History YMMV / InLivingColor

* SeasonalRot: Season Four, when the Wayans siblings (Keenan-Ivory, Damon, Kim, Shawn, and Marlon) were kicked off the show following many disputes over censorship, and again in Season Five when Jim Carrey was rarely seen due to his budding movie career.

** The ''Series/StarTrek'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT5YRaulTzk sketch]] featured Sulu complaining about how Captain Kirk gets all the girls and he gets none, ending with his enthusiasm at the prospect of getting some. [[Creator/GeorgeTakei Ohhh myyyyy...]]

** Seeing Keenan, portraying [[Series/SoulTrain Don Cornelius]] collapsing and ''dying'' at the end of the spoof of the series, "Old Train" is now this given Cornelius' 2012 suicide.

* HilariousInHindsight: Jamie Foxx had plenty of opportunities to impersonate Ray Charles, especially since this was the time when Charles was promoting Diet Pepsi. Foxx would later ''win an Oscar'' for doing the same thing, albeit in more dramatic fare.

** There was a sketch called ''East HollywoodSquares'', an urban-ized take on the famous game show. In 2013, MTV2 debuted ''Hip-Hop Squares''...an urban-ized take on the famous game show.

** There was a sketch called ''East HollywoodSquares'', in which the famous game show undergoes an all-black cast. In 2013, MTV debuted ''Hip-Hop Squares'', an all-black take on ''Hollywood Squares''.

* In the MC Hammer-skewering sketch "Too Sold Out to Quit", the joke of Hammer selling out to make himself wealthy ("The rules of being legit/Make a ton of money and then you can quit!") becomes this trope when Hammer ended up more than $10 million in debt the next year.

** Remember, there was a time when JimCarrey (who was credited as his real name "James Carrey" for most of his tenure) was simply known as "the crazy white guy on ''In Living Color''."
** And people might be surprised to discover that Jamie Foxx was on this show (and that his recurring character was Ugly Wanda)

* HarsherInHindsight: [[http://youtu.be/EEnefkpRfHE This Fire Marshall Bill]] skit has Bill make a joke about bombing the World Trade Center. While it was done in reference to the '93 bombing... yeah.
* HilariousInHindsight: Jamie Foxx had plenty of opportunities to impersonate Ray Charles, especially since this was the time when Charles was promoting Diet Pepsi. Foxx would later ''win an Oscar'' doing the same thing.
** Especially in the We Are The World parody sketch, even Wikipedia says: "Career Aid: A parody of "We Are the World", with cast members mocking artists from the original song lamenting about their stardom passing them by. While Ray Charles is among the artists lampooned, it is David Alan Grier who plays the singer rather than Jamie Foxx, who would win an Academy Award for his portrayal of Charles in the film Ray. Foxx is Lionel Richie in the sketch." Funny, isn't it? Though he was a good Lionel...
** Jamie Foxx also impersonated Garrett Morris (''SaturdayNightLive'''s first token black cast member from the show's first five years) in a fake American Express commercial featuring Chris Rock (played by Shawn Wayans) -- a couple years before Foxx would appear with Morris on the sitcom ''The Jamie Foxx Show''.
*** Speaking of Chris Rock, he would eventually appear in later seasons of the show.

** Remember, there was a time when JimCarrey (who was credited as "James Carrey" for most of his tenure) was simply known as "the crazy white guy on ''In Living Color''."

* SeasonalRot: Season Four, when the Wayans siblings (Keenan-Ivory, Damon, Kim, Shawn, and Marlon) were kicked off the show following many disputes over censorship, and again in Season Five when Jim Carrey was rarely seen due to his budding movie career.
* {{Squick}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVAaxPqQHTU Della Reese's Pieces]].

** Shawn Wayans initially got his start on the show not as an actor, but as the show's DJ, DJ SW1.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Remember, there was a time when JimCarrey (who was credited as "James Carrey" for most of his tenure) was simply known as "the crazy white guy on ''In Living Color''."

* {{Squick}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVAaxPqQHTU Della Reese's Pieces]].

* JumpedTheShark: When the show lost the Wayans family. Even with JimCarrey hanging on, the show lost its point.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Remember, there was a time when JimCarrey was simply known as "the white guy on ''In Living Color''."

* UnfortunateImplications: Of all the cast members, who were predominantly black, the one who's had the most successful career has been JimCarrey, one of the only white cast members.

* * {{Squick}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVAaxPqQHTU Della Reese's Pieces]].

*** Speaking of Chris Rock, he would eventually appear in later seasons of the show

* NightmareFuel, PyroManiac, BodyHorror, TooKinkyToTorture, and StuffBlowingUp: Every Fire Marshal Bill sketch had these tropes in abundance.

* SeasonalRot: Season four when the Wayans siblings (Keenan-Ivory, Damon, Kim, Shawn, and Marlon) were kicked off the show following many disputes over censorship and again in season five when Jim Carrey was rarely seen on the show due to his budding movie career.
* * {{Squick}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVAaxPqQHTU Della Reese's Pieces]].