History FunnyAneurysmMoment / LiveActionTv

** "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...

* This video, the opening to an August 1987 episode of "Late Night With David Letterman", features two MASSIVE Funny Aneurysm Moments. The first one is pretty obvious (hell, it's mentioned in the description), but the other one is a little more sublte, see if you can find it...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAfNUuGkSOI

* ''SevenDays'', "Pinball Wizard": The story features a smart female gamer, recruited by the bad guy to play what she thinks is a game; it [[TheManWhoKnewTooLittle controls real weapons]]. We see someone piloting a companion ship/missile through a video-game city and then crashing into a five-sided structure to "win the game". Cut to news footage of the Pentagon with one side blown in, wreckage, and mass casualties. The episode was filmed in 1999. The real news footage would turn up in 2001...

* This video, the opening to an August 1987 episode of "Late Night With David Letterman", features two MASSIVE Funny Aneurysm Moments. The first one is pretty obvious (hell, it's mentioned in the description), but the other one is a little more sublte, see if you can find it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAfNUuGkSOI

This video, the opening to an August 1987 episode of "Late Night With David Letterman", features two MASSIVE Funny Aneurysm Moments. The first one is pretty obvious (hell, it's mentioned in the description), but the other one is a little more sublte, see if you can find it...

-->'''Kerr Avon:''' [[spoiler:Cally was murdered. So were most of her people.]]

* Season One of BlakesSeven has this quote:

* ''The Dana Carvey Show'', which aired in 1996, had several segments based on Princess Di were cringe-inducing in the wake of her death in 1997. Among these are Carvey as the Church Lady giving the Top 10 Ideas for New Titles for Princess Di (including "Queen Orgasmia," "Slut Slut Slut," and "Princess Di-ing to Get Laid") and Carvey as Prince Charles singing a song about how he wants to behead Di. This ended with Carvey chopping off the head of a dummy version of Di with an axe.

** From the late 1980s episode hosted by John Larroquette, there was a fake commercial for an album about an alcoholic country singer (played by Larroquette). Funny, right? Not after you realize that John Larroquette actually ''has'' struggled with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Larroquette#Personal_life alcohol abuse]].
*** Questionable example; Larroquette had publicly discussed his history of alcoholism (and given up drinking) before he ever appeared on ''SNL''.

** Even the SoBadItsHorrible Jean Doumanian era isn't immune to the Funny Aneurysm Moment. On the infamous episode hosted by Charlene Tilton (from the show {{Dallas}}), cast member Charles Rocket is shot during the final sketch. During the goodnights part at the end of the show, Rocket says that he'd like to know "who the fuck did it" (the line was what led NBC to fire Doumanian and her cast, save for Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo, because they thought that it was a ploy to garner to save ''SNL'''s falling ratings at the time by doing something outrageous, i.e. drop an F-bomb). The Aneurysm Moment comes when you realize/discover that (a) another ''SNL'' cast member ''would'' actually meet his fate by getting shot (Phil Hartman), and (b) Charles Rocket actually did die in October 2005, but he wasn't shot by anyone; he was found dead in his backyard with a slashed throat and police ruled his death a suicide.
** Also from the Jean Doumanian era, 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).

** The infamous "Don't Look Back in Anger" short film that showed an elderly John Belushi as the last living member of the original "Not Ready for Primetime" cast who ends up dancing on his cast mates' graves. (What's more disturbing is that the short film "predicted" that Gilda Radner would be one of the dead cast members).[[http://snltranscripts.jt.org/77/77manger.phtml]] [[http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/dont-look-back-in-anger/280567/]]
*** Uh, it's disturbing that someone who really died ''did not'' fictionally die, or it's disturbing that someone who really died ''did'' fictionally die?

* In {{The Reveal}} of {{Ashes to Ashes}} [[spoiler:Gene mentions that he kicked down a the door to confront the home invaders who end up shooting him in the face and killing him.]] Knowing this, Gene's tendency to kick down Sam's door in {{Life On Mars}} just makes you cringe.

** In the season 5 episode "Triangle", Anya makes Xander promise that if he ever leaves her she wants lots and lots of warning, including "big flashing red lights and one of those clocks that counts down like a bomb in the movies and there's a whole bunch of coloured wires and I'm not sure which is the right one to cut but I guess the green one and then at the last second no, the red one, and then click, it stops, with three tenths of a second left, and then you don't leave." Next season, [[spoiler: he leaves her at the altar with basically no foreshadowing.]]

* 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.

* Yet another StarTrek example, this time form StarTrekDeepSpaceNine. The two part episode "Past Tense" sends Sisko, Bashir and Dax back to San Fransisco in the year [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 2024]]by way of a [[TeleporterAccident Transporter Malfunction]]. They are separated when Sisko and Bashir get taken to a Sanctuary District, a walled off part of the city where the city's homeless and destitute are left to live in squalor. The reason these places exist in the first place is because of widespread joblessness due to a wrecked economy, with hints of anarchy in Europe. The references to the economy are particularly [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel cringe inducing]], given the current state of our own.

** [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses The Nostalgia Critic]] gave him a ''"You Got Balls"'' Award for doing so. And did he ever earn it.

* ''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. SoYeah...

***Also on the same ep a clown had an aneurysm and died for an in-episode example. This was played for BlackHumour, so is a literal FunnyAneurysmMoment.

* A mostly french canadian only Wizard of Waverly Place example. Their a ad you see for a charity event against cancer, the ad show various lantern with get-well wishs written on it. One the recipendiary of this wishs is named Alex. WHY FOR THE LOVE OF GOD THIS AD APPEAR MOSTLY IN WOWP PAUSES ?
**What?

** In an early appearance of Dr. Sweets, Booth makes one of many digs on his apparent inexperience and youth, wondering if he ever had serious problems in his life. Later, we find out that Sweets [[spoiler:was abused as a child, and his loving foster parents recently died.]]