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
113.6
Wins Above Replacement
“Game Over” ranks #1 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 94.8 — Elite. The episode packs 76 scored jokes at 3.1 per minute, averaging 7.5 on craft and 7.4 on impact, with Tracy landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Jack: While I distracted you, you forgot Pop-Pop's 70th birthday.
Jack Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Jack: The reason being a week-long party in Stephen sondheim's sex dungeon. The workmanship down there is exquisite, but it took forever.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Steve Forbes was born a ball of fingers. He had the best surgeons money can buy, but you can still tell.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Yes, I suppose that's one way this could have played out.
Jack Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bev: And I always pictured myself getting double-teamed by two the rocks. But sometimes we have to make compromises.
Bev Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 76 analyzed
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Carol · Dr. Spaceman: I came all the way up to Westchester just to avoid you. This is Westchester? I am lost.
Dr. Spaceman: 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: Hey, that's a series wrap on Leo Spaceman, suckers. Bye.
Tracy: Liz Lemon, that stuff will shrink your testicles, but there are bad side effects as well.
Tracy Setup/Punchline Absurdist Tracy: Now, I'm not a woman, so of course I can say whatever I want.
Tracy Observational Character Comedy Tracy: I got octavia Spencer to play the lead... Harriet something.
Tracy Character Comedy Absurdist Tracy: You know, I once played Frederick douglass in a one-woman show that the university of Maryland Diamondback called 'too confusing to be offensive.'
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Hank: She wanted to be cremated, and she ended up dying in a fire. Such a considerate woman.
Hank Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jack: One... birthday boy always sleeps in the largest tiger cage.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Some of the rules may be specific to my time in Vietnam.
Jack Deadpan/Understatement Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Jack: Hank Jr. is writing a children's book about a giraffe who learns he doesn't have to work hard.
Jack Absurdist Observational Hank: That's the same age I was when I started Kabletown, got married, and had my first white child.
Hank Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Hank: What? Is this guy trying to tank the company? But, boy, you proved me wrong.
Hank Irony/Sarcasm Meta/Self-Referential Hank: Celebrity homonym is the number-one show in America.
Hank Absurdist Wordplay/Pun Celebrity contestant: The word is 'racket.' Okay, 'racket,' like a tennis racket. Sorry. It's the other one. Again?
Hank: It'll work great, just like Conan and Jay.
Hank Irony/Sarcasm Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Liz: Have you ever updated your flash player? It is so sad. What happens to version 11.4?
Liz Absurdist Character Comedy Liz: I'm taking hormone shots to have a baby, you son of a bitch! A beautiful little baby.
Liz Character Comedy Escalation Liz: Being a woman is the worst.
Liz Observational Character Comedy Liz: Just like poor Nixon. He did good things in China.
Liz Character Comedy Observational Tracy: Octavia, excellent, you're black.
Tracy Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Octavia Spencer: Well, you're just gonna have to rewrite the script and explain how my character can go through walls.
Octavia Spencer · Tracy: But slaves didn't wear t-shirts. That sounds like a Tracy problem, Tracy.
Octavia Spencer: I got to go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan.
Len as Jan Foster: Boy, Jay-Z and Shakespeare have nothing in common. Or do they?
Len: Jan Foster is currently in a 'lesbian relationship' with Ms. Siegal from the math department.
Len Character Comedy Absurdist Devin Banks: Pedal faster, fatties. God, I love how much you disgust me.
Devin Banks: 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 · Devin Banks: Remember A-8? You peeked.
Jack: Gregory Linens teamed up with Thomas n'things.
Jack Wordplay/Pun Absurdist Devin Banks: Gay enough that Kaylie's parents have never actually had heterosexual intercourse.
Devin Banks: Very handsome, horrible personality... I'm totally in love with him.
Bev: You've moved from the 'well-meaning lesbian' pile to 'found a man, comma, living a lie.'
Bev Character Comedy Observational Bev: I can give you a six-year-old yesterday. Pick a color.
Bev Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Bev: And I always pictured myself getting double-teamed by two the rocks. But sometimes we have to make compromises.
Bev Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Jack: Steve Forbes was born a ball of fingers. He had the best surgeons money can buy, but you can still tell.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: 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 Absurdist Character Comedy Jack: The reason being a week-long party in Stephen sondheim's sex dungeon. The workmanship down there is exquisite, but it took forever.
Jack Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Banks: What's happening to your left blob?
Banks Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Liz: Oh, renovations in New York.
Liz Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Jack: Thanks for the compliment, Lemon. Train travel's for hoboes.
Jack Character Comedy Misdirection Devin Banks: The only backstabbing I do now is... Well, you know.
Liz: I would have been a Nazi. Who do we know who's immature and vicious enough to...
Liz Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Jenna Escalation Character Comedy Tracy · Grizz: 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.
Tracy: W.W.R.X.W. What would Liz Lemon do?
Tracy Character Comedy Callback Callback Kaylie: Jack, pleasure's the name of a pony I hate.
Kaylie Character Comedy Misdirection Kaylie: Oh, her brain's like silly putty, a toy I am too old for.
Kaylie Character Comedy Observational Kaylie Absurdist Character Comedy Kaylie: I might as well be looking at Justin Timberlake.
Kaylie Character Comedy Observational Octavia Spencer: I quit, cows. Tell your husbands I tried.
Tracy: 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 Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Octavia Spencer: I'm a Jedi.
Len: I think my greatest disguise was len wazniak.
Len Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Len as Jan Foster: Hi honey! It's 20% of your midterm grade.
Len as Jan Foster: engaged to Ms. Siegal.
Kaylie: that I wouldn't notice miss Foster sit on her testicles the other day
Kaylie Character Comedy Visual Gag Jack: So Jenna is an Ashkenazi Jew with an extra 'Y' chromosome?
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist Kaylie: We were all talking about it before at the mall.
Kaylie Character Comedy Observational Jack: Yes, I suppose that's one way this could have played out.
Jack Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack Misdirection Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jack: While I distracted you, you forgot Pop-Pop's 70th birthday.
Jack Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Kaylie: After college, I'm gonna have to go into publishing and... Marry a finance guy and... Do charity stuff.
Kaylie: After college, I'm gonna have to go into publishing and... Marry a finance guy and... Do charity stuff.
Kaylie Character Comedy Observational Devin Banks: That didn't need to happen. That was just mean.
Liz: And where did you get that sweater? Is that from chico's harvest naturals collection?
Liz Character Comedy Observational Tracy: No, they shattered in a urinal.
Tracy: Like my booger-eating? Please, let me just have one. I need it, baby.
Tracy Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Tracy: Hey, those lego men were on a rescue mission to save the other lego men that I swallowed.
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bev: Bitch, more than one person works here.
Bev Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Grizz Wordplay/Pun Deadpan/Understatement 