History YMMV / ThirtyRock

* EthnicScrappy: Elisa to a lot of fans.

** The following season on "Sandwich Day," one of the sketch ideas on the TGS whiteboard is "pervert Elmo."
** A plotline of Tracy faking an inability to read after his actor's severe car accident caused him to require daily cognitive therapy.

** In Season 3, Jack gets someone to pretend like he was Creator/BillCosby in order to get Tracy to come back to the show after he (temporarily) quit. Tracy goes on a tirade about how Cosby had done something unspeakable with his aunt in 1971. Fast forward to 2014, and it becomes clear that Cosby probably really is at least a harasser and very likely a serial rapist. Coincidentally, public opinion only turned against Cosby after he was mentioned in a standup bit by comedian Hannibal Buress. While he wasn't on the staff yet in Season 3, Buress wrote for the later seasons and had a recurring cameo.

** ''The One With The Cast of Night Court'' shows Jack pulling a gun at the end, and ''100, Part 2'' has a scene where Jack accidentally shoots a man while running through 30 Rock brandishing a gun. Both of these became this after Alec Baldwin was accused of accidentally shooting a crew member on ''Rust''.

** Jack using the extensive stock footage the studio possesses of Jerry Seinfeld to digitally insert him into the network's current programmes. Equally Liz has a nightmare sequence where she realises that future TV and movies will be written by "no one". In 2023 both Hollywood's writers and actors would go on strike due to the threat of them being replaced by Artificial Intelligence technology.

* InformedAttractiveness: Jack's first wife, Bianca, to some.

** Jack/Liz shippers have not done this. Understandable, considering their choices are "Jiz" and "Lack". Or "Lick". Or, if you use last names, "Demon", although they could use "Jaz" or, if you use last names, "Lonaghy".

** ''The One With The Cast of Night Court'' shows Jack pulling a gun at the end, and "100, Part 2" has a scene where Jack accidentally shoots a man while running through 30 Rock brandishing a gun. Both of these became this after Alec Baldwin was accused of accidentally shooting a crew member on ''Rust''.

** ''The One With The Cast of Night Court'' shows Jack pulling a gun at the end, which becomes this after Alec Baldwin was accused of accidentally shooting a crew member on ''Rust''.

* MemeticBadass: '''''[[IAmSong His name is]] [[Creator/KelseyGrammer KELSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!]]'''''

* HilariousInHindsight:
** In "Cooter," which aired in 2008, Jack says "We have a chance to [[Creator/DonaldTrump make this country great again]]." Made even more hilarious after Alec Baldwin's much-praised Trump impersonations in ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' during the election season.
** In "The Collection", Jack learns he might be up for a promotion to CEO of GE and thus hires a detective to uncover anything potentially embarassing before GE does the same. During his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump ''[[http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trumps-rejection-opposition-research-comes-back-haunt-him forbade]]'' his staff from researching his past (despite it being standard among candidates for higher office) which [[StreisandEffect led to the uncovering]] of several scandals that heavily impacted Trump's popularity.
** Season 3's "The Bubble" had Liz imitating Jack's voice before changing it into Batman's voice. In Season 6's "The Tuxedo Begins" (a parody of ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'') Jack gets mugged and decides to clean up New York while Liz urges Jack to embrace anarchy.
** Speaking of "The Tuxedo Begins", its premise (Jack as a Batman-esque hero and planning to run for New York City Mayor after being mugged on his way to work, while Liz becomes frustrated by increasing disorderly behaviour on the subway and decides to pretend to be a mentally ill elderly woman to scare people away, which ends up looking increasingly [[ComicBook/TheJoker Joker]]-esque) is made even more hilarious in light of ''Film/{{Joker|2019}}''; not only is the catalyst for the Joker turning into, well, ''the Joker'', an incident on the subway just like Liz does with her character, but Jack's actor Creator/AlecBaldwin was considered for a role in the film as Thomas Wayne... who in the film runs for Gotham City Mayor.
** Tracy starring in a North Korean propaganda film and referring to Kim Jong-il as "my boy K.J." is much funnier after Dennis Rodman visited North Korea and called Kim Jong-un an "awesome guy".
** If you're a fan of animated movies, then the line "I've got my hammer" coming out of Kenneth's mouth in a later episode [[WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph should elicit at least a big smile.]]
** The mouth-marbling title of the ShowWithinAShow ''The Rural Juror'' sounds like something no one (sane) would let pass, but a few years later, the original title for CBS's ''Series/{{Unforgettable}}'' was ''The Rememberer'', which underwent a switch after it elicited the same reaction in real life about how unwieldy the title was.
** In early episodes, Jack Donaghy's big-screwed up family are a RunningGag. Shortly thereafter in real life, NBA ref Tim Donaghy (pronounced the same) was caught and prosecuted for fixing games and gambling on them. Jack even lampshades this in a later episode.
** Tracy attempting to play Thomas Jefferson in a biopic. ''{{Theatre/Hamilton}}'' has Jefferson (and several other founding fathers) played by people of colour.
** In ''The Rural Juror'', Tracy endorses the "Tracy Jordan Meat Machine", which burns three different types of meat together to replace bread in sandwiches. In 2009, the KFC Double Down (in which two pieces of fried chicken replace the bread roll) was created.
** For a show with so many ''Franchise/StarWars'' references in its script, it seems only fitting that one of its writers, Creator/DonaldGlover, would go on to to play a starring role in [[Film/{{Solo}} one of the franchise's films]].
** After Jack is asked why Creator/{{NBC}} has so few positive black characters, he tries to recommend watching Anthony Anderson on ''Series/LawAndOrder'' before Jonathan hastily tells him it's been cancelled. A few years later, Anthony Anderson would take the lead on ''Series/BlackIsh'', a show which routinely addresses African-American subjects. Except it's not on NBC, but on Creator/{{ABC}}.
*** Jack also says that cancelling ''Law And Order'' was a mistake. It seems NBC agreed and the show was revived in 2022 with Anthony Anderson reprising his role from that show in season 21.
** Tracy wants to become the first black male EGOT. He lost his chance when Music/JohnLegend became one in 2018. It's especially appropriate that Tracy's initial research pointed out that composers are very common EGOT-ers, accurately predicting Legend's path to the achievement.
** Considering all the crap he went through in the show, you'd probably want to give Pete Hornberger a hug. Then in 2013, [[WesternAnimation/BigHero6 he voiced an inflatable health-care robot who everybody likes to hug]].
** Jack's despair at General Electric selling [=NBC=] to the BlandNameProduct version of Comcast, "Kabletown," in 2010, became much funnier in the following years, when Comcast got to be worth much more than General Electric.
** Jack and Liz being PlatonicLifePartners (with showrunner and Liz's actor Creator/TinaFey explicitly stating that they would ''never'' hook up) can become hilarious after Jack's actor Creator/AlecBaldwin admitted in his autobiography that he became smitten with Fey in real life after he first saw her, to the point of considering asking her out (and was sorely disappointed upon being told that she was already married).
** In "Reunion," Tracy complains to a crowded elevator "How come there ain't no Puerto Ricans on Franchise/StarTrek? They got [[MultinationalTeam every race and life-form in the galaxy]], except for Puerto Ricans!" As of 2017, Series/StarTrekDiscovery features Creator/WilsonCruz, of Afro-Puerto Rican ancestry, in a main role.
** In "The Beginning of the End" one of Jack's intentionally terrible TV ideas is a UsefulNotes/NelsonMandela biopic where he's played by Creator/JoeRogan. Funny enough when he was mainly known as the host of ''Series/FearFactor'', hilarious when his podcast turned him into a controversy magnet by the end of the 2010's.
*** One of the shows Jack greenlights is ''God Cop'', a supernatural police procedural in which God helps the cops solve crimes. Replace God with the Devil and you have the premise of Creator/{{Fox}}'s [[Series/Lucifer2016 tv adaptation]] of Creator/MikeCarey's ''ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}''.
** The episode [[Recap/ThirtyRockS2E11MILFIsland "MILF Island"]] includes clips from the titular ShowWithinAShow. In 2022, Creator/{{TLC}} debuted the reality show ''Series/MilfManor'', which had a similar, but far less {{Squick}}-inducing premise. It then zigzagged back to FreakierThanFiction when the FirstEpisodeTwist turned out to be that while the male contestants were all of legal age, they were also biologically related to the [=MILFs=].
** [[Recap/ThirtyRockS2E1SeinfeldVision SeinfeldVision]] essentially predicted the deepfake more than decade before it became a big thing.

* ValuesDissonance:
** In "100", Tracy (at Jack's advice) loses all the respect he got after the EGOT simply by continuing to work in television. In the years since the show aired, "prestige TV" has started dominating and even often exceeding Hollywood's prestige, which makes this sentiment ludicrous today.
** The shows use of gays as jokes has not aged well into the New 10s.