Facing increased scrutiny heading into Super Tuesday, Selina visits Mike to deflect attention from Andrew's legal troubles. Jonah and Amy ramp up their anti-Selina campaign rhetoric. Dan attempts to exploit Richard.
Political chaos peaks at 1.94 jokes per minute, yet character comedy anchors the mayhem.
Directed by Becky Martin · Written by Gabrielle Allan, Jennifer Crittenden, Ted Cohen
WAR
86.9
Wins Above Replacement
“Super Tuesday” ranks #26 of 65 Veep episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 81.5 — Elite. The episode packs 86 scored jokes at 1.9 per minute, averaging 7.1 on craft and 6.9 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
Goddamnit! We can't even commit treason right?!
Selina Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Just give it to one of those gay-converting Baptist colleges to fund a statue of a gold-plated Jesus fucking a triceratops.
Selina Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Just make up some death threats that are nicer.
Selina Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Hilarious. A talking company. Where would the mouth even be?
Richard Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch This was supposed to be just a little simple bit of election-rigging!
Selina Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 86 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Mayor Splett, how does it feel to be the hero of 7-Eleven? Oh, I'm no hero. I'm just a mayor.
Richard Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy If I need another Washington douche, I'll go to the M Street Rite-Aid.
Unknown Wordplay/Pun Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch That's an hour and 29 minutes too long in that former Indian concentration camp.
Selina Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Good, 'cause the last one looked like the toilet bowl after William F. Buckley ate a thesaurus.
Selina Observational Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Wait. I don't have fat arms. That's just criminally insane-- and regular insane.
Selina Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Just make up some death threats that are nicer.
Selina Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Oh, my God, you conjured her! Yeah, right out of my Stephen Glass-hole.
He's my ex-husband.
Selina Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy I can't hear you, so you're gonna have to repeat that.
Selina Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Maybe in the House you can.
Ben Observational Deadpan/Understatement Your unfavorables are rising past 'accidental ethnic slur' right into 'men's room incident.'
Ben Observational Escalation ★ Rewatch This is the face of clinical depression, ma'am. With the hair of a mental patient.
Selina Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Oh, my kingdom for a beret.
Selina Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch if anyone should be depressed, it's me, but I am stable as fuck.
Selina Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy I wish you hadn't told me that. And yet I'm also glad that you did. I might be able to use it against you. I wouldn't... unless I have to.
Karen Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Well, this has been a dry fuck on a sandy beach.
Selina Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Any luck with the human Mobius strip?
Ben Observational Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch I don't look good in jumpsuits. I mean, I do, but I don't. Ya know.
Selina Character Comedy Escalation call it the Washington Post like a non-asshole
Selina Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm this is like having two different Senators with their hands up my skirt. Which actually happened to me once during a Supreme Court confirmation.
Selina Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch I thought it was Kent. I assumed it was you.
The Joseph Goebbels playbook. Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty. Steal from the best.
Ben Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Just give it to one of those gay-converting Baptist colleges to fund a statue of a gold-plated Jesus fucking a triceratops.
Selina Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Don't say his name.
Amy Running Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback No, I told Beth that we could go to Arkansas so she could give me a hand job in a hot spring. It's my birthday.
Jonah Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Your particular brand of crazy is polling very high here in Florida, especially with melanoma-loving swamp fuckers, storm-ravaged climate deniers, and deadbeat dads... and deadbeat moms.
Amy Observational Escalation ★ Rewatch Thirty-eight dollars? That's like a shitty gift that you get from your asshole grandmother.
Jonah Observational Character Comedy - Whatever. I'd still do her. - I'm down to clown.
Holy shit, Bruckheimer, when you get an abortion, you're supposed to leave the mangled fetus at the clinic, not staple it to the skeleton of a gay condor and run it for president.
Unknown Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch What Saudi prince's rape dungeon did you finger-trowel your way out of?
Nope, beat you to it.
Amy Running Gag Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Callback Youngblood? Oh, that's my favorite Rob Lowe movie.
Jonah Character Comedy Observational Rerouting my urethra to behind my balls so that I have to sit to pee like a real girl.
Will Cringe/Discomfort Absurdist Sit your hawk asses down!
Dan Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Except for the 7-Eleven truthers. They say that no Jewish people were working in the store that day, but there's no Jewish people in Lurlene, so...
Richard Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch there's no dipping your quill in the company ink. Copy that. I mean sex. Got it. By that, I mean Willa.
Is that a new hairstyle?
Mike Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Are they biased against you? Well, you said it, not me, but I also say it.
Yeah, I didn't get Clay vaccinated because it causes autism, and now he just has a little bit of autism.
How would anyone know?
Unknown Observational Meta/Self-Referential When are you from? When! Are! You! From?!
Jonah Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch What, are they giving away free Tommy Bahama dick cozies?
Selina Observational Absurdist ★ Rewatch You mean your wisdom stripes.
Gary Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch While we're at it, why don't we show 'em my estrogen patch prescription and a Polaroid of my stretch marks?
I believe it's 53. Late 40s. You're all correct.
Me so complicit. Me go jail long time.
Gary Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch we're gonna keep our wangs out of your Chinese fuckin' finger trap.
Ben Observational Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch he's always had a thing for Asians. So do I
Selina Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort This was supposed to be just a little simple bit of election-rigging!
Selina Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch You wear it. Maybe you'll grow some hair on your vagina!
Selina Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy That's good enough for me. Can't argue with science.
Richard Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Oh! Amy. Yeah, Amy. Reminds me, I gotta Apple Pay her for my half.
Dan Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy When women fall apart, they really fuckin' fall apart!
Ben Observational Character Comedy you need to use tweezers this time because I really thought I could taste your fingers.
Selina Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy She had done a gap year abroad. She was not a true freshman.
Andrew Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch I should have really married that gay guy my mother liked.
Selina Character Comedy Observational I know him as Luther. We met in Macao at the shark fights.
Andrew Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch I don't think people are gonna buy that a guy who calls vaginas 'crinkum-crankums' is gonna be able to pull off some sort of multimillion-dollar fraud.
Ben Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Besides: women's prison. Yeah. Wall-to-wall crinkum-crankum.
Oh, yeah. No, that makes sense, I was born in Toronto.
Jonah Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch ♪ Puss-ay-ay-yay ♪ ♪ In that puss-ay-ay-yay ♪
Jonah Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy I think I can see you nodding your head 'yes'...
Selina Visual Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch by some magical combination of abuse and neglect managed to create the perfect daughter.
Marjorie Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Why would you buy that cow? Oh. When I can get the milk for free.
I told you I reported it sunk to insurance.
Andrew Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch You can't just disappear, and I can't have people thinking I'm Jewish. We're right in the middle of the primaries.
Selina Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Basically a two-woman race to see who is less offensive to the American people. That's the best explanation of democracy I've ever heard.
Ben Selina Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch You spent millions... Yes, yes, I did. ...on leather-bound hobo toilet paper.
I was in a relationship with a blonde, uncaring bug-eyed rage-aholic. I used to work with someone just like that.
Are you gonna keep that? Morning! Shh!
My daughter Catherine is getting married to her lady friend Marjorie.
Selina Misdirection Character Comedy Hilarious. A talking company. Where would the mouth even be?
Richard Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch A... lledgedly.
Ben Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch That's not Rosa. N-- Oh? Oh! There she is. That must be your mother. My sister. Your si-- sister. OK.
President Montez. Sure, why not.
I distinctly remember you saying 'Take care of it.' OK, sure, but I didn't-- I didn't say it in a 'take care of it' kind of way. I just said take care of it.
Because I have had Botox!
Selina Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Like a brain-damaged Chinaman. Or woman. Or woman. Sorry. Or the adopted child of someone with brain damage.
Selina Escalation Cringe/Discomfort Name: Jonah Joy Ryan. Weight: six pounds. Length: twenty-six inches. Yeah, that's right, twenty-six inches.
Jonah Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Lloyd is my real dad? Of course he is. I tried to tell you a hundred times, Jonie.
We didn't tell anyone because Lloyd and I are second cousins. God, Mom, that is vomitrocious.
Wait, is Lloyd still my dad? Yeah, nobody knows. But you're now officially my stepsister. Half sister.
Is this what it feels like to be a man?
Selina Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Goddamnit! We can't even commit treason right?!
Selina Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch I think it's pronounced half-white.
Amy Wordplay/Pun Dark/Subversive Ha! That was your phone.
Keith Misdirection Reaction Beat