Selina helps monitor the first free and democratic election in Georgia (the country, not the state) and is reunited with an old "friend." Meanwhile, Mike and Gary hide evidence of a major mishap, and Jonah and Richard have an eventful night out. Back in the U.S., Dan tries to help Amy.
Veep's Georgia episode sustains 2.22 jokes per minute through pure character escalation.
Directed by Becky Martin · Written by Billy Kimball
WAR
197.5
Wins Above Replacement
“Georgia” ranks #9 of 65 Veep episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 97.8 — Elite. The episode packs 119 scored jokes at 3.3 per minute, averaging 7.7 on craft and 7.7 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 · Nikolai: It's delicious. / Okay. / Is there anything happening to me? / I don't think so. / Oh, it has carrots in it. I'm not gonna eat that.
Minna · Selina · Ben: Nikolai and I are not only bound by mutual respect and shared beliefs. We are also bound by powerful physical attraction. / Oof. / You gotta be kidding. / We are, in fact, lovers. / Lovers. / Lovers. / With Scab Calloway?
Aide · Selina: The $20 million Georgian AIDS foundation donation — received the previous night — is now worth approximately $389,000 due to the coup-devalued exchange rate.
Aide Selina Escalation Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Mike: Nobody speaks English here, everything was really confusing to me, and I was chased by children. And I think I may have voted.
Mike Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Minna · Selina: Yeah, in Finland, we call this the fever of the sausage. / Okay, so, then you get it.
All Jokes — 119 analyzed
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Selina Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Selina: Jesus, democracy. What a horror show this is.
Selina Irony/Sarcasm Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Selina: I didn't even know Georgia was a country.
Selina Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Selina · Petradze: Do you have any water that doesn't come from a nuclear power plant, by any chance? / Vodka. / Okay, sure, fine. Vodka.
Georgian Man: Hello! One day, you can grow up to be president. No, not you. Your brother.
Selina · Petradze: Selina Meyer travels the globe, spreading democracy like patient zero, right, Petradze? / Yes?
Selina: This place sucks my ghost nard.
Selina Character Comedy Absurdist Selina · Unknown Staff: Why couldn't you have gotten me on an international election watching trip to Hawaii? / Hawaii is rightfully a monarchy and will be again.
Unknown Staff: Did you read the CODEL schedule of official events or were there not enough pictures for you?
Selina · Staff: Ooh, sex trafficking workshop. / It's an anti-sex trafficking workshop. / Lame.
Selina: It's gotta be 8:00 AM somewhere.
Selina Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Selina: Look at us, just like the good, old days except shittier in every conceivable way.
Selina Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Mike: Maybe we can win an election for a change. / That came out wrong. / Yeah, way wrong, right?
Mike Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Unknown Staff: So he's got a goat to scape if things go wrong.
Kent · Unknown: Night and fog. Nacht und Nebel. / Yeah, I haven't missed that.
Selina: Okay, no. I don't get put on hold. Okay? When he comes on, he gets put on hold.
Selina Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Selina: I just wanted to thank you for all that you've done for me. And I wanna let you know that I will destroy you in ways that are so creative, they will honor me for it at the Kennedy Center.
Selina Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Selina · Andrew · Staff: Please hold for President Meyer. / Oh, you're putting me on hold. Actually, do you think you could not? / I'm here, I'm here... / Please hold for Secretary Doyle. / God damn it.
Selina: I am gonna find ways to destroy you so hard that everybody at the Kennedy Center is gonna take a fucking massive shit.
Selina Character Comedy Escalation Callback Selina · Andrew: So I assume you're gonna beg for your job back. / It's a very kind offer, but I already have a better job working for President Meyer. I thought you knew that.
Selina: I already have 434 brand-new best friends and we're all going to dinner tonight. And you're not invited. Sorry. Congressmen only.
Selina Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Buddy Calhoun: I got a Georgian SIM card. Got text forwarding. I'll hear from you? All right, later. / I was suffering from dehydration and exhaustion. That's not the Buddy Calhoun I see in the mirror.
Danny: Although, it would be if you stepped out of the shower.
Danny Setup/Punchline Cringe/Discomfort Danny · Amy: Can we roll that video one more time for our audience? / And here's the moment where he exposes himself. / That's right, yes. / Can we play that again?
Danny: In the interest of full disclosure, Ms. Brookheimer and I did have a brief relationship when she was a much younger woman.
Danny Cringe/Discomfort Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Danny · Amy: Ames, who's your favorite character on 'Downton'? / I don't know. Abby, I guess. / Yep.
Danny Amy Awkward Silence Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Doyle/Staff · Selina: He liked to insert in the anus of his opponents. / Yeah, and he did a beautiful rendition of 'Rendition.'
Selina: You have a doctrine now? What is it, 'Boners are rare, don't waste them'?
Selina Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Selina: Hey, did you think of that while you were walking on the beach with a metal detector or however you fill your empty days?
Selina Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Selina Reaction Beat Character Comedy Selina · Minna: You look absolutely radiant. / Oh, thank you. / Yes, your stay in the insane asylum, it's really agreed with you. / It was a spa. / No, no, a spa is where you go to get a massage and the like. You were in an insane asylum.
Minna · Selina: I have such a big day tomorrow because I have an election to supervise. / I know, because I am supervising your supervising.
Gary · Selina: Your bidet is splashy and there's no terry cloth robe or shower cap. / Wait, you tested my bidet?
Gary: Don't worry, I'm gonna fix this before tub time.
Gary Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Mike: Nobody speaks English here, everything was really confusing to me, and I was chased by children. And I think I may have voted.
Mike Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Kent: Mike, that is the kind of voting irregularity that we are here to prevent.
Kent Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mike · Kent: That sounds bad. Look, please, can you help me get it off? / Unless you want the entire thumb removed with a utility blade, I suggest you find another person.
Mike Kent Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Richard: Mom, I told you I get more homesick when you call.
Richard Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Mike: Hi, what do you have that's like SpaghettiOs?
Mike Character Comedy Observational Mike · Gary: I accidentally voted and now my thumb is green. / The same thing happened to me! Oh, my God!
Mike Gary Escalation Character Comedy Callback Gary: I went out to get a terry cloth robe and there was this crowd and I asked them where Nordstrom's was and then the next thing I know, they dyed my thumb and an old lady who smelled like cumin wouldn't stop hugging me!
Gary Character Comedy Escalation Mike: Mine smelled like paprika.
Mike Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mike: I can't afford to lose this job, Gary, but I can't afford to keep it either. I mean, it's so expensive to commute from DC. And I haven't been paid yet.
Mike Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Selina: Okay, I never ever wanna see the inside of your mouth again. Okay? It looks like a Haitian porta-potty in there.
Selina Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Minna · Selina: Just a spoonful of this caviar will pay for a wind turbine for a whole village. / Yeah, but do we really want these people to have electricity?
Selina: Have you imprisoned any good novelists recently?
Selina Irony/Sarcasm Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Murman · Minna · Selina: I was sorry to see that your forceful condemnation did not do more to stop the recent genocide in the Congo. / Maybe next genocide. / Or the one after that.
Ben · Murman: The only reason he hasn't been dragged naked through the streets and hung upside down from a lamp post with his cock stuffed in his mouth is because he took my advice from time to time. / Guilty as charged.
Murman: Look, I saw your last election. No, thank you.
Murman Irony/Sarcasm Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Selina: I cannot possibly accept that. [beat] I mean, even the appearance of a quid pro quo...
Selina Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Murman · Selina: I trust I have made myself suitably clear. / As clear as the coffee table Danny Thomas had his hookers shit on.
Catherine · Unknown: Your mother just added democracy to the foundation. So, now it's the Selina Meyer Foundation for Adult Literacy, Aids... / And the Advancement of Global Democracy.
Catherine · Dan: Marjorie and I have decided that we wanna have a baby, and we'd like to do it... / I will give you my sperm. / Oh, great!
Catherine · Dan: Is there anything else that you wanna talk about? / I'm good. / Well, we'll send you the details. And if you could not ejaculate for the next 72 hours, that would be ideal.
Dan: Could we start the clock in, like, 30 minutes? / Yeah, I guess so. / Actually, no. Make it 40. The girl I'm thinking of likes to talk first. / Amber, it's Dan-Dan. You in midtown?
Dan Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Ben: That's keep a lot of docents in Rockports.
Ben Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Ben: I'd kill for a job where I could wear flats all day.
Ben Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Selina · Ben: I cannot lose my integrity. Without that, I am nothing. / How would we make sure no one finds out about the cash?
Selina Ben Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Selina · Ben/Kent: What about Georgian law? / There is literally no Georgian law. And I'm using 'literally' correctly.
Selina: See, at least when I was leader of the free world, people told me what to do.
Selina Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Selina · Minna: I was thinking, Minna, would it be that bad if Murman actually did win? / Well, that depends how you define bad.
Selina: I think Murman is really good people. Honestly. And he's a hell of a storyteller. Really. You know, you could actually learn something from him, Minna.
Selina Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Minna · Selina: He has the soul of a poet. / Yeah, that and a car with a sunroof could've bought you my virginity in '83.
Minna · Selina: You were 22? / No, I was 15 in 1983. / Right. / Well, I was, Minna. / Right. / That's great.
Minna Selina Cringe/Discomfort Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Minna · Selina: Did I tell you that my son Otto tried to commit suicide and that he is now not speaking to me? / Did he throw himself from a moving town car?
Minna · Selina: No. No, he weighted his boots and he jumped into an ice hole. / I'm so sorry, into what? / Into an ice hole. Like a hole they cut in the ice... / Ah. / ...for fishing. / Right. / That makes sense.
Selina · Minna · Unknown: I wonder how much longer it is to get to the hotel. / I'm not really sure... / I think it's another 45, 50 minutes. / Oh, my God.
Buddy Calhoun: Ooh, clink, clink. Hey, Pinocchios. Your noses must've been really tiny yesterday because you lied and now they're normal-sized.
Buddy Calhoun: By I, I mean the people of New Hampshire. In the immortal words of will.i.am, 'Tonight's gonna be really great!'
Selina: The furniture scene: 'Pick up your fucking chairs!' — Selina or aide screaming as a piece of furniture ends up somewhere absurd in the hotel.
Selina Physical/Slapstick Reaction Beat Selina: Fuck. / Are you fucking...?! / That's where that goes? / Pick up your fucking chairs!
Selina Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Selina · Unknown: Oh, she's kissing it. / Well, that's why we moisturize.
Nikolai · Selina: Oh, may I say that the reports of your beauty have not been exaggerated. / Well, back at you, red.
Ben: Ben about Nikolai: 'As long as the check clears.'
Ben Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Selina: Who needs all that champagne when you can have all these different kinds of wallpaper?
Selina Irony/Sarcasm Deadpan/Understatement Minna · Selina: Selina, you see right through me. / What? / It's because we are close as sisters. / No, we're not.
Minna · Selina · Ben: Nikolai and I are not only bound by mutual respect and shared beliefs. We are also bound by powerful physical attraction. / Oof. / You gotta be kidding. / We are, in fact, lovers. / Lovers. / Lovers. / With Scab Calloway?
Minna · Selina: His very touch makes me quiver. / Okay, and now we get to eat food.
Minna Selina Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Nikolai · Selina: Eat it. / What? / Eat the soup. / Why? / Because I'm hungry. / I need to know if it's been poisoned.
Selina · Nikolai: It's delicious. / Okay. / Is there anything happening to me? / I don't think so. / Oh, it has carrots in it. I'm not gonna eat that.
Nikolai · Selina: I have been reliably told that war criminal Murman had the audacity to offer you a $10 million bribe. / Okay, well, that is ridiculous. / I agree. It is so much less than you are worth.
Selina · Nikolai: How dare you, sir! I will remind you that I am the former president of the United States. You have lost a great deal of face in my estimation. / What I meant to say, of course, is I would like to make a $15 million donation to your library.
Selina: Well, that is something we can discuss as long as we understand that there is, in fact, no understanding.
Selina Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Nikolai: In reality, although I teach at the university and lead the opposition party, I control a telecommunication monopoly and own the most popular soccer team, the Tbilisi Bauxite Miners.
Nikolai Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Nikolai · Selina: If you told him that rava ganavlis was chakapuli, he would eat it up and ask for seconds. / I can only hope that rava ganavlis is human shit. / It is actually what you vomit after eating shit.
Nikolai: I like you, dimples.
Nikolai Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Nikolai: Nikolai: 'I like you, dimples.'
Nikolai Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Richard · Buddy: This is fucking beast! / It's very interesting. / Hey, put that on. All the cool guys wear the band's T-shirt. / You know, the band's name translates to Panzer Division. / What?
Ryan · Unnamed Congressman: Ryan and the congressman slowly backing out of the Panzer Division concert: 'I think maybe we should leave.' / 'Uh-huh.' / 'Excuse us. Pardon me.'
Minna · Selina: The poison? It did not engorge only his face, if you know what I mean. / I think I do. / It also engorged his penis and made it very unusual texture of sea cucumber, so it's great for vaginal orgasms.
Minna · Selina: Minna to Selina: 'Can I be uncharacteristically blunt with you?' / Selina: 'I can't imagine what that...' — then Minna reveals Nikolai's poisoned genitals.
Minna · Selina: Which do you prefer, vaginal or clitoral orgasms? / You know, I just come and get it over with. / You can come just from your mind?
Selina · Minna: What can I do to get you to stop talking? / Now? / Well, you have to walk 25 miles for breast cancer and attend a WNBA game, but I think we're gonna be okay.
Buddy Calhoun: Amy, that morning when I heard you say that you were happiest curled up next to me eating popcorn and watching 'Downton Abbey' I figured it all out.
Buddy · Amy: Buddy Calhoun announces he's withdrawing from the governor's race because of 'the love of the wonderful woman who has agreed to be my wife' — Amy, who had no idea this was coming.
Buddy Amy Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Buddy: Amy, that morning when I heard you say that you were happiest curled up next to me eating popcorn and watching 'Downton Abbey' I figured it all out. The next governor of Nevada, Buddy Calhoun!
Buddy Cringe/Discomfort Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Buddy Calhoun · Crowd: I need to get out of this toxic world of politics and start to appreciate the things that really do matter in life. / No, Buddy! / Like the love of the wonderful woman who has agreed to be my wife.
Selina · Ben: Murman's leading by more votes than there are people in the country. / Yeah, maybe he's bussing them in from Chicago.
Selina: This election's going down like Eleanor Roosevelt at Dinah Shore Weekend.
Selina Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Selina · Gary: Well, do I work for you? Just answer it. / Okay. / Right?
Selina: Well, do I work for you? Just answer it.
Selina Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Gary · Selina · Mike: Please hold. It was an accident. / Mike voted, too, Mike voted, too. / What?! / I can't believe you! / Stop it. / You two ding-dongs look like you fingered the Incredible Hulk.
Murman · Selina: Madam President, let me tell you little story about growing up in the Gurjaani countryside. / You thought you caught a fish, it turned out to be a tire. The tire was full of fish. It's a great story. It's a very valuable lesson, but I really gotta go. / 20 million.
Selina: Well, Murman, that is a big tire with a fuckload of fish in it.
Selina Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Selina · Murman: Murman: '20 million.' / Selina: 'Well, Murman, that is a big tire with a fuckload of fish in it.'
Selina · Ben · Andrew/Kent: How much? / 20 million. / Yahtzee. / I mean, they're both crooks. / What's the difference? / $5 million. / Exactly.
Selina · Minna: Well, that is very strong language, Minna. / Yes. / Yes, and I wonder if we might phrase it a different way. / For instance, perhaps we would say there have been certain irregularities in this election. / Yes! / And that is not uncommon for a young democracy. / Yes. / And, therefore, we believe that Murman is the uncontested winner. / Now, are you aware that that is the exact opposite of what you said just a moment ago? / Yes. / But I've had time to reflect since that moment.
Selina: My concern is I wonder if your judgment is being clouded by your feelings that are brought on by Nikolai's lumpy poison cock.
Selina Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Minna · Selina · Ben: Oh, my God. Well... I will recuse myself. Immediately, I will resign. / No, no, no, let's not overreact. Just take a deep breath, Minna. You're just in the middle of what we in America call... / A difficult situation. / ...a fuck fog.
Selina · Someone · Selina: You're just in the middle of what we in America call... — A difficult situation. — ...a fuck fog.
Minna · Selina: Yeah, in Finland, we call this the fever of the sausage. / Okay, so, then you get it.
Minna · Selina: You won't tell anyone, Selina? / Thank you so much. You are such a good friend. / Oh, well... / Sometimes I don't feel worthy of this friendship. / Mm, well, sometimes I feel that way, too.
Selina: I mean, honestly, that is the most grotesque country I have ever been to and I have been all over Florida.
Selina Irony/Sarcasm Observational Selina · Mike · Gary: ...seized by military elements loyal to Oleg Petradze. / Wait a minute, is that our guide? / I think that's the guy I voted for.
Selina · Unknown · Gary: Wow, that's like Gary becoming president. / From the tea party. / No. / Oh, yeah, that is funny.
Selina: 'Murman's gonna have a lot of great stories to tell the firing squad.'
Selina Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Callback Unknown · Richard: Yeah, that's worth about $20 million. / Well, actually, since the coup, there's been a slight dip in the exchange rate. It's now worth approximately $389,000. Way to go, ma'am.
Aide · Selina: The $20 million Georgian AIDS foundation donation — received the previous night — is now worth approximately $389,000 due to the coup-devalued exchange rate.
Aide Selina Escalation Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Selina: All I did was stay focused on one simple goal... to free the peoples of the world from totalitarianism through open and free and transparent elections. And that, in a nutshell, is what I call the Meyer Doctrine.
Selina Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback