New '30 Rock' Webisode: Madonna Suffers Injury, Donaghy Auditions Super Bowl Performers

Why, in every possible god's name one could invoke, couldn't this have been this Sunday's Super Bowl halftime show?!

Imagine the money saved. Probably millions have been spent so that Madonna, Cee Lo Green and Cirque Du Soleil can perform some grand, spectacular hot mess that will probably just end up mocked the next day. The good people who bring us all NBC's "30 Rock," on the other hand, needed about five minutes of Flash animation to cook up the funniest damn take on the Super Bowl halftime show since the halcyon days of MTV's yearly "Butt Bowl."

In this timely installment of NBC.com's "The Donaghy Files," the worst thing ever has befallen Super Bowl XVL: Madonna has suffered a major injury "sustained rehearsing nude on a burning cross," and cannot spend the Giants-Patriots' halftime valiantly trying to erase the Black Eyed Peas' 2011 stain of shame. Jack Donaghy (voiced, of course, by Alec Baldwin) has no choice but to extend audition invitations to singer-songwriter Ryan Adams, former Doobie Brother Michael McDonald and . . . . Childish Gambino (AKA, Donald Glover of "Community.")

The whole mess has left Donaghy also scrambling for usable songs, since Madonna's planned set wiped out any funds NBC could've otherwise used to pay a replacement performer or even get other songs' license rights cleared for televised performance. So, each prospective stand-in must perform their distinctive renditions of NBC-owned theme songs.

Who gets the duke and the gratis gig? McDonald and his spot-on "Saved By The Bell" theme? Adams lilting "Passions" theme? Or the early "Greatest Thing Ever" contender, Gambino spitting rhymes over the original "Knight Rider" theme?

Or will a fourth challenger with a pretty sweet post-game NBC gig to pimp step up and tell his fellow combatants "F*** you"?

What, you really don't have five minutes? Click the link below! Enjoy!