Jack becomes even more entangled in his love triangle between Avery Jessup and Nancy Donovan, and he turns for advice to Liz, who is focusing on her own romantic problems. When Liz can't find a date to Floyd's wedding, she revisits her old boyfriends in hope that a spark will reignite. Meanwhile, Tracy continues his journey to earn his egot.
Escalation-driven season finale hits 90.4 with 2.62 jokes per minute across 63 gags.
Directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller · Written by Matt Hubbard
WAR
160.6
Wins Above Replacement
“Emanuelle Goes To Dinosaur Land” ranks #9 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 100.0 — Elite. The episode packs 88 scored jokes at 3.7 per minute, averaging 7.9 on craft and 7.7 on impact, with Tracy landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Tracy: A pack of wild dogs took over and successfully ran a Wendy's!
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy: I once saw a baby give another baby a tattoo. They were very drunk!
Tracy Absurdist Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Drew: There's this strangler who's about to be executed, and I've got my hooks crossed.
Drew Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy: Our basketball hoop was a ribcage. A ribcage!
Tracy Absurdist Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: A homeless man cooking a Hot Pocket on the third rail of the G train. The G train, Nermal!
Tracy Dark/Subversive Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback All Jokes — 88 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Jack: I didn't realize we were still airing that. Cramer's been dead for six months.
Jack Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive Jack: The Astors, the Rockefellers, the Sbarros...
Jack Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Avery: You think I don't want to know what Pizzarina Sbarro is going to be wearing?
Avery Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Avery: I'm on Dodecacil, the pill where you only get your period once a year. We're so close to beating that thing completely.
Avery Absurdist Character Comedy Avery: It's not really a spa. It's more of a fenced-in area in the Adirondacks.
Avery Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Avery: 'Aloha' means hello and goodbye. So, aloha.
Avery Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Avery · Jack: What's that supposed to mean, you dumb douche? Oh, it's starting. I should go.
Jenna: I'm going to be in Spanx for 12 hours. My elastic line is going to get infected again.
Jenna Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Liz: If I have to sit through that alone, I will rent a car, set it on fire, and drive it off a waterfall.
Liz Character Comedy Escalation Jenna: I could set you up with my trainer. He's gay. But not when he's drunk.
Jenna Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Jenna: Sexual time travel, just like my Cinemax softcore Emmanuelle Goes to Dinosaur Land.
Jenna Absurdist Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Jenna: Meet me in the handicapped stall in 10 seconds.
Jenna Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Drew: I saw this gorgeous woman putting glasses on her daughter's Mrs. Potato Head. The why is not important.
Drew Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Drew: What goes good with second chances? Oh, water. I'd like water.
Drew Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Drew: Oh, my hooks. I'm just so comfortable with them that I... [destroys painting]
Drew Physical/Slapstick Misdirection ★ Rewatch Drew: I was helicoptering into Zimbabwe, when I thought I saw somebody that I knew. So I waved from the helicopter, which, it turns out, is a big no-no. And the rotor took my right hand clean off.
Drew Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Drew · Liz: And it turns out the person I was waving to was not my old football coach. Of course not. You were in Zimbabwe.
Drew Liz Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Callback Drew: To celebrate my return from Africa, my cousin and I bought a bunch of fireworks. [loses other hand]
Drew Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Drew: There's this strangler who's about to be executed, and I've got my hooks crossed.
Drew Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Drew · Liz: Ow, it's hot. Yeah, of course it's hot. It's been in the oven. Now, who's the dumb one?
Drew Liz Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy: Feline Groovy? It's a pun. Because cats' paws have grooves.
Tracy Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Tracy: They're paying me exactly one million teachers' salaries.
Tracy Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Dot Com: Go for the 'O' in your EGOT.
Dot Com Running Gag Character Comedy Callback Dot Com: Hard to Watch based on the book Stone Cold Bummer by Manipulate.
Dot Com Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dot Com: You say things like 'You don't know my pain,' and 'You watch your mouth, Tyrese,' and, in a less dramatic scene, 'I'll have hash browns.'
Dot Com Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Tracy: It's either this or I submit that animated film I drew about the Holocaust.
Tracy Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: Nancy and Avery almost ran into each other at the elevator.
Jack Cringe/Discomfort Escalation Jack: I've prepared a very unromantic evening. First, we're going to see a documentary about female circumcision, and then we're going to eat too much Indian food.
Jack Character Comedy Escalation Liz: Sometimes, the right thing and the hard thing are the same thing. I read that on a teabag.
Liz Setup/Punchline Meta/Self-Referential Liz · Jack: You know what? Sometimes, I think... That's great. 'You know what? Sometimes, I think...' That's really annoying. I'm going to use that.
Liz Jack Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz Reaction Beat Character Comedy Callback Tracy: I remember being born, of course. I remember learning how to ride a bike. But that was last year.
Tracy Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy: I remember the summer my Webelos group went camping, and we were taken by the Hill People. Next thing I knew, summer was over and it was time for back to school shopping.
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Tracy: No, I don't. I was on a yacht with the Roots last week.
Tracy Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dennis · Jose: Hey, Liz. Do you want to be a millionaire, hm? Mr. Dennis? No, no, no, Jose. Only babies out here. Don't you want to be a big boy? Ow!
Liz · Dennis: Wait, are you planning to 'balloon boy' him? What was the one mistake those people in Denver made? One mistake? Yeah, there was no kid in the balloon.
Liz: This is a public park named after Ron Artest.
Liz Deadpan/Understatement Observational Dennis: Yah, and like Jose, Ron dreamed of glory.
Dennis Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Callback Dennis: Hey, Liz. You'll be back! [as she leaves] Hey, what's going on, huh? What's your deal? Lesbian.
Dennis Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Nancy: Way better than the Indian joint I go to in Boston. O'Doyle's.
Nancy Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: You know what I like after too much curry? A warm glass of milk and some John Philip Sousa marches.
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist Jack: Come on, you sound like me at the Olympic Village.
Jack Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Liz: Maybe I'll just lean into it and bring a cat in a baby stroller.
Liz Character Comedy Absurdist Jack: He's told me his name, like, a million times, but I keep forgetting it. It's Wesley.
Jack Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Liz: Liz's immediate scream of 'No!' upon hearing Wesley's name / seeing him.
Liz Reaction Beat Running Gag Wesley: Of course I do. Excellent pantomime is supposed to look idiotic.
Wesley Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Wesley: Liz, I'm going to guess that the last two months have been a lot of singles' events in gymnasia...
Wesley Character Comedy Observational Wesley: The only thing wrong with me is that you hate me. So with that as my only defect, where do I rank with all the other men that you've been with?
Wesley Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Nancy: Worms can do it with any other worm.
Nancy Character Comedy Absurdist Nancy · Jack: Besides my ex-husband, you're the only other man I've slept with. Two men? That can't be true.
Nancy: After my divorce, I went out with my girlfriends, and I danced with a guy. Also, it was after midnight on a Saturday. So technically, it was a Sunday. A man had his hands on my hips on a day that was set aside for the Lord.
Nancy Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Escalation ★ Rewatch Jack: Man, Catholic guilt. Am I right? Those nuns really messed me up. [Beat] Not me.
Jack Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Dot Com · Grizz: Because someone didn't come up here to scout the location first. Because someone else didn't sign off on the transportation budget. I never check that Earthlink account.
Tracy: I slept on an old dog bed stuffed with wigs.
Tracy Absurdist Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: I watched a prostitute stab a clown.
Tracy Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy: Our basketball hoop was a ribcage. A ribcage!
Tracy Absurdist Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: Some guy with dreads electrocuted my fish!
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy Tracy: I hate pain! I'm doing Garfield Three!
Tracy Character Comedy Running Gag Callback Tracy: And as soon as I make some copies of my passport, I'm never coming back here!
Tracy Character Comedy Absurdist Jack: She put on red underwear. You would think it would clash with her hair. But it didn't.
Jack Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Jack: Avery is cool, collected, descended from Swedish valley people. Nancy is a fiery, Irish nut job, descended from bog people.
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Jack · Liz: Floyd's wedding is at a Catholic church? Are they having a Mass? He converted for her. Meanwhile, when we were dating, and I wanted to check out that Unitarian church... Good talk, Lemon. Mm-hmm.
Jack Liz Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Wesley: See how we help each other? I accompany you to Floyd's wedding. I hold your purse. This was meant to be. We're like Russ and Rebecca on Chums.
Wesley Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Wesley: I lost my job two days ago, and am now facing a little residency issue.
Wesley Escalation Character Comedy Wesley: I can't suffer through the London Olympics. We're not prepared, Liz. Did you see the Beijing opening ceremonies? We don't have control over our people like that.
Wesley Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Wesley: Wesley sings a Chums theme song: '♪ I'll be here always / ♪ While the rains fall on whales'
Wesley Absurdist Character Comedy Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy: Garfield effects test. Take one. And Act! Nermal, I hate you, Nermal! Almost as much as I hate Mondays! This is my lasagna! You hear me, Nermal? My lasagna!
Tracy Character Comedy Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy: A crack-head breastfeeding a rat.
Tracy Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy: A homeless man cooking a Hot Pocket on the third rail of the G train. The G train, Nermal!
Tracy Dark/Subversive Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy: Feline Groovy can't tell my story, then I will win my Oscar elsewhere. Or I'll die trying.
Tracy Character Comedy Escalation Director/Shawn: Okay, so are you not doing this movie? Because that suit was made special! For your weird body!
Liz: Excuse me, do you have a job? And are you here with someone?
Liz Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Liz: My name is Liz. I almost got 1200 on my S.A.T.s. And I need a date for this wedding. And I like your head shape.
Liz Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Mike · Liz: Now may I tell you something? I'm a plushie. Is that a fraternity? Kind of. It means I belong to a group of like-minded people who dress up in mascot costumes. And have orgies in hotel rooms and state parks.
Mike Liz Setup/Punchline Misdirection Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Mike · Liz: Our term for intercourse is 'yiffing'. Would you excuse me, please?
Mike Liz Cringe/Discomfort Setup/Punchline Callback Liz · Wesley: Okay, fine. Let's get married. Oh, yeah.
Liz Wesley Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jack · Nancy: Nothing like being in church, having spent the night doing a bunch of bad crap. Am I right? Yes.
Jack: You can't leave, Donovan. We're in the middle of Mass. You and I both know you have to stay until the final blessing.
Jack Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jack · Liz: Stall? [reading unscheduled Bible passages to keep Nancy in the church]
Jack Liz Reaction Beat Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Callback Liz: 'But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. So whenever he lay with his brother's wife, he spilled his semen on the ground.' Sorry. 'Then, Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin.'
Liz Dark/Subversive Cringe/Discomfort Escalation ★ Rewatch Liz: Oh come on, Bible. Help a lady out.
Liz Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Tracy: I seen a blind guy bite a police horse! A puppy committed suicide after he saw our bathroom!
Tracy Absurdist Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy: I once bit into a Merino and there was a child's shoe in it!
Tracy Absurdist Dark/Subversive Callback Tracy: I seen a hooker eat a tire!
Tracy Absurdist Dark/Subversive Callback Tracy: A pack of wild dogs took over and successfully ran a Wendy's!
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy: The sewer people stole my skateboard!
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy Callback Tracy: The projects I lived in was named after Zachary Taylor, generally considered to be one of the worst presidents of all time!
Tracy Observational Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Callback Tracy: I once saw a baby give another baby a tattoo. They were very drunk!
Tracy Absurdist Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback 