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** Comes full circle when Liz gets a root canal on Valentine's Day to cope with still being single. Turns out Jack is ''her'' emergency contact. He picks her up while she's still on the anesthetic, drops her off at home, and puts her to bed without complaint.

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** Comes full circle when Liz gets a root canal on Valentine's Day to cope with still being single. Turns out Jack is ''her'' emergency contact. He picks her up while she's still on the anesthetic, drops her off at home, and puts her to bed without complaint.complaint.
* Liz is genuinely upset to realize that rather than being the typical nerd being picked on by bullies, ''she'' was the bully picking on everyone. It's bad enough to begin with, but also a very demonstration of what often happens in RealLife, that someone being bullied can turn into one themselves.
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* Tracy's movie, ''Hard to Watch'', is apparently incredibly moving.
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* When Tracy Jordan tells a heartbreaking story about his diabetic daughter at a fundraiser. Subverted when it turns out that he doesn't ''have'' a daughter--he made it up to get donations and to get Jack in Don Geiss' good books.
* In the episode "MILF Island", someone tells a newspaper reporter that Jack is a "class-A moron". Jack then tells Liz about how that insult particularly hurts his feelings: as a child, he had low self-esteem and a stutter, and he was often bullied and called a class-A moron by his peers. At the end of the episode Jack becomes so distressed about it that he starts to stutter again ("Whoever said that, they meant it. They think I'm a moron like Gilly and everyone else... It's just k-killing me that someone would say that about me... L-Liz, I g-g-guess I'll always b-b-b-be that k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k...")[[spoiler: Liz gets so upset that she admits to being the one that told the paper that Jack was a moron. [[InvokedTrope Subverted though in that Jack was making the whole thing up and was just guilting Liz into admitting she had done it]].]]
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** Comes full circle when Liz gets a root canal on Valentine's Day to cope with still being single. Turns out Jack is ''her'' emergency contact. He picks her up, drops her off at home, and puts her to bed without complaint.

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** Comes full circle when Liz gets a root canal on Valentine's Day to cope with still being single. Turns out Jack is ''her'' emergency contact. He picks her up, up while she's still on the anesthetic, drops her off at home, and puts her to bed without complaint.
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* Jack's [[spoiler: heart attack]] in season one. Doubles as a heartwarming moment between him and Liz when [[spoiler: she learns that she is his emergency contact]].

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* Jack's [[spoiler: heart attack]] in season one. Doubles as a heartwarming moment between him and Liz when [[spoiler: she learns that she is his emergency contact]].contact]].
** Comes full circle when Liz gets a root canal on Valentine's Day to cope with still being single. Turns out Jack is ''her'' emergency contact. He picks her up, drops her off at home, and puts her to bed without complaint.

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* The ending of ''A Goon's Deed in a Weary World.'' Just... wow.

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* The ending of ''A Goon's Deed in a Weary World.'' Just... wow.World'' has two moments, that also double as heartwarming. First, a wedge has come between Jack and Kenneth due to Jack wanting to pick a corporate shark to run NBC, leading Kenneth to tell Jack that he is not right to be in charge, since Kenneth believes someone in charge of a TV network should love TV. Kenneth comes to Jack's office to resign and Jack admits Kenneth was right, and he then names Kenneth as his successor, putting him in charge.
** In the same episode, Liz has spent all her time and attention to save the show, even as the time to meet her and Chris' adopted children approaches, yelling at the cast and crew that she has been the only one who cared about the show first and everything else second for seven years. Eventually, everyone declares that they will quit rather than make Liz prioritize the show, giving her time to go to the airport with Chris and meet their new children-who turn out to be adorably similar to Tracy and Jenna, which makes Liz happy.
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* Colleen's quiet death in a Central Park horse carriage. Jack during the entire episode thinks she's lying about dying. It isn't helped that she refuses to take an ambulance to the hospital (where her heart attack might have been prevented), but it seems at age 87 she simply felt she was holding Jack back. Elaine Stritch herself passed away a year and a half later.

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* Colleen's quiet death in a Central Park horse carriage. Jack during the entire episode thinks she's lying about dying. It isn't helped that she refuses to take an ambulance to the hospital (where her heart attack might have been prevented), but it seems at age 87 she simply felt she was holding Jack back. Elaine Stritch Creator/ElaineStritch herself passed away a year and a half later.
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Actually, no. She was always the bully.


* Jack's [[spoiler: heart attack]] in season one. Doubles as a heartwarming moment between him and Liz when [[spoiler: she learns that she is his emergency contact]].
* Liz's high school reunion episode ends up highlighting one of the very real possible consequences of bullying--that the bullying victim ends up becoming a bully themself.

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* Jack's [[spoiler: heart attack]] in season one. Doubles as a heartwarming moment between him and Liz when [[spoiler: she learns that she is his emergency contact]].
* Liz's high school reunion episode ends up highlighting one of the very real possible consequences of bullying--that the bullying victim ends up becoming a bully themself.
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* Jack's [[spoiler: heart attack]] in season one. Doubles as a heartwarming moment between him and Liz when [[spoiler: she learns that she is his emergency contact]].

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* Jack's [[spoiler: heart attack]] in season one. Doubles as a heartwarming moment between him and Liz when [[spoiler: she learns that she is his emergency contact]].contact]].
* Liz's high school reunion episode ends up highlighting one of the very real possible consequences of bullying--that the bullying victim ends up becoming a bully themself.
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* Jack's [[spoiler: heart attack]] in season one. Doubles as heartwarming a heartwarming moment between him and Liz when [[spoiler: she learns that she is his emergency contact]].

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* Jack's [[spoiler: heart attack]] in season one. Doubles as heartwarming a heartwarming moment between him and Liz when [[spoiler: she learns that she is his emergency contact]].
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* Jack's [spoiler: heart attack] in season one. Doubles as heartwarming a heartwarming moment between him and Liz when [[spoiler: she learns that she is his emergency contact]].

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* Jack's [spoiler: [[spoiler: heart attack] attack]] in season one. Doubles as heartwarming a heartwarming moment between him and Liz when [[spoiler: she learns that she is his emergency contact]].
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* Trust ''30 Rock'' to turn the [[StylisticSuck ridiculously incomprehensible theme to the "Rural Juror"]] into an emotional and touching goodbye.

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* Trust ''30 Rock'' to turn the [[StylisticSuck ridiculously incomprehensible theme to the "Rural Juror"]] into an emotional and touching goodbye.goodbye in the GrandFinale.



* Jack's [spoiler: heart attack] in season one. Doubles as heartwarming a heartwarming moment between him and Liz when [spoiler: she learns that she is his emergency contact].

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* Jack's [spoiler: heart attack] in season one. Doubles as heartwarming a heartwarming moment between him and Liz when [spoiler: [[spoiler: she learns that she is his emergency contact].contact]].
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* Angie telling Liz in the Queen of Jordan episode that she misses Tracey and that she's worried he might not come back is heartbreaking.

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* Angie telling Liz in the Queen of Jordan episode that she misses Tracey and that she's worried he might not come back is heartbreaking.heartbreaking.
* Jack's [spoiler: heart attack] in season one. Doubles as heartwarming a heartwarming moment between him and Liz when [spoiler: she learns that she is his emergency contact].
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* Colleen's quiet death in a Central Park horse carriage. Jack during the entire episode thinks she's lying about dying. It isn't helped that she refuses to take an ambulance to the hospital (where her heart attack might have been prevented), but it seems at age 87 she simply felt she was holding Jack back.

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* Colleen's quiet death in a Central Park horse carriage. Jack during the entire episode thinks she's lying about dying. It isn't helped that she refuses to take an ambulance to the hospital (where her heart attack might have been prevented), but it seems at age 87 she simply felt she was holding Jack back. Elaine Stritch herself passed away a year and a half later.
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-->'''Tina:''' Yeah, I think we did, Kate. I think we did." ''(Tina waved, and whispered, "Bye!")''

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-->'''Tina:''' Yeah, I think we did, Kate. I think we did." ''(Tina waved, and whispered, "Bye!")''"Bye!")''
* Angie telling Liz in the Queen of Jordan episode that she misses Tracey and that she's worried he might not come back is heartbreaking.
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--> '''Jenn:''' [''singing''] These were the best days of my...flerm

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--> '''Jenn:''' '''Jenna:''' [''singing''] These were the best days of my...flerm
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* Trust ''30 Rock'' to turn the [[StylisticSuck ridiculously incomprehensible theme to the "Rural Juror"]] into an emotional and touching goodbye.
--> '''Jenn:''' [''singing''] These were the best days of my...flerm
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-->'''Tina:''' Yeah, I think we did, Kate. I think we did." ''(Tina waves, and whispered, "Bye!")''

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-->'''Tina:''' Yeah, I think we did, Kate. I think we did." ''(Tina waves, waved, and whispered, "Bye!")''
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* The ending of ''A Goon's Deed in a Weary World.'' Just... wow.

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* The ending of ''A Goon's Deed in a Weary World.'' Just... wow.wow.
* Tina Fey's final "[[http://www.hulu.com/watch/451792?playlist_id=1031 Ask Tina]]" letter which asked, "Did you go to there?"
-->'''Tina:''' Yeah, I think we did, Kate. I think we did." ''(Tina waves, and whispered, "Bye!")''
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* Colleen's quiet death in a Central Park horse carriage. Jack during the entire episode thinks she's lying about dying. It isn't helped that she refuses to take an ambulance to the hospital (where her heart attack might have been prevented), but it seems at age 87 she simply felt she was holding Jack back.

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* Colleen's quiet death in a Central Park horse carriage. Jack during the entire episode thinks she's lying about dying. It isn't helped that she refuses to take an ambulance to the hospital (where her heart attack might have been prevented), but it seems at age 87 she simply felt she was holding Jack back.back.
* The ending of ''A Goon's Deed in a Weary World.'' Just... wow.
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* When Tracy Jordan tells a heartbreaking story about his diabetic daughter at a fundraiser. Subverted when it turns out that he doesn't ''have'' a daughter--he made it up to get donations and to get Jack in Don Geiss' good books.
* In the episode "MILF Island", someone tells a newspaper reporter that Jack is a "class-A moron". Jack then tells Liz about how that insult particularly hurts his feelings: as a child, he had low self-esteem and a stutter, and he was often bullied and called a class-A moron by his peers. At the end of the episode Jack becomes so distressed about it that he starts to stutter again ("Whoever said that, they meant it. They think I'm a moron like Gilly and everyone else... It's just k-killing me that someone would say that about me... L-Liz, I g-g-guess I'll always b-b-b-be that k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k...")[[spoiler: Liz gets so upset that she admits to being the one that told the paper that Jack was a moron. [[InvokedTrope Subverted though in that Jack was making the whole thing up and was just guilting Liz into admitting she had done it]].]]
* Tracy's movie, ''Hard to Watch'', is apparently incredibly moving.
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* Colleen's quiet death in a Central Park horse carriage. Jack during the entire episode thinks she's lying about dying. It isn't helped that she refuses to take an ambulance to the hospital (where her heart attack might have been prevented), but it seems at age 87 she simply felt she was holding Jack back.

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