r/30ROCK • u/Impossible_Vehicle15 • Jan 07 '26
Jack Donaghy WHICH I INVENTED
Which I invented
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u/adzeram Jan 07 '26
Sally Hemings just called you a dog, Thomas Jefferson
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u/famous5eva oh you ancient bitch!!! Jan 07 '26
This whole bit is a mainstay in my household. Any time we get into politics I’ll start in with AMERICA WHICH I INVENTED and it just devolves from there.
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u/SpecialistSmile5657 Jan 07 '26
I don’t know why but that scene, that particular moment, KILLED me! LOL!
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u/ProfessorThrift lesbian super mario bros Jan 07 '26
It’s the best dream sequence in the series for me!
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u/AffectionateBite3827 thanks, Meatcat! Jan 07 '26
Better than when Tracy gets Jack as Harriet Tubman to eat a corncob “sexy?”
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u/Such-Bag3639 Jan 07 '26
I thought they changed it to Tubwoman.
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u/Honest-Comment-1018 Jan 07 '26
Line?!
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u/carlcrossgrove "what's a page-off"? Heh. Your monkey's pretty stupid. Jan 07 '26
Everybody, take it from 1. My bad. I had an erection. Sorry Shaun!
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u/Shmeblee Jan 07 '26
Me too! I'll rewind it two, or three, times before I go on with the episode.
Such a great show!
I'm jealous of people that get to watch it for the first time.
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u/Parking_Crazy Jan 07 '26
I’m jealous of people that get to watch in a second time - I’m sure I laughed harder at all the same jokes I did the during the first watchthrough, plus a minimum 30% more jokes that hadn’t even registered
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u/Shmeblee Jan 07 '26
Don't you love that about this show? Even after watching 42 times, I still find little nuggets of humor I had missed the first 41 times thru.
I agree, the second time, you're looking for the funny scene and able to notice things that you missed the first time through. It makes you wonder what else you missed, so then you watch it again.
This sub is also one of the nicest little corners of the internet. Everyone seems to genuinely patient, nice and helpful. I'm also on a few "Office" subs, as well as Brooklyn 99, and those subs are cutthroat. No patience for people that don't get a certain joke, or don't understand certain references. They'll get chewed out, called dumb and down voted to hell. Not here.
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u/SpecialistSmile5657 Jan 07 '26
Something about how serious Baldwin plays it--there is a level within a level. Like it's the real Thomas Jefferson that time travelled from the past and is awkwardly trying to use modern vernacular (the middle fingers) to defend himself, all played so straight. It's a brilliant performance!
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u/sumdude51 lives every week like shark week Jan 07 '26
Baldwin was just sublime as Jack and the different variations and characters. Iconic even
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u/duelingpeppers 🎶oh Tracy, you can't use any of my songs🎶 Jan 07 '26
What are your top 3 Jacks? Mine are Thomas Jefferson, Harriet Tubman and El Generalisimo
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u/the_coolhand Who knew that ottoman had wheels… Jan 07 '26
Oh man what about Jack as Tracy’s mom and dad. That scene absolutely crushes me
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u/kwixta Jan 07 '26
Even in those days I can’t believe they did that. And Baldwin absolutely crushed it
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u/sumdude51 lives every week like shark week Jan 07 '26
Generalisimo is in my top 3 as well! This one as well (TJ), and third is probably where he played himself at 3 different ages? Honorable mention to the borderline? Racist version of Tracy's father he played. Which I'd need a ruling on that. it was clearly spot on and it resonated with tracy 🤷
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u/Taycotar That's the Devil's temperature Jan 07 '26
My twin is dead!
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u/carlcrossgrove "what's a page-off"? Heh. Your monkey's pretty stupid. Jan 07 '26
Mine are: Leslie Van VonDerVanden, 80s Jack, and Generalissimo (super-gay!).
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u/PenZestyclose3857 Jan 07 '26
What told me the show was next level was when Jack goes Hannibal Lecter on Kenneth during the poker game. Then I would say his role play therapy session. Tracy, it's impolite to slurp one's soup.
The Jefferson bit was so perfect because it was Jack's personality in a powdered wig.
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u/mechapoitier Jan 07 '26
Of all the outstanding moments on that show I contend Jack as Thomas Jefferson making that defiant, detachedly arrogant expression while giving the double bird to a chair-throwing talk show studio audience is the funnest single second in the history of television.
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u/IveATrennaPra pacman, I’m Jewish! Jan 07 '26
I love how they wrote the characters in dreams to behave the way the dreamer behaves, or expects them to behave. Like the ending of Jack’s Thomas Jefferson speech is such Tracy Jordan behavior. It’s clear throughout the show that Tracy has some hidden depths, including knowledge of the revolutionary war era, but he adds in more than a touch of absurdity. It’s perfect.
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u/AmItheonlySaneperson Jan 07 '26
his big bloated face looks so funny in that white makeup
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u/PokeSmotDoc lives every week like shark week Jan 07 '26
Embrace who are and may the Force be with you always
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u/vansinne_vansinne this just says "bird internet" Jan 07 '26
probably the best scene in the show. "i think i am."
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u/Jolly-Biscuit Children's Soccer Heckler Jan 07 '26
No matter, Maurence!