The "TGS" crew anticipate their summer vacation. Liz lands in the Hamptons for some rest and relaxation, but she gets the summertime blues when Tracy moves in next door. Elsewhere, a lonely Jack latches onto Kenneth for company; and Jenna's new job impacts her relationship with Paul.
Season finale escalation delivers 67 jokes in 23 minutes, anchored by character chaos and absurdist peaks.
Directed by Don Scardino · Written by Ron Weiner, Hannibal Buress
WAR
77.4
Wins Above Replacement
“Respawn” ranks #59 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 85.9 — Elite. The episode packs 67 scored jokes at 2.9 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 7.1 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
Kenneth: I like to replace the Union-soldier meat with boiled potatoes
Kenneth Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: Mumps, Hill People attacks, cave collapses... both business and residential
Kenneth Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: Can I borrow a cup of sugar? I'm trying to get a hummingbird to drink out of my penis
Tracy Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: committing a hate crime against what the city is now claiming was a Jewish tree
Jack Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Kenneth: Deer God, thank you for this venison. Onion God, thank you for these onions. Carrot God, thank you for the carrots.
Kenneth Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 67 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Doctor: All right, now that the popsicle's melted, we've got ourselves a tongue depressor.
Doctor: I get them from prostitutes.
Doctor Dark/Subversive Misdirection Doctor: Sounds like you could use a little R and R, rum and Ritalin.
Doctor Wordplay/Pun Dark/Subversive Doctor: There are four things I want to do this summer, but they're roommates, so it's tricky.
Doctor Misdirection Dark/Subversive Doctor: That's my brother Randy! Tomorrow he's going to jail for the rest of his life.
Doctor Absurdist Dark/Subversive Jack: I know that people are feeling sorry for me because my wife was kidnapped by Kim Jong-il
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: Hey, I know what you're going through. I once kidnapped a woman.
Tracy Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Jack: Last night I sat in front of the TV and ate an entire carton of foie gras.
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist Jack: I can hardly drink my morning-shower Scotch.
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: we would go to Strawberry Fields in Central Park and kick hippies' hacky sacks into the bushes
Jack Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jack: Normal is a woman and a woman getting married and having a child.
Jack Character Comedy Observational Jack: Bush is a war criminal! There's so much texting going on these days and no communicating!
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist Jenna: You can't spell 'America' Without w-o-o-I
Jenna Wordplay/Pun Absurdist Liz: Every year, my aunt sends me a wool sweater for Christmas. We get it, Aunt Alice, you're a sheep.
Liz Observational Deadpan/Understatement Jenna: Paul and I can finally buy that time-share in Betasten Bos, Amsterdam's premier private sex garden.
Jenna Absurdist Character Comedy Jenna: There have genetically-altered men there with minotaur heads that chase you through the brambles.
Jenna Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Toofer: Well, David Eggers and I are designing a new font...
Toofer Character Comedy Observational Frank: Last night, for dinner, I put milk in my Apple Jacks.
Frank Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Frank: No, I shot my bazooka at the ground to kill myself 'cause Toofer had me cornered.
Frank Absurdist Character Comedy Frank: I'm wearing a diaper, like a baby would.
Frank Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Liz: Hi, neighbor. I'm Ina Garten. My husband, Jeffrey, is away, and I've got some bruschetta and a white wine opened.
Liz Character Comedy Observational Jack: committing a hate crime against what the city is now claiming was a Jewish tree
Jack Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jenna: I was the face of Clinique, a French-Canadian anal-rejuvenation clinic
Jenna Misdirection Character Comedy Jenna: and I was the feet of FilthyLittleFeet.Com
Jenna Escalation Character Comedy Jenna: Paul is a gender-dysmorphic bigenitalian pansexualle
Jenna Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Jenna: love, warmth, chafed skin
Jenna Escalation Misdirection Eugene Gremby: whose parents were killed in front of her while an episode of 'Three's Company' was...
Kenneth: I know your wife was kidnapped by some convenience-store owners
Kenneth Misdirection Character Comedy Kenneth: Mumps, Hill People attacks, cave collapses... both business and residential
Kenneth Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: I like to replace the Union-soldier meat with boiled potatoes
Kenneth Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: You two have similar-shaped buttocks
Jack Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Kenneth: Deer God, thank you for this venison. Onion God, thank you for these onions. Carrot God, thank you for the carrots.
Kenneth Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: I just bought everything around this house. It's supposed to be a nice area, except for the 'new element' everyone keeps talking about.
Tracy Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Tracy: I got a long night of shooting guns in the air ahead of me
Tracy Character Comedy Absurdist Tracy: If I start screaming in my sleep, do not wake me up. I will attack you.
Tracy Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Tracy: Wake me up! Free me from this!
Tracy Callback Escalation Callback Jack: It was nice to hear a woman's laugh in the house again
Jack Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Kenneth: There's a lot of drawings of Ms. Maroney eating celery that men are giving to her with their hips
Kenneth Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Kenneth: My house is full of white cockroaches
Paul: I got you an early anniversary present. It's a new leash for when I walk you through the park like a dog.
Paul Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Paul: I'll cancel the sitter for tonight, tell him he won't need to come sit on us after all
Paul Misdirection Character Comedy Jonathan: Oh, you've just made a very dangerous enemy, Kenneth
Tracy: Can I borrow a cup of sugar? I'm trying to get a hummingbird to drink out of my penis
Tracy Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy · Liz: How many times have I come over and painted your apartment? Three. And by the way, stop doing that.
Jack: Don't go, Avery. I mean, Kenneth.
Jack Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Jack: Put on these earrings
Jack Escalation Cringe/Discomfort Paul: I am in the restaurant business, and I really love... golf playing
Paul Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Paul: Oh. Well, I don't have one myself, but I do like a girl with a limp
Paul Misdirection Character Comedy U. Jean Gremby: My first name is U. Jean, with a U.
Sitter: Greetings, slaves! Who's ready to get sat on?
Sitter Escalation Cringe/Discomfort Callback Liz: That's what I have to do. I can be a normal person. I have to blow myself up.
Liz Callback Absurdist Callback Jack: I put the system on trial. You can't handle the truth!
Jack Character Comedy Escalation Judge: I lost my gavel over the weekend, but it doesn't mean you can talk to me like that.
Judge Character Comedy Absurdist Kenneth: I have seen 'The Brady Bunch' where Tiger runs away
Kenneth Character Comedy Misdirection Jack: God, are you punishing me because my hair is better than yours?
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Kenneth-as-Avery: She once made Rahm Emanuel cry in an airport lounge
Kenneth as Avery: He may be a chinless piece of human garbage, but he will never fill the void that I left behind.
Jonathan: Hey, Mrs. Dongy, you wan' come on down my birfday party?
Eugene Gremby: Even with your back to me, I can definitely tell it's you
Paul: You wanted us to be normal? Well, this is our normal, and this is what we think of your morality clause.
Paul Character Comedy Escalation Paul: Give Mommy some beard. Oh, you've got some crumbs in here. Oh, eat it.
Paul Cringe/Discomfort Escalation Jack: Good God! Lemon? Liddy, say, 'Good God, Lemon.' Guh gah, Lem.
Jack Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Liz: I'm outdoors, I'm wearing comfortable clothes, I'm gardening, and I'm learning Spanish.
Liz Callback Irony/Sarcasm Callback Jack: where she spat up on a white lady's dreads
Jack Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Paul: There you are! Bad dog! You'll go in the crate tonight.
Paul Callback Character Comedy Callback Tracy: Some idiot rammed his boat that I was driving into it
Tracy Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Frank: No, I see you. I'm killing myself. Respawn.
Frank Callback Escalation Callback 