History Heartwarming / ThirtyRock

* This exchange between Jack and Nancy.

* In season 5, episode "100" there is a Heartwarming Moment that goes pretty unacknowledged by the show, the writers and the fans. During a series of flashbacks it is revealed that Jack originally didn't want to fire Pete he wanted to fire Liz. This was meant to solidify the growth Liz and Jack's friendship over the past 5 years. However what no one ever mentions is that the same flashback shows Pete tells Jack that if he fires Liz he will quit... Pete gave up everything for Liz. However an even greater Heartwarming Moment would have been Liz thanking Pete for the sacrifice he made.

* In the season four episode "Sun Tea" there's two Heartwarming Moments. The first one comes from Tracey and Jack's experiences while waiting for their vesectomies. Jack bonds with Tracey's son, who loves his dad so much that he's basing a project for school on him. Tracey's experience is that he finds he wants a baby girl before he gets the operation because he genuinely wants another child. This leads to Jack stopping the operation on Tracey. The second of Heartwarming Moment is Doctor Spaceman's reactions to this. He voluntarily stops Tracey's procedure because Jack asked him to and his explanation to why they can't eat a huge meal before surgery is not because of throwing up in their sleep but because he's making them both a huge breakfast after. He almost levels Kenneth in kindness (and oddball-ness)and this episode really solidifies this.

* The scene where Jack, who is trying to prove to Kenneth that no one is really moral when tested, gets a bunch of people to rig the elevator to break down and play a trick on him, saying that there's only enough oxygen in the elevator for eight people to survive and since there's nine in the elevator, one person has to die (and mentions there's a gun conveniently located in the phonebox). The fact that Kenneth is gullible enough to believe him is a CrowningMomentOfFunny. The fact that he doesn't hesitate for a ''second'' before grabbing the gun and trying to shoot himself in the head to save Jack and the others is the CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming. Jack, it should be noted, is completely shaken by this display.

*** Not to forget, in the same episode Avery asks Intoxicated!Liz how she feels about Jack. Her reply: "He's the best one. I don't know what I would do with out him." A bit of a tearjerker for this troper.

--> Jack: "I'll wait, not forever."

--> Kenneth: "I'll see YOU ALL IN HEAVEN!"

-->Kenneth [speaking about a rival he's known for a few days]: He's my best friend! Tied with everyone else I've ever met!"

-->Jack [offhand]: I still want you to have everything.

* At the end of Season 6, Liz tells Jack (usually a ceaseless fountain of unsolicited advice) that she's finally ready to have a child of her own, but Jack, humbled by the failure of his second marriage, does not feel qualified to mentor her, instead just telling her that she'll be a great mother. But Liz asks for his advice anyway, in an honest display of admiration and friendship, and Jack, in an equal display of friendship, obliges. Awww....

* In the season four episode "Sun Tea" there's two Heartwarming Moments. The first one comes from Tracey and Jacks expericences while waiting for their vesectomies. Jack bonds with Tracey's son, who loves his dad so much that he's basing a project for school on him. Tracey's expericence is that he finds he wants a baby girl before he gets the operation because he genuinely wants another child. This leads to Jack stopping the operation on Tracey. The second of Heartwarming Moment is Doctor Spaceman's reactions to this. He voluntarily stops Tracey's procedure because Jack asked him too and his explanation to why they can't eat a huge meal before surgery is not because of throwing up in their sleep but because he's making them both a huge breakfast after. He almost levels Kenneth in kindness (and oddball-ness)and this episode really solidifies this.

* In '"Verna", Jenna's [StageMom abusive mother] Verna claims to have changed and wants to make amends. When Jack discovers Verna is really only there to use Jenna to get a reality television deal, he decides not to spoil Jenna's illusions and instead strikes a deal with Verna to pay her $12,000 a year (plus a tarp for her washing machine) to act like a good mother and visit on four holidays.

** The final scene; [[spoiler:we zoom out of a snow globe of 30 Rock and see Kenneth discussing the idea of a 30 Rock TV show with a "Miss Lemon". It seems like a send up of the controversial ending of ''Series/StElsewhere'', in which it was AllJustADream. But then we see flying cars going past Kenneth's window, and realize it is the future; the "Miss Lemon" is actually Liz's descendant, basing a show on the stories her great grandmother told her. She tells Kenneth this and he ([[OlderThanTheyLook looking no older]], by the way) says "I know... and I love it!"]]

-->'''Jack''': Lemon, there is a word, a once special word that’s been tragically co-opted by the romance industrial complex, and I would hate to use it here and have you think that I am suggesting any type of romantic sentiment, let alone an invitation to scale bone mountain. It’s a word that comes to us by way of the old high German "luba" from the Latin "lubera" meaning "to be pleasing." So I’m going to use this word to describe how I feel about you in the way that our Anglo-Saxon forefathers would have used it in reference to say "hot bowl of bear meat" or "your enemy's skull split.

** The final scene; [[spoiler:we zoom out of a snow globe of 30 Rock and see Kenneth discussing the idea of a 30 Rock TV show with a "Miss Lemon". It seems like a send up of the controversial ending of StElsewhere, in which it was AllJustADream. But then we see flying cars going past Kenneth's window, and realize it is the future; the "Miss Lemon" is actually Liz's descendant, basing a show on the stories her great grandmother told her. She tells Kenneth this and he ([[OlderThanTheyLook looking no older]], by the way) says "I know... and I love it!"]]