30 Rock Gets "Invictus" Wrong and So, So Right

I am the captain of my holes... or whatever

With 2020 firmly in our rearview and vaccine availability rising, many of us (ok, me) are finding a renewed interest in the elusive idea of “the future” and “getting it together” after the long, difficult sleepwalk of last year.

The idea of taking charge and seizing one’s destiny always, always makes me think of my favorite show: 30 Rock. The show, which originally aired from 2006–2013, is essentially a sitcom about a New York City comedy writer cycling between “I’m fine the way I am” and “I’m finally going to get it together” in various hysterical permutations. And in one of her more intense pushes to change her life, Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) gets tangled in some absurdly mangled lines of Victorian-era British poetry. It just gets weirder from there.