Amid a health scare that sees him growing close to his mother's nurse, Jack helps Tracy and his wife Angie develop a "post-nup" and gets Jenna an audition to play Janis Joplin. Jenna thinks Liz is only attracted to a little person because she wants a child.
Señor Macho Solo maintains breakneck absurdist pace with 68 jokes across 45 minutes.
Directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller · Written by Ron Weiner
WAR
143.5
Wins Above Replacement
“Señor Macho Solo” ranks #69 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 97.6 — Elite. The episode packs 92 scored jokes at 4.1 per minute, averaging 7.6 on craft and 7.5 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
Jack: 'It's like how we're including a Heroes DVD with every missile guidance system we sell.'
Jack Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jenna: And that remake of An Affair to Remember that I was in... 'A Blaffair to Rememblack'.
Jenna Character Comedy Absurdist Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Jack: Jack: 'Without getting into specifics, my exit involves a McFlurry machine and a videotape of risqué commercials from overseas.'
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Elisa: Elisa: 'Oh, please. Don't try to be Señor Macho Solo. Which is actually what we call a McRib sandwich.'
Elisa Wordplay/Pun Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Liz: At the Brooklyn Bridge, Liz accidentally grabs another little person thinking it's Stuart: 'Oh, I'm so sorry! I thought he was someone else!'
Liz Running Gag Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Callback All Jokes — 92 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Jenna · Liz: Liz assumes the urgent news is about someone's brother being hurt; the actual urgent news is about a Janis Joplin biopic
Liz: Liz greets a small stranger thinking he's a child: 'Hey, Max! Is this your baby sister? What a cute, little girl!'
Liz Setup/Punchline Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Liz: 'Or boy, if you grow up and feel that's what's inside you.'
Liz Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: 'O-M-G-, Liz. Look at you and me and our biological clocks. You're going baby crazy and I keep getting turned on by car accidents.'
Jenna Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Liz · Jenna: Liz: 'I'm not baby crazy.' [sees a tiny lost shoe on the ground] 'Where did you get that little shoe?' / 'It isn't stealing if it fell on the ground.'
Liz Jenna Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: 'When she's in a foul mood, it can be horribly unpleasant. But, at other times, she is asleep.'
Jack Deadpan/Understatement Setup/Punchline Jack: Jack describes his mother wandering 'at night in Depression-era pettipants'
Jack Character Comedy Observational Elisa: Do you know what kind of clothes old Puerto Rican ladies wear around the house? No. Me neither, because she never wore any.
Elisa Setup/Punchline Misdirection Elisa: Elisa's grandmother 'never wore any' clothes around the house — revealed as Elisa says 'but family is family'
Elisa Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive Mrs. Donaghy: Mrs. Donaghy shouts 'Jack?! Somebody's got to dry me off!' interrupting the warm scene
Jack: Tracy bought 'three hours of network prime time for his salute to Benny Hill'
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist Tracy: Tracy: 'I'm afraid Angie will divorce me if I ever have enough money for her to live off of half. So, before she can get it, I have to spend it all on useless things, like gold shoes and Grizz and Dotcom.'
Tracy Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy: When Angie and I got married, my only assets were a toaster oven and two tickets to a Young M.C. concert.
Tracy Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Jack: 'A post-nup, if you will.' — Jack invents the concept of a post-nuptial agreement and names it with formal gravitas
Jack Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Tracy: I'll bring Angie in. But I'm going to tell her this is all your idea.
Tracy Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Tracy: Tracy: 'I'll bring Angie in. But I'm going to tell her this is all your idea.'
Tracy Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Mrs. Donaghy: 'Don't help me! I'm too proud.' — elderly Mrs. Donaghy refusing assistance
Jack · Stuart: Jack touching the head of a small stranger to get their attention, then saying 'I had to do something to get your attention'
Jack Stuart Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack · Liz: Jack to Liz: 'I like aggressive women with a nerdy vibe. How about we grab some coffee and explore this?' — hitting on Liz while she's standing next to Stuart
Jack Liz Misdirection Character Comedy Jenna: Jenna bursts into Jack's office in full Janis Joplin costume, then immediately has an identity crisis mid-sentence: 'And I want to audition for my Sheinhardt-Universal biopic so bad that I came here dressed as me. Well, actually... I am me. So... Well, I dressed normal. But my friend, Jenna Maroney... She should be my understudy. I mean, she should audition for me. But I'm me, now, actually.'
Jenna Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: 'It's like how we're including a Heroes DVD with every missile guidance system we sell.'
Jack Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jenna · Liz: Jenna: 'Yes! I am so glad that I time-traveled here from 1969. Whoa! What is that iron bird?' / Liz: 'They had airplanes in the '60s, Jenna.'
Jenna Liz Character Comedy Absurdist Callback Liz · Stuart: Elisa says working at the U.N. must be 'like working in the Galactic Senate in Star Wars'; U.N. rep Stuart confirms: 'They are similar. We are also very concerned about the growing influence of the Sith Lords.'
Liz Stuart Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Liz · Stuart: Boy, I feel like I've just been talking non-stop. / No, you also ate quite a bit.
Liz Stuart Deadpan/Understatement Setup/Punchline Stuart: They are similar. We are also very concerned about the growing influence of the Sith Lords.
Stuart Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist ★ Rewatch Liz: Liz explains how she met Stuart: 'Only insofar as we met because I touched his head thinking he was a child?'
Liz Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Liz: Liz: 'But what if I say something stupid? Like order a tall coffee or talk about my Nintendo Wii?'
Liz Character Comedy Observational Jenna · Liz: 'Take a lesson from Janis and show some self-control.' / 'How far into that biography are you?' / 'Not very. Why? What happens?'
Angie: Angie reads the post-nup and asks: 'So, if I sign this, and then Tracy decides to run away with that chunky chick from Hairspray — or any female of equivalent thickness — then I get $8500?'
Angie Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Angie · Tracy · Jack: Angie: 'Baby, I'm going to be with you until the very end. I'm going to watch you die, Tracy Jordan.' / Tracy: 'She's done it before, Jack.'
Tracy: She's done it before, Jack.
Tracy Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy: Tracy: 'I've got somebody who's going to watch me die!' — delivered with pure joy
Tracy Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Callback Jack: Jack casually reveals he's 'co-producing' the Janis Joplin biopic as a corporate synergy move
Jack Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Jack: Jack: 'You can't fight synergy, Lemon. It's bigger than all of us.'
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Kenneth · Stuart: Kenneth tells a small man 'I was just telling him about my new apartment in Williamsburg. Under the bridge.'
Stuart: Stuart: 'The U.N.? They still have that? I could have sworn they turned that building into a Barnes and Noble.'
Stuart Irony/Sarcasm Observational Stuart: Stuart to Jack: 'Like you guys in corporate America are doing any better? Have you learned how to say Do you want fries with that in Chinese?'
Stuart Irony/Sarcasm Observational Jack · Stuart: Jack: 'Jack Donaghy. Senior V.P. for Television and Microwave Oven Programming.' / Stuart: 'Stuart LaGrange. U.N. High Commission on Water Temperature and Food Taint.'
Jack · Stuart · Liz: Jack asks how Stuart and Liz met; Stuart explains: 'Liz, here, just saw me on the street and went for it.' / Jack: 'Lemon did that?' / Stuart: 'Yeah, you know me. Spend my lunch hour walking up and down Sixth Avenue... looking for a hot meal.'
Liz: Yeah, you know me. Spend my lunch hour walking up and down Sixth Avenue... looking for a hot meal.
Liz Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Jack: Jack: 'Classic Lemon man-eater. Cat sound.'
Jack Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Tracy · Jack: There he is! I owe you, Jackie 'D'. When I'm on my death bed, Frenching my wife, I will think of you. / Please don't.
Tracy Jack Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Callback Jenna · News Anchor: Jenna's pompous speech is interrupted by breaking news: Julia Roberts has already been cast in the Janis Joplin biopic, directed by Scorsese, with the film attributed to 'Steven Spielberger'
Jenna: 'Here's Maroney on a windy day.' — news broadcast cuts to humiliating footage of Jenna in the wind
Jenna Visual Gag Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Kenneth: Kenneth to Jenna after all the bad news: 'They haven't shown that good news you were telling us about. Because that all seemed like really bad news.'
Kenneth Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Jack · Elisa: Jack: 'It's 7:00. Why don't I hear my mother yelling go home to the Asian contestant on Jeopardy?' / Elisa: 'Because she's asleep.' / Jack: 'Really? How did you do that?' / Elisa: 'I find that authoritative, rapid Spanish subdues white people.'
Jack Elisa Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Elisa: She fought me at first. But I find that authoritative, rapid Spanish subdues white people.
Elisa Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jack · Elisa: Jack receives gold shoes from Tracy as a thank-you gift
Elisa: Oh, good God. Oh. Gold shoes. My nephew just joined the Marines to try to pay for college, but... that's fun.
Elisa Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Callback Jack: Jack's reaction to the gold shoes: 'My nephew just joined the Marines to try to pay for college, but... that's fun.'
Jack Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jack · Elisa: Jack's life philosophy: 'You come in alone. You go out alone.' / Elisa: 'That's the saddest thing I ever heard.' / Jack: 'There's nothing sad about it at all, actually. I have a great life. Tonight, I'm going out with a Fox News correspondent. We'll have some dinner, some laughs, some sex... not necessarily in that order.'
Jack Elisa Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Jack: Jack: 'Without getting into specifics, my exit involves a McFlurry machine and a videotape of risqué commercials from overseas.'
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Elisa: Elisa: 'Except that in Puerto Rico, a McFlurry is called a Señor Flurry.'
Elisa Absurdist Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Liz · Stuart · Vendor: Street vendor: 'This guy makes badhushas. They're like an Indian doughnut. They're amazing.' / 'Careful, buddy! It's hot!'
Stuart · Liz: Stuart to Liz: 'Are you trying to pick me up to keep me from touching fire?'
Stuart Liz Running Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Stuart: Stuart confronts Liz about Kofi and 'Not Ah': 'Kofi said you were too good to be true. Not Ah told me to wait three days before I called you.'
Stuart Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz · Stuart: Liz: 'I'm weirder than you.' Stuart: 'How am I weird?' Liz: 'You're not. That came out wrong.' Stuart: 'You came out wrong.'
Stuart: Stuart: 'And I lied about your show. I have seen it.'
Stuart Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Jack: Jack at dinner with Elisa's family: 'The lady will be having the tasting menu, but with some substitutions. Instead of, uh... any of it... she'll have a cup of hot water with a chicken bone in it and a bowl of salted ice cubes.'
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Jack: 'I have something on my ball.' — Jack to a waiter offering a towel
Jack Setup/Punchline Misdirection ★ Rewatch Jack: Jack tells Elisa: 'Had a good hour's sleep last night. Took a few showers.' — clearly disturbed about something
Jack Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Elisa: Elisa: 'More embarrassing than your CD collection? I didn't know Michael Bublé had that many albums.'
Elisa Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jack · Elisa: Jack: 'I found a lump.' Elisa: 'On your testicle? Let me see it.'
Jack · Elisa: Elisa does the medical exam in rapid Puerto Rican Spanish; Jack is subdued and confused: 'What?' / 'You're talking so fast' / 'Is that the subjunctive?'
Jack Elisa Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Jack · Elisa: Elisa performing the medical examination in rapid Spanish — Jack bewildered: 'You're talking so fast. Is that the subjunctive?'
Jack Elisa Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Elisa: Elisa's afterthought: 'And you forgot to put on your underpants.'
Elisa Setup/Punchline Deadpan/Understatement Liz · Stuart: Liz: 'Oh, it's kind of like a debutante... ball?' / Stuart: 'Hm. You did that on purpose.' / Liz: 'I did.'
Liz Stuart Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Callback Elisa: Elisa: 'Oh, please. Don't try to be Señor Macho Solo. Which is actually what we call a McRib sandwich.'
Elisa Wordplay/Pun Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Jenna · Jack: Jenna, asked if we need a 'mythical soul mate to hold our hand through life': 'Why? Do you want to get married? I'll do it.'
Jack: Yes and no, Jenna. Yes, I'm talking. Uh, no, we do not have the music.
Jack Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Liz: Liz on the phone with Stuart: 'I'm kind of baby crazy... of late. Socially inept and baby crazy. I feel like I'm in a beer commercial.'
Stuart: Stuart: 'Once again, Liz, I am an adult man.' (responding to a Sex and the City reference)
Stuart Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Stuart · Liz: Liz proposes the Brooklyn Bridge meeting; Stuart agrees but adds: 'Oh. And can you transfer me to the Italian ambassador's office? Because I'd like-a to make-a the prank phone call.'
Jack: Jack arrives with 'a '65 Moët and some Pizza-Blasted Pringles'
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: I wasn't sure what you were serving, so I brought a '65 Moët and some 'Pizza-Blasted' Pringles.
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: Jack surveys Elisa's large, smiling Puerto Rican family gathering: 'All of these people are your family? Why are they smiling so much? Who's being ostracized?'
Jack Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Jenna: Liz tells Jack about the Brooklyn Bridge plan from 'Sex and the City' movie; Jenna immediately responds: 'And that remake of An Affair to Remember that I was in... A Blaffair to Rememblack.'
Jenna Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jenna: And that remake of An Affair to Remember that I was in... 'A Blaffair to Rememblack'.
Jenna Character Comedy Absurdist Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Jack · Tracy: Jack: 'I don't want to die alone. And now, I don't have to. Because... I'm in love with my mother's nurse.' / Tracy: 'Now you have what me and Angie have. Minus the hypertension.'
Jack Tracy Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Liz: Liz: 'Ew, my God.' — reaction to Jack's testicle disclosure
Liz Reaction Beat Character Comedy Jack: Jack: 'Lemon, have you ever had a piragua? It's exactly like a snow-cone, except they call it a piragua.'
Jack Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Liz: Doctor's office calls with results; Liz takes the call at Jack's request. 'The test was positive.' Pause. 'No, no, no, no, no. I mean positive like it's good. The test results were negative.'
Liz Setup/Punchline Misdirection Elisa: Elisa: 'Oh, I see your confusion! That is funny!' — laughing at Jack's mortal terror over the positive/negative mix-up
Elisa Reaction Beat Character Comedy Liz: Liz's attempt to tell others the good news: 'Funny... Jack thought the test results were positive.' — and the non-reaction
Liz Reaction Beat Awkward Silence Kenneth: The TGS warm-up comic has OD'd at 'a gay man's apartment' and been replaced by someone rapping 'Top That' from Teen Witch
Kenneth Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Tracy: # Supersonic, idiotic, disconnected, not respected... / # Who would ever really want to go and top that... Top that...?
Tracy Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Announcer: 'Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Janet Jopler!' — the announcer introduces Jenna by the wrong name to protect rights
Jack · Jenna: Jack admits they don't have the music rights either, so Jenna is singing a song he wrote himself five minutes ago: '# Break another little chunk of my love now, mister?'
Elisa: Elisa watches Jenna sing the terrible knockoff song and says: 'Now, this, I like.'
Elisa Reaction Beat Character Comedy Liz: At the Brooklyn Bridge, Liz accidentally grabs another little person thinking it's Stuart: 'Oh, I'm so sorry! I thought he was someone else!'
Liz Running Gag Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Callback Stuart · Liz: Stuart appears. Liz sees him. 'Wait. Shut it down!' — Stuart calling off the romantic reunion because of what he just saw
Stuart Liz Setup/Punchline Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Jenna: Closing performance: Jenna sings 'Chunk of my lung... chunk of my lung... take a big old chunk of my lung now, baby'
Jenna Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback