(My) Top Ten 30 Rock Episodes: PART TWO

4. SANDWICH DAY (SEASON 2)

In this episode, the Teamsters engage in a yearly tradition of buying everyone sandwiches from a secret deli in Brooklyn ("and the dipping sauce - oh, the dipping sauce!"), and Floyd shows up for a brief reunion with Liz. I love this episode for a couple reasons, but mostly because it contains one of the most romantic lines in moving image history: "I wolfed my Teamster sub for you."

FAVORITE LINES

Floyd: Can I take you out to dinner tonight? Maybe we can go to that barbecue place you puked at.
Liz: (flirtatiously): You'll have to be more specific.

Lutz (to the Teamsters): I know what driving the long-haul is like! After my junior year at Oberlin, we road-tripped to South by Southwest!

5. JACKIE JORMP-JOMP (SEASON 3)

First of all, this episode starts out with Jeffery Weinerslav (pronounced "weiner slave"), who I bumped into at a CVS in Astoria a few years ago. I am starstruck by the most minor of celebrities, so I asked if he was on 30 Rock and told him how much I enjoyed his role on the show. He was extremely nice and we had a little chat and he asked if I was an actress, which made my year.

Beyond that, this episode is near perfection, from Liz's harassment of the Polish doormen to Jenna's role in the Janis Joplin biopic to the terrific performances by the women in the leisure/fight club.

FAVORITE LINES

Liz: No! I need a little more time off. I'm on humanity leave.
Jack: Good God, what Indigo Girls song is that from?
Liz: "Syllabus of Us." It's off Vagabonds, Martyrs and Quilts.

Tracy: Honesty and trust is very important in an entourage. Like that HBO show, John Adams.

Liz: Emily and her friends are happy!
Jack: Believe me, there is no solace in their luxury, only deep despair.
Liz: How do you know all these Indigo Girls songs?

6. THE BUBBLE (SEASON 3)

I know I'm getting hyperbolic with all of these favorite episodes, but "The Bubble" is just brilliant. I love how it highlights our society's lookism in such a playful, good-natured way. (Against my better nature, I myself give an incredible amount of leeway to attractive people.) Jon Hamm actually isn't my type, but I think he has a wonderful sense of humor and was great at portraying life inside the bubble.

FAVORITE LINES

Jack: Lemon, I don't share this often, but this is a photo of me when I was 25 years old.
Liz: What the what?! You have a Superman chest!
Jack: I know.
Liz: Oh my God, the lady will have two tickets to the gun show! Your eyes are so much bluer. What happened to your eyes?

Jack: Beautiful people are treated differently, from, say, moderately pleasant looking people. They live in a bubble. A bubble of free drinks, kindness and outdoor sex.

Drew: I don’t see it on the menu, but I would love a catfish po’boy and a diet raspberry Fanta.
Liz: Oh, that is a great idea. Let me order that for you.
(She covers his face with a menu)
Liz: Excuse me, we will have a turkey burger deluxe and a catfish po’boy with a diet raspberry Fanta.
Waitress: I’m gonna come back in five minutes. You try to order off the menu again I will smack those glasses off your face.
Liz: Okay. Thank you.
Waitress: You’re welcome.
Drew: What was that? Why didn’t she call you “sweetheart”? And where’s the complimentary app sampler? What’s going on?

Liz: See because of your whole, you know, Disney prince thing -
Drew: Actually they used footage of me from my high school swim team to draw Prince Eric.