30 Rock: 5 Reasons Frank Is The Worst (& 5 Reasons It's Lutz)
In the world of 30 Rock, there were no bigger degenerates than the writing staff at TGS. At first glance, they all seem like a pack of delightful, unassuming nerds who write the words Tracy and Jenna butcher once a week, assuming wrestling isn't on. But once you got to know them, they're a real pack of dirtbags.
The worst of the worst were Lutz and Frank. Lutz was a recovering dirtbag who wasn't doing a very good job at reforming. Frank, on the other hand, absolutely reveled and excelled at his dirtbaggery. Each one of them was terrible in their own special ways.
10 FRANK ROSSITANO: Peed In His Office
Keeping in mind the levels of disgusting depravity Frank was capable of, his sun tea system was the worst. In reality, this was just him peeing in bottles and dumping them out the window into the flower boxes directly below.
Kenneth found the silver lining, pointing out that there was a strange environmental logic to his method that helped TGS reach its mandated green goals. It was still gross, though.
9 J.D. LUTZ: Extremely Needy
Calling Lutz needy would be a huge understatement. His constant need for approval from everyone around him, especially Liz Lemon, was an ongoing source of annoyance for everyone in the writer's room.
Lutz would quite literally do and say anything to gain the approval of his work friends, yet on extremely random occasions would be true to himself. That was usually an even worse idea.
8 FRANK ROSSITANO: Barely Cared About Anything
Not only was Frank the greatest, most disgusting slacker, he might actually have been the patron saint of slackers. He barely seemed to care about anything that mattered on any level, instead putting his focus on the same things that intrigued him as a child.
Jack Donaghy actually tried to help him grow up and become a lawyer at one point, but that backfired when Jack found out that Frank would end up being a lawyer for the mob.
7 J.D. LUTZ: Tried To Be Something He Wasn't
Part of the image Lutz put out was that he wasn't a scumbag. In reality, he might have actually been the worst of the worst. His inability to be honest with himself about himself was likely rooted in the fact that he was likely gay.
Numerous hints were dropped throughout 30 Rock that this was the case. Lutz should only have been open about his sexuality when he was comfortable to do so. That doesn't give him a pass to be creepy, though.
6 FRANK ROSSITANO: Reveled In His Scumbag Status
Unlike Lutz, Frank was extremely open about who he was, for better or worse. He was a total scumbag and honestly excelled at it. Being a scumbag was probably the only thing he put an honest amount of effort into.
Even when he decided he was attracted to Liz's young boyfriend, which everyone tried to tell him wasn't a thing, he was immediately open and honest. It would be admirable to be that honest if he wasn't such a jerk.
5 J.D. LUTZ: Constantly Said Off-Putting Things
Over the course of the series, Lutz became infamous for saying and doing extremely inappropriate things. Such moments were often directed towards Liz Lemon's assistant, Cerie Xerox.
But unlike Charles Boyle from Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Lutz's never-ending inappropriateness was not unconscious; it was extremely intentional, making it even worse. It was another way he made everyone around him really uncomfortable.
4 FRANK ROSSITANO: Personal Hygiene
On then other hand, Frank had a more overt way of making his coworkers feel gross, specifically his hygiene. To be more precise, his extreme lack of hygiene. The mane rarely showered and even more rarely did laundry.
His office, which he shared with Toofer, was filled with garbage. Real vomit was even once mistaken for fake vomit on his desk by a guest. The only explanation for how his co-workers survived him was nose blindness.
3 J.D. LUTZ: The Blimpies Incident
When the cast and crew of TGS were called back in by the network to film one last episode, the writers realized they got one last chance to order lunch on the company dime. Naturally, it was Lutz's turn and he wanted Blimpies.
Despite all efforts to thwart him, this was one of those strange times that Lutz stood his ground. Much to the dismay of everyone around him, Lutz got his way and everyone "enjoyed" the "food" they got from Blimpies.
2 FRANK ROSSITANO: Insane Hats
For someone who was supposedly a legendary slacker, Frank put a lot of work into his slacker image. He once commented that the beepers Dennis Duffy was selling would make excellent ironic accessories.
Frank's core slacker trademark were his endless barrage of custom trucker hats with strange and ironic jokes on them. The amount of effort, time and money he would have put into that could not have been worth the payoff.
1 J.D. LUTZ: Constantly Lied
In his ongoing quest to perpetuate the lie that he was what he perceives as "normal," Lutz would constantly lie to pretty much everyone all the time. One of his greatest lies was pretending to own a car when the office was discussing what to do in an apocalypse.
Not surprisingly, the lie came back to bite Lutz in the ass and he was forced to buy a car. It was, of course, immediately stolen.