The episode begins with Angie Jordan (guest star Sherri Shepherd) headed for a meeting with Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin). Their meeting is because of Angie’s rise as a singer. She says, “My single, ‘My Single is Dropping’, is dropping.” Jack then offers to throw a release party on the set of The Girlie Show (TGS) with Tracy Jordan, but during the conversation, he trips, and gets caught by the cameras. TGS’s head writer, Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) begs Angie to get Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) to go back from Africa, but Angie doesn’t want to.
Liz is worried, but Jack tells Liz to convince Angie to get Tracy back from Africa. Liz uses several attempts, at first impersonating Tracy (to which Angie says, “Don’t do impressions of other races.”). Liz then shows her their wedding video and says that she “mixed up” the DVDs of that and the backup dancers’ audition for the release party of the song (which is revealed to be 15 seconds long). This, too, fails, when Liz sees that Tracy came to their wedding with handcuffs and police behind him, thus getting Angie to prove how “exhausting” Tracy is. Liz’s third attempt, sending an E-mail from Angie’s computer to Tracy, is the last straw for Angie. She then proceeds to pull out Liz’s hair (thinking that it was a weave) and explains that she is contractually obliged to “pull out some bitches’ weave eight more times this season.”
Throughout the episode, Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski) tries to get more screen time, and promotion for her website “http://jennas-side.com” (which, when said out loud, sounds like genocide from the reality show cameras by throwing wine at several people. While drunk, Portia (Moya Angela) talks to Jenna about her alcoholism. Jenna then pretends to not like it but actually loves it because it will get her more screen time. However, her plan backfires in the end when, Pete, who led the intervention, sends Jenna to rehab. But Jenna hits the driver unconscious and sneaks off to the release party.
Meanwhile, Jack Donaghy is being portrayed as a clumsy gay flatulent, when he talks to Grizz and Dot Com about his college days. He goes on to say that he “went both ways” and was “on the DL”. It is then presumed that he is gay because of his misconstrued statements. D’Fwan (Tituss Burgess) talks to him about this. Jack, in a talking head interview, says that he is not gay, but further embarrasses himself when a fart sound is heard when he stands up from the chair.
Meanwhile, news of Lynn Onkman’s (guest star Susan Sarandon) release from jail reveals to the TGS office that one of the writers, Frank Rossitano(Judah Friedlander), was revealed to be Lynn’s lover when he was 14, leading to Lynn Onkman’s arrest and getting registered as a sex offender. Lynn meets Frank at the TGS office. Inspired by their love, Randi (Paula Leggett Chase), gets them on a date at her studio, and watches them while she is at a pole. While they are at there, Frank and Lynn have an argument because she talks about how he has remained “stuck” as a guy who loves comic books and stuff like that. Frank storms out, but the next day, he brings all his toys to her workplace in a fast food restaurant and puts all his toys in the fryer to prove that he is ready to become the man she loves. However, Lynn is fired her boss, and in the end, Frank and Lynn stay in love with each other.
“Queen of Jordan” is the seventeenth episode of the fifth season of the American television comedy series 30 Rock, and the 97th overall episode of the series. It was written by Tracey Wigfield and directed by Ken Whittingham. The episode originally aired on the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) network in the United States on March 17, 2011.
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