fourteenth episode season american television comedy series 30_rock written directed episode originally aired national_broadcasting_company nbc march guest stars episode include episode liz_lemon tina fey leaves tracy_jordan tgs crew participate jury duty trial oddly familiar woman nbc page kenneth_parcell jack_mcbrayer tries assert control crew jack_donaghy alec_baldwin uses writers develop new general_electric product jenna_maroney jane_krakowski seeks help work tgs movie received generally positive reviews television critics according nielsen ratings system watched million households original broadcast performance episode tracy_morgan plays tracy_jordan 30_rock received primetime emmy award nomination category outstanding supporting actor comedy series won image award outstanding directing comedy series plot tgs head writer liz_lemon tina fey assigned solve public relations problem caused stars tracy_jordan tracy_morgan jenna_maroney jane_krakowski hosting duties day parade jenna passed tracy cursed live television broadcast things worse liz summoned jury duty avoid despite claiming leaves jury duty leave charge allows staff direction later puts nbc page kenneth_parcell jack_mcbrayer charge learning staff gotten hand liz court case woman named work life parallel employees named tracy jenna believe employees waste time lives difficult jenna worn working tgs day biopic night visits help work gives jenna military grade experimental drug currently tested rats stay awake time tracy believes having money pay fines means television says liz result tracy martha stewart learning pulling actions decides sponsor vice president microwave oven programming general electric jack_donaghy desperately tries find pocket microwave oven offensive language liz gone jack assigns tgs writing staff der task unsuccessful attempts kenneth suggests jack decides perfect studios taping tgs interrupted desperately forces jenna sleep die like test rats tracy creates diversion dropping trousers exposing refers realizes kenneth heard fed chaos liz sends entire staff including kenneth office liz box matches thinks woman court admitted committing arson way getting control employees accidentally start small fire quickly bad behavior production written script coordinator season executive story editor directed episode writing credit second written episode rock directed episode later return helm fourth season episode originally aired nbc united_states march actor played episode appeared main cast saturday night live weekly sketch comedy series airs nbc united_states series creator executive producer lead actress tina_fey head writer fey tracy_morgan main cast tenth appearance actress stand comedian guest starred episode anchor entertainment news program access hollywood played reads apology written nbc tracy_jordan behalf previously appeared rock episode solo star wars frequently referenced 30_rock beginning pilot episode tracy seen shouting liz_lemon admits huge fan star wars saying watched times dressed star wars character recent trying jury duty chicago star wars referenced tracy takes identity character fey fan star wars said weekly star wars joke reference started happening crew realized star wars reference fey said thing tried going include episode pretty high batting average fey attributed references executive producer writer described resident expert reception according nielsen ratings system watched million households original american broadcast earned rating share demographic means seen year olds year olds watching television time broadcast decrease previous episode goodbye friend watched million american viewers ninth highest rated nbc network week march tracy_morgan received primetime emmy award nomination outstanding supporting actor comedy series 61st primetime emmy awards work episode lost actor director episode won image award outstanding directing comedy series 41st image awards ceremony episode received generally positive reviews ign contributor robert_canning praised writing fantastic felt like moment wasted scene enjoyed storylines episode writing interesting funny complimented way tied ease canning enjoyed tracy actions writing fit perfectly tracy character gave episode rating holy love episode wrote entertainment_weekly complaint episode absence aol squad grateful episode focused nbc tgs work staff wrote despite laugh loud episode believed funny praised performance noting monologue court brilliant enjoyed episode storylines tracy opined fell flat conclusion gave episode rating television columnist alan_sepinwall wrote episode like lot shows haven worked lots funny things build climax way went wrong sepinwall enjoyed episode noting worked concern liz loses push
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