Jack and C.C. try to make their long distance romance work, Liz decides to invest in real estate, and Kenneth becomes addicted to caffeine.
Escalation-driven character comedy hits 81, sustaining 2.77 jokes per minute across Season 2's sharpest half-hour.
Directed by Richard Shepard · Written by Donald Glover, Robert Carlock
WAR
54.4
Wins Above Replacement
“Episode 210” ranks #109 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 81.1 — Elite. The episode packs 57 scored jokes at 2.8 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 6.8 on impact, with Jack landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Jack: The founding fathers never intended for the poor to live into their 40s.
Jack Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: One, if I found any MacKenzies living up here, I would kill them.
Kenneth Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: So many different types of sparrows!
Liz Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Jack: I just bought a German television studio. That's what I call a country breakfast.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain.
Kenneth Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 57 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Jack: We're trying to buy the largest cable network in Northern Europe. And if we do do that, it'll be huge.
Jack Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch German: What about you, huge doodoo?
German Callback Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Jack: Detlef, that is hilarious. Bavarians are so stingy!
Jack Character Comedy Misdirection CC: There is an 8 o'clock showing of 'Fred Claus'.
CC Observational Character Comedy Liz: also I have a star that my aunt named after me, although that was recently downgraded to a gas giant
Liz Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Jack: Lemon, wanting someone to actually be part of your life -- I've never had that before.
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Jack: Sure. Wait for that, and your first home will be in the floating city of New Chicago.
Jack Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch Unknown · Tracy: Tracy, your father is here. My father? Okay, that may have been a dream.
Jenna: I know a good site that's dirty without sacrificing story. It's by women for women.
Jenna Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Jenna: And I bought some land in the ninth ward after Katrina. I'm leasing it back to the government as a prison. Ka-ching!
Jenna Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: Even Frank owns that chicken ranch in Nevada. He thought he was buying a whorehouse.
Jenna Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Jenna: Oh, if you're interested, AJ's also selling a speedboat and a truck full of cigarettes.
Jenna Escalation Character Comedy Unknown: The machine is mankind's madness and disfigurement. Industry castrates art. The only honesty is in suicide.
Jack: The founding fathers never intended for the poor to live into their 40s.
Jack Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Unknown: Interrogation bear!
Unknown Absurdist Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Liz: So many different types of sparrows!
Liz Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Jack: I honestly don't know how Kelly Ripa does it.
Jack Character Comedy Observational Liz · Jenna: I have thing that night. I have a thing that night.
Kenneth: I don't drink hot liquids of any kind. That's the devil's temperature.
Kenneth Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy: Ken, this is New York, the big easy. Live a little!
Tracy Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Tracy: That's why my wife and I stopped using a 'safe word.'
Tracy Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Tracy: Regrets are for horseshoes and handbags.
Tracy Absurdist Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Liz: An oasis from the vile obscenity of the human condition.
Liz Character Comedy Escalation Jenna: Call AJ. But ask for 'Mike.'
Jenna Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Jenna: 'Cause an apartment never waits till you get in the shower then steals the necklace your mother gave you.
Jenna Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Kenneth: It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain.
Kenneth Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Kenneth: You know what we've never done, Grizz? Fight each other!
Jack: and this betting parlor in the Pennsylvania coal mining country is exactly half the distance between my office and yours.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Well, technically, that corner is exactly halfway, but I'm not going over there.
Jack Escalation Character Comedy Callback Jack: I missed so many weddings, funerals, karate demonstrations. Birthdays, Lilith fairs.
Jack Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: And I'm gonna love you like my boss is watching.
Jack Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Local: Smack around nosy out-of-towners. Also, we have a lovely doll museum.
Kenneth: If you're not reading the bible in German, you're not getting the real versteckte Bedeutung of it.
Kenneth Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Liz: Your last name is weird.
Liz Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Jack: People from my old life will pass through town. They won't even recognize me. They'll just say, 'thanks, pap,' and then they'll buy some of my cider.
Jack Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Jack: Oh, my god! I'm in looooove!
Jack Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Liz: And I don't know why I lied to you guys about having read that book. I'm just nervous. Anyway, I didn't read 'The Lovely Bones.'
Liz Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Liz Cringe/Discomfort Observational ★ Rewatch Liz: Just ask anyone in my building. Except Raheem. I turned him in to homeland security. By accident.
Liz Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Unknown: Did you know they replace the Pips every five years, just like Menudo?
Unknown Observational Setup/Punchline Liz: The germans are here! I am going through something right now!
Liz Escalation Cringe/Discomfort Kenneth: Mr. Donaghy is not in the positions to worry himself this occurrence. But your bussiness makings are much importance to his heart.
Kenneth Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Jack: I just bought a German television studio. That's what I call a country breakfast.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch CC: It's so quaint. It's strange we didn't get any ham.
CC Dark/Subversive Reaction Beat Unknown: Love... a urine mirage in a desert of fear.
Tracy: You rode the brown serpent.
Tracy Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Kenneth: One, if I found any MacKenzies living up here, I would kill them.
Kenneth Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: I also went to a PG-13 movie. I-I bought a pair of sunglasses. I tried a Jewish doughnut.
Kenneth Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: I'd always been told that New York was the 21st century city of Sodom. And look what's happened. I've become one of them. I've been sodomized.
Kenneth Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Liz: I bought a German television studio today.
Liz Escalation Absurdist Callback Liz: I bought a black apartment.
Liz Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Jack: I'll just tell Don Geiss that I let a subordinate with an unaccredited theater tech degree do a billion-dollar handshake deal
Jack Escalation Character Comedy Callback CC: I missed the vote on a bill to legalize recreational whale torture.
CC Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch CC: Our belief that sex is a competition.
CC Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Tracy: Who's gonna help me tell white people apart?
Tracy Character Comedy Observational Liz: If you blow out the kitchen wall, you can make a very nice breakfast nook.
Liz Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Kenneth: there's an 11:45 and I was misinformed about the time
Kenneth Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback 