The Head and The Hair (30 Rock) - Cultural References

Cultural References

In one of the scenes of the episode, Kenneth is in news anchor Brian Williams's dressing room. There, Kenneth is seeing cleaning out a half-cleaned graffiti that reads "Kat Cou Suc", a reference to fellow news host Katie Couric. Williams' has been on the series, having appeared in the season three episode "The Ones", in which Tracy has been giving out Williams's phone number instead of his. He next appeared in the season four episode "Audition Day", as he is auditioning to become a cast member on TGS. Williams appeared in "Future Husband" in which he tells the CNBC staff that his news program Nightly News "rules".

There are frequent references to Star Wars in 30 Rock, beginning with the pilot episode in 2006 where Tracy is seen shouting that he is a Jedi. Liz admits to being a huge fan of Star Wars, saying that she had watched it many times with Pete Hornberger (Scott Adsit), and dressed up as the Star Wars character Princess Leia during four recent Halloweens. There is also reference to Star Wars when Tracy takes on the identity of the character Chewbacca. In "The Head and the Hair", Liz tells Jenna that "The Head" asked her out and says "I had to say yes. I mean he looked at me with those handsome guys eyes. It was like the Death Star tractor beam when the Falcon was...", until Jenna interrupts her and says "No Liz, do not talk about that stuff on your date. Guys like that do not like Star Trek", to which Liz corrects "Wars!". Fey, a fan of Star Wars herself, said that the weekly Star Wars joke or reference "started happening organically" when the crew realized that they had a Star Wars reference "in almost every show". Fey said that from then on "it became a thing where tried to keep it going", and that even though they could not include one in every episode, they still had a "pretty high batting average". Fey attributed most of the references to executive producer and writer Robert Carlock, whom she described as "the resident expert".