Jack falls for a congresswoman he meets at a cocktail party and despite the fact that they hold opposite views, the couple agrees to put politics aside and have a secret affair. Meanwhile, Liz believes her Middle Eastern neighbor to be a terrorist and tips off Homeland Security, creating a big mess.
30 Rock fires 55 jokes in 22 minutes—a 2.91-per-minute velocity peak for Season 2.
Directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller · Written by Kay Cannon, Tina Fey
WAR
69.8
Wins Above Replacement
“Somebody to Love” ranks #31 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 88.5 — Elite. The episode packs 55 scored jokes at 2.9 per minute, averaging 7.5 on craft and 7.1 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
C.C.: In 1998, I got shot in the face by my neighbor's dog.
C.C. Absurdist Misdirection ★ Rewatch Kenneth: We Parcells are neither wealthy nor circumcised, but we are proud.
Kenneth Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Visual gag: NOT POISONING RIVERS SINCE 1997
Jack: You know, I thought you made love like an ugly girl. So present, so grateful.
Jack Observational Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Tracy: Tell her you want her privates and her privates to do a high-five.
Tracy Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 55 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Tracy: Somebody on my block is making waffles, and it's makin' me horny!
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy · Liz: Wait, you smell maple syrup too? You live all the way in jersey. That's weird.
Jack · Liz: Don't panic, lemon. It's probably not a chemical attack. What do you mean 'probably'?
Jack Liz Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm Jack: It's a chemical agent we sold to the Saudis in the 1980s. It smells exactly like maple syrup. But I don't think this is it.
Jack Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: Because northrax kills you within ten seconds.
Jack Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive Jack: I get my haircut every two days. After all, your hair is your head suit.
Jack Absurdist Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Jack · Liz: I'm going to a party tonight honoring Robert Novak. It's being thrown by John McCain and John Bauer. Um, I don't think he's real. Oh, I assure you, lemon, John McCain is very real.
Jack Liz Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: When it comes to hair, no one is more bitchy than conservative males. Good lord, Donaghy. Did you comb your hair with a chicken bone?
Jack Observational Setup/Punchline Conservative male: Good lord, Donaghy. Did you comb your hair with a chicken bone?
Liz: Don't get peer pressured into invading Iran.
Liz Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Visual gag: NOT POISONING RIVERS SINCE 1997
Kenneth: 'Cause I saw on Martha Stewart how we're all doing everything wrong.
Kenneth Character Comedy Observational Kenneth: Sweet peaches! What have I done? Somewhere along the way, they must have slipped out the bottom.
Kenneth Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Kenneth: Uncle butch was right. I'm just a stupid country bumpkin with great skin and soft hands.
Kenneth · Jack: They cost $2,500. I will find your pants!
Liz · Raheem: I'm... liz. What's your name? Raheem. Raheem. That's-- that's my mother's name. No, it-- no, I'm just kidding.
Liz Raheem Awkward Silence Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Liz: He's weird. He wouldn't shake my hand. And I think it's because I'm a woman. And get this--he's got maps all over his walls.
Liz Observational Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Liz: That's different, that's-- that's an antique. And I'm a white lady.
Liz Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: Remember, I asked that black guy if he had seen Sideways?
Liz Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: I don't want to sound racist, but that pita pocket might be a terrorist. That sound racist?
Liz Irony/Sarcasm Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Jack: Wow, I never would have pegged you for a University of Tennessee sorority girl.
Jack Observational Setup/Punchline Kenneth: For men, it's called a Hardy Boy.
Kenneth Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Tracy: Pants! Pants! Pants! Pants! Pants! Pants!
Tracy Physical/Slapstick Escalation Kenneth: And I tried looking in the last place you'd ever expect. And, no, Mr. Donaghy's pants are not in the ladies' room at that laser tag place on 12th avenue.
Kenneth Absurdist Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Liz Reaction Beat Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Visual gag: IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING
Visual gag Visual Gag Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Jack: I mean, who knew that ottoman had wheels, right?
TV Reporter: turning the children of Chickotagua orange.
Jack: I gave her the ottoman, and she walked out.
Jack Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Jack: I'm kidding. Be an American--call it in.
Jack Misdirection Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jack: If a bleeding heart liberal like you has any suspicions...
Jack Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Kenneth: Well, sure, 'cause that Verizon wireless service is just unbeatable. I mean, if I saw a phone like that on TV, I would be like, 'where is my nearest retailer so I can... get one?'
Kenneth Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Writers: Can we have our money now? Come on... big money.
Writers Meta/Self-Referential Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch C.C.: In 1998, I got shot in the face by my neighbor's dog.
C.C. Absurdist Misdirection ★ Rewatch C.C.: My neighbor had a Riverton hunting rifle with a faulty trigger safety. One day, his Jack Russell terrier started chewing the area, the gun went off, and shot me in the face.
C.C. Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback C.C.: So I did what was right: I sued Riverton, my neighbor, and the dog.
C.C. Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: You know, I thought you made love like an ugly girl. So present, so grateful.
Jack Observational Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Tracy: Oh, I get it: Romeo and Juliet. Capulets and Romulans.
Tracy Wordplay/Pun Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy: I'm black, she's white. I'm black, she's light-skinned black. I'm black, she's 17.
Tracy Escalation Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jack: and she does it like her dad's a minister.
Jack Observational ★ Rewatch Kenneth: We Parcells are neither wealthy nor circumcised, but we are proud.
Kenneth Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Raheem: Soon everyone will know the name Raheem Haddad.
C.C. from Lifetime movie: I'm going to get into politics!
Pete: No, we're cool. Uh, I renounce Raheem. Raheem's a bad guy. USA number one!
Pete Cringe/Discomfort Escalation ★ Rewatch Tracy: I get my jamaican meat pies there.
Tracy Character Comedy Observational Raheem: And this is my brother Hakim. And these are the reasons you should choose us to be the next contestants on The Amazing Race!
Raheem and Hakim: We love America!
Tracy: Tell her you want her privates and her privates to do a high-five.
Tracy Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: Tell her she got some tig ol' biddies like the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders.
Tracy: Tell her her butt look like a apple and you wanna take a bite.
Tracy Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Jack: We'll ignore our differences till the sex goes bad, then we'll walk away bitter and angry.
Jack Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Tracy: Stop eatin' people's old french fries, pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly?
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Raheem: They put electrodes on my testicles, Liz. America's government shocked my nuts.
Raheem Dark/Subversive Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Raheem: I want to do something spectacular with it.
Liz: Northrax. Hey! I made waffles. Thank god.
Liz Callback ★ Rewatch Callback 