Last Night on 30 Rock: I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Get Rid of Kenneth?

30 Rock delighted, dazzled, and rib-tickled from beginning to end last night. (Best line: Paul Giamatti as the mangy NBC editor who says he's working on a segment for the Today show "about how October is next month.") But one mysterious story line stuck out like Jenna's "white hooker" tattoo: Kenneth's Phantom of the Opera-esque stalking of NBC's corridors. Is his unhinged Pollyanna routine expired? Spoilers ahead.

After Kenneth (Jack McBrayer) erupted in a rage that earned him walking papers during last season's finale, it was clear he'd peaked as a character. His mouth-breathing anxieties had escalated too many times and with too little plausibility. But at the end of last's night episode, Jack Donaghy rehired Kenneth even though he insists on earning his job back the legitimate way -- by "reapplying to the NBC page program following standard procedures for acceptance." Eh? How many episodes will that take? Hopefully...half of one? If all 30 Rock can do is force more underling theatrics out of Kenneth, I'm afraid he's doomed to repeat the trajectory of my beloved Jonathan: And I don't want to hear the happiest yokel in Manhattan sing Bonnie Tyler ballads to a rack of page jackets.

What do you think? Should Kenneth stay with the show? Or should he head the way of Jack Donaghy's other asthmatic sycophant?