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MightyJAK
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11:32:44 AM Mar 10th 2010
From the archive:
Caphi: Can we please rename this? I can never remember the name because it appears to be a slightly obscure reference to a show I don't watch.
I know this trope already has a few alt titles, but I would like to suggest one more: "Morbid In Hindsight".
FastEddie
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11:38:56 AM Mar 10th 2010
Bring it up in the Trope Repair Shop forum.
JDCyrus
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05:08:31 PM Aug 13th 2010
What is the page image referring to?
98.246.136.200
12:13:04 PM Sep 28th 2010
It refers to the Fred from "Sanford and Son" who would always fake having a heart attack to get out from under pressure of any sort. Naturally, Redd Foxx (the actor) died of a heart attack in real life later, making all those scenes very ironic. Worse, because of his role, no one believed it was a real attack initially, which may have sealed his fate.

I think we also need an explanation for Rock Hudson, Woody and Mia, and Taylor and Burton or to cut them out. I got the Woody and Mia real life drama, but I've never seen "Husbands and Wives" to properly explain the contrast, and I didn't recognize the other three. (Some reading of The Other Wiki helps with the other three, which are all pretty dated references, but I'm not sure how these are examples of being unfunny in retrospect as opposed to just having ironic contrast. At least Woody Allen's movie was a comedy.)
86.175.1.224
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07:04:54 AM Sep 19th 2010
I believe this article should be split, as there are two distinct types of example:

Type I: Something funny is made morbid due to events that later occurred in real life. Type II: Something funny is made morbid due to events that later occurred in the plot of the show itself.

I think these are two distinct tropes. Type I can never have been intentional, whereas Type II (I suspect) frequently are - even if it wasn't intentional when the funny thing was written, I suspect that the morbid events are often written with the previous funny event in mind (for example, I suspect the Trope Namer of being a deliberate reference to earlier in the series).

I think we should keep Funny Aneurysm Moment to refer to Type I Is, and use the alt-name suggested above, Morbid In Hindsight, to refer to Type Is. What do people think?
blgl
11:10:09 AM Dec 23rd 2010
Slightly less work: sort all examples by type and create Type I and Type II sections in each subpage.
Failure1
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06:34:43 PM Mar 20th 2011
Considering what happened recently in Japan, would this be considered a Funny Aneurysm Moment?

http://artoftrolling.memebase.com/2011/03/18/pokemon-troll-its-super-effective/
MrDeath
08:16:51 AM Mar 21st 2011
No. A Funny Aneurysm Moment has to happen before the event that makes it cringeworthy. This was someone making a joke directly about the earthquake and tsunami.
AltoonaMan
10:39:58 AM Aug 21st 2011
That's just Dude Not Funny.

A Funny Aneurysm Moment is one that's meant to be funny at the time, a better example would be a tsunami in a cartoon headed for Japan from the 90s. Dude Not Funny is when someone plays something for laughs that shouldn't be, this one was about the earthquake after the fact, not a joke about something like it beforehand.
Smasher
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06:04:50 PM Jan 25th 2012
Can we give 9/11 its own page? There's tons of examples on most pages relating to it.
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