
Character Analysis

James 'Toofer' Spurlock
Played by Keith Powell
43 jokes across 23 episodes of 30 Rock
15.3
43
7.1
6.7
Character Comedy
Toofer delivers 43 scored jokes across 23 episodes of 30 Rock, averaging 7.1 on craft and 6.7 on impact for a career WAR of 15.3. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.
Funniest Toofer Lines
Liz · Frank · Toofer:I want to be famous to make people love me because I hate myself. The Jenna I talk to at night in the mirror thinks I should kill myself. Also, I caused that Italian cruise ship to crash.
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.
Liz · Toofer:You're the man who took professional boudoir photographs and then tried to mail them to Parade magazine columnist Marilyn Vos Savant. I happen to think that smart is sexy. Our foreplay would be puzzle-solving.
Toofer:We never would have stooped so low on Black Frasier.
Toofer:Black Frasier scene: 'Niles, this Beaujolais is impeccable. It's both fruity and precocious.' / 'That's not the only thing around here that's fruity and precocious.'
All Jokes — 89 total
Liz Lemon · Toofer:'Yeah, or, like, a big coffee dispenser.' / 'That's what a samovar is.'
Toofer:Toofer's reaction after being corrected by Tracy: 'Wow. That was embarrassing for you.'
Tracy · Toofer:Toofer opens a bottle: 'Good gravy. This is a Dunwoody '62.' Tracy: 'It's for you. Take it, my friend.'
Tracy · Toofer:Tracy and Toofer doing impressions: 'What's the deal with pudding? I'm Bill Cosby. Jell-o! Sweaters!'
Liz · Frank · Toofer · Writers · Jack:The writers' room is having a spontaneous one-minute dance party to Chamillionaire when Jack Donaghy walks in and they freeze.
Frank · Toofer:What's really sad is that while she's in this fragile state, none of her friends are messing with her head. I think we should do something about that.
Frank · Toofer:It's like shooting fish in a barrel. / Yeah, if the fish have daddy issues.
Jenna · Toofer:I have this fantasy of sneaking up to the roof of 30 Rock, and we make love while looking out at the city -- / Okay, let me guess. You figured out Frank and I lied to you, so to get even, you're trying to get me naked on the roof and leave me there.
Jenna · Toofer:I have this fantasy of sneaking up to the roof of 30 Rock, and we make love while looking out at the city-- / Okay, let me guess. You figured out Frank and I lied to you, so to get even, you're trying to get me naked on the roof and leave me there.
Toofer:Frank, there are large pockets of African-American culture that Caucasians know nothing about. The stigma of drag is one of them.
Toofer:We never would have stooped so low on Black Frasier.
Toofer:Black Frasier scene: 'Niles, this Beaujolais is impeccable. It's both fruity and precocious.' / 'That's not the only thing around here that's fruity and precocious.'
Toofer:What? It was huge on BET. Every Thursday night at about 9:00 or 9:15.
Toofer:Think about it, Tracy. All the best African-American comedians refuse to do drag. Chris Rock doesn't do it. Dr. Cosby doesn't do it. Bernie Mac doesn't do it 'cause he'd be ugly as hell.
Liz · Toofer:Izzle. 'A suffix that can be used to take the place of anything.' / Well, now you're just being patronizzle.
Tracy · Liz · Toofer:I thought writing with you was gonna be like two brothers writing together. / We're not even speaking the same language. / That's right. I'm speaking English.
Toofer:That's my Harvard a cappella group the Crocodillos. I had a solo in Like A Prayer.
Toofer · HR rep · Tracy:Mr. Jordan called me... the N-word. / And? / And I was really offended. / Because... / Because it's a racial slur. / Brothers talk to other brothers like that. I was being friendly.
Tracy · Toofer:I want you to be my brother, my homeboy, my n-- [Toofer cuts him off]
HR rep · Tracy · Toofer:Whoa! This meeting is adjourned. / No cool, homie! / You might as well spread me down with a fire hose. / Just sounds so hateful coming from you! Ugh! I wish to file a complaint.
Dr. Snoo · Frank · Toofer · Tracy:What else can we not call each other? / How about sweaty greaseball? / Ooh, very good. That's highly offensive. / Person of color. / Guess if you say it like that. / Sneaky Taiwanese tranny who stole my watch. / Ho-ho! Yes! These words are terrible.
Toofer:It's Dr. Martin Luther King, and he did not have a feeling, he had a dream.
Tracy · Toofer:Like professor Martin Luther King said, I have a feeling. / It's Dr. Martin Luther King, and he did not have a feeling, he had a dream.
Toofer · Tracy:You can't call someone that if you've never read the book! / What book?
Tracy · Toofer:That's it! This is it. This is the sketch we should do. Right here, you and me! This is deep stuff goin' on. We gotta write this. / You're right.
Toofer:Okay, he's right, this is funnier. (Toofer, watching the Star Jones sketch instead of the race relations sketch he championed)
Tracy · Toofer:Tracy's autobiography is due tomorrow — he just found out what today's date is
Tracy · Toofer:Tracy: 'How many pages do we have now?' Toofer: 'Five.' Tracy: 'Make the letters bigger, Toof.'
Toofer · Tracy:Tracy's Wikipedia-sourced autobiography: 'According to Wikipedia, you were discovered after doing stand-up at the Apollo in 1984. / I have no memory of that. Write it up.'
Toofer:'I remember that. That video was raunchy.'
Toofer:Toofer: 'I remember that. That video was raunchy.' — stated casually about a children's Christmas song
Tracy · Toofer:Tracy's 2007 autobiography origin story: 'It was early January 2007 when I got the idea to write my autobiography. So I took a meeting at Random House...' — the editor says no, Tracy says 'Oops, my bad. That's on me. Shut it down.'
Tracy · Toofer · Frank:Tracy's autobiography completely breaks down — they reveal they went to Random House and the editor said 'No, Mr. Jordan. No, thank you. We do not want your book.'
Frank · Toofer:Marry, boff, kill — Beyoncé, Paula Abdul, and Oprah. / Dude, that's beyond easy. Boff Beyoncé, kill Paula, marry Oprah.
Frank · Toofer · Jenna:Marry, boff, kill — Cerie, Liz, and Jenna. / Marry Liz, get with Cerie, kill Jenna. / I can hear you!
Toofer:Bone Osama bin Laden. To shame him. And then his own people would murder him.
Toofer:Marry Martha Stewart. 'Cause, you know, she seems like a dirty bird.
Frank · Toofer · Kenneth:Kenneth, this is your chance. Cerie digs you. / Cerie said she would do it with you. / Well, that just makes me perspire.
Toofer · Tracy Jordan:My great-great-great grandfather was one of the few black men who had achieved an officer's rank during the Civil War. This is a picture of him shaking hands with Ulysses S. Grant. / Yeah, let me check that out. / I think he's shaking hands with Robert E. Lee. / Dude, your relative fought for the South.
Tracy Jordan · Toofer:That's messed up. / See? Now you know what I'm going through.
Tracy Jordan · Toofer:I found a biography on your ancestor. It's called 'Confederate Monster: The Tobias Spurlock Disaster.'
Toofer:The barn that John Wilkes Booth hid in belonged to Tobias Spurlock.
Tracy Jordan · Toofer:I want you to write it. / Okay, what's the movie? / It's the story of Thomas Jefferson, only thing we're gonna do it like Norbit, where I play all the parts. / That's actually hilarious. / It's not a comedy. It's a drama.
Pete · Toofer:Pete to Toofer: 'Hey, take that off. You didn't go to Harvard.' Toofer: 'I went to Harvard.'
Toofer · Pete · Frank:Toofer produces the Signet Society pin, Pete produces the same pin from his pocket, Toofer says 'Oh, you mean this pin?' — and Pete points out 'Your lame thing is on his pants.'
Frank · Toofer:Frank's mom is invoked in the hat insult; Frank defends her: 'My mom's a great lady.' Toofer: 'Was it her greatness that made your dad leave?'
Frank · Toofer:Frank/Toofer feud: 'If we give up our feud now, we'll be ridiculed. Remember when Lutz cried during that diamond commercial? It'd be worse than that.'
Frank · Toofer · Josh:Frank and Toofer's feud is resolved because Josh got a frohawk: 'Hey, look who bailed on their lame feud.' — beat — 'Dude, you got a frohawk, man. Do you think you're better than us?'
Josh · Frank · Toofer:Josh: 'It's not even my normal barber. My mom did it.' The writers: 'Dr. Haircut!'
Toofer:This is the speaking banana. Everyone will get a chance to speak, and only then will we make our decision.
Toofer:I've watched seven different people die in subway stations.
Toofer:Toofer's contribution: 'most African Americans don't understand that diabetes is caused by sleeping on your back.'
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.
Toofer · Lutz · Pete:Good evening, we are Laugh of the Mohicans. Our first bit is the Hamburglar— NO!
Toofer · Lutz · Liz Lemon:Good evening, we are Laugh of the Mohicans. Our first bit is the Hamburglar— / No!
Toofer · Liz Lemon:Toofer begins quoting Tennyson: 'As Tennyson wrote, "I mete and dole unequal-"' / Liz: 'No, never mind. Lutz, you want it?'
Toofer · Frank:I don't know. Maybe because one of us still hasn't read the other's screenplay. / I read it. I just didn't like it.
Frank · Toofer:Toofer's Valentine's Day solution: go out with Frank and a janitor with 'messed-up teeth' who 'will only go out with me if she can bring her ugly sister'
Toofer:Surculus et pruna. Surculus et pruna.
Toofer · Frank:Surculus et pruna is the motto of the Twig and Plums. And their motto is, 'Above all, be boring.' / Twig and Plums is a Princeton secret society, and Jack is clearly a member. So if someone says 'Twig and Plums' in front of a member, he has to find an excuse to leave the room, no matter what he's doing.
Jack · Toofer:But during the period of the '90s... / Twig and Plums! / Thank you, folks. Excuse me, I have tickets to a Harry Connick Jr. Concert.
Toofer · Jack:Twig and plums. / Excuse me, gentlemen. I have a, uh... veterinary appointment.
Jack · Toofer:I don't know who the hell told you to say that, Rossitano, but you have no idea — / Twig and plums. / I have to go to an intervention for my... travel agent.
Toofer · Liz:Toofer to Liz: 'Earlier today, Tracy made the accusation that I am the beneficiary of affirmative action.' / Liz: 'Yeah, well, Tracy is a buffoon.' / Toofer: 'That is a 15th-century term for a black pirate! Racist!'
Liz · Toofer:Liz: 'Toofer, you are an invaluable member of our team.' / Toofer: 'Then why are my paychecks a different color than Frank's?'
Toofer · Liz:Toofer: 'I am about to utter two words a Harvard man never says.' / Liz: '"I'm cool"? No, I'm sorry. You can't set me up like that. Don't quit.'
Toofer:Toofer returns midway and explains: 'Liz has invited me back as a budgeted employee. Apparently, I am the only one among us who can spell.'
Toofer · Pete · Tracy:Toofer returns: 'Apparently, I am the only one among us who can spell.' / Pete: 'Welcome back, James.' / Tracy: 'Hang on, who's James?'
Toofer · group:Toofer surrenders: 'Okay, fine, fine! Toofer. I'll just go back to Toofer.' / Everyone: 'Yay! Welcome back!'
Rutherford Rice · Liz Lemon · Toofer:The Right On cable show host introduces Toofer as 'James Spurlock' and Liz as 'someone named Elizabeth Lemon'
Rutherford Rice · Toofer:Toofer is awarded 'Right On's Arthur Ashe of the Week' — for being head writer for one day
Congresswoman Bookman · Toofer · Liz Lemon:Bookman asks Toofer how long he's been head writer. 'One day.' / 'And who is the real head writer of this show?' [long beat] 'I am.'
Toofer:I said time to end the charade and adjust my schedule to buy a new vase.
Jenna · Toofer · Tracy:I'm the hot blonde. / And I'm the nerd who takes off his glasses and everyone realizes he's handsome. / And you're the R.A.
Toofer:Look at me. I'm Ogbert the Nerd. Always have been, always will be.
Toofer · Liz:My glasses are dirty. — Ogbert?
Frank · Toofer · Jenna:Writers competing to impress Lutz — 'Lutz is the best. / Nice feet, Lutz. / I like Lutz the most.'
Toofer · Frank:You never said you were in Lynn Onkman's class. Do you know the kid she had an affair with? No. Yes. I don't know. Shut up.
Pete · Toofer · others:Well done, sir. Guys, a teacher preying on a student is wrong... Yeah. If the teacher is male and the student is female. What happened to Frank is awesome. Standing ovation.
Toofer:With my degree, I can always go into architecture or medical nanotechnology... I'm sorry, I don't understand. Oh. I see. At Harvard, we call them 'concentrations'...
Frank · Toofer:I distracted you, and you died. Game over. / No, I shot my bazooka at the ground to kill myself 'cause Toofer had me cornered. Now I respawn and start over.
Toofer:I'm wearing a diaper, like a baby would.
Liz · Frank · Toofer:Unbelievable! You're still here? / It's still 0-0-0. / To 0.
Frank · Toofer · Lutz:No, I see you. I'm killing myself. Respawn. / Respawn. / Damn it!
Jack · Toofer · Phillie Phanatic:Scotch fountain, Phillie Phanatic: 'Toofer, put that glass down. That scotch fountain obviously was not meant for you. Phillie Phanatic, get away from him.'
Liz · Toofer:You're the man who took professional boudoir photographs and then tried to mail them to Parade magazine columnist Marilyn Vos Savant. I happen to think that smart is sexy. Our foreplay would be puzzle-solving.
Toofer:He is estranged from his son Kellan Lutz from Twilight.
Liz · Frank · Toofer:I want to be famous to make people love me because I hate myself. The Jenna I talk to at night in the mirror thinks I should kill myself. Also, I caused that Italian cruise ship to crash.
Frank · Toofer:We took photos of you and sold them to a garbage fetish website.