Jack rocks the vote, manipulating a congressional election to help a particular candidate, thereby leveraging advantage for the network. Meanwhile, a perfect pair of new jeans gives Liz confidence; Tracy organizes a Golden Globe event with Jenna's help.
Five-act structure sustains 87 jokes at 3.66-per-minute velocity without losing character coherence.
Directed by Michael Engler · Written by Ron Weiner
WAR
93.5
Wins Above Replacement
“Brooklyn Without Limits” ranks #65 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 85.5 — Elite. The episode packs 87 scored jokes at 3.7 per minute, averaging 7.3 on craft and 6.8 on impact, with Steve Austin landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Jack: they had sweatshops make them into messenger bags to sell to outer-borough idiots.
Jack Dark/Subversive Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Jack: You know how they get the stitching so small? Orphans.
Jack Dark/Subversive Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Liz: I trust award shows. They tell me how much to care about different dead people.
Liz Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Jack: It's pronounced hond-made in oosa. The hond people are a vietnamese slave tribe, and USA is their island prison.
Jack Dark/Subversive Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Tracy in movie: Your mother exploded.
All Jokes — 87 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Liz: Maybe later I can get a paps mirror from an old male doctor.
Liz Observational Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Jenna: It's huge with all the young people. I mean... all the us.
Jenna Character Comedy Awkward Silence Jenna: Because before this was a clothing store, it was a mental hospital. It's winky and fun, Liz.
Jenna Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jenna: I swear to Kaballah monster.
Jenna Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: Boy on the bottom, girl on the top.
Jenna Character Comedy Observational Store Employee: O.M. God, those jeans are zing!
Store Employee: Or it's a club drug made from a tooth whitener. Either way you win.
Liz: No. Burn them. Burn them!
Liz Escalation Character Comedy Kenneth: I was attacked in my apartment...
Kenneth Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch News Reporter: Making political hay out of the wheat field that is the NBC-Kabletown merger
Regina Bookman: What is that for? It just makes the screen go blue.
Jack: It's not your fault nobody watched America's next top black guy.
Jack Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Bookman is obviously holding a gun to my head. And no matter what I do, she obviously wants me to fail. But if she loses... This isn't a conversation!
Jack Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jonathan: I thought you said you didn't need any more friends.
Jonathan Callback Deadpan/Understatement Callback Kenneth: 'Zing leg-tubes, Liz. Vunderhinder!
Kenneth Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Liz: Gay Town, White Harlem, and the Van Beardswick section of Brooklyn
Liz Wordplay/Pun Absurdist ★ Rewatch Liz: These jeans totally make up for all the times I took a long, hot shower because I was bored.
Liz Character Comedy Observational Tracy: Make that all three of us. Jenna, a word. Specifically, the word 'talking.'
Tracy Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: And I just learned about air quotes.
Tracy Character Comedy Absurdist Jenna: I talked about your movie with my therapist last week for 20 hours.
Jenna Escalation Character Comedy Jenna: It's called Jenna Gets Hard.
Jenna Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Jenna: HOFPA? - Yeah. - That's the Golden Globes. The second-most-important awards in Hollywood... After the People's Choice Awards... Where the fans are in charge.
Jenna Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: Be bad at snapping. Got it.
Tracy Misdirection Character Comedy Jenna Deadpan/Understatement Meta/Self-Referential Steve Austin: Actually, I go by Steve Austin. That way people see my name on ballots, they think I'm the wrestler, and they vote for me.
Steve Austin: I don't join 'em, and I never get invited to 'em...Hint, hint.
Steve Austin: Goo goo gaa gaa, Jack.
Steve Austin: I will clean out Washington, like it's the bathroom of a paintball facility.
Steve Austin: And if you're blind, I am the wrestler.
Steve Austin: Can I take that in two weeks?
Steve Austin: Dwarves, tiny buildings... Pizza bagels for lunch.
Steve Austin: Or no government at all. If it works in Antarctica, why can't it work here?
Steve Austin: What happens inside a man's own rain poncho at a minor league baseball game is his own business.
Jack Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Jenna: Kenneth is our human Sushi platter
Jenna Absurdist Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Kenneth: Lying perfectly still reminds me of hiding under our porch during a hill people rampage.
Kenneth Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: I should get a chafing dish and fill it with my underwear in case some Saudi guys show up.
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy Liz: You, the person who is still jealous of the attention baby Jessica got
Liz Character Comedy Callback Callback Liz: I trust award shows. They tell me how much to care about different dead people.
Liz Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Jenna: sister, can you spare a breast?
Jenna Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: Just like I did to my niece when she tried to sing at our family's Christmas party.
Jenna Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Jenna: Me, silly. I'm more aware of what I'm doing.
Jenna Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Lemon, those jeans make you look like a Mexican sports reporter.
Jack Character Comedy Observational Steve Austin: You probably know me from the future, where I am the president of the United States.
Steve Austin: My name is Steve Austin, and if you're senile, yes, I am the six-million dollar man!
Steve Austin: I got a zappos box coming today, and there's nobody there to pick it up because my wife left me for my twin brother.
Steve Austin: I walk around all day with a CIA tracking device in my pocket.
Liz: What is going on today? Has everyone lost their moral compass?
Liz Irony/Sarcasm Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Jack: You're being awfully high and mighty for someone who once claimed her husband drowned so she could get out of a gym contract.
Jack Callback Character Comedy Callback Liz: Technically, I am a freelancer, which is pretty much a modern-day cowboy.
Liz Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Liz: Also by eating beans out of a can due to impatience.
Liz Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Liz: But hey, it's not all bad, 'cause you get to watch me walk away.
Liz Character Comedy Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Steve Austin: Yeah, I know it's not a house, but I sleep there.
Tracy: Like the political ones where you think there'll be no boobies, then bam! Boobies.
Tracy Character Comedy Observational Tracy: I think the better question is, what isn't an actor? A lamp. A couch. That mirror. Or a hidden pistol.
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy in movie: Now the only thing I use a football for is as a toilet.
Tracy in movie: Funny thing to happen to a guy named 'lucky.'
Steve Austin: Hand me that shovel so I can dig a grave for her.
Liz: My generation never votes. It interferes with talking about ourselves all the time.
Liz Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Liz: Brooklyn Zack. He throws pool parties in dumpsters.
Liz Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: they had sweatshops make them into messenger bags to sell to outer-borough idiots.
Jack Dark/Subversive Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Jack: It's pronounced hond-made in oosa. The hond people are a vietnamese slave tribe, and USA is their island prison.
Jack Dark/Subversive Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Jack: You know how they get the stitching so small? Orphans.
Jack Dark/Subversive Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Liz: Brooklyn Zack is real. He just got back from Peru, where he met a family that's been making hats for 2,000 years.
Liz Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Jack: The New York times is owned by NYT incorporated, which is owned by Altheon Ballistic Dynamics, which is owned by the Murdoch family, who are owned... By Halliburton.
Jonathan: Halliburton, bitch. So what?
Jonathan Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Jonathan: Oh, so gay men can't be conservative? You're so 'norant. That's short for ignorant.
Jonathan Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Jack: His great grandfather was Domingo Halliburton.
Jack Visual Gag Absurdist ★ Rewatch Steve Austin: Perlman, isn't that last name Jew...
Steve Austin · Jack: Maybe I'll add to it by making some mysterious sounds. - Oooooohhh... Yeeee-eeee... - I love it.
Tracy in movie: Your mother exploded.
Jenna: That movie gave me drunk-in-the-bathtub face.
Jenna Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Liz: Like Anne Coulter's underwear.
Liz Observational Character Comedy Liz: ♪ back it up, back it up ♪ ♪ and drop it like it's hot ♪ ♪ drop it like it's hot ♪ ♪ I will haunt your dreams ♪
Liz Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Liz: I believe in Steve Austin and his plan to put a casino on the moon.
Liz Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: Like waking up next to Rob Schneider furious.
Jenna Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Tracy: Compromises are for lesser souls. Die, werewolf zombie!
Tracy Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Unknown: I would hit that. - Too small.
Steve Austin: Lesbian Mario brothers.
Jack: And I'm including 2008's turtleneck with smiley-face vest.
Jack Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Liz: because in my shorteralls I found a bag of tastetations, a discontinued chocolate hard candy
Liz Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Steve Austin: I will never allow casinos on the moon!
Steve Austin: ♪ Ooga booga big ♪ ♪ ooga booga strong ♪ ♪ I am going to sing my ooga booga song ♪ ♪ ooga booga big ♪ ♪ ooga booga strong ♪
Jack: That's worse than the speech my grandpa made when my cousin married a Japanese girl.
Jack Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack Character Comedy Visual Gag Steve Austin: We should bring back slavery!
Steve Austin: As God is my witness, we will build casinos on the moon!
