Liz's parents are outwardly very optimistic and supportive of her, but privately they dislike many of their daughter's attributes and life decisions, as revealed during the climax of "Ludachristmas.

"[5] On Saturday, December 6, 1985, she made her one appearance as a varsity football player, having forced her high school to lift the gender segregation rules of the team.

In the episode "The Moms", her mother is said to have worked as a secretary at Sterling Cooper and to have "repeatedly lost [her] virginity" to Buzz Aldrin while the town pervert watched from the bushes.

Immediately after church choir member Tracy fell and realized his talent for getting laughs as a performer, Liz placed a prank call to the pledge line, which was answered by Jack, then a young executive from GE's poisons division.

[12] She attended the University of Maryland on a partial competitive jazz dance scholarship, studying theater tech for which she still has an outstanding student loan.

After TGS is canceled, Liz tries being a stay-at-home mother to her newly adopted children, while her husband Criss works as a dental receptionist.

Elsewhere's finale, "The Last One" (complete with a replica of the series' namesake building in a snow globe stared at by a mentally challenged male), Liz's life serves as the inspiration for a sitcom that is pitched by her great-granddaughter 100 years in the future.

After a mere glance at her in the pilot, Jack sums up Liz as a "New York third-wave feminist, college-educated single-and-pretending-to-be-happy-about-it, over-scheduled, undersexed, you buy any magazine that says 'healthy body image' on the cover and every two years you take up knitting for...a week."

Assessing Liz's personality up to near the end of season 3, Jonah Weiner described her as "an eternal 13-year-old tomboy—scared of sex, obsessed with Star Wars and meatball subs" and as "cling[ing] to a fantasy of presexual, junk-food-munching adolescence".

[36] Like Fey, Liz is a big fan of the Star Wars film franchise, often using events from the original trilogy to explain her feelings and actions in daily life.

", Liz gets married wearing a Princess Leia dress with which she had replaced her earlier, highly flammable costume after inadvertently setting it alight in "The Funcooker".

She is also a fan of the television series Heroes, in which her favorite character is Hiro Nakamura,[39] Lost, Little People, Big World, Ugly Betty,[40]Top Chef,[41] Designing Women,[42] NCIS,[43] and The Daily Show.

[45] In the episode "The Fabian Strategy", Liz reveals that the three things she likes in the world are Ina Garten, "sweater weather," and when Muppets present at awards shows.

[46] Over the course of the series she has shown an aversion to exposing her feet under any circumstances, except when she mistakenly believed that Oprah Winfrey counted high-heeled flip-flops among her new "favorite things.

In "Reaganing," it is mentioned that at nine years old, she sported a Pete Rose inspired haircut and had posters of Mike Schmidt and Tug McGraw in her bedroom.

Liz tells Jack that in payment for officiating at his and Avery's renewal of vows, "I get your Yankees tickets on A-Rod bobble head day.

By "Christmas Attack Zone," Liz has learned the meanings of body language through watching The Mentalist (due to her losing the remote control to her television, thus being unable to change the CBS channel it was on).

For instance, in "Reaganing", Liz reveals to Jack that she once ended up falling while wearing roller skates and with her underwear around her ankles, while covered by a Tom Jones poster (all while she was trying to find a bathroom to use in her house).

When Jack learns she also freaked out when hearing a snippet of music in Las Vegas, she realizes that anything that reminds her of Tom Jones triggers her revulsion to sex.

[51] James Poniewozik of Time had this to say about an Indecent Proposal type situation involving a former classmate in the episode "Leap Day": "[T]his story is about more than that.

and "son of a mother" as replacements for curse words; she has also notably used the phrases "shut it down", "I want to go to there", "deal-breaker", "pwomp", and "by the hammer of Thor!".

When Jack begins referring to her and TGS’s humor as "elitist, East Coast, alternative, intellectual, left wing-..." Liz cuts him off, telling him, "Just say 'Jewish'; this is taking forever.

As the series progressed, however, this original dislike disappeared, and they are now close friends, with Jack at one point going so far as to tell her, "Lemon, I honestly don't know what I'd do without you".

When Jack heavily embarrassed himself at a business retreat, Liz took the attention away from him by doing improvisation, including holding open her blouse to reveal her white bra.

Tina Fey has said that Liz's relationship with Jack is "somewhere between Mary Tyler Moore and Lou Grant, and Han Solo and Princess Leia.

"[73] Although Liz is happy to be TGS's head writer, she envies Jenna achieving the performing career they both hoped for when working at Second City.

[80] At one point in season 5, in the episode "It's Never Too Late For Now", Liz decides to give up on love and embrace spinsterhood by adopting a cat she calls Emily Dickinson, attending book clubs and wearing a fanny pack and baggy sweaters.

A recurring gag is Liz having relationships with men who share the names of celebrities or fictional characters, including Wesley Snipes (a Caucasian Englishman), commercial airline pilot Captain Carol Burnett (though his surname is pronounced "Burn-it"), Floyd DeBarber (i.e., Floyd the Barber), Dr. Drew Baird (i.e., Dr. Drew), and Criss Chros.

In her longest onscreen relationship, Liz dates Criss Chros (James Marsden), a down-to-earth hot dog vendor named after a 1990s teen rap duo.

[87] Slate, discussing how the show covers politics and feminism, assessed Lemon's character as being drawn from other genres of comedy in unexpected ways: "the man-child is a venerable comic tradition, from The Jerk to Billy Madison to everything Will Ferrell does, and 30 Rock proves that an eternal 13-year-old tomboy—scared of sex, obsessed with Star Wars and meatball subs—can be just as funny as her male counterpart.