With their show targeted for cancellation, the "TGS" crew desperately scramble to mount a top-notch production for their 100th episode. Meanwhile, Jack reconsiders a vital decision in his life, and Jenna mulls over motherhood.
Absurdist escalation drives 67 jokes across 38 minutes, hitting 77.2 despite low single-joke impact.
Directed by Don Scardino · Written by Jack Burditt, Tina Fey, Robert Carlock
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Wins Above Replacement
“100 (2)” ranks #131 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 77.2 — Great. The episode packs 67 scored jokes at 2.7 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 6.7 on impact, with Liz landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
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 Denis: us Duffys, we didn't give up when we got kicked out of Ireland. 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?
Denis Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: number 1 in its time slot among men 18 to 49 months left in prison
Liz Misdirection Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jenna: Right now it's between 'Frisbee-face,' and 'Glok-Gender-Irrelevant.'
Jenna Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Paul: Is this just to talk, or will you be activating my electric underwear?
Paul Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 67 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Liz: I was in the middle of bidding on a bag of bras on eBay
Liz Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Liz: I saw that in a movie once, but in the movie, the guy was dead
Liz Dark/Subversive Observational Hank · Jack: I was sitting in that chair a minute ago. Nope. That was me. What can I say. I smell like leather.
Hank Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Hank: Well, I'll be Bake McBrided
Hank Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Hank: Without Tracy, your show is like my cholesterol. The numbers are killing me.
Hank Setup/Punchline Observational Liz: We got on Wikipedia this week
Liz Cringe/Discomfort Observational Hank: So you did 99 shows against all odds and reason
Hank Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm Liz: number 1 in its time slot among men 18 to 49 months left in prison
Liz Misdirection Absurdist ★ 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 Hank: Just like the Army doctor said to me after my weekend in Okinawa!
Hank Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Hank: Jack Welch once smacked a pretzel out of my hand at the Super Bowl
Hank Absurdist Character Comedy Liz Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Tracy: But you're going to get me another sandwich, or I'm going to cut your face up so bad, you'll have a chin. I will waste you! You'll have to go through this old bastard first! And I don't really think it's fair for me to be on a jury because I'm a hologram.
Tracy Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Liz: 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 Misdirection Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Liz: Really? Is it from that pie place?
Liz Misdirection Character Comedy Jack Deadpan/Understatement Callback Callback Liz: In 100 shows, we've done 'Pam' 107 times
Liz Absurdist Observational Danny · Jenna: That wasn't me. There used to be another guy. I don't think so.
Jenna: I will choke you to death with your boyfriend's wig!
Jenna Escalation Character Comedy Jenna: If this turkey goes 100 episodes, I'll have your baby
Jenna Irony/Sarcasm Callback Jenna: Wait, I saw that. How? Am I dead?
Jenna Meta/Self-Referential Absurdist Danny: I better lay you across my grandmother's lap in the mating shed
Danny Absurdist Dark/Subversive Danny: Albinos get to be watchers in the mating shed
Danny Absurdist Escalation Callback Jenna: Who wore it best? I did. I wore it best.
Jenna Character Comedy Escalation Liz: Frank, but that bigger hat back on
Liz Visual Gag Character Comedy 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 going to jinx everything. Plus, you're a couple of pervs.
Gas Leak Guy: Isn't that show already half-dead?
Jack: See? I got a new hair. It's white and it hurts, but...
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Gas Leak Guy: Other possible side-effects include hallucinations, revelation of secrets, telling of truths, flashbacks, headaches, nostalgia
Gas Leak Guy: Can you believe this is happening to me on my last day of work? My last day. 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 Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Pete: More like 100 little strokes
Pete Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement Liz: he didn't care if I watched TV during sex
Liz Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Liz: Just follow these... troll penises!
Tracy: Why don't you shut your mouth, back that ass up, and make me a sandwich!
Tracy Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Tracy: I was hiding in a warehouse in Queens watching vintage pornography
Tracy Escalation Character Comedy TV Host: It's new hair cuts, but you can make salads with them
TV Host Absurdist Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Frank: Broken eyboard alk show
Frank Visual Gag Character Comedy Tracy: Is it a drink? Is it a drug? Is it a bandage you put on a barn?
Tracy: See that's the kind of lazy standup I'll never do again!
Tracy Meta/Self-Referential Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Tracy: 'F' you, L.L. Spells 'full'! Because you're full of B.S., Liz Lemon!
Tracy Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: No! And I wasn't even drinking anything
Liz Reaction Beat Escalation Jenna: I'm in my 40s, very difficult, and not that good at playing 'la realitee'
Jenna: Who will grow up to be a little gay fancy man
Jenna Character Comedy Escalation Gas Leak Worker: I'm getting to old for this 'shh' sound that comes from this gas pipe
Jack: Who are you? You're so handsome.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Alternate Jack: It's called 'power clashing,' and I do it because I can
Alternate Jack: Town, Donaghy, and that's not funny. It was funny when I said it on my syndicated radio show.
Alternate Jack: Sharks don't have claws. You don't even know what a shark is anymore!
Alternate Jack: She became your focus, at the expense of your own ambition. ... Lemon was a black hole unworthy of our mentorship.
Alternate Jack: What the hell is a Pwomp?
Alternate Jack · Jack: What the hell is a Pwomp? ... It's when two fat people... I don't care!
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 Escalation Absurdist ★ 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 Jack: your wet, yet somehow flaky hand
Jack Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Jack: I became the American auto industry failing to recognize that you can't fix a lemon!
Jack Wordplay/Pun Escalation ★ Rewatch Pete: She threw a birthday party for her TV
Pete Character Comedy Observational Paul: Is this just to talk, or will you be activating my electric underwear?
Paul Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jenna: Right now it's between 'Frisbee-face,' and 'Glok-Gender-Irrelevant'
Jenna Character Comedy Absurdist Jenna: Right now it's between 'Frisbee-face,' and 'Glok-Gender-Irrelevant.'
Jenna Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Paul: I want to hog-tie 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 Paul: I want to hog-tie you and hide you in the luggage compartment of a Greyhound bus with just a bowl of dirty water
Paul Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz (on recording): Denis, it's Dummy. I miss you, come see me
Denis (recording): Waaaz aaap! You've reached Denis's voice mail. How you doing? Get out of here, Joey! I'm recording my voice mail message.
Denis: And us Duffys, we didn't give up when we got kicked out of Ireland. 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?
Denis Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Denis: us Duffys, we didn't give up when we got kicked out of Ireland. 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?
Denis Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch 