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“Who’s an EGOT?”: How ‘30 Rock’ Made a Fake Award Into a Real-Life Goal

#EGOT # TracyJordan  #TracyMorgan  # Dealbreakers  #30Rock  years, awards-show enthusiasts have come up with elaborate systems for predicting and logging the entertainment world’s winners, losers, and tragic snubs. As hype over who wins has grown, so has a fascination with show business’s overachievers. Only a talented few have reached the apex of this proverbial horse race, but it wasn’t until a multiseason  30 Rock  subplot that the public knew what to call it. In “Dealbreakers Talk Show #0001,” the seventh episode of the show’s fourth season, Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) strolls into a jewelry store called Yakov’s Nubian Bling Explosion to find a gift for his wife as part of a larger effort to prove he’s responsible enough for them to have a daughter. But within seconds, his eye catches on a large gold necklace with diamond-encrusted letters that spell out “EGOT.” “Who’s an EGOT?” Jordan asks in earnest. “EGOT is not a person, T.J., it’s a goal...