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** The 2018 relaunch comes out of the gate swinging as Murphy responds to Donald Trump's Twitter attacks on her. "Bring it on. [=#DanQuayle=]!"
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** The 2018 relaunch comes out of the gate swinging as Murphy responds to Donald Trump's Twitter attacks on her. "Bring it on. [=#DanQuayle=]!"[=#DanQuayle=]!" Becomes somewhat HarsherInHindsight after the revival's one-season failure.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: The revival series used their fictional "Wolf Network" as a rather obvious stand in for the real life Fox News Channel, but the show referencing a Wolf Network actually predates Fox News entirely. The network first appeared in the episode "Contractions" which features Murphy's contract with ''FYI'' expiring and being lured away by the head of Wolf to spearhead their fledgling news division (this was a reference to the FOX ''Broadcasting'' Network, which debuted a few years prior in 1987.) The episode aired in 1991, five years before Fox News went on-air in 1996.
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** The revival series didn't fare a whole lot better, especially considering the series had frequent criticisms of the Trump administration and said administrations notoriously high turnaround of various positions. The most clear example would likely be the episode "I (Don't) Heart Huckabee," which involved a clash between Murphy and then-White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. They lucked out a little since Sanders was actually the longest-tenured of Trump's Press Secretaries, but even so, she left the job within a year of the episode airing.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In the episode where we meet Miles' radical left-wing activist parents, one of the reasons Miles claims his childhood was so miserable was because his parents didn't let him join the Boy Scouts due to his parents considering them a "fascist organization." Considering the later controversies involving the Scouts' discrimination against homosexuals and atheists, one wonders if they were RightForTheWrongReasons.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: HarsherInHindsight: In the episode where we meet Miles' radical left-wing activist parents, one of the reasons Miles claims his childhood was so miserable was because his parents didn't let him join the Boy Scouts due to his parents considering them a "fascist organization." Considering the later controversies involving the Scouts' discrimination against homosexuals and atheists, one wonders if they were RightForTheWrongReasons.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: A major reason why the series struggled to find any kind of life in syndication until it became old enough to be enjoyed as a nostalgia piece. Since so much of the series' humor is based around poking fun at the news of the day, audiences who don't remember smaller details of American politics at the time the episode aired may struggle to follow along. Why is this episode making so much hay about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_image_of_Bill_Clinton#%22Haircutgate%22 Bill Clinton getting a haircut]] anyways?
