Tracy regains his sense of smell and finds an unusual father figure in Liz, while the writers spark a prank war with Jenna.
Eighty-one jokes in 25 minutes: 30 Rock's escalation engine hits peak velocity.
Directed by John Riggi · Written by Lauren Gurganous, Nina Pedrad
WAR
115
Wins Above Replacement
“Nothing Left To Lose” ranks #4 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 93.0 — Elite. The episode packs 81 scored jokes at 3.2 per minute, averaging 7.5 on craft and 7.3 on impact, with Tracy landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Jenna: I want to be famous to make people love me because I hate myself. The Jenna I talk to at night in the mirror thinks I should kill myself. Also, I caused that Italian cruise ship to crash.
Jenna Character Comedy Escalation Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Pete: I was mugged by what I'm pretty sure was two five-year-olds in a trench coat.
Pete Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Kenneth: Ms. Maroney, judging is for God and his angels. So, yes, you are.
Kenneth Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jack: It looks like a swastika made out of penises.
Jack Dark/Subversive Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Dr. Spaceman: Goodbye only evidence tying me to my ex-wife's disappearance.
All Jokes — 81 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Jack: My greatest weakness is humility. I'm probably the most humble person in the whole world.
Jack Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Unknown coworker: What three words best describe me? The. Complete. Package. My greatest weakness... Is chocolate.
Jack · Jenna: When I used to live with Liz, I would videotape her sleeping and sell it to Japanese businessmen
Jack Jenna Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: No wonder that tour group kept calling me 'sleep whore-San.'
Liz Callback Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Jenna: I filled it out last night after mixing alcohol with prescription... exhaustion.
Jenna Wordplay/Pun Misdirection Jack: This is the biggest waste of time since NBC's diversity writing program. That was a good idea, but all of our actors are so white.
Jack Meta/Self-Referential Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Tracy: Slap it to me, Daddy-O. Popo popped dookie down by the vacants.
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy Jenna: I was shooting blow darts at Maggie Gyllenhaal from a heating vent.
Jenna Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jenna: He's directing a live-action Smurfs sequel, so I went to Times Square, did cartwheels like he asked...
Jenna Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Jenna: This isn't body paint. It's a spray they use to kill geese at airports.
Jenna Dark/Subversive Escalation Liz: Did you pass out in a goose costume at LaGuardia?
Liz Callback Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy: It's called 'Desire,' but with a 'Z' instead of the second 'E.'
Tracy Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Tracy: The Knicks, a mop from a strip club, a carefree hobo, a crate with a new giraffe in it, and broccoli.
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: I feel an old Jack-o-lantern from last Halloween.
Tracy Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy: Who has the time, with work, family and hobbies and listing excuses?
Tracy Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: It smells like grandma's house at Christmas. That's when we found her dead on the toilet.
Liz Dark/Subversive Misdirection ★ Rewatch Pete: Those look like hands to me.
Pete Wordplay/Pun Deadpan/Understatement Jack: What if the Wright brothers had said, 'let's just keep making bicycles,' or Alexander windowblinds had said, 'no, I don't want to partially see outside'?
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Pete: The last time I tried to put myself out there, the girl turned out to be a cop.
Pete Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Pete: What? Like Frasier? But that's fun...
Pete Character Comedy Misdirection Pete: My father was a congressman. I was valedictorian at St. Andrew's, an olympic archer, fourth guitarist in Loverboy... As a teenager.
Pete Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Jack: George W. Bush, during his 'let's do coke and buy the Texas rangers' phase. But he made a decision to be the best president ever and then he was.
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Dr. Spaceman · Tracy: I can either drill a hole in the back of your head, and push it out with your brain... Okay, that sounds good.
Dr. Spaceman: Being a doctor is exactly like the game 'Operation.' And there we go.
Tracy: Women staying quiet.
Tracy Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Tracy: If my Foster mom saw it, she would make me sell it at a pawn shop to get our family a cheerio.
Tracy Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dr. Spaceman: Sometimes I think the stories of your childhood poverty are exaggerated, but continue.
Dr. Spaceman Meta/Self-Referential Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Dr. Spaceman: I was talking to my lover on my Bluetooth. One moment, suki.
Dr. Spaceman: Please try to get it on video for my nephew's funny website.
Unknown character: May I suggest messily eating an orange while I photograph it?
Kenneth: The Bible says it's wrong, but it's the surprise hit of the season on ABC, so I don't know.
Kenneth Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Jenna: Who even remembers 2007?
Jenna Character Comedy Absurdist Kenneth: In this big trash bag, I see everyone's mistakes, their embarrassing secrets, their dreams they don't dare share with anyone.
Kenneth Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Kenneth: They call me 'the natural.' I'm so good, the other janitors just sit in the basement all day getting drunk and laughing about this idiot they know.
Kenneth Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jack: Like a couple of Jews watching The Daily Show.
Jack Character Comedy Observational Pete: Including the one that looked like a terrified Asian man?
Pete Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Jack: Except of course, uh, hide and seek.
Jack Character Comedy Misdirection Pete: Actually she took me that first night.
Pete Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Jack: For God's sake, Hornberger, the dummy is winning!
Jack Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Pete: I'm submitting to its strength. It's the Alpha.
Pete Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy: ♪ Perfume and roses and strong halitosis ♪ ♪ Powders and flowers and spicy clam chowders ♪
Tracy Character Comedy Callback Tracy Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Frank: She writes the songs herself. When she can't cry any more, she writes!
Frank Character Comedy Escalation Liz: You're the man who took professional boudoir photographs and then tried to mail them to Parade magazine columnist Marilyn Vos Savant.
Liz Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Toofer: I happen to think that smart is sexy. Our foreplay would be puzzle-solving.
Toofer Character Comedy Escalation Callback Liz Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive Liz: You don't do 22 episodes of 'Celebrity outhouse' with Lorena Bobbitt without learning a few things.
Liz Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Dotcom: Midnight symphony. You are the conductor of your own proud African orchestra.
Dotcom Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Tracy: You didn't go to the store for milk and heroin and then never come back.
Tracy Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Jack: Corn is not the only thing he popped, if you know what I mean.
Jack: Great men like Richard Nixon, the 1980 olympic hockey team, my good friend John Rambo.
Jack Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Pete: I was mugged by what I'm pretty sure was two five-year-olds in a trench coat.
Pete Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: No, I'm quoting myself talking to Bruce Willis.
Jack Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Liz: If it isn't tweedle-Dee and tweedle-black.
Liz Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Liz: If you can't stand the heat, get off of Mickey Rourke's sex grill.
Liz Wordplay/Pun Absurdist ★ Rewatch Frank: He is estranged from his son Kellan Lutz from Twilight.
Frank Character Comedy Absurdist Jenna: I want to be famous to make people love me because I hate myself. The Jenna I talk to at night in the mirror thinks I should kill myself. Also, I caused that Italian cruise ship to crash.
Jenna Character Comedy Escalation Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Tracy: This is my Jimmy Fallon impression. Awesome, awesome, I love it! It's my favorite!
Tracy: It's a California Kong, which is two California kings tied together with gorilla leather.
Tracy Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Tracy: Do you know what she does in her underwear? Something I once did at the oscars that caused Daryl Hannah to throw up on me.
Tracy Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Tracy: John Adams and Mitt Romney enter.
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy Lutz: That girl at Starbucks smiles at everybody, Lutz. Everybody! She doesn't want you to kiss her.
Lutz Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Kenneth: Ms. Maroney, judging is for God and his angels. So, yes, you are.
Kenneth Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Kenneth: To use a technical janitorial term, total ass.
Kenneth Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Jack: Or I could be 6 feet under... In the subterranean paradise we built to escape the poor.
Jack Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Frank: We took photos of you and sold them to a garbage fetish website.
Frank Character Comedy Escalation Lutz: Kellan Lutz isn't my son. He's my grandnephew and we're very close.
Lutz Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Jenna: Thanks to you guys, I'm the fourth worst.
Jenna Character Comedy Escalation Callback Lutz: Kellan Lutz isn't my son. He's my grandnephew and we're very close.
Lutz Callback Misdirection ★ Rewatch Callback Jack: Like some sort of American Barack Obama.
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist Jack: It looks like a swastika made out of penises.
Jack Dark/Subversive Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Pete: Do you know what it's like to try to have sex wearing a child's little orphan Annie wig?
Pete Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Pete: Do you know what it's like to try to have sex wearing a child's little orphan Annie wig?
Pete Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: 'Cause so much of me has died.
Tracy Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Tracy: Pop dookie down by the vacants?
Tracy Callback Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Dr. Spaceman: My bitch ex-wife would be a millionaire. May she rest in peace.
Tracy: A magnolia tree in spring, the towels at a miss Hawaiian tropic contest, the sweat of a terrified Webster as you load him into a Cannon.
Tracy Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Pencil topper: Get a haircut, or I'm gonna shove you up a black guy's nose.
Dr. Spaceman: Goodbye only evidence tying me to my ex-wife's disappearance.
Jack: Or whatever NBC is in five years. A T-shirt company probably?
Jack Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Pete: In five years, I'll probably be dead and no one will even notice, and yes, this is my second attempt to writing my self evaluation.
Pete Character Comedy Dark/Subversive 