Jack runs off with CC for a day at the halfway point between New York and Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, Liz tries to negotiate a business deal in his absence, while also trying to buy an apartment; in addition, Kenneth gets addicted to coffee.
This episode contains the following tropes:
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Accidental Innuendo: Kennedy's hometown preacher warned him that New York City was the new Sodom, and that it would corrupt him. After realizing he's become hooked on cappacino, Kenneth says its finally happened and that he's been "sodomized" - Artistic License – Geography: The halfway point between New York City and Washington, D.C. is nowhere near the Pennsylvania coal mining region.note
- Binge Montage: We see Liz work through several bottles of wine over the course of an evening as she calls the board of the apartment she plans on buying.
- Black Comedy Animal Cruelty: A bill legalizing recreational whale torture passes the House by one vote.
- In Hockassin, the people making Jack and CC's breakfast slaughter a hog by the table. The breakfast didn't even have any ham.
- Brick Joke: It's mentioned several times that Gladys Knight is the musical guest of the latest TGS episode. The woman herself appears at the very end.
- One of the coal mining children seen drinking beer in the Pennsylvania betting parlor offers Jack a drink after he breaks up with CC.
- The Cameo: Gladys Knight appears as herself at the very end of the episode.
- Cutting the Electronic Leash: Both Jack and CC throw their phones into a river on their rural getaway.
- The Fundamentalist: Kenneth continues to be a benign example. He usually avoids hot drinks, because hot is "the devil's temperature".
- G-Rated Drug: Kenneth's addiction to cappuccinos is shown as this. Trippy music plays when he's in the throes of caffeine, and he starts to grovel like a junkie when Tracy tells him to quit.
- Germanic Depressive: Black-and-white factory footage with bleak, existentialist narration is apparently what passes for a German sitcom.
- Heroic BSoD: Kenneth has a crisis after becoming addicted to coffee, and tries to return back home to Georgia in shame. It doesn't last, if only because the midnight train he tried to catch was actually an 11:31 train.
- Incredibly Lame Fun: Liz studied abroad in Germany for a time, and fondly recalls partying hard. Of course, by Liz's standards, "partying hard" means visiting a museum dedicated to sparrows.
- Mood Whiplash: Yes, a romantic break to the countryside is all well and good, but Jack and CC's absence from their respective workplaces results in a bungled business deal and a bill legalizing whale torture passing by one vote.
- Must Have Caffeine: Kenneth gets addicted to coffee, to the point where he starts to act like a manic junkie.
- No Name Given: Due to the Writer's Strike, this episode didn't have time to be named, so it's only referred to as "Episode 210".
- Real Dreams are Weirder: Tracy buys a cappuccino machine to apologize for his behavior, even though he only dreamed it: him freaking out and siccing a robot to strangle an eyepatch-wearing Jenna.
- Sudden Musical Ending: The episode ends with the cast singing "Midnight Train to Georgia".
