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* In Season 5 Episode 15 "It's Never Too Late For Now", a subplot involves Liz Lemon joining a bookclub for spinsters and their pick is ''Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress'', which comes back in the final part of the episode where Liz parodies Hercule Poirot (including the accent) when accusing her colleagues of crafting the perfect one night stand for her — even going step by step figuring out the scheme. In 2023, Tina Fey played CreatorAgathaChristie's recurring character [[AuthorAvatar Ariadne Oliver]] in Creator/KennethBrannagh's adaptation of the Hercule Poirot novel ''Literature/HalloweenParty'' retitled ''Film/AHauntingInVenice''.
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* In Season 5 Episode 15 "It's Never Too Late For Now", a subplot involves Liz Lemon joining a bookclub for spinsters and their pick is ''Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress'', which comes back in the final part of the episode where Liz parodies Hercule Poirot (including the accent) when accusing her colleagues of crafting the perfect one night stand for her — even going step by step figuring out the scheme. In 2023, Tina Fey played CreatorAgathaChristie's Agatha Christie's recurring character [[AuthorAvatar Ariadne Oliver]] in Creator/KennethBrannagh's Kenneth Brannagh's adaptation of the Hercule Poirot novel ''Literature/HalloweenParty'' retitled ''Film/AHauntingInVenice''.
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* In Season 5 Episode 15 "It's Never Too Late For Now", a subplot involves Liz Lemon joining a bookclub for spinsters and their pick is "Murder on the Orient Express", ''Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress'', which comes back in the final part of the episode where Liz parodies Hercule Poirot including (including the accent accent) when accusing her colleagues of crafting the perfect one night stand for her — even going step by step figuring out the scheme. In 2023, Tina Fey played Agatha Christie's CreatorAgathaChristie's recurring character and author avatar [[AuthorAvatar Ariadne Oliver Oliver]] in Kenneth Brannagh's Creator/KennethBrannagh's adaptation of the Hercule Poirot novel {{Hallowe'en Party}} ''Literature/HalloweenParty'' retitled {{A Haunting In Venice}}.
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* 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}}.
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* Jack comes up with the concept of "Porn for Women", a TV recording of a handsome man who asks you how your day went and says supportive things. Now with the advent of AI chatbots this is becoming more and more reality.
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* In the season 7 episode [[Recap/ThirtyRockS7E3StrideOfPride "Stride of Pride"]], Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte is portrayed as a "sex idiot" and a DumbJock. Four years later, the world got to see [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochtegate just what an idiot he was]] when he and four other members of the US men's swim team during the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics got themselves arrested after vandalizing a gas station and then trying to claim they were robbed. Two years later, Lochte got a 14-month suspension from competition for doping, the decision likely influenced by the ''picture he posted to Instagram'' of him receiving an infusion of what he claimed were "vitamins".
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In the 2010s and '20s, ''Series/ThirtyRock'' has, much like ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', gained [[https://decider.com/2016/10/11/15-times-30-rock-predicted-the-future/ a reputation]] as a show that "predicted the future," specifically that of the television industry in its increasingly crass quest for ratings like a WorkCom version of ''Series/{{Network}}''.
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In the 2010s and '20s, ''Series/ThirtyRock'' has, much like ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', gained [[https://decider.com/2016/10/11/15-times-30-rock-predicted-the-future/ a reputation]] as a show that "predicted the future," specifically that of the television industry in its increasingly crass quest for ratings like a WorkCom version of ''Series/{{Network}}''.
* 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 BigScrewedUpFamily is treated as 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 UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson 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.
* "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 2010s.
** 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.
* The TroubledProduction of Jenna Maroney's Music/JanisJoplin biopic foreshadowed [[http://www.avclub.com/article/production-amy-adams-janis-joplin-biopic-halted-ov-216824 similar difficulties]] with a real-life Joplin biopic that was to star Creator/AmyAdams.
* The season 7 episode "Game Over" has Tracy working on a biopic of Harriet Tubman starring Creator/OctaviaSpencer, which endures a TroubledProduction thanks to [[AdamWesting Spencer's diva antics]] and ultimately falls apart. Spencer's co-star in ''Film/TheHelp'', Creator/ViolaDavis, was [[https://ew.com/article/2016/05/04/viola-davis-harriet-tubman/ attached]] to play Tubman in a biopic for Creator/{{HBO}}, only for it to fall apart. (It ultimately came out in 2019 as ''Film/{{Harriet}}'', with Creator/CynthiaErivo in the title role.)
* In season 1, Devon predicted that there would be a social media platform built around ten-second sitcoms. Website/{{Vine}} did him one better and shortened it to ''six'' seconds.
* In the season 7 episode [[Recap/ThirtyRockS7E3StrideOfPride "Stride of Pride"]], Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte is portrayed as a "sex idiot" and a DumbJock. Four years later, the world got to see [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochtegate just what an idiot he was]] when he and four other members of the US men's swim team during the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics got themselves arrested after vandalizing a gas station and then trying to claim they were robbed. Two years later, Lochte got a 14-month suspension from competition for doping, the decision likely influenced by the ''picture he posted to Instagram'' of him receiving an infusion of what he claimed were "vitamins".
* Creator/JamesFranco, while carrying on a fake relationship with Jenna, claims that he starred in a movie that will never be released because his performance was deemed "too provocative for America." Franco would later co-star in ''Film/TheInterview'', which was ''almost'' never released in the US (and ultimately went DirectToVideo after a very limited theatrical run) due to complaints from the North Korean government that escalated to terrorist threats and a (possible) cyberattack.
* When Jack, in search of a celebrity at his network willing to endorse John [=McCain=] for President, convinces Tracy to do so, [[https://decider.com/2016/07/29/30-rock-inspiration-for-donald-trump/ Tracy's campaign ad]] is a torrent of crazed rambling that includes a plan to... build a 200-foot wall along the US/Mexico border. [[FreakierThanFiction If only he said]] that [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump he'd make Mexico pay for it]].
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* 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 BigScrewedUpFamily is treated as 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 UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson 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.
* "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 2010s.
** 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.
* The TroubledProduction of Jenna Maroney's Music/JanisJoplin biopic foreshadowed [[http://www.avclub.com/article/production-amy-adams-janis-joplin-biopic-halted-ov-216824 similar difficulties]] with a real-life Joplin biopic that was to star Creator/AmyAdams.
* The season 7 episode "Game Over" has Tracy working on a biopic of Harriet Tubman starring Creator/OctaviaSpencer, which endures a TroubledProduction thanks to [[AdamWesting Spencer's diva antics]] and ultimately falls apart. Spencer's co-star in ''Film/TheHelp'', Creator/ViolaDavis, was [[https://ew.com/article/2016/05/04/viola-davis-harriet-tubman/ attached]] to play Tubman in a biopic for Creator/{{HBO}}, only for it to fall apart. (It ultimately came out in 2019 as ''Film/{{Harriet}}'', with Creator/CynthiaErivo in the title role.)
* In season 1, Devon predicted that there would be a social media platform built around ten-second sitcoms. Website/{{Vine}} did him one better and shortened it to ''six'' seconds.
* In the season 7 episode [[Recap/ThirtyRockS7E3StrideOfPride "Stride of Pride"]], Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte is portrayed as a "sex idiot" and a DumbJock. Four years later, the world got to see [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochtegate just what an idiot he was]] when he and four other members of the US men's swim team during the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics got themselves arrested after vandalizing a gas station and then trying to claim they were robbed. Two years later, Lochte got a 14-month suspension from competition for doping, the decision likely influenced by the ''picture he posted to Instagram'' of him receiving an infusion of what he claimed were "vitamins".
* Creator/JamesFranco, while carrying on a fake relationship with Jenna, claims that he starred in a movie that will never be released because his performance was deemed "too provocative for America." Franco would later co-star in ''Film/TheInterview'', which was ''almost'' never released in the US (and ultimately went DirectToVideo after a very limited theatrical run) due to complaints from the North Korean government that escalated to terrorist threats and a (possible) cyberattack.
* When Jack, in search of a celebrity at his network willing to endorse John [=McCain=] for President, convinces Tracy to do so, [[https://decider.com/2016/07/29/30-rock-inspiration-for-donald-trump/ Tracy's campaign ad]] is a torrent of crazed rambling that includes a plan to... build a 200-foot wall along the US/Mexico border. [[FreakierThanFiction If only he said]] that [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump he'd make Mexico pay for it]].
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