I read in some clickbait article that Kenneth, the NBC page, was secretly some kind of immortal being and that there were hints dropped in the series about it. Well, all of those hints shot right over my head, and I sure noticed all the similar references about, like, Bobby Hill and Beavis. What were some of the hints about Kenneth? Were his humiliations on a Georgia hog farm echoes of stories about Krishna or Osiris or St. Anthony of Padua?
The Wikipedia article on Kenneth has an entire section devoted to his immortality.
It’s really long.
The main clincher though is that the series finale of the show ends showing Kenneth in the distant future having not aged at all.
You might also be interested in this clip collection from the show filled with multiple references to Kenneth’s immortality.
They weren’t all that secretive about it on the show.
Note that the above montage is on the 30 Rock official YouTube channel, that isn’t something put out as a fan theory. That was put out by NBC. They are the ones saying it.
I don’t know if it was in that montage, but any time he’d mention his age/birth date or how long he’d worked at NBC, he’d mumble through it.
Also, technically, if you want to get really into the details (and assume everything is canon and not a joke), he’s wearing a wig and actually bald, which IIRC, and I may not, played into the immortal thing.
It was.
At one point he said he started his page job in 19-{mumble}. (Seen in the montage.)
He also referred to himself as elderly many times and had a bird that he’d kept for 60 years.
Apparently, it was Jack McBrayer who suggested the 30 Rock reunion, which took place this past Sunday:
Easily the second greatest werewolf song all time. Spooky scary.
I agree, “Werewolf” by the Five Man Electrical Band is really great.
what references were there about Bobby Hill and Beavis?
I know Bobby Hill is supposedly the reincarnation of a buddhist lama but what’s the theory with beavis?
Of course “canon” is tricky here, since the aforementioned final scene arguably reveals that everything before it was just future-Kenneth’s imagined version of the series Liz’s great-granddaughter was pitching to him. (Hence the transition into that scene via zoom-out from a snow globe à la St. Elsewhere.)