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Character Analysis

John Lutz

J.D. Lutz

Played by John Lutz

72 jokes across 36 episodes of 30 Rock

WAR

27.4

Total Jokes

72

Avg Craft

7.1

Avg Impact

6.8

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Lutz delivers 72 scored jokes across 36 episodes of 30 Rock, averaging 7.1 on craft and 6.8 on impact for a career WAR of 27.4. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Lutz Lines

All Jokes — 87 total

S1E13

Lutz · Liz:I just took a whole bunch of Cialis, because I have big Valentine's plans tonight. / With who? / Uh, nobody.

6.97.0
S1E14

Lutz · Liz:Lutz eating at his desk during the writers meeting; 'Ay, pero ay Dios mio!'

5.65.3
S1E14

Lutz:Deal or No Hobo?

7.37.3
S1E14

Writer · Lutz:Didn't you bake us anything? / Hey, I thought you were gonna being snickerdoodles in. That's the only reason I showed up.

6.96.8
S1E14

Lutz · Liz:I'm sorry that I said that. / Please don't make me move back to Alaska, Liz. I hate it there.

7.57.5
S1E19

Liz · Lutz:Aw, Lutz, that's okay. I'm just glad you're here. / Aw, you got a face like a baby's bottom. / Poop!

6.96.5
S1E21

Liz Lemon · Lutz:Liz to Lutz: 'Lutz, don't just stand there. Go eat something.'

7.77.2
S2E07

Liz · Lutz:Ugh, Jenna, that guy is a baby. / Lutz? I'm Lutz.

7.67.3
S2E11

Frank · Lutz:Lutz, come here. We should form an alliance. / A what? / An alliance. We're the two biggest dirtbags around here.

7.26.7
S2E11

Lutz · Frank:I don't think people see me that way. / Yeah, they do. You and me. A couple of fat pervert losers. / My sister-in-law did kinda a makeover on me. I thought--/ No. No.

7.47.0
S2E11

Frank · Lutz:Thanks, Judas. / I thought we had a deal. / You lie! / Who cares if you went to Harvard? Who cares?

7.37.2
S2E14

Frank · Lutz:And I can't have booze because I'm on antibiotics after having some skanky club sex. He's on antibiotics because he lost his lucky penny and assumed it fell in his ear again.

8.18.3
S2E14

Frank · Lutz:Shut up, Lutz. Your surgery was for an undescended testicle. Wrong again. It was for two undescended testicles.

8.28.5
S3E13

Jack · Frank · Toofer · Lutz · Josh:What do your dads tell their friends you do? Surgeon. Optometrist. Died. I never really knew my dad, so I just lie to myself. Space assassin.

8.58.8
S3E14

Lutz · Jack:Can we get lunch from McDonald's today? / No.

6.86.3
S3E18

Lutz:Lutz/writer: 'The whole thing is loosely based on an evening I spent with Isaiah Thomas.'

7.27.0
S3E19

Lutz · Liz:The cousin Stephanie walnut story that gets cut off: 'You know, if my cousin Stephanie eats a walnut her throat shuts up faster than a Filipino at a...' / 'Guys! Come on. Not okay.'

7.87.8
S3E19

Lutz:Lutz hears 'donuts' and happily announces 'Awesome, donuts!' — then presumably gets pranked by the mouse

5.96.3
S3E19

Jenna's fan · Lutz:The fan gives Lutz his phone number to pass to Jenna before leaving

6.66.2
S3E20

Lutz:Cut to bachelor party at strip club: [sobbing] 'I don't wanna be here! I don't like it here! Who's this guy?' — Lutz crying at his own bachelor party

7.47.0
S4E03

Lutz:God, are you doing this to me 'cause I took that blind guy's hot dog?

8.18.2
S4E03

Lutz:Get it? I'm an Italian senator.

6.86.2
S4E04

Toofer · Lutz · Pete:Good evening, we are Laugh of the Mohicans. Our first bit is the Hamburglar— NO!

7.47.3
S4E04

Toofer · Lutz · Liz Lemon:Good evening, we are Laugh of the Mohicans. Our first bit is the Hamburglar— / No!

8.38.3
S4E05

Lutz · Writers Room:The entire staff mistakes Lutz for the new guy. Lutz: 'What? No, it's me, Lutz. I've worked here for three years. I gave you that car I won. Come on.'

7.77.5
S4E07

Lutz:Lutz: 'Mm-hmm.' (accepting the promotion excitedly) / then immediately: 'Too much pressure.'

6.86.3
S4E08

Lutz:And we always leave work to go to the movies on Merlinpeen.

7.87.5
S4E08

Frank · Lutz:♪ Oh, meat bowl of Verduke / you bring me such pizza ♪ [♪ meatbowl ♪]

8.08.2
S4E11

Lutz:I don't care. Worth it.

7.27.2
S4E11

Lutz:The Shell by me has good hot dogs. [All protest]

6.96.5
S4E11

Writer · Lutz · Other writers:Lutz! Truffle-shuffle him! / Truffle shuffle! Truffle shuffle!

6.87.2
S4E13

Frank · Lutz:Frank casually asks the writers' room if they know any 'cool, new sex positions' for his 'girlfriend' Karen's Valentine's visit

6.35.8
S4E13

Lutz · Frank:'Oh, my God, Lutz. Are you still pretending Karen exists?' / 'She's real. Would a fake woman have a personal website at JDLutz.com/karen/proof?'

8.08.0
S4E16

Lutz:Like, what if we trick him into kissing me? It'd be so funny because I'm not gay.

7.47.2
S4E16

Lutz:This is the most friends I've ever had.

7.47.3
S4E17

Jenna · Lutz:Jenna: 'So maybe your problem is that you're finally being treated like everybody else.' / Lutz: 'So what? Look at Italians. We're always portrayed either as goombahs or guidos, but we don't care because we're successful members of society.'

7.37.3
S4E20

Writer (Josh/other) · Lutz · Miho:Hey Lutz, this is my mom, Miho.

6.76.0
S4E20

Lutz:I didn't know you were adopted.

7.26.8
S5E12

Liz Lemon · Lutz:Oh, God, Lutz, why? What? I don't want tush lines.

6.86.8
S5E12

Lutz:Lutz wearing bike shorts with visible 'tush lines' in hopes of appearing on camera

7.17.5
S5E12

Ensemble · Lutz:Well, he's slow and a coward. / I'm not useless. I mean, I've got a car.

7.57.5
S5E12

Lutz:It's like a reality show where you guys get to compete for a seat in my car by proving how much you like me.

7.37.0
S5E12

Lutz:Look at all of you trying to impress me. I feel like the Bachelor. But, uh, whom shall I give my rose?

7.37.2
S5E12

Lutz:I don't really have a car.

7.37.2
S5E12

Writer · Lutz:Hey, buddy, I made you an apocalypse road trip mix. / I hope your car has a CD player. / It has two. And it has flames on the side.

7.57.5
S5E12

Writers · Lutz:Wait. It's in New Jersey? / How are we getting to New Jersey? / You're going to drive us, obviously. / What am I gonna do?

6.56.3
S5E12

Lutz:But now I do have a car, so everything's like it was before. It's all like it was before!

7.47.3
S5E16

Writer · Lutz:And if you guys don't go along with this, Lutz will play Xbox Kinect with his shirt off again. / [Star jump! I found the chrysalis!]

8.08.2
S5E16

Abby · Lutz:Oh, I am desperate for male attention, because I feel safer having men around in case Troy comes back. That is why I slept with Lutz. / And I shall protect her.

8.17.8
S5E16

UPS Guy · Lutz:Is there an Abby Flynn here? / That's her, Troy! I'm on your side! Get her!

8.38.5
S5E20

Liz Lemon · Lutz:Lutz, what are you working on? / Breathing through my mouth so I don't smell the throw-up on my shirt.

7.57.5
S5E20

Lutz:I would take my shirt off, but I visited my rescue chimp for his birthday last week, and another chimp got mad and bit my nipple off. He played with it, and then he kissed it, and then he ate it.

8.38.7
S5E21

Lutz:Breathing through my mouth so I don't smell the throw-up on my shirt.

7.87.7
S5E21

Lutz:I would take my shirt off, but I visited my rescue chimp for his birthday last week, and another chimp got mad and bit my nipple off. He played with it, and then he kissed it, and then he ate it.

8.49.0
S5E23

Liz · Lutz:Lutz, what are you doing? / Don't look at me!

6.46.0
S5E23

Lutz:I did it! I spoke! / This didn't get mailed.

6.86.2
S5E23

Frank · Lutz:Speaking of trapped, I got you, Lutz! / Nope. Grenade. Blowing myself up.

6.76.8
S5E23

Frank · Toofer · Lutz:No, I see you. I'm killing myself. Respawn. / Respawn. / Damn it!

7.57.3
S6E01

Lutz · Kenneth:Aah! Redire ad abyssum! Princeps tenebrarum! Ow! It's me, Lutz.

7.47.3
S6E04

Lutz · Jack:Jack tries to blame the gift mix-up on 'the machines.' Lutz: 'Ha! It was Jack! Guys, Jack makes dumb mistakes. He's just like us. He's no better than I am. He's just got a suit.'

7.06.8
S6E04

Jack · Lutz:Jack: 'He looks scared, like Lutz on an escalator.' Lutz: 'Twinsies!'

7.77.5
S6E04

Jack · Lutz:'You thumb with a wig, those gifts were supposed to go to the 60th floor.' / 'Good job, Jack. Blame it on an albino. Classic, 'cause it works.'

7.77.5
S6E06

Lutz:Lutz: 'Yesterday, I ate all the cheese out of the mouse traps.'

8.18.5
S6E06

Lutz · Postal Worker:'Hey, baby, what's wrong?' — Lutz tries the line; the woman he approaches is actually a postal worker who just made a delivery and destroys him: 'You're gonna tell me about black lady hair, you Louie Anderson little bitch? Run!'

8.49.0
S6E06

Lutz · Frank · Liz:Lutz hits on Liz with 'Hey, baby, what's wrong?' Liz's reaction; Frank: 'About time. The last six years has been like watching Moonlighting.'

8.18.5
S6E06

Liz · Lutz:Liz's realization: 'I'm female Lutz.' Lutz: 'I love you too.' Liz: 'No, I mean... I'm my own worst enemy.' / 'Also I menstruate a lot.'

8.08.0
S6E06

Frank · Tracy · Lutz:Frank's Valentine's payoff: 'Worse than me trying to send a fax.' / 'I spent Valentine's with friends. / We are work acquaintances at best. At worst, we are rivals who inspire and try to make each other better.'

8.07.7
S6E06

Tracy · Frank · Lutz:'Now let's go get some tiny meatballs.' / 'Meatballs, here we come!' / 'Meatballs!'

6.86.8
S6E12

Lutz · narrator/game result:I'm playing two timber and one brick to build a bridge and establish a trading post in Midgar. / That failed... And the Orcs raped everybody.

6.66.5
S6E16

Lutz:Kellan, why?

7.67.5
S6E16

Lutz:It's all made up, Jenna. Kellan Lutz isn't my son. He's my grandnephew and we're very close.

7.47.3
S6E16

Lutz:In five years, I'll probably be dead and no one will even notice, and yes, this is my second attempt at writing my self-evaluation.

7.47.2
S6E19

Kenneth · Lutz:Kenneth mentions Lutz getting nervous on live TV and throwing up. Lutz: 'Oh, I had a lobster roll and two yogurts.'

7.57.2
S7E04

Lutz · Liz Lemon:My grandnephew Kellan Lutz, from Twilight, is visiting me. He's in my office. / I have tolerated your pathological lying for six years. If you speak again, I will kill you.

7.47.5
S7E04

Kellan Lutz · Lutz:Great-uncle? / Momma's baby is out of 'marsh-mal-lows.' / Sweet grandnephew, I've been warming more 'marsh-mal-lows' for you in the pocket of my dungarees.

8.18.5
S7E12

Cerie · Lutz · TGS staff:The Blimpie's/lunch picker conflict: Cerie reveals it may be Season 8 alphabetically — the new picker would be 'A'...

7.87.8
S7E12

Lutz:Lutz reveals his name was written on flypaper: 'I wrote it on flypaper. I'm five steps ahead of you, you sons of bitches!'

8.28.5
S7E12

Lutz:Lutz changed his name to 'Aardvark' to be first alphabetically.

7.97.8
S7E12

Lutz · TGS staff:Cut to: a single puppy. Just a puppy. The staff stares.

8.48.5
S7E12

Lutz:Lutz's emotional Blimpie's monologue: '...Dumb, old, uncool, part-Inuit, bisexual, 51-year-old Lutz!'

8.18.0
S7E12

Lutz:Lutz: 'And when that sandwich slides out of you in a week, look at it, because that is Lutz's revenge!'

8.38.5
S7E13

Lutz:Lutz reveals he wrote his name for the lunch pick on flypaper — 'I'm five steps ahead of you, you sons of bitches!'

8.18.3
S7E13

Lutz:Lutz has changed his name to 'Aardvark' to be first alphabetically

8.89.2
S7E13

Lutz:Lutz's speech: 'I was Lutz — dumb, old, uncool, part-Inuit, bisexual, 51-year-old Lutz!'

7.87.5
S7E13

Lutz:Lutz: 'And when that sandwich slides out of you in a week, look at it, because that is Lutz's revenge!'

8.18.3
S7E13

Lutz:Lutz's prophecy: 'And when that sandwich slides out of you in a week, look at it, because that is Lutz's revenge!'

8.18.0
S7E13

Lutz · TGS writers:The Lutz/Blimpie finale: food arrives but it's cupcake sandwiches from Cerie's order; writers celebrate, then Lutz runs in covered in Blimpie's food — the writers scatter screaming 'Cover the food!'

7.17.3