Tina Fey: Mean Girl?

We ask you to assess the merits of tonight's 30 Rock episode!

By EOL Staff Dec 05, 2008 4:12 AMTags
Janel Moloney, Tina Fey, Robin Lively, 30 Rock NBC Photo/Nicole Rivelli

Is Tina Fey getting uncomfortable with fame?

If we were armchair psychologists—and we are!—we'd wonder if there was some Fey-related subtext in tonight's episode of 30 Rock about the confusing, sometimes painful limits of popularity. Considering the ep comes as Fey makes the cover of Vanity Fair, and gets dissed in The New Yorker, well, all we can say is…blurgh.

Anyway, Fey's Liz Lemon attends her high school reunion to find she wasn't a pathetic nerd in high school: She was a mean girl who terrorized her classmates (like The West Wing's Janel Moloney) with withering sarcasm and lispy, brace-slurred comments. At least Alec Baldwin's Jack finds temporary solace pretending to be a guy who drove a Camero...well, until Liz is mean to him.

Plus, there's a bucket of blood! 

Poll

The 30 Rock Reunion Poll

Was this reunion a success?
Yes, Tina Fey is awesome
75.7%
No, harsh comments are hurtful
10.3%
It made me say, "I want to go to there"
14.1%