Jenna annoys Liz with her wedding envy, Jack devises a plan to avoid disappointing his visiting mother and Tracy attempts to cheer up Kenneth.
Season 7's densest hour: 76 jokes in 24 minutes of controlled absurdist chaos.
Directed by Linda Mendoza · Written by Jack Burditt
WAR
71.8
Wins Above Replacement
“My Whole Life Is Thunder” ranks #98 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 82.8 — Elite. The episode packs 76 scored jokes at 3.1 per minute, averaging 7.1 on craft and 6.8 on impact, with Jenna landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Jenna: My whole life is thunder!
Jenna Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: That's only 14 in demon years, Lemon.
Jack Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jenna: The pill that lets me feel emotion is gonna wear off soon.
Jenna Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jenna: I promise to always pour antibiotics all over your penis before you staple it to anything.
Jenna Cringe/Discomfort Absurdist ★ Rewatch Tracy: You left crumbs on the floor so that the mice spelled 'Come see me'?
All Jokes — 76 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Frank · Liz: To what? - To Criss, Frank.
Frank: What the H-E-double-vibrator is that thing on your left hand?
Frank Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Jenna · Liz: How could you do this to me? - Flurb?
Paul: I guess I ate all that asparagus for nothing.
Paul Cringe/Discomfort Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Jenna: Timberbiel, Beyon-Z, Anne Hatha-nobody
Jenna: I was on a list to date Tom Cruise, but I bailed before I got sucked in too deep, praise Xenu!
Jenna Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Cerie · Liz: It's inspiring to see that a woman in her 30s can still find true love. - I'm 42, Cerie. - I don't know what that is.
Cerie Liz Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Cerie: 80 Under 80, honoring women in entertainment who aren't Betty White
Cerie: oh, dot com, backslash garbagefile
Liz: Doo-ba-doo-ba-dow! Ba-doo-pomp-boo-pomp-boo-ba-da!
Liz Character Comedy Absurdist Callback Jack: She insists on traveling on Pearl Harbor Day to 'Show the Emperor we're not afraid.'
Jack Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: That's only 14 in demon years, Lemon.
Jack Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jack: I got the idea from watching your President Obama the last four years.
Jack: Notice the ring is shriller.
Jonathan · Colleen: Well, she's wearing it pulled back, but it's not working. Exactly, because of her ears.
Tracy: Because despite cell phones, iPads, and computers, it's still the most effective portal for poltergeists?
Tracy: Someone's looking lovely today! What a burn! I could have meant someone else. Although I didn't. She's radiant.
Tracy Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: My whole life is thunder!
Jenna Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jenna: Next you'll tell me Mickey Rourke catapulted you into the Hollywood sign!
Jenna Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Jenna: Chuck Scarborough is anatomically a woman? So I am a lesbian.
Liz: What brings a mummer to Lightsman's Row?
Jenna: Oh, Liz, you had me at 'Hayden Panettiere is dead'!
Jenna Dark/Subversive Misdirection Unknown woman: I'm a nymphomaniac virgin widow, and I just completed my year of mourning.
Colleen: I see her spot in front of my left eye. If this turns out to be a stroke, you're in charge of plucking my chin.
Colleen Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Colleen: I have a few things I want to say to you before I meet the Grim Reaper, who is black, I assume, what, with the hoodies he wears.
Colleen Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Colleen: I didn't trust that scout master. He was always wearing shorts.
Jack · reciting Colleen: If only 'Dragnet' hadn't been preempted because of Sputnik, you never would have been conceived!
Tracy: You left crumbs on the floor so that the mice spelled 'Come see me'?
Tracy · Florence Henderson: Florence Henderson! - Mrs. Brady! - Uh-uh. I told the black guy here none of that Brady stuff.
Florence Henderson: Are you the perverts who want to go to town on each other while I make a pie?
Bonny: I can't shake hands because I have carpal tunnel syndrome from zipping up my own dress now that Gary's gone.
Bonny Cringe/Discomfort Dark/Subversive Bonny: Because Gary was the navigator.
Bonny Cringe/Discomfort Callback Liz: Why does the other Liz Lemon always come up first?
Liz: Why does the other Liz Lemon always come up first?
Liz Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy Unknown woman: I just went, but I guess I can go again!
Unknown woman: You know what my best friend did for my 50th birthday? She gives everybody a car. And then she was all, 'Thank you for coming to Gayle's birthday!'
Unknown woman: My bangs, they're not about you. It's about me trying to cover my forehead.
Liz · Unknown woman: We're talking about Oprah, right? - No, of course not. She can hear us!
Colleen: For grave robbers.
Colleen Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Colleen: I went down to a pack a day for you!
Colleen Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Colleen: I was watching TV, and they started interviewing an Asian Santa Claus, and my arm went numb!
Colleen: My father did not kill dozens of Germans so that his daughter could die in a van!
Colleen: The horse is one of only three appropriate subjects for a painting, along with ships with sails and men holding up swords while staring off into the distance.
Colleen Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Colleen: I'm going out of this world exactly the way I came into it. Wearing a hat!
Colleen: Are you the same guy as before, or does that sun-bleached turd have a twin brother?
Kenneth: Apex Technical School puts students first. And the perfect time to enroll is now.
Kenneth Absurdist Meta/Self-Referential Bonny: Just like Gary and that bitch who was selling us our dream house.
Bonny Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Jenna · Liz: Without me, you'd still be behind that light board in Chicago turning bags of Sour Patch Kids inside out to lick them clean! - I got my money's worth!
Jenna Liz Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: I got my money's worth!
Liz Character Comedy Reaction Beat Jenna: Well, joke's on you because that wasn't a commercial. I don't know what it was!
Jenna Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Jenna: Thank you. Visit my website for extras and ringtones.
Jenna Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lighting technician: Well, this stage is now lit like a grocery store milk aisle!
Jenna: Also, you need to tell your Aunt Mary, when she was two, there was an accident with a hot corn.
Jenna Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Colleen: I breastfed you for nine years!
Paul: It's all right! The lack of oxygen is making me orgasm!
Paul Cringe/Discomfort Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Bonny: You would know, Judy!
Bonny: I put his sweater on a body pillow... I took it for a canoe ride!
Bonny Cringe/Discomfort Escalation Callback Liz: Colleen had a 'fart attack'?
Liz: My grandmother said, 'Liz, stop playing with the flesh around my elbow.'
Jack: Colleen wanted to be buried before the rest of the family found out and sold her body to a haunted house.
Jack Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: One more chance to disappoint her as she looks up at me from her throne in Hell.
Jenna: The pill that lets me feel emotion is gonna wear off soon.
Jenna Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jenna: The pill that lets me feel emotion is gonna wear off soon.
Jenna Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Liz: They have reinforced crotches.
Liz Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Jenna: you're married to a guy that I think about during sex.
Jenna: Pill wearing off. You have mom arms.
Jenna Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Jenna: Pill wearing off. You have mom arms.
Jenna Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Kenneth: Where else but real life would a millionaire movie star care so much about a hillbilly janitor that he would spend two days trying to cheer him up?
Kenneth Observational Character Comedy Tracy: You weren't supposed to have any lines, Quon Lee. Now I have to pay you!
Tracy Meta/Self-Referential Jack: I realized that her constant, crushing disapproval was a gift. The greatest gift a mother ever gave a son.
Jack Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Jack: The man who in 1984 wore a tuxedo so well, he broke up the Go-Go's.
Jack Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Priest: And the plumber says, 'I don't-a know, but that's a pretty big-a pizza!'
Jenna: I promise to always pour antibiotics all over your penis before you staple it to anything.
Jenna Cringe/Discomfort Absurdist ★ Rewatch Paul: I am so honored to be taking your first and last name.
Priest: Ladies and gentlemen, presenting Mrs. and Mr. Jenna Maroneys!
Priest Escalation Character Comedy Callback 