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Somebody to Love (30 Rock)
"Somebody to Love"
Love" all. It was written by Kay Cannon and the series’ creator,
Tina Fey, and was directed by Beth McCarthy.[1] The
30 Rock episode episode first aired on November 15, 2007 on the NBC net-
work in the United States.[2] Guest stars in this episode
include Hamza Ahmed, Fred Armisen, Kevin Brown, Chris
Caniglia, Grizz Chapman, Matthieu Cornillon, Michael
Devine, Edie Falco, John Lutz, Maulik Pancholy, Chris-
tianne Tisdale and Kristen Wiig.[1]
The episode focuses on Jack Donaghy’s (Alec Baldwin)
first meeting with Celeste "C.C." Cunningham (Edie Fal-
co); Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) believes that her new neighbor,
Raheem Haddad (Fred Armisen), is a terrorist; and Ken-
C.C. is interviewed by MSNBC.
neth Parcell (Jack McBrayer) accidentally loses a pair of
Episode no. Season 2 Jack’s trousers.
Episode 6
Directed by Beth McCarthy Plot
Written by Kay Cannon At a party in honor of Robert Novak, which is being
Tina Fey
thrown by John McCain and Jack Bauer, Jack Donaghy
Featured music "What the World Needs Now Is Love" meets C.C., the Democratic congresswoman for Vermont.
performed by Alec Baldwin in character After the party, Jack and C.C. go back to Jack’s apartment
as Jack Donaghy
and have sex together. The following morning, Jack dis-
"Somebody to Love" by Jefferson
Airplane is C.C.’s ringtone covers that C.C. is suing the Sheinhardt Wig Company,
the fictional subsidiary of General Electric (GE) and own-
Cinematography Vanja Černjul er of NBC, the company that Jack works for. This is be-
by
cause the company is allegedly leaking Auburn Fantasy
Production code 207 Dye Number 260 into the Chicktaugua River, causing the
children of Chickataugua to turn orange. After discover-
Original air date November 15, 2007 (2007-11-15)
ing that Jack works for GE, C.C. leaves and goes to work
Guest stars at Bill Clinton’s office in Harlem. Jack and Tracy Jordan
Hamza Ahmed
(Tracy Morgan), follow her there and Jack and C.C. decide
Fred Armisen to carry on their relationship in secret.
Kevin Brown Liz is worried when she smells maple syrup in her
Chris Caniglia apartment and Jack tells her that it could be the chemical
Grizz Chapman agent Northrax. She suspects that her new neighbour,
Matthieu Cornillon
Michael Devine Raheem (Fred Armisen), is a terrorist because he has
Edie Falco maps in his apartment and she has seen him and his
John Lutz brother, Hakeem (Hamza Ahmed), on an agility course in
Maulik Pancholy the park. Liz is shocked to discover that the pair are au-
Christianne Tisdale ditioning for The Amazing Race and, in fact, not terrorists.
Kristen Wiig
After bringing Jack’s suit back from the dry cleaners,
Episode chronology Kenneth discovers that he has lost the suit’s trousers.
Frank Rossitano (Judah Friedlander), James "Toofer"
← Previous Next → Spurlock (Keith Powell) and Josh Girard (Lonny Ross) pay
"Greenzo" "Cougars"
him to complete various dares so that he can pay for a
30 Rock (season 2) new pair of trousers.
List of 30 Rock episodes
Somebody Love"
"Somebody to Love is the sixth episode of the second
season of 30 Rock, and the twenty-seventh episode over-
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Production
Fred Armisen and Kristen Wiig, who play Raheem and
Candace Van der Shark in the episode, have both ap-
peared in the main cast of Saturday Night Live,[3][4] a
weekly sketch comedy series which airs on NBC in the
United States.[5] Tina Fey was the head writer on Saturday
Night Live from 1999 until 2006.[6] Various other cast
members of Saturday Night Live have appeared on 30 Rock,
including Rachel Dratch,[7] Will Forte,[8] Jason
Sudeikis,[9] Molly Shannon and Chris Parnell.[10] Tina Fey
and Tracy Morgan have both been part of the main cast
of Saturday Night Live.[6][11] Alec Baldwin has also hosted
Saturday Night Live fifteen times, the highest amount of
episodes of any host of the series.[12]
This episode was the second episode, after "Greenzo,"
to air since the start of the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of
America strike, which began on November 5, 2007 and
ended on February 12, 2008, 100 days later.[13] This
episode was the first to contain reference to the strike.
The reference occurs when C.C. is being interviewed on
MSNBC and the news crawl below reads "News crawl af-
fected by writers strike. Using repeat text from previ-
ous season."[14] This episode was filmed in early October,
2007.[15] This was the ninth episode written by Tina Fey
and the second written by Kay Cannon. It was the third
episode directed by Beth McCarthy.
Robert Canning of IGN thought that the absence of Jane
Krakowski as Jenna Maroney "proved the character [...] simply
Reception isn’t necessary."[16]
"Somebody to Love" brought in an average of 6.4 million
was with the Verizon bit. 30 Rock normally does a splen-
viewers. The episode also achieved a 3.2/8 in the key
did job of balancing the corporate elements of television,
18–49 year old demographic, the highest result in that
often utilizing it for comic fodder. But the winking cell
demographic since the episode "SeinfeldVision" aired on
phone banter lacked subtlety, and it seemed to me like
October 4, 2007. The 3.2 refers to 3.2% of all 18–49 years
the show was trying to have its cake and eat it, too."[19]
olds in the U.S., and the 8 refers to 8% of all 18–49 year
Beth McCarthy was nominated for a Directors Guild
olds watching television at the time of the broadcast in
of America Award in the category of "Outstanding Direc-
the U.S.. 30 Rock ranked in first place in the male 18–34
torial Achievement in Comedy Series".[20] Edie Falco,
demographic, for its 8:30 p.m – 9:00 p.m. timeslot.[17]
who portrayed Celeste Cunningham, was nominated for a
Robert Canning of IGN thought that the episode "was
Primetime Emmy Award in the category of "Outstanding
30 Rock’s best episode of the season [so far], if not the best
Guest Actress in a Comedy Series".[21]
episode ever from this young series." Canning also said
that "this was just a fantastic, funny episode of 30 Rock.
It was also an episode that once again proved the char- References
acter of Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski), who was com-
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castcrew;_ylt=AjcJZlYp.JWNn6G4Mg6vkQqvo9EF.
Matt Webb Mitovich of TV Guide wrote that "it’s not sur-
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Love" 11-15-2007 8:30PM". Press release.
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all, [this was] another splendid [episode]. My only beef
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