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
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Wins Above Replacement
“Jack-Tor” ranks #89 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 83.5 — Elite. The episode packs 67 scored jokes at 2.4 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 7.0 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
Writers · Liz: 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.
Writers Liz Meta/Self-Referential Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jack: Ten years ago, I was an inch-and-a-half shorter than I am today. Sheer willpower.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy · Liz: 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.
Tracy Liz Setup/Punchline Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: I bow-hunt polar bear. I once drove a rental car into the Hudson just to practice escaping.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: I've summited Kilimanjaro. I've showered with Greta Van Susteren.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 67 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Tracy: Rehearsal? We did a show last week. I just came to pick up a paycheck.
Tracy Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy: Next Friday is Damon Dash's birthday party. And the Friday after that there's an orgy over at Elizabeth Hasselbeck's.
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: I'm an improviser. My acting style is like jazz. Jazz that you laugh at.
Tracy Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Jenna: It's a dance-pop techno hybrid called Muffin Top. I gave everybody copies at Christmas?
Jenna Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Pete Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Jenna: Well, apparently it's a number-one hit in Israel.
Jenna Absurdist Character Comedy Jenna: You should know that Muffin Top is also number four in Belgium.
Jenna Escalation Character Comedy Jack: And I'm here to talk to you today about a wonderful new synergy. It's called 'product integration.'
Jack Meta/Self-Referential Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jack: positive mentions-- or PosMens--of GE products
Jack Wordplay/Pun Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Jack: For example, you could write an episode where one of your characters purchases-- and is satisfied with... one of GE's direct-current drilling motors for an offshore or land-based project.
Jack Absurdist Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Liz: I'm sorry. You're saying you want us to use the show to sell stuff?
Liz Irony/Sarcasm Meta/Self-Referential Writers · Liz: 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.
Writers Liz Meta/Self-Referential Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jack: Get real, kids. You write skits mocking our presidents to fill time between car commercials.
Jack Dark/Subversive Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Liz: Josh gets a lot of fan mail for Gaybraham Lincoln.
Writer: Did you guys know that Holland is the only country with a national dog?
Jenna: I'm starting to think... he can't read!
Jenna Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Tracy: Hi. I'm Tracy Jordan. I'm black, NBC! Very proud, like peacocks, right, Janet?
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: It says, 'Emergency exit only'. He couldn't read that?
Liz Escalation Observational Frank: What's really sad is that while she's in this fragile state, none of her friends are messing with her head.
Frank Irony/Sarcasm Dark/Subversive Frank: My friend in accounting, Lando Calrissian, he says Jack's probably gonna have to fire an actor.
Frank · Toofer: It's like shooting fish in a barrel. Yeah, if the fish have daddy issues.
Tracy: 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!
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: We spend all this money in Iraq, but meanwhile, our inner-city graduation rates are lower than they are in the Sudan.
Liz Character Comedy Absurdist Liz: That doesn't sound right. Maybe it was Sweden. Maybe it was teen pregnancy.
Liz Escalation Character Comedy Liz Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Jack: Hippy humor. That's what I'm going for.
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm 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 Misdirection ★ Rewatch Jack: You're such a Monica! Ah ha! You are.
Jack Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Jenna: Uh, when has it not worked? It'll be a 45-minute wait. Oh, will it?
Jenna Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Liz: Yeah, so now you just have to make yourself ten years younger and Asian.
Liz Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Liz: Can I read? Please don't get angry. It's not your fault. It's the system. Did you ever see Hoop Dreams? It's like that.
Liz Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: I can't read, Liz Lemon! My shameful secret is out. Now you know why I'm always running into the ladies' bathroom.
Tracy Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy: I sign my name with an X! I once tried to make mashed potatoes with laundry detergent!
Tracy Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy: I think I voted for Nader! Nader!
Tracy: All thanks to one very, very special white lady.
Tracy Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Liz: Damn, George Will just gets more and more conservative.
Liz Observational Character Comedy Jack: Jack in the GE promo video failing repeatedly
Jack Physical/Slapstick Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Jack: Is it this? Or, if I may, this?
Jack Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: It's called, 'racial integration'-- No, that's not right, is it? It's called, 'product intergort'-- 'intergortian'?
Jack Physical/Slapstick Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Jack: Ha! That was fun, you guys. Didn't feel like five days, did it?
Jack Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: I've summited Kilimanjaro. I've showered with Greta Van Susteren.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: ...correlate overseas earnings report dynamics?
Liz Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Jack · Ron: Actions speak louder than words. Take care of it. Don't worry, I'll have it on your desk first thing in the morning. Look, I am tired of your promises! I want this thing fixed.
Jack Ron Cringe/Discomfort Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Ron: I take it? Uh... I--I take it, uh, with the non-dairy creamer. Mmm. Yeah. Non-dairy creamer. Yum.
Ron Cringe/Discomfort Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Jack: Those cards are a little confusing.
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Jack · Liz: I think I can do it. 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?
Jack Liz Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Liz · Pete: To get out of coming to work. Oh, so first you thought he was illiterate, and now you think he's lazy? Jeez, you are racist.
Liz Pete Escalation Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch 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: You hear this mess about sometimes Y being a vowel? What a world.
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: I bow-hunt polar bear. I once drove a rental car into the Hudson just to practice escaping.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Ten years ago, I was an inch-and-a-half shorter than I am today. Sheer willpower.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch 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 Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: If you were any other woman on earth... I would be turned on right now.
Jack Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz · Jenna: 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.
Liz Jenna Setup/Punchline Misdirection ★ Rewatch Callback Ron: What is the point of belonging to the Extras Guild if I cannot get health coverage for my foot, hmm?
Ron Callback Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Liz: Do you have any left?
Liz Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy · Liz: Where the hot lesbians at, Lemon? I knew it! You can read!
Tracy Liz Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy: I even have a column in Ebony called Musings!
Tracy Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy · Liz: That's the subtle racism of lowered expectations. Bing Crosby said that. No, Bill Cosby said that. That's racist.
Tracy · Liz: 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.
Tracy Liz Setup/Punchline Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy · Liz: When Gaybraham Lincoln gets hit in the crotch, can I go cross-eyed? Oh, yes, do that. That's hilarious!
Tracy Liz Callback Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Callback Jenna: Which of these is less offensive? Ahh! Ahh! Ahhh! Or... Ooh-hunh! Unh-hunh! Ohhh!
Jenna Cringe/Discomfort Physical/Slapstick Jack: Lemon, these pages are blank.
Jack Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Toofer: 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.
Toofer Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: No, you're all fired.
Jack Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Jack: Don't be cute, Lemon. You're too old for that.
Jack Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Pete · Liz: Does she know we went off the air two minutes ago? No, she does not. Smart move.
Pete Liz Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch