"If you decide to sue, I know a good Lawyer. Took me to the cleaners last year"
ORIGINAL AIRDATE: 10th April 2008
EPISODE NUMBER: Season 2, Episode 11
WRITTEN BY: Tina Fey & Matt Hubbard
What started out as a throwaway joke becomes a backdrop for an entire episode. Show-within-a-show "MILF Island" is a clever parody of Survivor that's almost trashy enough to exist one day, and the brief scenes it shows up in are all very funny. But the best part is that it's used as a way to parallel the events of the episode.
It starts off as a mystery about who made the anonymous comment about Jack, with the show staff held hostage until the culprit confesses. Later, when they reveal it was Liz, it focuses on her reluctance to admit it despite her increasing guilt.
Tracy is used only in moderation, but his scenes are all great. Liz mimicking a Kathy cartoon is a perfect example of the show's absurd humour. Pete Hornberger also has an amusing subplot where he's trapped in a vending machine and there's no-one around to free him.
In the end, Jack uses his master manipulation skills to get Liz to own up and write a show for a "MILF Island" contestant, even though he already knew it was her. MILF Island is a clever, funny, interesting and even quite tense episode of comedy, and demonstrates Tina Fey's ability to take a small joke and just run with it, tapping its unseen potential.
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