30 Rock (TV Series) Rosemary's Baby (2007) User Reviews

Fantastic Episode!

[g-bodyl · 9/10 · 16 July 2014]

This is the fourth episode of the second season of 30 Rock, and it is utterly fantastic. It vastly improves from the last episode, but like the last episode, this episode features a very funny guest star. This time, the cameo appearances in the form of none other than Princess Leia herself, Carrie Fisher. She was hilarious and I loved how she spoofed Star Wars with her famous quote, "Help Me, Liz Lemon. I'm you're only hope!"

In this episode, "Rosemary's Baby," Liz goes to a book signing of a comedy writer from the 1960's whom she idolizes. After Rosemary was hired, no one agrees with her ideas and eventually both Liz and Rosemary are fired. Meanwhile, Jack has to stop Tracy from dogfighting and Jenna almost starts a trivia war between Kenneth and his rival.

Overall, this is an excellent episode and Carrie Fisher's cameo is one of the early highlights for this second season. One thing I've noticed and that is how the guest stars have a higher pedigree this season. But I think that is a good thing. I rate this episode 9/10.

"Dyn-o-mite!"

[MaxBorg89 · 10/10 · 22 October 2008]

After seeing SeinfeldVision, I was fairly convinced no episode of 30 Rock's second season could improve on that kind of self-referential madness. How wrong I was: Rosemary's Baby is the standout of the show's second year, not to mention Alec Baldwin's golden ticket to receiving the Emmy Award he lost in 2007.

The episode kicks off with Liz attending a book-signing by Rosemary Howard (Carrie Fisher), a has-been comedy writer who greets Liz's offer to do some stuff for TGS with wild enthusiasm, although her racy ideas quickly clash with NBC standards and Jack's policy (even if he agreed to air a sketch about dog penises), leading to Liz's decision to quit and create a new show with Rosemary (a decision she regrets fast enough). Another problem tormenting Jack is Tracy's tendency to do the exact opposite of what people tell him (in this case: don't dogfight), an inconvenience he believes can be solved with therapy. Also, Jenna causes a mess with Kenneth, which almost degenerates into a trivia contest with the page's most bitter rival.

The appeal of the episode lies in how the actors are willing to make fun of themselves with all the ease in the world: Fey, of course, does that all the time, since the whole idea of the series derives from her experience at Saturday Night Live, but the major contributions come from Fisher and Baldwin: the former, a has-been in real-life as well, was Emmy-nominated for her loving deconstruction of her persona, on screen and off, culminating in the ultimate Princess Leia spoof ("Help me Liz Lemon, you're my only hope!"), beating the hell out of her equally smart cameo in Scream 3 (remember? She played an actress who didn't get the Leia part because she refused to sleep with George Lucas); the latter, almost always the funniest thing in the show, mocks his SNL impressions with a borderline mental therapy session scene where he ends up impersonating the most unexpected people (must be seen to be believed). Forget Glengarry Glen Ross or The Cooler: this is the definitive showcase of the full extent of his versatility. The well-deserved Emmy win confirms that beyond any doubt.

Best Episode of a Fantastic Series

[julieb-35-327991 · 10/10 · 14 January 2024]

This is the episode that made me fall in love with 30 Rock and Tina Fey. Women who grew up during second wave feminism's most active period during the Sixties and Seventies always feel at least some low-level guilt for their power and success because we are the beneficiaries of all the work before us. Throughout the series, Liz Lemon is hyper-vigilant about her own guilt. When Carrie Fisher the GOAT jumps on Liz's guilt trip, Liz goes all in and takes a left turn down Calle de Crazy (otherwise known as Little Chechnya). Alec Baldwin is in top comic form, and that's saying something. So many good lines, and his mashup of Fred Sanford and To Kill a Mockingbird is the most obtuse/brilliant riff I have ever witnessed. The page-off is also amusing. It's weird but true that after first viewing this episode, I felt understood. If art is cathartic, this episode is the orgasm that gets you there.

Carry on Carrie

[safenoe · 10/10 · 16 June 2021]

The legendary Carrie Fisher guest stars in one of the best episodes of season 2, maybe of the whole series. With the passing of Carrie only a few years ago, watching this episode brings back the emotions of Princess Leia.

Alec Baldwin's accents was spot-on!

The last part of Rosemary's Baby with Baldwin was the best one of "30 Rock"

[tavm · 6/10 · 26 October 2007]

Liz reluctantly accepts a literally large check for "Follower of the Year" though she doesn't consider herself as such. She and Pete later go to a bookstore where she meets her writer idol who's named Rosemary (Carrie Fisher). Rosemary gets hired as the guest writer who alienates everyone with her really far-out ideas. After meeting her, Jack wants her fired which Liz refuses to do. Liz gets fired as well as a result. Jenna accidentally burns Kenneth's jacket so she goes to the head page and tries to get another one for him only to get the head page to challenge Kenneth for a "Page-Off" in which they ask NBC trivia questions. Unfortunately, Pete calls this off after mentioning "there's no one at Conan's show right now". Tracy has daddy issues since anything Jack tells him not to do, he does the opposite (which explains Tracy's trying dogfighting). So Jack takes him to a psychiatrist but then Jack does several impersonations of Tracy's family (including a father that sounds uncannily like Redd Foxx) that Tracy responds to him instead and problem is now solved (for now). After being sacked, Liz goes with Rosemary to her apartment and finds she lives alone with a rat and a train that runs by her window. Liz' last straw comes when Rosemary proposes a movie about someone her age doing it with an 18-year-old that she believes with be a hit. As Liz leaves, Rosemary says, "Help me, Liz Lemon, you're my only hope!" As Jack gives Liz her job back, he tells her about G.E.'s problem with the "dog penis" sketch. Liz asks, "How about 'cat penis'?"...While this wasn't the normally funny show "30 Rock" usually provides, I did think Alec's characterizations at the end were the most hilarious things I saw so far in this show. Reminds me how he got me in stitches whenever he was on "Saturday Night Live"! Also wish the "Page-Off" got on a little longer. Carrie Fisher was a little uneven to me but love her references to both her marriage to a gay man and her famous Star Wars role of Princess Leia. Glad the ratings picked up this week. Will review again next week.

Rosemary's Baby (#2.4)

[ComedyFan2010 · 6/10 · 23 November 2013]

So far this is my least favorite episode of the show.

Liz meets her idol Rosemary to recognize that she doesn't want to end up like her. Really didn't like the way it was done. Edgy TV is fun and people who go to break barriers are the real winners at the end no matter what their apartment is. Is it just because her ideas were not really good? I mean it should be edgy AND funny. Anyways, lousy story, only can be good for the future when Jack mentors Liz to be more like him.

The sub stories with Tracy and dog fighting as well as the page off weren't very exciting either. But thy had some great scenes that make up for it. Jack during the therapy was a riot! And the page off was a pretty awesome scene with a great ending. Paul Sheer was great at it. And "You burned my jacket....." line a the end was performed perfectly by Jack McBrayer.

Rosemary's Baby

[studioAT · 3/10 · 12 November 2020]

Like a lot of '30 Rock' episodes, there's a lot here that I enjoyed, and other things that I found just plain annoying. This show does have a tendency to move towards the dark, and I'm not a fan.