Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) believes he married his girlfriend Avery Jessup (Elizabeth Banks) on New Year’s, however, when he comes back to New York he discovers that he married his employee and friend Liz Lemon (Tina Fey). At the wedding, Liz was Jack’s best man and wore a white dress with a head net, Avery wore a black cocktail dress. As a result of what Liz was wearing, the minister instead married Jack and Liz. Later, Jack informs Liz that the minister married the two of them instead of Jack and Avery.

The two set out for a divorce, however, TGS with Tracy Jordan producer Pete Hornberger (Scott Adsit) tells Liz not to sign the divorce papers as she can use their marriage to her advantage as TGS, a show she is the head writer for, is affected by budget cuts at NBC as part of the merger with the fictional network company Kabletown. She demands that Jack give the show its lost budget but he denies the request, and as a result Liz informs him that she will sign the divorce papers unless her conditions are met.

Meanwhile, TGS star Jenna Maroney’s (Jane Krakowski) dressing room is now a temporary room for a technician (Meng Ai) as Jack is renting space on the TGS floor so that he can keep the budget down, and as a result Jenna is forced to share a dressing room with her TGS co-star Danny Baker (Cheyenne Jackson). Immediately, Jenna and Danny start behaving like an old married couple. NBC page Kenneth Parcell (Jack McBrayer) gets upset about the two fighting and decides to stop their bickering. Later, Kenneth interrupts one of their arguments by showing the two a childish picture he drew of them. This works to no avail as Jenna and Danny continue arguing. Later, they inform Kenneth that Danny is moving to the Y. The two promise always to be Kenneth’s Danny and Jenna, just not together.

At the same time, TGS star Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) is told by Dr. Leo Spaceman (Chris Parnell) that he has health problems as Tracy has a weakened system only found on dead people. Because of this, Tracy wonders how his family will be taken care of. The next day, Tracy and his wife Angie Jordan (Sherri Shepherd) have a meeting with Jack. Tracy reveals what Dr. Spaceman told him about his health and Angie becomes concerned on whether or not their family will be taken care of after Tracy dies. Jack offers Angie a job in the entertainment business as a way to help her family out. Jack takes the opportunity to fire back at Liz by hiring Angie as her intern.

Later, Liz realizes that Angie’s new job is Jack’s way of messing with her. Liz explains to Angie that as her intern she is not getting paid, and as a result fires Angie. Later, Angie gets upset with Jack and Liz but Jack calms her down by promising to give Angie a reality show during TGS’s time slot unless Liz signs the divorce papers. Liz, however, will not sign them. To get Jack back, Liz holds a press conference and announces that she and Jack have decided to donate $5 million dollars to The Jack and Elizabeth Donaghy High School for Teen Drama, The Arts, and Feelings. The next day, Jack and Liz have a sit down meeting with NBC Human resource mediator Jeffrey Weinerslav (Todd Buonopane) to discuss their marriage.

During the meeting, the two realize that they have had the longest and most meaningful relationship either of them has ever had. As a result, they apologize to each other and make up with Liz agreeing to sign the divorce papers and Jack promising to restore the TGS budget.

“Mrs. Donaghy” is the eleventh episode of the fifth season of the American television comedy series 30 Rock, and the 91st overall episode of the series. It was written by co-executive producer Jack Burditt and directed by Tricia Brock. The episode originally aired on the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) network in the United States on January 20, 2011. Guest stars in this episode include Meng Ai, Todd Buonopane, Cheyenne Jackson, Chris Parnell and Sherri Shepherd.

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