History FunnyAneurysmMoment / LiveActionTV

* A mid-May 2009[[http://www.abc.net.au/tv/gruentransfer/latestshow.htm web-exclusive segment]] of Australian advertising program ''The Gruen Transfer'' featured ad-man Todd Sampson quipping that in the future, Michael Jackson could be the new face of ''TouchedByAnAngel''. While at the time, it was a [[RefugeInAudacity crude joke]] about his [[MemeticMolester history]] and his inevitable death, it takes on new elements of DudeNotFunny after his unexpected June 2009 death.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd6Ph64MXBU This intro]] to British game show ''Strike It Lucky'' features a clip of a man thrown into a swimming pool. Just ten years later, the show's host Michael Barrymore would have his career ruined due to an incident where a man died in Barrymore's pool after a party.

** "From New York, where I'm in trouble because I told some punk network paige to drop dead...turned out to be Brandon Tartikoff...". Brandon Tartikoff was the president of NBC at the time, & he actually did "drop dead" in August 1997, he died suddenly due to complications from Hodkin's Disease, exactly 10 years after this episode aired...

* An episode of ''{{Leverage}}'' deals with the team trying to stop a plane, which was carrying an assassin and a bomb. (Yes, this was written and aired after 9/11). Parker mocks the survival rates of water landings, and the pilot later lands on a freeway rather than making one. This was a few weeks before the famous "Miracle on the Hudson".

** Too bad it wasn't a jump off a building. It would've been twice as funny.

** From [[SeasonalRot the Jean Doumanian era (1980-1981),]] at the end of the first episode (hosted by Elliot Gould), Gould introduces the cast again and tells the audience, "We're gonna be around forever!" Eleven episodes later, all but Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo were fired after the F-bomb debacle on the episode hosted by Charlene Tilton and most of the cast members from that season have all but disappeared (though Gail Matthius did do voice-acting in 1990s kids' cartoons, Gilbert Gottfried is more popular now as a stand-up comic and kids' cartoon voice actor than he ever was on ''SNL''), and Charles Rocket did appear on such shows as ''Quantam Leap'' and ''Touched By An Angel'' before his death in 2005).

* ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' isn't immune. In the infamous ''{{Hobgoblins}}'' episode, Tom Servo makes a joke about a handgun saying "If found, please return to Hunter Thompson." Back then, it was just referring to the fella being a gun enthusiast; but Hunter S. Thompson committed suicide by shotgun in 2005.

** Let's not forget the suberbly hilarious early episode, "Bananas, Crackers and Nuts", in which Hawkeye attempts to fake insanity to get some rest away from the camp. A few years later (in real time it was more like 13, but to Hawkeye that's probably more what it felt like), [[spoiler: Hawkeye is sent to an institution after plowing a jeep through the mess tent.]]

* ''KidsIncorporated'' - "Space Case". During "Space Week" at the P* lace, the kids are all writing to NASA, petitioning them to put a kid into space. Mickey mentions that NASA is "going to start taking regular people into space." This episode was filmed in 1984, and what Mickey's referring to is the then-recent announcement of the Teacher In Space project. The fruition of that project was the 1986 shuttle mission STS-51-L, which ended 73 seconds ater launch with the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

* The Nickelodeon game show ''[[DoubleDare1986 DOuble Dare]]'' was centered around making huge messes, with tons of wet, gooey multicolored slime getting everywhere. So it's a bit unsettling to watch after the show's host Marc Summers revealed he had pretty severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, especially considering how often he got covered in muck during the show's run. Seriously; go back and watch an episode where the team completes the obstacle course and embrace him, while covered in muck, ''then'' go [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmxlC-o1q24 watch him line up the fringe on a throw rug.]] Very unnerving.

** Still on StarTrek, [[http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64C0L620100514 the protestors against the current regime in Thailand]] [[RedShirt could not have chosen a less prophetic name.]]

* ''TheSoup'', for a while, was making hay with an AlternativeCharacterInterpretation of reality show ''Jon and Kate Plus 8'' with Jon as a henpecked husband to needlessly bossy Kate -- one skit took an argument over coupons and ended it with him commiting suicide. As it turns out, the marriage [[http://www.tvguide.com/News/Jon-Kate-Plus-1005820.aspx may indeed]] be a miserable one, and while ''The Soup'' is irreverent by nature and is still keeping up with the show, they joked in one episode that it's "just kind of sad now".

** In several episodes, Wanye Brady would impersonate GaryColeman in various skits. Since Coleman's recent death, the jokes just aren't as funny anymore.

** Season 1's "Like A Virgin" features someone pretending to be Veronica sending an email to Duncan, saying she had VD when they were dating. Late in season 2 [[spoiler:it is revealed Veronica has chlymadia... which she contracted being raped by Beaver, on the same night she slept with Duncan.]] It '''sucks''' to be Veronica.

* One episode of ''Wild West Tech'' has the host having coffee with the Grim Reaper. This gets a bit weird now because the host in question is David Carridine.

* ''[[{{ER}} ER's]]'' season 12 (2005) episode shows Maura Tierney's character Abby Lockhart struggling with the idea of getting a mamogram, finally seen going for one at the end of the episode after admitting she's never had one and is at high risk for breast cancer. These scenes are particulary difficult to watch now as in 2009 Tierney was diagnosed with breast cancer (treatment of which forced her to drop out of the TV series ''{{Parenthood}}'').

* Rik Mayall had just finished filming an episode of "The Comic Strip Presents..." in which his character is hit by a car, but between filming and airing, he was in a quad bike accident which caused a massive brain hemmorage and left him in a coma for over a week. The producers were wary about airing it, but went ahead with the blessings of Rik's wife.

* In the shortlived sit-com The Class, we are told in the sixth episode that Yonk only eats meat. Rick's sarcastic response was that it wasn't a heart attack waiting to happen. 12 episodes later, Yonk has a heart attack.

**** Even TheStoic Oz would have later cringed over the comment about school shootings being in season, since...well...they did.

* At WWE's first "ECW One Night Stand" event in 2005, commentator Joey Styles made several heated remarks about wrestler Mike Awesome, who had left ECW under controversy for WCW, calling Awesome a "Judas" and at one point saying, " An excellent suicide dive from Mike Awesome. It's just too bad he didn't succeed in taking his own life." Two years later, Awesome was found dead in his home, having hanged himself.

* A second season episode of ''{{NCIS}}'' shows Tony and Kate having yet another sniping contest, this time about Tony appearing lazy. He says to her, "Work smarter not harder, Katie - you'll live longer." Six episodes later, Kate is killed on the job. By a sniper.

* In MightyMorphinPowerRangers, Billy had numerous one-off female love interests. Over a decade later, his actor, David Yost, admitted he was gay and that he was often harassed by the crew.

** ''Trading Spouses'' was a sketch on an early episode of Chappelle's Show. About a year later, ''Trading Spouses'' was [[{{Defictionalization defictionalized.]]

** ''Trading Spouses'' was a sketch on an early episode of Chappelle's Show. About a year later, ''Trading Spouses'' became an actual reality show. And part of me died.

** Then there is references to Bill's crazy ex-girlfriend Linda and Bill is oblivous to her behavior as being abnormal. (Ep 218 "Led Zeppelin"). In Ep 410 "Look who's talking", the woman he was seeing tried to set fire to his hair while he was sleeping.

** That last part was most likely ''intentional'' - it was revealed courtesy of discovery from a discrimination lawsuit leveled against the writing room that her infertility was a regular subject of mockery by the writing staff. But we didn't know that at the time...

** Thankfully it seems Lisa Kudrow is one of the only actresses on the show who hasn't really had a FAM.

** The whole Josh storyline in "Hard Ball", in which he and his agent have to negotiate a new contract to keep him on the show. We even get Liz insisting they can't do the show without him and, when Jack says everyone is replaceable, she replies "he's not replaceable as my friend." Fast forward a few seasons and it turns out they could do the show without him and Liz apparently wasn't so attached to him after all. He spent most of the third season OutOfFocus and, at the start of the next season, was almost immediately PutOnABus after HangingALampshade on the fact that he still exists. This time, no one, including Liz, seemed to care about Josh being gone. Oh, and a few episodes after being put on a bus, Josh made a cameo, his last appearance ever on ''30 Rock'', in which he fails to get his old job back and reveals he's been reduced to doing gay porn. That after "Hard Ball" featured Jack and Liz sabotaging his offer from ''TheDailyShow'' to keep him on ''[=TGS=]''. Ouch.

** The whole Josh storyline in "Hard Ball", in which he and his agent have to negotiate a new contract to keep him on the show. We even get Liz insisting they can't do the show without him and, when Jack says everyone is replaceable, she replies "he's not replaceable as my friend." Fast forward a few seasons and it turns out they could do the show without him and Liz apparently wasn't so attached to him after all. (He spent most of the third season OutOfFocus and, at the start of the next season, was almost immediately PutOnABus after HangingALampshade on the fact that he still exists. This time, no one, including Liz, seemed to care about Josh being gone.)

** The whole Josh storyline in "Hard Ball", in which he and his agent have to negotiate a new contract to keep him on the show. We even get Liz insisting they can't do the show without him and, when Jack says everyone is replaceable, she replies "he's not replaceable as my friend." Fast forward a few seasons and it turns out they could do the show without him and Liz apparently wasn't so attached to him after all. (He spent most of the third season OutOfFocus and, at the start of the next season, was PutOnABus. This time, no one, including Liz, seemed to care about Josh being gone.)

** The whole Josh storyline in "Hard Ball", in which he and his agent have to negotiate a new contract to keep him on the show. We even get Liz insisting they can't do the show without him and, when Jack says everyone is replaceable, she replies "he's not replaceable as my friend." Fast forward a few seasons and it turns out they could do the show without him and Liz apparently wasn't so attached to him after all. (He spent most of the third season OutOfFocus and, at the start of the next season, was PutOnABus. No one, including Liz, seemed to care.)

* A 2007 episode of Gordon Ramsay's ''Kitchen Nightmares'' (US version) had Ramsay exclaim to New Jersey-area restauranteur Joseph Cerniglia that his business was about to "swim down the Hudson"...became quite the ''prophetic'' FunnyAneurismMoment when [[http://www.northjersey.com/food_dining/092710_Fair_Lawn_restaurateurs_death_ruled_a_suicide.html Cernilgia apparently jumped off the George Washington Bridge in September 2007 and was found floating in the Hudson]].

* In a 2007 episode of ''Kitchen Nightmares'', celebrity chef and famously [[InsufferableGenius insufferable]] [[SmugSnake loudmouth]] GordonRamsay told New Jersey restaurateur Joseph Cerniglia that his business was "about to swim down the Hudson." In 2010 Cerniglia's body was found -- in the Hudson -- in an [[http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/09/27/2010-09-27_host_gordon_ramsay_made_haunting_remark_to_dead_kitchen_nightmares_chef_joseph_c.html apparent suicide]].