Liz and Dennis have gotten back together after Dennis was the only person who remembered her birthday. Disturbed by Liz's acceptance of mediocrity, her boss, Jack, tries to reform her into someone who enjoys
the good life. He refers Liz to the fanciest restaurant in the city, Stone. Nevertheless, Liz declines Jack's offer to be her mentor. That night at Stone, Jack and his date walk by Liz and Dennis's table, with Jack very unimpressed by Dennis's manners. The following day, Jack introduces Liz to a former mentee of his,
Howard Jorgensen (
Brian Stack). At lunch the next day, Liz realizes she is frustrated with her relationship with Dennis, then she storms off to Jack's office to ask for help. Jack motivates Liz to end it with him. Liz comes home to break up with Dennis, only to find him distraught after a loss of his favorite hockey team, the
New York Islanders. As a result, Dennis moves in with her. Meanwhile, Tracy's upset after being identified in a magazine as an actor behaving normally, far from the insane persona he is trying to maintain. To re-establish his
street cred, Tracy gets a dragon tattoo on his face, but is later identified as made of
Sharpie. At the same time,
Josh Girard (
Lonny Ross) is told that he is to receive a special gift from
Liz Taylor (
Rachel Dratch) as a response to an impression he did of the actress on
TGS with Tracy Jordan. Liz Taylor sneaks into the 30 Rock studios and, upset over Josh's impersonation, brutally beats him with a fire extinguisher. At the same time, Jack, responding to audience research, starts cleaning out green clothes from the set. He asks Jenna, one of the stars of
TGS, how old she is, and she tells him that she is 29. As a result of this exchange, Jenna gets Botox and collagen injections that go terribly wrong. Later, during a sketch rehearsal—involving impersonations of
Condoleezza Rice,
Laura Bush, and
John Kerry—the various mishaps of Tracy, Jenna, and Josh, Pete and Liz realize that they've produced a terrible episode (worse than an unnamed episode where Tracy Jordan did a tribute to
August Wilson, which Liz blames herself for because she should have told Tracy who Wilson was [another version of this scene exists where Liz says that the upcoming episode is worse than when
The Girlie Show did a Gilbert and Sullivan parody]) and the only way out is if a major news event pre-empts them (with Pete wondering if
Gerald Ford's health is in decline [the alternate version that had the reference to Gilbert and Sullivan also changed Pete's line to wondering if it's still hurricane season]). The power at Studio 8H goes out, cancelling the show. Liz asks Jack if he had anything to do with it, but Jack denies it. ==Production==