Jack's mom upstages his ribbon-cutting ceremony. Meanwhile Jenna hooks up with a "rock star" and Tracy frets about his son heading to college.
Absurdist humor dominates 87.6-rated episode with 2.32 jokes-per-minute velocity.
Directed by Linda Mendoza · Written by Ron Weiner
WAR
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Wins Above Replacement
“Meet The Woggels!” ranks #42 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 87.6 — Elite. The episode packs 59 scored jokes at 2.3 per minute, averaging 7.4 on craft and 7.2 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
Tracy: Like teaching him how to ride a bike... Down the Luxor pyramid. Or drive a car... Vel franchise into the ground. I never even taught him how to shave... An orangutan.
Tracy Setup/Punchline Escalation ★ Rewatch Dr. Singh: We found your name on a list of disappointments she keeps folded up in her shoe.
Grizz: Tray, montage got married and quit stripping.
Grizz Setup/Punchline Absurdist ★ Rewatch Kenneth: My eight-year-old niece walked down the aisle to that song at her wedding.
Kenneth Setup/Punchline Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Russ: ♪ separate the races, mommy kangaroo ♪
Russ Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 59 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Liz: The TGS sweatshirts were supposed to say 'TGS Season Six, Yuck,' which is a catch-phrase from a pretty great sketch. Yuck! But they got misprinted and now they say, 'TGS Season Six, Duck!' And that's a season five catchphrase. Duck!?
Liz Setup/Punchline Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Jack: A real problem is losing your giant scissors right before a ribbon-cutting for a couch factory. I just...had them.
Jack Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Oh, thank God. I thought I'd lost them.
Jack Visual Gag Character Comedy Jack: factories provide three things this country desperately needs: Jobs, pride, and material for Bruce Springsteen songs.
Jack Setup/Punchline Observational ★ Rewatch Kenneth: Oh, I listened to rock and roll music once, but I stopped before I started worshipping the devil. The song went, 'Mr. Sandma--', then I shut it off.
Kenneth Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Liz: Back in Chicago, I walked in on you with the guy from blues traveler. He still had his harmonica thing on.
Liz Setup/Punchline Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Jenna: Like Yoko Ono and the Beatles, or Lance Drake Mandrell and Wilson Phillips.
Jenna Setup/Punchline Observational ★ Rewatch Liz · Jenna: They sold out Madison square garden in nine minutes, for a Tuesday morning show. Wait, who plays on a Tuesday morning?
Liz Jenna Setup/Punchline Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jenna: I don't know, just a little band called the Woggels. ♪ apples are red ♪ ♪ bananas are yellow ♪ ♪ I love my friends, bananas are yellow ♪
Jenna Setup/Punchline Absurdist ★ Rewatch Kenneth: My eight-year-old niece walked down the aisle to that song at her wedding.
Kenneth Setup/Punchline Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jenna: Well, it ticks off a lot of boxes on my sexual walkabout list. 'Yoko a band, make love to a beloved children's entertainer, be with a non-aboriginal Australian--'
Jenna Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: Maybe Raffi. Or the sedated prisoner they put inside of Barney.
Jenna Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Tracy: Something terrible has happened! And for once I'm not talking about the collapse of the middle class.
Tracy Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: I didn't even get in, and I was first in my class. Although, only seven of us graduated that year because of a bad mono outbreak which somehow missed me, despite all the frenching I did.
Liz Setup/Punchline Escalation ★ Rewatch Tracy: We go to the school of hard knocks, a one-year vocational program where you learn to bang on doors and scare people into subscribing to magazines that they'll never get.
Tracy Setup/Punchline Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Tracy · Dotcom: Really, Dotcom? How did your city council campaign go? Well, as far as raising the level of discourse in this city? I'd say it was a great success.
Tracy Dotcom Setup/Punchline Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Dr. Singh: Born April 24, 1925, at Boston catholic guilt hospital.
Dr. Singh: We found your name on a list of disappointments she keeps folded up in her shoe.
Colleen: Dr. Singh, are you stealing my hats? What do you do, feed them to your cow God?
Colleen Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Colleen: Ooh, sofa. Somebody got all flouncy when I wasn't looking. What are you gonna do, put on your galoshes and go eat some fruit, like a Frenchman?
Colleen Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Colleen: What are you gonna do, put on your galoshes and go eat some fruit, like a Frenchman?
Colleen: Yes, I know it's over, Kouchie. Unlike you, I have eyes.
Colleen Setup/Punchline Cringe/Discomfort Ian: Nothing can tear us apart... Except for the shark that got a hold of the fifth woggel.
Ian Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jack: My good friend dick Cheney got one. A month later, he and I went hunting in Mexico. He shot thousands of doves that day and only hit me in the leg once.
Jack Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Like the flashlight in my race war preparedness bag.
Jack Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jack: She's referring to my birth.
Jack Setup/Punchline Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Colleen: This is supposed to be a hospital, not a Japanese internment camp I volunteered at during the war.
Colleen Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jack: You could look out at the park and watch carriage horses being whipped. I know how you love that.
Jack Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Colleen: What if I run into Eloise? Am I supposed not to mention the fact that she has a gay grandson? Everybody knows!
Colleen Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Because at Ellis island, your mother's name was recorded as 'unclaimed Irish stowaway.'
Jack Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy · George Foreman · Grizz: Son, we have a lot of work to do today if I'm gonna 'reverse Urkel' you. Dad, I just want to read. Jordan men don't read. Grizz, tear this book in half.
Grizz: Tray, montage got married and quit stripping.
Grizz Setup/Punchline Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: Next thing you know, they'll be giving her his retractable wings and rocket arms.
Jack Setup/Punchline Absurdist Jack: Lemon, my mother did explain sex to me, three years ago. There were...drawings.
Jack Setup/Punchline Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Liz: You talk in your sleep. I know what you did in the war, and before you die, I want you to know that I know.
Liz Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jack: like Bill Belichick listening to Adele.
Jack Setup/Punchline Observational ★ Rewatch Jack: As my coffee cup said this morning, 'you only regret the things you didn't do. This cup was made from recycled toilet paper.'
Jack Setup/Punchline Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jenna: And this is coming from someone Quincy Jones once pushed off a boat.
Jenna Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: It doesn't matter what this brain thinks. It matters what this brain thinks.
Jenna Visual Gag Setup/Punchline Jack: Dean Cain is always there hoping to get recognized.
Jack Setup/Punchline Observational Colleen: Can we do something about the temperature in here? I'd like it humid and cold. Duck!
Colleen Callback Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Callback Russ: In Australia, 'woggel' means 'white.'
Russ Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jenna: No, you don't know what you're talking about. Paul isn't gonna-- I mean, Russ. Paul is American for Russ.
Jenna Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Colleen: God on a wheel! Jackie and I know how we feel. We don't have to say it out loud like a couple of gays getting married in jean shorts in Provincetown while I'm just trying to enjoy an ice cream on the pier!
Colleen Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz · Colleen: 'Say it out, speak it clear. You should listen, dude. Also, hear. It's too late, when--' You have two minutes to find that battery before I die.
Grizz: Tony will rush it for me. We do zumba together.
Grizz Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Tracy: Like teaching him how to ride a bike... Down the Luxor pyramid. Or drive a car... Vel franchise into the ground. I never even taught him how to shave... An orangutan.
Tracy Setup/Punchline Escalation ★ Rewatch Tracy: Hey, Angie. What's up? You had the baby? Okay. Name him George foreman. And also, we're out of soda at home. Lamont, hurry up and deliver that baby before they realize we're not doctors.
Tracy Setup/Punchline Escalation ★ Rewatch Dotcom: All My Children... was cancelled.
Dotcom Setup/Punchline Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Russ: ♪ separate the races, mommy kangaroo ♪
Russ Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Colleen: Sew up your cabbage hole, girl.
Colleen Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Colleen: If you were my kid, I'd mail you back to the stork.
Colleen Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: When I was eight, she took me to the post office because I spilled juice on a couch reserved for the pope, which has still never been used. He'll come.
Jack Setup/Punchline Escalation ★ Rewatch Jack: which you should know was actually wine.
Jack Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: Not a part of this, I get it. But I made this happen! I made this happen.
Liz Reaction Beat Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: because my tongue caught what my foot has.
Tracy Setup/Punchline Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Jenna: Oh, God. He's dressed like her. I'm too late. I've been replaced.
Jenna Visual Gag Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Jack: Oh, you'd know. You lived through it.
Jack Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Woggels: ♪ Feelings feelings feelings say how you feel ♪ ♪ Apples ♪ ♪ You taste good ♪ ♪ Trees ♪ ♪ You give us wood ♪ ♪ Grandma ♪ ♪ I am gay ♪ ♪ Bridge ♪ ♪ You turn me on in a sexual way ♪
Woggels Setup/Punchline Escalation ★ Rewatch