Kabletown chooses to stop funding live shows for TGS. While Liz and Jack embrace the change, Kenneth argues that live format should be kept intact, and he tries to convince the TGS staff to fight for their right to be live by taking them and our audience through a magical look back at the illustrious history of Studio 6H.
The episode was filmed twice. The East Coast version aired for the Eastern, Central and Mountain time zones. The West Coast version was aired in the western, Alaskan and Hawaiian time zones.
Live broadcast format sustains 89.8 score across 49 jokes—highest-density episode of Season 6.
Directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller · Written by Jack Burditt, Tina Fey
WAR
67.9
Wins Above Replacement
“Live From Studio 6H” ranks #21 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 89.8 — Elite. The episode packs 49 scored jokes at 2.3 per minute, averaging 7.4 on craft and 7.3 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
Dr. Spaceman: Nine out of ten doctors surveyed said, You have a lot of nerve calling here Spaceman, after what you've tried on my nephew.
Jack: I will roast you alive in an oven I design myself, using two, no, three kinds of heat.
Jack Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: We both know you're not due for another nine days.
Kenneth Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: Hello, I'd like to speak to General Electric. I was a nurse in the war and I met him when he was just a colonel.
Tracy Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Paul: Liza Minnelli's baby tooth surrounded by rubies that passed through a terrified Michael Kors.
Paul Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 49 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Jack: Do you really love the overzealous studio audience who will applaud at anything? Here in the greatest city on earth, New York City, baby? Whassup?
Jack Meta/Self-Referential Observational ★ Rewatch Jack: From now on, you write and shoot the whole season in two weeks like 'Wheel of fortune' or FOX news.
Jack Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Liz: Best sweet 16 ever. I'm going to lose my virginity in nine years.
Liz Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Liz: There's a bathroom in here you can use, Cabletown coworker Kim Kardashian.
Liz Absurdist Meta/Self-Referential Liz: I want to go to there.
Liz Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy: But unlike the wildfires I've started, this one doesn't sexually arouse me.
Tracy Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: An important me-nouncement.
Jenna Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: You didn't let me finish. S.
Jenna Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: I've been working on my reaction since I was 3. Aaah!
Jenna Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Liz: Oh, my god. He's going to die in there.
Liz Observational Cringe/Discomfort Jack: '12 angry men' is preposterous Kenneth. 11 decent Americans are swayed by Jane Fonda's father?
Jack Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Hazel: Next stop, Hollywood, Florida to get the car from my mom. Next stop, California, pizza kitchen. And tell my old boss, to suck it. Next stop, Tinseltown, because Christmas decorations are really cheap this time of year.
Hazel Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Announcer: Made with milk, is the cheese that won World War II. Don't ask how.
Larry: One of these days, Doris, I'm going to take a shot and blam! Blow your face off.
Larry Dark/Subversive Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Doris: I'm having a heart attack, too. My marriage is a sham. I got syphilis from Orson Wells.
Doris Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dr. Spaceman: I'm doctor Harold Spaceman. I'm known in the industry as the 'Gay doctor', because I always have a smile on my face. Because I had homosexual lovers.
Dr. Spaceman: Your baby's lungs need refreshing nicotine for science reasons. And his growing bones need tar to hold them together.
Dr. Spaceman: Nine out of ten doctors surveyed said, You have a lot of nerve calling here Spaceman, after what you've tried on my nephew.
Jenna: Thank you. Just portion control and exercise.
Jenna Character Comedy Running Gag ★ Rewatch Callback Paul: Liza Minnelli's baby tooth surrounded by rubies that passed through a terrified Michael Kors.
Paul Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Paul: Rick Santorum is right Jenna. Marriage is a sacred union between a man and a woman.
Paul Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: according to Roe v. Dwyane Wade, I have a right to choose.
Jenna Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Paul: I may have a dress and a wig and a gynecologist, but I am the man.
Paul Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Lutz: Oh, I had a lobster role and two yogurts.
Lutz Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Joey Montero: I slept like a baby last night. I woke up crying with a boob in my mouth.
Joey Montero: I can see it inside your mouth.
Joey Montero: I can see it inside your mouth.
Joey Montero: Oh, I just burped up some clams casino which is weird because I didn't even have any.
Kenneth: because they thought two black people on the same show would make the audience nervous. A rule NBC still uses today.
Kenneth Dark/Subversive Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Theodore Freeman: Oh, hell no. I am not doing this.
Theodore Freeman: I was a tuskegee airman. Zip-a-Dee-goo-goo.
Jack: Are you telling me the mayor of your hometown is a car?
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dr. Spaceman: Hello. I'm test tube adult doctor Leo Speceman.
Dr. Spaceman: Then use the rectum you have instead of a mouth to say something like 'wrulgh' or 'thunghth'
Liz: It's my period. It's a-gonna blow.
Liz Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Kenneth: We both know you're not due for another nine days.
Kenneth Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dickie/Nipsey: What do you get when you cross a lady driver with a with a Vietcong? A hundreed thousands senseless days.
Chet/David: I'm sorry, sweetheart, could you move out of the way of our camera? We need to talk to our new reporter there, Jamie Garnett.
Kenneth: that woman who stole his microphone went on to become a wife.
Kenneth Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Hazel: This is New York state bitch, anyone can marry anything now.
Hazel Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy: Ow, my coccyx! It's not funny. Coccyx is the scientific term for your butt bone.
Tracy Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: Hello, I'd like to speak to General Electric. I was a nurse in the war and I met him when he was just a colonel.
Tracy Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy: Daddy, it's your son, Toby Electric.
Tracy Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy: Yeah, except your mom last night.
Tracy Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Jack: I will roast you alive in an oven I design myself, using two, no, three kinds of heat.
Jack Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: you should do it with the upcoming Warner Brothers movie, 'Rock of ages,' based on the hit Broadway musical. Rocking a theater near you June 15th. Tom Cruise sings.
Jack Meta/Self-Referential Absurdist ★ Rewatch Paul: 'Old' being an acronym for oxylaprodexatrin, a hallucinogenic plant extract that makes sex terrifying.
Paul Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: No, no, a million times no. Not like this. I was wrong. You were right.
Jenna Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Liz: Wow. Wow, 2.5 million people just saw that. And now 14 million people saw it.
Liz Meta/Self-Referential Escalation ★ Rewatch 