History FunnyAneurysmMoment / LiveActionTV

* TheBigBangTheory. In Season One Penny gets the chance to appear in a stage musical and the boys cheerfully tell her to "break a leg", during Season Four the actress really did break a leg in a horse riding accident which is why she isn't in two episodes.

** In the second season episode "An Eye for an Eye", Tony and Kate are 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 ''LifeOnMars'', there's a conversation in which Gene says he hopes he's dead before surveillance becomes a major part of police work. [[spoiler:Knowing that Gene is already dead at this point]] makes this an example, but Sam's suggestions that Gene probably will be is the icing on the cake.

** TheNostalgiaCritic gave him a ''"You Got Balls"'' Award for doing so. And did he ever earn it.

* More recently with the Muppets: The 2008 ChristmasSpecial ''[[TheMuppetsLettersToSanta The Muppets: Letters to Santa]]'' features Nathan Lane as a sadistic TSA officer. He decides he doesn't like the way the Muppets look and pulls them into an interrogation room, planning to perform cruel and humiliating security searches on them. In 2008, it was funny. Jump to 2010 and all the pat-down incidents...

* The first episode of ''TheTonightShow With Conan O'Brien'' featured Will Ferrell as a guest. At the end of his segment, Ferrell sings a farewell song for Conan as a joke, who is bewildered as it is only his first night on the job. Ferrell explains that considering how fickle the networks are, they could pull the plug on his show any time. In around seven months, the show was indeed cancelled, with Conan given the boot and replaced by his predecessor Jay Leno.

* TheOC. One line: "I'll be okay Kiki. I'm like the Gulf Region. What's one more hurricane?" Turns out things could get a lot worse for the Gulf Region.

** JohnRitter fans will find "Ted" very hard to watch since it involves him coming back from the dead.

* Ellen Degeneres' epynonymous show ''Ellen'' featured an early episode in which Ellen falls all over herself trying to get the romantic attention of a hunky firefighter. Originally an amusing episode in classic Lucille Ball sitcom fashion, the show took on a tragic air when the character Ellen came out as a lesbian (a fairly short time after the comedianne herself did the same)--suddenly, the episode was a tale of a woman desperately trying to convince herself of her own heterosexuality by pursuing an unobtainable male.

* Among the reasons BettyWhite gave in her opening ''SaturdayNightLive'' monologue for finding {{Facebook}} a waste of time was that at her age, she'd be better off contacting old friends with a Ouija board. Two months later, Estelle Getty died, and White became the only [[TheGoldenGirls Golden Girl]] to still be alive.

* On ''{{The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret}}'', one character incredulously asks another "You're STILL sending money to Haiti?!" This was clearly meant to be a reference to the Haiti earthquake that happened almost a year before the episode aired. Unfortunately, the episode ended up airing a mere 2 days after the beginning of a cholera outbreak in Haiti.

* Among the reasons BettyWhite gave in her opening ''SaturdayNightLive'' monologue for finding {{Facebook}} a waste of time was that at her age, she'd be better off contacting old friends with a Ouija board. Two months later, Estelle Getty died, and White became the only [[TheGoldenGirls Golden Girl]] to still be alive.

* ''StarTrekVoyager'''s Chakotay is a vegetarian. Okay, fine. Except TheNineties were full of attacks by [[AnimalWrongsGroup animal rights activists]] on Indian reservations.