Standards and Practices (30 Rock)
"Standards and Practices" is the eleventh episode of the sixth season of the American television comedy series 30 Rock, and the 114th overall episode of the series. It was directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller, and written by Vali Chandrasekaran. The episode originally aired on NBC in the United States on March 8, 2012.
In the episode, Jack battles teenage nemesis Kaylie Hooper ; Liz chafes under the power of new network censor Kenneth ; and Jenna attempts to humanize her image by meeting the children produced from her egg donations.
Plot
The finale of America's Kidz Got Singing is here and everyone's in high spirits, with Jack Donaghy proclaiming it's a "great night for the industry" because the show is "something the entire family can enjoy". However, that turns out to be the opposite of the truth when the final two contestants show up drunk on stage. As a result, the night quickly turns into a disaster. The next day, Kabletown CEO Hank Hooper shows up in Jack's office, furious that he now has to go to Washington DC to deal with the Federal Communications Commission. After questioning the contestants, Jack comes to the conclusion that it was Hank's granddaughter Kaylie Hooper who got the contestants drunk. He confronts her, but discovers that Kaylie only did it so that she could get her grandfather out of town for the week. This way, he wouldn't attend a parent-teacher conference that she expects will get her expelled for hacking her friend's YouFace page and posting inflammatory pictures of her. Jack agrees to attend the conference instead to prevent her from getting expelled, but it turns out to be another one of Kaylie's tricks. She was trying to get expelled so she could attend a more prestigious boarding school and to be closer to her boyfriend who attends New York University for acting. However, Jack tricks her when he finds out about how she likes to play lacrosse, and can use his connections to make sure her school does not have a field to play on.Meanwhile, the America's Kidz incident has caused a shake-up in the Standards department, as newly appointed Standards worker Kenneth Parcell is promoted to head of late night TV standards. This means that he will now be in charge of running the censors for TGS, which proves to be a problem when he creates a new list of over-the-top rules that prevent the show from using any words worse than "dingbat". Liz Lemon retaliates and tells him they will be saying whatever they want. However, when she finds Kenneth crying in the men's room, she takes back her statements and agrees to keep it clean. Unfortunately, Liz had already told Tracy Jordan to perform his dirty stand-up special during the show. Ultimately, it's up to Kenneth to last-minute "live bleep" him.
Additionally, Jenna decides to take a different route and meet one of the many children she has thanks to a series of egg donations she gave while living in Chicago. She immediately takes a liking to them - except for one, Judy, who is significantly less attractive than the rest of them. Jenna kicks Judy out of the group, but soon regrets this after the rest of the kids kick Jenna out for being "too old". Jenna realizes Judy is the only child who proves she has any good in her and decides to get to know her better.