Cleveland (30 Rock)

"Cleveland"
30 Rock episode
Liz showing Jack that she's attractive enough to be a model in Cleveland
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 20
Directed by	Paul Feig
Written by	Jack Burditt Robert Carlock
Featured music	"Ride of the Valkyries" by Richard Wagner, is Liz's ringtone.
Cinematography by	Vanja Černjul
Production code	120
Original air date	April 19, 2007 (2007-04-19)
Guest appearance(s)
Jennifer Bassey as Old Vibrant Lady Kevin Brown as Dot Com Slattery Grizz Chapman as Grizz Griswold Eric Dysart as Alan Garkel Lester Holt as Himself Emily Mortimer as Phoebe Maulik Pancholy as Jonathan Jason Sudeikis as Floyd DeBarber
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"Cleveland" is the twentieth episode of the first season of 30 Rock. It was written by one of the season's co-executive producers, Jack Burditt, and one of the season's executive producers, Robert Carlock. It was directed by Paul Feig. It first aired on April 19, 2007 on the NBC network in the United States. Guest stars in this episode included Jennifer Bassey, Kevin Brown, Grizz Chapman, Eric Dysart, Ramsey Faragallah, Lori Hammel, Lester Holt, Traci Hovel, Gregory Korostishevsky, Jenelle Marlbrough, Anthony Mazza, Raymond McAnally, Jack Moran, Emily Mortimer, Maulik Pancholy, Brian Patrick Russell, Mitch Poulos, Justin Smith, Jason Sudeikis, Gary Tacon, Mira Tzur and Julian Walker.

In this episode, Liz Lemon (played by Tina Fey) and Floyd (Jason Sudeikis) visit Cleveland, Ohio when Floyd says he wishes that he could live there. Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) goes on the run from The Black Crusaders. Liz discovers that Jack Donaghy's (Alec Baldwin) fiancée, Phoebe (Emily Mortimer), is keeping some deceiving secrets.

When Floyd (Jason Sudeikis) loses out on a possible job promotion to Alan Garkel (Eric Dysart)—an African-American candidate in a wheelchair—he informs Liz Lemon of his aspirations to move back home to Cleveland. After Floyd asks Liz about her own future in New York, she begins to notice all the problems she has with the city and so they plan a visit to Floyd's hometown.