In order to hide his relationship with Lynn, Frank convinces his mother that he is dating Liz. Tracy and Jenna team up to try to solve the case of Pete's missing whisky. Meanwhile, Jack teaches Kenneth how to take down his first business nemesis.
Detective noir parody sustains 2.44 jokes per minute with zero setup wasted.
Directed by Michael Slovis · Written by John Riggi
WAR
92.4
Wins Above Replacement
“Alexis Goodlooking And The Case Of The M” ranks #5 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 92.8 — Elite. The episode packs 61 scored jokes at 2.4 per minute, averaging 7.6 on craft and 7.4 on impact, with Kenneth landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Lynn: In prison, I was part of a fake family with a bald woman, and our son was a basketball with a wig on it, but... okay. This is creepy.
Lynn Absurdist Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Kenneth: Son, if you wanna get ahead in this world... Oh, God, this hurts... Tell your mother I'm gay.
Kenneth Setup/Punchline Misdirection ★ Rewatch Kenneth: This movie was written by white nerds.
Kenneth Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: except accused witches.
Kenneth Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Henry: both my sons are magicians
Henry Absurdist Character Comedy All Jokes — 61 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Sylvia: There she is! Whore of whores!
Sylvia Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Sylvia: Dio mio,i'm an old fool. What is wrong with me? My boy's in love! Come over for dinner. Tonight. Do you like ox, Liz? I'll defrost an ox for you.
Sylvia Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Liz: I have a boyfriend. In Canada.
Liz Meta/Self-Referential Observational Liz · Lynn: And I can't be your girlfriend, 'cause I'm not an old pedophile. We prefer the term adultophobe.
Liz Lynn Dark/Subversive Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Lynn: I got really good at hiding in prison and making wine in my toilet.
Lynn Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Lynn: In prison, I was part of a fake family with a bald woman, and our son was a basketball with a wig on it, but... okay. This is creepy.
Lynn Absurdist Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Liz: Like that parasite I got from eating Sushi on AmTrak.
Liz Character Comedy Observational Jack: And I'm including making it through the '80s without having sex with Belinda Carlisle.
Jack Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Kenneth: We have far too many sponsors that make housework easier for women.
Kenneth Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Kenneth: Son, if you wanna get ahead in this world... Oh, God, this hurts... Tell your mother I'm gay.
Kenneth Setup/Punchline Misdirection ★ Rewatch Pete: Someone with a key to my office, a janitor or a security guard or some black... Hearted individual, probably white
Pete Misdirection Observational Tracy: My Uncle was a cop... In a porno.
Tracy Setup/Punchline Misdirection Jenna: Mine was called goodlooking. I played Alexis goodlooking who was also good-looking, and my special ability was being good at looking for clues.
Jenna Wordplay/Pun Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: But I do know America's kinda like this here crab apple tree... John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Tracy Character Comedy Absurdist Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Kenneth: We can't say 'dick wolf' on TV.
Jack: by the end of this quarter, we're all gonna be in the black... comma... guys. Not, we're all gonna be in the black guys.
Jack Wordplay/Pun Observational Kenneth Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Henry: Let's do some cocaine.
Henry Character Comedy Observational Kenneth: Like 'lazy Susan,' 'cause I'm lazy and effeminate.
Kenneth Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Jack: Pizza demon! No, that can't be right.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: except accused witches.
Kenneth Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Sylvia Character Comedy Visual Gag Jenna: I should tell my husband I'm gonna be late tonight. No, wait, I can't. He's dead.
Jenna Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Lutz: We wanted booze, but we didn't wanna hang out with Pete. It's the worst! He always brings out his guitar and sings. He's got one story, and it's about him seeing Phil Donahue at a mall.
Lutz Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Callback Kenneth: posing for 'Prayboy.'
Kenneth Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bradley: Shut up! Just shut up, Roy! I am talking to Kenneth. I'm dealing with something! No one wants to hear from you.
Bradley Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Sylvia Character Comedy Observational Sylvia: That's where the vampires used to live.
Sylvia Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Sylvia: You're sitting at dinner next to a beautiful older woman. Eat something and kiss her!
Sylvia Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Sylvia · Liz: Elizabeth, I'm gonna ask you to leave. But this is my...
Jack: Pray for a body switch mix-up so we can see the world from each other's perspectives?
Jack Meta/Self-Referential Absurdist ★ Rewatch Pete: Look, all I wanted to do was hang with my friends, rock some jams, and tell the story about my cousin seeing Phil Donahue. I mean me! I-I'm the one who saw him.
Pete Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Pete: I mean me! I-I'm the one who saw him.
Pete Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy: Don't fall in love with your car?
Tracy Misdirection Character Comedy Frank: Oh, God. It was mice! The blanket was mice!
Frank Physical/Slapstick Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Frank: It's the only part where we weren't having break-up sex.
Frank Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Frank: It's the only part where we weren't having break-up sex.
Frank Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Henry: Henry Warren-Chang. I married a very bossy Chinese lady.
Henry: I lease a certified pre-owned lexus, both my sons are magicians, and for my birthday, wei-lin got me tickets to the Broadway show Memphis.
Henry Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Henry: both my sons are magicians
Henry Absurdist Character Comedy Jack: Well... that sofa is made from sea biscuit.
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Henry: Regular white-tan candle color, Jack!
Henry Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Jenna · Tracy · Toofer: You're gonna hang out with Pete every night this week. Why would we do that? 'Cause we have you dead to rights, you black bastard!
Tracy: We know you ordered a porn version of Temple Grandin entitled ten poles rammed in.
Tracy Wordplay/Pun Dark/Subversive Tracy: Who attacked you and gave you that haircut?
Tracy Character Comedy Observational Tracy: No one should have to be married to Gerard Butler. Or hilary swank!
Tracy Character Comedy Observational Liz: Forget it, Tracy. It's midtown.
Liz Meta/Self-Referential Observational ★ Rewatch Jack: I've met jaleel White. Incredibly charismatic. He makes Stefan urquelle look like Steve urkel.
Jack Meta/Self-Referential Absurdist ★ Rewatch Kenneth: like stone Mountain's mailman riding his trusty donkey erasmus.
Kenneth Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Like Hitler... Or Willy wonka.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Frank: I get all my news from the radio in Grand Theft Auto.
Frank Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Lynn: Ma'am, I am in a Mexican prison gang. You kill me, Los Tiberones will green-light a 1-8-7 on you, and you don't want that kind of heat.
Lynn Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Liz: Your meatballs. Lynn and Frank... Are just as good as your meatballs.
Liz Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Lynn: That's it? We're meatballs? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Lynn Reaction Beat Character Comedy Lynn: Johnny Carson in his monologue said I was looking at 20 years, but I'd probably be more attracted to 12.
Lynn Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Liz: Okay, but if you look at my Internet history, I'm researching a movie about two male centaurs kissing.
Liz Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Sylvia: This isn't creepy because you're dating your teacher. This is creepy because you're dating your mother. You found someone just like me because I'm the woman you really wanna be with!
Sylvia Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Pete: And Phil Donahue's walking past cinnabon and he's making eye contact with me
Pete Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Kenneth: My wife had two of the president's babies, and you're one of 'em.
Kenneth Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: Lord knows some of my friends are just shrubs I put hats on and get high with.
Kenneth Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Kenneth: This movie was written by white nerds.
Kenneth Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch 