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
86.5
Wins Above Replacement
“Idiots Are People Two! (1)” ranks #20 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 90.0 — Elite. The episode packs 66 scored jokes at 3.0 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
Unknown: # 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 #
Unknown Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Criss: That was hard to track down. Today, almost all of them are in police evidence lockers.
Criss Dark/Subversive Misdirection ★ Rewatch Jenna: 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 Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Jenna: Vaginal mesh. Nice try, prolapse.
Jenna Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch 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 Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 66 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Liz: Oh, my God, is he dead? I... I don't know what happened.
Kenneth: Why would I even say that?
Kenneth Meta/Self-Referential Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Criss · Liz: Hey, whatever happened to TiVo? Remember, you used to fast-forward, it'd make that sound? Boop-boop, boop-boop. Yeah. Yeah, then it'd be all like, bung-bung. - Boop-boop, boop-boop. - Bung-bung, bung-bung. - Bung-bung, bung-bung. - Boop-boop, boop-boop. Boop-boop, boop-boop.
Criss: And he/she has his/her baseball glove and baby. And both sets of genitals!
Criss Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Criss: That was hard to track down. Today, almost all of them are in police evidence lockers.
Criss Dark/Subversive Misdirection ★ Rewatch Liz Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch News reporter · Jack: Jordan's comments have angered gay-rights groups and 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: Oh, you mean my tote bag. Yes, I need a new one.
Liz Misdirection Deadpan/Understatement Jack · Liz: He's dating the charmin cub. I thought they were babies.
Jack Liz Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Tracy: Him. Him. Her when she's drunk. I genuinely don't know. That one's a puzzler.
Tracy Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: They make the Japanese look like the greeks.
Liz Observational Absurdist Tracy: Being gay is stupid. If you want to see a penis, take off your pants. If I got turned into a gay, I'd sit around all day and look at my own junk.
Tracy Character Comedy Absurdist Liz · Tracy: Do you think the people of Raleigh, North Carolina turned Clay Aiken gay? Why not? The Bronx turned me dyslexic.
Tracy · Diane: I already called Glad, Liz Lemon. Thank you for calling Glad, stronger trash bags with less plastic. This is Diane. How may I help you? Hey Diane, it's Tracy Jordan. Sorry about what I said. Well, okeydokey.
Tracy: Remember when I offended stubborn people? That took forever to sort out.
Tracy Irony/Sarcasm Observational ★ Rewatch Liz · Jack: His name is 'Chris,' and I'm sorry, but for my own reasons... And 'Chris' is spelled? No 'h' and two 's's.
Liz Jack Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch 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 Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack · Liz: Good God! Where does this person live? Don't worry about it. How bad can it be? Jersey city? His parents' apartment? It's not a walk-up, is it? He's actually been living with me for the past month. Ah.
Jack Liz Escalation Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Jack · Liz: Where does this person live? Don't worry about it. How bad can it be? Jersey city? His parents' apartment? It's not a walk-up, is it?
Jack Reaction Beat Escalation Liz: My jaw stopped popping. Listen.
Liz Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy 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 Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: He also said that he thinks, quote, 'sexuality is a continuum,' and he is but a voyager on a vast ocean of pleasure.
Kenneth Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jenna: I just found out this morning, Teri Polo and Ving Rhames called me at home.
Jenna Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: Especially now that I'm officially a 'B-list' celebrity, thanks to America's kids got singing.
Jenna Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Jenna: who in return thinks of you as sort of an albino slave-monkey.
Jenna Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Jenna · Kenneth: 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. Aw, you think of me?
Jenna: I guess someone's never been locked in a dog crate and thrown overboard for displeasing the sheikh.
Jenna Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Pete: And now, I am headed home for a 'nooner,' which is what I call having pancakes for lunch.
Pete Misdirection Character Comedy Tracy: I am nonplussed, and that is the correct usage.
Tracy Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: Wait. Why don't they do that?
Tracy Callback Character Comedy Callback Liz · Pete: Is that when you cry on the floor in your office? Nope, I do that when I see myself in the mirror on my birthday.
Liz Pete Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Pete: Crisis mode is when I down a couple of sleeping pills with scotch, pass out in my secret napping place, and hope I dream about that latina security guard.
Pete Dark/Subversive Escalation Pete · Liz: Crisis mode is when I down a couple of sleeping pills with scotch, pass out in my secret napping place, and hope I dream about that latina security guard. The one you always kiss on the mouth. That's normal in Guatemala.
Pete Liz Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz · Pete: The one you always kiss on the mouth. That's normal in Guatemala.
Jenna: Picking a lock is like riding a bike. They're both skills you need to escape the Atlanta Falcons' equipment room.
Jenna Misdirection Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jenna: They're the same lights poultry farms use to keep the birds from pecking each other to death.
Jenna Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch 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 Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: 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 Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch 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 Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Criss: Is that an Armenian name? Is he a space Armenian? I don't know. The Kardashians are Armenian, they're into black guys, so there's something to it...
Criss Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Jack: Oh, better hold on to this one. He's getting a free muffin soon. Wow, I've never seen a sunglass hut credit card before.
Jack Irony/Sarcasm Escalation Jack: Wow, I've never seen a sunglass hut credit card before.
Jack Observational Character Comedy Jack: Hmm. this guy might suck
Jack Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Criss · Liz: Oh, yeah, if you watch those games, that thing definitely has a menstrual cycle. Right?
Tracy: 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.
Tracy Escalation Observational ★ Rewatch Protester: It's a whole other world down there.
Denise Richards: That's right. I'm an idiot. Surprised?
Denise Richards: Well, I am. For all 'intensive purposes.'
Tracy: Because as Braveheart said, 'you can take our freedom, unless you take our lives.'
Tracy Wordplay/Pun Escalation ★ Rewatch Liz: I also have a lot of imaginary arguments with the couples on house hunters. Why can't people look past paint color?
Liz Observational Character Comedy Jack: Although I don't know for sure, because I refuse to read literature that questions the morality of war.
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jack: Although I don't know for sure, because I refuse to read literature that questions the morality of war.
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Liz: Criss-a, Criss, Criss, Criss-a, Criss-a, Criss-a, Criss-a, Criss-a, Criss train!
Liz Physical/Slapstick Escalation Liz: I looked like Adriana Lima.
Liz Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Liz: Black nerds, jet blue passengers who fall asleep with the TV on, pets whose owners have died, and, uh, idiots.
Liz Escalation Observational ★ Rewatch Jack: You wrote 'remember to DVR Kendra' on your hand.
Jack Observational Character Comedy Jenna: Pete! It's Jenna! The woman you're in love with!
Jenna Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Jenna: 'Maroney found in closet with unconscious married man and inbred virgin.' Again? No way. I have too much to lose now.
Jenna Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: Vaginal mesh. Nice try, prolapse.
Jenna Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: They'd kick me out of the page program faster than a fella can come up with folksy similes.
Kenneth Meta/Self-Referential Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Tracy: Dot com, hold the steering wheel. I've got to leave my outgoing message. What did I just hit? Was that a person? Is that paint or blood? Dot com, this did not happen. We take this to our graves!
Tracy Escalation Dark/Subversive Tracy: What did I just hit? Was that a person? Is that paint or blood? Dot com, this did not happen. We take this to our graves!
Tracy Escalation Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Criss: I called sunglass hut and got my credit limit raised to $80, plus, they told me I only needed 5,000 more shades points to get free lens wipes
Criss Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Unknown: # 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 #
Unknown Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Unknown: # his name is Kelsey, he's very wealthy # he doesn't have to be doing this #
Unknown Absurdist Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch 