As Jack tries to cozy up to the owner of Kabletown, Liz fakes being pregnant to help Avery gain advantage over a competitive colleague. Elsewhere, Tracy and Jenna clash when trying to share a gift from their new bosses.
88 jokes in 25 minutes hits 30 Rock's absurdist peak at 3.51 per minute.
Directed by John Riggi · Written by Matt Hubbard
WAR
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Wins Above Replacement
“¡Qué Sorpresa!” ranks #9 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 91.5 — Elite. The episode packs 88 scored jokes at 3.5 per minute, averaging 7.6 on craft and 7.1 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: Don Geiss gave me this watch for firing a man on his deathbed!
Jack Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: Isn't that just Easter?
Kenneth Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Michael Kors is a friend. We own a gay racehorse together. And I convinced him to make wizard cloaks fashionable for ladies this winter.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Release me, you hillbilly Circe!
Jack Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Jack: This is where we used to hold retirement parties. The balcony below is probably still littered with stripper bones.
Jack Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 88 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Jack: I said everyone, Sketch-Tron 6000.
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack · Tracy: Tracy, do not mention where you think dinosaurs come from. Do not mention the underwater city of Sauronicon...
Jenna: If you don't volumize my hair, I will choke you to death with your boyfriend's wig!
Jenna Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Jack · Frank: Frank, how is your armpit thing? Not great. It's almost touching my thigh thing.
Jack: Remember, everyone, just don't be yourselves.
Jack Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: Oh, do you need sex advice? Here's a tip. Sometimes a lady likes to leave her blazer on.
Liz Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Jenna: That's nice. Actors deserve gifts. Without us, who would present awards to actors?
Jenna Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Tracy: The box would make a perfect coffin for my Teddy Bear.
Tracy Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: You taking my nephew's virginity.
Tracy Dark/Subversive Escalation Jenna: I want you to selfishly take the best sweatshirt in the world.
Jenna Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jack: a tiny desk with a miniature pen set on it
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: I assumed Avery would have a terrifying best friend she'd do stuff like that with.
Liz Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Avery does have a sister, but Eugenia is currently institutionalized for nerves... Lesbian...
Jack Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Jack: Michael Kors is a friend. We own a gay racehorse together. And I convinced him to make wizard cloaks fashionable for ladies this winter.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: It's my fault for asking.
Liz Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Liz: Which is the premise of my one-act play The Seahorses of Warwickshire Abbey.
Liz Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Liz · Jack: Oh, I know her. Hey, what ethnicity is she? No one knows.
Liz Jack Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Callback Carmen: Mexican president Felipe Calderon is traveling this week to China to meet with premier Wen Jiabao, and then stopping for a well-deserved vacation in Negril, Jamaica, mon.
Carmen Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Liz Deadpan/Understatement Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Jack: And that's not racist because I don't know what she is.
Jack Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Jack · Liz: You can tell a lot about someone by their handshake. You are confident. And you ate dinner in front of a mirror last night.
Jack Liz Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Hank: I'm a hugger. No. Doesn't count as a hug unless it goes on for ten seconds.
Hank Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Hank: Or 'hey, idiot,' like my wife does. I'm kidding. She's an angel.
Hank Character Comedy Misdirection Hank: This is no longer the executive dining room. It's the Everyone dining room.
Hank Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: This is where we used to hold retirement parties. The balcony below is probably still littered with stripper bones.
Jack Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Hank: Do you know who came up with the idea for the DVR? It was the guy who drives me home every night. The original name for the DVR was 'The Thing Carlos Thought Of.'
Hank Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Hank: What is this green stuff? Wipe it off. Wipe it off!
Hank Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Carmen: I like pradort bag.
Carmen Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Carmen: I love their creepy little hands and the way they crawl fast, like a rat monster.
Carmen Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: Some dude jacked me, and now his sperm is growing in my stomach.
Liz Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Carmen: That's now how babies are made.
Carmen Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Carmen: So by the law of verbal traps, you have to do it.
Carmen Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Liz: even though all their advertising suggests it is a place for groups of friends to have a good time.
Liz Observational Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Tracy: Good sweatshirt to you. How are you sweatshirting this sweatshirt?
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: Was I supposed to throw up in something of mine?
Jenna Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Tracy: You'll never get her! Stop! Sweatshirty is a boy!
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: Is she doing an expose on how feminism has led to a happiness crisis among educated women?
Kenneth Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Tracy: Lemon told me this morning she got jacked big time.
Tracy Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Jack: Like a bloodhound. Perhaps literally. We still don't know her genetic background.
Jack Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Liz: because I have had my period for the last 61 days.
Liz Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Don Geiss gave me this watch for firing a man on his deathbed!
Jack Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: How come when I try to get you to go to a murder-mystery party with me, it's all, 'we're business colleagues, Lemon'?
Liz Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Jack · Liz: I don't know why I ever chose you as a friend. Let's just be clear about this... I chose you.
Jack Liz Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Kenneth · Liz: May I kiss your stomach? Absolutely not. Hello, beautiful. It's Uncle Wutzy.
Kenneth Liz Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Unknown writer: And my sidekick is a hot black chick who can read minds.
Unknown writer: We need a button that switches from pornography to basketball immediately. What you have isn't fast enough. My kids are starting to ask questions that I can't answer.
Unknown writer: Like nudity, or soccer.
Jack: Congratulations. Worst so far!
Jack Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Frank: I will need to eat your umbilical cord.
Frank Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy: It'll turn the child into a Dracula.
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Unknown writer · Liz: Remember, you're eating for two. Well, I guess two egg sandwiches... Times two is four.
Hank Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jack: I am a six sigma black belt ultra, with the groin branding to prove it.
Jack Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Hank: What's six sigma? Rock band?
Hank Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Jack: Television on. Channel, NBC. [nothing happens] That shouldn't happen. TV on! Voice activation, or 'vo-act...' [still nothing] Un-mute! Low volume. Low volume! TV mute!
Jack Physical/Slapstick Escalation ★ Rewatch Hank: You could call it 'Blabar.'
Hank Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: Not what my uncle does when he gets a hitchhiker over a barrel, I'll tell you that.
Kenneth Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: You didn't steal anything from me, sir. Last time I checked, best friends can't steal from each other.
Kenneth Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jack: This isn't how it works! You're the one being a silly Simon!
Jack Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Liz: April 20th, Hitler's birthday.
Liz Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: Dr. Rufus T. Barleysheath.
Liz Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: Rufus T. Barleysheath.
Liz Callback Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Liz: No...way that I'm not.
Liz Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Carmen: She's a blonde. Don't you know there's a war going on?
Carmen Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Liz: First of all, Jack means nothing to me. Shoot him in the throat and let the dogs eat him. I don't care.
Liz Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Carmen: where you bare your stomach like the pregnant bitch that you are.
Carmen Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Jack: I can get you into a restaurant where you watch a child play with a bunny, then you eat the bunny.
Jack Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Kenneth: Isn't that just Easter?
Kenneth Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Blackmail me. Demand to sleep with Avery. Hit me. Hit me in the face!
Jack Character Comedy Escalation Jack: Does he also solve mazes by starting from the end?
Jack Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Jack: Oh, damn my krav maga training and lightning reflexes!
Jack Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Jack: Release me, you hillbilly Circe!
Jack Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Liz: Rufus T. Barleysheath is kicking.
Liz Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Hank: I don't fly, but I got my own bus with a pool table in it.
Hank Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Hank: We'll drive to Branson together sometime, take in a Yakov Smirnoff show. Doesn't Russia sound like a crazy place?
Hank Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Hank: Oh, I didn't notice you there, son. You do not have a lot of charisma.
Hank Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Hank: You have a reputation, Jack, as a shark. Kabletown, we're not sharks. We're more like... Whatever the friendliest fish is.
Hank Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Hank: I'm not a science guy.
Hank Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth · Hank: It doesn't count as a hug unless it goes on for ten seconds. You got that right, son. One...Mississippi...
Carmen: I will miss my dear friends here on basic cable.
Carmen Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Liz: Oh, Jack, that's so gayballs.
Liz Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Frank: Do you need some liniment rubbed on your perineum?
Frank Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: Help him for real. It takes the same amount of time.
Tracy Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jenna: And she ordered us around like we were a couple of normals.
Jenna Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Liz: Good God! I have been punished. These are yours to keep.
Liz Physical/Slapstick Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Unknown writer: What if we executed someone live on TV?
Unknown writer: And then I pull off my mask and I'm a lizard person too. Blackout. End of episode.