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** Part of "The Games Underfoot" episode is people searching for a cache of videogames that the manufacturer buried during TheEighties because of the negative reception, which is a reference to thousands of copies of the infamously bad ''VideoGame/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames licensed game]] that Creator/{{Atari}} buried in a trash dump during the UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 and its rediscovery that was chronicled by the ''Film/AtariGameOver'' documentary.
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** Part of "The Games Underfoot" episode is people searching for a cache of videogames that the manufacturer buried during TheEighties because of the negative reception, which is a reference to thousands of copies of the infamously bad ''VideoGame/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames licensed game]] that Creator/{{Atari}} buried in a trash dump during the UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 MediaNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 and its rediscovery that was chronicled by the ''Film/AtariGameOver'' documentary.
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* ''Series/TheShield'': [[spoiler:The ultimate fate of the Vendrell family was not in the first draft of the finale. Shawn Ryan added it after reading about wrestler Chris Benoit murdering his wife and son before killing himself.]]
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* ''Series/TheShield'': [[spoiler:The ultimate fate of the Vendrell family was not in the first draft of the finale. Shawn Ryan added it after reading about wrestler Chris Benoit murdering his wife and son before killing himself.]]]] The show itself is largely based on the LAPD Ramparts and CRASH scandal.
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* ''Series/TheWire'' is based largely on the experiences of David Simon working as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun, and Ed Burns as a police officer and teacher in the city, and the show also hired real, reformed Baltimore underworld figures to both consult and play bit roles. Starting in season 3, a number of high-up drug dealers start the New Day Co-op, a co-operative to share the costs and profits from the drug trade and to sort out differences without violence. There was a real, albeit smaller scale, drug dealing operation that ran out of a grocery co-operative known as The New Day Co-op in Baltimore.
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* ''Series/Accused2023'': The incident which sparks the plot is clearly based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville_car_attack vehicular murder]] where Neo-Nazi James Alex Fields, Jr. used his car to ram protesters against the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which injured protester Heather Hayer fatally. Here, the victim is a black man (who survives) however, with the incident occurring in New York City.
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* ''Series/Accused2023'': ''Series/{{Accused|2023}}'': The incident which sparks the plot is clearly based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville_car_attack vehicular murder]] where Neo-Nazi James Alex Fields, Jr. used his car to ram protesters against the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which injured protester Heather Hayer fatally. Here, the victim is a black man (who survives) however, with the incident occurring in New York City.
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* ''Series/WKRPInCincinnati'': The 1980 episode "In Concert," in the wake of a tragic incident at a December 1979 Music/TheWho concert in (where else) Cincinnati, where 11 people were trampled to death in a stampede prior to the concert. The real-life events are set within the context of the show's fictional universe, with station personnel engaged in their usual banter and fun and games in promoting the concert in the first act, and then coming to grips with the events of the concert in the second act and vowing to call for action. The episode went on to earn critical acclaim from many who saw the episode, calling to attention a dangerous phenomenon that had fortunately never happened anywhere else.
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* ''Series/WKRPInCincinnati'': The 1980 episode "In Concert," in the wake of a tragic incident at a December 1979 Music/TheWho concert in (where else) Cincinnati, where 11 people were trampled to death in a stampede prior to the concert. The real-life events are set within the context of the show's fictional universe, with station personnel engaged in their usual banter and fun and games in promoting the concert in the first act, and then coming to grips with the events of the concert in the second act and vowing to call for action. The episode went on to earn critical acclaim from many who saw the episode, calling to attention a dangerous phenomenon that had fortunately never happened anywhere else.else.
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** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E37KingNineWillNotReturn King Nine Will Not Return]]" was inspired by the story of the ''Lady Be Good'', a World War II bomber which crashed in the Libyan desert on April 4, 1943, but was rediscovered in 1958, only two years before this episode aired. The missing crew likewise refers to the missing crew of the ''Lady Be Good'', who were later discovered to have perished trekking across the desert under the mistaken belief they were near the Mediterranean Sea, instead of over 400 miles inland. Finally, the date on Sgt. William F. Kline's grave is April 5, 1943, the day after that the ''Lady Be Good'' vanished.
** Creator/RodSerling wrote "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E68TheShelter The Shelter]]" in direct response to the social discourse and anxieties during the ongoing Berlin Crisis.
** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E74DeathsHeadRevisited Deaths-Head Revisited]]" was inspired by the capture and ongoing trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the main architects of UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust.
** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E113TheParallel The Parallel]]" was inspired by John Glenn becoming the first American to orbit Earth aboard the ''Friendship 7'' on February 20, 1962.
** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E156TheBewitchinPool The Bewitchin' Pool]]" was inspired by Earl Hamner, Jr. reading about the increasing divorce rate for married couples and its effects on children in the San Fernando Valley of California.
** Creator/RodSerling wrote "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E68TheShelter The Shelter]]" in direct response to the social discourse and anxieties during the ongoing Berlin Crisis.
** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E74DeathsHeadRevisited Deaths-Head Revisited]]" was inspired by the capture and ongoing trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the main architects of UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust.
** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E113TheParallel The Parallel]]" was inspired by John Glenn becoming the first American to orbit Earth aboard the ''Friendship 7'' on February 20, 1962.
** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E156TheBewitchinPool The Bewitchin' Pool]]" was inspired by Earl Hamner, Jr. reading about the increasing divorce rate for married couples and its effects on children in the San Fernando Valley of California.
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** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E37KingNineWillNotReturn "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E1KingNineWillNotReturn King Nine Will Not Return]]" was inspired by the story of the ''Lady Be Good'', a World War II bomber which crashed in the Libyan desert on April 4, 1943, but was rediscovered in 1958, only two years before this episode aired. The missing crew likewise refers to the missing crew of the ''Lady Be Good'', who were later discovered to have perished trekking across the desert under the mistaken belief they were near the Mediterranean Sea, instead of over 400 miles inland. Finally, the date on Sgt. William F. Kline's grave is April 5, 1943, the day after that the ''Lady Be Good'' vanished.
** Creator/RodSerling wrote"[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E68TheShelter "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E3TheShelter The Shelter]]" in direct response to the social discourse and anxieties during the ongoing Berlin Crisis.
**"[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E74DeathsHeadRevisited "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E9DeathsHeadRevisited Deaths-Head Revisited]]" was inspired by the capture and ongoing trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the main architects of UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust.
**"[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E113TheParallel "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E11TheParallel The Parallel]]" was inspired by John Glenn becoming the first American to orbit Earth aboard the ''Friendship 7'' on February 20, 1962.
**"[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E156TheBewitchinPool "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E36TheBewitchinPool The Bewitchin' Pool]]" was inspired by Earl Hamner, Jr. reading about the increasing divorce rate for married couples and its effects on children in the San Fernando Valley of California.
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* ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration''
** Season 3, In one of the series' many GayAesop stories, Marco's shoes get stolen when he's the victim of a hate crime, much like Matt Sheppard, only not as lethal.
** Season 13, In a plot that seems to be blatantly following this trope, basketball player Miles and his best friend are shown taking photos of and carrying Zoë (who is inebriated and unconscious) into the pool house where she is later recorded being raped by unknown assailants, resembling the Steubenville rape case. [[spoiler:The rapists turn out to be members of the hockey team, again similar to the Steubenville case (in which they were football players).]]
** Season 3, In one of the series' many GayAesop stories, Marco's shoes get stolen when he's the victim of a hate crime, much like Matt Sheppard, only not as lethal.
** Season 13, In a plot that seems to be blatantly following this trope, basketball player Miles and his best friend are shown taking photos of and carrying Zoë (who is inebriated and unconscious) into the pool house where she is later recorded being raped by unknown assailants, resembling the Steubenville rape case. [[spoiler:The rapists turn out to be members of the hockey team, again similar to the Steubenville case (in which they were football players).]]
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*** Shane jumps off a bridge while on acid, much like Benji Hayward, a 14 year-old boy who did the same thing after a Pink Floyd show in Toronto. However, while Shane survived (albeit with significant brain injuries), Benji died.
** ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration''
** *** Season 3, In one of the series' many GayAesop stories, Marco's shoes get stolen when he's the victim of a hate crime, much like Matt Sheppard, only not as lethal.
** *** Season 13, In a plot that seems to be blatantly following this trope, basketball player Miles and his best friend are shown taking photos of and carrying Zoë (who is inebriated and unconscious) into the pool house where she is later recorded being raped by unknown assailants, resembling the Steubenville rape case. [[spoiler:The rapists turn out to be members of the hockey team, again similar to the Steubenville case (in which they were football players).]]
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*** Shane jumps off a bridge while on acid, much like Benji Hayward, a 14 year-old boy who did the same thing after a Pink Floyd show in Toronto. However, while Shane survived (albeit with significant brain injuries), Benji died.
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** Another episode features Frasier endorsing a politician who confides in him that he believes he's been abducted by aliens. When Bulldog tells Frasier the next day that a scandal involving aliens has hit the press, Frasier tries to defend the candidate on the radio, only to find out the scandal was about him allegedly employing illegal aliens (although it turned out he was just providing housing for foreign exchange students). This is inspired by both the "Nannygate" scandal, in which not one but two of UsefulNotes/BillClinton's Attorney General nominees were found to be employing illegal immigrants as part of a tax evasion scheme and UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter's claimed UFO encounter.
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* ''Series/AllRise''
** Season 3 episode 2 "The Game" is clearly based on the real life case of Trevor Bauer
** Season 3 episode 2 "The Game" is clearly based on the real life case of Trevor Bauer
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* ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': "Hitler on the Half-Shell" bears a strong resemblance to the 2013 reports of a vast trove of art stolen by the Nazis being confiscated from the son of Nazi art thief Hildebrand Gurlitt, who had inherited the works. The son, Cornelius Gurlitt, left all of the art in his will to a museum in Switzerland.
