Frank Rossitano

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Frank Rossitano

Frank Rossitano wearing a "Ninja Expert" hat
First appearance "Pilot"
Information
Gender Male
Age 30s
Occupation Writer on TGS
Portrayed by Judah Friedlander
Created by Tina Fey

Frank Rossitano is a fictional character played by Judah Friedlander on the American television series 30 Rock.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Frank is a writer for the fictional show TGS with Tracy Jordan. He is very clever and often quick-witted. Frank always wears a trucker hat with a humorous phrase on it (which is also Friedlander's real-life routine trademark).

He is the only member of the show's staff who is happy when actor Tracy Jordan is happy because he is the only one who enjoys Tracy's movies.

Frank also like to play pranks along with Toofer, mostly around Jenna Maroney. She exacted revenge locking him outside Jack Donaghy's office balcony with no clothes on after he and Toofer told her that she might be fired. (This prank plot was mostly eliminated when the episode Jack-tor was edited down from 40 to 30 minutes in an encore presentation (rerun).) It was also revealed in the episode The Break Up that he had a racist uncle after he watched Tracy and Toofer argue. He also lives with his mother and his rent money goes directly to her.

Friedlander says he makes his character's hats himself using phrases that he comes up with. [1] This is a table describing the color and message on hats that Frank has worn on the series:

Episode Airdate Hat(s)
"Pilot" 10/11/06 NINJA
EXPERT
Opening titles starting 10/18/06 NINJA
EXPERT
(Frank is shown in black & white)
"The Aftermath" 10/18/06 DONE
DEAL
"Blind Date" 10/25/06 EXTRA
SAUSAGE
JOYSTICK
MASTER
DOUBLE
CHEESE
JOYSTICK
MASTER
"Jack The Writer" 11/1/06 NINJA
EXPERT
ARCADE
CHAMP
BIGFOOT
EXPERT
NINJA
EXPERT
ARCADE
CHAMP
NINJA
EXPERT
"Jack-Tor" 11/16/06 HAND
HELD
"Jack Meets Dennis" 11/30/06 NINJA
EXPERT
JOYSTICK
MASTER
(We only see Frank wearing this hat from the back)
"Tracy Does Conan" 12/7/06 BIGFOOT
EXPERT
"The Break Up" 12/14/06 OVER
EASY
ESP
TUTOR
KUNG FU
BEECH
"The Baby Show" 01/04/07  
RODS
 
"The Rural Juror" 01/11/07 KARATE
SLUTS
BEEF
N
BEAN
"The Head and The Hair" 01/18/07  
SMELLS
 
"Black Tie" 02/01/07 HIGH
SCORE
"Up All Night" 2/08/07 EXTRA
CHEESE
"The 'C' Word" 2/15/07 UFO
COP
1,000,000
POINTS
"Hard Ball" 2/22/07 SQUEEZE
IT
Frank is only in one scene of this episode, and we only see the left side of his hat.
Originally thought to say "CHEEZE IT" Judah was on the popular radio show The Radio Chick
on March 7, 2007 and dismissed it.
"The Source Awards" 3/01/07 COOL
AS
ICE
TIME
TRAVEL
AGENT
"Fighting Irish" 3/08/07  
?
 
LIZ
ROCKS
Frank appears in the cold open, but only briefly and in the distance.
It looks like a grey hat, but we can't read any logo on it.
"LIZ ROCKS" was presumably made special when he learned that Liz Lemon was required to make layoffs.



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