Angie's reality show visits "TGS", resulting in a red-faced situation for Jack, Jenna pining for attention, and Liz leading a scheme to lure Tracy back from Africa. Meanwhile, Frank reconnects with a lost love.
Absurdist overload lands 58 jokes in 22 minutes despite middling craft execution.
Directed by Ken Whittingham
WAR
101.7
Wins Above Replacement
“Queen Of Jordan” ranks #87 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 96.4 — Elite. The episode packs 63 scored jokes at 2.8 per minute, averaging 7.7 on craft and 7.5 on impact, with Angie landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Pete (letter) · Jenna: 'Miss Maroney, your addiction has negatively affected me in the following ways. Number one, I was so worried, I forgot to write the rest of this letter.' Thank you.
Angie: I'm contractually obligated to pull out some bitch's weave eight more times this season.
Angie Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Angie: It has been my dream to be a singer ever since I was a little... drunk the other day and rented out a recording space.
Angie Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Pete: Attention everyone. I found a glove in the elevator. If anyone is missing a glove, I may have found your glove.
Pete Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Frank Rossitano · Lynn Onkman: I'm throwing out my kid stuff. I want to become the man you waited for. The man you helped cheat on the presidential physical fitness test.
All Jokes — 63 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Angie: Previously on 'Queen of Jordan': 'Who the [Bleep] are the Beatles?'
Angie Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch D'Fwan: D'Fwan forgot his catchphrase. [Bell dings]
D'Fwan Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Angie: It has been my dream to be a singer ever since I was a little... drunk the other day and rented out a recording space.
Angie Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Angie · Jack · Liz: My single is called 'My Single is Dropping' and it's dropping.
Liz · Tracy (impersonated by Liz): Tracy, we're gonna be late! [Door closes] Our boat exploded.
Angie: Am I the waiter? Is this the restaurant that I'm opening up with Dennis Rodman and Webster?
Angie Character Comedy Absurdist Liz: 'Yes, we can.' Obama '08, remember?
Liz Irony/Sarcasm Observational Jack: John Francis Donaghy. Verbal signature.
Jack Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Liz · Jenna: No, we're not writing a tearful admission about you being a call girl in Delaware.
Jenna: For your information, I am a Christian illiterate, so that's not an option.
Jenna Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jenna: Liz, I'm so mad at you for that thing you did.
Jenna Meta/Self-Referential Cringe/Discomfort Jenna: Am I trying to instigate fights by throwing wine at people just to get on camera and maybe also promote my new lifestyle web site: Jennas-side.com? Of course not.
Jenna Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jenna: I'm not hearing it, Liz.
Jenna Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Frank · unknown colleague: Hey, guess who's getting out of jail. I don't know. But I hope they didn't collect $200.
Pete Hornberger · Frank Rossitano: Oh, sure, that hot teacher from Queens who had an affair with her student. / Oh, my God. Check out this picture. Frank, is that you?
Toofer · Frank: You never said you were in Lynn Onkman's class. Do you know the kid she had an affair with? No. Yes. I don't know. Shut up.
Pete · Toofer · others: Well done, sir. Guys, a teacher preying on a student is wrong... Yeah. If the teacher is male and the student is female. What happened to Frank is awesome. Standing ovation.
Liz Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch unknown · Angie: Wow. If only Tracy were here, he'd be, like, 'Damn, woman, I want to make love to your neck.' Don't do impressions of other races. Roger that, Angie.
Kenneth: Mr. D'Fwan, Party City does not sell giant see-through clocks or strap-on Pegasus wings, so I got this paper pineapple instead.
Portia (via title card): Oh, snap. That's Lynn Onkman. Portia reads the papers.
D'Fwan · Michael: Michael. Are you back on meth? Mm-hmm. No. Why? You got some? Think fast.
D'Fwan · Dot Com: Nice catch, dotcom. I'm sick of being disrespected by that man. Yeah. I was an athlete. Very graceful.
Jack Donaghy · D'Fwan: When I was at Princeton, I played baseball and football. And back then, football players went both ways. / Really? So you went both ways?
Jack · D'Fwan: When we were on the DL, we spent most of our time in the whirlpool getting rubbed down. You were a switch-hitter? Switch-hitter. Pitcher. Catcher. Whatever the boys needed.
Jack D'Fwan Wordplay/Pun Running Gag Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback D'Fwan: I think I made my point. [D'Fwan confessional after Jack's unknowing admission]
D'Fwan Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Callback Jenna: No. I don't need any help. I am in denial about my disease. And I don't know what would change that.
Jenna Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jenna: Drunk actor brainstorm. I'm going to make Pete host an intervention for me.
Jenna Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy Jenna: It'll be all about Jenna. Drama. Crying. The beauty of redemption. Perhaps a song.
Jenna Character Comedy Escalation Liz · Angie: You're Amy Grant from the 'Baby Baby' video. The one where the man likes her at the Carnival. That's some white nonsense.
Liz Angie Observational Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Angie · Liz: Too bad Tracy's not here to take your side. He'd be, like, 'Damn you, Liz Lemon.' We discussed this, Elizabeth.
Angie Liz Character Comedy Callback Callback Angie: Good. 'Cause I'm looking for dancers who can dance for 15 seconds 'cause that's how long my song is.
Angie Character Comedy Absurdist Angie (on video) · Tracy (on video) · Liz: Are you wearing handcuffs, Tracy? Can my friend cheese come with us on our honeymoon? What? Okay, I should've watched that first.
Liz Lemon: Okay, I should've watched that first. Do you see how exhausting that man can be?
D'Fwan: So I let them have their reunion date at the Stripaerobics Studio I bought with the money I got after that cop shot me.
D'Fwan Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Lynn · Frank: They kept remaking The Hulk and it kept getting worse. Could we talk about something other than comic book movies?
Lynn · Frank: You're still talking about superheroes and video games and why Seth Logan shouldn't have played the green something. Hornet. Yeah. And it's Rogen.
Lynn Frank Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Frank · Lynn: Oh. I wonder why I'm stuck. What could've happened to me when I was 14 to make me never want to grow up? Inside voice, Frank.
Frank Lynn Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: 'Going both ways' in football means playing offense and defense. And there is nothing gay about the Princeton fight song. ♪ Oh, the merry men of Princeton are charging up the rear ♪
Jack Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Jack: Regardless, I'm not gay or clumsy. [Chair squeaks] That was the chair. Here. I'll show you. [Silence]
Jack Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Callback Jack Donaghy: It was the chair. [Beat, after apparently proving clumsiness]
Jack Donaghy Running Gag Deadpan/Understatement Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Jenna Maroney · Pete Hornberger: What is this? / Jenna, everyone here loves you very much. But because of your drinking, we feel like we're losing you. / Is this an intervention?
Pete (letter) · Jenna: 'Miss Maroney, your addiction has negatively affected me in the following ways. Number one, I was so worried, I forgot to write the rest of this letter.' Thank you.
Liz: 'Scuse me. Is that my computer? No, I was just... no, pinwheel. Not now.
Liz Character Comedy Reaction Beat Angie: I'm contractually obligated to pull out some bitch's weave eight more times this season.
Angie Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: Well, of course, 'cause that's how interventions end. And I can't back out now otherwise they can't use any of this.
Jenna Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Frank Rossitano · Lynn Onkman: I'm throwing out my kid stuff. I want to become the man you waited for. The man you helped cheat on the presidential physical fitness test.
Frank · Lynn: I want to become the man you waited for. The man you helped cheat on the presidential physical fitness test. Well, if you didn't get better at the shuttle run, they were gonna put you in the hospital.
Lynn · Frank: Oh, no. That's your favorite. You can't. Skeletor's not my favorite. You are.
Lynn Frank Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch restaurant manager · Lynn · Frank: Are you throwing toys in the fryer? You're fired, Onkman. Now give me a waiver to sign. The world has to be educated about blurry face syndrome.
D'Fwan: Angie's changed her hairstyle since this last photo was taken and D'Fwan is a queer-fectionist.
D'Fwan Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Liz: Wow. She gets a whole window? [pause] Wait. What used to be there?
Liz Reaction Beat Setup/Punchline Angie: Jack, I also suffer from Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
Angie Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Jack: You know what, I give up. If this idiotic show insists on portraying me as some clumsy, gay flatulent, so be it. I am extremely secure in my athleticism, my masculinity, and my rectal integrity.
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback D'Fwan: Yeah, he's straight. That boy cannot dance.
D'Fwan Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Jack: I'm a superb dancer. At Princeton, I played Maria in an all-male production of West Side Story. Oh, forget it. You people should be ashamed of yourselves.
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Jenna: I explained to Charles that I was just pretending to be an alcoholic to get on camera. And we laughed. And he said I can drink as much as I want. So cheers to good friends.
Jenna Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Callback Charles · Jenna Maroney: In the lobby, she pulled a wrench out of her purse, hit me over the head. / I will never go to Minnesota.
Angie: 'My Single is Dropping' is not just about a single dropping. It's about a woman learning to fly. A woman who doesn't need a man or anybody except Josh at Sidney Bernstein Management, Sidney at Josh Bernstein Accounting.
Angie Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Liz · Angie: Shut up, Angie. Just shut up! I'm sick of your selfishness. People's jobs are at stake. I'm selfish? You are a joke. And everybody thinks so.
Liz Angie Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Liz: Now who here wants to teach me how to fight?
Liz Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Pete: Attention everyone. I found a glove in the elevator. If anyone is missing a glove, I may have found your glove.
Pete Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna · Jack: You'll never get me Charles. / That was the chair, because I only pass gas once a year for an hour.
Jenna Jack Callback Absurdist Running Gag ★ Rewatch Callback 