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
WAR
132.7
Wins Above Replacement
“100 (2)” ranks #117 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 93.5 — Elite. The episode packs 99 scored jokes at 4.0 per minute, averaging 7.4 on craft and 7.3 on impact, with Liz Lemon landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Denis: I'm a Duffy, Liz. 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 Character Comedy Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Lutz: I would take my shirt off, but 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 Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Liz Lemon: The show is number 1 in its time slot among men 18 to 49 months left in prison.
Liz Lemon Setup/Punchline Misdirection Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Jack Donaghy · Pete: If you fire Liz, then I quit. You'll never succeed by sticking your neck out for someone like her. But if that's how you feel, so be it. The important thing is that I fire someone. Pete.
Liz Lemon: 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 Lemon Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 99 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Liz Lemon: I was in the middle of bidding on a bag of bras on eBay.
Jack Donaghy: It's not, Hon. I saw that in a movie once, but in the movie, the guy was dead.
Hank Hooper: Nope. That was me. What can I say. I smell like leather.
Hank Hooper: Well, I'll be Bake McBrided. I know a Philly gal when I hug one.
Hank Hooper: Without Tracy, your show is like my cholesterol. The numbers are killing me.
Liz Lemon: The show is number 1 in its time slot among men 18 to 49 months left in prison.
Liz Lemon Setup/Punchline Misdirection Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Liz Lemon: 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 Lemon Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Hank Hooper: All right. You get one more shot. Just like the Army doctor said to me after my weekend in Okinawa!
Hank Hooper: They're mean. Jack Welch once smacked a pretzel out of my hand at the Super Bowl.
Liz Lemon: Is Tracy back? I'd hate to think I just lied to Hank. Jeez, I'll get it done. You know I'll do whatever it takes, Lemon style.
Tracy Jordan: Everybody dance now! [Tracy is shown doing the C+C Music Factory dance in the middle of a chaotic scene]
Tracy Jordan: 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!
Unknown character in Tracy's entourage/scene: 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.
Liz Lemon: 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 Lemon Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Jack Donaghy: Well, you just need to turn the beautiful butterfly back into a drunk, incompetent caterpillar.
Jack Donaghy Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy Jordan: Jesus was black! [Tracy shouts this on a morning show when asked about Mar-A-Lago]
Liz Lemon: Really? Is it from that pie place?
Jack Donaghy · Liz Lemon: There is no pie. Okay.
TGS Cast: Who wears a swimsuit to Denny's? That's her! That's Pam! The overly confident morbidly obese woman.
Pete: In 100 shows, we've done 'Pam' 107 times.
Pete Running Gag Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Danny · Jenna Maroney: That wasn't me. There used to be another guy. I don't think so.
Jenna Maroney: I will choke you to death with your boyfriend's wig!
Jenna Maroney: Give me back my man, bitch!
Danny: Can you reminisce about something that's happened since I've been here, 'cause I couldn't see any of that.
Danny Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Kenneth Parcell · Jenna Maroney: Terrific show, Ma'am. If I know anything about television, The Girlie Show is a hit! Oh, please. If this turkey goes 100 episodes, I'll have your baby.
Jenna Maroney: I said that? I was so young. Wait, I saw that. How? Am I dead?
Jenna Maroney Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Callback Kenneth Parcell: Well, it's been 100 episodes, I better lay you across my grandmother's lap in the mating shed.
Kenneth Parcell: I wish. Albinos get to be watchers in the mating shed.
Liz Lemon · Jenna Maroney: A picture of you in US Weekly next to Natalie Portman in the same maternity outfit, 'Who wore it best?' I did. I wore it best.
Frank: So, we're counting on Tracy? Forget it!
Frank Character Comedy Reaction Beat TGS Cast: [Flashback montage of bad times: 'Riding straight to hell!' / 'Here come the roofies.' / 'Where's my mac and cheese?'
TGS Cast: [Flashback to good times: 'Who wants... my puddings!'
Liz Lemon: Tonight, 'TGS' will not be the worst thing on television. It'll be John Stossel!
Liz Lemon Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Retiring plumber/maintenance worker: Gas leak, huh? Great. Damn it! Why now, on my last day before retirement? Here, let me show you guys something. That's my girl. We're getting married when I get out of here. Why am I showing you guys this? It's going to jinx everything. Plus, you're a couple of pervs.
Second maintenance worker: Who's up there? 'TGS'? Isn't that show already half-dead?
Gas-affected TGS staff member: Who wants to kiss? Let's say we get some fresh air.
Jack Donaghy: Do you know what I find fascinating? Mystery novels written by janitors?
Jack Donaghy: See? I got a new hair. It's white and it hurts, but...
Gas worker / Pete: Other possible side-effects include hallucinations, revelation of secrets, telling of truths, flashbacks, headaches, nostalgia.
Retiring maintenance worker: 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 Donaghy: I refuse to have long, gas-induced conversations with any of you people.
Jack Donaghy · Pete: Thank you. Pete. Thank you, Pete. [Jack accepts congratulations from Pete with regal, meaningless acknowledgment]
Pete: I can't believe it's been 100 shows. More like 100 little strokes.
Pete Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Liz Lemon: I had a boyfriend, Denis. I mean, sure, he was an idiot, but he made great chili, and he didn't care if I watched TV during sex.
Liz Lemon Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Liz Lemon: The gas is not affecting me yet, so I can lead you to safety. Just follow these... troll penises!
Tracy Jordan: Why don't you shut your mouth, back that ass up, and make me a sandwich!
Morning show host: He's awesome! You are still in character as the verbally abusive D'Jeffrey.
Tracy Jordan · Morning show host: I lied to all you ugly white ladies. I didn't go to Africa. I was hiding in a warehouse in Queens watching vintage pornography. I love your honesty.
Tracy Jordan · Morning show host: No, it's un-brave! You should hate me! I can't. You fly free. I'm a bird in a cage.
Morning show host · Tracy Jordan: Hey, you got to say around. We've got our no-cook cooking hair make-unders. What does that even mean? It's new haircuts, but you can make salads with them.
Liz Lemon · Frank: Frank, what is this? 'Broken eyboard alk show'? I write what I know. Also, I broke my keyboard.
Tracy Jordan: I'm so beloved, I could do no wrong. Now, everyone's after me. UNICEF, the Gates Foundation, and what is Farmaid? Is it a drink? Is it a drug? Is it a bandage you put on a barn?
Tracy Jordan: See that's the kind of lazy standup I'll never do again!
Tracy Jordan: 'F' you, L.L. Spells 'full'! Because you're full of B.S., Liz Lemon!
Tracy Jordan: I think Bono got in my limo.
Liz Lemon: No! And I wasn't even drinking anything. [Liz's response to 'Would you be a good mother?']
Jenna Maroney: I'm in my 40s, very difficult, and not that good at playing 'la realitee.'
Jenna Maroney: Who will grow up to be a little gay fancy man.
Liz Lemon · Jenna Maroney: Well, good luck finding a man willing to ride that crazy train. I'll have you know, I talked with a man this morning who thinks I'd be a wonderful mother. He must be an idiot. He is an idiot.
Retiring maintenance worker: Damn it! I'm getting too old for this 'shh' sound that comes from this gas pipe.
Jack Donaghy · Alternate Jack Donaghy: Who are you? You're so handsome. I'm Jack Donaghy, CEO of General Electric. The question is, who are you? I'm Jack Donaghy. You were Jack Donaghy. You were magnificent.
Alternate Jack Donaghy · Jack Donaghy: I run the General. I own an NFL team. I guest starred on Entourage. What do you do? 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 Donaghy · Alternate Jack Donaghy: Wear a striped tie with a striped shirt. / It's called 'power clashing,' and I do it because I can.
Jack Donaghy · Alternate Jack Donaghy: I wore this on the January cover of Meetings magazine. We made the cover during Meetings History Month? I made the cover.
Jack Donaghy · Alternate Jack Donaghy: Town, Donaghy, and that's not funny. It was funny when I said it on my syndicated radio show.
Alternate Jack Donaghy · Jack Donaghy: You used to be a shark. I still am. Look at my claws! Sharks don't have claws. You don't even know what a shark is anymore!
Alternate Jack Donaghy: Are you building factories in Bangalore? Are you dining in the Palin White House? No. No! You're approving 'TGS' wrapped gifts, baseball caps with stupid sayings from the show written on them.
Alternate Jack Donaghy · Jack Donaghy: What the hell is a Pwomp? It's when two fat people... I don't care!
Tom (gas-affected staff member): I am a Jedi!
Hipster bystander: Hey, look, Tracy Jordan is ironically re-appropriating his bad past behavior as a commentary on Fitzgerald's dictum that there are no second acts in American life. I want to take a picture of him with my old-fashioned camera.
Liz Lemon: 'Tracy Jordan saves drowning man'? Oh, come on!
Lutz: Breathing through my mouth so I don't smell the throw-up on my shirt.
Lutz Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Lutz: I would take my shirt off, but 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 Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Liz Lemon · Cerie: Cerie, did you not bring my computer down? You said you were writing. I've only seen you use that computer to look at pictures of Nate Perkins.
Liz Lemon Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Jack Donaghy: 5 years of my business life wasted, and I'm still supposed to hold your hand, your wet, yet somehow flaky hand?
Jack Donaghy: This TV nonsense was supposed to be my stepping stone and instead it's my gravestone.
Liz Lemon: Sort of feel like you're going to say Leno?
Liz Lemon: Sort of feel like you're going to say Leno?
Jack Donaghy: I became the American auto industry failing to recognize that you can't fix a lemon!
Liz Lemon: I can explain. My zipper broke.
Pete: She hasn't got much going on. She threw a birthday party for her TV.
Pete Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Jack Donaghy · Pete: If you fire Liz, then I quit. You'll never succeed by sticking your neck out for someone like her. But if that's how you feel, so be it. The important thing is that I fire someone. Pete.
Liz Lemon: You tried to fire me? And then a week later you're like, 'Oh, I want to mentor you. Unlikely friendship.' Who do you think you are?
Liz Lemon Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack Donaghy: I'll tell you who I was, that guy that fired Pete. And he could have run GE, but instead he got Lemoned!
Jack Donaghy Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Liz Lemon: I knew you were supposed to push, but I didn't say anything.
Liz Lemon Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Jenna Maroney · Paul: I'm so glad that you're able to meet me at my break. Is this just to talk, or will you be activating my electric underwear?
Paul L'astname: Of course not! And I'd be a terrible father. I mean, what if we had a child that was prettier than us? We'd have to leave it in a desert.
Paul: Of course not! And I'd be a terrible father. I mean, what if we had a child that was prettier than us? We'd have to leave it in a desert.
Paul Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jenna Maroney: Everyone would talk about my crazy name choice. Right now it's between 'Frisbee-face,' and 'Glok-Gender-Irrelevant.'
Paul: I love you, Jenna Maroney. 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 Absurdist ★ Rewatch Paul L'astname: Kenneth Parcell may be the only man in the world who thinks you should have a child.
Denis · Liz Lemon: Hey, Dummy! Gah, what? Whoa. You look good. You lose weight or something? Your neck, it looks looser.
Liz Lemon: Denis, it's Dummy. I miss you, come see me. [Liz's voicemail to Denis played back]
Liz Lemon Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Liz Lemon: Things were better 5 years ago, Jack. I was in my 30s and everything!
Liz Lemon Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Liz Lemon: Things were better 5 years ago, Jack. I was in my 30s and everything!
Liz Lemon Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Denis: Waaaz aaap! [from Denis's voicemail greeting, in the style of the Budweiser 'Wassup' commercial]
Denis Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Denis: 'cause down deep, you still got all kinds of queer feelings for me. That's why I knew some day you'd be all vulnerable from a gas leak or a coma or a super period.
Denis Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Denis: I'm a Duffy, Liz. 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 Character Comedy Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch 