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Christmas Attack Zone
Original Air Date: Dec 9, 2010
Laura Kelley – Associate Staff Writer
laurakelley@thetwocentscorp.com
Christmas is here at TGS, and this year Liz is determined to avoid drama by going to dinner at Jack’s and showing up at her family’s for presents only. Of course, everything blows up in her face, because Jack’s mom is in town and finds out about the baby. Jack has plans of his own for Colleen, and he invites his father Milton over for a Christmas attack. If there’s anything to be learned from this episode, it’s that holidays are best enjoyed when familial disputes are escalated to the level of an actual war.
Since he’s been nominated for a Golden Globe, Tracy has decided he will be a serious actor and “only make movies about the Holocaust, Georgia O’Keefe, or both.” Kenneth is saddened that Tracy refuses to be funny, but he should be more sad that he’s spending Christmas pretending trash cans are his parents. I know I am. Tracy goes to screen a depressing movie at a women’s shelter, but he gives in to Kenneth and shows The Chunks 2, his latest in a line of fart-themed comedies. His serious phase was hilarious, but I’m glad it’s over.
Liz goes to Jack’s and tries to tell Colleen that he’s planning an ambush, but gets lost in his Escher-designed wing. Colleen is enraged that Jack knocked up a Protestant (“what will everyone at the Death Shore retirement community think” is the best Colleen line ever) and she has a “heart attack” to get everyone back on her side. At the hospital, Jack loves watching his parents fight, and Liz awkwardly retreats, wishing everyone a whispered merry Christmas.
Also, Jenna and her boyfriend Paul get back together in time for the New Queers Eve party, where they both dress as black swans. Paul creeps me out so much that I really don’t like writing about him, but at least Jenna got her man back. This episode was pretty funny, mostly because Elaine Stritch is freaking hilarious and Alan Alda is so good as Jack’s dad, and Tracy was great. “Quiet, battered women! A man is talking!” was probably my favorite line of the episode, because who else but Tracy would shout it at a battered women’s shelter. What did you all think? Leave your two cents in the comments, and have a happy Druid Solstice Miracle, everyone!
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