Floyd stays at Liz's place overnight when his flight is canceled. Meanwhile, Jack is demoted to the 12th floor, causing him to question his future status at the company. Finally, the staff celebrates Annual Sandwich Day with mysterious sandwiches from a secret location in Brooklyn.
Absurdist escalation reaches peak density: 2.89 jokes per minute across 56 gags.
Directed by Don Scardino · Written by Jack Burditt, Robert Carlock
WAR
71.4
Wins Above Replacement
“Sandwich Day” ranks #15 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 90.4 — Elite. The episode packs 56 scored jokes at 2.9 per minute, averaging 7.4 on craft and 7.2 on impact, with Liz landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Liz · Pete: For once, I am not gonna be Jan Brady. I'm gonna be Marcia, damn it. Oh, my nose! My bad!
Liz Pete Callback Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Liz: I don't know how, but you're gonna get me another sandwich, or I'm gonna cut your face up so bad, you'll have a chin. You'll all have chins!
Liz Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: This morning, I had to cut my own cantaloupe.
Jack Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Jack: I've been sleeping with the Cindy Crawford of corporations for the last 22 years. What am I supposed to do? Just lie down with some skank like 3M?
Jack Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Liz: The poor guy got Lemoned... hard.
Liz Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 56 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Jack: Hillary Clinton is president, sir! I thought I would just try to scare you out of it.
Jack Setup/Punchline Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: This morning, I had to cut my own cantaloupe.
Jack Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Jack: 12! You've got to wake up, please!
Jack Escalation Character Comedy Liz · Pete: Oh, God. Marcus Schenkenberg was there. Who?
Liz Pete Observational Character Comedy Pete · Liz: You were using your treadmill? Yes, and, yes, Pete, I use it every day.
Pete Liz Character Comedy Reaction Beat Pete · Liz: JetFun. Is that the one with the footbaths? Oh, no, that's AirBike. They also have in-flight pornos and NBC news. JetFun's the one that hands out fresh popcorn.
Pete Liz Absurdist Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Liz: some Rust Belt tramp answered the phone
Liz Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Liz: I want to be top dog for once instead of just... dog.
Liz Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Liz · Pete: For once, I am not gonna be Jan Brady. I'm gonna be Marcia, damn it. Oh, my nose! My bad!
Liz Pete Callback Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Kenneth: Once a year, the Teamsters go to this Italian sandwich shop in Brooklyn. No one knows what it's called or where it is. It's a Teamster secret.
Kenneth Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kenneth: And the dipping sauce. Oh, joy! God bless us, every one!
Kenneth Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Jack: By the way, you know who hates unicorns? Mark Wahlberg.
Jack: I've been sleeping with the Cindy Crawford of corporations for the last 22 years. What am I supposed to do? Just lie down with some skank like 3M?
Jack Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Jack: Good God, I'd rather work for an American car company than jump on that sinking ship.
Jack Observational Irony/Sarcasm Jonathan: I will remember you? Will you remember me? Doobie-doo, doobie-doo? Don't let your life pass you by?
Jonathan Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Liz: I got a company-wide e-mail from the new CEO that was just a link to cats wearing bow ties.
Jack: 12? Did I hit 12? I wanted, uh... 4012, which is 52, where I work. Business.
Jack Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lutz: Since my surgery, I have to eat slowly or my insides might explode.
Lutz Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Tracy · Lutz: Give me it! It's like knives!
Liz · Frank: Where's my mac and cheese?! But as far as Liz Lemon knows, her sandwich never came.
Liz Frank Callback Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Liz: I'm pretty tired from playing as hard as I work.
Liz Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Floyd · Liz: You know, maybe we hit that barbecue place you puked at. You'll have to be more specific.
Floyd Liz Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: Oh, somebody get me out of this dress! I can't breathe!
Liz Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Liz · Tracy · Frank · Lutz: Where's my sandwich?! Lutz made us do it! No, it was Frank. No, it was you! I'm a patsy?
Kenneth · Liz: the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Please ask my permission before you quote me, Kenneth.
Liz: I don't know how, but you're gonna get me another sandwich, or I'm gonna cut your face up so bad, you'll have a chin. You'll all have chins!
Liz Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Floyd: There was actually a tornado in Cleveland last week. Destroyed an entire city block... three bowling alleys, a liquor store, and the liquor-store museum.
Floyd Observational Escalation Liz: I haven't stayed up this late since college. And behind this trapdoor, more Orcs.
Liz Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Liz · Floyd: I read that you guys are getting an lkea. Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it. We've just been burned before.
Liz: Now turn and look back at me. Attaboy. Eat it up, Cleveland.
Liz Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Jack: I even stopped to catch a snowflake with my tongue, but, evidently, that's some sort of signal in Chelsea.
Jack Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Doctor: I was hit by lightning as a child. They made a movie about me.
News Anchor: a tornado hit downtown Detroit, putting out several fires.
Liz: The poor guy got Lemoned... hard.
Liz Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Liz · Jenna: No, Jenna, I did not come back from the bathroom and hand him my underwear. That's how I met that mobster.
Liz Jenna Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Teamster: You with the sport coat, you're the girl.
Frank: After my junior year at Oberlin, we road-tripped to South by Southwest.
Frank Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Airline Employee · Floyd: We're not an airline anymore. Wait, wait, wait. One storm? That's all it takes? We're still gonna make popcorn. Just no more airplanes.
Liz: A Chinese character that she thinks means 'peace,' but it really means 'I have chlamydia'?
Liz Observational Escalation Floyd: This is more important than me getting home or my partner meeting with Peter Venkman.
Floyd Observational Meta/Self-Referential Frank · Lutz: And I can't have booze because I'm on antibiotics after having some skanky club sex. He's on antibiotics because he lost his lucky penny and assumed it fell in his ear again.
Frank · Lutz: Your surgery was for an undescended testicle. Wrong again. It was for two undescended testicles.
Liz: Peter Venkman... That's from 'Ghostbusters'! You used 'Ghostbusters' for evil!
Liz Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Floyd: I'm the Michael Clayton of Cleveland.
Floyd Character Comedy Observational Liz · Floyd: Well, I hope your car blows up. I'll move to Cleveland when you get that lkea. Never!
Liz Floyd Callback Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Floyd: You are vindictive, Liz Lemon!
Floyd Character Comedy Escalation Kenneth: This smells just like Hill People Milk. I've been drinking this since I was a baby!
Kenneth Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: You never know when someone's going to slip into a coma and leave you regretting all the things you didn't say or get in writing from the company's lawyers.
Jack Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Jack: What I'm trying to say is you're... young and you still haven't blown it completely, so don't... start now.
TSA Agent · Liz: That's sort of a cliché. You're sort of a cliché.
TSA Agent: You're choosing a sandwich over a guy. Hmm. That is less clichéd.
TSA Agent Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Liz Escalation Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Bystander: God, lady, you're eating foil!
Liz · Floyd: I don't want your car to explode and I don't want you to go into a coma and I don't want to stab you in the face with a giant fork. What? Oh, that's not you. I've been threatening a lot of people lately.
Liz Floyd Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: And I wolfed my Teamster sub for you. Wait, no. Is that a saying?
Liz Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch 