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
75.8
Wins Above Replacement
“Florida” ranks #44 of 138 30 Rock episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 87.5 — Elite. The episode packs 59 scored jokes at 2.5 per minute, averaging 7.5 on craft and 7.1 on impact, with Tracy landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Tracy: I forgot to make an opening at the end of the slide.
Tracy Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ 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 Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ 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. I felt so unpretty.
Jack Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Florida Emergency: 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: I've never been high, except for that choir trip to Montreal where I accidentally ate a pound of marijuana.
Liz Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 59 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Tracy: The last time I said that was when my pet gnus learned the true meaning of Christmas.
Tracy Absurdist Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Tracy: Classic Tracy... You'll miss this.
Tracy Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: He's a three-year-old boy from Transylvania. Stay with me. His name is Dracul. Hear me out. He is a hemophiliac with a sleep disorder.
Liz Escalation Observational ★ Rewatch Liz: I'm spontaneous. For instance, I started talking before I had an example of how I'm spontaneous.
Liz Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: dear doritos, what about just selling bags full of your dust? I could put it on chicken or fish.
Jack Observational Absurdist 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 Misdirection 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 Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Liz: Okay, I am not some kind of "nerdery" slut. I like Star Wars.
Liz Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Liz: To that store that sells long-sleeve S.P.F. shirts!
Tracy: No, you need a nobody to sign for that water. We're on TV.
Tracy Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Jenna: I saw him pack a wig.
Jenna Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Martin Lutherking: I'm Martin Lutherking from NBC's in-house counsel.
Tracy: Hold my calls, giant bee.
Tracy Absurdist Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Tracy · Jenna: - Wassername! - What's her name?
Martha: The baby shoe she found after that fire. God, she loved looting.
Martha Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Martha: Her nickname here was Mrs. Silly.
Martha Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: Next, we'll be holding hands in adjacent bathtubs. Or maybe that was a Cialis commercial... it's all a blur.
Jack Observational Misdirection ★ Rewatch Florida Emergency: 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.
Jack: Why can't we just cut this state adrift and let it crash into Cuba?
Tracy: What kind of dinosaur was your grandfather?
Tracy Absurdist Misdirection ★ Rewatch Tracy: She's lying like a rug. 'Rug' is an offensive term for Persians that I made up.
Tracy Wordplay/Pun Absurdist Tracy · Jenna: Maybe that tall Asian one. Yeah, Miranda. Her hair is so thick and black.
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 Misdirection ★ Rewatch Martin Lutherking: And I didn't super-duper finish law school.
Jack: I have a gluten thing that turns my business white.
Jack Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Martha Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Martha: Where are my manners? This is Florida. Let me boil up a pot of hot gatorade. Is blue okay?
Martha Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch Liz · Jack: But they weren't lesbians. My God, of course they were!
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.
Martha: I DVR'd a documentary about the woman who designed all of pat summitt's blazers.
Martha Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Tracy: In some ways, I'm still pinned under a passed-out Harvey Weinstein, and it's Thanksgiving.
Tracy Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Hazel/Richard: Sloppy Rodney? It's me, Richard Drench. I remember that ass.
Tracy: For example, there isn't a hole in my pocket I keep touching my penis through. See? Easy.
Tracy Cringe/Discomfort Misdirection Jack: What's the problem, Lemon? They're just lumpy flowers.
Jack Visual Gag Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Liz: You know what Plato did have? A gay relationship with Socrates.
Liz Observational Character Comedy Siri: Finding hookers. Is that right?
Liz: Your pajamas have a turtleneck.
Liz Visual Gag Character Comedy Jack: They're from the L.L. Bean maritime professional collection.
Jack Character Comedy Absurdist Jack: Face-to-face, or butt-to-butt?
Jack Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy 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. I felt so unpretty.
Jack Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: I've never been high, except for that choir trip to Montreal where I accidentally ate a pound of marijuana.
Liz Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Jack: First of all, it's 'champing' at the bit. Horses champ.
Jack Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jack: And I know those pots aren't flowers. They're my mother's vagina.
Jack Visual Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tracy: I've seen dresses that look fly, but never dresses that can fly.
Tracy Wordplay/Pun Observational Tracy: I forgot to make an opening at the end of the slide.
Tracy Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Martha: Colleen's myna bird told me you spent the night in the car.
Martha Absurdist Callback Callback Martha: The first three died falling off the car during 'Summer lovin''.
Martha Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Liz: I'm in Harry Potter world jail.
Liz Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jenna: Want to see a porno my cousin is in?
Jenna Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Jenna: I'm just trying to lick it off.
Jenna Cringe/Discomfort Physical/Slapstick Liz: 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 Misdirection ★ Rewatch Liz: I just let him read his Hustlers without ever telling him I was a fan.
Liz Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Liz: I know, and a woman of color too... good for her.
Liz Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bev: My mother died while naming me.
Bev Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bev: Why don't you discuss it with that little action figure you're married to?
Hank: Next Friday is your last show.
Tracy: Kenneth doesn't have different hair anymore.
Tracy Absurdist Character Comedy Hazel: His body is just a smooth beige tube with a head.
Hazel Visual Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Hazel/Richard: There were these two African-American giants that were always pressuring me to join their book club.
