Unlike some other adorkable or slutty-fabulous characters I could name, Liz only superficially resembled the protagonist of a romantic comedy, ready to remove her glasses and be loved. Beneath that, she was something way more interesting: a strange, specific, workaholic, NPR-worshipping, white-guilt-infected, sardonic, curmudgeonly, hyper-nerdy New Yorker. That was why the show worked: it rarely made Liz an empowering role model, although many women certainly identified with her.
The show let her be the George Costanza, not the Mary Richards. And, refreshingly, this appeal had little to do with sex or relationships: a lot of it was about her job.
Liz was professionally successful, but she was a sellout. In her late thirties, Liz dated a white British guy named Wesley Snipes, who was endlessly thrown at her in classic rom-com soulmate style. She refused to settle. And she got her dream: airline pilot Carol Burnett, who was too similar to Liz in the end, since he shared her cranky, unforgiving bent. Early on, she went to her high-school reunion and discovered that she had not in fact been the overlooked nerd—she had been the sarcastic bully, throwing zingers at women she envied an insight Tina Fey has regularly expressed about herself.
Like a deer who runs and sniffs and jumps and stares. Elizabeth Miervaldis "Liz" Lemon is the fictional protagonist of the American situation comedy 30 Rock. She is portrayed by Tina Fey , who is also the creator of the series and its show runner. For this reason, Liz Lemon is widely seen by critics as a fictionalized version of Fey herself, which Fey herself has confirmed as being her intention.
In a video interview conducted with Fey prior to the airing of the pilot, she stated that Liz is herself "five or six years ago when I first started at my job and had to figure out how to deal with big, strong personalities and get through the day, being sort-of scared of everyone Fey has reported incorporating some of her own quirks and history into the character, saying that she tries to "share as many of Liz's habits as possible so it feels truthful. Both were once rejected by a man who later went to clown college and both were once referred to with the "c" word, which had a huge emotional impact on them.
The character also shares her given name with Fey, whose full name is Elizabeth Stamatina Fey. However, Liz Lemon is only very rarely referred to as "Elizabeth" and the character's name is usually given as "Liz Lemon" in official contexts example, the plaque on the door to her office.
The character's last name, "Lemon", is apparently intended to imply an acerbic personality and possibly also to make her full name alliterative.
Fey has stated that she wanted Liz to have a good last name since she knew the character would often be called by it. Liz is from a town called "White Haven" [1]. Her optimistic family are introduced in season 2. Her brother Mitch had a skiing accident [3] on Sunday, December 8, [2] when he was a high school senior.
Afterward, he remained "stuck" in the day before the accident, thinking for the next twenty-two years that he was still seventeen and that it was still until his sister Liz Lemon forces him to remember at an Italian restaurant at Christmas-time.
Liz was inspired to become a writer by Rosemary Howard , the first female head writer of Laugh-In [4]. West Coast: The poster cue gets nailed.
East Coast: According to online surveys, Jack "has a drinking problem. East Coast: In his commercial, Dr. Spaceman's first song includes the line, "Light some candles, draw a bath, and start off with full-on intercourse. East Coast: Spaceman's second song goes, "Baby, let's let the dog watch us. Do you think he understands the love that we have? Oops, I'm finished, call yourself a cab. East Coast: Matt Damon's first appearance in the show gets wild cheers at the beginning and end of his scene.
West Coast: Complete silence from the audience. It's the first thing every civilization makes, along with weapons and shelters to enjoy prostitutes. It gives us the ability to hit on women, and later, when we're married, to tune them out.
East Coast: Later in the paint scene, Jack says the grammatically incorrect "this is what happens to people like you and I". West Coast: The line is grammatically correct: "This is what happens to people like you and me".
East Coast: Flashback Jack Donaghy makes out with one of his three dancing ladies. West Coast: Flashback Jack is much more chaste, though still barechested. Smash Mouth's All-Star plays. East Coast: Jon Hamm appears as his hook-handed character Drew Baird, narrating a commercial like so: "Thanks to an idea that started as a pitch for a horror movie and then grew into a charitable organization, hands from executed criminals are now making life better for people all over the world.
East Coast: Drew shows off his transplanted hand, which is a little bit scary-looking and tries to choke him. West Coast: Now, Drew's new hand is from a lady: "Donors are rare. As you can see, I've had to accept a female hand. East Coast: In the final scene, Liz is happy with how her birthday went.
After all, she even "got to eat the cake off the floor. West Coast also: Tina Fey misses her cue to replace Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Julia has to stall for time for a few seconds on "it was the best of both worlds". The thank-yous during the end credits are completely different takes, of course; in the West Coast version, for example, Alec Baldwin holds up a sign with a shamrock.
User reviews 7 Review. Top review. Both "Live Show"s of this "30 Rock" episode are very entertaining to me.
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