Jenna prepares an emotional farewell song as the cast and crew reunite for one final "TGS".
Series finale delivers 105 jokes at 2.02-per-minute clip for elite 90.6 score.
Directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller · Written by Tina Fey
WAR
148.6
Wins Above Replacement
“Last Lunch” ranks #13 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 90.6 — Elite. The episode packs 105 scored jokes at 2.0 per minute, averaging 7.5 on craft and 7.3 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
Tracy: That's Tracy... 't' as in the drink, 'r' as in the pirate noise, 'a' as in the Fonzie noise, 'c' as in sea monster, 'y' as in why do we even make friends if they're gonna let you down when we need them the most?
Tracy Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz · Jonathan: I never told you this, but I once came up late at night looking for Jack, and you were in a wedding dress dancing with one of his suits.
Kenneth: Woman, writer, New York... Those are all on my list of TV no-no words.
Kenneth Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Frank: If anything ever happens to me and you can't find my body but you can find this, don't overthink it. Just Bury the necklace and move on.
Frank Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Liz: Eating night cheese and transitioning my pajamas into daywear.
Liz Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback All Jokes — 105 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Anonymous online commenters: Any recommendations for the best place to buy a girl's bike on the upper West Side? She's eight. - I'm sorry... What's a girl's bike? Is that like a girl doctor? Go back to Saudi Arabia, Hitler!
Anonymous online commenters: You're buying a bike but not a helmet? The head is where the child's brain is. Why don't you get educated, double Hitler!
Anonymous online commenter: My two-year-old is super gay, and we love him more than a straight child because he doesn't rape!
Jack: Yesterday I moved Kabletown's customer service to a part of India that has no phones. We're now providing the same level of service to our subscribers at zero the cost.
Jack Irony/Sarcasm Observational ★ Rewatch Corporate executive: And then we'll be able to get even better trophy wives... Half-Asian ones!
Liz · Jonathan: I never told you this, but I once came up late at night looking for Jack, and you were in a wedding dress dancing with one of his suits.
Jack · Liz: Stay-at-home Lemon. To what do I owe the pleasure? Did you already run out of things to do today? - Pfft! What? No. You are.
Jack Liz Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Jack: To keep away frankensteins, which, as far as we know, worked.
Jack Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist ★ Rewatch Liz · Jack: I ran this morning for 30 minutes. - Does that include dry heaving? - And wet.
Liz: He has a degree in ethno-musicology from wesleyan, so he's a receptionist in a dental office.
Liz Observational Irony/Sarcasm Jack: Hogcock! Which is a combination of 'hogwash' and 'poppycock.'
Jack Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Liz: If my mother told me that everything I had been raised to believe was a lie and then died, I'd be like, 'say what?'
Liz Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Jack: A city built on the religion of capitalism, and I am its high priest, looking down on the swinish multitude.
Jack Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Jack · Liz: Even they must acknowledge me... As a god. - And this makes you happy? - It should.
Jack Liz Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Liz: You know, I'm reminded of something Yoda once said. Mmm! Ohh! Dark times are these.
Liz Visual Gag Misdirection NBC executive: We thought maybe contestants could win money instead of penis punches.
Tracy · Dotcom · Grizz: He promised me he'd always be there for me, no matter what! - Sometimes things change. - And yet you still say stupid stuff to me all the time and suck at carrying boxes!
Kenneth: You've always had the body for it.
Kenneth Character Comedy Misdirection Kenneth: Woman, writer, New York... Those are all on my list of TV no-no words.
Kenneth Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Kenneth · Liz: They don't want to watch some angry New York crankypants make that face... exactly.
Kenneth: Shows where a guy gets a drink thrown in his face, and then he turns to his dog and says, 'don't even say it.' To his dog!
Jenna: I will tell the other gays your real ages!
Jenna Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Jenna: I will stop being an actress when the earth stops spinning on Kabbalah monster's fingernail.
Jenna Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: Good-bye forever, you factory reject dildos.
Jenna Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Jack · Inga: Inga, you have to warn me when we have an important guest. I'm afraid I'm gonna have to spank you again.
Kenneth: Where are all the baby pigeons?
Kenneth: It's like when a pig says, 'if I can communicate with you telepathically, do I have a soul?' And then you're like, 'no. Duh. Into the slaughtering chute.'
Kenneth Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jack: As I was taught at Six Sigma... Analyze, strategize, succeed. 'A.S.S.' I'm going to crush this problem... With my ass.
Jack Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Tracy: That's Tracy... 't' as in the drink, 'r' as in the pirate noise, 'a' as in the Fonzie noise, 'c' as in sea monster, 'y' as in why do we even make friends if they're gonna let you down when we need them the most?
Tracy Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: 'J' as in the birds I'm afraid of...
Tracy Character Comedy Callback Callback Anonymous commenter: I did, but I got fired... For stupidity.
Anonymous commenter: For example, the rapper T.I., who wrote, 'better get on yo job, tell 'em. Haters get on yo job, nougats.' at least, I think he was saying 'nougats.'
Anonymous commenter: I'll be the one wearing a purple sweater and wrapping a baby swing around some skank's neck.
The Colonel: And if you can, get hit by a car. You get to spend a couple days in the hospital, and they'll give you soup.
Jack · Nancy: Nancy, I know this is unconventional, but I really think a group relationship could work. - What you're proposing is a sin, Jack, but she is wicked hot.
Jenna: My foot hurts, but I'm okay. I think this injury has given me crime-solving powers. It's law & order: Mind beauty.
Jenna Absurdist Character Comedy Jenna: I am going to the city of angels, a veterinary hospital where I get dog sedatives that help me relax when I fly.
Jenna Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: Good-bye forever, you soup line at a gay homeless shelter.
Jenna Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Liz · Criss: Since when do you listen to T.I.? - That message board is for moms. I thought you were a lady.
Criss: Sitting at a desk makes me crazy, so I keep getting up and getting coffee. Now I'm all jittery and weird and... bird!
Criss Escalation Character Comedy Criss · Liz: Her kids were so bored, I just wanted to jump over that divider and play waiting games with them, like carpet adventure. - Or that one where your hands are spiders. - Hand spiders.
Criss: If you were a dude, you would not even be thinking that. It's okay to want to work. One of us has to. We just got it backwards. You're... the dad.
Criss Observational Character Comedy Liz · Criss: I do like ignoring your questions while I try to watch TV. - Exactly!
Criss: A show about a dentist's office where the sassy hygienist says things like, 'I'm turning 30... Again.'
Criss Observational Meta/Self-Referential Tracy · Dotcom: When I went up to Ken's office earlier, I saw his schedule on his assistant's pornography box! - You mean computer?
Dotcom · Grizz: Unless you need us to hate the new Taylor swift album. That girl has feelings. - You're wrong, Dotcom!
Jack: Neither is talking two catholic beauties into a delicious vanilla-caramel sex swirl, but I did it.
Jack Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Nancy: Oh, thank you, you two, for blowing my brains.
Nancy Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Jack: You string cheese with a tooth stuck in it.
Jack Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Executive: They burned you in effigy! The hair went up like a Roman candle.
Politician: By having to come down here and listen to us.
Jack: God, I feel like I have a 'macropenis' right now.
Jack Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Liz: America wants to see... John hardly. He loves his family, but he hates the rat race. He's 'hardly working.'
Liz Wordplay/Pun Observational Kenneth: And I don't mean those two santas I saw kissing on the subway.
Kenneth Misdirection Character Comedy Liz Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Jenna: You eastern European knockoff Mr. Potato heads.
Jenna Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Tracy: I know what it is to blow up overnight. And I'm not talking about my gout.
Tracy Misdirection Character Comedy Tracy: So, like the snakes I kept in my dressing room, I release you.
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy Kenneth: Am I supposed to drop this on the floor?
Kenneth Character Comedy Reaction Beat Liz: I'm looking for six figures, eight if you're counting cents, which I fell for once before... Not cool, the gap.
Jack: I pissed off my enemies... Pelosi, Maddow, Baldwin.
Jack Character Comedy Observational Liz: You're just an alcoholic with a great voice.
Liz Character Comedy Observational Liz: When I met you, I was perfectly happy with what I had... Eating night cheese and transitioning my pajamas into daywear.
Liz Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Jack: I used to be a shark, and then you 'unsharkulated' me.
Jack Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Jack: I called you up here for one meeting seven years ago, and you kept coming up.
Jack Meta/Self-Referential Observational ★ Rewatch Liz: So we ruined each other? Good to know.
Liz Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Jonathan: There! You're no longer special to him. Get out! Get out of our lives! Yes!
Pete: The same company that suggested we get flush buddies to save water.
Pete Absurdist Observational Pete: This is Dan silversmith with Carolina mutual. I can't talk right now. I'm with a customer.
Pete Character Comedy Misdirection Liz · Jack · Liz: Like that machine Kathy Geiss invented that hugs old people. - My god, this will change elder care forever. - Hmm. Whoops. Nope.
Tracy: The only thing that can stop this show is an act of god or if some genius figured out a way to stall Just long enough...
Tracy Setup/Punchline Misdirection Tracy: The night is young. And neither are you.
Tracy Character Comedy Observational Liz: Eating night cheese and transitioning my pajamas into daywear.
Liz Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Cerie: Alphabetically after Lemon comes... Oh, no.
Cerie Setup/Punchline Reaction Beat Liz: It's Manhattan's largest out-of-business women's blazer dump.
Liz Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: I assume that's code for a billionaire's soul-searching trip to tan penis island.
Liz Character Comedy Observational Jack: Most of tan penis island was destroyed in Sting's house fire.
Jack Callback Absurdist Callback Weather reporter: According to the national weather service, you should, and I quote, 'leave work, get in your purple Bentley, and be home with your sharks before the tristate area gets slammed by what is being called snowicane'
Liz · Tracy: What did you do to Al Roker to make him do that? - Let's just say his wife is on the board of a children's hospital, and they need a celebrity to host their annual gala, and I threatened to do it.
Liz Tracy Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Pete: I can't talk right now. I'm with a customer.
Pete Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: Did you pin her up against the wall? Were your shirts wet with rain?
Jenna Character Comedy Observational Jenna · Conan O'Brien · Liz: When Conan dumped her, she dropped him forever. - Hey, Liz. - Come on, you can't pretend I don't exist. We dated for a year! We were gonna lose our virginity to each other! Now I'll never lose it!
Jenna: I'm afraid to even tell her that I frenched her dad on new year's.
Jenna Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Jack: I spent Christmas alone in the Hamptons, drinking scotch and throwing firecrackers at Billy Joel's dog!
Jack Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Unknown child: Daddy, please stop crying.
Lutz: I wrote it on flypaper. I'm five steps ahead of you, you sons of bitches!
Lutz Escalation Character Comedy Jenna: I've never met Mickey Rourke.
Jenna Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy Kenneth: Good luck with, uh, Jake.
Kenneth Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Tracy: Go home to your wife and eight beautiful children. You're all so beautiful.
Tracy Character Comedy Escalation Liz · Lutz: You changed your name to 'aardvark'? That's insane! - Shh. Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh. Blimpie's.
Liz Lutz Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna · Kenneth: ♪ I will never forget you ♪ ♪ rural juror ♪ What? What is that face?
Jenna: To cry, you just clutch a shard of broken glass.
Jenna Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Frank: If anything ever happens to me and you can't find my body but you can find this, don't overthink it. Just Bury the necklace and move on.
Frank Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Jack · Liz: Sweet, funny Elizabeth, your light always shown the brightest, baby. - You're coming to the show tonight, right? - I'll be watching. Not sure from where, but I'll be with you... In spirit.
Lutz: Because for seven years, you have yelled at me and turned the lights out on me when I was in the bathroom and written on me while I was sleeping, 'cause I was Lutz... Dumb, old, uncool, part-inuit, bisexual, 51-year-old Lutz!
Lutz Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Strip club MC: Give it up for Liz Lemon, everybody! The least molested person in here.
Tracy: Anybody who's ever left me in my life just left... My dad going to get a pack of smokes and never coming back, all those foster parents talking about adopting me and never did.
Tracy Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Liz: We were forced to be friends because of work. And we're probably not gonna hang out after this, all right? You'll say that you're gonna invite me to your house, and it's never gonna happen.
Liz Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: Because the human heart is not properly connected to the human brain, I love you, and I'm gonna miss you.
Liz Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Jenna: At the end of act two, my character, constance justice, sings the title song. It's a tearful good-bye to her true love, Norman Blurder, the rural juror.
Jenna Wordplay/Pun Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Kenneth: Brian Williams needs a mirror on the floor of his bathroom. I guess you want that if you have a glass toilet.
Liz · Jack: Oh, god, that idiot. What did he do? - You are watching my video suicide note.
Liz Jack Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive Liz: This is like what happened with my gynecologist all over again!
Liz Character Comedy Callback Callback Kenneth: I want to be buried in it. So, if anything ever happens to me and you can't find my body but you can find this, don't overthink it. Just Bury the necklace and move on.
Pete: I sure hope so, tray. I sure hope so.
Pete Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement 