An offensive rant by Tracy is leaked online. Jack disapproves of Liz's new boyfriend, and Jenna enlists Kenneth in helping to replace her dressing room lights.
Ninety-point elite status through absurdist escalation—2.96 jokes per minute relentless.
Directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller · Written by Robert Carlock
WAR
109.4
Wins Above Replacement
“Idiots Are People Two! (1)” ranks #88 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 96.4 — Elite. The episode packs 69 scored jokes at 3.1 per minute, averaging 7.7 on craft and 7.5 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
Pete: Jiminy Cricket, copyright Walt Disney Company, 1940!
Pete Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Idiot Protester: We're here, we're proud, I came up with this rhyme!
Jenna: Jenny McCarthy died? But who could have been slowly poisoning her? Was she poisoned? I have no way of knowing, because I'm just hearing about it.
Jenna Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jenna: Picking a lock is like riding a bike. They're both skills you need to escape the Atlanta Falcons' equipment room.
Jenna Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jenna: I am this close to becoming the spokeswoman for the vaginal mesh industry. / Vaginal mesh. Nice try, prolapse.
Jenna Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 69 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Liz: Oh, my God, is he dead? I... I don't know what happened.
Liz Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Kenneth: Easy as pie, Ms. Maroney. What could go wrong? Why would I even say that?
Kenneth Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy · Dot Com: TiVo nostalgia bit — two characters making 'boop-boop' and 'bung-bung' sounds back and forth, escalating.
Criss · Liz: It's Terry, the gender-neutral doll I had when I was a kid. And he/she has his/her baseball glove and baby. And both sets of genitals!
Criss: That was hard to track down. Today, almost all of them are in police evidence lockers.
Criss Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Liz: There's a whole other hand where that came from, big boy. Not my best.
Liz Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Liz · Criss: Fine, I'll stay! Gyah. Do you want a smiley face? German flag, please.
News Anchor · Jack: Jordan's comments are likely annoying his co-workers who thought they'd linger over breakfast this morning, perhaps with a new lover. Wow, that is some detailed reporting, Curry.
Liz · Protester: Do you think I'm pulling this hat off? No.
Jack: Did you know that Snuggles the fabric softener bear is gay? He's dating the Charmin cub.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy Liz: I thought they were babies. Unbelievable.
Liz Reaction Beat Character Comedy Tracy: Tracy pointing out gay coworkers: 'Him. Him. Her when she's drunk. I genuinely don't know. That one's a puzzler.'
Tracy Character Comedy Escalation Liz: It is the most organized of all the communities. They make the Japanese look like the Greeks.
Liz Irony/Sarcasm Observational Tracy · Liz: How is what I said offensive, and that's not? / Because no one heard me say it.
Tracy Liz Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Tracy: Being gay is stupid. If you want to see a penis, take off your pants.
Tracy Character Comedy Absurdist Tracy: If I got turned into a gay, I'd sit around all day and look at my own junk.
Tracy Character Comedy Absurdist Tracy · Diane (phone) · Liz: I already called Glad, Liz Lemon. / Thank you for calling Glad, stronger trash bags with less plastic...
Tracy: Remember when I offended stubborn people? That took forever to sort out.
Tracy Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy · Liz: Tracy's non-response: 'That's terrific, thank you.' / Liz realizes he thought she was offering to write the apology FOR him.
Jack: Because of my unfortunate situation with Avery, I'm alone. And I know of course that you're not seeing anyone, therefore I've decided that you and I should become friends with benefits.
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Jack: I saw you, Lemon. At the movies, last night, with your mouth on a man.
Jack Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Liz · Jack: Criss is trying to... / You can stop right there. / He's an entrepreneur. He's currently meeting with investors in the hopes of starting an organic gourmet hot dog truck.
Liz Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Jack: Lemon, I have said 'good God' to you before, but I don't think I've ever meant it until now. Good God!
Jack Character Comedy Running Gag ★ Rewatch Jack · Liz: Jersey City? His parents' apartment? It's not a walk-up, is it? / He's actually been living with me for the past month.
Liz: My jaw stopped popping. Listen. [silent beat]
Liz Character Comedy Visual Gag Jack: The fact that you felt you had to keep 'Chris' — and I'm saying his name with an 'h' and only one 's' — the fact that you kept him from me...
Jack Character Comedy Running Gag Callback Jack: The fact that you kept him from me simply proves that it doesn't matter whether I meet him or not. You already know what I would say, and you know I'm right.
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Coworkers · Liz: Who's not here, Liz? / I don't know, Liz. / I love you. / Oh, I love you too.
Jack: So I might as well meet him and get it over with. I'll probably love him. After all, we're both Princeton men.
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Jenna: Jenny McCarthy died? But who could have been slowly poisoning her? Was she poisoned? I have no way of knowing, because I'm just hearing about it.
Jenna Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jenna: I just found out this morning — Teri Polo and Ving Rhames called me at home.
Jenna Character Comedy Absurdist Jenna: Kenneth, do this for me, someone I hope you consider a friend, and who in return thinks of you as sort of an albino slave-monkey.
Jenna Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Liz: A statement from TGS head writer Elizabeth Lemon... I gotta get a real headshot.
Liz Character Comedy Reaction Beat Liz: And now, I am headed home for a 'nooner,' which is what I call having pancakes for lunch.
Liz Character Comedy Misdirection Callback Liz: I am headed home for a 'nooner,' which is what I call having pancakes for lunch.
Liz Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Callback Jenna: Picking a lock is like riding a bike. They're both skills you need to escape the Atlanta Falcons' equipment room.
Jenna Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jenna: Picking a lock is like riding a bike. They're both skills you need to escape the Atlanta Falcons' equipment room.
Jenna Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jenna: Are you as turned on as I am right now?
Jenna Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Jenna: Kenneth, I'm going to tell you what I told Phil Spector. 'It's gonna be okay, baby. We just have to get some trash bags and get back here before anyone's the wiser. Then we can keep recording my album.'
Jenna Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Pete: Oh, come on, Subhas. Got to keep daddy's special sleepy-place clean.
Pete Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Criss: I think I saw Billy Dee Williams in Riverside Park this morning when I was meeting dogs.
Criss Character Comedy Observational Jack: Now that seems like a good use of time for a busy entrepreneur.
Jack Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Jack: I like how his voice goes up at the ends of sentences. That's very masculine.
Jack Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Jack: Oh, my. Is that a tan line on Criss' thumb? Did Criss used to wear a thumb ring? / Oh, better hold on to this one. He's getting a free muffin soon.
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Jack: Oh, my. Is that a tan line on Criss' thumb? Did Criss used to wear a thumb ring? / Oh, better hold on to this one. He's getting a free muffin soon.
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Jack: Wow, I've never seen a Sunglass Hut credit card before.
Jack Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Criss · Liz: Which totally supports your theory that the Phillie Phanatic is biologically a female. Oh, yeah, if you watch those games, that thing definitely has a menstrual cycle.
Idiot Protester: We're here, we're proud, I came up with this rhyme!
Tracy · Scuba Guy: Frat guys, DJs, loud-mouthed old bitches, investment bankers, the tramp-stamped, parrot-heads, anti-vaccination crusaders, and people who won't shut up about scuba diving. / It's a whole other world down there.
Scuba Protester: It's a whole other world down there.
Denise Richards: That's right. I'm an idiot. Surprised? Well, I am. For all 'intensive purposes.'
Tracy · Protester: We will be out here every day, misremembering movie quotes. / Because as Braveheart said, 'you can take our freedom, unless you take our lives.'
Jack · Liz: Am I in your head, Lemon? / Yes, but don't be so proud. I also have a lot of imaginary arguments with the couples on House Hunters. Why can't people look past paint color?
Jack Liz Character Comedy Observational Jack · Liz: That week you wore those blue contact lenses. / I looked like Adriana Lima.
Jack Liz Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Liz · Jack: Do you have any water? / You know what, Lemon? Fine. You are technically an adult. You can do whatever you want.
Liz Jack Character Comedy Reaction Beat Liz · Jack: Really? So I won? With the train thing? / I won't ask any questions about Criss again. / You promise? / Promise. With two 's's.
Liz Jack Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Liz: You certainly need idiots. Who do you think is watching your show? Funky taste-makers? Black nerds, jet blue passengers who fall asleep with the TV on, pets whose owners have died, and, uh, idiots.
Liz Irony/Sarcasm Observational ★ Rewatch Jack: Who do you think is watching your show? Funky taste-makers? Black nerds, jet Blue passengers who fall asleep with the TV on, pets whose owners have died, and, uh, idiots.
Jack Irony/Sarcasm Escalation Observational ★ Rewatch Jack · Liz: You wrote 'remember to DVR Kendra' on your hand. I think you can handle it. / Ah, no, damn it. Now I gotta pray for a marathon.
Jack Liz Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Liz: Ah, no, damn it. Now I gotta pray for a marathon.
Liz Character Comedy Visual Gag Callback Pete: Jiminy Cricket, copyright Walt Disney Company, 1940!
Pete Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Kenneth: 'For a complete catalog of our lighting products, visit our website.' We need a computer.
Kenneth Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Jenna: 'Maroney found in closet with unconscious married man and inbred virgin.' Again? No way. I have too much to lose now.
Jenna Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jenna: I am this close to becoming the spokeswoman for the vaginal mesh industry. / Vaginal mesh. Nice try, prolapse.
Jenna Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jenna · Kenneth: Now, if you want to take the fall for this, be my guest. But I can't be connected to it in any way. / Take what fall? / Oh, please. You said it yourself how many rules we've broken. 'B' and 'E', theft and destruction of company property. And who knows what we've done to Pete.
Kenneth: They'd kick me out of the page program faster than a fella can come up with folksy similes.
Kenneth Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: I'm on my way. Any idea what bus I take to get there? 'Cause I'm in Chinatown, baby.
Tracy Character Comedy Absurdist Liz: It's him. [Liz sees the check is from Jack]
Liz Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Kelsey Grammer: # Who's that man behind the curtain / His kiss will make you certain / of the one name you'll be blurtin' / during love-making / Kelsey, Kelsey #