While cleaning her apartment, Liz and boyfriend Crissstumble upon some of her old adoption materials. Liz dismisses the idea of having a child, but Criss seems cautiously open to it. Jack sets her up on a blind date with his associate Kevin, which she accepts under protest. An encounter with Kevin's exceptional daughter re-inspires her to have children, which is revealed to be Jack's plan all along. Jack encourages Liz to procreate, and Criss and Liz decide to try. Jack's new couch design is revealed to be extremely uncomfortable due to his insistence on inferior American engineering. After an unsuccessful attempt to market uncomfortable couches, Jack sells them to the CIA for use as interrogation devices. Interrogation of a North Korean spy using the couch reveals a way to recover Jack's wife, Avery Jessup. Jenna schemes to win boyfriend Paul back by staging a celebrity breakdown, involving erratic behavior on television. When running through a window lands her in the hospital, Jenna expresses her feelings for Paul to Tracy. Unknown to her, Paul is listening while disguised as a nurse, and the two reunite. Included in this episode are three commercials featuring Stacy Keach parodying Chrysler's Wake up AmericaSuper Bowl 2012 advertisements.
Reception
The episode was very well received by critics. Andy Greenwald of Grantland was impressed with the show, saying it "saved the evening in an utterly unexpected way. It wasn’t only the funniest half-hour of the night by a considerable margin. It was also the sweetest." He called it "one of the best episodes 30 Rock’s ever produced." Alan Sepinwall of Hitfix.com called it "the funniest episode in ages... Not only is it the most I've laughed at an episode in a long time, it featured a fantastic Jack/Liz moment in the climax." He thought this fit in with a "terrific late-career renaissance" in the show's sixth season. Meredith Blake of the Onion A.V. Club gave the episode a B+: "It’s an episode that, while not quite as laugh-heavy as the very best of 30 Rock, deserves an above-average grade because it represents a fairly monumental moment in the history of the show: It’s the one where Liz finally decides to have a baby. It's a development that, frankly, fills me with joy. To quote L.L. herself, 'Life is happening!'"
