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
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Wins Above Replacement
“Señor Macho Solo” ranks #103 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 82.2 — Elite. The episode packs 68 scored jokes at 3.0 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 6.8 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: 'Without getting into specifics, my exit involves a McFlurry machine and a videotape of risqué commercials from overseas'
Jack Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy: 'She's done it before, Jack'
Tracy Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Jenna: 'You're going baby crazy and I keep getting turned on by car accidents'
Jenna Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: 'When I'm on my death bed, Frenching my wife, I will think of you'
Tracy Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Angie: 'I'm going to watch you die, Tracy Jordan'
Angie Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 68 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Liz: 'Hey, Max! Is this your baby sister? What a cute, little girl!'
Liz Setup/Punchline Cringe/Discomfort Liz: 'Or boy, if you grow up and feel that's what's inside you'
Liz Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: 'O-M-G-, Liz. Look at you and me and our biological clocks'
Jenna: 'You're going baby crazy and I keep getting turned on by car accidents'
Jenna Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: 'It isn't stealing if it fell on the ground'
Liz Character Comedy Absurdist Jack: 'When she's in a foul mood, it can be horribly unpleasant. But, at other times, she is asleep'
Jack Setup/Punchline Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch 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 Mrs. Donaghy: 'Jack?! Somebody's got to dry me off!'
Jack: 'Well, you bought three hours of network prime time for your salute to Benny Hill'
Jack Observational Absurdist Tracy: 'I have to spend it all on useless things, like gold shoes and Grizz and Dotcom'
Tracy Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ 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 Observational Tracy: 'I'll bring Angie in. But I'm going to tell her this is all your idea'
Tracy Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Liz: 'Don't help me! I'm too proud'
Liz Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Liz: 'I had to do something to get your attention'
Liz Callback Cringe/Discomfort Callback Jenna: 'Howdy, Jack! It's me, Janis Joplin! 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'
Jenna Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: 'It's like how we're including a Heroes DVD with every missile guidance system we sell'
Jack Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Jenna: 'Whoa! What is that iron bird? They had airplanes in the '60s, Jenna. Oh, right'
Jenna Character Comedy Absurdist Liz: 'It must be like working in the Galactic Senate in Star Wars'
Liz Observational Character Comedy Stuart: 'We are also very concerned about the growing influence of the Sith Lords'
Stuart Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Liz: 'Only insofar as we met because I touched his head thinking he was a child'
Liz Callback Cringe/Discomfort Callback Liz: '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?'
Jenna Liz Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: 'Or any female of equivalent thickness'
Jack Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Angie: 'I'm going to watch you die, Tracy Jordan'
Angie Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Tracy: 'She's done it before, Jack'
Tracy Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Jack: 'Nice dress. Are you going to dinner? Don't forget your book'
Jack Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Stuart: 'Under the bridge'
Stuart Absurdist Character Comedy Jack: 'The U.N.? They still have that? I could have sworn they turned that building into a Barnes and Noble'
Jack Observational Character Comedy Stuart: 'Have you learned how to say Do you want fries with that in Chinese?'
Stuart Setup/Punchline Observational Jack: 'Senior V.P. for Television and Microwave Oven Programming'
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Stuart: 'U.N. High Commission on Water Temperature and Food Taint'
Liz: 'Yeah, you know me. Spend my lunch hour walking up and down Sixth Avenue... looking for a hot meal'
Liz Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Jack: 'Classic Lemon man-eater. Cat sound'
Jack Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Tracy: 'When I'm on my death bed, Frenching my wife, I will think of you'
Tracy Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch News Anchor: 'Julia Roberts has agreed to play the tragic singer... Billy in a film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by the best screenwriter in the world. Whoever that is'
Elisa: 'She fought me at first. But I find that authoritative, rapid Spanish subdues white people'
Elisa Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Elisa: 'My nephew just joined the Marines to try to pay for college, but... that's fun'
Elisa Dark/Subversive Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jack: 'Without getting into specifics, my exit involves a McFlurry machine and a videotape of risqué commercials from overseas'
Jack Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Elisa: 'Except that in Puerto Rico, a McFlurry is called a Señor Flurry'
Elisa Wordplay/Pun Absurdist Stuart: 'Are you trying to pick me up to keep me from touching fire?'
Stuart Callback Absurdist Callback Stuart: 'Kofi said you were too good to be true. Not ah told me to wait three days before I called you'
Stuart Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Liz: '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'
Liz Character Comedy Absurdist Jack: 'I have something on my ball'
Jack Wordplay/Pun Visual Gag Jack: I have something on my ball.
Elisa: 'I didn't know Michael Bublé had that many albums'
Elisa Character Comedy Observational Elisa: 'You forgot to put on your underpants'
Elisa Physical/Slapstick Cringe/Discomfort Jack: 'You should work for The Huffington Post'
Jack Observational Meta/Self-Referential Elisa: 'Don't try to be Señor Macho Solo'
Elisa Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Elisa: 'Which is actually what we call a McRib sandwich'
Elisa Callback Absurdist Callback Elisa: Which is actually what we call a 'McRib' sandwich.
Elisa Callback Absurdist Callback Jenna: 'Why? Do you want to get married? I'll do it'
Jenna Character Comedy Absurdist Jack: 'Yes, I'm talking. Uh, no, we do not have the music'
Jack Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Liz: 'Socially inept and baby crazy. I feel like I'm in a beer commercial'
Stuart: Socially inept and baby crazy. I feel like I'm in a beer commercial.
Stuart: 'Once again, Liz, I am an adult man'
Stuart Callback Deadpan/Understatement Callback Stuart: 'Because I'd like-a to make-a the prank phone call'
Stuart Character Comedy Absurdist Jack: 'I brought a '65 Moët and some Pizza-Blasted Pringles'
Jack Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Elisa: Oh. You were not being rude. You were just being stupid.
Elisa Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: 'Why are they smiling so much? Who's being ostracized?'
Jack Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Jenna: 'A Blaffair to Rememblack'
Jenna Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Jenna: 'Surround yourself with people and love and babies with pierced ears'
Jenna Character Comedy Absurdist Jack: 'It's exactly like a snow-cone, except they call it a piragua'
Jack Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: 'The test results were negative. Oh, I see your confusion! That is funny!'
Kenneth: 'Once again, I apologize that our regular warm-up comic O.D.'d at a gay man's apartment this morning'
Kenneth Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jack: 'Can two people fall in love over a benign gonad cyst?'
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Announcer: 'Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Janet Jopler!'
Jack: 'Also, uh, we didn't get the song. I wrote this myself five minutes ago'
Jack Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Liz: 'Oh, I'm so sorry! I thought he was someone else!'
Liz Callback Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Callback