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* ''Series/BostonLegal'': in the series 4 episode ''Attack of the Xenophobes'', Denny Crane says "I have nothing against the Chinese". Later in the series 5 finale, his law firm of Crane Poole & Schmidt is bought out by a Chinese organisation, against his wishes; [[spoiler:they ultimately fire Denny and remove his name from the firm]].

* ''Series/BostonLegal'': in the series 4 episode ''Attack of the Xenophobes'', Denny Crane says "I have nothing against the Chinese". Later in the series 5 finale, his law firm of Crane Poole & Schmidt is bought out by a Chinese organisation against his wishes; [[spoiler:they ultimately fire Denny and remove his name from the firm]].

* ''Series/NightGallery'' In the pilot movie for Night Gallery, one of the stories is called "Eyes." It stars Joan Crawford in one of her last roles as a selfish, spoiled, mean-spirited woman who only cares about herself. Given her relationships with her children and the plot of ''Film/MommieDearest'', it seems that she was well suited for the role.

* ''Series/RedDwarf'': managed to pull this in a single episode, more specifically in series VII, episode "Stoke Me A Clipper". The opening shows dimension-hopping hero [[TheAce Ace Rimmer]] rescuing a princess from parallel-dimension Nazis, a process which involves jumping out of an aeroplane, skyboarding on a ''live crocodile'' gunning down a platoon's worth of Nazis in midair and performing several stunts on a motorcycle. Ace gets shot in the process, but only quips "This is my best top, dammit!" (as befits his macho character) and goes back to work. However the rest of the episode gets dark, since it is shown that Ace is not only dying from the wound, he's also a HardLightHologram, which in turn means that the real Ace (who was a semi-frequent guest character in earlier series) is dead, and probably has been for some time.

* ''Series/RobotWars'': Creator/CraigCharles's quite prophetic introduction to the European Championship. This was recorded in about 2002, many years ''before'' the financial crisis and subsequent political turmoil:

** In one of John Ritter's appearances as JD's father, he utters the line "Heart murmurs? I ''love'' those things!" Ritter died of an aortic dissection, an undetectable heart condition. [[RealLifeWritesThePlot The character died, as well, of a massive heart attack.]]

** In one episode that originally aired in 1993, Elaine is anxious for her boyfriend Joel Rifkin to change his name, in order to avoid being confused with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Rifkin the famous serial killer]], and picks out the name "O.J." for him from a football magazine. Seven months later, O.J. Simpson was accused and tried for the murder of his wife, making him one of the most notorious murder suspects of the 20th century.

* In the first series of ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', Moriarty is found to be using the first name "Jim" for his consulting criminal business as a reference to the children's program ''Jim'll Fix It''.[[note]]It also helps that "Jim" is a shortening of "James", which was Moriarty's actual first name in the original ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' stories.[[/note]] In the second series, Moriarty returns as a DepravedKidsShowHost. Later that year, it was discovered that Creator/JimmySavile, the presenter of ''Jim'll Fix It'', was a pedophile.

* ''Series/EightOutOfTenCats'': In the 2016 Christmas Special, the guests discuss their Christmas plans. Rob Beckett plans to eat so much he'll "need a pacemaker" and Creator/CarrieFisher discusses spending Christmas with her family. The day that episode aired (December 23), Fisher had a severe heart attack while traveling back from England, before dying from complications of it on December 27. Then, the next day, her mother Creator/DebbieReynolds [[UpToEleven died from a stroke]].
** ''Eight Out of Ten Cats Does Countdown'' Series 20 Episode 2 has Jon Richardson get "Corona", which he describes as "the halo you get 'round the sun during the eclipse". He is awarded six points and the game moves on without much comment. This episode was recorded in late 2019 but not broadcast until 7th August 2020, by which time "Corona" had taken on a [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic very different meaning]].

* ''Sooty and Co'' features a constant running joke in one episode where Soo criticizes Matthew for his bad taste in music - with Matthew arguing that his music isn't in bad taste as he's a massive fan of Gary Glitter. At one point he even turns to the audience, says: "I do like Gary Glitter, don't you"? and winks. After Gary Glitter's arrest over having child porn on his computer, the line takes on a disturbing new meaning.

* ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'': In the fourth season,Creator/TerryCrews plays a character who has multiple accusations of sexual assault against him, which is frequently PlayedForLaughs. This became extremely difficult to watch since he came forward about being a victim of sexual harassment himself.

** Now about that [[http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/05/18/spain.protests/index.html anarchy in Europe...]][[OhCrap Yeah.]] They made a movie about it in 2006: ''{{Film/Banlieue13}}''.

* ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'': One of the answers on the May 19, 2020 show was "Bruce Wayne is missing and Creator/RubyRose dons the cowl as this title CW show who's no mere girl." The show is ''Series/Batwoman2019.'' This episode, taped in advance, aired the ''same day'' that Ruby Rose announced she was not returning for ''Batwoman'' season two.

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': After the death of Carol Ann Susi, all the jokes Howard made about his mum dying are suddenly not as funny anymore.

* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'': During Season 4's 3-part season finale "Strange Bedfellows" (concerning a local election) worked in a brief guest appearance by Colorado Democratic Senator Gary Hart; and upon seeing him a starstruck Diane remarks that Hart "could have been President" (referring to Hart narrowly losing the Democratic nomination in 1984 to former Vice-President Walter Mondale; who was [[CurbStompBattle subsequently]] [[LandslideElection annihilated]] by incumbent Republican President UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan) and later adding that Hart "could ''still'' be President". At the time, Hart was considered the front-runner for the Democratic nomination in 1988; with many pundits thinking Hart had a good chance to win the general election as well. Then came the [[YourCheatingHeart Donna Rice]] sex scandal which knocked Hart out of the race[[note]]Hart would re-enter the race under the rallying cry of "Let's let the people decide", briefly regaining his front-runner status before a combination of a different controversy, this time over outstanding campaign debt from 1984 and poor showings in the early primary contests finished Hart's presidential aspirations off for good[[/note]]. Causing this to fit the trope even further: Hart announced his (initial) withdrawl from the race on May 8, 1987; exactly one year to the day of Hart's guest spot on ''Cheers''.

* In the penultimate episode of ''Series/{{Flashpoint}}, some might find it funny that right after a little boy, Ethan, gets his blankie back from another child who took it from him, he ''immediately'' drops it on the ground and doesn't even notice. The funny goes away completely when Ethan doubles back to go get the blankie and becomes one of many victims of a bomb that goes off seconds after he picks it up. The blankie is used by Jules to cover his body after confirming he's deceased.

* ''Series/TheITCrowd'' has an episode where Douglas unknowingly dates a transwoman, culminating in the two getting into a violent fight. The episode already wasn't the most sensitive depiction of trans people, but has since become ''deeply'' uncomfortable to watch due to creator Graham Linehan becoming openly, actively and intensely transphobic over following years (made even worse seeing as, according to some sources, it was the offense taken by the trans community at this episode that really kicked off his subsequent views and behaviour).

* In the sixth season of ''Series/TheAmazingRace'', most of the teams were nasty but father/daughter team Gus and Hera were one of the bright spots. It can be a bit hard to go back and watch them because of how tragic their lives have been since. She was working for a Congressional Committee in DC in the early 2010s (the season was shot in late 2005) and met a guy named Joaquin on a dating website. She got pregnant not too long after they met without knowing that he was a suspect in an ex's murder. As more info came out (he also had raped her sister), she and the baby moved into her parents' for their protection. He was granted temporary unsupervised custody of the baby every other Saturday. He killed the baby on one of the visits to get the $500,000 life insurance policy and was sentenced to life without parole in November 2017.

* ''Series/TheBernieMacShow'': At the end of an episode when Wanda considers having kids of her own, Bernie tells the audience he doesn't want to be a father, chasing his kids around at age 50 (which he illustrates by clutching his chest in manner of having a heart attack). [[Creator/BernieMac Bernie]] died at age 50 (albeit from pneumonia, not a heart attack).
* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'':
** Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz, a sweet and loveable girl but one who is paid to develop bio-weapons and is somewhat ''casual'' about safety precautions, is adamant that her lab did not inadvertently or deliberately cross the common cold and the Ebola virus. As this would be a terrible and irresponsible thing to do. Now spool forward to 2014 and the outbreak of hard-to-stop Ebola in Western Africa... it's as if the virus has mutated into a tougher and more contagious strain...
** After the death of Carol Ann Susi, all the jokes Howard made about his mum dying are suddenly not as funny anymore.
** Penny makes a joke about wishing she was on a plane that crashed into a mountain. Not so funny after real-life Flight 9525 did just that.

* ''{{Series/Blossom}}'': Anthony gives Blossom some brotherly advice concerning a boy at school in the form of a BeNiceToGeeks[=/=]GiveGeeksAChance speech, pointing out that "The world is run by geeks." This was in the early 90s. Flash forward to The2000s. People are getting quite weary of singing the praises of the likes of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and other geek billionaires due to the monopolies of their respective companies and their greedy business model that exploits users. And Americans are now much more aware of how Silicon Valley mostly works not so much to solve world problems and improve the quality of life but to create products that make more money for big corporations. Also, Mayim Bialik would go on to star as a supporting character twenty years later in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', a show which, depending on who you ask, either empowers nerds and geeks or derives most of its humor from perpetuating the same old stereotypes.

* ''Series/{{Chespirito}}'': "El Gato" is a 1976 Doctor Chapatín skit about a man (played by Ramón Valdéz) that got scared by a cat and rolled down the stairs. The man asks Chapatín when he would get better, upon which the Doctor asks his nurse for a calendar... of 1988. Ramón Valdéz would die precisely that year.

** The December 11, 2012 episode opened with Stephen saying "It is now legal to carry a concealed weapon in all 50 states. So, if you are in one of them, be careful.". Three days later, a mass shooting occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, in which 20 children and 6 adults were killed, making it the second deadliest mass shooting in a school setting. [[note]]Admittedly the killer stole the guns he used in the shooting (because he was prevented from buying any legally) and only Vermont and Alaska allowed ''unlicensed'' concealed carry at the time, but still.[[/note]]

* ''Series/{{Coupling}}'': The episode in which Jeff, for reasons of typical Jeff-ness, has ended up pretending that his girlfriend is dead. A great episode is horribly dampened when you realize that Lou Gish, the actress playing said girlfriend, died prematurely from terminal cancer a few years later. ''Especially'' when, all flu-ed up, she says to Jeff, "Don't mind me ... I'm dead."

* ''Series/TheDailyShow'':
** During the summer of 2013, political pundits were already speculating about the 2016 presidential election, leading guest host Creator/JohnOliver to do a segment called "Can't You At Least Wait Until Creator/JonStewart Gets Back?". However, in August 2015, Jon Stewart stepped down as host of the Daily Show, so he didn't get to skewer the 2016 election. He ends that same segment by begging Donald Trump to run because it would be hilarious. ''He's President now.''
** In March 2011, Creator/LewisBlack also did a segment where he suggested that Trump should be elected president, saying "What this country needs is a crazy third world dictator!"

* ''Series/DiffrentStrokes'':
** The VerySpecialEpisode dealing with child molestation featured a line where Mr. Drummond says that he's going to have a "hand to butt talk" with Arnold after learning that the boy has been drinking wine. Normally, the line would be a funny allusion to spanking but considering the subject matter of the episode...
** The actor that played Dudley admitted that he was actually being molested by a family friend while filming the episode (making that ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' joke about how Principal Lewis's life was based on ''Series/DiffrentStrokes'' and he did have a friend who was molested by a bike shop owner and is now messed-up because of it just as awkward).

* ''Series/FamilyFeud'':
** On an episode, the question was something along the lines of "Name something people think of when they're depressed/have a problem." One of the unrevealed answers wound up being "suicide"; the episode was hosted by Ray Combs, who later committed suicide after being unceremoniously fired from the show, a string of show-business failures and an automobile accident which left him partially paralyzed. During the show, he even remarked, "No one should think of suicide." Bad survey group! Bad!"
** Combs committed suicide on June 2, 1996. 16 years later, on ''that same date'' in 2012, the show's original host Richard Dawson passed after a ''very'' sudden onset of esophageal cancer.

* ''Series/{{Flipper}}'' in its entirety can become one of these once you learn that Kathy, the dolphin who usually played Flipper, died - possibly even ''died of suicide'' - in the arms of her trainer, Ric O'Barry and that O'Barry now campaigns heavily against dolphin captivity.

** In one episode, Creator/DonaldTrump and then-wife Marla Maples appeared as a happy couple. First of all, the couple later divorced and Trump re-married. Second of all, Trump made a tounge-in-cheek remark that everybody's always blaming him for something. Jump to his surprising inauguration as President of the United States.

** When Joey auditions for the lead of a new detective show, he tells his friends not to get their hopes up, as he isn't sure if he's good enough to carry his own TV show. [[Series/{{Joey}} Turns out he was right]].

** Early seasons show frequent shots of the World Trade Center, which speaks for itself...

* In one episode of ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', the girls are talking about how they'll continue to support each other through their waning years. Rose, played by Creator/BettyWhite, then poses the question: "What happens when there's only one of us left?" Flash forward to the [=2020s=], when Betty White ''is'' the only one left...
** Right after Rose raises the aforementioned question, Sophia, played by Estelle Getty, responds: "Don't worry. I can take care of myself." Of the four actresses who play the main characters in this series, Estelle Getty, who died in 2008, was the first to go – which is doubly impactful when you consider that while Sophia was the oldest ''character'', Getty was the second youngest of the main cast and made up to look much older than she really was.
** In an episode that first aired on December 21, 1985, Sophia tempers Rose's excitement over borrowing Blanche's flashy car, noting that is isn't "a seat on the Space Shuttle." About five weeks later, on January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger exploded on launch, killing all seven aboard, and the Space Shuttle program was grounded for two years.

%%* ''Series/HeyDad'' - Basically every scene between star Robert Hughes and one of his young daughters is beyond {{Squick}} now. Don't expect reruns any time soon.

* ''Series/{{iCarly}}'': A very literal example occurred in the episode "iPsycho", in which Nora's birthday goes horribly wrong when her clown has an aneurysm and dies. In 2012, a clown abruptly died of a heart attack at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

* ''I Love the Holidays'': Weird Al's advice on [[DoNotCallMePaul never calling Dick Clark Richard]] seems rather harsh after Clark's death in 2012.
* ''I Love the New Millennium'': In Creator/VH1's show, while discussing Rihanna's "Umbrella", the commentators note how she was discovered by Jay-z. Cue the joke about how [[DomesticAbuse Beyonce will probably want to beat Rihanna with an umbrella.]]
* The premiere episode of ''Series/{{Invasion}}'' -- which takes place in the midst of a powerful hurricane in Florida -- was aired several weeks after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita ravaged the Gulf Coast, prompting ABC to air a disclaimer at the start of the broadcast and to pull hurricane-themed promos for the show.

* ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'': In March 2007, [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome there was a tie for first place between all 3 contestants]] , making it the first non-zero three-way tie in Jeopardy history. Though in November 2014, [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks Jeopardy producers removed the co-champion rule]], somewhat negating its impact.
** One of the answers on the May 19, 2020 show was "Bruce Wayne is missing and Creator/RubyRose dons the cowl as this title CW show who's no mere girl." The show is ''Series/Batwoman2019.'' This episode, taped in advance, aired the ''same day'' that Ruby Rose announced she was not returning for ''Batwoman'' season two.
* In one episode of ''Series/{{Jessie}}'' Zuri remarked "We're going to be taking care of him in our old age" in regards to her brother Luke. Luke's actor Cameron Boyce died from a seizure at the age of 20.

* ''Series/JoeBuckLive'' On the infamous first episode of Joe Buck Live, Artie Lange quips "There's 80 websites predicting my death in a week, artielangesgonnadie.com. After his suicide attempt in 2010, that joke is just not the same.

** In "Peggy Sue Got Work", Peggy gets a job in a department store to earn money for a VCR after Al refuses to buy her one. While working, she overhears a customer talking about Oprah doing a whole week on "Transsexuals: Which Bathroom Should They Use?" No longer funny after 2016 when this very issue became a national controversy.
** A ninth-season episode has the NEA being dismantled after the work of an idiot (Al's shoe films). [[http://www.npr.org/2017/03/16/520401246/trumps-budget-plan-cuts-funding-for-arts-humanities-and-public-media Fast-forward to 2017...]]

* ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'': In Series Two, Guinevere confronts Arthur with his bad manners and asks: "would it kill you to say please and thank you once in a while?" [[spoiler:Fast-forward to the GrandFinale and guess what Arthur's last words to Merlin are? Yup, "hold me please", and "thank you." Apparently saying it ''does'' kill him.]]

* ''Series/TheMiddle'': In the fifth season, a RunningGag in "The Award" has Sue being mistaken for an exchange student from Ukraine. The episode, obviously written and filmed months earlier, aired the week after serious political unrest in Ukraine, including the deaths of dozens of protesters in the streets of Kiev, forced the country's president to flee.

** At one point in the episode "Mork The Practical Joker", Mork is acting overly-dramatic to Mindy's practical jokes and gasps "Oh, oh my heart", which is extremely cringe-worthy after Creator/RobinWilliams' heart surgery in 2009.
** "Mork And Mindy Meet Rick And Ruby" where Mork sings a song called "This Heart Is Closed For Alterations". [[BlackComedy Actually it was opened for alterations]], in Robin Williams' case.

** The extremely popular song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZyJCV_dyug Let's Have a Patrick Swayze Christmas]]" seemed slightly less funny during the 2009 holiday season, three months after Patrick Swayze died. But Swayze himself got a kick out of the sketch, which makes it okay, if a bit wistful.

* Just averted as a March, 2020 episode of ''Series/NewAmsterdam'' was to focus on the plotline of a deadly "superflu" hitting New York and overwhelming the hospital with Daniel Dae Kim guest-starring. It was pulled because it would have aired right in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic...and Kim caught the disease himself.

** One episode had an actor who played a [[Radio/TheLoneRanger Lone Ranger]]-esque character who was upset about a new, grittier movie that went completely against what his show/movies were about. He threatened to kill himself with a suspended air conditioner. In the end, it all worked out because the movie bombed with audiences, so the old guy wins a moral victory. In 2013, a DarkerAndEdgier [[Film/TheLoneRanger2013 film adaptation]] of ''The Lone Ranger'' was made by Disney, and was also poorly received. This would seem HilariousInHindsight, except for the fact that Disney's ''Lone Ranger'' is on track to becoming one of the biggest {{Box Office Bomb}}s of all time. (Or maybe it's the [[WesternAnimation/DespicableMe2 Minions]] that bombed The Lone Ranger?)
** Also, the episode was a case at the time of RippedFromTheHeadlines, as the "Red Ranger" story was a AffectionateParody of the troubles that Clayton Moore had suffered at the hands of the movie studio that produced the 1981 bomb ''Film/TheLegendOfTheLoneRanger'' (which was also DarkerAndEdgier than Moore's original TV series). The studio had forbidden Moore, after legal action, to dress as the Lone Ranger, a character he loved appearing as.

* ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse'': Ah, the star-studded Christmas special of 1988. It starts as one of the most heartwarming specials of the 1980's until Pee Wee has Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello making Christmas cards for him. Pee Wee repeatedly chastises them for not working fast enough, and when they ask for food, he gives them bread and water. This joke stopped being funny in 1991 when Funicello announced she had multiple sclerosis and is even less funny since she died.

* ''Series/PoliceSquad'', short as it was, intended to do a CouchGag where they would introduce a special guest star... ''and then immediately kill them off'' as a play on "15 seconds of fame". They had wanted to make each act unique and amusing, but the humor stopped quite abruptly when one of the guests chosen for the gag, Creator/JohnBelushi, ''died for real''. In order to avoid this trope, they had to hire another guest very quickly, and they didn't have time or resources to remake the original kill-off scene, forcing them to break their pattern and repeat a simpler scene they could do in a pinch.

* One recurring sketch on the Canadian sketch show ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'' is "The Possum Lodge Word Game", which parodies the game show ''Series/{{Password}}'', in that Red tries to get a member of Possum Lodge to say a certain word to win a prize. In one episode, one lodge member, animal control officer Ed Frid, had to say "duck", and one of Red's clues went as follows (which ultimately makes fun of a certain celebrity-turned-U.S. President)...
-->'''Red:''' This is a cartoon character, real wacky: [[WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck Donald...]]\\
'''Ed:''' [[Creator/DonaldTrump ...Trump]].
** Although, depending on one's thoughts and feelings about someone as polarizing as Donald Trump, especially as U.S. President, it is debatable whether this counts as a "Funny Aneurysm" Moment or if it's more an example of HilariousInHindsight.

* ''Series/TheResident'' episode "So Long, Dawn Long" ends with a doctor realizing a deadly superfungus is loose in the hospital and infecting doctors and parients. The episode aired on March 17th, 2020....right as the Coronavirus pandemic was covering the globe.

* ''Series/Room101'':
** Beloved BBC Radio DJ John Peel's 2002 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1J07D6gSik appearance]] made for a very sweet and funny episode, which is also very sad to watch now, since one of his nominated items was death, and he spends a lot of the time talking about his eventual death and how he would or wouldn't like to go. He died suddenly in 2004.
** In one episode, Nick Hancock lists Jimmy Savile as one of the worst things in the world. It feels less like a joke now that Savile has been outed as a child molester.

* ''Series/RoundTheTwist'': In "Santa Claws", Mr. Snapper berates Pete for wearing a face mask, even though he has a reason for wearing it (he claims it is because he has lost his voice, but it is actually because his mouth has shrunk [[spoiler:as a result of Linda wishing he "didn't have such a big mouth"]]). Fast forward over 30 years, and in the Australian state of Victoria, where ''Round the Twist'' takes place, face masks have become mandatory as a result of [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic COVID-19]], possibly until well after the pandemic is over. As such, everyone ''but'' Pete would be berated for ''not'' wearing one without a good reason.
* ''Series/SamAndCat'': In "[=#FavoriteShow=]," Sam and Cat's beloved ''That's A Drag'' is abruptly axed despite being a big hit, and they want to know what kind of network would cancel a show under those circumstances. Answer: Nickelodeon, which wound up giving ''Sam & Cat'' itself the same treatment the following year.

** Kevin Clash's 20+ years as Elmo's puppeteer are forever tainted by the scandals that forced him to quit the show.

** One episode in TheNineties had a {{Trumplica}} named "Grump", a real-estate developer who threatened to demolish Sesame Street to make room for a business tower before ultimately having a change of heart. In 2016, the real Trump became President of the United States, and one of his first acts was to threaten to cut funding for public broadcasting, putting ''Sesame Street'' in jeopardy for real.

** The first episode of the seventh series featured a smutty joke told by Naomi relating to the "Boris Bikes" promoted by London Mayor Boris Johnson. Four days after the show was broadcast, a female cyclist died in a collision with a lorry whilst riding one of the bikes.

** One of the wacky, self-referential MilestoneCelebration episodes had Martin Lloyd mention that it had been suggested that he go with a younger, hipper version of his fictionalized SG-1 for the movie he was making. We get an ImagineSpot to a hilarious soap-operatic version of Stargate, with Teal'c as ThePornomancer, people stopping to randomly make out during scenes when they really shouldn't, and Vala randomly telling Daniel she's pregnant. Then all other Franchise/StargateVerse projects are flushed in favor of ''Series/StargateUniverse,'' which... seems like they used that scene as a blueprint for a new series without realizing it was supposed to be a joke. Now that SGU has failed (it lasted less than two seasons before its unceremonious cancellation), ''all'' other Stargate projects are [[FranchiseKiller on indefinite hiatus]]. Suddenly, ''200'' isn't nearly as funny as it was when it came out.

* ''Series/Studio60OnTheSunsetStrip'': The show's producer breaks into a live sketch and rants about the terrible state of American culture, and is especially livid about a reality show where the object is to behave like ''Donald Trump''. No-one tell him...
* ''Series/{{Succession}}'': The entire Waystar board schemes to "kill Bill" by making him take the fall for the cruise ship rapes and other crimes in "D.C." during a Senate hearing. The actor who played Bill, Mark Blum, died of coronavirus in March 2020 before Season 3.

* ''Series/SurpriseSurprise'', an Creator/{{ITV}} LongRunner, is prone to this trope ever since the 2012 ReTool/ContinuityReBoot with HollyWilloughby. Given that this is now RealityTV, it makes one critic's write-up of it as "DudeNotFunny" seem eerily appropriate. It may have seemed like SnarkKnight back then, but now it's less funny.

** One syndicated episode parodying ''Series/CharliesAngels'', including the boys giving their reason for watching as "the hot blonde with the big rack", happened to air the day Creator/FarrahFawcett died.

* ''Twisted Tales'' has been the name for many anthology series over the years, but the 2005 [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] version included an episode written by and starring Creator/{{David Mitchell|Actor}} and Creator/RobertWebb entitled "Nothing to Fear", in which a pulp horror writer (Mitchell) suffering from writer's block is persuaded by his unemployed roommate (Webb) to recharge his batteries by staying at a tacky horror-themed guesthouse. As they arrive, they are accosted by a dishevelled Stuart Hall, former presenter of ''Series/ItsAKnockout'', who urges them to leave as the guesthouse is cursed, destroying the lives of all who stay in it. The use of Hall for this side of the story has become a lot less funny in the wake of his 2013 conviction and imprisonment for sexual offences against underage girls.

** One episode featured "Weird Newscasters". Wayne Brady, who is doing the sports, becomes Music/MichaelJackson, who is trying to show that he can still perform even if he is 100 years old. On [[http://www.tmz.com/2009/06/25/michael-jackson-dies-death-dead-cardiac-arrest/ June 25, 2009]], he only lived to half this age.

* On an episode of the PBS series ''Series/{{Zoom}}'' from 1999, the kids had a chat about where they'd be living in ten years. Cast member Jared jokingly said in ten years he'd be living in the sky. Jared was killed in a car accident in December, 2006 making his joke a lot less funny due to the newfound accuracy of his statement.

* For quite a long time there was a show in Argentina called ''Peter Capusotto y sus videos'', which showcases satires and sketches intertwined with musical videos, some of which [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs seem to be made under the effects of drugs]]. One of those sketches is called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wHBdexVM9E "Restaurant Uy! Nos Rompieron El Orto!"]][[note]]"Restaurant Ouch! They made our asses bleed!"[[/note]]. In 2008 it was a satire about restaurants' tendency to overprice their meals. Ten years later, the funny was gone with the inflation making ''day-to-day meals'' impossible to buy.

* ''Series/{{Tweenies}}'': In the episode "Favourite Songs", Max, one of the owners of the playgroup the titular characters attend, dresses up as Creator/JimmySavile to present a talent contest, complete with his mannerisms. What may have seemed like a homage to a well-loved TV personality in the early Noughties can be seen in a very different light now... The Creator/CBeebies channel even made the mistake of repeating it in January 2013, by which time the comedian's abuse had long came to light, causing [[TooSoon parents watching the show to complain that the episode was in poor taste]], leading to "Favourite Songs" becoming a BannedEpisode.

** In one episode, Creator/DonaldTrump and then-wife Marla Maples appeared as a happy couple. First of all, the couple later divorced and Trump re-married. Second of all, Trump made a tounge-in-cheek remark that everybody's always blaming him for something. Jump to his surprising inauguration as President of the United States and he became everyone's favorite punching bag whose entire life went under a microscope.

** Dave Karofsky's fake apology to the Glee club in season 2 mentions 'kids that got bullied so bad they hung themselves'. He becomes one of these kids in ''On My Way''.

* On the premiere of ''Holey Moley'', contestant Jared Gustavsen said he was "like the Kobe Bryant of miniature golf." A short time after this episode aired, Kobe Bryant and his daughter, and several others were killed in a helicopter crash.

* On the premiere of ''Holey Moley'', contestant Jared Gustavsen said he was "like the Kobe Bryant of mini-golf." A short time after this episode aired, Kobe Bryant and his daughter, and several others were killed in a helicopter crash.

* On the premiere of ''Holey Moley'', contestant Jared said he was "like the Kobe Bryant of mini-golf." A short time after this episode aired, Kobe Bryant and his daughter, and several others were killed in a helicopter crash.

* On the premiere of ''Holey Moley'', contestant Jared said he was "like the Kobe Bryant of mini-golf. A short time after this episode aired, Kobe Bryant and his daughter, and several others were killed in a helicopter crash.