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* ''Delirious'', a 1991 film starring John Candy, features Charles Rocket (a former cast member of ''SNL'''s disastrous sixth season) as a [[Jerkass]] character who joked about suicide. In October 2005, Charles Rocket was found dead outside his home in Connecticut with a slashed throat, which the police ruled a suicide.
* ''The Wedding Singer'' has a couple of jokes at the expense of George near the beginning: Steve Buscemi's drunk best man character checks him out and muses "Ooh, I like her", while two of the groomsmen quietly agree that George looks "scary". George was played by Alexis Arquette, who was a male transvestite at the time. Now that Arquette is a [[transgender]] woman, the jokes take on some [[Unfortunate Implications]] in retrospect.
* In ''[[Hocus Pocus (film)|Hocus Pocus]]'' Sarah Jessica Parker plays one of three [[The Hecate Sisters]] who is hanged after killing a girl in Salem, MA. In ''[[Real Life|Who Do You Think You Are]]'', Sarah Jessica Parker learned that her ancestor was accused {{spoiler|but not convicted - luckily the witch craze ended ''one month before her trial''}} of witchcraft after a girl claimed she saw her and two other women's "specters" choking an ill woman to death in Salem, MA. SJP was really disturbed, although she was relived her ancestor wasn't an accuser.
* [[The Last Hurrah]]: While some characters are discussing potential candidates in the upcoming election, one of them makes an offhanded remark about the head of Planned Parenthood running for office. Those present know he doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell, and scoff at such a ''ridiculous'' absurdity: "The head of ''Planned Parenthood'' running for office in ''this'' state?" Keeping in mind that "this state" is probably a stand-in for Massachusetts, and recalling the, um, [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|changes that have happened there]] since 1956...
* In ''[[Monkey Business (1931 film)|Monkey Business]]'', [[Marx Brothers|Groucho Marx]] tells Thelma Todd: "I know, you're a woman who's been getting nothing but dirty breaks. Well, we can clean and tighten your brakes, but you'll have to stay in the garage all night." Two years later, Thelma Todd died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a garage. First ruled an accident, a grand jury ruled suicide, but many still think she was murdered.
* In ''[[Orchestra Wives]]'', bandleader [[Glenn Miller]] plays a fictionalized version of himself, with Miller's real-life musicians and vocalists playing most of his fictional orchestra. During plot complications, they all walk out on him except for loyal piano player [[Cesar Romero]]. When Miller asks "What can I do now?", Romero replies "You could always give swimming lessons" ... then he apologizes for the bad joke. Soon afterward, Glenn Miller drowned in the English Channel.
* In the 1936 movie ''The Nuisance'', [[Charles Butterworth]] plays a con-man who flings himself in front of moving cars, pretending to have been struck and injured so he can sue. A few years after he made this movie, Butterworth was killed in a car accident.
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