Jack feels unworthy of his latest award and attempts to redeem himself by taking on the writers in a strategic board game. Liz believes she's cursed on St. Patrick's Day when her ex-boyfriend Dennis shows up to derail her relationship with Criss. Meanwhile, Hazel struggles to keep the peace between Tracy and Jenna.
St. Patrick's Day episode hits 90.6 with 3.11 jokes per minute across 78 gags.
Directed by John Riggi · Written by Colleen McGuinness
WAR
103
Wins Above Replacement
“St. Patricks Day” ranks #12 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 90.6 — Elite. The episode packs 78 scored jokes at 3.1 per minute, averaging 7.5 on craft and 7.2 on impact, with Liz landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Hazel: I'll take care of Tracy and Jenna like they're my own children. Which is a bad example, because I left my kids at a sears in 2004
Hazel Dark/Subversive Misdirection ★ Rewatch Liz: I thought it was contributing to a retirement account
Liz Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dennis: You're the most Irish person here
Dennis Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Today Malaar... Tomorrow Kabletown.
Jack Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Jenna: It's like sex, but your husband isn't looking at a picture of a bridge
Jenna Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 78 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Tracy · Jenna: Wake up, mother-. / Die, demon! / Why didn't you ever call me back?
Jack: Unfortunately, unless Harry's law really took off this week and no one told me, you two are the biggest stars at the network
Jack Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Jenna: On television, and when it comes to the assisted suicide debate
Jenna Absurdist Misdirection Tracy · Jenna: Secret handshake, my baloney
Hazel: It's the tail I had until I was 16
Hazel Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Hazel: I'll take care of Tracy and Jenna like they're my own children. Which is a bad example, because I left my kids at a sears in 2004
Hazel Dark/Subversive Misdirection ★ Rewatch Kenneth: He's only allergic to allergy medication. But he loves it
Hazel: The U.S. Rodeo Association does not lift lifetime bans
Hazel Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Liz: Michael Lohan and vomiting into a bagpipe
Liz Observational Absurdist Liz: I will be wearing head-to-toe orange, in honor of protestant William of Orange, inventor of the Orange, according to Yahoo answers
Liz Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz Wordplay/Pun Observational Liz: write a meandering play about how amazing the Irish are at not overcoming adversity
Liz Observational Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Liz: Please, without Germans, you wouldn't have any of the Indiana Jones movies
Liz Absurdist Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Liz: I thought it was contributing to a retirement account
Liz Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: Take it back, you witch!
Liz Cringe/Discomfort Escalation Ira Glass · Drunk Irish person: Hey, what are you doing? Get out of my studio! / Happy St. Patrick's day!
Ira Glass: Didn't you hear my show on bullying?
Ira Glass Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: Megan! Megan! Look at them spin around. They're so confused. It's too many Megans, right?
Liz Observational Physical/Slapstick Liz: You know what, I can't wait till the asians take over
Liz Dark/Subversive Observational Dennis · Criss: I tried to steal beer from a Duane reade, and some black guy cold-cocked me. / Ooh, like a security guard? / I don't know, pal. I don't see people that way
Hazel · Jenna: Oh, Michael Jackson's ghost... / Oh, Great Kabbalah monster...
Jenna: Oh, my God! They said my name first
Jenna Character Comedy Reaction Beat Tracy: like on the set ocean's 12, when I put that snake in George Clooney's bed. I was not in the movie
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: You better not be talking about my dear friend, America Ferrera
Tracy Wordplay/Pun Absurdist Jenna: I'll replace your lizard with a gay guy in a giant champagne bottle
Jenna Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Tracy Absurdist Observational Jenna: The only baloney Tracy has is the baloney he's full of
Jenna Callback Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy · Hazel: I killed Jenna elfman. / Is that right?
Tracy Hazel Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Hazel: Jenna thinks that Christina Aguilera lost her voice during childbirth
Hazel Absurdist Character Comedy Hazel: Why don't we drive to Sears? I'll buy you a toy
Hazel Dark/Subversive Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Frank: None of the writers can go out on St. Patrick's day because we all have faces people naturally just want to punch
Frank Observational Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Frank: Colonizers of Malaar. It's a strategy board game from the makers Goblet quest and virginity keep
Frank Wordplay/Pun Observational ★ Rewatch Frank: but that means I control all the wheat!
Frank Character Comedy Escalation Jack: You've got to replace 'Malaar' with 'Fairfield, Connecticut,' and 'unicorn' with... unicorn, a death Ray
Jack Absurdist Misdirection ★ Rewatch Dennis: I got this new business where I burn your old DVDs onto laserdisc
Dennis Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dennis: I don't have health insurance because of Obama
Dennis Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Criss: At burning man, and we agreed never to talk about that. At sunset, the CACTI start to resemble people looking for hugs
Criss Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dennis: We're bang brothers
Dennis Cringe/Discomfort Absurdist Jenna: It's like sex, but your husband isn't looking at a picture of a bridge
Jenna Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Hazel: After you PMS-ed about their names yesterday, I thought numbers would make everyone happy
Hazel Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Hazel: Would a third host help? I am S.A.G. eligible, but I will only do nude stuff if there's a mirror behind me
Hazel Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Toofer: That failed... And the Orcs raped everybody
Toofer Dark/Subversive Escalation Frank: Thanks a lot, Klootzak. I don't come to where you work and slap the...
Lutz: And you would presume to wield the scepter of Thalbain?
Lutz Character Comedy Escalation Liz: Dennis Duffy is like the Terminator with cheaper sunglasses
Liz Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dennis · Liz: You'll be back. / If I ever see you again, I'll kill you. / You'll be back, Liz Lemon. You'll be back
Criss · Liz: Guy with a concussion on St. Patrick's day is like a horse with a broken leg. / Exactly. We should shoot him
Criss Liz Dark/Subversive Misdirection ★ Rewatch Dennis: Criss, get in here. There's a lez movie on showtime
Dennis Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Jack: I'm trapped in a barren wasteland, and no matter what I do, I can't get out. Wait. Oh, my God, it's happening again. The desert of Kroth is Kabletown
Jack Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: I'm putting an old German curse on you
Jack Callback Escalation Callback Liz: when I wake up, we're on our honeymoon. At seaworld
Liz Character Comedy Escalation Liz · Criss: And once again, the puppet will become the puppet master. / What does that mean, 'once again'? That's not a thing
Liz Criss Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Dennis: Their daughter, she goes off to college, and Mark Ruffalo, he's just gonna do his own thing with the restaurant
Dennis Absurdist Character Comedy Dennis: She's a card girl at kangaroo boxing matches, so she's got a body, and she's loaded. Her grandfather invented the stop sign
Dennis Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Criss · Liz: Love you. / You're the best. / Love you. / Scooby-doo. / I love you. / I just ordered thai food
Criss Liz Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Jenna: Why, because you both have had huge weight fluctuations?
Jenna Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Hazel: By starting a fire and then rescuing everyone from it? And then I'm a hero and then I'm Playboy?
Hazel Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Priest: Whoa, buy me a drink first.
Priest Observational Character Comedy Father: His only worldly possession was no snakes
Megan: I passed out laughing on 69th Street
Megan Absurdist Character Comedy Megan: You got two minutes to fill a sock with quarters, and then we go outside
Megan: You got two minutes to fill a sock with quarters, and then we go outside.
Megan Character Comedy Escalation Dennis: You're the most Irish person here
Dennis Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Hazel: Is 70 not a good IQ?
Hazel Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: And not just 'cause today's the day that guy that tried to kill me gets out of jail
Tracy Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Tracy: When I was a kid, you could get a prostitute for $5
Jack: I'm going to turn my desert into glass, and glass is a commodity that you all need
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: I'm going to turn my desert into glass, and glass is a commodity that you all need, for your elfin oracle mirrors, for your crystal palace, for the colorful glass beads that you keep buying for some reason.
Jack Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Jack · Lutz: for the colorful glass beads that you keep buying for some reason. / I'm going to wear them to the pirates' ball
Jack Lutz Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Today Malaar... Tomorrow Kabletown.
Jack Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Sue: I am a virgin... with white guys.
Sue Character Comedy Misdirection Lutz: I am a virgin... with white guys
Lutz Misdirection Cringe/Discomfort Liz: More importantly, I have never been with someone for longer than nine months. You and I have been together for six, so I assume something will go wrong soon
Liz Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Random person: I don't understand your art, Kevin
Criss Observational Character Comedy Liz Callback Observational ★ Rewatch Tracy: That is a person named Liz Lemon who just told some dude she loves him. Well, I have known her for a long time and she never said that before
Tracy Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: Also, TV viewers liked when in a show is a song
Tracy Meta/Self-Referential Misdirection 