Worried that Liz's hectic lifestyle may be too much to adopt a child, Bev, the adoption agent, visits the set. Panicked, Liz tells everyone to act normal, but chaos soon ensues as a fight arises between Jenna and Tracy. Meanwhile, Jack returns to 30 Rock and vows to do whatever it takes to get his position back from Devin.
Season 3 premiere launches with 61 jokes in 23 minutes—2.63-per-minute pace sustains 90+ humor.
Directed by Don Scardino · Written by Tina Fey
WAR
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Wins Above Replacement
“Do Over” ranks #76 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 97.2 — Elite. The episode packs 82 scored jokes at 3.5 per minute, averaging 7.6 on craft and 7.6 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
Liz · Jack: We might not be the best people. But we're not the worst? / Graduate students are the worst.
Liz Jack Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Devin: It's just 'G' now, Jack. I sold the 'E' to Samsung. They're 'Samesung' now.
Devin Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: I first met Liz in 1993. She was fresh out of college and I had just broken up with O.J. Simpson. And can I just say something? Total gentleman.
Jenna Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jack: I'm gonna give Kathy the full soap opera while you try to trick a lady with a head injury.
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Devin: You know what they say about rumors, Jack. They make a 'rue' out of 'more' and 'S.'
Devin Wordplay/Pun Absurdist ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 82 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Jack · Liz: Hello, pussycat. / A lot of ladies get right in the car after that line, you creepy piece of... Jack!
Jack Liz Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Jack: That information is classified at least until Cheney dies. Which is going to be a long time from now. That man is mostly metal.
Jack Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Liz · Liz: Devin is the worst. It's like he doesn't even care when we should have cake for people whose birthdays are on the weekend. / The Friday before. At lunch.
Liz Liz Character Comedy Observational Jack: So what's with the outfit, Lemon? Did the people at that makeover show finally respond to your letter?
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Liz: I got rid of all my Colin Firth movies in case they consider them erotica. That man can wear a sweater.
Liz Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Devin: Only thing Kathy and I need assistance with is deciding which John Mayer song to do it to.
Devin Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Devin: You know what they say about rumors, Jack. They make a 'rue' out of 'more' and 'S.'
Devin Wordplay/Pun Absurdist ★ Rewatch Devin: Ah! Don't even think about talking to her when her soaps are on. Seriously, she will bite you.
Devin Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Devin: ...keep your friends close and your enemies so close that you're almost kissing.
Devin Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Devin: So that's why I'm gonna offer you a job... in the mail room.
Devin Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Jack Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Tracy: I still don't know how that advertised Tokyo University.
Tracy Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Tracy: But I'm gonna use this $300 to buy us all some boots for me.
Tracy Character Comedy Absurdist Tracy · Frank: My video game is selling through the rizznoof! / Whoa, that's not slang. He has a speech impediment.
Tracy · Frank: I think I did it alone... and this check is the prizznoof. / Now that one was just him being obnoxious.
Tracy Frank Running Gag Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Jack: The last time, it took me 22 years. But I know so much more now this time. I think I can do it in nine.
Jack Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Liz · Jack: And if my home evaluation goes well I will be a mother by 50. / We really can have it all.
Liz Jack Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bev · Liz: How old are you, Liz? Thirty-seven. / I should tell you right now it's important that you don't lie.
Bev Liz Cringe/Discomfort Irony/Sarcasm Bev · Liz: How often do you entertain gentlemen sex guests? / Once a year maybe? But I'd be open to cutting that down.
Bev Liz Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Bev: You ever run a webcam ring outta here, Liz? Gentlemen tell you what to do, you do it? At first with some feigned hesitation?
Bev Cringe/Discomfort Absurdist ★ Rewatch Liz: I was arrested once in Germany for public nudity. I thought it was a topless beach. It was a shipyard.
Liz Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Bev · Liz: Is that a work call? / Could be. Or it could be my annual sex guest.
Bev Liz Callback Character Comedy Callback Kenneth: Ms. Geiss, I have your Soap Opera Digest.
Kenneth Character Comedy Visual Gag Callback Liz · Frank: Liz wants everyone to be on their best behavior, leading to 'Nothing weird.' / Aw, come on, it's Movie Party Thursday. I brought in my tape of circus accidents.
Frank: No! Please. A lion eats a sad clown. Tomorrow.
Frank Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Liz: Please, just be normal sauce for one day.
Liz Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Liz · Jenna: Oh, I told you not to write back to your stalker. / Oh, no, this is not about Yolanda.
Jenna: I mean, I don't do anything for Yolanda and she sends me those headless dolls.
Jenna Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Callback Frank: Can I hide this box of penis pasta in your dressing room?
Frank Absurdist Character Comedy Jack · Liz: She touched me. / Who? / Kathy Geiss, she touched me in my swimsuit area.
Jack Liz Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: It's not at all erotic and fun, like when men do it to women.
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jack: How far would I have to let her go to get my job back? Are we talking over the shirt? Frontsies, backsies? Or would I really have to give her my gift?
Jack Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: If I pleasure Kathy to get my old job, I'm no better than Devin.
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Jack · Liz: Even if it takes five years. / I thought you said nine years? / I was promoted again this morning. I'm now Director of Mail Systems.
Jack Liz Running Gag Character Comedy Callback Liz · Little Creeper doll · Liz · Pete: Are these dolls? Are they? / Mommy. / They're called Little Creepers. Is it so wrong that I just want to have one of these to grow up and resent me? / Oh, you will.
Liz: Hey, Tracy, did you see that thing in the paper today about how Lil' Wayne... that's a person, right?
Liz Character Comedy Observational Tracy · Liz: To the Batmobile! / Don't worry, he's just leasing it.
Liz Lemon: Don't worry, he's just leasing it.
Liz Lemon Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: What I'm saying is don't dress for the job you have, dress for the job you want to have. So now, Manny... Tomorrow I show up for work dressed as a Mexican wrestler.
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist Jack · Devin: Banks, you've got to get a hold of yourself. / Oh, I'm running it. I have a plan to quadruple profits by the year 2015. / How are you possibly going to do that? / The old-fashioned way, Jack. I'm gonna shut it down. I'm gonna shut the whole thing down for two years.
Devin: I mean, imagine how badly people will want light bulbs then.
Devin Absurdist Character Comedy Callback Devin: It's just 'G' now, Jack. I sold the 'E' to Samsung. They're 'Samesung' now.
Devin Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Devin: I was supposed to be at a board meeting five hours ago. Which way's Connecticut?
Devin Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Kenneth: Three of my nine siblings were adopted. And someday, I'm gonna find them.
Kenneth Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Unknown crew member · Liz: Watch out, you idiot! Jackass! / We're like a big family here.
Liz · Fred · Liz · Bev: Hey, Rick. / I'm Fred. Rick is the other black guy. / Happens to everyone, right, Bev? / Yeah, happens all the time to my black husband.
Jenna: I first met Liz in 1993. She was fresh out of college and I had just broken up with O.J. Simpson. And can I just say something? Total gentleman.
Jenna Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jenna · Bev · Jenna · Liz: Liz is a really, really mature person and she totally deserves to get custody of her kids. / It's not a custody case. Liz is trying to adopt a child. / Then who were those kids you were yelling at the other day? / Those were some child actors who had lied about being able to breakdance.
Pete: Actually, I lived with Liz while I was separated from my wife. In a platonic way. But I haven't lived there for a couple months now because I've been at an anger management treatment center 'cause I shot one of my co-workers with an arrow.
Pete Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Frank · Unknown: I think it's a circus in the Philippines. The lion goes nuts and attacks this older clown. How did we start talking about this? Did you bring it up?
Jack: I'm going upstairs to doink Kathy Geiss.
Jack Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Tracy · Frank: Frank, for all your hard work, please accept this set of solid gold nunchucks. / I will use these only for good.
Tracy · Pete: For letting us use the sound booth, please accept this chinchilla coat. / Wow. / You're gonna get so much nice-nice in that you're gonna have to grow another ding...
Tracy · Liz: Now you look out for my girl, Liz Lemon. 'Cause me and her go way back, like spinal cords and car seats. / That's not really an expression.
Tracy Liz Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Liz · Kenneth · Liz: Kenneth, it is imperative that you keep Mr. Banks down here. Do you know what imperative means? / Tell me, tell me! / Important. It means important.
Kenneth: Mr. Banks... look how many push-ups I can do.
Kenneth Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Unknown · Jack: Devin's here! / Cover yourself.
Liz · Jack: You smell like strawberries. / That's the lip gloss she put on me so I could be her fancy boy.
Liz Jack Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: ...Dora the Explorer panties that were clearly made for an obese child.
Jack Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Liz: No way, the best part of soap operas is when someone's twin interrupts a wedding. Or somebody pulls a gun at the fitness center.
Liz Character Comedy Observational Jack: Kathy's texting me now. She's wondering where my strawberry mouth is.
Jack Cringe/Discomfort Running Gag Callback Jenna · Jenna: This is what you're giving me as a thank you gift? Some coupons for free hugs? / I'm suing you for my share of your video game profits, Tracy.
Jack · Liz · Liz · Pete: Would you like to see the green room? / What? / You mean the nursery! / We gotta get this stuff back to the rental place by 5:00.
Bev · Liz · Liz · Fred: Ms. Lemon, did you lie to me about there being a nursery here? / No! / Rick, what are you doing? / Bitch, my name is Fred.
Jack · Liz · Jack: Kathy, Bev and I are just friends. / Kathy's the new CEO of our company. / Bev, you better run. She's surprisingly strong.
Liz: Frank, I told you to change that hat!
Liz Running Gag Reaction Beat Callback Liz Lemon: God, how can I have a kid here? I can't even keep a grown woman safe in this place.
Bev · Bev · Liz · Bev: Oh... / I'm Bev. I'm here to do Liz's adoption evaluation. / Ah! All right, take her to the hospital. / Let's get started!
Liz: Do-over! Do-over, she doesn't remember anything! You heard what the lady said, we're taking a mulligan. Let's make this one count now.
Liz Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Jack: I'm gonna give Kathy the full soap opera while you try to trick a lady with a head injury.
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Liz · Jack: We might not be the best people. But we're not the worst? / Graduate students are the worst.
Liz Jack Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: She reminds me of my own mom. Tough love, consistency, a little moustache in a certain light.
Kenneth Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Kenneth · Bev: And her other kids really like her. / What?
Bev · Liz: Oh... I'm Bev. I'm here to do Liz's adoption evaluation. / Ah! All right, take her to the hospital.
Bev Liz Running Gag Escalation Callback Jack · Liz · Kathy: Kathy is my partner. She's hiring me to advise her in all her business matters. / I'm sorry, darling. I've been paranoid ever since that incident with the weather machine. / Kiss, kiss, kiss!
Jack: No... No, thank you.
Jack Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Devin · Jack: Got any mail for me, Donaghy? / It's all over, Banks.
Devin · Tracy · Devin: I'm gonna sue you! I'm going to sue the entire city of New York! I'm gonna sue you! / You can't sue me, I'm already being sued. / Double indemnity!
Liz: Unfortunately, Bev has made a full recovery. So I have to start over with another agency.
Liz Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: The semi-virtuous path.
Jack Character Comedy Callback Callback Jack · Liz: Did you need something else, Lemon? / No, I just like seeing you in there.
Jack Liz Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Jack Donaghy · Liz Lemon: Did you need something else, Lemon? / No, I just like seeing you in there.
