After being pressured by Jack to plug GE products into her show, Liz integrates Jack into a sketch. While Jack hones his questionable acting chops, Frank and Toofer trick Jenna into fearing for her job and Liz wonders if Tracy is faking illiteracy to skip out on rehearsals.
Early Season 30 Rock hits stride with 67 jokes across 23 minutes — 2.44-per-minute density fuels its 83.5
Directed by Gail Mancuso, Don Scardino · Written by Robert Carlock
WAR
144.7
Wins Above Replacement
“Jack-Tor” ranks #62 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 98.0 — Elite. The episode packs 82 scored jokes at 3.0 per minute, averaging 7.9 on craft and 7.7 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
Tracy Jordan: I think I voted for Nader! Nader!
Tracy Jordan · Liz · Pete: That's the subtle racism of lowered expectations. Bing Crosby said that. / No, Bill Cosby said that. / That's racist. / Look, we can all agree Liz is generally pretty racist.
Liz · Jack · Writer: Wow. This is diet Snapple? / I know, it tastes just like regular Snapple, doesn't it? / You should try Plum-A-Granate. It's amazing. / I only date guys who drink Snapple.
Jack: I've summited Kilimanjaro. I've showered with Greta Van Susteren. I'm gonna do this, yeah.
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy Jordan: You hear this mess about sometimes Y being a vowel? What a world.
All Jokes — 82 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Tracy Jordan: Rehearsal? We did a show last week.
Tracy Jordan: Next Friday is Damon Dash's birthday party. And the Friday after that there's an orgy over at Elizabeth Hasselbeck's.
Tracy Jordan: My acting style is like jazz. Jazz that you laugh at.
Jenna: It's a dance-pop techno hybrid called Muffin Top. I gave everybody copies at Christmas?
Jenna Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Jenna · Pete: Muffin Top is also number four in Belgium. / I said you could do it. / Why not?!
Jenna Pete Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Jack: GE corporate video: 'For over a hundred years, GE has been imagining the future... today.'
Jack Irony/Sarcasm Meta/Self-Referential Jack: 'Incorporate positive mentions -- or PosMens -- of GE products into your program.'
Jack Irony/Sarcasm Meta/Self-Referential Jack: Jack suggests writers integrate GE's 'direct-current drilling motors for an offshore or land-based project' into a sketch show.
Jack Absurdist Irony/Sarcasm Liz · Jack · Writer: Wow. This is diet Snapple? / I know, it tastes just like regular Snapple, doesn't it? / You should try Plum-A-Granate. It's amazing. / I only date guys who drink Snapple.
Liz: That's not fair. Josh gets a lot of fan mail for Gaybraham Lincoln.
Liz Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Writer · Pete: Did you guys know that Holland is the only country with a national dog? / I didn't know that. / Hmm. There's little facts under there.
Writer Pete Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy Jordan: Hi. I'm Tracy Jordan. I'm black, NBC! Very proud, like peacocks, right, Janet?
Liz · Tracy Jordan: Hey, Tracy, I missed that last run-through. Could you run it once off cards for me? [Tracy refuses and leaves through a door] It says 'Emergency exit only.' He couldn't read that?
Frank · Toofer: What's really sad is that while she's in this fragile state, none of her friends are messing with her head. I think we should do something about that.
Frank: My friend in accounting, Lando Calrissian...
Frank Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Frank · Toofer: It's like shooting fish in a barrel. / Yeah, if the fish have daddy issues.
Tracy Jordan: Tracy's 'movie' improv: 'Let's go rescue Karen or whatever. Is there a Cheryl? Then she could tell us where drugs are -- I mean gold -- then we got the car chase. I'm getting way too old for this!' / Was I supposed to say that then?
Liz · Pete: Look at the educational system in this country. We spend all this money in Iraq, but meanwhile, our inner-city graduation rates are lower than they are in the Sudan. / That doesn't sound right. / Maybe it was Sweden. Maybe it was teen pregnancy.
Liz Pete Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Liz Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Callback Jack: I'm watching Friends right now. What happens with Ross and Rachel? No, no. Don't tell me. Seriously. What were you saying?
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: You're such a Monica!
Jack Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Jenna · Liz: I have something the other actors don't. A secret weapon. / Oh, don't say your sexuality. / My sexuality! / Oh, God, Jenna, when has that ever worked?
Jenna · Unnamed man: Uh, when has it not worked? / It'll be a 45-minute wait. / Oh, will it? / Uh, yeah. Yeah, it will. Yeah.
Liz: Yeah, so now you just have to make yourself ten years younger and Asian.
Liz Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Tracy Jordan: I don't know what to tell you. They're making me rehearse. I know Pat Benatar rarely performs live. Scalp the damn tickets.
Liz · Tracy Jordan: Tray... Can you read? [long pause] Can I read?
Liz: Did you ever see Hoop Dreams? It's like that.
Liz Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Tracy Jordan: I can't read, Liz Lemon! My shameful secret is out. Now you know why I'm always running into the ladies' bathroom. / I can't read! / I sign my name with an X! / I once tried to make mashed potatoes with laundry detergent!
Tracy Jordan: I think I voted for Nader! Nader!
Tracy Jordan: Damn, George Will just gets more and more conservative.
Jack · Liz · Camera Crew: The GE promo filming falls apart over dozens of takes — Jack can't remember 'product integration', asks for the line, is told not to give him the line, then asks again.
Jack Donaghy · Director/Crew: Line? / Sorry. My bad. / What's the first line? / Product integration! / Okay. Right, got it. I just need the first word. / Product! / What's the second word? / Integration.
Crew Member · Liz: Why don't we go to lunch and we'll come back and maybe-- Let's all go have lunch.
Jack: GE Promo. 126. / It's weird. What do I do with my arms? I've never thought about that before. Is it this? Or, if I may, this?
Jack Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Jack Donaghy: 'New synergy' -- does that sound odd to anyone else? Does that sound like 'news energy'?
Jack: GE Promo. 129. It's called 'racial integration'-- No, that's not right, is it? It's called 'product intergort'-- 'intergortian'?
Jack Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Jack: Oh! Could we turn off the phones, please? / Oh, I'm sorr--ha! I'm sorry. That's me. Let me turn this thing off here. I think I just took a picture.
Jack Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Jack: I'm sorry, everybody, there's a [bleep] pigeon. Shoo!
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist Jack · Director · Crew: GE Promo. 142. / ...in upward revenue stream dynamics. For all of us. / Cut. That's a wrap! Ha! That was fun, you guys. Didn't feel like five days, did it? / No. Nah, that wasn't bad. / Everybody have a good weekend. And...we'll be right back.
Jack: I've summited Kilimanjaro. I've showered with Greta Van Susteren. I'm gonna do this, yeah.
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Liz · Jack: Are you guys gonna...correlate overseas earnings report dynamics? / Yes.
Jack: Jack's fake phone call to his 'boss' — performing a subordinate argument with empty authority-speak while Jenna watches.
Jack Visual Gag Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jenna · Ron the Extra: How do you take your coffee, Ron? / I take it? Uh...I take it, uh, with the non-dairy creamer. / Mmm. Yeah. Non-dairy creamer. [seductive pause] Yum.
Jenna · Ron: The extended 'ahem/mmm/ahh' seduction noises from Jenna while presumably doing something weird with coffee
Jenna Ron Cringe/Discomfort Physical/Slapstick Jack · Liz: I agree. It's the writing. It's not natural. / Uhh! Really? You think the problem is the writing? / Yeah. It's clunky.
Jack Liz Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Liz · Jack: No. You should definitely do it. It'll be hilarious. / Oh, well, that'd be a refreshing change of pace for the show, wouldn't it?
Liz Jack Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Liz: No. Tracy took advantage of my white guilt, which is to be used only for good, like over-tipping and supporting Barack Obama.
Liz Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Tracy Jordan: You hear this mess about sometimes Y being a vowel? What a world.
Tracy Jordan · Liz · Writers: The new TGS poster featuring Tracy has Tracy's name in giant letters while the other actors are nearly invisible — Tracy barely registers this and just says 'Yeah. It's good. I like it. Really?'
Tracy Jordan: I'll be leaving early today.
PA: /Jenna and Ghostface Killah to the stage, please, for Muffin Top.
PA Absurdist Running Gag Callback Jack: That's quite a commitment to such terrible writing.
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Callback Jack · Liz: I don't get it. It's not the fear. I thrive on fear. / You're looking out a fake window right now, by the way. / I bow-hunt polar bear. I once drove a rental car into the Hudson just to practice escaping.
Jack Liz Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack Donaghy: You're looking out a fake window right now, by the way. / I bow-hunt polar bear. / I once drove a rental car into the Hudson just to practice escaping.
Jack: Oh, God, the room is spinning. What do you want from me? I'm one of your actors. I'm freaking out. Talk me down.
Jack Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Liz: Josh can do this, and earlier today he ate a club sandwich with the toothpicks still in it. Jenna can do this, and she was once engaged to David Blaine.
Liz Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: If you were any other woman on earth... I would be turned on right now.
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jack · Liz: This stays between us, right, Lemon? / [long pause] / Lemon?
Jack Liz Reaction Beat Awkward Silence ★ Rewatch Jenna · Liz: I hooked up with his boss. / Who, Ron? / Mm-hmm. / That guy's an extra on the show. / No. He said he was Jack's boss. / No. In the sketch. He doesn't even have a line.
Jenna Liz Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Ron the Extra: What is the point of belonging to the Extras Guild if I cannot get health coverage for my foot, hmm?
Jenna · Liz: I am gonna get back at them...using my sexuality. / Do you have any left?
Jenna Liz Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback PA: /Jenna, Ghostface Killah, and Yo-Yo Ma to the stage, please, for Muffin Top.
PA Absurdist Running Gag Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy Jordan · Liz: Where the hot lesbians at, Lemon? / I knew it! You can read!
Tracy Jordan: I even have a column in Ebony called Musings!
Tracy Jordan · Liz · Pete: That's the subtle racism of lowered expectations. Bing Crosby said that. / No, Bill Cosby said that. / That's racist. / Look, we can all agree Liz is generally pretty racist.
Pete: Look, we can all agree Liz is generally pretty racist.
Pete Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Callback Tracy Jordan · Liz: You know, I once shot a whole movie without ever getting out of my car? / Yeah, I paid to see that. That was supposed to be a western.
Pete: Yeah, I paid to see that. That was supposed to be a western.
Pete Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Callback Tracy Jordan · Liz: When Gaybraham Lincoln gets hit in the crotch, can I go cross-eyed? / Oh, yes, do that. That's hilarious!
Jenna · Pete: The standards lady is saying that my moaning in Muffin Top is too graphic. Which of these is less offensive? Ahh! Ahh! Ahhh! Or...Ooh-hunh! Unh-hunh! Ohhh!
Jenna Callback Character Comedy Callback Jack Donaghy · Liz Lemon: Lemon, these pages are blank. / Oh. / Never mind. / Withdrawn. / And, remember, don't look into the camera!
Liz · Jack: So we had to make some changes. Tracy is now in it, so we had to change some cues. Also, the opening VT is cut, so you just go right out. Oh, and you all say the last line together. / Wow. So uh... [Liz leaves] / Lemon, these pages are blank. / Oh. / Never mind. / Withdrawn.
Liz Jack Visual Gag Misdirection ★ Rewatch Jenna · Toofer: I have this fantasy of sneaking up to the roof of 30 Rock, and we make love while looking out at the city -- / Okay, let me guess. You figured out Frank and I lied to you, so to get even, you're trying to get me naked on the roof and leave me there.
Jenna · Toofer: I have this fantasy of sneaking up to the roof of 30 Rock, and we make love while looking out at the city-- / Okay, let me guess. You figured out Frank and I lied to you, so to get even, you're trying to get me naked on the roof and leave me there.
Jenna Toofer Misdirection Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Callback Josh · Jack: But we're cool, right, Mr. Donaghy? / No, you're all fired.
Josh Jack Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Jack · Liz: Hey, good job the other night. / Oh, you mean on the show? Thanks. / What were you watching? / Nothing. Uh...Bloomberg. / Hmm. / Aha! / Don't be cute, Lemon. You're too old for that.
Jack Liz Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Liz Lemon · Jack Donaghy: Hey, good job the other night. / Oh, you mean on the show? Thanks. / What were you watching? / Nothing. Uh... Bloomberg.
Liz Lemon · Jack Donaghy: Aha! / Don't be cute, Lemon. You're too old for that.
Jack · Liz: Good God! Lemon! [Liz opens the door] Mr. Donaghy, open up! Please?
Jack Liz Visual Gag Physical/Slapstick Jenna: The Muffin Top performance plays out onstage; the lyrics ('whole grain, low-fat,' 'I run a tidy bakery,' 'The boys all want my cake for free') continue after the show has gone off the air.
Jenna Running Gag Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Director · Pete: Does she know we went off the air two minutes ago? / No, she does not. / Smart move.
Director Pete Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback 