Chaos builds when bigwig Hank Hooper marks "TGS" for cancellation, yet Jack persuades him to let the staffers stage the show's 100th episode.
104 jokes in 49 minutes: 30 Rock hits peak density with character-driven escalation.
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143.5
Wins Above Replacement
“100 (1)” ranks #25 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 89.5 — Elite. The episode packs 104 scored jokes at 2.1 per minute, averaging 7.5 on craft and 7.2 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
Jack: I became the American auto industry, failing to recognize that you can't fix a Lemon
Jack Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lutz: I visited my rescue chimp for his birthday last week, and another chimp got mad and bit my nipple off. He played with it, and then he kissed it, and then he ate it.
Lutz Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Dennis: We didn't give up when America sent us back. And we didn't give up when Ireland then just set us adrift on a log, all right?
Dennis Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Liz: A show that is number one in its time slot among men 18 to 49 months left in prison?
Liz Misdirection Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Tracy: But I wasn't even supposed to say that. The line was, 'Shereen, I hope Dr. Mogutu has good news about my endoscopy,' but I couldn't get it right, so they told me to improv.
Tracy Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 104 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Liz: I was in the middle of bidding on a bag of bras on eBay.
Liz Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Unknown character: It's not, hon. I saw that in a movie once, but in the movie, the guy was dead.
Unknown character: I was sitting in that chair a minute ago. Nope. That was me. What can I say? I smell like leather.
Hank: Well, I'll be Bake McBrided.
Hank Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Hank: Without Tracy, your show is like my cholesterol. The numbers are killing me.
Hank Setup/Punchline Observational Liz: Got on Wikipedia this week.
Liz Deadpan/Understatement Observational Liz: A show that is number one in its time slot among men 18 to 49 months left in prison?
Liz Misdirection Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Liz: I thought this company was a family, but I guess it's that Austrian family and I am the girl in the basement, and you are the dad who has been brutally--
Liz Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Hank: Just like the army doctor said to me after my weekend in Okinawa.
Hank Callback Dark/Subversive Hank: Jack Welch once smacked a pretzel out of my hand at the Super Bowl.
Hank Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: Lemon-style. [Everyone Dance Now music plays]
Liz Character Comedy Visual Gag Tracy: You gonna get me another sandwich or I'm gonna cut your face up so bad you'll have a chin. I will waste you!
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: And I don't really think it's fair for me to be on a jury because I'm a hologram.
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: He told me he feels like a Bartram's Scrub-Hairstreak trying to crawl back into its silky cocoon. Which is a butterfly metaphor, by the way, and not, as I first thought, a list of African-American hair products.
Liz Observational Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Tracy Character Comedy Escalation Liz: Really? Is it from that pie place?
Liz Character Comedy Observational Jack Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Liz: In 100 shows, we've done Pam 107 times.
Liz Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Danny: Um, that wasn't me. There used to be another guy.
Danny Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: I will choke you to death with your boyfriend's wig!
Jenna Character Comedy Escalation Danny: Can you reminisce about something that's happened since I've been here, 'cause I couldn't see any of that.
Danny Deadpan/Understatement Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Jenna: If this turkey goes 100 episodes, I'll have your baby.
Danny: Wait. I saw that. How? Am I dead?
Danny Absurdist Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Kenneth: I better lay you across my grandmother's lap in the mating shed.
Kenneth Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jenna: The only thing I want latched to my funbags are celebrity DJs.
Jenna Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Kenneth: I wish. Albinos get to be watchers in the mating shed.
Kenneth Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jenna: 'Who wore it best?' I did. I wore it best.
Jenna Character Comedy Escalation Liz: Tonight, TGS will not be the worst thing on television. It'll be John Stossel.
Liz Setup/Punchline Observational Gas Leak Guy: Why am I showing you guys this? It's gonna jinx everything. Plus you're a couple of pervs.
Gas Leak Guy: Isn't that show already half-dead?
Jack: Mystery novels written by janitors?
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: See? I got a new hair. It's white and it hurts, but--
Jack Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Gas Leak Guy: Other possible side effects include hallucinations, revelation of secrets, telling of truths, flashbacks, headaches, nostalgia.
Gas Leak Guy: I don't know if there was a party planned--
Jack: I refuse to have long, gas-induced conversations with any of you people.
Jack Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Pete: More like 100 little strokes.
Pete Dark/Subversive Wordplay/Pun Liz: Sure, he was an idiot, but he made great chili, and he didn't care if I watched TV during sex.
Liz Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Kenneth: Just follow these... Troll penises! Oh, God! What have I done?
Kenneth Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Tracy: Why don't you shut your mouth, back that ass up and make me a sandwich?
Tracy Character Comedy Escalation Tracy: I didn't go to Africa. I was hiding in a warehouse in Queens, watching vintage pornography.
Tracy Character Comedy Escalation Tracy: What does that even mean? It's new haircuts, but you can make salads with them.
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Frank: 'Broken keyboard talk show'? I write what I know. Also I broke my keyboard.
Frank Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Tracy: And what is Farm Aid? Is it a drink? Is it a drug? Is it a bandage you put on a barn?
Tracy Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Tracy: See, that's the kind of lazy stand-up I'll never do again.
Tracy Meta/Self-Referential Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Tracy: F-u, l.l. Spells 'full,' because you're full of BS, Liz Lemon.
Tracy Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: Be like Michael McDonald and take it to the streets.
Liz Observational Wordplay/Pun Tracy: I think Bono got in my limo.
Tracy Character Comedy Escalation Liz: No. And I wasn't even drinking anything.
Liz Reaction Beat Character Comedy Jenna: I'm in my 40s, very difficult, and not that good at playing La Realite.
Jenna Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Liz: Who will grow up to be a little gay fancy man.
Liz Character Comedy Observational Gas Leak Guy: I'm getting too old for this [sound] that comes from this gas pipe.
Jack · Alternate Jack: I'm Jack Donaghy, CEO of General Electric. Who are you? I'm Jack Donaghy. You were Jack Donaghy.
Alternate Jack: I'll tell you what I don't do. Wear a striped tie with a striped shirt. It's called 'Power Clashing' and I do it because I can.
Jack · Alternate Jack: We made the cover during meetings history month? I made the cover.
Alternate Jack · Jack: And here... Isn't even GE anymore. It's Kableclown. 'Town,' Donaghy, and that's not funny.
Jack · Alternate Jack: Look at my claws! Sharks don't have claws. You don't even know what a shark is anymore!
Alternate Jack: Baseball caps with stupid sayings from the show written on them. What the hell is a 'Pwomp'?
Jack · Alternate Jack: It's when two fat people-- I don't care!
Jack Character Comedy Escalation Photographer: I want to take a picture of him with my old-fashioned camera.
Tracy: Don't tell anyone I did this.
Tracy Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Lutz: I visited my rescue chimp for his birthday last week, and another chimp got mad and bit my nipple off. He played with it, and then he kissed it, and then he ate it.
Lutz Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Cerie: I've only seen you use that computer to look at pictures of Nate Berkus.
Cerie Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Jack: Your wet, yet somehow flaky hand.
Jack Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Jack: I became the American auto industry, failing to recognize that you can't fix a Lemon
Jack Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Pete: She threw a birthday party for her TV.
Pete Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Dennis: I knew you were supposed to push, but I didn't say anything.
Dennis Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Paul: Is this just to talk, or will you be activating my electric underwear?
Paul Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Paul: I mean, what if we had a child that was prettier than us? We'd have to leave it in a desert.
Paul Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: Right now, it's between 'Frisbeeface' and 'Glock,' gender irrelevant.
Jenna Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Paul: I want to hogtie you and hide you in the luggage compartment of a Greyhound bus with just a bowl of dirty water.
Paul Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Dennis: Get out of here, Joey. I'm recording my voicemail message.
Dennis Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Chris Hansen: Good evening, sir. I'm Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC. Can I ask you what you're doing here tonight?
Dennis: Yeah, I'm here to boff some chick named Mary. Hey... threesome?
Dennis Character Comedy Escalation Liz: You were a mistake that I made at a time in my life when I could afford to make mistakes.
Liz Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Dennis: We didn't give up when America sent us back. And we didn't give up when Ireland then just set us adrift on a log, all right?
Dennis Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Kenneth: And out on the Plaza, a bird landed on my apple. I thought he was gonna eat it, but he just sat there. What's next? A different bird landing on a different apple?
Kenneth Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy: I even called a woman's basketball team 'Nappy-headed hos,' but apparently, I'm allowed to talk like that.
Tracy Dark/Subversive Meta/Self-Referential Hank: I mean, look at March of the Penguins. Who was in that?
Hank Observational Deadpan/Understatement Liz: How much is a lap dance? I'm a little light on cash, but I have a PayPal account.
Liz Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Tracy: There are tears falling on her boobies, Liz Lemon.
Tracy Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Liz: I know you've been molested. That's how we all got here, but I don't want to hear about it.
Liz Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: But I wasn't even supposed to say that. The line was, 'Shereen, I hope Dr. Mogutu has good news about my endoscopy,' but I couldn't get it right, so they told me to improv.
Tracy Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Jenna: It's not rape if neither party really wants it.
Jenna Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: I borrowed your whale semen candle. It didn't work, by the way.
Jenna Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy: That's crazy. A man named 'Elia.' That's a giraffe's name.
Tracy Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Tracy: I guess it would take a pretty big gas leak to make you think that was a good idea.
Tracy Meta/Self-Referential Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Dennis: Gas has no effect on me at all. When I was growing up, my school, Gerry Cooney Elementary, it was right next to a gas works in Queens.
Dennis Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Dennis: Our parents voted to spend it on a boat that the families could share, but then that sank.
Dennis Character Comedy Escalation Dennis: 'cause you're a cook in the bedroom and a whore in the kitchen.
Dennis Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Past Jack: This is how everyone talked in the '80s. This is how Reagan talked.
Past Jack: This tuxedo is made out of the Puma that I rode into my 50th birthday party.
Past Jack · Alternate Jack: It's after 6:00. What are we, farmers?
Jenna: All pregnancies are hysterical. They're started by penises.
Jenna Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Tracy: I cannot promise you that, Ken. I'm a horrible shot.
Tracy Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Dennis: It's like Netflix, but you go to a store, and you pick out your video from a limited selection. It'd be like five years ago.
Dennis Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Dennis: All I have is this kick-ass laser pointer that I point at nerds' crotches in the park.
Dennis Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Future Jack: You have grandchildren and a gorgeous Polyblasian wife. That's a new race that emerges in 2030. They're incredible.
Alternate Jack: You'll spearhead GE's development of the electric vagina.
Future Jack: In three years, they'll be married and living in Jacksonville, Florida, where he operates an unlicensed alligator park.
Jack: We're obviously all thinking it, so I'm just gonna say it. We're gonna have sex with each other, right?
Jack Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Jack: That wouldn't be very fair. I'm only trained to fight four or more men at a time.
Jack Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Jenna: I'm not gonna be held back by some uterus turd.
Jenna Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Jack: You'll still get laughed out of the Vanity Fair Oscar party by Greg Kinnear.
Jack Escalation Observational