The seven main cast members appear during the opening credits , while later additions receive star billing after the credits. Jack Donaghy calls her a "New York third-wave feminist, college-educated, single-and-pretending-to-be-happy-about-it, over-scheduled, undersexed, you buy any magazine that says 'healthy body image' on the cover and every two years you take up knitting for Lemon is a Star Wars fan and is portrayed as a "geek.
She is generally shown to have liberal political views. Despite her high standards in men, personified in her imaginary perfect husband, Astronaut Mike Dexter , Lemon has had some "really terrible boyfriends", but eventually finds happiness with Criss Chross, with whom she adopts two children.
He is a movie star with a reputation for erratic behavior. This reputation is well-deserved; much of it is an intentional attempt on his part to maintain his "crazy" persona in the eyes of the media. Tracy has remained the star of TGS ever since. Though a talented singer, she is often shown as being extremely insecure about herself.
A recurring motif in the show is Jenna's pursuit of fame through some ill-advised project ending up in public humiliation from which she never learns. She is a self-described "soul-sucking monster". Off-camera she is comically conceited, frequently lying about her age and attempts, but fails, to use her sexuality to manipulate men almost always to disastrous effect.
In the early episodes, Kenneth seemed unfamiliar with some of Liz's staff and Liz herself. As the series progressed, his character became familiar with the other staff of TGS including Jack Donaghy.
