The Ones (30 Rock)

In the episode, Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) goes shopping with Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) for an engagement ring for Elisa (Hayek).

A prank results in an injury back at TGS and Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski) falls in love with an attractive emergency medical technician (Casaubon) who comes to help.

For her performance in this episode, Krakowski received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in the category for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski) becomes romantically interested in one of the paramedics (Josh Casaubon), but unsure of how to contact him, tries to bring him to the studio by giving the show's page, Kenneth Parcell (Jack McBrayer), strawberries, which triggers his allergies.

"The Ones" was written by co-executive producer Jack Burditt, and directed by Beth McCarthy,[1] a long-time television director who worked with series creator Tina Fey on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live.

[12] Kenneth revealing that his real name is "Dick Whitman"[13] is a reference to the main character Don Draper of Mad Men (played by Jon Hamm, who had a recurring role on 30 Rock earlier in the season).

[14] Kenneth blows white smoke out while referencing bringing back something from "the other side" (death) echoes the same look when actor Haley Joel Osment remarked "I see dead people" in the movie The Sixth Sense (1999).

Though, Canning found Elisa's secret disappointing and felt that Salma Hayek's exit from the show too much like a conventional sitcom.

[13] Writing for The Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall reported that despite the episode not being a 30 Rock classic it "had more than enough funny things in it to keep me satisfied.

[23] David Bauder of the Guelph Mercury, however, was complimentary towards Hayek's guest appearances throughout season 3, noting, that they are "the best this absurdist comedy has to offer.

Canning enjoyed her subplot but found it predictable and stereotypical,[6] while Sepinwall reported it did not work, and wrote that Jenna's stories need to have Liz or Jack featured prominently or that she be put with Scott Adsit's 30 Rock character, Pete Hornberger, as in this episode, "as her insanity's only amusing when contrasted against a relatively normal character.

[22] As with Sepinwall, Bob Sassone of AOL's TV Squad believed Jenna's subplot was fair, observing it was great in parts but "it just went on too long and got tedious and silly."

[25] Tom O'Neil from the Los Angeles Times, in an August 2009 article, was thrilled for Krakowski receiving an Emmy nomination for her work on 30 Rock, but felt that "The Ones" would not be the episode for which she'd win the Outstanding Supporting Actress award.