Tracy and Jack engage in a battle of wits after Tracy depicts Jack as a villain in his latest project. On Jack's advice, Liz puts her own needs ahead of those of "TGS." Meanwhile, Jenna tries to shield Kenneth from Hazel's manipulation but her own selfishness gets in the way.
Just shy of greatness with 73 jokes across absurdist character clashes, but impact dips in act two.
Directed by Don Scardino · Written by Luke Del Tredici
WAR
58.8
Wins Above Replacement
“Aunt Phatso Vs. Jack Donaghy” ranks #121 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 79.5 — Elite. The episode packs 73 scored jokes at 3.2 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.6 on impact, with Hazel landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Hazel: 'Cause I'd rather make like the father I never had and stay.
Hazel Wordplay/Pun Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jack: I've championed diversity on NBC. I mean, we've got football. That's pretty black, right?
Jack Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: 'Cause I don't see race, you white bastards.
Tracy Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: That was at a Knicks game. They needed to stop the clock.
Jack Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist ★ Rewatch Liz: Although, the one time I did send her on an errand she met some guy who flew her to Paris, and then she started modeling. And then she ended up being the reason why the French soccer team did so badly in the 2010 world cup.
Liz Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 73 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ unknown character · Jack: Hold on. Your name is Jack Donaghy? That's hilarious.
unknown character · Jack: Now say, 'don't talk to me like that. Don't you know who I am?' / I will not say that because you just ruined it.
Jack: I've championed diversity on NBC. I mean, we've got football. That's pretty black, right?
Jack Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch unknown character: I'm laughing because Jack Donaghy is the bad guy from Tracy Jordan's Aunt Phatso movie.
movie Jack: Well, unless you can come up with $25,000 in just two days, I'm turning this community center into of my garbage dumps. Ooh, damn you, Jack Donaghy.
Hazel: Aah, this is so embarrassing. I accidentally wore my tap shoes today. Well, might as well do my act.
Hazel Cringe/Discomfort Absurdist ★ Rewatch Hazel: Now imagine I'm wearing underwear.
Hazel Cringe/Discomfort Absurdist Hazel: 'Aah, who's there? Please don't hurt me. The safe's in my children's room.'
Hazel Callback Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jenna: Why don't you make like a woman driver and get lost?
Jenna Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Hazel: 'Cause I'd rather make like the father I never had and stay.
Hazel Wordplay/Pun Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Hazel: For instance, someone here sucks on old baby wipes to get the alcohol out of them.
Hazel Cringe/Discomfort Absurdist unknown character: Who does that? That's my thing!
Hazel: Well, you know what else ticks? A time bomb. So, yeah, Jenna, tick tock.
Hazel Wordplay/Pun Escalation ★ Rewatch Liz: The podiatrist said the only possible explanation is that one of my ancestors mated with a dinosaur.
Liz Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Pete: Who are we to stay what anything is?
Pete Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Frank/Toofer: Liz, we spent a long time trying to come up with a good excuse for why we didn't write anything, but we failed.
Liz: They had to saw me out of my sneakers.
Liz Visual Gag Character Comedy Jack: Delightful... Charlie Chaplin. You have the moustache and everything.
Jack Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: I have heard you say, 'guard, seize him.'
Liz Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: That was at a Knicks game. They needed to stop the clock.
Jack Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: A foot illness or fell running for food?
Jack Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: Although, the one time I did send her on an errand she met some guy who flew her to Paris, and then she started modeling. And then she ended up being the reason why the French soccer team did so badly in the 2010 world cup.
Liz Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy: Get me a black coffee, by which I mean, a sunkist.
Tracy Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: 'Cause I don't see race, you white bastards.
Tracy Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch movie character: Jack Donaghy, don't you know in this neighborhood you got to take your tires with you?
Tracy: Fourth of July weekend. I wrote, directed, and did all of the makeup myself.
Tracy Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy: Oh, it's terrible. We made $50 million... In Atlanta.
Tracy Deadpan/Understatement Misdirection ★ Rewatch Tracy: That's Leslie Van Vondervann. He's used to be on 'knots landing.' My twin is dead.
Tracy Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Tracy as Aunt Phatso: And you will respect these boobies.
Kenneth: Because I think I saw an ad for it in Urban Butt magazine. They have an excellent word jumble.
Kenneth Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: I will not have you talk to me like I'm some kind of Liz Lemon.
Jack Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Jack: Just like me? I went to Princeton. I neglected a tiger.
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy: I'm friends with Phil Harmonic, the worst rapper of all time.
Tracy Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: No! Andy Cohen is so catty.
Tracy Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Hazel · Kenneth: Well, this morning miss Lemon had one of her meltdowns. Really? About what? Because she can't balance work and personal life. But I mean, after seven years and hundreds of these episodes, it's like, let's move on.
Hazel: And I wasn't sure how you take your coffee, so mouth or enema?
Hazel Cringe/Discomfort Absurdist ★ Rewatch Hazel: But what if you do have a kid and you have to leave work because your daughter shot her choir teacher's husband?
Hazel Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Hazel: No. I got you a mini-freezer, full of candy bars so cold they'll crack your jaw, you bitch.
Hazel Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Hazel: Sisters helping sisters. Glass ceiling. Legitimate rape.
Hazel Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: You got it unstuck from the chair!
Liz Visual Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch announcer: So please enjoy a four-hour rendition of the theme song from Sanford and Son.
Hazel: You just need to know what to say to them, like their children's names and what they wore to school today.
Hazel Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Hazel: Until I hit puberty and the coaches said I got too pregnant.
Hazel Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack · Hazel: Jack Donaghy to see Liz Lemon. Get off this channel! This is a military frequency.
Liz: I mean, right now, my feet are kind of like babies. I have to swaddle them, and they need ointment, and, like, six times a day brown stuff comes out of them.
Liz Visual Gag Character Comedy Liz: You're beautiful babies, yes you are.
Liz Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Jack: Get two birds with one stone, like when I used Mick Jagger to lure Roger McGuinn and David Crosby to my birthday party.
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jenna: I take in 50 calories a day and I'm using them all up just trying to help you.
Jenna Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: One is German, one is Japanese. And you don't bring these guys together to play Patty-cake.
Tracy Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: Bad news, Jack. War's my favorite card game. And I win about half the time.
Tracy Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: Not the ones I've swallowed.
Tracy Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy: It was my Saturday morning kid's show, Uncle Tracy's black teletubbies rip-off.
Tracy Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy: I cancelled it because, like you, it was overly sexual and impossible to understand. Grabalujah!
Tracy Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: That is what she said.
Jack Running Gag Character Comedy Tracy: I'm Willow Smith-ing my daughter. Her album drops next week. Christmas Blankie.
Tracy Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Jack: Checkmate. Game, set, match. Rumbledy-goo... Which is what you say when you win in polo.
Jack Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Hazel: For Halloween, you should go as a slutty ear.
Hazel Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: ♪ Jenna is listening ♪ listening like the sun in the sky ♪
Hazel: What if those feet were real babies? Would you walk on them to work?
Hazel Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Liz Callback Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Callback Hazel: Criss calls it 'old-timey football.'
Hazel Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Hazel: Why are my arms so weak? It's like I did that push-up last year for nothing.
Hazel Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Liz Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Hazel: Oh, Pete roofied me.
Hazel Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Pete reading email: 'P-Dog, let's use Hazel in the cold open. Don't call me about this. Catch you on the flippy-floppy.'
Liz: My foot babies died because of this show!
Liz Callback Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Hazel: You don't even know my real name.
Hazel Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Hazel: This one's on you, bitch.
Hazel Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Kenneth: I am just a co-worker who would do anything for any of you at any time. Nothing more!
Kenneth Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: No, that's why they put that cone on me.
Tracy Character Comedy Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Jack Reaction Beat Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Great Caesar's ghost!
Jack Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Tracy as Aunt Phatso: Respect these boobies!