In the episode with Oprah (thank you Oprah), the one liners come fast. I start to relish a line and try to commit it to memory, but then here comes another one, jerking my attention to that one. I’m like a cat at a beer ping pong game (if that IS a real game). No control whatsoever.

Kenneth has the most in common with Liz in this episode that I’ve seen. While his love for life is a natural high, Liz falls under the spell of “Oprah” with the help of Jack’s drugs and airline alcohol.

Kenneth confronts Jack when it appears his Olympics illusion begins to fall apart, “Was any of it real, Jack, Beer Pong, Jazzercise, Women’s Soccer?”

Kenneth maintains a mental strategy to hold it together “I don’t believe in hypothetical situations -  it’s like lying to your brain.”

Meanwhile Jenna argues with Tracy about who has been dealt a tougher hand in life, blacks or women or a beautiful woman, “it’s even harder being a beautiful woman — everyone assumes I don’t try in bed.”

Liz moves gracefully through a scene wearing some of “Oprah’s” favorite things: paisley, platform thongs, a lovely sweater cape, eats some saltwater taffy, and listens to Calypso.

To repair Jack and Kenneth’s falling out, Jack tries some flattery by calling Kenneth a hero. “You don’t mean like a sandwich, do you?” Jack says no, but really, come on. Jack comes back with more, “You’re like a Latina Fantastica.”  “Hola” is Kenneth’s comely response.

My favorite is the final, very real conversation between Jack and Liz, who doesn’t want to take credit for resolving the conflict between Tracy and Jenna. Liz says “good job Pam, really.” Jack suggests, “be a white man, take the credit.” And that’s what makes me love Alec Baldwin, in some strange parallel universe way.

This article was posted on Monday, January 5th, 2009 at 9:13 pm by Brigid and is filed under the category Episodes, Movies, Quotes. You can follow any responses to this article through the RSS 2.0 feed.