Elizabeth Miervaldis Lemon is a fictional character and the protagonist of the American television series 30 Rock.
60 Facts About Liz Lemon
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Liz Lemon created and writes for the fictional comedy-sketch show The Girlie Show and later TGS with Tracy Jordan.
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Liz Lemon is portrayed by Tina Fey, who is the creator of the series and its showrunner.
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Liz Lemon is the first person to win a Critics' Choice, Golden Globe, Primetime Emmy, SAG, and TCA Award for a singular performance.
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Liz Lemon's elder brother, Mitch, was the victim of a skiing accident the following day, when he was a high school senior.
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Liz Lemon first saw Jack Donaghy and Tracy Jordan, and spoke with Jack telephonically, in 1986 while watching a live telethon alone in her parents' basement on prom night.
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Immediately after church choir member Tracy fell and realized his talent for getting laughs as a performer, Liz Lemon placed a prank call to the pledge line which was answered by Jack, then a young executive from GE's poisons division.
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Liz Lemon claimed to have been a nurse in the war, who was impregnated by General Electric when he was Colonel Electric.
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Liz Lemon was inspired to become a writer by Rosemary Howard, the first female head writer of Laugh-In.
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Liz Lemon mentioned that she used to teach improv to senior citizens.
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In high school, Liz Lemon believed that she was an unpopular "nerd" that all of her classmates picked on, only to learn two decades later at her 20-year high school reunion that she was, in fact, the universally disliked class bully.
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Liz Lemon attended the University of Maryland on a partial competitive jazz dance scholarship, studying theater tech and for which she still has an outstanding student loan.
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Liz Lemon spent her junior year abroad in Frankfurt, Germany, and speaks passable German, which is, in her opinion, "the most beautiful language in the world".
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Liz Lemon met Jenna Maroney in 1993, when Jenna was studying voice at Northwestern University.
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Liz Lemon became the head writer for The Girlie Show, while Jenna became the show's main star.
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Jack immediately decides to retool the show to make it appeal to a larger demographic, starting by firing Liz Lemon's trusted producer Pete Hornberger in order to make room in the budget to hire unpredictable actor Tracy Jordan as the show's new star.
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Liz Lemon manages to convince Jack to re-hire Pete, but Jack is insistent on making the show center around Tracy and, much to her chagrin, he renames the show TGS with Tracy Jordan.
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Since 2005, Liz Lemon has lived in an apartment at 160 Riverside Drive ; her apartment number is 3B.
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When Gretchen Thomas tells Jack she thinks Liz Lemon looks like Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jack initially assumes she means Jason Lee.
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Liz Lemon is often shown to be generally insecure and holds a strong concern for how she is perceived by others.
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Liz Lemon has frequently been shown to be a stress eater, a trait she shares with Jack.
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Liz Lemon does have some knowledge of cooking, though she admits to only using her oven to warm her jeans in the morning.
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Liz Lemon is allergic to both dogs and cats, as well as "anything warm and adorable".
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Liz Lemon has dressed as the character during jury selection in order to be disqualified from serving.
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Liz Lemon considers Attack of the Clones to be the worst film of the series.
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Liz Lemon is a fan of the television series Heroes, in which her favorite character is Hiro Nakamura, Lost, Little People, Big World, Ugly Betty, Top Chef, Designing Women, NCIS, and The Daily Show.
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Liz Lemon's favorite drink is white wine with ice cubes and Sprite, a blend she calls "Funky Juice".
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Liz Lemon is unaware at that time that The Mentalists original Dutch version, Van der Hoot: Psychische, was based upon Liz's subordinate Sue LaRoche-Van der Hout's former career as a police psychic.
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In contrast with her friend and foil Jenna, Liz Lemon seems to have little interest in stereotypical female interests, such as fashion.
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Except when she is pressured to dress more femininely, Liz Lemon typically appears in casual, gender-neutral attire.
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For instance, in "Reaganing", Liz Lemon reveals to Jack that she once ended up falling while wearing roller skates and with her underwear around her ankles, while covered by a Tom Jones poster.
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Liz Lemon was unable to eat eggs for a long time, and Kenneth's impromptu therapy helped her understand why: her aunt's husband left her, causing the aunt to feed a pre-teen Liz unappetizing egg-based dishes while making bizarre requests for company.
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Liz Lemon is shown to be somewhat burdened with "white guilt," which Tracy uses to manipulate her in the episode "Jack-Tor".
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Liz Lemon later says that her affliction "is to be used only for good, like over-tipping and supporting Barack Obama".
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Liz Lemon is often very concerned about not being seen as racist; for example, an African-American man she was dating played the "race card" when she no longer wished to see him after realizing that they were not a good match.
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In Season 2, Liz Lemon declared that she and Jack "are friends", and seems to be welcome in Jack's office at any time.
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Jack has even surpassed Pete as Liz Lemon's most trusted confidant.
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When Jack heavily embarrassed himself at a business retreat, Liz Lemon took the attention away from him by doing improvisation, including holding open her blouse to reveal her white bra.
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Liz Lemon has done similar things multiple times, sacrificing her dignity for Jack's overall public appearance, as evidenced when she kissed Jack's business rival Devon Banks on security camera footage so she could extort him.
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Liz Lemon has a pregnancy scare in "Cooter", and leaves a series of messages on Jack's voicemail as she goes through a series of emotions.
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When Liz Lemon struggled with intimacy issues, Jack talked her through them and helped her get to the root of the problem.
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Colleen Donaghy, Jack's mother, thinks that Liz Lemon is a perfect match for Jack.
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In "Do-Over", Jack and Liz Lemon attempt to win over temporary head of GE, Kathy Geiss by pretending to have a soap opera-style real life relationship, escalating to the point where Geiss wants the two to kiss each other ; there is a pause, but Jack and Liz Lemon refuse.
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Liz Lemon stated in the pilot that she and Jenna worked for years to get The Girlie Show, having formerly been roommates in a Chicago neighborhood called "Little Armenia" around 1996.
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Liz Lemon has been seen complaining about Jenna's erratic tendencies behind her back, usually with Pete.
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Liz Lemon explains this by saying that Mitch has not been right since he was in some kind of skiing accident, because of which he thinks it's still 1985 and he's still a teenager.
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Liz Lemon gets the chance to be on camera as host of Dealbreakers, but the pilot is a failure.
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Liz Lemon later encourages Liz to write a book and take on a talk show gig based on the catch phrase.
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Liz Lemon helps run TGS and serves as the only other responsible adult on the TGS staff.
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Liz Lemon has not really tried to pursue a relationship of any kind with Tracy, preferring to focus her energies on keeping his craziness in check.
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Liz Lemon is typically friendly towards him, though mainly to further this end.
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Liz Lemon appears to take a somewhat more realistic view of her dream man after learning about her mother's premarital relationship with then-future astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and subsequently conversing with Aldrin.
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At one point in season 5, in the episode "It's Never Too Late For Now", Liz Lemon decides to give up on love and embrace spinsterhood by adopting a cat she calls Emily Dickinson, attending book clubs and wearing a fanny pack and baggy sweaters.
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Liz Lemon "takes her reward" for a time with new subordinate Jack "Danny" Baker ; he was even dressed as Wilcox during one of their assignations.
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Liz Lemon was ranked No 1 on Yahoo's Greatest 100 Television Characters since 1990.
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Liz Lemon appeared in Comcast's list of TV's Most Intriguing Characters.
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However, Liz Lemon is only very rarely referred to as "Elizabeth" and the character's name is usually given as "Liz Lemon" in official contexts.
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Liz Lemon has, more recently, been suggested to have German ancestry, and speaks at least a little of the language.
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The character's last name, "Liz Lemon," is apparently intended to imply an acerbic personality and possibly to make her full name alliterative.
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Fey has stated that she wanted Liz Lemon to have a good last name since she knew the character would often be called by it.