Zeit In The Geist

I just watched the fourth and final season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.  Created by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, its style is in many ways a continuation of their previous success, 30 Rock.

To try to stay up-to-date, the final season dealt with the #MeToo movement, but there was one moment in the finale that hit present-day events so on the nose that it's hard to believe it was written months ago.

It's a scene between regular Jane Krakowski as Jacqueline White, who's become a talent agent, and recurring guest star Zachary Quinto as Eli Rubin, a much more established agent.  Bragging to her about his experience, he says:

I've been in this business since Billy Crystal was doing blackface at the Oscars--almost five and a half years...

It was just a gag when they wrote it--or, as is the house style, a gag within a gag.  They couldn't have possible known how current it would sound. (Actually, it's been out there a couple weeks, and it only got current a week ago.)