Jack manages to convince a reluctant Liz to attend her high school reunion. Meanwhile, Don Geiss awakens from his coma and shocks Jack with a declaration of who he wants to be the CEO of GE. A shaken Jack decides he needs to get away and blow off some steam, but tags along with Liz to her reunion instead due to bad weather.
High-velocity absurdist escalation carries this 64-joke episode to elite territory.
Directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller · Written by Matt Hubbard
WAR
79.7
Wins Above Replacement
“Reunion” ranks #40 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 87.6 — Elite. The episode packs 64 scored jokes at 2.9 per minute, averaging 7.4 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
Jack: I am not larry braverman. I repeat, i am not larry braverman! I am liz lemon's Platonic friend, jack donaghy.
Jack Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Liz: You went to a printer, didn't you? You picked out a font. You paid extra for a rush order. It was your happy, little secret.
Liz Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Liz: At least i'm not 50, alone, And sitting on 2,000 business cards For a job i'm never gonna get.
Liz Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Jack: Lemon, rich 50 is middle-Class 38, okay?
Jack Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Unknown: Sir, this is a school for deaf girls.
Unknown Absurdist Misdirection ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 64 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Assistant · Liz: your credit card called. They wanna make sure you're the one Buying cream soda in bulk.
Assistant · Liz: And your landlord called. And he said it is not the toilet, it's you.
Liz Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Unknown: Sir, this is a school for deaf girls.
Unknown Absurdist Misdirection ★ Rewatch Unknown: And i definitely would have gone to my reunion. But the boat i was educated on sank.
Unknown Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Unknown: What if something happened to her? Something bad! Then we would have a secret that bound us together.
Unknown: Either a weather event is approaching, Or...
Tracy: How come there ain't no puerto ricans on star trek?! They got every race and life-Form in the galaxy, Except for puerto ricans. What's up with that?
Tracy Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Unknown: What is this, the local?
Unknown Observational Character Comedy Unknown · Unknown: What's that flavor? It's dove age-Fighting acne cream.
Jack: Well, his french-Canadian mistress, and then me.
Jack Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Jack: And i couldn't have done it without... my lucky coin.
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jack: I wish i had a princeton reunion right now. Wipe that smug smile off michelle obama's face.
Jack Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Kelsey: Hey, liz, how's the telescope?
Kelsey Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Callback Jack: You found a hairstyle that works for you, So long as it's not too humid.
Jack Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Jack: whittling, jug-Blowing, Ihop monkeys
Jack Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: Jack, it's a suburb of philadelphia.
Liz Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Jack: the ugly duckling has turned into A vaguely ethnic swan.
Jack Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: They have popcorn on the plane. I want to go to there.
Liz Character Comedy Running Gag ★ Rewatch Geiss: A beam of energy came and spoke to me During my coma. I don't know what it was. It could have been an alien. Maybe it was god. Maybe it was an unborn aztec king.
Geiss Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Tracy · Unknown: Grizz had to go to the optometrist. Making up words won't save you.
Jack: So the standards department is telling me You can only say "cat anus" twice During the show, but i'm gonna fight for you. You can say it three times. Cat anus, cat anus, cat anus!
Jack Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Liz: First william f. Buckley dies, now this. Next stop impotence, right?
Liz Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Jack: Why does anybody go to miami? Ass and the burgeoning art scene.
Jack Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Pilot: One time i laughed at a blind guy eating spaghetti! Sometimes i pee in the shower if i'm really tired! I saw my grandparents making love once, And i didn't leave right away!
Pilot Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Hotel clerk: We have a lovely n.C. Wyeth museum. Actually, some meth addicts burned that place down Last august.
Hotel clerk: the vietnamese immigrants took over All of those places. I wouldn't recommend going to little hanoi after dark Unless you're wearing a khan dong.
Hotel clerk: We've been a dry county since 1880. It's the one tradition that remains.
Hotel clerk: But do you like methodist churches Full of vietnamese?
Kenneth: A ghetto mating call.
Kenneth Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Unknown: Jeesh, buy a guy a drink first.
Liz: This place is bigger than my apartment.
Liz Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Hotel clerk: To get there, you just go Straight down ngo dinh diem boulevard Until you see a sign that says "detour." Now ignore that. It's a trap.
Liz: But cocoon, and then flap, flap, flap--Butterfly.
Liz Visual Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: I don't know, kelsey. How's your mom's pill addiction?
Liz Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Kelsey: We called you the white haven witch.
Kelsey Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Erin: This is a beauty mark. But you thought it was funny to say that god pooped on me.
Erin Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kelsey: You brought it back!
Kelsey Physical/Slapstick Callback ★ Rewatch Local guy: Well, i got a boat, good friends, and a trampoline. You tell me.
Local guy Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz Observational Cringe/Discomfort Rob: Still think i am "gayer than the volleyball scene In top gun"?
Rob Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Rob: I'd like you to meet my wife, With whom i've raised three beautiful dogs.
Rob Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: I'm so mad, all i can do is dance.
Liz Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Beers, boats, and buds. Doesn't that sound great?
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jack as Larry: from having too much sex in it!
Jack: Lemon, rich 50 is middle-Class 38, okay?
Jack Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: If we didn't exist, how would people know who to vote for?
Jenna Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Jenna: So she can put her feet in her mouth. So can i.
Jenna Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: Look, let's all do the diane.
Liz Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Classmate · Diane: What is wrong with you?! Diane?
Kenneth: Next stop, kansas city.
Kenneth Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: Singing in the elevator. It's like a road trip to the sky!
Kenneth Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: Kenneth is a monster! We have to stop him!
Jenna Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: Just to be clear, we're not making out. That would be social suicide.
Liz Deadpan/Understatement Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Jack: Or did you make some joke about me being impotent?
Jack Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Liz: At least i'm not 50, alone, And sitting on 2,000 business cards For a job i'm never gonna get.
Liz Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Liz: You went to a printer, didn't you? You picked out a font. You paid extra for a rush order. It was your happy, little secret.
Liz Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Tracy: This studio hosted The kraft television theater in the 1950s, Where young writers like paddy chayefsky and rod serling First rose to prominence.
Tracy Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Tracy: We're not really best friends. We're just good friends.
Tracy Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: I want to go to there.
Liz Character Comedy Running Gag ★ Rewatch Callback Jack as Larry: We all have ways of coping. I use sex and awesomeness.
Jessica: This is your son.
Jessica Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Jack: I am not larry braverman. I repeat, i am not larry braverman! I am liz lemon's Platonic friend, jack donaghy.
Jack Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Liz: You know what, suck it, you whittling ihop monkeys!
Liz Callback Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback 