30 Rock (TV Series) Floyd (2010) User Reviews

Floyd (#4.16)

[ComedyFan2010 · 8/10 · 5 December 2013]

Floyd comes back and Liz finds out that he is getting married. He also gets drunk on the fish sauce and starts behaving badly. Jack and Danny take revenge on the writers for the prank. And Tracy and Jenna have sex dreams about Kenneth.

Well one of my favorite parts was definitely the pranks. Especially the gas leek one.

I also loved the story about Kenneth sex dreams. It made me laugh because it is hard to imagine someone having those, I would feel like a perv if i did. And Pete's at the end was a good example.

Floyd story wasn't bad either, although I mainly felt bad for Liz

Nightmare on Elm Street

[safenoe · 8/10 · 1 September 2021]

Kenneth is the subject of several dreams in this surreal-at-times episode of 30 Rock. The reference to Nightmare on Elm Street was hilarious. Floyd returns, and cast members of NBC Today appear, with African-American Lester Holt making a cameo.

It's easy to forget that 30 Rock and Aaron Sorkin's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip debuted on NBC at the same time. Conventional wisdom was that Sorkin's powerhouse series be the one that would survive the first season, with 30 Rock being a one season wonder. But history has proved otherwise.

Floyd fell flat

[gizmomogwai · 6/10 · 1 April 2010]

Floyd is the most recent episode of season 4 of 30 Rock. Every season of this show seems to have hits and misses; this is one of season 4's weaker episodes. I reach this conclusion considering both its storyline and low laugh count.

In this episode, Liz's ex-boyfriend Floyd visits Liz, and she learns he's getting married to another woman. This disappoints Liz because she was hoping they still might have a future together.

About this story: What was the need to bring Floyd back? He was never a very funny character, largely because he was Mr. Perfect. This is also yet another episode featuring Liz doing something bad and apologizing- it feels like we've gone down this road before. Tracy and Jenna having sexual dreams about Kenneth is also unappealing to me. It's like 30 Rock's writers know they've had success with awkward sex jokes in the past so they're throwing together more of the same.

There are some good jokes here- like Kenneth being "serious." The gas leak and Floyd getting drunk off fish were inventive. The part about the "drunk kids" was particularly good, because it's bad. Liz playing a character strangled on the toilet is a nice, embarrassing joke. However, other jokes feel lazy- Kenneth mixing up love and hate and Dick Cheney's news site are key examples. I also couldn't figure out why I was supposed to care that Jack had to leave a room when a secret phrase was used. Kenneth's stories also fell flat for me, maybe because they weren't paced.

I'm getting less enthusiastic about season 4 now. I think this'll be the first season that doesn't get the Outstanding Comedy Emmy (Modern Family would be a better candidate). Still, I don't agree with people rushing to declare 30 Rock dead. It's bounced back from weak episodes before.