on the Sunset Strip and Sorkin's previous series The West Wing. In this episode, the walk and talk sequence is seen here in which Jack, before departing to Washington, has a discussion with Liz. Let's Stay Together was a show conceived by Dot Com with a setting and characters similar to influential African American sitcom Good Times. John Amos, who played the father on Good Times, makes a cameo appearance as the lead in the scene being filmed for the new show. He has cheesy lines and co-stars with a talking dog, a corruption of the show's original concept reminiscent of comments Amos and others have made regarding wasted potential in Good Times. Reception In its original American broadcast, "Let's Stay Together" was watched by 4.90 million households, according to the Nielsen Media Research. It received a 2.1 rating/7 share among viewers in the 18–49 demographic, that is 2.1 percent of all people in that group, and 7 percent of all people from that group watching television at the time, watched the episode. This was a decrease from the previous episode, "When It Rains, It Pours", which was watched by 5.688 million American viewers. Andy Greenwald of New York magazine called "Let's Stay Together" a "pretty great episode for a show that ... seems to have gotten its groove back." Television columnist Alan Sepiwall for HitFix who enjoyed the previous week's episode as he believed the show was back in peak, noted that the show "was back to more uneven, but still funny, territory" with this episode. Sepinwall felt that parts of the episode "worked just fine", and enjoyed Liz's disastrous appearance on Right On. He, however, did not like Jenna and Kenneth's pageant story. A contributor from The Huffington Post said the episode had a "ton of hilarious moments", and that Queen Latifah "was the highlight of the show". Vanity Fairs Juli Weiner enjoyed Maulik Pancholy's appearance as Jack's assistant Jonathan, writing that Jonathan is "perhaps the most underutilized character on the show, and we were happy to see him get some screen time this episode." Further in her recap, Weiner said "Thank you, Jenna and Jack, for mercifully putting an end to the tension-less Kenneth's-rehiring narrative." Meredith Blake from the Los Angeles Times deemed it a "wildly clever and satiric episode" that also "delivered an important critique about the limitations of diversity programs." Blake said that Jane Krakowski's