On tonight's episode of NBC's 30 Rock, Liz Lemon (played by Tina Fey) attends her high school reunion, but finds that her old classmates all thought she was a bully and hated her. In a quick-hit sitcom twist at the end of the episode, they decide to "Carrie her" by calling her up on stage to give her an award, while a bucket of something waits above the stage. In a brief but pointed homage to Brian De Palma's Carrie, Liz is shown walking to the stage in slow motion as her "friends" cheer her on, and one old classmate is shown licking his lips as he holds the rope that is tied to the bucket. Meanwhile, Liz's boss, played by Alec Baldwin, has pretended to be another one of Liz's old classmates, and, aware that they are about to "Carrie" Liz, takes the Sue Snell role in the slow motion build-up, except that he runs up on stage, where he then sort of takes on the Tommy Ross role, except since he knows what they are planning, he persuades them not to "Carrie" Liz. Perhaps the best bit is that when her boss tells Liz that they were going to "Carrie" her, she immediately looks up and sees the bucket, and expresses her annoyance. In the end, Liz makes a sharp turnaround, spitting venom at her old classmates, who finally tip the bucket over, but the timing is off, as it spills a black-looking substance straight onto an unoccupied part of the stage, allowing Liz to get the last word in.
Updated: Thursday, December 4, 2008 9:34 PM CST
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