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** Even more famous is a fan walking up to Allen, telling him he's his biggest fan, then shooting and killing him. A few months later, Mark David Chapman did the ''exact same thing'' to [[John Lennon]].
* In ''[[Logan's Run]]'' from 1976, the hero and heroine re-enter the city by diving into the [[wikipedia:Fort Worth Water Gardens|Ft. Worth Water Gardens pool]], where eight years later four people drowned.
* In ''[[
* An [[Older Than Television|older]] example of this phenomenon, known only to studio execs for many years, occurs in the movie ''[[To Be or Not to Be]]'': After the 1942 death of star Carole Lombard in a plane crash, the studio had to cut out a scene (before the film was released) in which her character remarks, "What can happen on a plane?"
* Heather Chandler of ''[[Heathers]]'' asks, "Did you have a brain tumor for breakfast?" Tragically, Kimberly Walker, the actress who uttered the line, died of a brain tumor at age 32. Uncomfortably, her character's death and funeral is a huge part of the movie, and her ghost turns up in a dream sequence to complain about the quality of the afterlife.
** Also, the plot of the movie: [[High School]] students murdering each other due to rivalries and popularity. Absurd for 1989, real for [[Columbine]] (1999) and Virginia Tech (2007), hence why we're not going to get a remake any time soon.
** From the same movie, the character Peter Dawson (sort of a nerdy, sycophantic character on the yearbook staff) says, as voice-over, "Dear God, please don't let this happen to me, 'cause I don't think I could handle suicide," while at Heather Chandler's funeral. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0032398/ Jeremy Applegate], the actor who played Dawson, later committed suicide.
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** In his one scene with Two-Face, The Joker talks about how people freak out if a mayor dies, but nobody cares if a bunch of soldiers get killed. When Heath Ledger died, the collective freak-out was '''huge'''. Meanwhile, hundreds of soldiers around his age were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan that year and hardly anyone cared.
* ''[[The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus]]'', the film Heath Ledger was working on when he died, introduces Ledger's character {{spoiler|hanging by his neck from a bridge and having to be resuscitated}}, which has been noted by several reviewers as being uncomfortably eerie.
* The 1976 remake of ''[[King Kong]]'' is best known for King Kong standing on the World Trade Center instead of the Empire State Building. It was dated even before 2001; after...
* The 1992 film ''[[Sneakers]]'' features a scene in which one character hacks into the federal air traffic control computers and jokes, "Anybody want to crash a couple of passenger jets?". His friends don't find the joke funny at the time, but the audience still could... at least before 9/11...
* ''[[Airplane!]]''. The tag line "...and able to hit tall buildings at a single bound," and the plane running through and destroying a radio tower on a building (also taking out the neon sign). After 9/11, planes crashing into buildings are less funny... (And yes, the WTC had a ''major'' radio tower!)
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* In the [[Woody Allen]] movie ''Everyone Says I Love You'', his character gets the line:
{{quote|"I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier."}}
** Some years after the film was released, an [[wikipedia:Air France Flight 4590|Air France Flight 4590]] crash led to the permanent grounding of the entire Concorde fleet. * wince*
** This movie was not released in Poland until 1997, which brought another aneurysm moment when one of the characters says, "We spend Christmas always in Paris at Ritz". By this time the Paris Ritz was all over the media in association with Princess Diana's death.
* [[Clark Gable]] was so stressed out at Marilyn Monroe's antics during the filming of ''[[The Misfits]]'' that when the film was finished, he remarked "Christ, I'm glad this picture's finished! She damn near gave me a heart attack!" Gable died of a heart attack eleven days later. ''The Misfits'' turned out to be the last completed film for both Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe, who died a year later.
* [[Talk Like a Pirate|Robert Newton]]'s portrayal of Blackbeard in 1952's ''Blackbeard the Pirate'' includes several scenes near the beginning of him drinking from a large flask. It's mild, but it comes off as a little awkward when you know that Newton struggled with chronic alcoholism, eventually dying from it.
* If you happen to know what became of the killer whale, Keiko, who played Willy in the [[Free Willy]] films, and just how well freeing him for real worked, then the whole Free Willy trilogy becomes a sustained Funny Aneurysm.
** Doubly so when you remember "Keiko" means "The Lucky One".
* In 1999, Jeffrey Jones played Uncle Crenshaw in ''Stuart Little''. In at least two scenes, he's shown cuddling Jonathan Lipnicki, who was eight or nine years old when the movie was made. In 2002, Jones was convicted of possession of child pornography and employing a minor for purposes of taking sexually explicit photos, becoming a registered sex offender.
** Also puts a new spin on Ed Rooney's pursuit of [[Ferris Bueller's Day Off|Ferris Bueller]].
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* In an eerie real-life coincidence to the film ''[[The Day After Tomorrow]]'', a reporter covering tornadoes in LA was hit and killed by a flying billboard. A year later, Anderson Cooper was ''almost decapitated'' by a flying sign while covering Hurricane Dennis.
** Another eerie real-life coincidence was that [http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/08/07/greenland.ice.island/index.html a giant ice shelf broke off of Antarctica that's three times the size of Manhattan.] Suddenly, "It's the size of Rhode Island!" seems less silly.
* A personal example: [[Elvis Presley]], devastated by the tragic death of his young co-star Judy Tyler in a horrific car accident, vowed never to watch ''[[Jailhouse Rock]]'', the movie they made together.
* ''[[The Fearless Vampire Killers]]'': The whole film is about Roman Polanski trying {{spoiler|and failing}} to save Sharon Tate from a murderous cult. They fell in love while making the movie and got married. Two years later, Tate and their unborn child were murdered by members of the Charles Manson family while Polanski was out of the country. He's since said that he's sure he would have been able to save her had he been there.
* ''[[Jackass]] 3D'' has a rather jarring one. In the ending scene, Ryan is sitting with a mug of beer that shatters while a explosion goes off behind him. A few months after the movie was released, he died - drunk in a freak car explosion.
** Then there's Dunn's final film, ''[[Living Will]]'', in which he plays a slacker who dies and comes back as a ghost. Lines like "being dead is the best thing that ever happened to me," are beyond eerie.
* Ah, ''[[Armageddon]]''. The line "Saddam Hussein is bombing us!" Check. People falling out of collapsing New York City office buildings? Check. Shots of the ''World Trade Center with a burning hole in each tower?'' Check.
** Irresponsibly drilling for oil in deep water and causing a major accident, check. For the number of times his films invoke this trope, [[Michael Bay]] must be prescient or a time traveler.
* In ''[[Anchorman]]'', Christina Applegate declares that her character, Veronica Corningstone, has "exquisite breasts." A few years later, Applegate would undergo a double mastectomy as treatment for breast cancer.
** Similarly, there's a scene in ''The Sweetest Thing'' where a group of women are fascinated by fondling her breasts.
* Every frame of ''[[Network]]''. The story is about a struggling television network that suddenly finds a hit after its news anchor, Howard Beale, delivers an angry rant after he learns that he's been fired. The network then climbs the ratings by turning its news program into an extravagant soapbox for Beale to rant from, making it more entertainment than news, and by replacing most of its primetime lineup with shows like "The Mao Tse-Tung Hour," a reality show (to use the modern word) that glorifies the exploits of a leftist domestic terrorist organization. Remember that this film was made in 1976 -- a time when [[Jerry Springer]], ''[[
** And folks say there's no such thing as "The Good Old Days"...
** That's not the worst part. The movie famously opens with Beale announcing that he's going to kill himself during a live news broadcast, and ends with {{spoiler|his being murdered -- on live TV, in front of a studio audience -- due to sinking ratings}}. It's played as black comedy. Google "Christine Chubbuck" if you want to know why this was hard to laugh at then. Google (or, better yet, [[YouTube]]) "Budd Dwyer" to find out why it's a [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] today.
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** In a retrospective interview, director Sidney Lumet claimed to have taken issue with people labeling the film as satire from the very start. "What satire? It's sheer reportage." The screenplay was based on writer Paddy Chayefsky's observations of television backstage life in the 1960s, with Lumet pitching in the occasional memory. "Everything in that film happened. The only part that hasn't come true is that we haven't seen anyone {{spoiler|killed for ratings yet}}."
* On the Special Edition DVD release of ''[[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock|Star Trek III the Search For Spock]]'', in the text commentary by Mike Okuda for the scene where the Starfleet commander tells Kirk the Enterprise is to be decommissioned because she's twenty years old, he remarks that NASA has less trouble with old spacecraft, as the Space Shuttle Columbia was still flying despite being over twenty years old. Shortly after the DVD's release, the Columbia burned up on re-entry, killing all on board.
** The Enterprise burning up in the atmosphere resembles the Columbia disaster.
* In ''[[Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home|Star Trek IV the Voyage Home]]'', Bones (DeForest Kelley) tries to chat up Spock (Leonard Nimoy) about the experience of being dead. Spock replies that the conversation wouldn't work because they have no common frame of reference--Bones had never died. DeForest Kelley died in 1999. His partner in that conversation lives on.
* All of [[O. J. Simpson]]'s showbiz career now falls under this trope.
** The best examples are ''[[The Naked Gun]]'' films, in which Simpson plays the [[Butt Monkey]] character Nordberg, who spends most of the movies getting beaten and bloodied.
** In an inversion of this Trope, [[Hilarious in Hindsight|many people enjoy the Naked Gun series MORE for that.]]
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* In ''[[Snow Dogs]]'', James Coburn's character Thunder Jack talks about how it will be his last race. Coburn died later that year.
* In ''[[Eagle Eye]]'' (2008), there's an extensive ''[[Product Placement]]'' scene set inside a now defunct (as of 2009) Circuit City. Maybe Shia should have bought himself a couple of flatscreens at clearance while he was there.
** If you pay attention to various displays in the movie, you can see that the timeframe in which the movie takes place is a few days ''after'' Circuit City officially announced its bankruptcy. They would still be open, mind you (they didn't close the stores until 2009 or all the merchandise was sold, whichever came first); but yes, it would be a good time to get a TV, or maybe a webcam, and a bad time to get the extended warranty.
* In the one of the segments of the 2003 film ''[[Love Actually]]'', Liam Neeson plays a man who is grieving the death of his wife from cancer. In 2009, Neeson's own wife, actress Natasha Richardson, died tragically. Although Richardson died from a brain injury caused while she was skiing, it still makes that movie, and also ''[[Blow Dry]]'', in which she plays a character dying of cancer, tough to watch.
** As an addendum to that, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9cZDq-MldE#t=1m11s this] clip on the American talk show ''The View'' is terribly, terribly a funny aneurysm moment in light of his wife's death.
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** In the movie version of ''Goblet of Fire'', Fred and George have a fight after being turned into old men by the age line, which in itself is ironic considering {{spoiler|it's the closest Fred will ever get to growing old properly}}. But also, if you listen close enough and/or turn on the captions, one of them says, "I'll tear your ears off!"
** In Deathly Hallows Part 2, Ron complains that Ginny is only paying attention to Harry, not him: "I'm only her brother!" Then Seamus says "She's got lots of those, hasn't she?" {{spoiler|[[Tear Jerker|She'll have one less pretty soon]]...}}
* In ''[[Fern Gully]]'' [[Robin Williams]], who plays the character Batty, dramatically gasps "Oh! My heart!" Williams would later undergo heart surgery.
* The 1993 film ''[[The Addams Family|Addams Family Values]]'' showed a summer camp detention cabin, were non-conformists Joel, Wednesday and Pugsley are made to watch Disney films while a poster of [[Michael Jackson]] looks on over them. Michael in this case is meant to showcase the over-the-top positive image of the place that he would have had when the film was shot. Unfortunately, 1993 was the year Michael Jackson was first publicly accused of child abuse.
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** Between the time the movie left the theaters and the DVD release, George Harrison died of cancer.
* In the documentary ''Number Our Days'', anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff explains she wanted to study the culture of a Jewish seniors center because "I'm going to be a little old Jewish woman one day." Nine years later, she died of breast cancer just shy of her 50th birthday.
* One of the headlines of a 2015 newspaper in ''[[Back to
{{quote|"Queen Diana visits Washington".}}
* The plot of ''[[RoboCop|Robocop 2]]'' involves an African-American mayor of a failing, debt ridden Detroit offering to make a deal with a group of drug lords, in order to prevent OCP from outright purchasing the city. The movie was made in 1990, it takes place around 2010. In 2008, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, an African-American mayor of failing, debt ridden Detroit, had to resign from his position as mayor due to, among other things, allegations of bribe taking, perjury, and obstruction of justice.
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* One of several actresses who have been considered for the role of [[Janis Joplin]] in the [[Development Hell]] cursed biopic ''Piece Of My Heart''...just died of a heart attack, apparently due to prolonged drug use.
* A poster for the movie ''Deadline'', featuring actress Brittany Murphy lying dead in a bathtub will be altered due to Brittany Murphy actually dying of apparent heart failure...after being found, having collapsed, in her shower.
* The 2007 ''[[TMNT]]'' movie uses a newscast about the collapsing real estate market to establish its [[Next Sunday
* ''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 [[
* 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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* ''National Treasure: Book Of Secrets'' had one character tell Nicholas Cage that he had problems with the IRS.
* In the live-action ''[[Street Fighter (film)|Street Fighter]]'' movie, Raul Julia's "M. Bison" is revived from his first defeat by Guile by a defibrillator built into his suit which ''restarts his heart''. Shortly after filming was complete, Julia died from a brain hemorrhage.
** Probably a double funny aneurysm when you realize that [[Jean
* ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 3'' Lotso Hugging Bear [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3kPNwyin_4 meet and greets] at [[Disney Theme Parks]]. As you can read on the [[YouTube]] link (first release in May 2010), it did not escape anyone who commented after the movie's release that {{spoiler|kids getting to prance around with a [[Complete Monster]] is completely wrong}}.
** Not to mention the Prospector's line in ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 2'': "Do you really think Andy would take you to college?" A ''lot'' more poignant after you've seen the third movie.
** It's either this or [[Harsher in Hindsight]], but Barbie, when the toys are caught by Lotso, quote the Declaration of Independence ("Authority should derive from the consent of the governed, not by threat of force!") when refusing Lotso. This gets a bit uncomfortable when Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya basically did this sort of thing in a method a lot closer of "threat to force" rather than the consent of the governed, leading the Muslim Brotherhood's rise in those countries.
* The 1998 remake of ''[[The Parent Trap (1961 film)|The Parent Trap]]'' is kind of depressing to watch now since it's a family movie starring the now late [[Natasha Richardson]] (who of course, recently died in a skiing accident). It also of course, stars a young [[Lindsay Lohan]] in more innocent, precocious times. Also, the whole plot centers on [[Dennis Quaid]]'s twins (both played by Lindsay Lohan). In real life, Dennis Quaid's own newborn twins almost died due to an accidental overdose.
** Don't forget the scene where Hallie asks the mom if she can have a sip of wine and she says "I don't think you're gonna like it". After two [[DU Is]], jailtime, and rehab; that scene is very uncomfortable to watch.
* Arguably the entire plot of [[Mean Girls]] could be seen as this. [[Lindsay Lohan]] plays the protagonist Cady, who falls in with the wrong crowd and transforms from a well-meaning good girl into a mean, callous, and spiteful bitch who drinks and parties alot at the expense of her friends, and in real life, Lindsay herself engaged in similar behavior, resulting in several arrests and trips to rehab.
* In the film ''[[An American Carol]]'' the film that Rosie O'Donell's [[The Expy|Expy]] shows concerns alleged terrorist attacks by Christians. Passengers at an airport are herded through a full-body x-ray machine, as one cynically remarks that it's all thanks to "the underwear bomber." The movie was released in 2008. One year later, of course, what was typical Abrams hyperbole was no longer funny.
* Julie Andrews in "[[Victor Victoria]]" says near the beginning that she's had enough personal experiences to tell her that it does not pay to take chances with your health. Victor Victoria on stage was her last major musical before she lost her voice due to a botched surgery.
** Speaking of Victor Victoria: At the end of Robert Preston's rendition of "The Shady Dame from Seville," he is given a bouquet of roses. He says "I might as well. They're the last roses I'll ever see." Preston died just four years later.
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** Worse, [[George Lucas]] stated that he'd ''always'' intended Luke and Leia to be siblings. Oh, ''really''? Check out how Luke first meets Leia in ''[[A New Hope]]''. Ewwwwwwwww.
*** Except [[Flip-Flop of God|he hadn't]]; Luke's sister was originally supposed to be an entirely new character, as part of a [[Sequel Hook]] if [[Return of the Jedi]] hadn't been the last part of the trilogy. He wasn't able to make a fourth film (at the time), so he ended up changing it to someone who was already an established character. [[Flip-Flop of God|Make up your mind, will you, Lucas?]]
* Both ''[[Grumpy Old Men]]'' and its sequel ''Grumpier Old Men'' end with [[Hilarious Outtakes]] of bloopers and flubbed line readings. It's funny until you realize that Burgess Meredith's mistakes were due to the fact that he was suffering from late-stage Alzheimer's.
* In ''[[Big Money Hustlas]]'', [[wikipedia:Rudy Ray Moore|Rudy Ray Moore]] portrayed himself as "The Ghost of [[Dolemite]]". One part has Sugar Bear<ref>Dah dah dah dah DUN!</ref> [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|says that he isn't dead because "he lives in Vegas", with Dolemite remarking that he knows Goddamn well that he isn't dead.]]
* A comedy called ''Diana & Me'', about an Australian woman who dreams of meeting Princess Diana and a paparazzo trying to get a photograph of the princess, finished shooting in the summer of 1997 and thus had not even made it into release when Princess Diana died in a car crash. Due to the death, the film required significant editing before being released, and even then its release was minimal at best.
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* "Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown" (released in 1988) has a subplot about muslim terrorists who intend to hijack a plane. {{spoiler|The main characters don't do anything about it, the only cops who know about it get drugged, and at the end [[Asshole Victim|two characters]] enter the plane which is about to be hijacked.}} This is entirely played for laughs.
* In ''[[The Secret of NIMH]]'' after agreeing to sedate Dragon, the cat, Mrs. Brisby mutters "I must be crazy." Five years later, Mrs. Brisby's voice actress, Elizabeth Hartman, a recent mental institute outpatient, jumped from a fifth story window.
* The opening of ''[[The Naked Gun]]'', features Nordberg, who is portrayed by [[OJ Simpson]], sneaking around a shipyard at night while brandishing a gun. It's difficult to not associate the scene with Simpson's alleged murder. It became even more difficult to not see similarities once OJ was accused of armed robbery in 2007.
* Fictional example that mixes it with [[Gone Horribly Right]]: In an early scene of the original [[Tron]], Flynn is communicating with his hacking program, Clu.
{{quote|'''Flynn:''' ''I wrote you. I taught you everything I know about the system...Now, you're the best program that's ever been written. You're dogged and relentless..."''}}
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** It eases off a little when you realize that the moon doesn't cause earthquakes (unless Bruce willed it to).
*** "Freak" tidal wave as in unexpected, rather than accompanying an earthquake. The gravitational pull of the moon is the primary influence on the tides. By moving it closer, the oceans would move a great deal more than they ordinarily would, causing something almost identical to a mid-size tidal wave but over a much wider area. However, the damage should have been primarily on the side of they planet they were on at the time, and would cover every coastline, not just a single island chain.
* ''[[Down Periscope]]'' has a war game involving to see if it is possible for a diesel-sub with a rogue commander to bypass the conventional and regulation rigid US Navy using unconventional tactics. Cue 2006, when a Chinese diesel sub went undetected by USS Kitty Hawk's battlegroup until it surfaced within torpedo range.
* ''Pillow Talk'' stars Rock Hudson as a straight man pretending to be gay. {{spoiler|Years later, he would die of AIDS. That is not enough, though: After that, AIDS activists said "Straight men are dying, too!" Then America found out he was a gay man pretending to be straight his whole life.}}
* The first ''[[Charlie's Angels]]'' film opens with [[Drew Barrymore]]'s character (disguised somehow as [[LL Cool J]]) preventing a sky jacker from blowing up an airplane. Keep in mind that the movie was released a mere 11 months before 9/11 (the movie was released in November 2000). So the idea of passing off a potentially deadly skyjacking in the guise of escapism was no longer immediately enticing.
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** The same event led to a forthcoming sci-fi comedy, ''Neighborhood Watch'', to be renamed ''The Watch'' after similar imagery made the studio uncomfortable.
* The gag in "[[Wedding Crashers]]" where Owen Wilson's character is reading 'don't-kill-yourself' books became a lot less funny once Wilson attempted suicide only a few years later.
* ''Detroit: City on the Move'' — a promotional film made for the City of Detroit, an unsuccessful bidder for the Olympic Games was filmed in 1965. Then 1967 riots came and its chance for 1968 Olympics evaporated, but of course things got so much worse later. So the film aged into an unintentional masterpiece of dark irony (or maybe tears, if you're an old American). Advertisements for things that proceed to crash and burn ''or'' Utopian optimism [[Inspired By]] something real usually ends like this, but in this case the subject is both specific and visual — that is, you could find later photo or video documents of the same places and compare.
== [[In-Universe]] examples ==
* In the movie ''[[Boogie Nights]]'', a running gag in the beginning of the movie involves Little Bill, whose wife always humiliates him by having sex with other men. It's a nice laugh until the New Years Eve sequence, where Little Bill {{spoiler|sees his wife cheating again in a bathroom, leaves the house, gets a gun out of his car, reenters the bathroom, and shoots his wife and partner before turning the gun on himself.}} That scene, taking place at the end of the 1970s, is meant to be a grim foreshadowing of the hardships the main characters face in the uptight '80s.
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