30 Rock Season 4 Episode 13: Anna Howard Shaw Day
Liz decides to go anti-Valentine’s Day since she has no boyfriend and schedules a root canal instead, planning to end the day watching a Lifetime movie. Liz wants to celebrate Anna Howard Shaw Day instead, a leader in the women’s movement who happened to be born on February 14. Jack has three dates scheduled to distract him from thinking of Nancy. Jenna is upset and tells Liz she hasn’t gotten her annual creepy Valentine’s Day gift from Maynard, her long-time stalker. Jenna decides to confront Maynard to see if he has dumped stalking her for Julia Roberts or one of her other acting peers.
Liz arranges her dental appointment but needs someone to drive her home afterwards. The only problem is, everyone else has Valentine’s Day plans and she has no one to drive her home. Even Kenneth has plans to attend an all-day abstinence rally. Jenna confronts Maynard at his fast food workplace. Maynard admits to seeing a therapist and that his stalking of Jenna is through. Jenna thought Maynard’s stalking of her would end with her in the trunk of a rental car, not with him dumping her. Back at the studio, Jenna remembers all the creepy, scary stalker things Maynard did to her over the years and feels let down for Valentine’s Day.
The staff prepares the office for Sabre CEO Jo Bennett’s visit. Jo arrives to great fanfare by the office except Dwight, who refuses to stand for her or anyone except the President of the United States. Jo likes Dwight’s style. Jo’s two Great Dane dogs take a liking to Andy’s crotch to Andy’s dismay. Jo tells him he should be flattered. When Jo finds out Michael and Jim are co-managers doing one person’s job, she doesn’t like the set up. 
The GCC Mascot delivers Valentines gifts across campus as Jeff and his girlfriend, Professor Slater, talk about what expectations she may have for Valentine’s Day. Professor Slater tells Jeff she will be chaperoning the GCC Valentine’s Day dance, and Jeff plans on meeting her there. Jeff listens to his voice-mail messages and finds a drunken message from Britta, known as a late night booty call. Jeff can’t wait to tease Britta about the call.
Jenna discovers her mother is coming to see her and melts down. Jenna tells Liz she doesn’t want anything to do with Verna, who has been the world’s worst mother up to now. Liz encourages Jenna to talk to her mother, but Jenna needs real advice so she goes to Jack, whose own mother is overbearing. Jack shows her a motivational slideshow he created when dealing with his manipulative mother. Jack tells Jenna she must not get angry and stay in control of the situation. Jack’s method is simple: say no, talk low and let her go. Jenna feels secure with Jack’s advise and awaits the visit from Verna. 
Sabre is the new corporation that has taken over Dunder Mifflin, and they have sent a box to the office. Michael decides to open the box and finds a new scanner, printer and fax machine, which he distributes to the office staff. Erin notices the box is addressed to Gabe who works for Sabre and is arriving for a visit shortly, so the office staff reassemble the box and seal it up again.
As Jeff and Britta walk across campus together they notice Vaughn is singing a song to Annie and they are flirting with each other. Jeff is freaked, thinking if Annie hooks up with Vaughn every creepy guy on campus is going to hit on her. Britta is surprised but generally ok with them dating. At study group Abed and Troy plan their next movie night, telling the gang they make fun of bad B movies while watching them. Shirley wants to join in and is invited while Pierce invites himself to movie night.
The TGS cast and staff are feeling doom and gloom surround them over the dark and cold winter weather. Feeling trapped with unhappy employees, Liz comes up with an idea to take them to Miami on a road trip to film the show, getting them out of their rut. Jack connects with platonic friend Nancy (guest star Julianne Moore), his secret crush from high school, hoping they can arrange a time to meet in New York or Boston, but ends up feeling frustrated that they can’t find a good time to get together. 
This Office episode was basically a clip show wrapped in a few segments of new material surrounding the sale of Dunder Mifflin. A potential buyer for the business sends a fact checker to look over inventory and talk with Toby in Human Resources about possible problems in the branch office. Pam is intrigued with the notion that since the New York office closed, Michael is the highest ranking position in the company, a scary thought. 
Annie suggests the Spanish Club meet at a new time but Britta and Troy both oppose the idea and neither will talk about why they oppose changing the meeting time. The gang wonders where Pierce is, no one has seen or heard from him today and Shirley begins to worry that Pierce has died. Pierce walks through the door proving Shirley’s theory wrong. Britta finds a woman’s hair on Jeff’s jacket and asks him who he is dating. The rest of the group are interested too but Jeff begs off revealing who he is dating. 
The second of back to back 30 Rock episodes begins with Jack taking Liz out for dinner. Jack tells Liz he is glad Danny is part of TGS since there is finally a “man’s man” he can talk to. Jack tells her he hangs out with Danny at sports games, talks women and general guy stuff, and encourages Danny to take advantage of being a TGS star. Jenna tells Liz and Pete about the major audition she has for a NYU freshman heiress in Gossip Girl. Liz and Pete don’t have the heart to tell her she is auditioning for the mother’s role, not the daughter’s role in the series. 
