(S04E08) "Those sites are for horny married chicks with kids who want to exchange pervy e-mails with their old high school boyfriends." - Liz, about YouFace

I'm glad to see Danny back on the show. He hasn't been on that much (if at all) since being hired as the new cast member, and I thought it was going to be another one of those things where we don't see him again even though he's supposed to be on TGS still. But didn't you want to hear him sing normally during the TGS Christmas show? I didn't back Pete's plan to try to make Jenna angry (really, who wants that?) and it would have been a nice, Christmas-y ending for Danny and Jenna to sing well at the end and Jenna be OK with it. Instead, we got Jenna placated yet again and Pete going crazy. Eh.

Still, it was great that they got Cheyenne Jackson's singing in the show in a couple of scenes. Maybe in a later episode fans will find out that he's actually good.

So while I wasn't thrilled with that plot, the other two plots tonight were home runs, and there was a ton of funny quotes and odd words and product names. Jack and old high school friend Nancy meeting on YouFace led to a lot of great jokes and a new interest for Jack, and being from Boston myself, I loved seeing the show use Boston so much in this episode (and for a New York-based show it was remarkably restrained when it came to digs).

But I wonder if Julianne Moore will be around long enough (SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT) to make an impact on Jack since it was announced that Elizabeth Banks is going to guest star later this season as a new love interest for him. It's also good to see Cherie have a bigger role than usual, knowing all about YouFace ("YouFace. Who are you facing?") and getting finger-tagged (an obvious play on "poking") and helping Liz with gifts.

The subplot of having Kenneth trying to do Secret Santa with everyone again (which they hate) also led to a lot of great jokes. "Verkunian" and "Happy Merlinpeen" will become part of the pop culture lexicon until the next new episode (sorry if I spelled those wrong - I'm sure the correct spelling will be released in the next few days).

I kind of liked that Liz was more of a supporting player in this episode, not having the main plot but getting involved in Jack and Nancy's relationship and keeping busy trying to find Jack a gift. And I liked that the show remembered that Jack had stage fright when he and Nancy were talking about their high school production of Hey, Beantown.

OK, I'd write more but I have to set up my meat cubes and Jimmy Connors pic. On to Thoughts & Quotes!

More thoughts:

- Julianne Moore was wicked good as Jack's new love interest.

- If you're wondering, YouFace.com is not available for you to buy. I don't know what You-Face.com leads to, but based on Liz's description, I'm not going there.

- While I like the continuity of having Liz's hair still be messed up from last week's Dealbreakers experiment (her hair was sort of in the middle here - better than last week's but not as good as it usually is), I don't want to see it like that again.

- How long before the NBC store actually makes a nipple-slip jigsaw puzzle for Jenna? Or at least makes a real YouFace page on the network site? While we're on that subject, I wonder how long before people on Facebook start using all of these YouFace terms? Oh, I can't wait for that to happen actually.

- I like being surprised by guest stars, and it was nice to see Larry Wilcox at the end in the flesh and not just a joke by Liz.

- The Two Paths of Virgina Apple - title of Liz's short story about her hometown

- The Gender Blind Crucible - name of Liz's play, ticket framed by Jack for Christmas

- Chenergize - Julie Chen's energy drink

- Folo: YouFace for Photo + Hello.

- Product placement: Jenna "accidentally" finding a Flip video camera in her bag and then we just happen to have an ad for it.

- Wasn't it funny how both 30 Rock and The Office had episodes tonight titled "Secret Santa"?

Quotes:

"Well, he keeps telling me he wants 'skinny jeans' so ... Cheese of The Month Club - Liz, about Pete's Christmas gift

"Not a word." - Liz, about Folo

"The whole thing was so confusing I ended up getting my own crappy gift back. Like I need two copies of Over 60 Vixens." - Frank, about Kenneth's odd Secret Santa rules

"New dude sings as good as Tracy Jordan does everything." - Tracy

"Why didn't you tell me? I had Tracy playing Josh Groban last week!" - Pete, amazed that Danny can sing

"The former? What are you, a newscaster?" - Nancy, to Jack

"I'm sorry, are you being sarcastic? I'm Canadian and we don't have a big Jewish population." - Danny

"I thought you'd have some hotshot wife with black hair who said queeah stuff like 'dressing on the side.' - Nancy, to Jack

"They had their hearts set on the ESPN Zone. They've been talking about the Hideki Matsui Caliente Fajitas all week." - Nancy, about her kids

"Why don't the Catholics not eat meat on Fridays? Because the Pope owns Long John Silvers!" - Tracy

"Oh oh Ken, we may have fallen into the intellectual deep end here. And if you try to grab on to me, we'll both drown." - Tracy

"Weird in a good way. Like going to the gym drunk." - Jack

"Oh, shark farts!" - Liz

"Yes, but not in the way you're talking about." - Jack, about knowing how hard it is to get teenagers out of bed

"An angry God is punishing them. It's a Christmas miracle!" - Kenneth, about the writers getting arrested

"But that's on ABC." - Liz, about Jack getting Larry Wilcox on Dancing with the Stars