Following a wild New Year's Eve, Jack has to try to repair the damage he did after leaving a drunken message on an ex's voicemail. Meanwhile, Jenna tries to get into a relationship with James Franco in order to cover up his secret; and Liz, after accidentally "outing" her cousin to his family, welcomes him to New York City; and Tracy finds new respect for women.
Absurdist escalation reaches 90+ with 2.94 jokes-per-minute—30 Rock's densest sustained assault.
Directed by Gail Mancuso · Written by Robert Carlock
WAR
82.5
Wins Above Replacement
“Klaus And Greta” ranks #19 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 90.1 — Elite. The episode packs 62 scored jokes at 2.9 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
Randy: the local tv station edited will & grace down so much that it was just called karen.
Randy Observational ★ Rewatch Jenna: the gossip blogs are calling us "james." it's a combination of jenna and james.
Jenna Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy · Virginia: virginia? but that's gonna be my daughter's name. are you also someone's daughter? uh,yeah. is every woman someone's daughter?
Tracy: so we gonna name her either virginia,netjet,or bathroom at teterboro airport.
Tracy Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: i know it's a girl,liz lemon,because i yelled "susan b.anthony" at the moment of conception.
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 62 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Jack: the wine turned out to be quite toxic.
Jack Deadpan/Understatement Misdirection ★ Rewatch Jack: my guests and i spent the stroke of midnight in my garden. vomiting.
Jack Escalation Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jack: the whole night the purging,the new year, the vivid hallucinations of astarte the phoenician goddess of sex and war it all wiped the slate clean.
Jack Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz · Family members: randy's gay,everybody! he's gay. i think everyone knew. finally!
Tracy · Liz: over the break,i forgot what floor i worked on. six,tracy. six! i knew it was a character from blossom,but i couldn't find the joey russo button.
Tracy Liz Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch James Franco's manager: my client,james franco,he's actively looking for a relationship with a human woman to dispel certain unsavory rumors.
Jenna: does chewing on a sponge trick your brain's hunger center? yes! yes!a million times yes!
Jenna Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jenna: can you believe they went to me before ayiiia from the real world: cancun?
Jenna Character Comedy Observational Jenna: too late! wait,which way did you mean that?
Kenneth · Kenneth: no,no,no,no. okay,but i was gonna describe it real good.
Kenneth: as you know,on new year's,i finally met my birth parents. so. thank you for asking about that!
Kenneth Awkward Silence Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: damn that phoenician wine!
Jack Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Jack: which is the third best sex after elevator and white house.
Jack Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Jack: good lord,i've lemoned the situation with nancy!
Jack Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz · Cerie: "lemoned"? that's not a thing people are saying now,is it? cerie? lemoned. doing it awesome.
James Franco: this movie will never be released because my performance will be deemed "too provocative for america." oh,i wish i lived in france.
James Franco: and because of a product placement deal with jamba juice,the fight will be in a jamba juice.
James Franco: neither am i,liz! which is why it's so weird the tabloids are running all these stories saying i'm in love with a body pillow.
James Franco: why? i mean,why is this table here? i mean,why is that lamp here? kimiko is it is here like any other object.
James Franco: objects are made by men and used for many purposes. but we never love objects.
Liz · Randy: nope.that's a serial killer. just get a cab.i'll pay for it. you have amish here?
Jack: i'm going to drive up to waltham,massachusetts,break into a woman's home, and erase a potentially embarrassing and destructive answering machine message. the home in questions has a doggy door. that will be our way in.
Jack Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: prove that you are lithe enough to accompany me to waltham.
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy: i know it's a girl,liz lemon,because i yelled "susan b.anthony" at the moment of conception.
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: so we gonna name her either virginia,netjet,or bathroom at teterboro airport.
Tracy Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: the gossip blogs are calling us "james." it's a combination of jenna and james.
Jenna Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: having ice cold diarrhea from drinking too much jamba juice it's everything i ever wanted.
Jenna Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Kenneth: that happens sometimes when i unhinge my pelvis.
Kenneth Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack · Kenneth: it'll be like the da vinci code. ehh albino monk! that's a mirror,kenneth.
Kenneth: i just took my picture with that little camera thing. kenneth! all right. i just need to erase that picture. whoops,i just made it the desktop image.
Randy · Liz: that's where i'm meeting them later - a bar called "home butt." no,you're not.
Randy: the local tv station edited will & grace down so much that it was just called karen.
Randy Observational ★ Rewatch Jenna: your hand feels like a pillow that's been in the microwave.
Jenna Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: i thought it was a paparazzo,but it's just some loser taking a picture of his kid.
Jenna Character Comedy ★ Rewatch James Franco: kimiko taught me that.
Kenneth: if you type "nancy's secrets" into the internet,do you have any idea what comes up? a store that sells wig extensions.
Jack: he was eventually arrested by israeli commandos.
Jack Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: did you not learn your nation's airport codes in high school?
Jack Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: that's the most divorced sentence i've ever heard.
Kenneth Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: oh,my god,did you go out last night after i won the sleeping contest?
Liz Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz · Randy: is it gonna be fierce? it would be if it was 2006.
Liz: okay,i do appreciate the irony that i'm the one stuck in the closet now. is that irony? not really.
Liz Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack (as Klaus): sat behind you so i could talk to you and try to see the top of your underwear.
Jack (drunk background): ballard,don't let them put their tops back on.
Jack: but you are leaving through the doggy door.
Jack Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy: i like to take the shampoo and put it in the little travel size bottles. then i take the original bottle and put it back in the shower. for later.
Tracy Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Today Show host: if you want to save money on the trip,consider taking a sandwich.
Tracy: and before you worked here,were you an ass scientist? because your ass blah,blah,blah.you get the point.
Tracy Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy · Virginia: virginia? but that's gonna be my daughter's name. are you also someone's daughter? uh,yeah. is every woman someone's daughter?
Kenneth: they spell "klaus." your name in german class.
Kenneth Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Kenneth: you should buy a leather jacket!
Liz · Randy: stop so bored. did i do that right? yeah. that was super bitchy.
James Franco: unless kimiko's jealous of the ottoman. there's nothing going on there.that's a business relationship.
Jenna: don't lemon your life,james.
Jenna Callback ★ Rewatch Callback James Franco: and i'm in love with and common law married to a japanese body pillow!
Liz: randy,this is james franco and our friend kimiko tan.
Liz Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy: you have created an atmosphere of hostility and intolerance that everyone talks about all the time.
Tracy Character Comedy Escalation Grizz: since the phone call i interrupted to make this announcement?
Tracy: kenneth,your haircut is disrespectful to lesbians!
Dotcom: but george eliot was a woman.
Dotcom Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy · Grizz: to be comtinued..... really?
