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Recap / 30 Rock S1 E13 "Up All Night"

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It's Valentine's Day, and the TGS team is pulling an all-nighter to write for the upcoming show. Jack and Bianca finalize their divorce, and Tracy tries to spend some intimate time with his wife.

This episode contains the following tropes:

  • Awkward Kiss: Poor Kenneth doesn't know how to kiss, and slobbers all over Cerie's cheek when she leans in for a peck.
  • Belligerent Sexual Tension: Jack and Bianca really enjoy fighting each other.
  • The Cameo: Joy Behar of The View shows up as a speaker for Jenna's Vagina Day.
  • Coitus Interruptus: Right when Tracy and his wife are about to start having sex, a drunken Jack knocks on the door with an Eastern European prostitute.
  • Drowning My Sorrows: Jack's "celebration" of his divorce gradually turns into this over the course of the night.
  • Failed Attempt at Drama: Jenna tries to tell off Frank, but is interrupted by an inopportune fart. As it happens, this helps soften Frank up, as it's the one thing he's seen her do that felt real and unplanned.
  • Hypocrite: Jenna accuses Frank of being one, and not without reason: his eccentricities and ironic fashion statements are as carefully cultivated as Jenna's glamorous persona, but she's the one considered "phony".
  • I Take Offense to That Last One: Bianca is willing to give up any number of luxurious and sentimental items, but she balks when asked to give up the Arby's franchise she co-owned with Jack.
  • Love Letter Lunacy: Liz gets a bunch of flowers and candy from an unknown person, and spends much of the episode trying to find out who. As it happens, it was nobody she knew: a guy from the legal department meant to send them to his girlfriend in accounting (who also happened to be named Liz). Said guy turns out to be Floyd, Liz's next love interest.
  • The Masochism Tango: Jack and Bianca's relationship is far from healthy—apparently Jack has a huge scar on his torso from her—but it's clear that they're still attracted to each other.
    Liz: Marry, boff, kill Bianca. Which do you wanna do?
    Jack: ...all of them.
  • Mistaken for Prostitute: When Liz knocks at the door of Tracy's hotel room to pick Jack up, Angie thinks she's another prostitute Jack sent for.
  • Sensual Slavs: Subverted with Vlem, an Eastern European prostitute who isn't portrayed as even remotely sexy.
  • Sexophone: This plays when Cerie and Kenneth are about to go on the "candy run".
  • Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond: Jenna realizes that Frank doesn't like her, and is quite angry about it.
  • Unusual Euphemism: Because you can't say "fuck" on network television, "fuck, marry, kill" is called "marry, boff, kill" here.
  • Valentine's Day Episode: The whole episode is set on Valentine's Day.

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