Padma Lakshmi hopped on board the 30 Rock cameo train last night (not a real train, unfortunately), confusing my brain with a weird 30 Rock / Top Chef “Things I Like” combo not entirely unlike the pizza / waffles box that Kenneth gleefully revealed to Tracy:

In general, it was a standardly funny episode (not much need to even point that out anymore), but concluded on a legitimately touching note, perhaps drawing us ever-closer to the Jack & Liz coupling that will never happen but would blow away any Ross/Rachel, Casey/Dana, Skinner/Krabappel “finally getting together” tv moment.

Here’s Padma’s appearance (anyone notice that she’s really hot? I think I’m the only one), followed by the eventual Jack & Liz romantic-comedy business reconciliation:

Episode thoughts? Favorite Lines? Comment away (if the comments haven’t intermittently disappeared, which they’ve tended to do)