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MILF Island Champion Acts On Broadway [30 Rock]

The return of 30 Rock included a spoof reality show called MILF Island, which in turn included a champion named DeBorah, alternately praised and imitated by the characters within 30 Rock. It turns out the real-life DeBorah, Deidre Goodwin, plays Sheila in A Chorus Line and was Velma in Chicago. Goodwin told Entertainment Weekly that filming of MILF Island involved cockroach eating and "cooter slams:"

There was a girl who ate a cockroach.

A real cockroach?
Well, they used chocolate cockroaches. But during a close-up, they made her hold a real one up to her lips. And then they didn't even show that part! Poor thing. For me — you probably saw glimpses of this — there was a ''stick dance.'' On set they'd told us my adversary was a very sweet girl, and I was [directed to be] raunchy, slapping my ass and everything. Then they had me shoot it again by myself. And you know that video by Whitesnake? I did that.

You did your best Tawny Kitaen?
Crawling, cooter slam, flipping the hair, the whole thing. It was awesome.

Should I ask the definition of ''cooter slam''?
Oh, a cooter slam is when you jump in the air, and you land into a split. You don't just find the split. You jump in the air, open your legs, and...Slam!

The end result was woven throughout 30 Rock's premier episode after the writers strike, including in this scene, in which TV executive Jack Donaghy recounts DeBorah's background as a "struggling artist living in LA:"