Jack tries to squash the burgeoning relationship between Liz and Danny. Tracy asks Sue to be in his entourage. Jenna tries out for Gossip Girl.
Season 4's densest episode: 63 jokes in 22 minutes, led by character escalation.
Directed by Don Scardino · Written by Steve Hely
WAR
65.2
Wins Above Replacement
“Black Light Attack!” ranks #96 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 82.8 — Elite. The episode packs 63 scored jokes at 2.8 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 6.9 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
Liz: tom selleck.he's my moustache.
Liz Visual Gag Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy · Kenneth: not for a billion doll hairs. i'm sorry.Did you say 'doll hairs'? yeah, they're not worth nothing.
Jenna: the nagano olympics. microsoft windows '95. but i'm 41 now.time to die.
Jenna Absurdist Escalation Callback Jack: oh, mr.Donaghy.i forgot to give you the factory worker death rates.
Jack Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: if you come out as your real age,i will reveal my friend tom.
Liz Setup/Punchline Misdirection ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 63 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Kenneth: hey, kenneth, why aren't your teeth glowing in the black light? you'll have to ask the fella who whittled 'em for me.
Kenneth Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Danny: A month ago i was doing a robot act on the street, so i know my place. i want to be tgs' steve nash. come down from canada, work hard, make the black guy look good.
Danny Observational Dark/Subversive Danny: look at me in the black light.it's tron. watch out, sark.It's me, flynn. light bike.
Danny Visual Gag Observational Liz: Robot lorenzo lamas was funny. as was robot ryan seacrest and david hasselbot.
Liz Wordplay/Pun Observational Liz: it's not what you think! it's something i need to wear to support my breasts!
Liz Cringe/Discomfort Misdirection Jack: lemon, i have season tickets to every sports team in new york. so close to the action, you'll feellike you're sitting in front of an hd television
Jack Irony/Sarcasm Observational ★ Rewatch Liz: but my biggest problem with quiddich is, if the snitch is 150 points, why does anyone bother with the quaffle?
Liz Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: hey, jeter! Are you jealous?i'm with my new boyfriend!
Liz Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Liz: that girl has a name, jack.we call her 'skankovitch.'
Liz Wordplay/Pun Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jack: oh, mr.Donaghy.i forgot to give you the factory worker death rates.
Jack Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: and you take your reward. you take your reward.
Jack Cringe/Discomfort Escalation Liz · Jack: how drunk are you? a lot to very.
Liz Jack Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Jack: is it the body paint or is danny just glowinglike a beacon of manly camaraderie?
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist Jenna · Liz: liz, i can't do girls'lunch today. we've never done that.
Jenna: i play tartine gramercy, an heiress to a vermouth fortune and a freshman at nyu.
Jenna Absurdist Character Comedy Liz · Jenna: it's interesting that they highlighted the mother's lines. well, that's so i'll know what part not to read.
Liz: oh, pete, that's later.maybe we'll be dead by then.
Liz Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement Tracy: what?It's true.she does look like one of those.
Tracy Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Tracy: even you foreigners.
Tracy Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Tracy: 10:00 a.m.dotcom shows up pictures From his trip to greece. i think i'm gonna go ahead and cancel that.
Tracy Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Sue: i like to go to tasti dlite. pinkberry?
Sue Character Comedy Escalation Sue: oh, come on, you hoser!hoser!
Sue Character Comedy Escalation Jack: hey, is it that chick lawyer who does the sexual harassment presentation? because she's asking for it.
Jack Irony/Sarcasm Dark/Subversive Danny: even though the reason is she's never let a man see her feet.
Danny Absurdist Cringe/Discomfort Danny: mostly we just kiss and then she makes mego down to the deli to get her a sandwich.
Danny Misdirection Character Comedy Danny: they're called spanx.
Danny Misdirection Character Comedy Jenna: what do you mean?I'm not playing the mo
Jenna Cringe/Discomfort Escalation Jack Callback Visual Gag Callback Danny: hey, liz.i just want to show you this new iphone app. you shake it and it soundslike an empty can.
Danny Absurdist Observational Liz: my favorite apps are the ones before my entree.
Liz Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Jack: what did he do to the back of your knees?
Jack Cringe/Discomfort Dark/Subversive Tracy: hey, watch your mouth!She's only 34 years old!
Tracy Misdirection Character Comedy Tracy: when they were little, i threw them in the deep end of our pool to help them get over their fearof sharks.
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: the mother. they wanted me to play the...mother.
Jenna Cringe/Discomfort Reaction Beat Callback Jenna: would a mother be planning a sex tour of vietnam this spring?
Jenna Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: but those were my majors at the royal tampa academy of dramatic tricks.
Jenna Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: you can be like Madonna and cling to youth with your gollum arms
Liz Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Liz: Mmm, no.That won't be necessary...officer.
Liz Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Jenna · Liz: this is so tandem. 'random,' jenna.Those kids are saying the word'random.'
Jenna: hang on.i'm just tweeting that i ran into you. this is so tandem.
Jenna Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Frank: they use it in japan to keep kids from loitering outside of convenience stores.
Frank Observational Absurdist Cerie: oh!My ears are, like, dying.Facebook!
Frank · Jack: i also have this lowfrequency tonethat can only be heard by people over 40. have you started playing it yet?
Frank Jack Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Callback Jack: this is from danny's chips costume.what is it doing here?
Jack Setup/Punchline Visual Gag Danny: this badge is a symbol of dignity, honor, and dramatized 1970s interethnic california daytime motorcycle highway justice.
Danny Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Jack: with their untucked shirts, boneless faces, their stars, both wars and trek.
Jack Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Jack: little scrump nugget.
Jack Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Sue: i'll never be like you!
Sue Cringe/Discomfort Escalation Sue · Tracy: Can't make me stay here! you are a part of this entourage. i didn't ask to bein this entourage! look!I know you didn't mean that. i do mean it.I'm not like you! i'll never be like you!
Sue Tracy Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Danny: she has really thin lips, but she makes upFor it with tongue girth.
Danny Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy TV Doctor: Our latest information on women's sexuality finds female libido does tend to peak in those years just beforeperimenopause In what scientists and doctors like myselfare calling their dirty 30s.
Liz: i guess i'm gettinga second wind here at the tail endof my dirty 30s.
Liz Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Liz: i wrote it last night...late. the shirt should be... Filthier.
Liz Cringe/Discomfort Escalation Jack: if you were a man, you would have to register yourself as a sex criminal.
Jack Dark/Subversive Escalation Jenna: pretending i wasn't fourth runnerup at the miss teen bicentennial pageant.
Jenna Character Comedy Absurdist Liz: if you come out as your real age,i will reveal my friend tom.
Liz Setup/Punchline Misdirection ★ Rewatch Liz: tom selleck.he's my moustache.
Liz Visual Gag Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jenna: All my 'aha' moments end with a moustache pressed against me.
Jenna Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy · Kenneth: not for a billion doll hairs. i'm sorry.Did you say 'doll hairs'? yeah, they're not worth nothing.
Jack: i'm entranced by those mudcolored eyes, Set back in... that skin.
Jack Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Jack: that splayfooted walk.
Jack Character Comedy Escalation Jenna: the nagano olympics. microsoft windows '95. but i'm 41 now.time to die.
Jenna Absurdist Escalation Callback Jack: It started out as a joke, but it's becoming real.
Jack Character Comedy Escalation 