Realizing that Jenna could decide the Presidential election, Liz and Jack stage a debate to win her support and her followers. Kenneth turns to Tracy for advice on how to be an informed voter, while Pete tries to recreate the magic of the 2008 election.
Two-part finale hits 82 jokes across network satire and character breakdown.
Directed by John Riggi · Written by Josh Siegal, Dylan Morgan
WAR
68.1
Wins Above Replacement
“Theres No I In America (2)” ranks #111 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 81.0 — Elite. The episode packs 82 scored jokes at 3.3 per minute, averaging 6.9 on craft and 6.8 on impact, with Jack landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Jack: It certainly won't work with a man who didn't cry at 'Field of Dreams', not even when the bank failed to recoup its investment in the farm.
Jack Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Jack: when I was a boy, I used to go to Fenway and sell my urine... for fans to throw at Mickey Mantle.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: Someone who respects the human fetus and recognizes its value as a hair volumizer.
Jenna Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jack: A head has five holes, and they are all needed.
Jack Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Liz · Jack: Scarlett Johansson. Blake Lively. Jessica Biel -- Wow. Those are all very beautiful women. Do you really want to be photographed next to them?
Liz Jack Setup/Punchline Character Comedy All Jokes — 82 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Unknown: No! I need a 'Previously on'!
Unknown Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Unknown: I need you to marry me so I don't get sent back to Canada!
Liz: Really? Now you have a thing?
Unknown: Don't know why I'm so worried about bringing my marble collection to work.
Unknown Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Unknown: Why do we have that?
Jack · Jenna: You're not right for it. What thing? I was born for it!
Jenna: Am I not blonde enough? Because I'll put my head in the microwave!
Jenna Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: Jacksonville's naming their new airport, Sized strip club after me. No bottoms!
Jenna Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Jack: The first really, really rich president!
Liz: The one with the guy? It was at night, and I feel like he was standing near a fence...
Liz Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Jack: A head has five holes, and they are all needed.
Jack Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jenna · Jack/Liz: Because there's no 'I' or 'me' in 'America.' There's both.
Jenna: Someone who respects the human fetus and recognizes its value as a hair volumizer.
Jenna Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jenna: Like debate? Like DeBarge? I love DeBarge!
Jenna Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Kenneth: Until this year, I wasn't allowed to vote because Reverend Gary said choosing is a sin.
Tracy: Voting is a great American tradition. Like laziness or, eh...
Tracy Observational Deadpan/Understatement Kenneth: the Parcells have been in this country since we went berserk and murdered everyone at Roanoke.
Kenneth Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: Black Shrek ran for president?
Tracy Observational Character Comedy Tracy: I forgot about that half-nerd.
Tracy Character Comedy Observational Tracy: Someone has to be the first person to make a joke after a celebrity dies.
Tracy Observational Character Comedy Tracy: I guess I was a little 'too soon' with Andy Griffith.
Tracy Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive Callback Kenneth: I can't unhear it! I can't unhear it!
Kenneth Reaction Beat Cringe/Discomfort Pete: The first African-American president ever to be up for re-election. Whoo! Historical!
Pete Observational Character Comedy Pete: That was a really good 'American Pie', Pete. You knew all the words. And then you put it on again. And everyone leaves because no one can top it.
Pete Observational Character Comedy Jack: You're the one using negative words like 'without' and 'negative'.
Jack Wordplay/Pun Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: The same polyps Jenna had prayed for.
Jack Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Unknown: Wrong on cuteness. Wrong on other bitches. Wrong for Jenna.
Liz: She's a slut monster, and one of gay America's top hags.
Liz Character Comedy Observational Jack: First of all, I have never dropped a hat in my life.
Jack Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist ★ Rewatch Liz Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Jack: Since you've known me, I've been right about no less than everything always.
Jack Character Comedy Escalation Liz: Every pair you buy, they give a pair to a child that was forced to work in a factory that makes these shoes. It's not great!
Liz Observational Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Jack: You wish, you pervert.
Liz: 'Bah-bah-bah-bah-bird bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word' My gynecologist.
Liz Physical/Slapstick Cringe/Discomfort Liz: Did anyone leave a bag of Burger King in your office?
Liz Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Mayor Debbie: Hey! I'm gonna take the clock apart myself, then put it back together. I wanna see how it works! My friend Jojo did it with a toaster, and it's still good.
The Hermit: Ain't nobody touch my clock! It's my wife, and this is where I do my sniperin'!
Kenneth: I cast the deciding vote that made 'white' the newest flavor of Mountain Dew. But I guess that's just life in a Dewmocracy.
Kenneth Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: Welcome to the first and only debate of the Jenna-ral election.
Jenna: a woman 'People' magazine once called 'an unnamed friend of the deceased'.
Jenna: Ooh, and how do they tell me their decisions? Do I get shocked whenever I do the wrong thing?
Jenna Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: And Jenna Maroney would get every part. That's my America. That's Mitt Romney's America.
Liz Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz · Jack: Scarlett Johansson. Blake Lively. Jessica Biel -- Wow. Those are all very beautiful women. Do you really want to be photographed next to them?
Liz Jack Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Jack: Craig T. Nelson, Chuck Norris, and Charlton Heston's skull. You'd be the only cool Republican.
Jack Character Comedy Escalation Liz: I stopped you when you tried to drive us into Lake Michigan because Scottie Pippen got married.
Liz Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Miss Lemon, I know Scottie Pippen. I own a Fuddrucker's with Scottie Pippen. And you, sir, look like Scottie Pippen.
Jack Callback Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Jack: When our founding fathers first set out, time and time again, our nation horizon... prosperity... dreams... freedom. But the spirit... journey... destiny. Mitt Romney values. Jenna values. I've met people. For this generation and generations to come.
Jack Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Unknown: Good God, those are load-bearing balloons! Everyone, run for your lives!
Unknown Absurdist Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Tracy: Columbus thought he was in India! And did he worry about being wrong? No! He just called everybody Indians. And we still do it today! Why? 'Cause.
Tracy Observational Character Comedy Tracy: Just like when we named this country after the fourth or fifth guy who discovered it. Amerigo Vespucci? Who cares? America!
Tracy Observational Escalation Callback Jack: I take thousands of micronaps during the day.
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist Liz: partly because when I have it down, it looks like this...
Liz Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Jack: The man doesn't drink. How does he let a moment land?
Jack Character Comedy Observational Young Jack: Latah, Mah! I'm goin' down the pahk to play ball! I sure love Americer! Almost as much as I love chowdah --
Young Jack: Oh, my Gawd, it's fewtchah me!
Jack: It certainly won't work with a man who didn't cry at 'Field of Dreams', not even when the bank failed to recoup its investment in the farm.
Jack Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Liz: But you can't get a decent iced tea there. Forget it!
Liz Character Comedy Escalation Pete: Remember that time you got a haircut, and I was the first person to say, 'Someone got a haircut'? You owe me!
Pete Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Unknown: Look, get a hobby, like me and my gymnastics!
Pete: A Facebook that wasn't crawling with old bald guys!
Pete Observational Character Comedy Unknown: why don't you kiss a potato like the rest of us?
Unknown Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Pete: I was gonna drive a sports car and say cool stuff like, 'Wiki-what?'!
Pete Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Jenna: Screw you, Dona-one-d Estaluj. I don't need Viagra! You need Viagra!
Jenna Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Jack: It stands for Motorized Intelligent Technodrome Termina--
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy Jenna: I want to send Estaluj a picture, but it's too dark inside my pants.
Jenna Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Callback Jenna: It's just kids' bike shorts for fatties!
Jenna Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Jack: when I was a boy, I used to go to Fenway and sell my urine... for fans to throw at Mickey Mantle.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Voters don't really pick the president. That's up to important people like corporations and celebrities.
Jack Observational Dark/Subversive Shauna: if I stop saving for business school and started saving for implants, I could be just like her.
Shauna Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Tracy: I wasn't watching cute little kitten videos! I was watching pornography! Who put these sleepy kitten videos on here?
Tracy Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Tracy: Less if I count genocides as celebrities.
Tracy Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: No, I can say that word. I'm black. But Dick Clark wasn't!
Tracy Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Callback Cool Pete: Hey, sugarlips. Let's make it like a black magazine and jet.
Cool Pete: My 2012 Corvette's parked outside. 'Cause I always find a parking spot.
Liz: Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well... Nope, it's too many wells. I'm gonna re-enter.
Liz Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Just like most games.
Jack Deadpan/Understatement Liz: You cynical, manipulative, cold-blooded Adonis.
Liz Character Comedy Escalation Liz: Yours dripped on me, and now I'm drunk!
Cool Pete: All day, all night, baby.
