Or, at least, she did. Moving his friends into her apartment and starring on NBC Dateline for dating under-age girls apparently constitutes suitable grounds for dumping him, despite the fact that her sole redeeming feature is scrubbing up quite nice about once every two episodes. Oh, Liz Lemon. You had the Beeper King but you let him go. Meanwhile, Jack is dating a high-ranking, African-American female in the Bush administration, whose identity remains an ENORMOUS MYSTERY through the whole episode. Playing off Hollywood liberal Alec Baldwin (who this series has already gone to Ann Coulter’s 60th birthday) with Condi Rice was hilarious, especially when he starts getting jealous of Putin copping a feel of her on television. Shame it doesn’t last (“I’m all about fantasy, but Abu Ghraib?”), but it starts a long stint of hilarious women in Jack’s life, from fake English to his ex-wife. Toofer, meanwhile, gets offended by Tracy calling him the N-word, even after Jack and Liz both explain to him that he’s allowed to use it. Toofer’s confusion and inability to use the N-word himself (“it just sounds so hateful coming from you”) nicely hooks into the best Tina Fey race jokes, like the whole cool Asian girl business in Mean Girls. Shame that this too pretty much falls off the 30 Rock agenda after this week.
