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** '''''Three minutes''''' before the death of Creator/RobinWilliams was announced in August 2014, BBC Three aired the ''Family Guy'' episode "Family Guy Viewer Mail #2," which has the story "Fatman and Robin," in which Peter wishes that everything he touched turned to Robin Williams, which leads to Peter attempting suicide several times over how annoying Williams' comedy is. Making matters worse, the episode ends with Peter cutting off his hands at the wrists (preventing himself from turning any more people into Robin Williams) which was one of Williams' attempted suicide methods in real life.[[http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/robin-williams-family-guy-episode-4040030 Soon, negative comments flooded the internet about this coincidence]], and BBC banned it from ever airing again on their network. Creator/AdultSwim had the episode planned on their schedule on the day Robin Williams died too, but pulled the episode ahead of time and aired another one; the episode wouldn't return to rotation to either network until November 2017.

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** '''''Three minutes''''' before the death of Creator/RobinWilliams was announced in August 2014, BBC Three aired the ''Family Guy'' episode "Family Guy Viewer Mail #2," which has the story "Fatman and Robin," in which Peter wishes that everything he touched turned to Robin Williams, which leads to Peter attempting suicide several times over how annoying Williams' comedy is. Making matters worse, the episode ends with Peter cutting off his hands at the wrists (preventing himself from turning any more people into Robin Williams) which was one of Williams' attempted suicide methods in real life. [[http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/robin-williams-family-guy-episode-4040030 Soon, negative comments flooded the internet about this coincidence]], and BBC banned it from ever airing again on their network. Creator/AdultSwim had the episode planned on their schedule on the day Robin Williams died too, but pulled the episode ahead of time and aired another one; the episode wouldn't return to rotation to either network until November 2017.
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** Three minutes before the death of Creator/RobinWilliams was announced in August 2014, BBC Three aired the ''Family Guy'' episode "Family Guy Viewer Mail #2," which has the story "Fatman and Robin," in which Peter wishes that everything he touched turned to Robin Williams, which leads to Peter attempting suicide several times over how annoying Williams' comedy is. Making matters worse, the episode ends with Peter cutting off his hands at the wrists (preventing himself from turning any more people into Robin Williams) which was one of Williams' attempted suicide methods in real life.[[http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/robin-williams-family-guy-episode-4040030 Soon, negative comments flooded the internet about this coincidence]], and BBC banned it from ever airing again on their network. Creator/AdultSwim had the episode planned on their schedule on the day Robin Williams died too, but pulled the episode ahead of time and aired another one; the episode wouldn't return to rotation to either network until November 2017.

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** Three minutes '''''Three minutes''''' before the death of Creator/RobinWilliams was announced in August 2014, BBC Three aired the ''Family Guy'' episode "Family Guy Viewer Mail #2," which has the story "Fatman and Robin," in which Peter wishes that everything he touched turned to Robin Williams, which leads to Peter attempting suicide several times over how annoying Williams' comedy is. Making matters worse, the episode ends with Peter cutting off his hands at the wrists (preventing himself from turning any more people into Robin Williams) which was one of Williams' attempted suicide methods in real life.[[http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/robin-williams-family-guy-episode-4040030 Soon, negative comments flooded the internet about this coincidence]], and BBC banned it from ever airing again on their network. Creator/AdultSwim had the episode planned on their schedule on the day Robin Williams died too, but pulled the episode ahead of time and aired another one; the episode wouldn't return to rotation to either network until November 2017.
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* After the July 20th, 2012 Aurora movie theater massacre, the then-in-development ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'' series was heavily edited before it's premiere so that all instances of realistic guns were changed to FamilyFriendlyFirearms.

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* After the July 20th, 2012 Aurora movie theater massacre, massacre during a midnight showing of ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', the then-in-development ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'' series was heavily edited before it's premiere so that all instances of realistic guns were changed to FamilyFriendlyFirearms.
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* After the July 2012 Aurora movie theater massacre, the then-in-development ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'' series was heavily edited so that all instances of realistic guns were changed to FamilyFriendlyFirearms.

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* After the July 20th, 2012 Aurora movie theater massacre, the then-in-development ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'' series was heavily edited before it's premiere so that all instances of realistic guns were changed to FamilyFriendlyFirearms.
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* The premiere of ''WesternAnimation/FatherOfThePride'' was delayed after Roy Horn's injury in October 2003. Instead of being a mid-season replacement as originally intended, it aired in the fall of 2004.

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* The premiere of ''WesternAnimation/FatherOfThePride'' was delayed after Roy Horn's injury in on October 3, 2003. Instead of being a mid-season replacement as originally intended, it aired in the fall of on August 31, 2004.
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** ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'' episode "Never Roar Again" was delayed from June 24th, 2016 to November 2016 after the incident at Walt Disney World's Grand Floridian hotel in which a child was killed by an alligator since a crocodile character played a major role in the episode.

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** ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'' episode "Never Roar Again" was delayed from June 24th, 2016 to November 18th, 2016 after the incident at Walt Disney World's Grand Floridian hotel in which a child was killed by an alligator since a crocodile character played a major role in the episode.
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** An episode about a church being burned down[[note]]Season 3's "Revenge of the Lutefisk" where Bobby accidentally burns the church after he throws up in the bathroom and tries to use a match to cover the smell, but Cotton gets blamed because of his sexist remarks about a woman being a pastor[[/note]] aired the ''same day'' as the Columbine shootings. It was not broadcast in the Denver area or rerun there for quite some time, until re-entering the air in that area after "Wings of the Dope"[[note]]an episode that actually helped a survivor of the Columbine massacre[[/note]] aired, as mentioned below.
** The episodes about the Mega Lo Mart explosion and [[spoiler:Buckley's death]], as well as one in which Bill is suicidally depressed, were shelved from reruns in that area for a while, too. In fact, two of the four remaining episodes of the show's third season - specifically, the episode in which Peggy visits a death row inmate and the episode with [[spoiler:Buckley]]'s angel - were almost not broadcast at all in Denver. However, they were ultimately permitted to air, and at least [[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1330542-i-don-t-get-as-much-fan-mail-as-an-actor one of them proved helpful]] to a young woman who had lost a friend[[note]] who turned out to be one of the shooters[[/note]] in the shooting, and those mentioned episodes later re-entered the air in the Denver area.
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** Reruns of the ''WesternAnimation/BluesCluesAndYou'' episode "Getting Healthy With Blue" were pulled beginning in May 2020 because the episode dealt with Josh getting sick. It still appears on streaming and DVD releases, though. The episode would finally air again on November 10, 2022.

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** Reruns of the ''WesternAnimation/BluesCluesAndYou'' episode "Getting Healthy With Blue" were pulled beginning in May 2020 because the episode dealt with Josh getting sick. It still appears on streaming and DVD releases, though. The episode would finally air again on November 10, 2022.

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* In ''A Wild Hare'', one of the first Bugs Bunny cartoons and the first cartoon to use the finalized Bugs vs. Elmer format, Bugs covers Elmer's eyes from behind and asks him to guess who. Elmer guesses Creator/CaroleLombard. A year later, Lombard died in a tragic plane crash, and a new line where Elmer instead guessed Creator/BarbaraStanwyck was recorded and used in all subsequent releases of the short.

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In ''A Wild Hare'', one of the first Bugs Bunny cartoons and the first cartoon to use the finalized Bugs vs. Elmer format, Bugs covers Elmer's eyes from behind and asks him to guess who. Elmer guesses Creator/CaroleLombard. A year later, Lombard died in a tragic plane crash, and a new line where Elmer instead guessed Creator/BarbaraStanwyck was recorded and used in all subsequent releases of the short.
** Similarly, one of the first cartoons to feature Yosemite Sam, 1948's "Bugs Bunny Rides Again", has Sam's first line when he enters the saloon calling himself "...the roughest, toughest he-man stuffest hombre that's ever crossed the Rio Grande, and I don't mean UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi". Around the time of the short's original release, Gandhi was assassinated; resulting in the last part of that line being changed to "...and I ain't no namby-pamby".
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** Reruns of the ''WesternAnimation/BluesCluesAndYou'' episode "Getting Healthy With Blue" were pulled beginning in May 2020 because the episode dealt with Josh getting sick. It still appears on streaming and DVD releases, though. The episode would finally air on November 10, 2022.

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** Reruns of the ''WesternAnimation/BluesCluesAndYou'' episode "Getting Healthy With Blue" were pulled beginning in May 2020 because the episode dealt with Josh getting sick. It still appears on streaming and DVD releases, though. The episode would finally air again on November 10, 2022.
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** An episode about a church being burned down[[note]]Season 3's "Revenge of the Lutefisk" where Bobby accidentally burns the church after he throws up in the bathroom and tries to use a match to cover the smell, but Cotton gets blamed because of his sexist remarks about a woman being a pastor[[/note]] aired the ''same day'' as the Columbine shootings. It was not broadcast in the Denver area or rerun there for quite some time, until re-entering the air in that area after "Wings of the Dope"[[note]]an episode that actually helped a survivor of the Columbine massacre[[/note]] aired.
** The episodes about the Mega Lo Mart explosion and [[spoiler:Buckley's death]], as well as one in which Bill is suicidally depressed, were shelved from reruns in that area for a while, too. In fact, two of the four remaining episodes of the show's third season - specifically, the episode in which Peggy visits a death row inmate and the episode with [[spoiler:Buckley]]'s angel - were almost not broadcast at all in Denver. However, they were ultimately permitted to air, and at least [[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1330542-i-don-t-get-as-much-fan-mail-as-an-actor one of them proved helpful]] to a young woman who had lost a friend in the shooting.

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** An episode about a church being burned down[[note]]Season 3's "Revenge of the Lutefisk" where Bobby accidentally burns the church after he throws up in the bathroom and tries to use a match to cover the smell, but Cotton gets blamed because of his sexist remarks about a woman being a pastor[[/note]] aired the ''same day'' as the Columbine shootings. It was not broadcast in the Denver area or rerun there for quite some time, until re-entering the air in that area after "Wings of the Dope"[[note]]an episode that actually helped a survivor of the Columbine massacre[[/note]] aired.
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** The episodes about the Mega Lo Mart explosion and [[spoiler:Buckley's death]], as well as one in which Bill is suicidally depressed, were shelved from reruns in that area for a while, too. In fact, two of the four remaining episodes of the show's third season - specifically, the episode in which Peggy visits a death row inmate and the episode with [[spoiler:Buckley]]'s angel - were almost not broadcast at all in Denver. However, they were ultimately permitted to air, and at least [[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1330542-i-don-t-get-as-much-fan-mail-as-an-actor one of them proved helpful]] to a young woman who had lost a friend friend[[note]] who turned out to be one of the shooters[[/note]] in the shooting.shooting, and those mentioned episodes later re-entered the air in the Denver area.
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** An episode about a church being burned down[[note]]Season 3's "Revenge of the Lutefisk" where Bobby accidentally burns the church after he throws up in the bathroom and tries to use a match to cover the smell, but Cotton gets blamed because of his sexist remarks about a woman being a pastor[[/note]] aired the ''same day'' as the Columbine shootings. It was not broadcast in the Denver area or rerun there for quite some time.

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** An episode about a church being burned down[[note]]Season 3's "Revenge of the Lutefisk" where Bobby accidentally burns the church after he throws up in the bathroom and tries to use a match to cover the smell, but Cotton gets blamed because of his sexist remarks about a woman being a pastor[[/note]] aired the ''same day'' as the Columbine shootings. It was not broadcast in the Denver area or rerun there for quite some time.time, until re-entering the air in that area after "Wings of the Dope"[[note]]an episode that actually helped a survivor of the Columbine massacre[[/note]] aired.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperheroGirls2019'' short "[=#AbraKachoo=]" had the plot of Zatanna going to school with a cold and her sneezes consequentially causing her magic to go out of control and create all sorts of havoc. While the short aired on Cartoon Network UK in October 27, 2019, it was never uploaded to the franchise's [=YouTube=] channel with the rest of the Super Shorts due to the unfortunate timing of having uncomfortable parallels to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic.

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* The ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperheroGirls2019'' short "[=#AbraKachoo=]" had the plot of Zatanna going to school with a cold and her sneezes consequentially causing her magic to go out of control and create all sorts of havoc. While the short aired on Cartoon Network UK in October 27, 2019, it was never aired as a "bumper" on Creator/{{Boomerang}} or uploaded to the franchise's [=YouTube=] channel with like the rest of the Super Shorts due to the unfortunate timing of having uncomfortable parallels to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic.

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* One of the reasons that the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode "Vacation" has rarely aired since 2003 is because it contains a scene in which {{Expy}}s of Siegfeld and Roy are attacked by tigers.

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* One of the reasons that the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode "Vacation" has rarely aired since 2003 is because it contains a scene in which {{Expy}}s of Siegfeld and Roy named Heimlich and Bob are attacked by tigers.tigers, which became very uncomfortable in light of the incident where Roy Horn was attacked by the duo's trained tiger Montecore.



* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrince2021'', an Creator/HBOMax cartoon parodying UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily, was delayed from its late spring 2021 release date following the death of Prince Phillip. It was finally released on July 29, 2021, after Prince Phillip had left the American public conscious.

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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrince2021'', an Creator/HBOMax cartoon parodying UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily, was delayed from its late spring 2021 release date following the death of Prince Phillip. It was finally released on July 29, 2021, after Prince Phillip had left the American public conscious.conscious.
* The ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperheroGirls2019'' short "[=#AbraKachoo=]" had the plot of Zatanna going to school with a cold and her sneezes consequentially causing her magic to go out of control and create all sorts of havoc. While the short aired on Cartoon Network UK in October 27, 2019, it was never uploaded to the franchise's [=YouTube=] channel with the rest of the Super Shorts due to the unfortunate timing of having uncomfortable parallels to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' officially retired the "ISIS" name of the titular character's spy agency in Season 6, as the real world Islamic terrorist group with the same name had gotten a lot of press over a string of high profile murders. This may have been why the previous season featured ISIS being shut down by the FBI, with the cast [[GenreShift temporarily becoming a drug cartel]] to make ends meet; most viewers naturally assumed that [[StatusQuoIsGod ISIS would be reassembled by next season]], but Season 6 actually saw the cast becoming CIA subcontracts.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' initially revolved around a fictional spy agency called "ISIS" ('''I'''nternational '''S'''ecret '''I'''ntelligence '''S'''ervice), named for the Egyptian goddess of the same name.[[note]] Their [[TheRival rival spy agency]] was called "ODIN" ('''O'''rganization of '''D'''emocratic '''I'''ntelligence '''N'''etworks) after the Norse god of the same name, making pagan deities something of a recurring motif[[/note]] But the name was officially retired the "ISIS" name of the titular character's spy agency in Season 6, as the real world Islamic acronym had become inextricably associated with the RealLife terrorist group with the same name had gotten a lot organization "The '''I'''slamic '''S'''tate of press over a string of high profile murders. '''I'''raq and '''S'''yria". This may have been why the previous season featured ISIS being shut down by the FBI, with the cast [[GenreShift temporarily becoming a drug cartel]] to make ends meet; most viewers naturally assumed that [[StatusQuoIsGod ISIS would be reassembled by next season]], but Season 6 actually saw the cast becoming CIA subcontracts.subcontractors.
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* On June 10th, 2020, the ''WesternAnimation/BubbleGuppies'' episode "The Police Cop-Etition!" was pulled from both reruns and the Creator/NickJr and Creator/{{Noggin}} apps due to the murder of George Floyd by police. A re-run was slated to air two days after it was pulled from the apps on the Nick Jr. channel, but got replaced with one of "Come To Your Senses!" the day before.

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* On June 10th, 2020, the ''WesternAnimation/BubbleGuppies'' episode "The Police Cop-Etition!" was pulled from both reruns and the Creator/NickJr and Creator/{{Noggin}} apps due to the murder of George Floyd by police. A re-run was slated to air two days after it was pulled from the apps on the Nick Jr. channel, but got replaced with one of "Come To to Your Senses!" the day before.



** First, the social media accounts for the show went dark for five days in rememberance of George Floyd. After people complained about the posts specifically because of Chase, the accounts did not post anything for a month.

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** First, the social media accounts for the show went dark for five days in rememberance remembrance of George Floyd. After people complained about the posts specifically because of Chase, the accounts did not post anything for a month.
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** Reruns of the ''WesternAnimation/BluesCluesAndYou'' episode "Getting Healthy With Blue" were pulled beginning in May 2020 because the episode dealt with Josh getting sick. It still appears on streaming and DVD releases, though.

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** Reruns of the ''WesternAnimation/BluesCluesAndYou'' episode "Getting Healthy With Blue" were pulled beginning in May 2020 because the episode dealt with Josh getting sick. It still appears on streaming and DVD releases, though. The episode would finally air on November 10, 2022.
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* The short lived cartoon ''Pro Stars'' originally had a theme song with [[ToTheTuneOf new lyrics set to]] Music/{{Queen|Band}}'s "We Will Rock You". This was rather appropriate, given that the song is a staple of sporting events and the main characters were fictionalized versions of famous athletes (Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, and Bo Jackson). Unfortunately, Queen frontman Freddie Mercury died from peumonia following compilations of AIDS a couple of months into the show's run and [[ReplacedTheThemeTune a new theme song had to be used.]]

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* The short lived cartoon ''Pro Stars'' originally had a theme song with [[ToTheTuneOf new lyrics set to]] Music/{{Queen|Band}}'s "We Will Rock You". This was rather appropriate, given that the song is a staple of sporting events and the main characters were fictionalized versions of famous athletes (Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, and Bo Jackson). Unfortunately, Queen frontman Freddie Mercury died from peumonia pneumonia following compilations complications of AIDS a couple of months into the show's run and [[ReplacedTheThemeTune a new theme song had to be used.]]

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