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Overlooked ’30 Rock’ Bit From 2009 About Bill Cosby Is Getting Attention Now — the NBC Show Apparently Made a Reference to Sexual Assault Allegations Against the Comedian

Dec 4, 2014  •  Post A Comment

Did NBC’s “30 Rock” hint at the sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby way back in 2009, and nobody noticed?

Crushable cites this exchange from an episode of the comedy series called “The Bubble”:

Jack Donaghy: I’ve arranged for one of Tracy’s childhood idols to reach out to him.

Tracy Jordan: Hello?

Jack Donaghy: Tracy, this is Jack, I have someone here who wants to speak with you.

Rick: Tracy, this is Bill Cosby …

Liz Lemon: [whispering] Really? This is your strategy?

Jack Donaghy: [whispering and smiling] I heard him do this at a party!

Rick: … I want you to come back to the TGS for the people who like the jokes and the things.

Tracy Jordan: Bill Cosby, you got a lotta nerve gettin’ on the phone wit’ me after what you did to my Aunt Paulette!

Rick: I think you’re confusing me with someone else.

Tracy Jordan: 1971. Cincinnati. She was a cocktail waitress with the droopy eye!

Rick: I’m the guy … with the pudding …

Tracy Jordan: Don’t try to tell me what to do! Heathcliffe Huxtable, wit’ yo’ light-ass kids! Jack! Why would you make me talk to this man?

Crushable’s Jenni Maier writes that the reference “seems to be much more than a throwaway joke. While there’s always the possibility that it’s a crazy coincidence, that seems incredibly unlikely. Of all the comedy legends, they chose this one to accuse of sexually assaulting a woman back in the ’70s. Okay.”

2 Comments

  1. Isn’t it a wonderful world where no one need be convicted of anything – just throw around allegations without a shred of proof of something that MIGHT have happened 30+ years ago.

  2. Troll.

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