Selina and her team prepare for the long-awaited groundbreaking of her library. Amy seeks clarity on her role. Jonah asks a major donor for help. Season finale.
Season finale escalates to 73 jokes in 47 minutes, driven by character chaos and dark political subversion.
Directed by David Mandel · Written by David Mandel
WAR
81.4
Wins Above Replacement
“Groundbreaking” ranks #16 of 65 Veep episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 83.4 — Elite. The episode packs 73 scored jokes at 1.8 per minute, averaging 7.2 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
Because, girlie, only former presidents have libraries.
Amy Character Comedy ★ Rewatch I am not about to buried in a twat of my own making!
Selina Escalation Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch No, I'm talking about grandmother.
Selina Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Who cc'd Mike? - I get it, I'm Ringo. - We need champagne! - No, Amy's Ringo. You're Mark David Chapman's bullet.
I'm not gonna have my vagi-brary underground railroaded by this.
Selina Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 73 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ We heard back from Yale. - Oh! Their response was no.
Yes. Your stay in the insane asylum, it's really agreed with you. - Oh. It was a spa.
God, I really thought we were gonna win Guam.
Amy Observational Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jesus, I need to get drunk and slop-fuck an intern.
Dan Dark/Subversive Character Comedy See, the box is empty to show that all you need to be happy is right here. - Well, that's stupid. - Yeah, it was a waste of $30.
In two years, I'm gonna run against my motard cousin, Ezra
Jonah Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Can I petition for a recall against Ezra? - Unequivocally, no. - That's a great idea. - That's awesome.
I'll let you be Aquaman. No tidal wave.
Jonah Character Comedy Observational Does a rabbit need a yearly vaccination for myxomatosis? It does. Well, maybe. It depends on the rabbit. - But, yes.
Well, we'll have to see what I look like later wearing nothing but blood diamonds.
Selina Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch How come you never talk about your stay in Arizona? - Oh, I love the Grand Canyon. - That's not an answer.
Here she is, the most beautiful woman in the spa.
Andrew Wordplay/Pun Irony/Sarcasm Ma'am, that was a month ago. Gary is humoring you. - Okay. - Gary, are you sure that this isn't too much medication?
People think we're married. - I think it's the perfect amount.
I'll have what she's having.
He's like a bald dog with a bone.
The editors think he's lost all sense of objectivity, and he's eating Luna bars for women.
Exactly what it's like to be a woman. - Yeah, also what it's like to be a woman.
It looks like a vagina, ma'am. - See? Okay, that's from an expert.
Well, you don't have any frame of reference.
Selina Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm You could be, but you chose politics. - What is this, the clitoris?
You know what would be funny? We should put the men's bathroom there. - They'll never find it.
Well, actually, ma'am, the female pleasure center is quite extensive. - Ah. - Uh, no, it's not.
And that's the crypt, ma'am. - Right, that's what I just said. - No, the crypt. - What? - I'm gonna be buried there?
I'm not gonna have my vagi-brary underground railroaded by this.
Selina Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch But he's Italian, so he knows how to keep bodies buried.
I mean, when did we build an Indian casino gift shop? - It's the nursery.
Or is the baby gonna play chess against death?
Selina Dark/Subversive Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Listen to me, Catherine Kinte...
Blacks got the vote in 1870. When did women get the vote? 1920! - Sistas! - Well, the Voting Rights Act was in 1965.
And 1/16 French Huguenot.
No, I'm talking about grandmother.
Selina Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch I am not about to buried in a twat of my own making!
Selina Escalation Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Hughes would never do this if I was a male VP. We'd be out, shotgun and beers and sucking each other off like Carter and Mondale.
The president doesn't actually want you to do anything other than continue to be a woman, which you're doing a pretty okay job at.
As me walking out of a bar with less than 10 types of semen in my hair.
Will Dark/Subversive Escalation You're about as welcome here as Jerry Sandusky at an open call for 'Oliver.'
Anything I can do to annoy the Armenians.
It's like that fagela cowboy movie. 'I can't quit you.' - Yes, thank you, sir. Butch and Sundance.
It's Meyer. There's no 'S' at the end. - Oh, Jewish. - No, mm-mm. No. - No? - Oh, what a great county this is.
Can you believe I put a pen in my pocket without a cap? And Sally was helping me get the stain out.
So maybe you could help us grease the knob or the wheel or whatever it is.
I wish your husband was here because I would love for him to hear about the story of you and Andrew on the bus with the pen.
Selina Character Comedy Callback Ready for a 'chunge.' - First 'chunge,' we're gonna fix that slogan. - Really? - I'm kidding. It's great.
That's so funny because the lady who does my Brazilian is from Hong Kong. - Oh! - It's Kismit. - I know. It really is, isn't it? - No, her name is Kismit.
My God, looks like Queen Kong's cooter. - That's what we were going for!
The KKK... that's the Kool Kweers of Kolor... is having a 'pee-in' in front of Skull and Bones.
Yale pulled out without even coming on my tits?
I wish I had let you do anal. It would've hurt less than this!
No. My God, I'm not a goat.
Catherine Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy I think I wanna run for Congress.
Well, if we're judging by sex organs, which apparently we're not, it's a boy.
Would you like to hold him, Grandma'am? - I'll take your purse. - No, it's fine. - I'll just give him a boop-boop, pat-pat.
You're Monica from 'Monica.' - Oh, yeah! - It is a dream of mine to cook with you someday. - It's my dream, too.
Aluminum? Tenafly? Ribbon?
Selina Absurdist Character Comedy However, out of respect for your veganism, I got you the wipe warmer instead.
Everyone say hello to Little Richard. - Is that the baby's name? - Yes. - No, it's not.
I would rather never have a presidential library than to have one that is built on the backs of dead slaves.
Oh, and this is my lesbian daughter's Native American lesbian life partner, Marjorie.
Both my daughter and my mother have struggled greatly with very serious mental health problems. - What?
I dreamt that I removed Leon West's balls with an ice cream scoop and I think I actually came.
Is everything always ice cream with you?
I leaked it to Leon. - Why? Why would you Kurt Cobain your own library?
Because, girlie, only former presidents have libraries.
Amy Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Who cc'd Mike? - I get it, I'm Ringo. - We need champagne! - No, Amy's Ringo. You're Mark David Chapman's bullet.
We are gonna ride that Dalai Lama like Mrs. Lama on book club night.
I was here in 2012, 'Steve Bing'd' a couple stewardesses.
Yeah, well, I'm pregnant and it's yours. - Fuck!
I wanna feel their feelings and I wanna hear their speakings.
I chose the South Bronx so I could feel and smell what America was all about. - It smells good!
And Puerto Rico... if they can vote for president...
Judiciary, legislative, and there's a third.
