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Date published/released: 

2006 to 2013

In "Operation Righteous Cowboy Lightning," the twelfth episode of the fifth season of the sitcom 30 Rock, two charcters quote from John Keats's "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer": Jack Donaghy (played by Alec Bladwin) mentions feeling like "stout Cortez," then later in the episode Tracy Jordan (played by Tracy Morgan) also mentions feeling like "stout Cortez," then immediately clarifies that Cortez is the name of his easily amazed gardener.