History HarsherInHindsight / Radio

* The special 25th-anniversary edition of ''Radio/ImSorryIllReadThatAgain'' in 1989 ended with David Hatch reading the credits and finally saying "I hope to see you all again in 25 years' time", to laughter and cheers from the audience. All the original performers were (and as of 2015 are) alive 25 years later -- except David Hatch.

* In 1998/1999, Radio/GlennBeck was talking about a report of threats against the US made by UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden. When a caller said we shouldn't take him seriously, Beck responded with, "Mark my words, within ten years there will be blood, bodies, and buildings in the streets of New York. Will you take him seriously then?" Then came 9/11/01. Could also count as TheCuckooLanderWasRight.

* From the opening of the 1938 version of ''Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds'': "In the thirty-ninth year of the twentieth century came the great disillusionment, near the end of October....[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the war scare]] was over."
* The RadioDrama of ''Film/ANewHope'' has [[http://youtu.be/Qe598Iit0Jo this scene]], in which Darth Vader is interrogating Leia with a combination of drugs and the Dark Side of the Force, making her suggestible. Vader tells her that her father wants to know what she's done with the Death Star plans, and goes from gently coaxing to telling her her father ''orders'' she tell them. When she gasps that Father wouldn't, Vader switches to [[ColdBloodedTorture telling her that she's in incredible pain]]. ''Burning alive'', and her flesh has been torn apart, she's dying!
** This has the one-two punch of harshness that the writers themselves weren't aware of. Vader himself [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith had been cut to pieces and burned severely, then was left to die]], so he's drawing on personal experience...and Leia loves Bail Organa dearly, but Vader is her biological father, and ''this'' is the only time he's ever spoken to his daughter sweetly. Seconds before ''torturing her''. Is it any wonder that [[Literature/TheTruceAtBakura when she met his spirit after he died and he told her that he'd inadvertently helped the cause, she didn't want anything to do with him]]?

* ''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'': The 2008 radio play ''Frozen in Time'', which was set in 2013, was the final ''Journey into Space'' story written by Charles Chilton. It starred David Jacobs as Jet. Both men died in 2013.

* Radio/RushLimbaugh quit smoking cigarettes early in his career, and one of his most common [[CatchPhrase catchphrases]] would be to say that he grabbed a story with his "formerly nicotine-stained fingers." However, a large part of his persona was as a proud and defiant aficionado of cigars. He was often photographed with a fat cigar in his hand to portray himself as wealthy, successful and powerful. He would occasionally go on long diatribes claiming that smoking does not cause cancer. As late as 2015, he stated, "Smokers aren’t killing anybody," and "I would like a medal for smoking cigars." In February 3, 2020 he announced that he had been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, which became terminal by October of that year and ultimately claimed his life on February 17, 2021.

* Radio/RushLimbaugh quit smoking cigarettes early in his career, and one of his most common [[CatchPhrase catchphrases]] would be to say that he grabbed a story with his "formerly nicotine-stained fingers." However, a large part of his persona was as a proud and defiant aficionado of cigars. He was often photographed with a fat cigar in his hand to portray himself as wealthy, successful and powerful. He would occasionally go on long diatribes claiming that smoking does not cause cancer. As late as 2015, he stated, "Smokers aren’t killing anybody," and "I would like a medal for smoking cigars." In February 3, 2020 he announced that he had been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, which became terminal by October of that year.

* One of the most common [[CatchPhrase catchphrases]] for iconic conservative talk-show host Radio/RushLimbaugh would be how he would grab a story with his "formerly nicotine-stained fingers" (related to his love of smoking cigars). This fell very much into the trope with Limbaugh's announcement on February 3, 2020 that he had been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.

* The villains of the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' original ''U.N.I.T.'' series is the Internal Counter-Intelligence Service, an ultra-nationalist U.N.I.T. counterpart with plans to take over the UK. And this military terrorist organisation threatening the British government is referred to as I.C.I.S., pronounced "[[TheWarOnTerror Isis]]".

* In 1998/1999, Radio/GlennBeck was talking about a report of threats against the US made by Osama Bin Laden. When a caller said we shouldn't take him seriously, Beck responded with, "Mark my words, within ten years there will be blood, bodies, and buildings in the streets of New York. Will you take him seriously then?" Then came 9/11/01. Could also count as TheCuckooLanderWasRight.

* ''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'': The 2008 radio play ''Frozen in Time'', which was set in 2013, was the final ''Journey into Space'' story written by Charles Chilton. It starred David Jacobs as Jet. Both men died in 2013.

* The villains of the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' original ''U.N.I.T.'' series is the Internal Counter-Intelligence Service, an ultra-nationalist U.N.I.T. counterpart with plans to take over the UK. And this military terrorist organisation threatening the British government is referred to as I.C.I.S., pronounced "[[TheWarOnTerror Isis]]".

* From the opening of the 1938 version of ''Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds'': "In the thirty-ninth year of the twentieth century came the great disillusionment, near the end of October....[[WorldWarII the war scare]] was over."

* The RadioDrama of ''ANewHope'' has [[http://youtu.be/Qe598Iit0Jo this scene]], in which Darth Vader is interrogating Leia with a combination of drugs and the Dark Side of the Force, making her suggestible. Vader tells her that her father wants to know what she's done with the Death Star plans, and goes from gently coaxing to telling her her father ''orders'' she tell them. When she gasps that Father wouldn't, Vader switches to [[ColdBloodedTorture telling her that she's in incredible pain]]. ''Burning alive'', and her flesh has been torn apart, she's dying!
** This has the one-two punch of harshness that the writers themselves weren't aware of. Vader himself [[RevengeOfTheSith had been cut to pieces and burned severely, then was left to die]], so he's drawing on personal experience...and Leia loves Bail Organa dearly, but Vader is her biological father, and ''this'' is the only time he's ever spoken to his daughter sweetly. Seconds before ''torturing her''. Is it any wonder that [[Literature/TheTruceAtBakura when she met his spirit after he died and he told her that he'd inadvertently helped the cause, she didn't want anything to do with him]]?
* The villains of the ''BigFinishDoctorWho'' original ''U.N.I.T.'' series is the Internal Counter-Intelligence Service, an ultra-nationalist U.N.I.T. counterpart with plans to take over the UK. And this military terrorist organisation threatening the British government is referred to as I.C.I.S., pronounced "[[TheWarOnTerror Isis]]".

** This has the one-two punch of harshness that the writers themselves weren't aware of. Vader himself [[RevengeOfTheSith had been cut to pieces and burned severely, then was left to die]], so he's drawing on personal experience...and Leia loves Bail Organa dearly, but Vader is her biological father, and ''this'' is the only time he's ever spoken to his daughter sweetly. Seconds before ''torturing her''. Is it any wonder that [[Literature/TheTruceAtBakura when she met his spirit after he died and he told her that he'd inadvertently helped the cause, she didn't want anything to do with him]]?

** This has the one-two punch of harshness that the writers themselves weren't aware of. Vader himself [[RevengeOfTheSith had been cut to pieces and burned severely, then was left to die]], so he's drawing on personal experience...and Leia loves Bail Organa dearly, but Vader is her biological father, and ''this'' is the only time he's ever spoken to his daughter sweetly. Seconds before ''torturing her''. Is it any wonder that [[TheTruceAtBakura when she met his spirit after he died and he told her that he'd inadvertently helped the cause, she didn't want anything to do with him]]?

* From the opening of the 1938 version of ''TheWarOfTheWorlds'': "In the thirty-ninth year of the twentieth century came the great disillusionment, near the end of October....[[WorldWarII the war scare]] was over."

* The AudioDrama of ''ANewHope'' has [[http://youtu.be/Qe598Iit0Jo this scene]], in which Darth Vader is interrogating Leia with a combination of drugs and the Dark Side of the Force, making her suggestible. Vader tells her that her father wants to know what she's done with the Death Star plans, and goes from gently coaxing to telling her her father ''orders'' she tell them. When she gasps that Father wouldn't, Vader switches to [[ColdBloodedTorture telling her that she's in incredible pain]]. ''Burning alive'', and her flesh has been torn apart, she's dying!