The episode focuses on Liz Lemon's (Tina Fey) escapade with her idol, Rosemary Howard (Carrie Fisher); Tracy Jordan's (Tracy Morgan) family problems; and Jenna Maroney's (Jane Krakowski) attempt to replace Kenneth Parcell's (Jack McBrayer) burnt page jacket.
Liz takes Pete Hornberger (Scott Adsit) to a book signing to meet Rosemary Howard (Carrie Fisher), a female comedy writer whom Liz has idolized since childhood (her earliest memory of seeing Howard's comedy was on a fictitious episode of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, where Richard Nixon moves past a crowd of hippies, saying "Pardon me" and Goldie Hawn in a bikini stops him and says, "Pardon you?
When Tracy gets booed for butchering "The Star-Spangled Banner" at a sports event, Jack assures him that as a movie star, his latest faux pas can be fixed and that he can do anything he wants, except for dog fighting, thanks to the Michael Vick controversy.
Jack finds Tracy disobeying his order, which was already doomed from the start because Grizz and Dotcom brought in cute, yappy dogs instead of pitbulls.
Jenna finds Donny backstage at the studio, who is ecstatic that he finally has a reason to send Kenneth to CNBC in New Jersey.
Donny offers Kenneth a choice: go to New Jersey, or compete in a "page off", a contest of physical stamina and NBC trivia.
[4] Star Wars is frequently referenced in 30 Rock, beginning with the pilot episode where Tracy Jordan is seen shouting that he is a Jedi.
He praised Carrie Fisher's guest appearance, but felt that Baldwin's role-playing during the therapy session stole the show.
[16] Bob Sassone of TV Squad felt that even though the plot was "insane", the episode still managed "to have a heart at its core".
[11] Entertainment Weekly put it on its end-of-the-decade, "best-of" list, saying, " Between Carrie Fisher's delightfully bonkers guest role and Jack Donaghy's hijacking of Tracy Jordan's therapy session, this 2007 episode was so wrong.
The character of Rosemary Howard certainly embodies the glories and contradictions of second-wave feminism, and Liz's ambivalence about her is a barbed and brilliant illustration of the anxieties of female comic influence".
Scott added that given Lemon's depiction as a Star Wars fan, "the casting of Ms. Fisher ... adds about 12 dimensions of meta".