Study Break: Visions of Leonard v. Pepsico on 30 Rock

In a recent episode of 30 Rock (“Mazel Tov, Dummies!”), Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) gets married.  Liz attempts to subvert the wedding industrial complex by tying the knot in her gym clothes at City Hall.  She fights any desire to make it a “special day,” leading her boyfriend/fiance to tell her “it is ok to be a human woman.”

Interesting for our purposes: there is a sub-plot in the episode that is reminiscent of Leonard v. Pepsico. It begins at a little past 4 minutes into the episode.  A creepy character played by John Hodgman comes to collect a woman (the character Jenna Maroney) that he says he earned by collecting $1,000,0000 Surge points.  Surge is a soda and his claim to the money is based on a tv advertisement.  The Surge points catalogue entitles Hodgman to the item or its equivalent value.  Since it is “illegal to own someone,” Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) has to determine Jenna’s value (and Jenna is not happy with the assessment of her worth).

Take a study/grading break:

[Meredith R. Miller – h/t 1L Matthew Gray]