Production
"The Head and the Hair" was written by series' creator, executive producer and lead actress Tina Fey and co-executive producer John Riggi. The director of this episode was Don Scardino. This was Fey and Riggi's first script collaboration, and they later co-wrote the season three episode "The Natural Order". "The Head and the Hair" originally aired on NBC in the United States on January 18, 2007 as the eleventh episode of the show's first season and overall of the series.
This episode featured guest appearances from actors Brian McCann and Peter Hermann, in which McCann played "The Head" and Hermann "The Hair". Former professional tennis player John McEnroe played himself in the episode, in which he hosts the game show Gold Case. McEnroe would later guest star as himself in the November 20, 2008, 30 Rock episode "Gavin Volure". In one scene of this episode, Kenneth runs into a man named "Moonvest", and tells him that he got an idea for a television game show, but Moonvest tells him "Give me your fingernails". Moonvest was played by Craig Castaldo, or known as Radio Man.
One filmed scene from "The Head and the Hair" was cut out from the airing. Instead, the scene was featured on 30 Rock's season 1 DVD as part of the deleted scenes in the Bonus feature. In the scene, Pete Hornberger (Scott Adsit) is visibly upset that someone added paper in the regular garbage and demands to know who did it, as NBC recycles. Jack and Kenneth show up. Jack apologizes for throwing the paper in the regular garbage, which results in Pete telling him to go through the garbage by hand and "fish out anything that's recyclable", as Jack is dressed as a page, in which he is participating on "Bottoms Up" day.
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