30 Rock is left in shambles by the cast and crew after Liz is called away for jury duty. Meanwhile, Jack fails to listen to everyone when he becomes obsessed with launching a new big-money product.
Character-driven escalation hits 88, with three joke types woven seamlessly across 75 gags.
Directed by Ken Whittingham · Written by Donald Glover
WAR
88.9
Wins Above Replacement
“The Funcooker” ranks #36 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 88.1 — Elite. The episode packs 75 scored jokes at 3.3 per minute, averaging 7.3 on craft and 7.1 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
Kenneth: So, it's kind of like a 'funcooker'.
Kenneth Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: Here comes the funcooker!
Liz Callback Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Kenneth: The pig spoor has hit the wind spinner.
Kenneth Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: We could cut the lesbian scene. But the Oscars love that kind of thing. There's two guys at my gym named Oscar.
Jenna Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: Check out my funcooker!
Tracy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback All Jokes — 75 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Kenneth: Are you pickling squirrel meat? Because I can lend you my skull presser.
Kenneth Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: There's a stacker thing to separate your junk mail from your humidifier catalogs.
Liz Observational Absurdist Liz: A round, plastic deal that holds your shoes with a pocket for a photograph of what shoes are in there.
Liz Observational Escalation Liz: Like a phoenix rise... Watch out! Or... maybe this is going to be the worst day ever.
Liz Misdirection Physical/Slapstick Liz: Everybody shut up! Shut up, Lutz.
Liz Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Liz: Already today, I have lost faith in 'decorganizing'
Liz Wordplay/Pun Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Liz: lost a shoving match to what I thought was a female bike messenger
Liz Misdirection Character Comedy Liz · Frank: Why are you not wearing pants?... They still have the heat set for winter and my office is boiling.
Liz Frank Visual Gag Deadpan/Understatement Liz: I told you to buy more 'Proactiv'.
Liz Wordplay/Pun Misdirection ★ Rewatch Jenna: Sir, as I'm sure you know from reading my blog
Jenna Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Jenna: inspired by, but, for legal reasons, not based on Janis Joplin
Jenna Observational Meta/Self-Referential Jenna: Synonym's just another word for the word you want to use...?
Jenna Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch O'Cannon: You and this gravy-face have slarneyed up a real donnybrook!
Tracy Setup/Punchline Cringe/Discomfort Tracy: 50 grand? Can anyone cut this in half?
Tracy Character Comedy Absurdist Jenna: I only heard the 'thin' part, Liz.
Jenna Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Jack: Obviously, you can't do both T.G.S. and Janie Jimplin.
Jack Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Jenna: We could cut the lesbian scene. But the Oscars love that kind of thing. There's two guys at my gym named Oscar.
Jenna Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: Jenna. That's a glue stick.
Liz Visual Gag Reaction Beat Liz: The pocket microwave? You can buy it on Friday along with everyone else. It has a ham button. You used my idea!
Liz Callback Character Comedy Callback Jenna: I haven't been this tired since I was forced to do that dance marathon in Dubai.
Jenna Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Dr. Spaceman: Mostly because I checked the wrong box on a form once.
Dr. Spaceman: It's being funded by the U.S. military and the W.N.B.A.
Dr. Spaceman: Take 25 of these a day for the rest of your life.
Liz: I've got my Princess Leia outfit and some Playgirl magazines from the early 1980s. They will dismiss me immediately as a weirdo.
Liz Character Comedy Escalation Writers: We all will, Kenneth. We all will.
Writers Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Kenneth: You guys are my best friends.
Kenneth Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Tracy: I guess 'F.C.C.' stands for 'Federal Bunch of Sticklers'.
Tracy Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Tracy: I learned that if you pay some money afterwards, you can say whatever you want on TV.
Tracy Irony/Sarcasm Observational Tracy: That's always the lesson! If you have money, you can do whatever you want.
Tracy Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Liz: I am not asking you this as the boss you love to undermine, but as the friend whose birthday you love to forget.
Liz Character Comedy Escalation Liz: And I don't really think it's fair for me to be on a jury because I'm a hologram.
Liz Absurdist Misdirection ★ Rewatch Dr. Spaceman: The subject is unusually thirsty.
Jack: College students, the morbidly obese and homosexuals.
Jack Observational Character Comedy Jack: the 'Bitenuker', is highly offensive to those who speak either French or Dutch.
Jack Wordplay/Pun Escalation Jack · Miss Laroche-van-der Hoot: A Franco-Dutchman would pronounce it 'bet nyooker'. Hey! That's awful!
Jack: Let's not shoot for the middle this time.
Jack Meta/Self-Referential Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Court Officer: This ain't Chicago, honey.
Kenneth: The pig spoor has hit the wind spinner.
Kenneth Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: And I keep starting to sneeze... but nothing comes out.
Frank: Attention, everyone! All menstruating women go home immediately!
Frank Absurdist Cringe/Discomfort Dr. Spaceman: You know what I like to do for eight hours? The TV Guide crossword puzzle.
Jack: They're all dead, Lemon. They're all dead unless they come up with a name for my pocket microwave.
Jack Dark/Subversive Escalation Jack: Hey, I'm rapping Obama. Hey, I'm Josh doing an impression of DeNiro as an auctioneer.
Jack Meta/Self-Referential Observational Liz: The Small Wonder. The 'Micro-Mate'. The 'Porta-Hotty'.
Liz Escalation Wordplay/Pun Jack: I see you... self-publishing your novel and moving back in with your parents.
Jack Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Tracy: What sounds more shocking? Or...
Tracy Cringe/Discomfort Escalation Tracy: All we do is joke around together about our stupid boss, Liz Lem...
Tracy Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Tracy: I'll just buy up all the ads and let that hilarious Tracy Jordan character do whatever he wants.
Tracy Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Frank: They knew what a 'Hot Richard' was?
Jack: 'V'. 'A'. 'G'... Why don't we start over?
Jack Wordplay/Pun Escalation Liz: Throw in a late Hannukah and the fact that I work in a Kwanzaa neighborhood
Liz Escalation Character Comedy Liz: But I suspect they were doing sex with each other.
Liz Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Liz: most of whom would be unemployable in any other field
Liz Observational Dark/Subversive Liz: And don't even get me started on Tracy and Jenna.
Liz Meta/Self-Referential Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Liz: All of it would dance in the warm mouth of my fire.
Liz Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Liz: And a new, better, wonderful me would rise from the ashes like a phoenix.
Liz Callback Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Kenneth: So, it's kind of like a 'funcooker'.
Kenneth Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: One hug, you mean?
Kenneth Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch News Anchor: Peace and love, Track Jordan.
Tracy: I am an advertiser.
Tracy Escalation Character Comedy Liz: I'm freer than you. I'm freer than you.
Liz Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Dr. Spaceman: Professor Bananas is dead.
Dr. Spaceman: Hey. Is your vision steadily narrowing down to a pinpoint as if a darkness is closing in on you?
Liz Escalation Physical/Slapstick Tracy: Check out my funcooker!
Tracy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy: My wife is throwing away some of our old towels. Do you want them? Because they're out by the trash cans.
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: Here comes the funcooker.
Tracy Callback Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Liz Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Jenna: Let's go out this weekend and talk about you.
Jenna Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Liz: All I did was ask for a Diet Slice and some pita chips.
Liz Irony/Sarcasm Deadpan/Understatement Jack: heat up some ham... in the shower.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: It works in the shower?
Liz Reaction Beat Character Comedy Liz: You know what? This really is the best day ever.
Liz Callback Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Liz: Here comes the funcooker!
Liz Callback Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback 