Jack learns to appreciate Leap Day while Tracy takes the writers to a restaurant to spend an almost-expired gift card. Liz helps Jenna seduce an internet billionaire.
Absurdist holiday special sustains 2.6 jokes per minute across 57 gags.
Directed by Steve Buscemi · Written by Luke Del Tredici
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Wins Above Replacement
“Leap Day” ranks #110 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 81.0 — Elite. The episode packs 57 scored jokes at 2.6 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 6.9 on impact, with Kenneth landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Jenna: You know, the one that crosses so slowly across the road and then you swerve to make sure you hit it and then a car coming the other way swerves to avoid you and goes off a cliff. And then that night you and your companion have the greatest sex of your lives because you're both sharing a secret.
Jenna Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Jenna: I don't know a lot about business, but he did an Internet and now the computers like him and Wall Street is Google.
Jenna Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: Just dab some scotch on your neck and make your eyes the color of a winter crystal so she'll think you're me.
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Liz: Great, well... Scooby Doo!
Liz Reaction Beat Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: He lives in the Mariana trench. He emerges every four years to trade children's tears for candy?
Kenneth Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 57 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Thad: I've had my skin tags removed since then so you can see my eyes now.
Thad Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Thad: Thank you, no everyone thinks of the young Nazi boy as the star of that show.
Thad Irony/Sarcasm Dark/Subversive Thad: A lot of people didn't realize that was the free, unlicensed version.
Thad Cringe/Discomfort Absurdist Kenneth: I don't see people that look like that.
Kenneth Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Liz: And this is coming from someone who wrote lyrics to the song the cantina band plays in Star Wars.
Liz Character Comedy Observational Liz: No, that was sad Thad the skintag lad. I coined that.
Liz Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Jenna: I don't know a lot about business, but he did an Internet and now the computers like him and Wall Street is Google.
Jenna Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jenna: Liz, I'm on a sexual walkabout right now.
Jenna Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Kenneth: Poke your eye, pull your hair, you forgot what clothes to wear.
Kenneth: He lives in the Mariana trench. He emerges every four years to trade children's tears for candy?
Kenneth Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Liz: After high school, I went on rumspringa. It was crazy. I totally snuck into The Witches of Eastwick.
Liz Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Liz: Certainly not at a Michael's crafts crafting cruise.
Liz Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Kenneth: I listened to rap music for the first time. Not a fan.
Kenneth Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Liz: Okay, fine, I'll go, but if he has a giant chandelier in his house, I'm out. Those things fall.
Liz Character Comedy Observational Criss: We just, uh, stomp on your foot. Kick you in the knee, Yankees suck, go pats.
Criss Character Comedy Escalation Pete: I can't believe the woman who watches all six pawn shop reality shows has never seen the movie, Leap Dave Williams.
Pete Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch TV Show: Dave, is everything all right? I definitely don't have gills. I mean, nothing. I mean, yes.
TV Show Absurdist Meta/Self-Referential Liz: Oh, my God, that's what Chris kept quoting this morning during our love... making.
Liz Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Kenneth: He's a mormon. You know how they are about Leap Day.
Kenneth: Of course, take off my bald cap. Not put on my wig.
Kenneth Visual Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: You know, the one that crosses so slowly across the road and then you swerve to make sure you hit it and then a car coming the other way swerves to avoid you and goes off a cliff. And then that night you and your companion have the greatest sex of your lives because you're both sharing a secret.
Jenna Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Thad: My aquarium guy's coming to see about turning this whole room into an aquarium. Who's really in the aquarium? The fish or us?
Thad Absurdist Character Comedy Kenneth: Mean laughter, sound of a drink being poured. What are you writing now, you slack-jawed donkey?
Kenneth Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy Tracy: Right, I did an ad and insisted on being paid in beni bucks.
Tracy Character Comedy Absurdist Tracy: It's like I said in my cameo appearance in Leap Dave Williams, 'gimme your wallet, old man!'
Tracy Callback Character Comedy Callback News: Help us to 'Whip' the competition.
News Cringe/Discomfort Visual Gag Kenneth: You know the saying, 'rhubarb red, eat away, rhubarb green, don't eat them.'
Jack: I've watched newt gingrich eat a plate of ribs. I think my stomach can handle some rhubarb leaves.
Jack Character Comedy Observational Kenneth: One of my birds is sick and I want to get home in time to baptize her.
Jack: Just dab some scotch on your neck and make your eyes the color of a winter crystal so she'll think you're me.
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Thad: Frak, I'm supposed to say 'floor' first.
Thad Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Thad: Watching you every night on that stage and realizing my dad was wrong. I do like girls.
Thad Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Thad: In Game of Thrones, Xaro is a rich merchant prince who wishes to acquaint himself with the mother of dragons.
Thad Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Liz: Great, well... Scooby Doo!
Liz Reaction Beat Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: Well the joke's on you because that commercial never aired for unexplained reasons.
Tracy Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Tracy: I just touched the table again. God, you call for help! I'll just put my head on the table for a second.
Tracy Physical/Slapstick Escalation Jenna · Criss: Nothing that happens on Leap Day counts.
Jenna: It looks like we've got a slut-off on our hands.
Jenna Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Tracy: One Leap Day when I was a kid, the Harlem River froze, and I decided to cross it carrying my brick collection.
Tracy Character Comedy Absurdist Model: I have screen grabs of all your nip s.
Model Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Jenna: Click click. That's their stilettos. Click click.
Jenna Character Comedy Visual Gag Kenneth: I've dug too many graves.
Kenneth Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: I do have a long, elegant face, thank you, but I can't enjoy your compliment, because I'm sad.
Tracy Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Kenneth: I am always coughing up blood. Could that be Leap Day William trying to get out?
Tracy: I am always coughing up blood. Could that be Leap Day William trying to get out?
Tracy Dark/Subversive Absurdist Liz: What are you? An intercourse monster?
Liz Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Thad: Is sex like when the Na'vi intertwine their hair braids?
Thad Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Liz: Aw, damn it. Hot bitches.
Liz Character Comedy Reaction Beat Jack's Mother: Jackie, we can't go to the parade today. I got called into work... at the hospital... where I'm a nurse.
Sherry: Okay, I'll change me eye color, but it seem like a waste of voodoo.
Sherry Character Comedy Absurdist Karolina: Looks like this time the male will be in the Czech.
Karolina: Hey, Liz, a gym teacher on a sex tour of Indonesia called. He wants his shirt back.
Karolina: Looks like this time the male will be in the Czech.
Tracy: Remember where I came from. But we all came from the sea. Sea? Like the letter 'C', which is part of the alphabet. Alphabet soup. Soup kitchen.
Tracy Character Comedy Escalation Tracy: I saved Leap Day! And connected with my son! And I solved the big case from earlier!
Kenneth: But, these lessons aren't good just for every four years. No. They're good every year. Because we should live every day as if it's Leap Day, and every Leap Day as if it's your last.
Kenneth Meta/Self-Referential Absurdist Kenneth: No. They're good every year. Because we should live every day as if it's Leap Day, and every Leap Day as if it's your last.
