Liz tries to turn her personal life from drab to fab by revamping her dream apartment. Meanwhile, Avery is held hostage, and Tracy discovers that Kenneth, Dot Com and Grizz have forged a solid bond while he was away.
Season finale delivers 64 jokes at 2.86/min—a dense meta-comedy peak.
Directed by John Riggi · Written by Kay Cannon, Matt Hubbard
WAR
78.7
Wins Above Replacement
“Everything Sunny All The Time Always” ranks #46 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 87.4 — Elite. The episode packs 64 scored jokes at 2.9 per minute, averaging 7.4 on craft and 7.0 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
Tracy: I get it now! It's so funny! Everyone, laugh! Now, you sons of bitches!
Tracy Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy: his acting notes are often vague.
Tracy Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Bag: But, Liz, I already have. Jack's wrong. No human is truly the master of his fate.
Bag Absurdist Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Callback News anchor: Avery is now married to Kim Jong-il's son, Kim Jong-un.
Jack: 'Me plus you equals frowny face.'
Jack Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort All Jokes — 64 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Jack: Hush, island baby / Tomorrow you'll shuck the cane / Your little fingers bloody / Prepare to be whipped
Jack Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: No, when she's ready, Dr. Kevorkian says we have to put her down. He's a very good pediatrician, but that is an unfortunate name.
Jack Dark/Subversive Wordplay/Pun Jack: No. Call back tomorrow. She has Babynomics at 11:00.
Jack Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Kenneth · Liz: What are you doing? That's his urine. He is not well.
Kenneth: Conrad Bain once slapped me in a men's room.
Kenneth: Comencé a estudiar these, but then yo gave up.
Kenneth Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Liz: Liz stabbed Jenna repeatedly.
Liz Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: You saw how flat Gwyneth Paltrow sang at the Oscars. I visualized all of that.
Jenna Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Jenna: Well, I've taken Action. It dries your mouth out, but the sex is amazing.
Jenna Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Liz: I always think of a third thing when I'm listing stuff.
Liz Meta/Self-Referential Observational ★ Rewatch Liz: I've got a new life philosophy that I call 'Lizbeanism.' Well, I'm Liz, and obviously, my philosophy is simple, like a bean.
Liz Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Liz: Because Lizbeanism means that I am a dike... against the rising waters of mediocrity.
Liz Wordplay/Pun Misdirection ★ Rewatch Callback Jack: I'm going to give you... one of my neckties.
Jack Reaction Beat Character Comedy Liz: Wait, who was the white guy in that?
Liz Character Comedy Observational Jack: having people pay you for the privilege of cutting your hair.
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist Jack: 'Hot Blondes in Weird Places' initiative
Jack Observational Absurdist ★ Rewatch Liz: I wish Liz Lemon would leave so I could go back to work. Oh! Ugh! What's pulling me? I want to stay here and keep boring Jack!
Liz Physical/Slapstick Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Tracy: Great impression of a guy that sucks, Dotcom!
Tracy Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Grizz: Smooth move, Ferguson.
Grizz Running Gag Setup/Punchline Tracy: I could have inside jokes that you're not a part of, for example, 'Hot feet' or 'Ask Melissa about it.'
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy Grizz: You wouldn't expect a movie called 'Somewhere' to go absolutely nowhere.
Grizz Wordplay/Pun Observational Unknown: Sometimes we use a song to move a story along / And explain it to you / 'Cause Liz is taking charge
Unknown Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Avery · Jack: Who's ready for Skype sex? No, no, no. This is the Liddy call.
Avery: I don't know why our daughter would be afraid of Reagan.
Jack: You people have too much money.
Jack Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Avery: You people have too much money.
Avery Observational Character Comedy Jack: Bring back some throwing stars for Liddy
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Avery · Jack: Do you want to watch me eat jelly beans... real slow? Yes.
Avery Jack Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Grizz: and the delivery guy tripped, and then Mr. Griswald said, 'Smooth move, Ferguson.'
Grizz Setup/Punchline Running Gag Callback Tracy · Kenneth: That story is not funny. Sir, you had to be there. Then I will be.
Kim Jong-il: People of North Korea, it is your dear leader, Kim Jong-il, world's greatest golfer and movie director and best man at Tom Brady's wedding.
Kim Jong-il: because she can't party as hard as we can.
Kim Jong-il: because it's awesome and we have enough food.
Jonathan: Sir, if you say one more syllable, that's a haiku.
Jonathan Wordplay/Pun Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Unknown: Don't go in there! Run, citizen!
Jack: President InterBush is out of the question.
Jack: 'Me plus you equals frowny face.'
Jack Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Tracy: Use it to break into a special-effects warehouse to steal one.
Tracy Escalation Character Comedy Kenneth: Dotcom licks the subway steps.
Kenneth Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Jenna: Do you have access to horse semen?
Jenna Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Kenneth: Dotcom licks the subway steps.
Kenneth Absurdist Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Bag: But, Liz, I already have. Jack's wrong. No human is truly the master of his fate.
Bag Absurdist Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Callback Bag: the wind rustling against my genitals. That's right, bags have genitals.
Bag Absurdist Cringe/Discomfort Jenna: If you say no, I'll drown myself.
Jenna Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Tracy: Was Dotcom standing that gay?
Tracy Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Tracy: Death to the CIA! Let us all increase production of millet and sunflowers!
Tracy: It was either that or play a rapping doorman in a Kate Hudson movie.
Tracy Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Actor: Smooth move, Ferguson.
Actor Running Gag Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy: I get it now! It's so funny! Everyone, laugh! Now, you sons of bitches!
Tracy Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Callback Tracy: I get it now! It's so funny! Everyone, laugh! Now, you sons of bitches!
Tracy Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy: his acting notes are often vague.
Tracy Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Jack Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Jack: She pays $1,000 an hour to do that with her trainer.
Jack Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Condoleezza Rice: Well, look what the cat dragged in.
Condoleezza Rice: 'Mars Attacks!' is awesome!
Liz: I'm gonna hang you in my kitchen and fill you with other bags! You will eat your family!
Liz Dark/Subversive Escalation Avery: I told them it was my razor. I have to shave my legs with it, but they have an app for that.
Avery Absurdist Character Comedy Avery: Did you also call Sally Ride and her sister?
Tracy: There, are you happy? You dropped a bomb, K! Continue!
Tracy Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Kenneth · Grizz: 'Smooth move, Ferguson' was just trying to fill a void because Mr. Slattery's political cartoons weren't cutting it. I can't draw hands.
Liz: No matter how much the gate is strait or who punishes the scrolls, I am the captain of my holes.
Liz Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback News anchor: Avery is now married to Kim Jong-il's son, Kim Jong-un.
Bag · Unknown: Mortality! Smooth move, Ferguson.
Unknown: Put that coffee down. Coffee's for closers only.
