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1. Insightful
   • How insightful the comments would be, i.e. not just sharing opinions or jokes
   • Mentioning how much they enjoyed working with a particular actor or making a joke about a prop may be factual/topical/humorous, but I am not really learning anything from those comments
   • This is probably my favorite aspect of audio commentary, and the lack of insughtful commentary is likely why I was generally not very fond of 30 Rock's commentary
2. Factual
   • Whether the comments were actually truthful or not
   • This quality is not about fact vs. opinion; it's about true vs. false information
   • Too often, the commentator would make a joke and I genuinely could not tell whether it was just a joke or some serious behind-the-scenes trivia
   • Examples of nonfactual comments: "That actor had to wear a wig at all times", "They didn't know the cameras were rolling. That's actually just the actor going on a rant about what was bothering them in real life"
3. Humorous
   • If the commentator(s) made jokes throughout
   • The episodes with multiple commentators tended to have more humor
   • This score is not necessarily representative of whether or not I personally found the jokes funny. The score is all about humorous intent. If a joke fell flat, it would still work towards increasing this score.
4. Topical
   • Whether the comments actually pertained to the episode
   • Commentator would occasionally go on irrelevant tangents, and I found those entirely uninteresting
5. Active
   • How much talking the commentator(s) did compared to just silently watching the episode

|Season|Episode|Chronological|Name|Commentator(s)|Insightful|Factual|Humorous|Topical|Active|Final| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |1|7|7|Tracy Does Conan|Tracy Morgan|4|5|2|5|4|4| |1|12|12|Black Tie|Tina Fey|5|4|4|5|5|4.6| |1|15|15|Hard Ball|Lorne Michaels, Henry Michaels|1|5|1|3|1|2.2| |1|18|18|Fireworks|Jack McBrayer|3|2|4|3|4|3.2| |1|21|21|Hiatus|Alec Baldwin|4|5|2|3|4|3.6| |2|2|23|Jack Gets in the Game|Will Arnett|3|2|3|5|3|3.2| |2|3|24|The Collection|Jack McBrayer, Jane Krakowski|4|3|5|4|5|4.2| |2|6|27|Somebody to Love|Fred Armisen|3|3|3|3|4|3.2| |2|7|28|Cougars|Judah Freidlander|5|4|4|5|5|4.6| |2|10|31|Episode 210|Tina Fey, Jeff Richmond|5|4|4|5|5|4.6| |2|11|32|MILF Island|Scott Adsit|5|4|2|5|4|4| |2|12|33|Subway Hero|Tim Conway, Jack McBrayer|2|2|5|3|5|3.4| |2|13|34|Succession|Robert Carlock, John Riggi|5|3|4|5|5|4.4| |2|14|35|Sandwich Day|Tina Fey|5|5|3|5|5|4.6| |2|15|36|Cooter|Jack McBrayer, Jane Krakowski|2|2|5|5|5|3.8| |3|8|44|Flu Shot|Tina Fey, Jeff Richmond|5|5|4|4|5|4.6| |3|13|49|Goodbye, My Friend|Judah Freidlander, John Lutz|5|4|4|4|5|4.4| |3|15|51|The Bubble|Jack McBrayer, John Hamm|3|3|5|4|5|4| |3|16|52|Apollo, Apollo|Robert Carlock, Jack Burditt|1|5|2|1|5|2.8| |3|19|55|The Ones|Jack McBrayer, Jane Krakowski|2|2|5|5|5|3.8| |3|21|57|Mamma Mia|Alan Alda|2|5|1|3|1|2.4| |3|22|58|Kidney Now!|Tina Fey, Jeff Richmond|5|5|4|4|5|4.6| |4|3|61|Stone Mountain|Donald Glover, Gillian Jacobs|2|4|3|5|5|3.8| |4|4|62|Audition Day|Lorne Michaels, Alec Baldwin|3|5|2|3|5|3.6| |4|5|63|The Problem Solvers|Jack McBrayer, Jane Krakowski|2|2|5|5|5|3.8| |4|7|65|Dealbreakers Talk Show #0001|Scott Adsit, Don Scardino|4|4|3|5|5|4.2| |4|10|68|Black Light Attack!|John Lutz, Sue Galloway|3|3|4|5|5|4| |4|12|70|Verna|Tina Fey|5|5|3|5|5|4.6| |4|13|71|Anna Howard Shaw Day|Jack McBrayer, Jane Krakowski|2|3|5|4|5|3.8| |4|15|73|Don Geiss, America, and Hope|Tracey Wigfield, Tom Ceraulo|5|4|3|5|5|4.4| |4|19|77|Argus|Tina Fey, Jeff Richmond|5|4|4|5|5|4.6| |4|21|79|Emmanuelle Goes to Dinosaur Land|Jack McBrayer, John Hamm|3|3|5|4|5|4| |5|7|87|Brooklyn Without Limits|Tracy Morgan, Jerry Kupfer|1|5|1|5|3|3| |5|9|89|Chain Reaction of Mental Anguish|Jack McBrayer, Betty McBrayer, Jim McBrayer|3|3|3|4|4|3.4| |5|10|90|Christmas Attack Zone|Will Forte, Val Kilmer|3|4|3|4|5|3.8| |5|12|92|Operation Righteous Cowboy Lightning|John Lutz, Sue Galloway|3|3|4|3|5|3.6| |5|15|95|It’s Never Too Late for Now|Judah Freidlander|5|4|4|5|5|4.6| |5|17|97|Queen of Jordan|Tracey Wigfield, Tom Ceraulo|5|4|3|5|5|4.4| |5|18|98|Plan B|Tina Fey, Jeff Richmond|5|4|4|5|5|4.6| |5|20/21|100/101|100|Don Scardino, Aaron Sorkin|5|4|2|4|5|4| |5|23|103|Respawn|Jack McBrayer, John Hamm|3|3|5|4|5|4| |6|1|104|Dance Like Nobody’s Watching|Tracey Wigfield, Tom Ceraulo|5|5|3|5|5|4.6| |6|10|113|Alexis Goodlooking and the Case of the Missing Whisky|Judah Freidlander|5|4|4|5|5|4.6| |6|11|114|Standards and Practices|Jack McBrayer, Billy Gonzalez|2|2|4|4|5|3.4| |6|19|122|Live from Studio 6H|Jane Krakowski, Jeff Richmond|4|4|4|4|5|4.2| |7|7|132|Mazel Tov, Dummies!|Tracey Wigfield, Tom Ceraulo|5|4|4|5|5|4.6| |7|8|133|My Whole Life is Thunder|Damian Holbrook, Colleen McGuinness|4|4|3|4|5|4| |7|11|136|A Goon’s Deed in a Weary World|Jane Krakowski, Jeff Richmond|4|4|4|4|5|4.2| |7|12/13|137/138|Hogcock!/Last Lunch|Tina Fey, Robert Carlock|5|4|4|5|5|4.6| ||||||3.67|3.76|3.51|4.29|4.63|3.97|

|timestamp|original|timestamp|recut| |-|-|-|-| |3:50|Pam, onscreen, shouts "I can't sit in a booth!"|3:50|still photo of Pam onscreen| |4:54|"It would be horrible! The only thing I want attached to my funbags are celebrity DJs"|4:51|"It would be horrible!"| |6:05|the flashback of Lutz falling while carrying pudding also includes Liz's/Jack's reactions||| |11:27|"The media won't let you embarrass yourself? Be like Michael McDonald and take it to the streets"|11:19|"The media won't let you embarrass yourself?"| |12:33|recurring hobo pitches sketch to the writers waiting outside "What about a sketch about how the Empire State Building is controlling us with electricity?" "Come on, get out of here!"||| |15:23|Sideways Jack shouts "The real Jack Donaghy could handle a little gas leak!" followed by a deep sniff||| |15:54|News interview with drowning biker that Tracy had saved "He just pulled me out of the water and said 'Don't tell anyone I did this.' I didn't even get a chance to congratulate him on his Oscar" "'Modesty' and 'heroism'; two words forever synonymous with Tracy Jordan"||| |19:41|Paul's coworker cuts into his conversation with Jenna "Break's over, Paul. Crew meeting in Lady Chanterelle's office. He's pissed."||| |20:39|"Okay, I did call you, but I was not in my right mind. I mean, how could I have been, to call you after everything you've done?" Flashback to a few Dennis moments including a new scene in a restaurant, romantically shaking waitress's hand "It's Tonya, right? Wonderful service" waitress leaves "Could you maybe not hit on the waitress right in fro--" "CHEW AND SCREW! Run, dummy!" Dennis runs away from table, Liz follows "Ugh, dammit! Dennis! I checked a coat!"|19:54|"Okay, but I was not in my right mind."| |21:19|"No, you know what I feel? You were a mistake"|20:09|"No, you were a mistake"| |||20:38|"To be continued, dummies" followed by the credits over top of a series of musical flashbacks|

|timestamp|original|timestamp|recut| |-|-|-|-| |||0:00|"Previously, on 30 Rock" followed by recap of part one| |||0:41|Elevator ding "This is us, Ms. Lemon. Let's walk together like Laverne and Shirley" Kenneth tries to link arms, Liz fights him off "Oh, I'm sorry. I'll keep talking about the bird!" followed by opening credits| |||3:26|while throwing cash at crying strippers "How about a little less self-respect and a little more squatting?"| |26:29|"OJ Simpson - who texted me earlier today."|5:31|"OJ Simpson - who texted me earlier today. What should I write back?"| |30:21|"Hey, Greta Johannsen, your animal wrangler" "My god, you're beautiful"|9:24|"Hey, Greta Johannsen, your animal wrangler. I don't want to alarm my other wildlife, but all the canaries for the coal mining sketch seem to have slipped off to meet Garuda in the sky" "My god, you're beautiful"|