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16th episode of the 4th season of 30 Stone

"Floyd"
30 Rock episode
Episode no. Season iv
Episode 16
Directed by Millicent Shelton
Written by Paula Pell
Product code 416
Original air engagement March 25, 2010 (2010-03-25)
Guest appearances
  • Kathie Lee Gifford equally herself
  • Lester Holt as himself
  • Cheyenne Jackson equally Danny
  • Hoda Kotb as herself
  • Kristin McGee every bit Kaitlin
  • Jason Sudeikis as Floyd
  • Meredith Vieira as herself
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"Floyd" is the sixteenth episode of the fourth season of the American television receiver comedy series xxx Rock, and the 74th overall episode of the series. It was written by series producer Paula Pell, and directed by Millicent Shelton. The episode originally aired on NBC in the United states of america on March 25, 2010. Cheyenne Jackson, Kristin McGee, and Jason Sudeikis guest star in this episode, and in that location are cameo appearances by Kathie Lee Gifford, Lester Holt, Hoda Kotb, and Meredith Vieira.

In the episode, Liz Lemon'southward (Tina Fey) ex-boyfriend, Floyd DeBarber (Sudeikis), tells her that he is getting married. At the aforementioned time, Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) helps Danny Baker (Jackson) get his revenge against The Girlie Show with Tracy Hashemite kingdom of jordan (TGS) writers—Frank Rossitano (Judah Friedlander), James "Toofer" Spurlock (Keith Powell), and J. D. Lutz (John Lutz)—after they play a practical joke on him. Meanwhile, Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski) and Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) spend a long day listening to NBC folio Kenneth Parcell (Jack McBrayer) tell stories about his childhood.

"Floyd" received by and large mixed reception from television critics. According to the Nielsen ratings system, the episode was watched by 6.252 meg households during its original circulate, and received a 2.ix rating/eight share amidst viewers in the xviii–49 demographic.

Plot [edit]

Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) gets a surprise phone call from her ex-boyfriend, Floyd DeBarber (Jason Sudeikis), who says he will be coming to New York and wants to have dinner with her. She begins to hope that the two tin can get back together, withal, while watching The Today Show she discovers that he is marrying Kaitlin (Kristin McGee). Her boss, Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin), warns her non to attempt revenge; nonetheless, Liz invites Floyd to a seafood eating place where she had nutrient poisoning on 3 separate occasions. He does non get food poisoning, just instead, Floyd, a recovering alcoholic, gets boozer off of the whiskey-based fish sauce. The ii get into an statement, and after Floyd insults her, Liz leaves the restaurant. The next day, Floyd appears on The Today Show, merely nonetheless drunk from the nighttime earlier, refuses to leave the thirty Rock building. Liz apologizes to both Floyd and Kaitlin for getting him drunk. They have the apology, and Kaitlin asks Liz to be a participant in their nuptials, to which she agrees.

At the same fourth dimension, jealous of the publicity that Danny Baker (Cheyenne Jackson) is getting later receiving a Juno Award nomination, Frank Rossitano (Judah Friedlander), James "Toofer" Spurlock (Keith Powell), and J. D. Lutz (John Lutz), the staff writers from TGS with Tracy Hashemite kingdom of jordan, impress a fake, embarrassing New York Times interview with him and broadcast information technology throughout the thirty Rock building. Danny brings the upsetting article to Jack, merely Jack quickly figures out that Frank, Toofer, and Lutz are the ones backside it due to the writer being "Seymour Nips." To get back at them, Jack and Danny trick them into thinking the building has been invaded by a "Cloverfield-type monster" and stripping in front of the TGS dancers. Frank, Toofer, and Lutz, notwithstanding, via a remark from Jack, discover a clandestine lawmaking from the "Twig and Plums" prank order that Jack belonged to while attending Princeton University. Frank realizes he can utilize this to manipulate him, which works - Jack must exit the room whenever the code is spoken. As a result of this, Jack threatens to sleep with Frank'south female parent, and promises to detect Toofer and Lutz's mothers as well, which prompts them to ease off on their pranks.

Finally, to keep Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski) and Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) distracted from Danny's fanfare, TGS producer, Pete Hornberger (Scott Adsit) sends them to the makeup department to accept plaster face up-prints made while NBC page Kenneth Parcell (Jack McBrayer) talks to them. Jenna and Tracy are plagued by erotic dreams involving Kenneth, and to stop having them, they decide to stay awake. This fails, so they decide to "Elm Street" Kenneth by killing him in their dreams. They wake up (believing they are still dreaming) and assault Kenneth. Witnessing this, Pete tells them they are wide awake, and that information technology is forenoon, which prompts Jenna and Tracy to realize that they slept through the night without having whatsoever dreams of Kenneth. They apologize to Kenneth for attacking him, and he accepts their apology.

The episode ends with Pete scolding Tracy and Jenna for their bad beliefs, and the two apologize, promise to exist expert, and are almost to sing Pete a thank you song, only for Pete to awaken (this having been a dream) at his desk-bound. Kenneth arrives, and it soon turns out that Pete is having an erotic dream nigh Kenneth and Liz. Pete is unable to wake up, and he screams in horror.

Production [edit]

Jason Sudeikis reprised his part as Floyd in this episode.

"Floyd" was written by series producer Paula Pell and directed by Millicent Shelton.[one] [two] This episode was Pell's get-go writing credit and the second episode for Shelton who had directed the March 26, 2009, season three episode "Apollo, Apollo".[3] "Floyd" originally aired in the United states of america on March 25, 2010, on NBC as the sixteenth episode of the evidence's fourth season and the 74th overall episode of the series. Pell has appeared on the show as the character Paula Hornberger, the wife of Pete Hornberger, played by Scott Adsit.[4]

"Floyd" was filmed on January 27[5] and February 3, 2010.[6] Comedian actor Jason Sudeikis, who played Floyd DeBarber in this episode, has appeared in the chief bandage of Sat Night Live (SNL),[7] a weekly sketch comedy series which arrogance on NBC in the United States. Tina Fey, the series creator of thirty Stone, was the caput writer on SNL from 1999 until 2006.[8] This was Sudeikis'south tenth appearance on the show.[9] Actor Cheyenne Jackson made his fifth appearance as Danny Baker. Jackson previously appeared in the episodes "The Problem Solvers",[x] "Secret Santa",[11] "Black Light Assail!",[12] and "Wintertime Madness".[thirteen] In an interview with The New York Times, Jackson revealed that the vocal he sings in the episode was composed by Jeff Richmond, the show'due south composer, and said that the song was "actually a fiddling longer" and that they shot a "whole" music video to accompany it.[14]

"Floyd" featured cameo appearances from The Today Testify correspondents Meredith Vieira, Lester Holt, Kathie Lee Gifford, and Hoda Kotb. In the episode, Vieira introduces Floyd and his fiancée, Kaitlin, as finalists competing to take their wedding featured on The Today Evidence.[15] In one scene, Danny runs into the writers' room where Frank, Toofer, and Lutz are. He turns on the television to run into Holt who reports, "Nosotros're now getting reports that the toxic leaks have created a Cloverfield type monster in the building. The monster cannot discover the odour of human skin. Anyone still within should disrobe immediately."[16] Jack calls Liz into his office and shows her that Floyd, drunkard from his dinner with her, is still in the thirty Rock building, where he is shown interrupting a segment featuring Gifford and Kotb.[17]

Cultural references [edit]

In the starting time of the episode, Liz tells Jenna about a bad date that she had with someone she met on the personals department of the Kraft Foods web site, One thousand-date.[eighteen] Pete congratulates Danny on his Juno Honor nomination for his Canadian pump-upward song for the National Hockey League team, the Ottawa Senators. Danny replies, "It's an award to be nominated in the same category equally Sir Dave Coulier", the latter is an American actor.[14] [xix] Liz imitates singer-songwriter Christopher Cross while singing "All my days I've been waiting, for you to come up back abode. Moonlight of New York City", later on revealing that she hoped to end up with Floyd ane day and Cantankerous would sing a romantic song about them.[20] This vocal would be extended on the thirty Rock Original Television Soundtrack by Cantankerous himself. Liz makes reference to the fact that once, on telly, one could non say the give-and-take "crap", but "then they permit that slide and now we can say whatever we want." She and Jack exchange the words, "Douchebag", "asswipe", and "Anal rot", as examples.[21] Later on, Liz tells Jack, "I don't care. I'll start my own grouping. Rejection from society is what created the Ten-Men", which references the comic volume superhero team, the Ten-Men, who are rejected from society due to their mutant special powers.[19]

In the false breaking news story, Lester Holt references the 2007 monster film Cloverfield.[nineteen] Later on learning almost the toxic leaks in the edifice, in which Frank, Toofer, and Lutz demand to strip down, Frank says "And so much of my life was wasted creating hats!" This is a reference to Judah Friedlander, who portrays Frank in the show and who is known for his trademark trucker hats which he wears in and out of the Frank grapheme.[21] [22] When Liz tells Floyd that she saw him on The Today Show, on which she learned he is getting married, Floyd says "Dammit! I could have sworn you sentinel The Early Show on CBS", to which Liz replies, "The Early Evidence? What am I, in a infirmary?".[21] Liz reveals that she once participated in a reenactment on America'southward Most Wanted playing a woman who is strangled on a toilet.[21] Jenna and Tracy, who are having strange dreams nigh Kenneth, determine they "have to Elm Street this. We have to go to sleep and kill Kenneth in our dreams!" This references the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series, in which the movie's principal character—Freddy Krueger—stalks and kills his victims in their dreams.[19] [23]

Reception [edit]

In its original American broadcast, "Floyd" was watched by 6.252 million households, according to the Nielsen ratings system. It received a 2.9 rating/8 share among viewers in the eighteen–49 demographic,[24] meaning that 2.9 percentage of all people in that group, and 8 per centum of all people from that group watching boob tube at the fourth dimension, watched the episode. This was a decrease from the previous episode, "Don Geiss, America and Hope", which was watched by six.9 meg American viewers.[25] "Floyd" has received mixed reception from telly critics.

"There are episodes of thirty Rock that manage to blend quasi-human plots virtually Liz or Jack with the zany antics of anybody else at TGS and make them all feel like office of the same show, simply 'Floyd' never quite pulled information technology off."

Alan Sepinwall,
The Star-Ledger [20]

IGN correspondent Robert Canning gave the episode a vii.4 out of 10 rating, writing that he "merely" liked the episode. "Information technology wasn't near as fun equally I had hoped information technology would be. I mean, if yous were going to bring Floyd back and proper noun the episode afterwards him, information technology would accept been prissy to give [Liz and Floyd] a little spark."[26] The A.V. Club'southward Nathan Rabin gave it a C rating, calling it a disappointing episode. In regards to Jason Sudeikis, Rabin commented that he is a "gifted comic player" merely this episode "institute him at his hammy, embarrassing worst."[27] Meredith Blake, writing for the Los Angeles Times, remarked that the episode "may have been the worst one however", and said that when Floyd chosen Liz a "annoy", her middle broke into smithereens, "There'due south mean-funny, and then there's plain old mean. [...] Liz's love life has get the cardinal barrel of the joke on 30 Stone ... and information technology'due south starting to feel like the writers have run out of ways to exist funny without being sadistic."[eighteen] Sean Gandert of Paste said that "Floyd" was not a great episode, "but information technology's all the same pretty good by this flavour's standards, if a somewhat disappointing use of Floyd's return." He explained that role of the episode's problem was that Liz's relationships not succeeding "has become pretty quondam hat for the testify since we've seen it time and time once more", and hoped to run across her "find a good man and let the testify movement onto something else for a while."[28] Tv set Guide'southward Adam Mersel wrote that it "really didn't do it for me. I didn't actually laugh out loud much, and the cameo from 1 of my favorite SNL players came off a chip forced."[29]

Bob Sassone of AOL's Idiot box Squad gave a positive review of both Liz and Jack'southward plot, but was non favorable towards Jenna and Tracy's, opining that "Floyd" was one of those episodes of 30 Rock where their plot "really dragged the evidence down." He reported that he felt bad for Liz "because of all the guys [she] has dated over these four seasons, [Floyd]'due south the ane she should end up with."[21] Sassone hoped the episode would take ended with the 2 finding out "something horrible" about Floyd's fiancée "or perchance nosotros'd detect out that Floyd did all of this just to get close to Liz over again in some weird manner".[21] Similar Sassone, Time contributor James Poniewozik said that the Floyd character "was one of the ameliorate drawn boyfriends for Liz". Further in his epitomize, Poniewozik was "a little disappointed" that the episode brought him back "to get sloppy boozer, to tell off Liz ... and to get engaged to a vapid-seeming 'ab model.'"[30] Television columnist Alan Sepinwall for The Star-Ledger commented that Sudeikis's return gave Tina Fey'south Liz "i of her more down-to-earth and relatable stories in a while", and enjoyed the Frank, Toofer, and Lutz rivalry with Jack and Danny, as well as Pete'southward involvement in the Jenna and Tracy story.[21] Overall, Sepinwall said that the episode did not "actually hang together for me."[twenty]

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External links [edit]

  • "Floyd" at IMDb

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_(30_Rock)

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