The vice president's office takes some heat over a pregnancy rumor and the firing of a Secret Service agent, so Selina establishes some new ground rules about internal correspondence. Meanwhile, Dan tries to cover his boss' tracks on the clean-jobs bill; and a staffer's job may be in jeopardy.
Escalation-driven finale hits 71 jokes in 31 minutes but falls short of elite tier.
Directed by Chris Morris · Written by Roger Drew, Ian Martin, Roger Drew
WAR
89.4
Wins Above Replacement
“Full Disclosure” ranks #63 of 65 Veep episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 84.0 — Elite. The episode packs 86 scored jokes at 2.8 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 7.0 on impact, with Selina landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Selina: Selina: 'Oh, it's fine. I mean, it was like a heavy period. Don't worry about it.'
Selina Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dan · Mike · Amy: 'Why would we let you in on our suicide pact?' / 'Because three is better than two.' / 'Not with testicles.'
Dan Mike Amy Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Selina: 'Mike, can't you make me not have been pregnant?'
Selina Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Selina · Ted: 'Was that a journalist?' / 'Yes.' / 'Oh, God!' / 'What are you doing, Ted? You can't tell him to fuck his mother.' / 'Her mother, actually.'
Selina Ted Setup/Punchline Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Selina: 'Suck-up isn't gonna fix a fuck-up, Dan.'
Selina Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 86 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Radio Hosts · Amy: Radio hosts discussing the VP fired a secret service man for smiling; correction that he was 'reassigned' as if that changes anything
Mike: 'I have a black belt in Mike Kwan Do.'
Mike Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Amy: Amy's flat 'All right, sir, no.' in response to Mike Kwan Do
Amy Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Mike: 'Hey, hey, easy, dough boy. Hands off the suit.'
Mike Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Dan · Jonah: Dan on phone: 'Oh, I take no pleasure in my colleague's very public, brutal...' — then interrupted by Jonah telling him to move away from the TV
Jonah: 'You must have a huge schadenboner over this Amy flack.'
Jonah Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dan · Jonah: 'God, she is gonna go ape-shit menstrual over this.' / 'Hey, I'm on the phone with AT&T. Can you stop shouting "menstrual"?'
Dan: Dan's extended metaphor: 'broken fucking condom' pregnancy rumor / 'dead Dan walk' — punctuated by the sound of something breaking in the apartment
Dan Escalation Physical/Slapstick Jonah: 'This is going in with the dirty dishes, man. For fuck's sake. If this is broken, I'm adding it to your fucking rent.'
Jonah Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Bill · Selina: 'I was gonna say that brings a smile to my face, but that would be safe, wouldn't it, ma'am?' — police official making a smiling joke to Selina
Selina: 'That's very funny, Bill. You're fired. I'm kidding. I'm kidding, I'm kidding.'
Selina Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Callback Gary: 'Hey, ma'am, it's leave o'clock.'
Gary Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Selina: 'Secret' as in shut the fuck up. And 'service' as in you work for me, okay? So why don't you shut the fuck up?
Selina Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Selina: 'We have an enemy and I want a name and a severed head that answers to that name, or would if it could still talk.'
Selina Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Unnamed Staffer: 'Ooh, Gary, did the veep just bitch-slap you with a door?'
Gary: Gary: 'She didn't mean that. She's got a lot on her mind today.' / Staffer: 'Oh, yeah, you mean like firing Amy? Or someone who's undermining the president...'
Gary Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Unnamed Staffer: 'Oh, what, is she out of hand sanitizer again?'
Amy: 'Gary, why are you talking in cliffhangers?'
Amy Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Gary · Dan: Gary reveals: 'Selina's had a miscarriage.' — followed immediately by Dan: 'Well, this is good for us.'
Gary Dan Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Amy · Dan: 'How is she?' / 'Free from a major fucking political headache, I'd say.'
Amy Dan Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Unnamed Staffer (Ted?): 'That's deep space cold, Dan. Explains why you piss liquid nitrogen.'
Gary: Gary, having just revealed the VP's miscarriage to the room, pivots to pretend he was telling them about his riding mower
Gary Misdirection Character Comedy Amy: 'Wow, Gary. That was quick. Look at that.'
Amy Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Callback Jonah: 'White House is in the house. * Everybody say way-o! *' — presumably Jonah singing/announcing his own entrance
Jonah Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Amy: 'The skyscraper of shit has arrived.'
Amy Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Selina: The viral video tagged 'Selina Sell-Outta' — a compilation of her contradictions including firing someone for smiling
Selina Irony/Sarcasm Cringe/Discomfort Selina (from viral video): 'I am Selina Meyer. And I don't have any idea what's going on in my office.'
Jonah: 'I love this part.' — Jonah's reaction while watching the video
Jonah Reaction Beat Cringe/Discomfort Selina · Amy · Jonah: 'All right, pack up your limbs and get the fuck out, Jonah.' / 'Is punching allowed?' / 'Oh, you wouldn't stand a chance. I have a much longer reach.'
Selina · Mike: 'You are the closest to normal we've got going in this office right now.' / 'Thanks, I think.'
Selina: The Full Disclosure scheme: 'by showing that we have nothing to hide, then we can actually hide some stuff.'
Selina Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Selina: Selina: 'Oh, it's fine. I mean, it was like a heavy period. Don't worry about it.'
Selina Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Selina: The 'partial disclosure light' scene — Selina immediately explains they will NOT be doing full disclosure
Selina Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline Callback Selina: 'There can be no... Are you writing that down? Why would you be writing that down?'
Selina Cringe/Discomfort Reaction Beat Selina: 'We have to check Sue's calendar, make sure there are no meetings there that I did-didn't have.'
Selina Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Selina: 'The accidentally racist brochure that we had to shred.'
Selina Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Selina: 'So it doesn't look as if we've just airbrushed the nipples out of this fucking thing.'
Selina Character Comedy Absurdist Selina: Selina's convoluted non-denial about Macauley: 'I don't know what you did or didn't do, but I do know that I can't know what you know or you don't know. You know?'
Selina Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Dan: 'I mean, I don't know what you did or didn't do, but I do know that I can't know what you know or you don't know.' — Dan's reply: 'I know.'
Dan Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Callback Amy: 'I'm sorry to hear that you lost... that you're no longer pregnant.'
Amy Cringe/Discomfort Awkward Silence Amy · Selina: Amy's 'buffering' nod — 'The nod of my head is like I'm buffering.'
Selina: 'Okay, I think you'd better get out of my office.' — Selina's response to Amy's unfinished sentence
Selina Reaction Beat Character Comedy Callback Selina: 'I know, who'd have thought transparent government would take up so much of your field of vision?'
Selina Irony/Sarcasm Observational Mike · Martin Collins (reassigned Secret Service agent): Mike claims going to Iraq with the VP to 'present a Thanksgiving turkey' counts as being 'in the line of fire'
Mike: 'No, but the line was there.' — Mike's comeback about the turkey-presenting 'line of fire'
Mike Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Mike: 'So how's the place been over at Arlington Cemetery going? I hear it's pretty nice there.' — Mike asks Collins about Arlington Cemetery
Mike Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Mike: 'Does he ever say anything funny?' — Mike asks Collins about his uncle with dementia
Mike Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Mike: 'No, you were transferred for being jocular and overfamiliar. Security guys are supposed to be like wallpaper. They're not supposed to be grinning like some ape.'
Mike Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jonah: The press is calling the disclosure strategy an 'e-nami'
Jonah Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Callback Selina: 'Is anybody picking up on the back facials? The press was supposed to pick on those damn back facials.'
Selina Callback Cringe/Discomfort Callback Amy · Jonah: The 'Washington Post' disclosure: emails suggesting a birthday gift of 'a cake in the shape of a dick' and 'a smart new hat in the shape of a dick'
Jonah: Jonah: 'Oh, that made it in there!' — realizing the dick hat email was released
Jonah Character Comedy Reaction Beat Callback Jonah: 'Everybody knows this is me, guys.' — Jonah
Jonah Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Callback Amy: 'There are 3,000 people on the White House payroll, Jonah.'
Amy Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm Amy · Jonah: 'West Wing, Jonah.' / 'No, who is DC?' / '...Uh, Dick Cake.'
Amy Jonah Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline Callback Amy: 'Every time Ted stayed overnight at the residence has been fully disclosed.' — the accidental outing of Selina's relationship
Amy Cringe/Discomfort Irony/Sarcasm Selina: 'Mike, can't you make me not have been pregnant?'
Selina Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Gary: 'This is what happens when you tell the truth. Nothing good comes of it.'
Gary Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Gary: 'Okay, I'm gonna get you a cup of rose hip tea.' — Gary's solution to all crises
Gary Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Jonah: 'This is gonna cause a total potal meltdown.'
Jonah Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Dan: 'Yeah, why don't you run along and see if you can suck your own cake?'
Dan Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Callback Amy: 'Ace play, Shakespeare. Really. When in doubt, call a vet an ape.'
Amy Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Callback Selina: 'Exactly. We are gonna fire someone.' — the group's answer to 'what are we gonna do?'
Selina Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Selina · Team: Selina about who to fire: 'Sue.' Others: 'Oh, Sue.' Selina: 'That's funny, you guys. But seriously, Sue's not important enough.'
Selina: 'Suck-up isn't gonna fix a fuck-up, Dan.'
Selina Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Selina · Gary: 'Shut?' / 'Of course shut!' — the door interaction
Gary · Selina: The rose hip tea with honey and Fig Newton ceremony
Ted: Ted's reaction to press attention on his overnights: 'I thought I was fucking you in private.'
Ted Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Selina: Selina: 'I love to fuck you in private.' — her attempt to calm Ted
Selina Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Ted: 'Hey, you know what? Thanks for returning my call. The message was, "please don't fucking call me again."'
Ted Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Selina · Ted: 'Was that a journalist?' / 'Yes.' / 'Oh, God!' / 'What are you doing, Ted? You can't tell him to fuck his mother.' / 'Her mother, actually.'
Selina Ted Setup/Punchline Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Selina · Gary: Selina asking Gary to break up with Ted for her — 'I want you to let him go'
Selina: 'Because I think that he is about to dump me. So I'm not gonna be the dumpee. I'm gonna be the dumper. Okay? He's gonna be the dumpee.'
Selina Character Comedy Escalation Gary · Ted: Gary telling Ted it's over: 'She can go off, can't she?' / 'Yeah, sorry about that.' / 'That's okay. So maybe it's a good thing.' / 'What? What's a good thing?' / 'That she doesn't want to see you anymore.'
Gary Ted Cringe/Discomfort Awkward Silence Ted · Gary: Ted's long stunned silence after being told Selina doesn't want to see him — 16 seconds of dead air before Gary speaks
Ted Gary Awkward Silence Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Selina: 'Oh, ma'am. You've been off radar for over an hour. Oh, did I miss anything? Did the president ride through on a lion or something?'
Selina Character Comedy Absurdist Selina: 'All right. I don't want to end up with a horse's head in my bed. Though there's room for one now.'
Selina Dark/Subversive Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Callback Dan · Amy · Gary: Gary using a farm animal fable to tell Dan and Amy who's getting fired: horse, sheep, pig — 'Who does she get rid of?'
Gary · Dan/Amy: Gary: 'What? What? Did you just call me buddy? You don't listen to me. You never listen to me. What's going on? You want something from me.'
Gary: 'I'd rather be a pig than an ass-monkey up on his high horse. There, that's three animals for you.'
Gary Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Callback Dan · Amy: The suicide pact proposal: Dan proposes they all threaten to resign together so Selina can't fire any of them
Dan Amy Absurdist Dark/Subversive Amy: 'One condition... I watch you die first and I get to stab you repeatedly to make sure.'
Amy Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Callback Dan · Mike · Amy: 'Why would we let you in on our suicide pact?' / 'Because three is better than two.' / 'Not with testicles.'
Dan Mike Amy Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Mike · Dan: Mike reveals he was part of a suicide pact in the '90s with Congressman Hartigan. Dan: 'What happened?' Mike: 'Oh, we got fired.'
Mike Dan Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Jonah · Dan: Jonah reveals an email from Dan to Macauley's chief of staff: 'the senator says, "thanks, buddy"'
Mike · Dan: Mike about unredacting: 'I'm getting really good at dacting.' Dan: 'Do you mean un-redacting?' Mike: 'Taking the black off.'
Mike Dan Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun