Jack and Liz make a visit to a colorful businessman named Gavin Volure, who has a confidential business proposal...and has fallen in love with Liz. Meanwhile, Tracy is afraid that his kids may have figured out an evil plot against him.
75 jokes in 22 minutes makes this 30 Rock's densest episode yet.
Directed by Gail Mancuso · Written by John Riggi
WAR
82.5
Wins Above Replacement
“Gavin Volure” ranks #54 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 86.5 — Elite. The episode packs 75 scored jokes at 3.4 per minute, averaging 7.3 on craft and 7.0 on impact, with Gavin landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Kenneth: We parcells have eaten our share of rock soup and squirrel tail. But we've also known lean times.
Kenneth Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: After years of inbreeding, the pigs are getting violent. And the pig shield around the house has worn thin.
Kenneth Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Gavin · Liz: we could never be physically intimate. I know. What woman would want all that?
Gavin Liz Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy: To use as a decoy. So my greedy children will murder it, and i'll be able to escape un-mendezed.
Tracy Callback Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy Wordplay/Pun Callback ★ Rewatch Callback All Jokes — 75 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Liz: I'm in connecticut, i haven't eaten, and i'm stressed about an "away toilet" situation.
Liz Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: Is this potpourri or chips? 'Cause i'm gonna try to eat it.
Liz Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Jack: Of course,that was back when Jet was actually about jet ownership. That magazine took a weird turn.
Jack Observational Absurdist ★ Rewatch Liz Callback Deadpan/Understatement Callback Gavin: Because of my severe agoraphobia and my debilitating wealth...
Gavin Wordplay/Pun Absurdist ★ Rewatch Gavin: The world of fashion, society, art collecting and yelling...
Gavin Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Unknown guest: Why isn't there any good art in here? Come on!
Liz: Funny story,i was only wearing that because the fire alarm went off while i was getting a haircut.
Liz Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Gavin: I keep one chair empty, to represent our unfulfilled hopes and dreams. I'm just kidding, eliot spitzer's hooker couldn't make it.
Gavin Misdirection Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jack: McEnroe, give me a break. I'm on it. 77th and amsterdam, 68th and columbus, 125th and president clinton boulevard
Jack Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Jack: Also,don't over think it, sara lee,frozen, unbelievable.
Jack Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Tracy: You know my two sons, tracy,jr. And george foreman?
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy Tracy: This is voodoo,ken! Those two are up to something.
Kenneth: I know i was a handful when my family moved from our farm house to that militia camp in the woods.
Kenneth Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: the life-sized tracy jordan sex doll. They're selling like hotcakes in japan.
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: I thought that was just a tagline for my movie,death bank.
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy Gavin: It's like picasso not painting, or bruce willis not combing action and rock harmonica.
Gavin Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Gavin · Jack: Here's the pitch, wind power, bandwidth,chinese market. Oh,god.
Jack: And i was pulled onstage once to dance at a bruce springsteen concert.
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist Gavin: you can run for political office Without having to pretend to be a fundamentalist.
Gavin Dark/Subversive Observational Gavin · Carl: I wonder if carl here might say good night to you for me? Carl? Good night,liz. I hope to see you again soon.
Pete: Terrorist attacks, cloverfieldmonsters. I can't do it,because my head is too big for the helmet.
Pete Escalation Character Comedy Cerie: It is. Wow,you have,like, dog ears.
Cerie Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Liz: Listen,i only took that napkin because i wrapped some chicken in it.
Liz Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Liz · Gavin: Well... This must be what the kids call "a booty call." I haven't been out of the house since 2004, and even i know the kids don't call it that anymore.
Gavin: I'll send a helicopter to take you to the train station.
Gavin Absurdist Character Comedy Tracy: My kids are going to kill me!
Tracy Callback Escalation Callback Kenneth: After years of inbreeding, the pigs are getting violent. And the pig shield around the house has worn thin.
Kenneth Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Kenneth: Well,that would be great if pigs weren't excellent swimmers.
Kenneth Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: He asked if we were involved, i said you used to have a thing for me, but you were getting over it. That is what's happening,right?
Jack Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Liz: I just wish i could start a relationship about 12 years in, When you really don't have to try anymore and you can just sit around together and goof on tv shows, And then go to bed without anybody trying any funny business.
Liz Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Jack: If i were dating a man, he would be the top of my list with michael jordan, denzel washington,taye diggs... God,do i have a black thing?
Jack Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Jack: you're going to work this thing like a chinese gymnast. Wear something tight, force a smile, and lie about your age.
Jack Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Tracy Wordplay/Pun Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Gavin: one of these benches is a priceless work of art, And the other is an ordinary bench from which to admire it. Which one's which?
Gavin Absurdist Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Gavin: I'd be lying if i told you i never danced with a broom.
Gavin Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Liz: sometimes, to feel like i have company during dinner, I dispute credit card charges on speaker phone.
Liz Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Gavin · Liz: We can never leave the house, and we'd just probably sit around all weekend and watch tv. Go on.
Gavin Liz Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Callback Gavin · Liz: we could never be physically intimate. I know. What woman would want all that?
Gavin Liz Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Kenneth: I did some street performing in my neighborhood this weekend.
Kenneth Character Comedy Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Jack: I'm just kidding. The middle class is dying, you'll be renting forever.
Jack Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Walter: you'd have been better off putting that money in a coffee can.
Walter Deadpan/Understatement Observational Gavin: Yeah. They can't seem to get anything right up there, can they?
Gavin Observational Character Comedy Gavin: I'm not really an eccentric agoraphobe, I just tell people that so they won't know i'm under house arrest for tax fraud. And arson.
Gavin Escalation Misdirection ★ Rewatch Gavin: I miscounted the men,liz! I miscounted the men!
Liz · Jack: What is racketeering? No one knows,lemon.
Liz Jack Observational Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Liz: I thought i was helping him when i let him hold my boob while we watched top chef.
Liz Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Jack: I'm going to hit gavin volure harder than a bottle of whiskey in an irish wake.
Jack Character Comedy Observational Tracy: That's not me. That's the tracy jordan japanese sex doll. You can tell us apart because it's not suffering from a vitamin deficiency.
Tracy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy: To use as a decoy. So my greedy children will murder it, and i'll be able to escape un-mendezed.
Tracy Callback Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy: Both families are rich, both families have two sons, and both families are staples of court tv.
Gavin: INNOVATION TOMORROW AMERICA SUNSTREAM You can't be broke, what about this house?
Gavin Visual Gag Absurdist ★ Rewatch Gavin · Glenn: Hey,glenn, that's my peanut butter. Creamy? This is-- this is not my peanut-- i'm sorry,glenn.
Gavin: Damn it. I have got a serious case of the mondays.
Gavin Observational Deadpan/Understatement Gavin: God,these acoustics in here are fantastic. Tomorrow,tomorrow i love you tomorrow it's only a day
Gavin Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Well,what would this country be if our economy didn't allow wealthy people to take advantage of rubes?
Jack Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: We parcells have eaten our share of rock soup and squirrel tail. But we've also known lean times.
Kenneth Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack · Pete: Doesn't that responsibility come with a $4,000 signing bonus? Uh... Yes?
Tracy's son: I dreamed that you would get so rich that you would leave us and get a new family. And never come back. And daddy... I don't want you to leave us. 'Cause i love you.
Tracy: Stop it. Stop patriciding!
Tracy Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: If anything ever happens to me, you and your brother are going to go to jail.
Tracy Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Callback Tracy · Liz: Also everything worked out with jenna's dad visiting. What? Oh,you weren't really around for any of that.
Tracy Liz Meta/Self-Referential Absurdist ★ Rewatch Gavin: Cheap cholesterol medicine from canada. A paris hilton film released only in canada. Camp of approval? What does that even mean?
Gavin Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch Gavin: Toronto was just like new york, but without all the stuff.
Gavin Observational Deadpan/Understatement Jack: taking advantage of her loneliness and her big ben-sized biological clock.
Jack Character Comedy Observational Jack: I can't believe i'm saying this to the great gavin volure, but liz lemon is too good for you.
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Gavin: I swear i will paint you. I am not going to real prison.
Gavin Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Gavin: That paint is drying weird, and now prison?
Gavin Escalation Character Comedy Jack: Good god,volure, that's got to be 15, 16 feet!
Jack Deadpan/Understatement Kenneth: Does anyone need water or saltines? I would feel safer with some saltines.
Jack: you'll probably be killed in the first six months of prison. but that's neither here nor there,
Jack Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Tracy: what? But you're down there. Or am i?
Tracy Callback Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy: You know, a lot of people look down on sex dolls. But as we saw tonight,they save lives and bring families together.
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy/Sex Doll: How am i such an expert? I'm tracy jordan's sex doll.
