notes since they are all equal now.



Jack visits Paul at the hotel and tells him off. During his rant, his mother Colleen comes in. Jack tells her that he's married – a fact that Colleen already knew. Colleen and Jack talk about the situation. He says that her coping mechanism – bringing a married man to her hotel room – is not right. She says she's not coping with anything. He reminds her that it's the anniversary of when dad left the family. She says there is no anniversary since he left so many times. She tells him to stop wasting time thinking about that man – he will never be like him and he never could be. They hug and decide to go eat dinner without Paul.



Later that night, Liz is suffering at the bachelor party while Tracy is suffering at the studio. The next morning, they run into each other and Liz asks which one of them is giving up first. Tracy responds that the black one will give up first. They decide to go back to the way things were with both of them getting preferential treatment; they were upsetting the natural order. Jenna walks in with the monkey in a sailor suit. Monkeys are being dressed like people and playing with people like toys. Jenna responds that the toy is actually Little Jenna's baby. When she grabs the baby doll, she breaks the head off and Little Jenna attacks Jenna.



Liz talks to Jack while he's in his office watching Some Like it Hot" – the movie his parents used to watch. He decides to remember the great times. He realizes that the movie came out in 1959, his father was gone spring of 1957 to 1959 while he was conceived in 1958. Jack realizes that his "father" is not his father. Twist.