History Main / DistancedFromCurrentEvents

** Due to ongoing racial tensions in the United States, ''Ride/SplashMountain'' retheming into a ride based off ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' was pushed up the announcement table.

** In the wake of George Floyd's killing and the increased discussion over racism that followed, it was announced that ''all'' nonwhite characters would no longer be voiced by white actors, thus putting the fates of characters such as [[TokenBlackFriend Carl]], Dr. Hibbert, and Bumblebee Man in limbo.[[note]]Apu has already been subject to this after the release of the documentary ''The Problem with Apu"--- see ''The Simpsons'' entry for EthnicScrappy.[[/note]]

** In the wake of George Floyd's killing and the increased discussion over racism that followed, it was announced that ''all'' nonwhite characters would not be voiced by white actors, thus putting the fates of characters such as [[TokenBlackFriend Carl]], Dr. Hibbert, and Bumblebee Man in limbo.

** Due to ongoing racial tensions in the United States, ''Ride/SplashMountain'' will be rethemed into a ride based off ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog''.

A prominent example for Americans was that, for several years, any show featuring the former twin towers of the World Trade Center in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity tended to be tweaked a bit. Some older shows and even movies had broadcasts digitally edited to remove it from the skyline. This sometimes happened [[PoliticallyCorrectHistory even when the show or movie was set before 2001.]] This has UnfortunateImplications, in that it allows [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror the terrorists]] to destroy the World Trade Center ''[[{{Unperson}} retroactively]]''. Much of the recent popularization of the phrase and awareness of the issue is due to the rather long shadow the World Trade Center attacks cast over the subsequent decade.

** The Creator/{{Noggin}}'' app also changed its' icon for ''PAW Patrol'' from Chase to Marshall. Because of his promotion to icon status, the ads for the app themselves, which used Marshall, now used Skye instead to avoid confusion.

** Boomerang removed reruns of the ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episodes "Peace and Quiet; Wanted: Wade; Garfield Goes Hawaiian" and "Attention-Getting Garfield; Swine Trek; It Must Be True!" from their channel because the plot of the third segment in the former episode involves Garfield catching the Hawaiian Cat Flu, despite the symptoms of the illness not resembling what one would consider to be the flu, and the second segment in the latter episode has its' plot spurred from Orson being sick in bed. Both are still on the Boomerang app, however.

** The English-subtitled version of the fifth episode of Season 2 of ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' originally subtitled a piece of dialouge as "What's the deal with the social distancing?". However, because it was too reminiscent of a recent topic regarding the pandemic, the line was later rendered as "Why are you so far away from me?". [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2020-05-14/aniplex-of-america-revises-translation-error-in-kaguya-sama-love-is-war-season-2-episode-5-subtitles/.159527 Aniplex, who made the official subtitles, later apologized for the mistake]].

* After ''Surviving R. Kelly'' came out in 2019, Creator/AdultSwim pulled reruns of the episode "WesternAnimation/TheTrialOfRKelly". Ironically, this happened right when Huey's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech aimed at R. Kelly and everyone dancing in court went viral. The episode returned to rotation near the end of the year.

* At one point in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' reveal steam for [[VideoGame/{{ARMS}} Min Min]], [[https://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/comments/hduxyp/sakurai_made_a_small_joke_about_social_distancing/ Sakurai makes a brief joke about social distancing]] which is omitted from the official English subtitles, likely for this reason (the official subtitles simply say "They're far too close...").

* At one point in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' reveal steam for [[VideoGame/{{ARMS}} Min Min]], [[https://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/comments/hduxyp/sakurai_made_a_small_joke_about_social_distancing/ Sakurai makes a brief joke about social distancing]] which is omitted from the official English subtitles, likely for this reason.

* At one point in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' reveal steam for [[VideoGame/{{ARMS}} Min Min]], Sakurai makes a brief joke about social distancing which is omitted from the official English subtitles, likely for this reason.

** The Creator/NickJr website features a specific character as the icon for their shows (for instance, Molly for ''Bubble Guppies'' and Blue for ''WesternAnimation/BluesCluesAndYou'', with Chase being the character icon for ''PAW Patrol''). On June 17th, 2020, the icon was changed to Marshall.

** The Creator/NickJr website features a specific character as the icon for their shows (for instance, Molly for ''Bubble Guppies'' and Blue for ''WesternAnimation/BluesCluesAndYou'', with Chase being the character icon for ''PAW Patrol''. On June 17th, 2020, the icon was changed to [[EnsembleDarkhorse Marshall]].

** After the airing of the controversial ''Leaving Neverland'' documentary ([[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment a documentary that doesn't have a page here for good reasons]]), the Season 3 episode "Stark Raving Dad" (guest starring Music/MichaelJackson) was pulled from reruns, home media releases, and digital streaming at the order of the show's producers, making it the show's first straight-up MissingEpisode. The producers' reasoning for this was that they no longer believed Jackson's intentions in participating in the episode were as benign as they seemed at the time.

* Creator/{{Universal}} Studios pulled marketing material, then later cancelled the original September 27th, 2019 release of the movie ''Film/TheHunt2020'' in the wake of the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, which killed 22 people and Dayton, Ohio which killed nine people, merely saying that "now is not the right time to release this film". It doesn't help that the film had already [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment garnered controversy]] over its plot (liberal "elites" versus conservative "deplorables") by both sides of the political spectrum. The release date was eventually moved to March 13, 2020 after spending a few months in TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment.

Easier for dramatic series to avert than comedy series, since at least in dramas the sensitive subject matter is being tackled with a degree of seriousness and respect. In contrast, it's the prerogative of a comedy series to satirize and make light of its subject matter, which may be seen as more offensive. If the satire isn't aimed directly at the target, though, audiences might even find it more offensive.

* The social media accounts for ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'', which features a canine police officer as the protagonist, originally intented to go dark for five days in rememberance of George Floyd. After people complained about the posts, the account did not post anything for two weeks.
** In addition, the Creator/NickJr website features a specific character as the icon for their shows (for instance, Molly for ''Bubble Guppies'' and Blue for ''WesternAnimation/BluesCluesAndYou'', with Chase being the character icon for ''PAW Patrol''. On June 17th, 2020, the icon was changed to [[EnsembleDarkhorse Marshall]].

** An episode about a church being burned down[[note]]season three'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 Hill 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.

Ironically, sometimes it is [[RevealingCoverup the very act of censoring a scene]] that gives it its Too Soon quality. A seemingly innocuous scene has been edited out of a repeat; the only explanation is that it referred to the same kind of situation as in Current Issue X. What was a vague connection has now been made explicit.

* ''Manga/{{X 1999}}'', which has been suspended at 18 out of a planned 21 volumes since 2003, has been struck by Too Soon repeatedly. The series is intentionally violent and disturbing, but uncomfortable resemblances to real-life tragedies have caused repeated suspensions in publication. In particular, beheadings depicted in the story became controversial after the gruesome [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakakibara_Seito Sakakibara Incident]] and the recurring theme of earthquakes as a sign of the end of the world after the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanshin_earthquake Kobe Earthquake]]. The current publication hiatus does not seem to have a single trigger but may be due to the general post-9/11 climate towards terrorism (which is essentially what the antagonists are engaging in). Creator/{{CLAMP}} has stated in interviews that they did not believe that they would be able to get the planned ending published ''at the time'' and that they have not abandoned ''X''. Fans have mixed opinions about the likelihood of the series restarting publication.

* At the Oscars, joking about Daniel Day-Lewis' performance in ''Film/{{Lincoln}}'', Seth [=MacFarlane=] said that John Wilkes Booth was the only actor to really get inside Lincoln's head. As the crowd sat in stunned silence he followed with "Really? 150 years and it's still too soon?"

* George Orwell hurried to finish his masterwork ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' ahead of time, as he knew he was dying. For the title, he simply reversed the last two digits of the year of writing - 1948 became 1984. Had he worked on it a little longer, it might have been titled 1994. Literally "too soon"? It still drew flack from left intelligentsia and the then-strong British Communist Party, who saw it as a satire on the revered war leader and very recent ally Joseph Stalin.

* Music/JeanMichelJarre's mega-concert ''Rendez-vous Houston'' was scheduled to take place in Houston, Texas on May 5th, 1986 to celebrate Houston's and Texas' 150th anniversary and NASA's 25th anniversary. Of course, the planning phase of such a huge event started in 1985 already. The show was to also feature Jarre's newest album, ''Rendez-vous'', to be released in early 1986. Both on the album and at the show itself via live video link, the astronaut Ron [=McNair=] was planned to play a piece specifically written by Jarre for him on his saxophone aboard ''Challenger''. After the shuttle exploded, Jarre wanted to cancel the entire concert, feeling that it was Too Soon, but NASA and [=McNair=]'s friends and relatives [[TheShowMustGoOn convinced him to carry on]] and also make the concert [[InMemoriam a memorial for the victims of the disaster]]. The already heartfelt "Ron's Piece", the saxophone played by Kirk Whalum at the concert where it was the last number but one, became [[TearJerker even moreso]] by leading it in with Ronald Reagan's eulogy for [=McNair=] projected on a skyscraper and the piece itself being accompanied by photo and video footage of Ron [=McNair=] as several-hundred-feet-high projections. To lift the spirits up again, Jarre continued with a projection of Kennedy's "We choose to go to the moon" speech and concluded the concert with the happy "Fourth Rendez-vous" which he even had to repeat as an encore. By the way, the Texans didn't mind Jarre going ahead with the concert so soon after the disaster: He broke his own audience world record with more than 1.5 million live spectators.

* WWE stumbled into such a moment during the airing of a live broadcast. On the day it was discovered that Wrestling/ChrisBenoit and his family were dead, WWE replaced a scheduled three-hour ''RAW'' episode with a tribute to Benoit's career. During the airing of the tribute, it became clear that the deaths were a murder-suicide, and therefore both Too Late (as the show was on the air) ''and'' Too Soon. WWE just has rotten luck when it comes to tragedies -- so much so that they instantly turned a 180 -- not only did Wrestling/VinceMcMahon apologize for the tribute show, but ever since, Benoit has never been mentioned by name on any new WWE programming that has aired since his death, his name is almost completely wiped from their website (save for some minor mentions in title histories and whatnot), and footage containing Benoit in which he was a major part of has not been seen on WWE programming. Hooray for {{Hand Wav|e}}ing. Classic Benoit footage is available on the WWE Network (with a "does not reflect the views of the WWE or the personal lives of the wrestlers" {{content warning|s}}), several passing mentions of Benoit have come up on recent DVD releases, and -- starting with Shawn Michaels a few months after Benoit's death -- several WWE wrestlers have used the Benoit's signature submission hold, the Crippler Crossface (including the man who tapped to it at Wrestling/WrestleMania 20 -- Triple H -- and, on the same night, Trips busted it out for the first time, so did The Great Khali.) What makes this even worse? The ''Raw'' that was replaced was intended to be one of the major turning points in the "Who killed Mr. [=McMahon=]?" angle. A few weeks prior to Benoit's death, Vince had been ({{kayfabe}}) blown up after stepping into a limo, and the three-hour ''Raw'' was intended to reveal who the perpetrator was. Following the Benoit murder-suicide, the angle was dropped completely, with Vince reappearing on ''Raw'' a month later to explain that he'd faked the explosion in an attempt to see what people really thought of him.

* During the 1.0 version of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', Titan (an earth-based godly being) and Leviathan (water godly being) were going to be released into the game with an update, but when the tsunami-earthquake disaster struck Japan in 2011, Square-Enix withheld the two boss characters since they felt launching characters who can cause earthquakes and tidal waves would be too soon for its Japanese players. The two characters were eventually patched into the game a few years later.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/user/TheFineBros The Fine Brothers]] parody this in the seventh episode of their ''Series/{{Lost}}'' parody, where the cast refuses to kill [[Film/TheDarkKnight the Nolanverse Joker]] because it's too soon to Heath Ledger's death. Christian Bale, however, isn't dead, so ''Batman'' is fair game.

* WWE stumbled into such a moment during the airing of a live broadcast. On the day it was discovered that Wrestling/ChrisBenoit and his family were dead, WWE replaced a scheduled three-hour ''RAW'' episode with a tribute to Benoit's career. During the airing of the tribute, it became clear that the deaths were a murder-suicide, and therefore both Too Late (as the show was on the air) ''and'' Too Soon. WWE just has rotten luck when it comes to tragedies -- so much so that they instantly turned a 180 -- not only did Wrestling/VinceMcMahon apologize for the tribute show, but ever since, Benoit has never been mentioned by name on any new WWE programming that has aired since his death, his name is almost completely wiped from their website (save for some minor mentions in title histories and whatnot), and footage containing Benoit in which he was a major part of has not been seen on WWE programming. Hooray for {{Hand Wav|e}}ing. Classic Benoit footage is available on the WWE Network (with a "does not reflect the views of the WWE or the personal lives of the wrestlers" {{content warning|s}}), several passing mentions of Benoit have come up on recent DVD releases, and -- starting with Shawn Michaels a few months after Benoit's death -- several WWE wrestlers have used the Benoit's signature submission hold, the Crippler Crossface (including the man who tapped to it at Wrestling/WrestleMania 20 -- Triple H -- and, on the same night, Trips busted it out for the first time, so did The Great Khali.)
** During Creator/ComedyCentral's roast of Flavor Flav, Jimmy Kimmel said while roasting Flav that "Chris Benoit is a better father than Flavor Flav." This was about a month after it happened.
** What makes this even worse? The ''Raw'' that was replaced was intended to be one of the major turning points in the "Who killed Mr. [=McMahon=]?" angle. A few weeks prior to Benoit's death, Vince had been ({{kayfabe}}) blown up after stepping into a limo, and the three-hour ''Raw'' was intended to reveal who the perpetrator was. Following the Benoit murder-suicide, the angle was dropped completely, with Vince reappearing on ''Raw'' a month later to explain that he'd faked the explosion in an attempt to see what people really thought of him.

-> ''"Comedy is tragedy plus time."''
-->-- '''Lester''', ''Film/CrimesAndMisdemeanors''

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The phrase "too soon" rose to prominence in the '00s to indicate that an observer was still sensitive to the issue at hand and did not feel it was a fit subject for comedy. Likewise, a trend of subversions also took hold primarily by referencing an event long since considered to be beyond sensitivity.

Speaking of ''South Park'', they've defined the line between "Too Soon" and not as 22.3 years. [[MemeticMutation That's become a thing now]].

A prominent example for Americans was that, for several years, any show featuring the former twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, New York tended to be tweaked a bit. Some older shows and even movies had broadcasts digitally edited to remove it from the skyline. This sometimes happened [[PoliticallyCorrectHistory even when the show or movie was set before 2001.]] This has UnfortunateImplications, in that it allows the terrorists to destroy the World Trade Center ''[[{{Unperson}} retroactively]]''. Much of the recent popularization of the phrase and awareness of the issue is due to the rather long shadow the World Trade Center attacks cast over the subsequent decade.