Jack tries to protect his job and the company when Devin returns to seek revenge; Tracy and Jenna try to make Liz's life miserable; Kenneth volunteers at an animal shelter.
Four-minute cold open escalates from office mishap to absurdist chaos.
Directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller · Written by Robert Carlock
WAR
99.9
Wins Above Replacement
“Into The Crevasse” ranks #24 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 89.6 — Elite. The episode packs 76 scored jokes at 3.2 per minute, averaging 7.5 on craft and 7.2 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
Kenneth: and as my mom's friend ron would say, 'the donkey died. you're the donkey now, kenneth. just another animal. might as well be a rat. an adorable rat, who shows you it's okay to be scared during a thunderstorm.'
Kenneth Dark/Subversive Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Kenneth: oh, no, this big brother isn't affiliated with the mentoring program. it's an organization that secretly watches people and makes sure they're behaving properly.
Kenneth Misdirection Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jack: lemon numbers among my employees.
Jack Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: well, that's not gonna work for me, because jenna is immune to whisky, and tracy is afraid of juice.
Liz Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: i never even had a dog, 'cause, as my mom would say, you can't eat love.
Kenneth Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 76 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Liz: i wrote that! i'm liz lemon.
Liz · Mike: if your man is over 30, and still wears a nametag to work, that's a dealbreaker. but not you, mike. that's not you. mike, leave my cutout alone.
Liz Mike Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Liz: okay, you know, i'm gonna do the same thing to your cutout. oh, wait, you don't have one, because you're nobody.
Liz Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Liz: blam-o! another successful interaction with a man!
Liz Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: i'll be sure to go see fonzie's jacket. you sit on it as well.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy Liz: hey, if you're going to d.c., i lost my retainer there during a junior high field trip.
Liz Character Comedy Absurdist Callback Jack: lemon numbers among my employees.
Jack Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: and now, your president-who, by the way, is kenyan and smokes cigarettes
Jack Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Unknown singer: and she told her daddy she was doin' the microwave / do the microwave
Jack Meta/Self-Referential Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Jack: and catch the afternoon bus back to chinatown.
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist Liz: i took it out to eat astronaut ice cream at the air and space museum.
Liz Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Callback Frank · Liz: last weekend, i picked up this girl after practicing jedi moves in prospect park. also a dealbreaker. i took her back to my house on the handlebars of my bike. as is that. snuck her inside, past my mom. wow, that's four.
Frank Liz Escalation Running Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Frank: also, my girlfriend is mad. in canada.
Frank Character Comedy Absurdist Liz: really? i did big sister in college. that little girl taught me how to use tampons.
Liz Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: oh, no, this big brother isn't affiliated with the mentoring program. it's an organization that secretly watches people and makes sure they're behaving properly.
Kenneth Misdirection Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jenna: this is actually a werewolf picture that, for tax reasons, is shooting in iceland.
Jenna Absurdist Character Comedy Jenna: i play a moon scientist who's trying to get to the bottom of things, and who-spoiler alert-may herself be a werewolf.
Jenna Absurdist Character Comedy Jenna: i've just always wanted to shoot a student werewolf movie in iceland, where i'm filling in last-minute for victoria beckham.
Tracy: liz lemon! you booger face! i'm gonna kill you with a bazooka!
Tracy Escalation Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: a book hasn't caused me this much trouble since where's waldo went to that barber pole factory.
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jonathan: let's hit the meadowlands racetrack on the way home. i've got a betting system based on horse penis size.
Jack: yes, and no. yes, that did happen. no, it didn't not happen.
Jack Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: when silly willy's fee was amortized over all birthdays companywide-
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jonathan: yes, but i have a system.
Jonathan Callback Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Jack · Banks: why do you have a gavel? this isn't the congress. i brought it from home.
Tracy: so instead of going to a hotel, or my houseboat, which i cannot find, i'm staying with the woman that started this problem in the first place.
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy Tracy: oh, yeah, there's a garbage bag in the hallway with a reef shark in it. just put him in the tub with a reef.
Tracy Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Kenneth: i never even had a dog, 'cause, as my mom would say, you can't eat love.
Kenneth Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: and as my mom's friend ron would say, 'the donkey died. you're the donkey now, kenneth. just another animal. might as well be a rat. an adorable rat, who shows you it's okay to be scared during a thunderstorm.'
Kenneth Dark/Subversive Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Banks: you know, revenge is a dish best served cold, jack. like...sashimi. or pizza.
Banks Character Comedy Misdirection Banks · Jack: you prefer cold pizza? the morning after, it's the best. better than hot pizza? that's insane. you don't tell me what kind of pizza to like.
Banks: oh, my god, malia, he did not say that! let's text him now.
Banks Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Banks: even to the world's gayest country, ireland.
Banks Absurdist Character Comedy Banks: by the time i'm done, you're gonna make aig look like the lehman brothers of microwaves.
Banks Absurdist Wordplay/Pun Jack: think of the pensions, the employees, the kittens we use to test microwave strength.
Jack Escalation Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jack: donaghy saves g.e., marries your mom.
Jack Character Comedy Escalation Jack Absurdist Physical/Slapstick Tracy: tracy and liz's residence. tracy speaking.
Tracy Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Jenna: well, iceland appears to have a different sun than america, because this one is not setting.
Jenna Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jenna: and you probably don't know this, because you've never played a moonologist
Jenna Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Liz · Jenna: yes, i remember that from the thriller video. too soon.
Jenna: i'm told tomorrow night we may get as much as a minute of darkness.
Jenna Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: if it could be programmed to ask you about your day? before you answer, consider your loneliness.
Jack Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: no, i don't. i don't even know why you brought that thing.
Liz Lemon: no, i don't.i don't even know why you brought that thing.
Tracy: if your man owns a diamond necklace that says open marriage, that's a dealbreaker!
Tracy Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Liz: all you can do is turn the heat up, pour some whisky in their juice, and wait for sleep to save you.
Liz Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: well, that's not gonna work for me, because jenna is immune to whisky, and tracy is afraid of juice.
Liz Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Unknown writer: what if microwaves broke down more easily, so people would have to buy new ones more often?
Pete: wow, that sounds exactly like the philosophy that almost destroyed the u.s. auto industry.
Pete Irony/Sarcasm Observational Jack: this isn't the auto industry, pete. the auto industry was run by a bunch of out-of-touch white guys selling consumers a product they didn't want. we're g.e., damn it.
Jack Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: for...get it. four smaller doors.
Jack Wordplay/Pun Absurdist Jenna: the right! you hait in the rit.
Jenna Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Jack: she doesn't like to refill the brita. i will cut the baby in half. and i will take the top half. for this is the part with the face.
Jack Escalation Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack Donaghy: and i will take the top half.for this is the part with the face.
Jack: so fighting every natural instinct, doing the thing that seemed most awful to me, i climbed down into the darkness.
Jack Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Jack: cone chung, you did the right thing. thank you.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy Jenna: i have mercury poisoning from obsessively taking my rectal temperature.
Jenna Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: okay, it's a car. we've invented the pontiac aztec.
Jack Irony/Sarcasm Callback Callback Jack Donaghy: okay, it's a car.we've invented the pontiac aztec.
Tracy: the curious case of benjamin butt.
Tracy Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Liz · Tracy: i'ma do us? what does that even mean? that's a pun on amadeus, dummy.
Tracy: until you're adequately debased, you will subsidize my predilection for erotica.
Tracy Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Tracy: oh, yeah, and i used your credit card to buy a vocabulary course from the teaching company.
Tracy Callback Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Liz: tracy is producing a porno based on my life. and i'm writing it.
Liz Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack · Jonathan: not with a bang, but with a whimper. a whimper indeed, jack.
Jack: i'll have you know that barry diller and i are working on a whole new approach to media, combining digital technology with god!
Jack Donaghy · Banks: but if you had forced me to take government bailout money, you'd be my boss. oh, my.
Jack: your hands sticky from candy.
Jack Character Comedy Escalation Banks · Jack: i'm honestly not trying to make this sound gay. no one is. it's just happening.
Banks Jack Meta/Self-Referential Awkward Silence ★ Rewatch Liz: jenna...you're my friend. no matter what. i will always look after you. that's not going to change.
Liz Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Jenna: oh, liz, thank you for giving me the hotter porn lady.
Jenna Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Liz: my retainer. now my dad won't be mad at me.
Liz Callback Character Comedy Callback Tracy: and cut. this is disgusting. shut it down.
Tracy Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz Lemon: and cut.this is disgusting.shut it down.