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Verna

Season 4, Episode 12, Aired Feb 04, 2010

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Jenna looks to Jack for help when her mother drops by for an unannounced visit. Frank moves in with Liz as a boarder, and they decide to aid one another stop smoking and eating junk food.

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Athena Eleanor Ripka

10-year-old Jenna
GUEST STAR
Jodie Lynne McClintock

Denise
SPECIAL GUEST STAR
Jan Hooks

Verna

Tina Fey

Liz Lemon
Alec Baldwin

Jack Donaghy
Jane Krakowski

Jenna Maroney
Tracy Morgan

Tracy Jordan
Judah Friedlander

Frank Rossitano
Scott Adsit

Pete Hornberger

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Jenna's mother comes to visit.

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By thefanof, Feb 05, 2010

One thing I have noticed this season is that Pete Hornberger has gotten a lot funnier. For the first three seasons he was barely even there and can you even remember a funny scene with him in it? I certainly can't, I just remember him as the photographer in that one episode of The Office, but this season he has been a solid contributor to the show with the virtual elimination of the writers. Lutz needs to go though. I really don't know anybody who likes him.

Overall, a funny episode tonight. I really hope this character does not recur as Jenna's mother though. That was completely unnecessary, but at least Jack's scenes with her were funny. Alec Baldwin's gonna be tough to beat come Emmy time this year. While 30 Rock has dropped a bit in quality he's been consistently good week in and week out.

And I can't leave out Tracy's hilarious commentary during the video. "I hate to be the black guy at the movies...."moreless
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- Frank's trucker hats read, "Mason Storm", "Mind the Gap", "Pound for Pound", and "Busway"
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QUOTES (6)
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- (watching video of Liz's apartment at night) Pete: She's not sleep-walking. Liz: Oh, my God, I'm sleep-eating. Pete: You tried to take away your release, Liz, but nature finds a way. Did you learn nothing from Jurassic Park?
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- Verna: Nice office, Jack. I feel like I'm in the Martha Stewart section at Kmart.
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- Verna: I am the worst mother! Jenna: No. Verna: Yes, I am. Jenna: Don't say that. Could a bad mom have raised a daughter who was engaged to a congressman when she was sixteen?
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- Jack: I developed this presentation in 2002 when Colleen attempted to lengthen her Christmas visit to Martin Luther King Day, or as she calls it, "that day in January when the post office is closed."
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- Jack: Mothers—you can't kill them.
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- Frank: I left my Sith Lord cloak too near my mom's shrine to Italian Jesus, and the candles started a fire.
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- The German episode title is "Meine liebe Rabenmutter", their title for Mommie Dearest.
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- International Airdates: Australia: April 19, 2010 on Channel 7; Latin America: April 22, 2010 on Sony Entertainment Television (a.k.a. Canal Sony); United Kingdom: May 24, 2010 on Comedy Central
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- Though credited, Katrina Bowden and Keith Powell do not appear in this episode.
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- The night footage shot in Liz's apartment showing her sleep-eating and Frank with his visitor parodies the footage found in the 2007 film, Paranormal Activity.
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- Frank's "Mason Storm" hat refers to the lead character played by Steven Seagal in Bruce Malmuth's 1990 film, Hard to Kill.
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- Kenneth comments believing the chimp, "used to drive the truck himself," on You-Know-What and the Bear, trying to avoid saying the shorthand for "blow job" that innocently appears in the actual title, B.J. and the Bear.
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- Liz tells Franks that, "the episode of Diff'rent Strokes about Dudley's dad has proven incontrovertably that smoking destroys your health and leads to ridicule from Willis," referring to "Where There's Smoke".
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