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* ''[[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!)

** Oh, c'mon. That radio tower was gonna [[Moral Event Horizon|broadcast disco forever]]. [[Deader Than Disco|It had to go]].

* John Lennon getting menaced with a gun in ''[[Help]]'', however silly it looks, is a little chilling now. And it's up in the air whether George being the one who is most affected by "filthy Eastern ways" is funnier or not, considering how George was the one who most actively pursued Hindu spirituality.

* John Lennon getting menaced with a gun in ''[[Help!]]'', however silly it looks, is a little chilling now. And it's up in the air whether George being the one who is most affected by "filthy Eastern ways" is funnier or not, considering how George was the one who most actively pursued Hindu spirituality.

* In ''A Hard Day's Night'', Norm tells John Lennon more than once that he'll murder him if he doesn't behave.

* The late-'60s anti-war comedy ''[[How I Won The War]]'' has an especially cringe-worthy moment near the end when Gripweed (played by John Lennon) {{spoiler|is shot and killed.}} Made worse when he looks directly into the camera and says, "I knew this would happen. You knew it would happen, didn't you?"

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* The 2007 ''[[TMNT]]'' movie uses a newscast about the collapsing real estate market to establish its [[Next Sunday AD]] timeframe, since the real estate market had actually been thriving for years. Three years and a global real-estate-fueled recession later, that subtle gag's funny for a whole different reason.

* ''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 [[~~Transsexual~~]] woman, the jokes take on some [[Unfortunate Implications]] in retrospect.

* ''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 [[Transsexualism]] woman, the jokes take on some [[Unfortunate Implications]] in retrospect.

* In ''[[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...