Liz hires a new female writer after a blog declares "TGS" misogynistic. Meanwhile, Jack plots his takeover of Kabletown by zeroing in on his main competition--the CEO's granddaughter.
TGS writers weaponize sexism jokes—83 total gags attack the show-within-show's misogyny.
Directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller · Written by Ron Weiner
WAR
75.1
Wins Above Replacement
“Tgs Hates Women” ranks #115 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 80.2 — Elite. The episode packs 83 scored jokes at 3.4 per minute, averaging 7.1 on craft and 6.7 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: I hope my legacy is a Sesame Street type TV show that promotes illiteracy in girls.
Kenneth Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Absolutely. But it's not your fault. You are genetically predisposed to compete against other women for the attention of strong, powerful men like myself
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jack: And we walruses owe him everything for giving us the gift of language.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: But what most people don't know is that NBC is still a network.
Jack Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jenna: I'll start by spreading a destructive rumor about her like the famous one I made up about Jamie Lee Curtis. That she has two butts.
Jenna Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 83 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Jenna: Wonderful news, non-famouses.
Jenna Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: My publicist just called from rehab.
Jenna Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Liz: It's this really cool feminist web site where women talk about how far we've come and which celebrities have the worst beach bodies.
Liz Irony/Sarcasm Observational ★ Rewatch Jenna: Ruth Bader Ginsburg!
Jenna Absurdist Misdirection ★ Rewatch Jenna: Take that, Courtney Thorne-Smith.
Jenna Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jenna Character Comedy Absurdist Jenna: This is Amelia Earhart. I'm almost across the Pacific... Oh, no. My period!
Jenna Absurdist Cringe/Discomfort Jenna: I'll now take questions. Oh, no. My period!
Jenna Running Gag Escalation Jenna: Let's nuke England!
Liz: But that is an ironic reappropriation.
Liz Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Jack: Absolutely. But it's not your fault. You are genetically predisposed to compete against other women for the attention of strong, powerful men like myself
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jack: For example, Hercules, the highlander, or, uh...God.
Jack Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Liz: I want to roll my eyes right now, but the doctor said if I keep doing it my ocular muscles might spasm and eject my eyeballs.
Liz Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: If you try to breed it out of them, you end up with a lesbian with hip dysplasia.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy Liz: I'm like a human bra,
Liz Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Please, Lemon. It's got nothing to do with her hot mouth.
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Jack: Like Hank Hooper says in his book, 'New blood is the lifeblood of every company's blood.'
Jack Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Jack: He's not a strong writer.
Jack Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Liz: Isn't that the guy who outbid no one for NBC?
Liz Irony/Sarcasm Observational ★ Rewatch Jack: I read that on a bottle of women's exercise water.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kaylie: Hi, I'm Kaylie Hooper. I'm 14 years old and I'm waiting in line to meet Justin Bieber 'cause he's...
Kaylie Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Liz: Your new rival is a ninth grade girl?
Liz Reaction Beat Irony/Sarcasm Jack: Her parents' generation was lost to 'trust fund kids' disease.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: The father is trying to sail an inflatable castle across the Atlantic.
Jack Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Jack: To become a doctor's nurse or a lawyer's mistress or even the president of the United States Shopping Association.
Jack Escalation Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Liz: Because potential is the difference between what you can't do and what can't you do.
Liz Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: No, I sent it in, but Aquafem did not choose it.
Liz Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Writers Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Toofer: I mean, light travels at 186,000 miles per second, so...
Toofer Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Frank: 'Cause chicks dig British guys. Sir Ian McKellen? That dude must be knee-deep in boob.
Frank Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lutz: Star jump! I found the chrysalis!
Lutz Visual Gag Cringe/Discomfort Jack: But what most people don't know is that NBC is still a network.
Jack Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jack: What you talkin' 'bout, Kaylie? School's cool. Just like Justin 'Bee-eye-bear.'
Jack Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Kaylie: So our new mascot is a slut.
Kaylie Misdirection Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jack: He discovered the Titanic, the Lusitania, and according to his website, a guilt-free cheesecake recipe.
Jack Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: Okay, now, please follow me to Brian Williams' bathroom, which is also J. Fred Muggs' skull.
Jack Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Callback Lutz: West ham drew nil-nil at wolves?
Lutz Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Liz: Don't you know I'm talkin' 'bout a femolution?
Liz Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Abby: Look at all these dudes! I knew I smelled sausage.
Abby Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Abby · Liz: Our nips just touched. Mine are so hard. Mine are different sizes.
Abby Liz Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Abby: Oh, where's little Abby gonna sit? Guess I'll have to sit on somebody's lap.
Abby Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Liz: Give me strength, oh, Oprah.
Liz Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: When I first started working here, an eight-year-old Shirley Temple taught me how to roll a cigarette.
Jack Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jack Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jack: Practice frottage on a poster of Linda Ronstadt and meet your idol.
Jack Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Jack: Oh, I did forget. It was so long ago.
Jack Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz Reaction Beat Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Abby: Is it cold in here or is it just that I'm not wearing any underwear?
Abby Character Comedy Misdirection Jack: New York gives us a tax break for employing sex offenders. It's a terrible program.
Jack Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jenna: Summer of '98, I took it to a whole new level.
Jenna Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Jenna: There can't be two of us, Liz. She must be destroyed.
Jenna Character Comedy Escalation Jenna: I'll start by spreading a destructive rumor about her like the famous one I made up about Jamie Lee Curtis. That she has two butts.
Jenna Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Ballard: You're not. 'Bob' is short for 'Bobert.'
Ballard Absurdist Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Kaylie: You know that's a female. The male is much smaller and is basically a parasite that lives on her. Until mating, of course. Then the male dies.
Kaylie Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Ballard: Yes, the scientific term for that is 'marriage.'
Ballard Setup/Punchline Observational Ballard: I'm not gonna live forever, no matter how much gold I give Poseidon.
Ballard Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: What if you gave me a sticker as a joke?
Jack Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Jack: There she is, men. The elusive northern right whale.
Jack Visual Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: ♪ Oh blow the wind westerly ♪ ♪ let the wind blow ♪ ♪ oh derry hi derry ♪ ♪ hey derry ho ♪
Jack Visual Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Yes, sailor? What is it?
Jack Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Liz: Does this look like the makeup room of a clown academy?
Liz Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Abby: My uncle says they're sexy.
Abby Dark/Subversive Cringe/Discomfort Abby: This is my real voice. And the whole sexy baby thing isn't an act. I'm a very sexy baby.
Abby Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Liz: It's not! It's for her!
Liz Reaction Beat Cringe/Discomfort Liz: I placed out of freshman German.
Liz Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Abby: I mean, I was there when he belvedered.
Abby Absurdist Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Kenneth: I hope my legacy is a Sesame Street type TV show that promotes illiteracy in girls.
Kenneth Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: And we walruses owe him everything for giving us the gift of language.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: Well, that's understandable. I mean, 'Grossman' is a little bagel-y.
Jenna Character Comedy Observational Jenna: Oh. Children's book idea: Baby hooker. Don't tell Liz.
Jenna Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Conference Call: This is Charles. I'm on for Douglas. No, Charles. I'm on, but I just dialed in.
Jack: This picture exists in only two places. The negative is in my personal safe along with my will and some beanie babies that I thought would be worth more.
Jack Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Kaylie: You're just like Vanessa from the 'Vampire Detective Mysteries.'
Kaylie Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Kaylie Character Comedy Escalation Kaylie · Jack: 'Cause I can always tell Pop-Pop you gave me alcohol. And I can always seduce one of your teachers and get her to fail you.
Kaylie · Jack: I'd be into that. Me too.
Abby: You know what sucked about my last lesbian orgy? Right in the middle of it, one of us had to get up to go use the bathroom and then we all had to go!
Abby Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: Hey, first of all, Steve Carell owns 'that's what she said.' He owns it.
Liz Meta/Self-Referential Observational ★ Rewatch Jenna: I was cut out of that.
Jenna Character Comedy Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Troy: I thought this box would be the perfect size for your head. P.S. I was electrocuted again while watching Seven.
Troy Dark/Subversive Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Writers: Where Wonder Woman... Gets her period.
Writers Callback Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy: No, the only thing that will cure ice cream headaches is having sex on a motorcycle.
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy: When a dolphin expresses excitement it sounds like this.
Tracy Visual Gag Character Comedy