Criss and Liz decide to celebrate Valentine's Day, but they need to buy a dining room table first. Jack entertains his mother-in-law, Diana, as Jenna frantically looks to Pete to fill in last-minute as the producer of her first live performance on "America's Kidz Got Singing." Back at the office, Tracy and Frank try to help Lutz find someone to spend Valentine's with.
Season 6 dips to 73.9 as escalation-heavy episode trades sharpness for absurdist sprawl.
Directed by Michael Engler · Written by Kay Cannon
WAR
88.4
Wins Above Replacement
“B.D.O.C.” ranks #134 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 89.1 — Elite. The episode packs 74 scored jokes at 3.6 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 7.2 on impact, with Dick landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Dick · Sally: You came on to him, huh? / Yeah, like Germany came on to Poland.
Dick Sally Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Sally Solomon: "I treated you like a sexy, hunky object instead of a sexy, hunky employee, and I'm sorry."
Dick: Gum can double as adhesive, but most adhesives do not necessarily double as gum.
Dick Character Comedy Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Tommy · Dick: Dick, open the door. / You have the... You have the doorknob. / I know. / Oh, my god! You planned this. You're trying to get me expelled! / Bingo!
Tommy Dick Setup/Punchline Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Sally · Bryce: well, no hard feelings. / Of course not. / Cool. In you go, you piece of meat!
Sally Bryce Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Callback All Jokes — 74 analyzed
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Tommy: Yeah. Plus I don't have to live with you freaks anymore, you know?
Tommy Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Dick Solomon: "and help us to further understand that curious race we call human"
Dick: Hey. Ah-choo! No, not cry. Sneeze.
Dick Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Dick · Tommy · Interviewees: Replacement interviewees are already waiting as Tommy tries to say goodbye
Dick: You hear that? She's gonna somethin' the mission's whatever.
Dick Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Dick: So, uh, can we reach you at the transmitter in your head?
Dick Character Comedy Absurdist Dick · Christie: So, uh, Christie, how you gettin' along with your body? You like the boobs? / No. No, I really don't. / Mmm. Yeah. The smaller ones aren't as much fun.
Dick Solomon · Bryce Canyon: "You're hired." — Dick hires Bryce before asking a single question, solely on appearance
Dick · Bryce: Bryce, when can you start? / Now. / That is the greatest answer to any question I have ever...
Tommy · Dick: These walls are real cinder block. / Oh, I don't think so. / Dear god, they are!
Tommy: I know he's unconscious, but I really get that kinda buddies-for-life vibe, you know?
Tommy Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Tommy: 5, if you're doin' it right.
Tommy Setup/Punchline Deadpan/Understatement Dick · Tommy: Dick's farewell speech trails off awkwardly when Tommy hints Dick should reciprocate the sentiment of learning from him
Bryce: get around in cars, which have 4 wheels. Humans... have no wheels.
Bryce Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Harry: Yeah! We've known that for weeks, Bryce.
Harry Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Harry · Bryce: New guy, new guy, New guy! You've gotta be more specific! / What side of the Road? / Well, the factory's on the left side of the road and... / No! It's too late now!
Sally · Bryce: Oops. I dropped my pencil. / Oops. / Oop... hey!
Dick · Tommy (via phone/visit) · Bryce: Dick greets Tommy warmly, then immediately calls him Bryce — forgets his own son
Dick · Mary: Say, have you met Bryce canyon, our new information officer? / Oh, hello, Tommy. / Bryce.
Dick: Say, Bryce, we need some sunbathing information. What do you say you grease up, hit the rooftop, and I'll check on your progress later, huh?
Dick Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Dick: Don't you dare say that. That's Tommy's chair. That'll always be Tommy's chair. He's not dead. He's just in a different location! That's all!
Dick Character Comedy Escalation Harry Solomon · Bryce Canyon: Bryce sunbathing under a desk lamp in the office instead of going to the roof
Harry: See, Harry, this is the kind of information we need. [Harry watching Bryce lie in a sunbeam]
Harry Irony/Sarcasm Visual Gag Dick Solomon · Tommy · Cindy: Dick showing up in Tommy's dorm room uninvited — Tommy's girlfriend dismisses Dick as 'cute' and leaves
Cindy: Your dad? That's cute. See ya.
Cindy Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Dick · Tommy: See ya later, cind. / See ya later, cind.
Tommy: I think she thinks you're a dork.
Tommy Deadpan/Understatement Dick: Oh, no, but it's gotten much better. We just painted.
Dick Character Comedy Absurdist Dick: Dick's argument for Tommy not going to Pendleton: 'We just painted.'
Dick Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Dick: that wreaks havoc, but makes you the most popular man on campus.
Dick Character Comedy Absurdist Dick: Look at your friend Cindy, talking to that young rascal over there. I wonder what sort of Freshman prank he's cooking up.
Dick Character Comedy Misdirection Harry Solomon · Bryce Canyon: Harry waiting over an hour for a mustard report while his pastrami goes uneaten — treating mustard selection as a military information crisis
Harry Solomon · Bryce Canyon: Harry's mentorship advice: "Get comfortable in your own skin." / Bryce: "About that... it feels so tight, especially under the arms."
Dick: Gum can double as adhesive, but most adhesives do not necessarily double as gum.
Dick Character Comedy Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Harry Solomon · Bryce Canyon: Harry's Vaseline advice for tight alien skin
Dick · Bryce: No. No. You don't have to call me 'Sir.' Call me 'Your honor.' / Your honor. / Yeah. Little bit louder. / Your honor. / That's it.
Tommy · Dick: Dick, open the door. / You have the... You have the doorknob. / I know. / Oh, my god! You planned this. You're trying to get me expelled! / Bingo!
Tommy Dick Setup/Punchline Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Bryce · Sally: And that's why old men wear their pants higher than young men. That is fantastically useful.
Sally · Bryce: 'Sally's boy wonder,' that's what they're calling you. / Who's calling me that? / Sally.
Sally Bryce Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Sally · Bryce: Sally describes Bryce as 'Sally's boy wonder' — and when Bryce asks who calls him that, Sally says 'Sally'
Bryce Canyon · Sally Solomon: "My research tells me that alcohol dulls your senses and impairs your judgment." / "I had not heard that."
Sally · Bryce: How far? All the way... but that's just the beginning. / How can 'All the way' be just the beginning?
Sally Bryce Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Sally: I like the way you think, Bryce... but you can stop now.
Sally Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Sally · Bryce: This chair isn't very comfortable. I want to sit where you're sitting. / No. No. No. Don't get up.
Bryce · Sally: Well, Uh, uh, traffic lights. Green means 'Go.' / Aah! / You cracked the code. Let's celebrate.
Bryce: I'm beginning to wonder if you care about traffic lights at all!
Bryce Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Dick Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Callback Dick: Well, it is a serious offense. Where are the expulsion forms, in your desk? I could give you a leg up.
Dick Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Dick: But a warning? Why don't you just give him a big wet kiss?
Dick Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Dean · Dick: Dean bonds with Dick over his own freshman prank: making a marching band spell out a dirty word — but the Dean thinks Dick's prank was MORE impressive
Dick · Chancellor: I remember my own freshman prank. I messed with the marching band's formation and made 'em spell out a dirty word. / That's very funny. / Well, it's nothing like this. / Well, you're too kind.
Chancellor · Tommy · Dick: Such attention to detail. I love the coffee mug. / Thank you. / The coffee mug was my idea. / This whole thing is mine. He had nothing to do with it. I'm the mastermind behind the freshman prank.
Dick: Yes! If there's anyone you should be foisting your daughter off on, it's me!
Dick Character Comedy Escalation Harry · Bryce · Sally: Bryce, do you wish to remain anonymous? [beat] Sally, Bryce feels that you've been sexually harassing him
Sally · Harry · Bryce: I think that's something I'd like to discuss with Bryce privately. / Ok, I'll leave you 2 alone. / Harry? Would you please stay?
Sally: I mean, a Pat on your muscular back is not harassment.
Sally Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Sally: Well, if you're not comfortable, you should take off your pants. Casual thursday.
Sally Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Sally: I treated you like a sexy, hunky object instead of a sexy, hunky employee, and I'm sorry.
Sally Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Sally Solomon: "I treated you like a sexy, hunky object instead of a sexy, hunky employee, and I'm sorry."
Harry: This is good. The system works. Bye-Bye, Sally.
Harry Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm Sally · Bryce: well, no hard feelings. / Of course not. / Cool. In you go, you piece of meat!
Sally Bryce Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Callback Dick · Harry: We're never hiring anyone ever again. / Well, with him gone, I guess you'll be wantin' me to oil up and put on the speedos. / Oh, no, no.
Dick Harry Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Callback Tommy · Mary: You teach at a college. / Oh, sure. Throw that in my face.
Mary: Yes, with your new life of learning, your internet, your nintendo, your fancy friends. Your tv, your virtual reality, your... your... and your... I... I don't even know!
Mary Character Comedy Escalation Dick: I don't want you to go! I don't want you to go.
Dick Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Dick · Tommy: Why did you have to grow up? / I don't know. It was just the body I picked.
Dick: Parenting's hard. You give love, you give encouragement, you give support... and then, if you do a good job, they just go away.
Dick Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Dick · Tommy: What do you mean? / Parental love at its best. It's the only love there is that inevitably leads to separation. / How do you always know these things? / I'm the information officer. I sent you a memo on this years ago.
Dick Tommy Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Dick: There's beer in this room.
Dick Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Callback Dick · Joel · Tommy: Nice to meet you, Joel. / Isn't this yours? / No, no, no. I was just leaving.
Dick · Sally: You came on to him, huh? / Yeah, like Germany came on to Poland.
Dick Sally Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Dick · Harry · Sally · Tommy: Dick misses Tommy — 'I wonder what Tommy's doing right now?' — then the cut to Tommy doing laundry
Dick · Harry · Sally: I wonder what Tommy's doing right now? / He's separating his whites. / Yeah, and maybe starting to presoak. / Mmm. I hope he goes easy on the bleach, but you know Tommy. He won't. / No. Never.
Dick Harry Sally Irony/Sarcasm Running Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback