Misused: Funny Aneurysm Moment

It seems that "Funny Aneurysm" Moment has been misused. From Other alone:

(Advertising)

• Commercials for health insurance, of all things, hosted by the late Billy Mays. - Doesn’t fit.
• As if the Mr. Bucket commercial wasn't bad enough by itself, it gets even worse after reading Homestuck. Buckets are very inappropriate in troll culture. - Doesn’t fit, the trope is about events in the same work or real life, not other works.
• The Target pharmacy ads would be a little more convincing if they didn't look so much like Dexter's ads minus the blood. - Doesn’t fit, the ads don’t even look similar anyway.
• Apple's '1984' advert, depicting IBM as a 1984-esque Big Brother figure, while these days, Apple are HUGE champions of Digital Restrictions Management and locking down devices so users can't use devices they own to their full capability. - Doesn’t fit.
• A 2010 ESPN "This is Sportscenter" ad featured mild-mannered Dwight Howard getting the story on how Superman saved Hannah Storm from a coffee machine that caught on fire (the joke, of course, being that Superman is Dwight Howard's alter ego). In December 2012, Storm received severe facial and upper body burns after a gas grill's propane tank exploded in her face. - Doesn’t fit.
• The Verizon commercials, where a guy is asking "Can you hear me now?" is made a little unnerving when the Obama Administration confirmed that they are indeed tracking phone calls. - Doesn’t fit.

(Stand-Up Comedy)

• Standup comedian Louis CK did a routine in his 2008 stand up special "Chewed Up" where he described his marriage as "almost done". Later that year, he and his wife divorced. - Dubious, it’s likely that his marriage was already struggling, hence the joke.

(Still Other Examples)

• In the Riff Trax of Batman & Robin, when Bane is charging through Arkham Asylum with Mr. Freeze's Power Armor in a shopping cart, the joke that's made is "Just like Wal-Mart on Black Friday." In 2008, a Wal-Mart employee was trampled to death on Black Friday. - Too common of a joke to fit.
• This fan-made poster for a live-action Fairly Oddparents movie is pretty hard to find funny now that the movie finally got made after being on the planning board for a long time. That Other Wiki claims that Wishology may have actually been originally planned as a cinema movie. - Doesn’t fit.

Opened.

That's cherry-picking. How is it on the whole?

One of my biggest frustrations with the wiki is "Funny Aneurysm" Moment examples that are "mortal writer or actor made some reference to death, then died." I swept those out of one of the subpages a while ago, but I gather they've come back — and you're right, that's the worst of it, but that sort of thing happens all the time. Tropers are overly eager to see "FA"Ms

edited 14th Sep '14 5:52:45 PM by HersheleOstropoler

I think that's common with all tropes that are a reference to something (in this case basically a seemingly unintentional reference to the future). Same with Expy and Shout-Out.

Some of these examples, namely those where the "Aneurysm" happens in a later installment of the work rather than Real Life should be moved to Harsher in Hindsight.

I assume you mean instances of something tragic being made even more so, rather than something funny turning tragic.

A lot of the "Doesn't Fit" examples in OP seem... perfectly fitting. The ones where OP describes why they don't fit are mostly correct, but the vanilla "Doesn't fit" fails to explain anything.

Well the trope is supposed to be "A humorous moment is rendered less humorous via real life or in universe developments." The trope namer from Buffy is that she makes a joke that her mom was going to have an aneurysm after seeing the costs of her college textbooks, and a year and a half later her mom dies from an aneurysm. I think the misuse tends to be along the lines of:

• Irrelevant "actor died since a particular joke" references, regardless if the actor was even IN a show in question (like say a Family Guy joke at Robin Williams expense). The problem with that mindset is that the argument "It makes it harder to watch now" would apply to the actors entire career after they died, and would fade with time. The only exception is if it is oddly prophetic (referencing the person dying in a specific way) or timely (like Dragon The Bruce Lee Story and Brandon Lee's death on the set of The Crow).
• Nothing is really comedic in origin or harsh in retrospect, just sort of an interesting coincidence or factoid. That's the Apple 1984 commercial example, in fact it is more humorous in retrospect rather than harsh.
• Really broad connections that have almost nothing related to each other except the joke. Like the Black Friday trampling joke and having it happen in real life. It's actually not the first time it's happened, hence the joke about it.

I think people may not be clear on the distinction between this and Harsher in Hindsight.

The difference being that in "Funny Aneurysm" Moment the scene was funny or light-hearted, whereas in Harsher in Hindsight it's already harsh.

Clock is set.

Clock expired with no progress; locking up.