When Jack persuades Liz to go to Florida with him, they make a shocking discovery about his mother. Jenna and Tracy assume responsibility for the show in Liz's absence, resulting in disaster for Kenneth.
Florida setting unleashes 59 absurdist jokes in Season 7's densest episode yet.
Directed by Claire Cowperthwaite · Written by Matt Hubbard
WAR
142.4
Wins Above Replacement
“Florida” ranks #34 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 99.4 — Elite. The episode packs 80 scored jokes at 3.3 per minute, averaging 7.8 on craft and 7.8 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
Tracy: Lying is easy. For example, there isn't a hole in my pocket I keep touching my penis through. See? Easy.
Tracy Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jack: If you're trying to conjure my mother's ghost, you could just shake a jar of coins while praising Jimmy Carter.
Jack Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: She is the only person in the world to have sarcastic last words: 'I just want you to be happy.' Mother, how I 'miss' you.
Jack Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Tracy: It's the same feeling I got in 1997 when that jury foreman looked at me and said 'Guilty!' And I had to close my water park. I forgot to make an opening at the end of the slide.
Tracy Character Comedy Escalation Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Unknown TGS worker: I once saw Kenneth Parcell naked. It was horrible. His body is just a smooth beige tube with a head.
All Jokes — 80 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Tracy: The last time I said 'wonderful news' was when my pet gnus learned the true meaning of Christmas.
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: He's a three-year-old boy from Transylvania. His name is Dracul. He is a hemophiliac with a sleep disorder.
Liz Setup/Punchline Escalation ★ Rewatch Liz: I'm spontaneous. For instance, I started talking before I had an example of how I'm spontaneous.
Liz Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Jack: I assume it was the bottle of wine with the card reading 'Dear Doritos, what about just selling bags full of your dust? I could put it on chicken or fish.'
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Liz: I wrote you a very heartfelt note that said, 'Congratulations on becoming CEO. Do you know anyone at Doritos?'
Liz Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Jack: Then I have to drive around with my headlights off until someone flashes me. Then I have to... Well, it's not important.
Jack Dark/Subversive Misdirection ★ Rewatch Jack: Fittingly, she left everything to her live-in nurse, Martha... The house I paid for, the silver, my grandfather's purple heart.
Jack Dark/Subversive Escalation Liz: It's terrible what alcoholism can do to the body. She really didn't leave you anything?
Liz Irony/Sarcasm Deadpan/Understatement Jack: I loved my mother, Lemon... Obviously, because of Stockholm syndrome.
Jack Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: She is the only person in the world to have sarcastic last words: 'I just want you to be happy.' Mother, how I 'miss' you.
Jack Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jack · Liz: I can get you a V.I.P. pass to Universal's Harry Potter world. I am not some kind of 'nerdery' slut. I like Star Wars.
Jack Liz Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Liz: Liz runs toward a store that sells long-sleeve SPF shirts as her idea of spontaneous fun in Florida
Liz Visual Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Jenna: No, you need a nobody to sign for that water. We're on TV.
Jenna Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Cerie: Or Pete, but he went to a line producers' convention in Albany. I saw him pack a wig.
Cerie Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Tracy · Jenna: Tracy and Jenna react to learning about a $50 million harassment lawsuit against them personally — Tracy says 'Hold my calls, giant bee'
Jack: God, she loved looting. [in reaction to Martha showing Jack a baby shoe found 'after that fire']
Jack Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Martha: Martha describes Colleen as kind, happy, full of laughter — her nickname was 'Mrs. Silly'
Martha Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: I saw this on Dateline. Next, we'll be holding hands in adjacent bathtubs. Or maybe that was a Cialis commercial... it's all a blur.
Jack Observational Absurdist Automated Voice: Florida emergency services automated menu: 'If this is regarding an anaconda in a crawl space, press 1. If a sinkhole full of Indian bones has appeared in your living room, press 2. If you want to know why JAG wasn't on this week, press 3.'
Liz: Why can't we just cut this state adrift and let it crash into Cuba?
Liz Observational Dark/Subversive Liz: We'll solve this ourselves, like that woman on Dateline who tried to solve her sister's murder, then disappeared. But we won't go scuba-diving with the husband.
Liz Dark/Subversive Absurdist Callback Martin · Tracy · Jenna: 'Her deposition is very gross. I'm going to use this doll to show you what Tracy and Jenna did to me.' — lawyer holds up a doll; Tracy and Jenna react in horror
Tracy: 'She's lying like a rug.' 'Rug' is an offensive term for Persians that I made up.
Tracy Wordplay/Pun Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenna: We would never do that to a page... Maybe that tall Asian one. Yeah, Miranda. Her hair is so thick and black.
Jenna Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Tracy: I once played a lawyer in a movie, so I know all about winning your son's love back thanks to a magic camera.
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Martin the Lawyer: And I didn't super-duper finish law school. So...
Liz: I may be in there a while because I have a gluten thing that turns my business white.
Liz Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Liz: Liz, snooping through Colleen's room, finding: 'Colleen had two night tables? Kama sutra?'
Liz Visual Gag Misdirection ★ Rewatch Liz: Shmesbians! Where are my manners? This is Florida. Let me boil up a pot of hot Gatorade. Is blue okay?
Liz Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: The only animal Colleen ever bought me was a myna bird who was later revealed to be Colleen's personal spy. I told that bird everything.
Jack Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Liz: She stopped watching the Bruins because Derek Sanderson's mustache made him look 'like he takes his sandwich with a pickle.'
Liz Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Liz: They shared a bed, Jack... A sleep number bed, set to two drastically different firmness levels. Only an insane person would do that if they were sleeping alone.
Liz Observational Character Comedy Jack: Abraham Lincoln and his roommate Joshua Fry Speed slept in the same bed together until Joshua died from dancing too long at a party.
Jack Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Martha: While we're waiting, I DVR'd a documentary about the woman who designed all of Pat Summitt's blazers.
Martha Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Tracy: In some ways, I'm still pinned under a passed-out Harvey Weinstein, and it's Thanksgiving.
Tracy Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy · Jenna: We hid a camera on a gigolo friend of ours and asked him to seduce Hazel. Sloppy Rodney. He has syphilis.
Sloppy Rodney · Hazel: Sloppy Rodney: 'Hey, baby, you want to get down?' Hazel/Richard Drench: 'Sloppy Rodney? It's me, Richard Drench. I remember that ass.'
Tracy: Lying is easy. For example, there isn't a hole in my pocket I keep touching my penis through. See? Easy.
Tracy Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Martha: I apologize. We never had the need for a second bedroom. This is usually where I store my woodworking tools and the pottery I make.
Martha Visual Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Martha · Liz: I put a strawberry calcium chew on both night tables for you, Liz. / We're coworkers, Ms. Edwards. We're not... No, no, no.
Martha Liz Cringe/Discomfort Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Jack · Liz: Our relationship is purely platonic, if Plato had an elderly, shut-in aunt. / You know what Plato did have? A gay relationship with Socrates.
Jack Liz Wordplay/Pun Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Liz · Siri: Siri, find me the nearest hotel. / Finding hookers. Is that right?
Liz Siri Observational Setup/Punchline Martha: You don't want to go out. The Vietnam vets are starting to retire, and they get antsy at night around all these palm trees.
Martha Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Observational Liz · Jack: Your pajamas have a turtleneck. / They're from the L.L. Bean maritime professional collection.
Liz: So what way do you want to totally normally sleep together? Face-to-face, or butt-to-butt?
Liz Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Jack: It goes without saying, Lemon, that nothing will happen in this bed tonight, and I am referring, of course, to your... digestive failings.
Jack Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Liz: Why didn't anything ever happen between us?
Liz Cringe/Discomfort Awkward Silence ★ Rewatch Jack: If you're trying to conjure my mother's ghost, you could just shake a jar of coins while praising Jimmy Carter.
Jack Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jack: I did sleep with Jenna a lot during season three.
Jack Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: There was a particularly youth-oriented priest in my childhood parish who went after everybody but me... Even fat Ralph, and he ate his boogers.
Jack Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: To ruin what we have with a tawdry, yet expert sexual encounter would've been a mistake.
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Jack: Also, maybe I was never attracted to you because you're the kind of person who finds a way to talk about herself while lying in my dead mother's bed.
Jack Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jack: First of all, it's 'champing' at the bit. Horses champ. / And second of all, I'm not going to fight in bed with a woman I'm not even having sex with.
Jack Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Liz · Jack: Lincoln was super gay. / Thank you.
Liz Jack Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Jack: And I know those pots aren't flowers. They're my mother's vagina.
Jack Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Tracy · Jenna: Jay-Mo, I like to flouring a joke about Björk's swan dress... / Tired.
Tracy: I've seen dresses that look fly, but never dresses that can fly.
Tracy Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Tracy: It's the same feeling I got in 1997 when that jury foreman looked at me and said 'Guilty!' And I had to close my water park. I forgot to make an opening at the end of the slide.
Tracy Character Comedy Escalation Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Kenneth · Tracy · Jenna: What? Did I miss a spot? / I don't care. All I care about is which jazz club I'm going to tonight. / He's broken.
Martha: The first three Sandys died falling off the car during 'Summer Lovin'.'
Martha Dark/Subversive Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Liz: Jack, you need to come to Orlando and pick me up. I'm in Harry Potter world jail.
Liz Character Comedy Absurdist Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Kenneth · Jack: Kenneth Parcell isn't signing your precious affidavit. / That is a Christmas card from my estranged daughter.
Kenneth · Tracy · Jenna: Kenneth begins to list inappropriate things he's witnessed; Tracy and Jenna frantically interrupt him with 'You have something in your teeth! Let me lick it off!' and 'Want to see a porno my cousin is in?'
Tracy · Unknown · Jenna: To close a very important deal, I'm going to need to loan you to David Geffen for the weekend. / Why do I even take birth control pills if I'm always gonna be alone? / You might as well take them, Kenneth. You take them! Take them!
Liz: I tried to live life, and it sucked. I came here without studying the park map beforehand, which is how I ended up in a long line that turned out to just be a crowd of people watching two owls have sex.
Liz Character Comedy Observational Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Liz: I tried to cut the line for the Flight of the Hippogriff, which is when Duncan here caught me.
Liz Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Liz: I'll die full of regrets, like that time I sat next to Richard Grieco on an airplane and just let him read his Hustlers without ever telling him I was a fan.
Liz Character Comedy Observational Liz: Not to make this about me, but are you admitting that I was right about your mother's late-in-life lez-out?
Liz Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Callback Liz: I know, and a woman of color too — good for her.
Liz Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Jack: People who wanted to be happy were weak... Hippies, Italians, kindergarten teachers.
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Liz: That is enough of your black Irish nonsense.
Liz Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Jack: The goal has always been money or prestige or, when playing hockey, the goal.
Jack Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bev: It's just Bev, Liz. My mother died while naming me.
Bev Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Bev: Why don't you discuss it with that little action figure you're married to?
Bev Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Hank Hooper: Because of the lawsuit and the P.R. nightmare and the den of sin you've built here, I have to go ahead and cancel TGS. Next Friday is your last show.
Jenna: Great news, Liz. Kenneth doesn't have different hair anymore.
Jenna Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Callback Unknown TGS worker: I showed up without a bra one day, and I was viciously harassed until I put on a shirt.
Unknown TGS worker: I once saw Kenneth Parcell naked. It was horrible. His body is just a smooth beige tube with a head.
Unknown TGS worker: Frank Rossitano was always trying to give me pornography that I had given him in the first place. I mean, what a re-gifter.
Unknown TGS worker: There were these two African-American giants that were always pressuring me to join their book club.