Selina sends a tweet and Mike must deal with the consequences. Amy feels usurped by Bob, and begins to be troubled by his behavior. At a museum gala, Gary finds himself the belle of the ball.
Veep's sharpest political satire: 78 jokes in 35 minutes at peak density.
Directed by Chris Addison · Written by Steve Koren
WAR
143.3
Wins Above Replacement
“The Eagle” ranks #41 of 65 Veep episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 92.8 — Elite. The episode packs 102 scored jokes at 2.9 per minute, averaging 7.5 on craft and 7.3 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 · Newscaster: Look at this guy. / Otlow had grown more erratic following post office closures last year by the Meyer Postal Commission.
Dan · Unknown colleague: Dan slept with Amy's sister Sophie thinking she worked for CBS. She works for CVS. 'You sold your dick for bulk iced tea and off-brand cough syrup.'
Bob Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Bob · Selina: You caught the fish, now gut the fish. / You're wearing the fireman's hat, now put out the fire. / Yes! This is better than phone sex. / Well, I just came.
Bob: 'A lady president? Yeah, maybe in the year 2000.' — Bob, in the Whitman meeting, clearly confused
Bob Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 102 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Mike: Mike using the presidential code name 'Sparrow' to escort Selina into a restaurant as if it were a security operation
Mike Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Mike: Mike's press briefing deflection: the Meyer Postal Commission reduced post office debt 'from 65 billion to just over 62 billion'
Mike Irony/Sarcasm Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Ben · Selina: 'Even Wall Street's got a boner for you guys.' / 'Really? The market's up?' / 'No, it's flat. But not down is straight up for us at this point.'
Selina: 'I got a great idea. Why don't we give the Chinese their own log-ins and passwords? Save everybody a lot of time.'
Selina Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Unknown Aide: 'Got a few fowl questions.' (about the salmonella chicken farm outbreak)
Selina: Charlie says O'Brien won't go down on his wife without biscuits and gravy.
Selina Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Selina: Selina asking staff to show her which Twitter button to push for nice tweets about her and Charlie, mid-crisis
Selina Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Selina: 'I mean, seriously, do we have any reason to think that we're not as fucked as a Senate page here?'
Selina Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Selina · Kent: Kent presents statistical evidence of missing ballots: 'Where?' 'I do not know.' 'How many?' 'I do not know.' 'Are you sure?' 'Absolutely.'
Selina Kent Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Selina: 'Hey, Garfield, we're right in the middle of talking about Nevada, okay?' — Selina calling her aide 'Garfield'
Selina Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Ben: 'What Alan Turing is trying to say is if there are missing votes, he needs time to find them.'
Ben Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Amy · Bob: 'The injunction or the dick slapping?' — Amy asking for clarification on what to set up
Amy Bob Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Selina: 'I just feel trapped like a Saudi housekeeper.'
Selina Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Bob: 'Just let me win the presidency for you and then you can land Air Force One on the Strip and piss in Caesar's fountain if you want.'
Bob Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Selina: 'Oh, come on, please, Bob, I would never stay at Caesar's.'
Selina Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Callback Selina: 'See? Crapistan's calling.' — Selina's response to being interrupted by CIA briefing
Selina Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Selina · Catherine: 'Catherine, do not use any of the vulgar parts.' / 'Yeah, but that's like all of it, Mom.' / 'Well, then don't use it.' / 'But it's a doc.' / 'A what?' / 'A documentary.' / 'Then say that.'
Dan · Unknown colleague: Dan slept with Amy's sister Sophie thinking she worked for CBS. She works for CVS. 'You sold your dick for bulk iced tea and off-brand cough syrup.'
Dan: 'I am not having a good year.' — Dan's reaction beat / talking head after the CVS reveal
Dan Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Callback Selina: 'Do the Israelis know anything about this? Because they're a sneaky bunch of fucks.'
Selina Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Mike: Mike using the POTUS reservation system under his own name to score a great table at a hot restaurant: 'When I call, I get an amazing table.'
Mike Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Mike · Marjorie · Selina: Mike trying to physically stop Selina from tweeting by calling through the door — while Marjorie blocks him
Mike: Hi, ma'am. If you hear this, do not tweet.
Mike Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Selina · Mike: 'I pushed that feather button.' / 'I know, you tweet — that's a tweet.' — the 'feather button' as Selina's understanding of the tweet icon
Selina: 'Well, what the FOL are we supposed to do about this?'
Selina Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Callback Kent: 'Phones are hacked all the time to steal pictures of celebrities' penises and whatnot.'
Kent Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Selina · Mike: 'So is that what I think happened? That China tweeted this?' / 'Oh, no, ma'am, no. You have no idea what happened.'
Selina: 'No, you don't, Mike. History has proven that.' — Selina shutting Mike down when he claims to have a better idea
Selina Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Mike · Selina · Ben · Others: Why don't you just tell the truth? / I don't sound like that. / That's exactly how you sound. / No, I don't. / Spot-on. / Yeah, it's pretty close.
Selina: 'Are we paying you by the word here, Kent, or what?'
Selina Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement O'Brien: 'I will not dignify the president's petty remarks with a response.' — O'Brien, and then he responds at length
O'Brien Irony/Sarcasm Deadpan/Understatement Selina: 'And yet he's responding.'
Selina Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm O'Brien: O'Brien pivots from 'I won't respond' to a speech about 29 million diabetes sufferers
Ben · Selina: 'Nev-ADD-a' — someone corrects Selina's pronunciation of Nevada mid-crisis
Ben Selina Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Selina · Ben: 'You're the one who suggested we all live in the Matrix.' / 'Ma'am, nobody chose to live in the Matrix. The machines rose up and placed humans in the Matrix so they could use them as a biological power source.'
Selina: 'Whose side were you on?' — Selina responding to Ben's Matrix explanation
Selina Absurdist Character Comedy Callback Selina: 'Or we could go to the United Nations and have them issue...' / 'Have them what? Have them help us park in front of a fire hydrant? I mean, come on.'
Selina Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Selina: Have them what? Have them help us park in front of a fire hydrant? I mean, come on.
Selina Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Dan · Amy: Jesus, you're still here? / I don't know why. My only jobs seem to be asking Bob and finding out what Bob thinks.
Dan Amy Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Dan: 'Oh, but on your way, would you mind stopping at ABC News and picking up some Advil? Oh, did I say ABC News? I meant Rite Aid.'
Dan Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Callback Dan: Oh, but on your way, would you mind stopping at ABC News and picking up some Advil? Oh, did I say ABC News? I meant Rite Aid.
Dan Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Dan: 'Yeah, I think you're forgetting something, Amy, is that I still had sex with your sister, so...' / 'Good night, have a pleasant evening, and I had sex with your sister.'
Dan Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Callback Amy: 'You might actually want to go to Rite Aid. Get some Valtrex.'
Amy Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive Callback Mike · Wendy · Restaurant hostess: The McLintock party has already been seated. / No, no, that's impossible 'cause he's Mike McLintock. / Show her your driver's license. / I can't find it. / Again?
Furlong: The restaurant confrontation: 'This is my fat johnson and you can suck it as long as you promise not to put your dirty gay mustache on it. What is that, some kind of side effect from your AIDS medication or did you shave it off of Freddie Mercury's corpse?'
Furlong Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Furlong · Mike: 'Jesus, you think I married that?' / 'That's Will's wife.' — Furlong on seeing Will's wife at the table
Furlong: 'Christ, she looks like a Batman villain.'
Furlong Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Bob: 'Does a bear piss in the shower?'
Bob Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Bob · Selina: 'You caught the fish, now gut the fish.' / 'You're wearing the fireman's hat, now put out the fire.' / 'Yes! This is better than phone sex.' / 'Well, I just came.'
Bob · Selina: You caught the fish, now gut the fish. / You're wearing the fireman's hat, now put out the fire. / Yes! This is better than phone sex. / Well, I just came.
Gary · Selina: 'There's a new stegosaurus.' / 'That's not my problem.'
Gary · Selina: There's a new stegosaurus. / That's not my problem.
Selina: God, please back up your face, Amy, okay? Back it up.
Selina Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Selina · Amy · Ben: Selina reassuring Amy that she's 'very important to the campaign' and doing 'a great, very good job' — clearly to manage her suspicions about Bob
Bob: 'Those things cause cancer, you know.' — Bob's casual cell phone comment
Bob Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Bob · Whitman: 'I still got the cabin.' — Bob's response to Whitman mentioning his wife at Bob's ski cabin
Bob Whitman Character Comedy Awkward Silence ★ Rewatch Ben: Look, Bob. Bob. We all know you're as folksy as a butter churn lamp.
Ben Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Bob · Whitman: Bob's folksy 'thumb in the apple pie' speech at the Whitman meeting, which Whitman immediately cuts off: 'We all know you're as folksy as a butter churn lamp, but let me cut to the chase.'
Selina · Gary: Just all of this just screams Grace Kelly. / I know. / I don't like my eyes, though. / What? / Yeah, I feel like I've got two diaper bags underneath. / No, no, no, no. I don't think... / Oh, God. / I need my ring.
Bob: 'There's never been a Whitman's Sampler I couldn't take apart piece by piece and shit out, Madam President.'
Bob Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Selina: 'I love to hear that. Okay, you're hanging on to me like a skin tag.'
Selina Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Bob: 'A lady president? Yeah, maybe in the year 2000.' — Bob, in the Whitman meeting, clearly confused
Bob Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Charlie Baird: 'You sure she just texted or did she tweet the entire world?'
Charlie Baird: It's 250 grand. I bought the table. Sit down.
Gary · Charlie Baird: Gary explaining he's 'a key member of the Meyer administration' to get a seat at Baird's dinner table
Gary · Jonah: He just seemed like the same old Bob to me. / Ma'am, this morning he told me the Jews cause hurricanes.
Gary · Unnamed guest: 'You have a card?' / 'No, just a bag.' — Gary at the charity dinner
Jonah: 'Ned Mitchell died in 2006. And the 'Las Vegas Gazette' stopped publishing in 2007.'
Jonah Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Ben: Ma'am, at his age, if he can take a shit whenever he wants, that's a major victory.
Ben Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive Callback Jonah: 'I was able to get in touch with Susan Bailey at the 'Reno Star,' which is not a newspaper, it's a legal brothel. But she did seem excited to help the campaign in whichever way she could.'
Jonah Setup/Punchline Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Ben: 'Ma'am, this morning he told me the Jews cause hurricanes.'
Ben Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Amy: 'All right, Amy, this meeting cannot make it past the School Book Depository. I'm loading my gun and heading to the sixth floor.'
Amy Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Ben: 'Well, don't worry, ma'am. We'll get him on the first flight out of Nevada and we'll shove his ass out somewhere over Oklahoma.'
Ben Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Jonah: 'Alzheimer's or no, I image-searched Susan Bailey and she is legit fuckable.'
Jonah Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Callback Jonah: Alzheimer's or no, I image-searched Susan Bailey and she is legit fuckable.
Jonah Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Jonah: 'Honestly, her rates are reasonable.'
Jonah Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Callback Richard · Amy: 'Amy, if you had rented me a Sebring, yes.' — Richard on whether he can drive faster to the Whitman meeting
Richard: 'This is like that famous scene from the movie 'Heat.' You know, with De Niro and Brenneman. Just thinking about that scene gives me goose bumps.'
Richard: Honestly, I was gonna ask you that.
Richard Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Charlie Baird: Charlie Baird's speech: 'my date is running late. Presidents, right? Well, hopefully she arrives before we all turn into fossils.'
Selina · Ben: Selina frantically calls staff who don't answer; Ben tries Dan again; they discover Bob left the meeting mid-session and got in a cab
Jonah: 'Yeah, turns out he's nuttier than a squirrel's diaper.'
Jonah Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Selina · Dan: 'Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up, Jonah.' — Selina, then Dan, both immediately saying the same thing
Richard: Richard left alone with Whitman: 'Do you mind if I get a picture with you for my blog 'Let's Talk About Splett'?'
Richard Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jonah: 'Holy bacon double Asperger's.'
Jonah Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Richard: Amy, what are your top five favorite De Niro movies? And you can't say 'Meet the Parents' 'cause that's automatically number one.
Richard Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Richard: 'Amy, what are your top five favorite De Niro movies? And you can't say 'Meet the Parents' 'cause that's automatically number one.'
Richard Character Comedy Absurdist Callback Selina: Selina's museum entrance: 'That's sort of a grey-blue dress. Isn't that something?'
Selina Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Selina: She's a fucking cunt. You didn't hear it from me.
Selina Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Selina: 'She's a fucking cunt. You didn't hear it from me.'
Selina Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Karen: Karen in court stalling: 'Before we begin, I would love to define a few key terms. Vote. What is a vote? Well, I think that's pretty obvious.' / 'Oh, is it, Your Honor? In many cultures, the word vote can mean a myriad of things. It can mean a celebration. It can mean a dance around a fire. It can mean a silent nod. In this room, what does it mean?'
Karen Character Comedy Absurdist Bob · Selina: What kind of soup do you have today? / Um, what kind of soup is on your mind? / Well, what is today? / Um... it's Thursday. / Thursday? / Yup. / Navy bean. So delicious.
Bob Selina Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bob · Gary · Selina: Bob at the restaurant soup counter: 'What kind of soup do you have today?' / 'What kind of soup is on your mind?' / 'What is today?' / '...It's Thursday.' / 'Thursday? Navy bean. So delicious.'
News anchor: The postal worker Vance Otlow hoarding ballots was made 'more erratic following post office closures by the Meyer Postal Commission'
Selina · Newscaster: Look at this guy. / Otlow had grown more erratic following post office closures last year by the Meyer Postal Commission.
Selina: 'I don't know what you're saying, but you keep doing that math stuff, Kent, no matter how much anyone makes fun of you, okay?'
Selina Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Selina · Amy: 'I just want you to know that I could not have done it without Richard, and I want you to please relay my thanks to him.' — Selina telling Amy to thank Richard
Selina Amy Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Callback Karen: 'Your Honor, how is counsel defining 'deadline' and 'passed'?' — Karen in court
Karen Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Callback Mike: After today's stunning turn of events in Nevada, the president has asked Bob Bradley, the Eagle, to return to Washington as her new cybersecurity czar, effective immediately.
Mike Irony/Sarcasm Dark/Subversive Mike: The sanctions cause China to ban all foreign adoptions by American citizens — 'a bunch of other stuff'
Mike Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement Mike: 'Mike! Mike!' / 'Will the president move forward with her sanctions?' / 'I don't know.' / 'I have to call my wife.'
Mike Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Bob Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch