Jenna anticipates the opening of her independent movie “The Rural Juror”, but the title proves to be a mighty tongue twister for the gang. Meanwhile, cash-challenged Tracy endorses his own celebrity product in an effort to get out of debt.
Dense absurdist hour hits 92.2: Liz's phonetic nightmare sustains the entire episode.
Directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller, Michael Engler · Written by Jack Burditt, Matt Hubbard
WAR
95.1
Wins Above Replacement
“The Rural Juror” ranks #7 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 92.2 — Elite. The episode packs 67 scored jokes at 2.9 per minute, averaging 7.5 on craft and 7.3 on impact, with Liz landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Jack: GE owns KitchenAll of Colorado, which owns JMI of Stanford, which owns Pokerfastlane.com, which owns Sheinhardt Wig Company, which owns NBC outright. NBC owns Winnipeg Iron Works which owns Ahp Chanagi Party Meats corporation of Pyongyang, North Korea.
Jack Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jenna: Yeah, but you couldn't have been serious about acting for a living. You have brown hair.
Jenna Character Comedy Absurdist Tracy: Never again will you have to suffer through the bread part of your sandwich.
Tracy Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch Tracy · Jack: Oh, you mean Jesus? No-- Miguel from set design. He's over there.
Tracy Jack Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dr. Spaceman: I've always said humans need more animal blood. It keeps the spine straight.
All Jokes — 67 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Tracy: Phone conversation escalating from 'I need $60,000' to 'I need $100,000, or I'm gonna lose both my houses!'
Tracy Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy: Tracy escalates from needing $60,000 to $100,000 when asked 'which house?'
Tracy Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy · Grizz: Tracy's money manager is Grizz, who lost everything in Worldcom
Jack: You must know Arsenio. Hall or Billingham?
Jack Misdirection Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Liz: For the first time in your life, you'll be in a room full of women and you'll be the least crazy one.
Liz Character Comedy Observational Jenna: The Rurr-Jurr has a limited release next week
Jenna Wordplay/Pun Running Gag ★ Rewatch Liz: You still don't know what the title is? No! No one does. It's gone on way too long to ask her about it.
Liz Cringe/Discomfort Observational ★ Rewatch Unknown writer: I love that we can work while we're on cocaine!
Writers: Could it be Roar Her, Gem Her? No, that doesn't make any sense. It's got to be Oral Germ Whore.
Writers Wordplay/Pun Escalation ★ Rewatch Kenneth: What's up, flabby butt? You look weird today.
Kenneth Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jenna · Liz: You mean John Grisham. Oh, no. Kevin, John's brother.
Jenna Liz Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Pete: Pete successfully says 'The Rural Juror' clearly
Pete Callback Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Jenna: Did you know that before Kevin was a novelist, he worked at a recycling center?
Jenna Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna · Liz: It's called Urban Fervor. Boy, these titles-- They really make you think.
Jenna: 'Urban Fervor' as sequel title
Jenna Wordplay/Pun Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Liz · Jenna: You remember that neighborhood festival where they killed a goat in the street? Yes! But we did have really good luck that year.
Liz Jenna Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Tracy · Jack: Oh, you mean Jesus? No-- Miguel from set design. He's over there.
Tracy Jack Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Liz: Although, I guess it's no surprise that Tony Hawk can't play blind.
Liz Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch Pete · Liz: The Rural Juror. The Rrr-- Rural. The Ruh-- Rural. Eh.
Pete Liz Callback Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Liz: You looked so beautiful. [awkward pause] The lighting was really neat.
Liz Cringe/Discomfort Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Liz: Ethan and I both thought the programs were really easy to read.
Liz Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Tracy: Tired of your sandwich making you angry? Then behold the Tracy Jordan Meat Machine!
Tracy Absurdist Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Tracy: Bologna, salami, boar-- Whatever! Into this sexy lady and she will melt them all together into one delicious food ball.
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy Tracy: Never again will you have to suffer through the bread part of your sandwich.
Tracy Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch All: Meat is the new bread! Uh-huh!
Whoopi: Hi, I'm Whoopi Goldberg. And you're Working Out With Whoopi.
Jack: GE owns KitchenAll of Colorado, which owns JMI of Stanford, which owns Pokerfastlane.com, which owns Sheinhardt Wig Company, which owns NBC outright. NBC owns Winnipeg Iron Works which owns Ahp Chanagi Party Meats corporation of Pyongyang, North Korea.
Jack Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: I've got two ears and a heart, don't I?
Jack Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch TV Host Callback Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Liz: Jenna plays a southern lawyer named Constance Justice.
Liz Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Frank: Justice has been served. Good stuff.
Frank Wordplay/Pun Irony/Sarcasm Liz: The soundtrack was so moody.
Liz Cringe/Discomfort Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Liz: [Flashback montage of Liz's fake compliments]
Liz Callback Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Callback Liz: Well, that's not how I remember any of that.
Liz Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: It's only 90 minutes. It's kind of a train wreck.
Liz Deadpan/Understatement Observational ★ Rewatch Liz: What were they? Oaks?
Liz Callback Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Dr. Spaceman: I've always said humans need more animal blood. It keeps the spine straight.
Dr. Spaceman: Some reds, yellows... Just got some purples in from Peru.
TV Voice: The Rrr Jrr is the true story of Rory Jerner, whose pure furor ensures a terrible murder--
TV Voice Wordplay/Pun Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Josh: Her last two Google searches were for singles yoga and scalp pain.
Josh Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Josh: I had to let Tony watch me pee to get that tape.
Josh Dark/Subversive Absurdist Jenna: I think the entire sketch is a train wreck.
Jenna Callback Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Jenna: Teenmoviescene.com gave it five out of five iPods.
Jenna Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch Liz: [Liz accidentally hits someone in a costume] Oh, God, I'm sorry! I didn't know there was a person in there!
Liz Physical/Slapstick Reaction Beat Liz: Pete, could you tell Jenna she smells like a stripper?
Liz Escalation Character Comedy Jenna: I did not have sexual relations with that woman.
Jenna Visual Gag Meta/Self-Referential Pete: I can barely keep a lid on the feud going on between Kenneth and Dougie from props.
Pete Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dr. Spaceman: Hi, I'm Doctor Leo Spaceman. I'm a working physician with a degree from the Ho Chi Minh City School of Medicine.
Dr. Spaceman: We have no way of knowing because the powerful bread lobby keeps stopping my research!
Frank: Actually, we all kind of liked it. It's not the best thing in the world, but it's solid and Jenna's really good in it.
Frank Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Frank: I guess because I look weird, I can't be perceptive.
Frank Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Frank: I guess because I look weird, I can't be perceptive.
Frank Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: Cheese and crackers, that smarts!
Kenneth Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Jenna: She doesn't even need those glasses.
Jenna Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy · Jack: Not the Ukraine. I own some property on the Dnieper River. In Volyn? Closer to Cherkasy.
Liz: If it wasn't for me, you'd still be slutting it up for car dealership owners so they'd put you in their commercial.
Liz Character Comedy Escalation Jenna · Liz: This slut slept with your brother! Mitch? Yeah, and let me tell you something about Mitch. He is disgusting in bed.
Liz: You know he's not right. He was in a really bad skiing accident!
Liz Character Comedy Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack · Liz: She came at me with that angry little badger face of hers-- There it is right now.
Jack Liz Visual Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: They've adapted The Rural Juror? I'm a huge Kevin Grisham fan.
Jack Running Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Jenna: They did warn me those diet pills were mood altering.
Jenna Character Comedy Absurdist Jenna: You have brown hair.
Jenna Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: Yeah, but you couldn't have been serious about acting for a living. You have brown hair.
Jenna Character Comedy Absurdist Jenna: This is boring. I'm bored now.
Jenna Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Goldberg or Billingham?
Jack Callback Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Voice: Your father Werner was a burger server in suburban Santa Barbara... When he spurned your mother Verna for a curly-haired server named Roberta, did that hurt her?
Voice Wordplay/Pun Absurdist ★ Rewatch 