 The TGS with Tracy Jordan crew have finished taping their fiftieth episode and decide to celebrate . Their boss , Vice President of East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming for General Electric , Jack Donaghy ( Alec Baldwin ) , goes to the writers ' room and tells the show 's head writer , Liz Lemon ( Tina Fey ) , about how the whole company is undergoing cutbacks . After an unsuccessful presentation about TGS , Brad <unk> ( Roger Bart ) — one of the consultants in charge of the cutbacks — informs Liz that she needs to cut her annual budget by 25 percent . Liz , anxious about her employees losing their jobs , decides to use sexual bartering to solve the problem and asks Brad on a date , which he accepts . Liz dresses in the trashiest outfit she can find , and goes on her date . The next day , she discovers that cutbacks are still taking place at TGS , and confronts Brad . Realizing that he was being used , Brad charges Liz with sexual harassment and she is suspended from work for two weeks . Jack tells Liz that the budget review process will start over again , this time under his supervision . 
