Jack asks Devin Banks to help him discredit Kaylie Hooper, Jack's teenage nemesis and KableTown's future CEO. Liz considers her options as she tries to become a mother. Tracy directs Octavia Spencer in his movie.
Season 7's funniest episode: 94.8 score on pure character-absurdist escalation across 76 jokes.
Directed by Ken Whittingham · Written by Sam Means, Robert Carlock
WAR
138.9
Wins Above Replacement
“Game Over” ranks #43 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 99.1 — Elite. The episode packs 81 scored jokes at 3.3 per minute, averaging 7.7 on craft and 7.7 on impact, with Jack Donaghy landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Jack Donaghy: A birthday card.
Jack Donaghy: She wanted to be cremated, and she ended up dying in a fire. Such a considerate woman.
Jenna Maroney: I quit, cows. Tell your husbands I tried.
Jack Donaghy: How gay, Banks, on a scale from bear hunting to hunting bears?
Liz Lemon · Jack Donaghy: Even if they work, at my age, the kid might just come out a ball of fingers. / Steve Forbes was born a ball of fingers. He had the best surgeons money can buy, but you can still tell.
All Jokes — 81 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Dr. Spaceman · Carol: Carol, they're towing your car! / Damn it. My kids are in there.
Liz Lemon: This is Westchester? I am lost.
Liz Lemon Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Dr. Spaceman · Liz Lemon: That's a euphemism, right? / No, my husband and I are trying to conceive. / I'm gonna write you a prescription for progesterone injections. That's a female hormone. Now, I know what you're thinking, and the answer is no. If a man takes it, he won't grow breasts, although that would be awesome.
Dr. Spaceman: No money for the whorehouse? That's fine. I'll just look down while hiding my crotch with an oriental fan.
Dr. Spaceman · Government Agents: Are you Dr. Leo Spaceman? / Come with us to Washington. You've just been named surgeon general of the United States. / Hey, that's a series wrap on Leo Spaceman, suckers. Bye.
Tracy Jordan: Liz Lemon, that stuff will shrink your testicles, but there are bad side effects as well.
Tracy Jordan: Now, I'm not a woman, so of course I can say whatever I want.
Tracy Jordan: This seems really weird and unnatural. 'Side effects include mood swings, increased irritability, and swelling of one or more boobs.'
Tracy Jordan: I'm about to start shooting my Harriet Tubman movie, and I got Octavia Spencer to play the lead... Harriet something.
Liz Lemon: You know, I once played Frederick Douglass in a one-woman show that the University of Maryland Diamondback called 'too confusing to be offensive.'
Liz Lemon Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jack Donaghy: She wanted to be cremated, and she ended up dying in a fire. Such a considerate woman.
Jack Donaghy: One... birthday boy always sleeps in the largest tiger cage.
Jack Donaghy: Some of the rules may be specific to my time in Vietnam.
Jack Donaghy Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Jack Donaghy: Yes, I understand that Hank Jr. is writing a children's book about a giraffe who learns he doesn't have to work hard.
Hank Hooper: Yeah, but when she gets out of college, she'll be 21. That's the same age I was when I started Kabletown, got married, and had my first white child.
Hank Hooper Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Hank Hooper: I admit I was skeptical when I first saw your fall schedule. 'What? Is this guy trying to tank the company?' But, boy, you proved me wrong. Celebrity Homonym is the number-one show in America.
Celebrity Homonym Contestant · Host: The word is 'racket.' Okay, 'racket,' like a tennis racket. Sorry. It's the other one. Again? You know what, pal? Why don't you come over here and tell me that?
Jack Donaghy · Hank Hooper: "Assistant"? / CEO. / She'll be on the board, learning the ropes, and you'll keep her chair warm. It'll work great, just like Conan and Jay.
Liz Lemon: Have you ever updated your Flash player? It is so sad. What happens to version 11.4?
Liz Lemon Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Liz Lemon: I'm taking hormone shots to have a baby, you son of a bitch! [Crying] A beautiful little baby.
Jack Donaghy: [Laughing] Being a woman is the worst.
Jack Donaghy: I've spent my life trying to win my mother's approval, but she never gave it to me, which means I can't ever stop trying, even when faced with an impossible task... It's exactly the kind of challenge my mother's anti-love prepared me for. I'll make you proud of me yet, Colleen!
Liz Lemon: It'll either be my masterpiece, or I will resign in shame. [Crying] Just like poor Nixon. He did good things in China.
Tracy Jordan: Octavia, excellent, you're black.
Octavia Spencer · Tracy Jordan: Mm. I don't think so. I'm gonna walk in from over here. / But the door. / Well, you're just gonna have to rewrite the script and explain how my character can go through walls.
Octavia Spencer · Tracy Jordan: Also, I want to wear a t-shirt, promote my website. / But slaves didn't wear t-shirts. / That sounds like a Tracy problem, Tracy.
Octavia Spencer: I'm done for the day. I got to go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan.
Len Wazniak: Well, Mr. Donaghy, you asked me to pull out all the stops on this, so I went deep undercover, and I applied for a job as a drama teacher at Kaylie's school.
Len Wazniak as Jan Foster: Hi, I'm Ms. Foster, but, please, call me Jan. Boy, Jay-Z and Shakespeare have nothing in common. Or do they?
Len Wazniak · Jack Donaghy: FYI... Jan Foster is currently in a 'lesbian relationship' with Ms. Siegal from the math department. / Okay, I don't know why you had to be a woman. / Let me worry about that.
Devin Banks: Banks. Pedal faster, fatties. God, I love how much you disgust me.
Jack Donaghy · Devin Banks: Isn't that a bit of a gay cliche? / You're the gay one. / Wanting to be with a woman... How gay is that? / You win sex against a man, that's as straight as it gets.
Jack Donaghy · Devin Banks: But you also know that Jack Donaghy always wins. Or have you forgotten the time we played Battleship? Remember A-8? / You peeked.
Jack Donaghy: If we joined forces, we could become the greatest business power duo since Gregory Linens teamed up with Thomas N'Things.
Devin Banks: I know certain things, Jack, about Kaylie's father... Certain super-gay things.
Jack Donaghy: How gay, Banks, on a scale from bear hunting to hunting bears?
Devin Banks: Very handsome, horrible personality... I'm totally in love with him.
Bev (Adoption Agency): Oh, yes. Congratulations. You've moved from the 'well-meaning lesbian' pile to 'found a man, comma, living a lie.'
Liz Lemon · Bev: So I'll be 46 by the time I get a baby? / Unless you'd like to adopt an older child. I can give you a six-year-old yesterday. Pick a color.
Bev: And I always pictured myself getting double-teamed by two The Rocks. But sometimes we have to make compromises.
Bev Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Liz Lemon · Jack Donaghy: Jack, how old is too old for a woman to have a baby? / 19.
Liz Lemon · Jack Donaghy: Even if they work, at my age, the kid might just come out a ball of fingers. / Steve Forbes was born a ball of fingers. He had the best surgeons money can buy, but you can still tell.
Liz Lemon: For every orphan Annie, there's a 30-year-old Russian dwarf who's just pretending to be a child, according to a movie that I watched part of.
Liz Lemon Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Devin Banks · Liz Lemon: The reason being a week-long party in Stephen Sondheim's sex dungeon. The workmanship down there is exquisite, but it took forever. / Oh, renovations in New York.
Jack Donaghy: Teenage girls can't stop looking at their phones. It's like me with paintings of cannons.
Jack Donaghy · Liz Lemon: We need a teenage girl. Or someone who thinks like one. / Damn it. Why do I keep helping you? I'll just do anything for approval. I would have been a Nazi.
Jenna Maroney: Let's destroy her.
Kenneth · Tracy Jordan: So how's the movie going? / Terrible. Octavia won't do anything I tell her to do. She left early. She's completely unprofessional. / I don't know, Tray. Sound like she acting like you. / But I'm impossible to deal with. No one has ever been able to rein in my hilarious antics.
Kaylie Hooper: Jack, pleasure's the name of a pony I hate.
Kaylie Hooper: Oh, her brain's like silly putty, a toy I am too old for.
Jenna Maroney · Kaylie Hooper: O.M.G. It's Jenna. You're wearing that belt as a joke, right? / Of course I am. [Laughing] / Where did you get your belt? You're so cool. / Jack is trying to destroy you and wants me to steal your phone.
Jenna Maroney: Kaylie, you look so gorgeous today. I'm wearing a headband because you are.
Kaylie Hooper · Jack Donaghy: Please, I don't keep anything on my phone anymore. I use Gadzorp. / What on Earth is that? / You're so old and out of touch, Donaghy. I might as well be looking at Justin Timberlake.
Jenna Maroney: I quit, cows. Tell your husbands I tried.
Jack Donaghy · Devin Banks: How'd you get these DNA results back so fast? / I happen to have some very powerful friends at the Maury Povich show.
Devin Banks: Look how far we've come, Jack. From enemies to partners to who knows. Come on, let's get a couple of wines in you and just start wrestling.
Tracy Jordan: Blargh. I'm Liz Lemon. I'm in charge! Nerds! I want to have a baby. My boyfriend is a pilot or something. Sandwiches.
Tracy Jordan: I'm not coming to work tomorrow.
Len Wazniak: Actually, Jack, I've decided to continue living as Jan Foster. It's just in all these years as a P.I., I think my greatest disguise was Len Wazniak.
Jack Donaghy · Kaylie Hooper: Kaylie, how do I not seen you to join us? / I know what's past your bad time.
Jack Donaghy · Devin Banks · Kaylie Hooper: Banks, what are you doing? / FYI Kaylie is my best friend, so I sit next to her at the movies. / Why can't she just sit in the middle?
Jack Donaghy: Game over, Kaylie. / [Laughs] 'Game over, Kaylie.' [Laughs]
Jack Donaghy · Jenna Maroney: So Jenna is an Ashkenazi Jew with an extra 'Y' chromosome? / What's that, now?
Kaylie Hooper: This is why everyone hates you, Jack. We were all talking about it before at the mall.
Jack Donaghy: Yes, I suppose that's one way this could have played out.
Len Wazniak: I'll tell him you said that.
Len Wazniak Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Callback Kaylie Hooper · Jack Donaghy: Well, that's impossible. I mailed them myself. / Did you?
Jack Donaghy: A birthday card.
Jack Donaghy · Kaylie Hooper: You sent him something, right, Kaylie? / Kaylie? / I lost. / After college, I'm gonna have to go into publishing and... marry a finance guy and... do charity stuff.
Devin Banks: What a loser. You had me mail that birthday card. That didn't need to happen. That was just mean.
Liz Lemon: What's going on here? And where did you get that sweater? Is that from Chico's harvest naturals collection?
Tracy Jordan: Octavia Spencer got arrested for soliciting sex from an undercover police dog.
Tracy Jordan: She turned out to be a Tracy Jordan. So, to deal with her, I tried to be a Liz Lemon.
Tracy Jordan Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Liz Lemon · Tracy Jordan: Hey, those are my glasses. / Oh, and you popped the lenses out? / No, they shattered in a urinal.
Tracy Jordan · Liz Lemon: Like my booger-eating? / Please, let me just have one. I need it, baby.
Tracy Jordan: Hey, those Lego men were on a rescue mission to save the other Lego men that I swallowed.
Liz Lemon: Hey, remember that thing we talked about the other day, about adopting an older kid? Well, I want to do it.
Liz Lemon Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Callback Bev (Adoption Agency) · Liz Lemon: Bitch, more than one person works here. / Who is this? / It's Elizabeth Lemon. / Who?
Tracy Jordan · Octavia Spencer: Action. / Every dream begins with a... / Line? / Dreamer. / Action. / You have within you... / Line? / Strength and... / I got it. I got it. / Line?
