As her new kids arrive, Liz scrambles to save TGS from cancellation. Jack finds a new NBC president.
Final season delivers 83 jokes in 22 minutes—near-peak density for a goodbye episode.
Directed by Jeff Richmond · Written by Lang Fisher, Nina Pedrad
WAR
101.3
Wins Above Replacement
“A Goons Deed In A Weary World” ranks #51 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 87.2 — Elite. The episode packs 83 scored jokes at 3.3 per minute, averaging 7.5 on craft and 7.0 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
Jack: You're the next president of the National Broadcasting Company.
Jack Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: The Today show was originally designed to entertain prison inmates whose IQs were too low for them to be executed.
Kenneth Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Kenneth: No, sir. You were not.
Kenneth Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: I do admire Wonka. He's a true capitalist. His factory has zero government regulations, slave labor, and an indoor boat.
Jack Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Tracy · Jenna: But we don't need two roles if we play siamese twins! One is the president. The other's Santa Claus. And they're both in love with the same woman... Elvira!
All Jokes — 83 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Dream characters: You fail Liz. You let the show get cancelled, and we all died.
Dream character: When we talked about this dream, we said we were gonna be cowboys.
Criss: Guess there's another full-figured Bev at the office there.
Criss Observational Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Liz Character Comedy Running Gag Callback Liz: How big is an eight-year-old's head? I'm thinking, like, a bowling ball?
Liz Observational Character Comedy Criss: No, bowling ball's too small. It's like a basketball. A small basketball that you win at the fair.
Criss Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Liz: DVR at 98%, but I'm just never in the mood to watch Treme.
Liz Observational Meta/Self-Referential Liz: Okay, first things first... I'll watch a bunch of tremes.
Liz Character Comedy Misdirection Liz: Hey, sorry I late, but Treme gets good if you stick with it.
Liz Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Liz Wordplay/Pun Misdirection Jack: Would Amelia Earhart or dian fosse or Joan of Arc?
Jack Dark/Subversive Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Liz: I ain't afraid of no board!
Liz Meta/Self-Referential Wordplay/Pun Jack: Lemon, expensive musical cues are exactly the sort of thing you can't afford anymore.
Jack Meta/Self-Referential Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Liz: You've got Lemon. Make lemonade.
Liz Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Criss: I want to paint a mural of Houston for the kids, but I'm terrible at drawing swamp humidity.
Criss Absurdist Observational Liz · Criss: Sex on the couch?
Writer: The lowest level of defense preparedness? Fantastic.
Writer Observational Deadpan/Understatement Writer: Have you dudes ever been to deafcon, the comic book convention for deaf people?
Liz: Fine, I'll Skip to the end. And that little boy's name was Marshall Mathers.
Liz Misdirection Setup/Punchline Tracy · Jenna: Last night at a party, we urinated into the same fountain during a lightning storm. And I think we switched brains.
Jenna: I'm glad the band U2 is doing press all day.
Jenna Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Hornberger: My whole life has been building to this moment.
Kenneth: Kenneth the page. That's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
Kenneth Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: I bleed blue and gray. Especially where I stepped on that nail.
Kenneth Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Kenneth: For example, if they're Japanese, I'll make sure we accidentally walk in on a blonde woman peeing.
Kenneth Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Kenneth: It's like NBC's TV version of Willy Wonka, starring Bob Uecker.
Kenneth Meta/Self-Referential Absurdist Jack: I do admire Wonka. He's a true capitalist. His factory has zero government regulations, slave labor, and an indoor boat.
Jack Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Kenneth: No, sir. It's a magical, Ruth-filled business!
Kenneth Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: There is no 'we', Kenneth. You're giving a tour. I'm picking the next president of NBC. Understood? Yes, sir. Of course... Not.
Kenneth Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Pete: a German guy who wants to eat somebody. And even Gunter's having doubts.
Pete Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bro Body Douche: Why should Bro Body Douche get in TGS's panties?
Liz · Bro Body Douche: Well, Broseph... Sup? I think TGS and Bro Body Douche would be tight. Totes? Nah mean? No homo. Mos def. So... jeah?
Bro Body Douche: TGS, it sounds like a news Channel, or an STD you know I've got.
Bro Body Douche: I like that you've got a slut on the show, even if she is a little boned out.
Bro Body Douche: have you ever seen the porn version of Transformers?
Bro Body Douche: It'd be weird if my show were created by a woman. So could your credit be Todd Debeikis?
Bro Body Douche: It's in honor of my frat bro. Died during hell week after passing out in the trough.
Liz: I went to Syracuse. Never-knew-my-dad!
Liz Character Comedy Escalation Writer: I got some stuff on the back burner. Left unattended long enough, the house burns down... Insurance money.
Writer Dark/Subversive Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Tracy: Like how, after E.R., Clooney had dumb, gay Batman.
Tracy Observational Character Comedy Tracy · Jenna: But we don't need two roles if we play siamese twins! One is the president. The other's Santa Claus. And they're both in love with the same woman... Elvira!
Tracy: It's a movie called Heads of state. Colon... The rise of doctor Ronfulus.
Tracy Absurdist Wordplay/Pun Callback Kenneth: The Today show was originally designed to entertain prison inmates whose IQs were too low for them to be executed.
Kenneth Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Executive candidate: We pay most of our hosts in white wine.
Kenneth: And it's about seeing your friends Matt and Savannha, and your Butler Al.
Kenneth Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Kenneth · Executive candidate: Janu-where is the snow?
Jack: Kenneth, it's 'we peacock comedy.' You say the peacock.
Jack Observational Character Comedy Sound effect: [Angry NBC chimes] ♪ dum dum dum ♪
Liz: They're death traps and hymen demolishers. You know what happened to me.
Liz Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Criss: Did you know that every year more people die from disease and accidents combined than from just trampoline accidents?
Criss Absurdist Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Criss: I'm the only single guy here, Liz, except for Ladarius, whose wife died in a trampoline accident.
Criss Dark/Subversive Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy: It comes out 13-13-13, which is January 13th, 2014.
Tracy Absurdist Observational Tracy: I know what you're thinking, Liz, but it is possible to have twins who are different races. I saw it on Maury.
Tracy Character Comedy Callback Tracy: It was a episode entitled, my obese toddler did my stepfather's makeover.
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy Liz: What would it take for you people to ever step up and help me? Ever!
Liz Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: TGS, the Joey Montero show, the Lovebirds. And the moon landing.
Kenneth Escalation Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Kenneth in disguise: My name is C.B. Essington. Now, listen to me carefully because I have a moral quandary for you.
Kenneth: That fabric was made from toilet-clog hair.
Kenneth Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Executive candidate: At some point, you gotta turn the horse into glue, Ken.
Kenneth: That is a waste of delicious dead horse.
Kenneth Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Kenneth: But if all he cares about is the bottom line, he's not right for the job.
Kenneth Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Kenneth, you also just described me. Are you saying I wasn't right for the job?
Jack Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: No, sir. You were not.
Kenneth Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: I'm just hair and eyes. It's perfect.
Liz Visual Gag Character Comedy Writer: what if the jolly green giant was horny?
Writer Absurdist Cringe/Discomfort Scab musician: You're not my girlfriend. You're nobody's girlfriend!
Writer: I think it's awesome, but full disclosure, I just drank ayahuasca.
Writer Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Liz: Do you know what I had for lunch today? Two pieces of pizza, a garden salad, a cup of soup, this cookie thing with a jelly center.
Liz Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Criss: They're not coming in on 1/29 on Flight 124. They're coming in on 1/24 on Flight 129.
Criss Setup/Punchline Observational Liz: I mean, how important is being there this one time?
Liz Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Liz: And I am Todd Debeikis!
Liz Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Kenneth: So shines a goon's deed in a weary world.
Kenneth Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: I mean, the monkey was funny, damn it.
Jack Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Jack: Homonym is the first U.S. TV show to be broadcast in Iran.
Jack Absurdist Meta/Self-Referential Jack: Your college mascot and president was a bear in a hat?
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy Jack: You're the next president of the National Broadcasting Company.
Jack Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: Welcome to the Man Cave. TV for your peen. R.I.P., Todd.
Liz Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Kabletown executive: They're replaceable... we can get David Alan Grier and Miss Piggy.
Tracy: Children? Why the hell are you still here?
Tracy Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Subhas: I actually quit two years ago. Subhas out. Suck it!
Subhas Character Comedy Escalation Writer · Jenna: No way! So it is possible. Yeah, I saw it on Maury.
Adopted child: What up, Liz Lemon? I will not be able to attend school tomorrow because of an issue with my lizard.
Liz: That seems about right.
Liz Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy 