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* The [[Trope Namer]] from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': In early season four, Buffy is commenting on how her mother would react to the price of her text-books, stating flippantly, "I hope it's a ''funny'' aneurysm." Next season, her mother has a brain tumor removed, and later suddenly dies of a side-effect of surgery: an aneurysm.

** The season five episode "The Replacement," in which Xander is split into two versions of himself. At one point he says {{spoiler|to Anya that "very soon you won't be worrying about growing old!"}} Roughly three years later, {{spoiler|Anya is killed in the [[Final Battle]].}}

** The [[Columbine]] High School massacre occurred one week before the original planned air-date of the season three episode "Earshot," which was about preventing a school shooting. It included this line by Xander:

*** After Buffy glares at him, he adds, "I said idly."

*** Even [[The Stoic]] Oz would later have cringed over the comment about school shootings becoming trendy, since...well...they did.

** Anya in "Selfless" tells Buffy that it will take more than a sword through the chest to kill her, foreshadowing how she dies in the finale.

** An in-universe example and lampshading occurs in the 07x07 episode "Conversations with Dead People":

'''Holden:''' Crazy. He's been in the chronic ward since graduation. ''*[[Beat]]*'' Not really that funny, I guess. }}

** One that fits well enough to be mentioned: in Family, when Tara asks Willow how she can make her feel the way she does, and Willow responds "Magic." In light of the fact that Willow later {{spoiler|erases Tara's memory to make her feel love instead of anger towards her with magic}}, it is incredibly sad.

*** And that's not even considering the fact that that episode is Jenny Calendar's first appearance.

* ''[[Angel]]'': In the episode where Cordelia gets her haunted apartment, she utters the line "How come [[Patrick Swayze]] is never dead when you need him?", a reference to the movie ''[[Ghost (film)|Ghost]]''. However, since his death in 2009...

** In "Ground State", as Fred goes on an uncharacteristic rant about her increased responsibilities, Gunn jokes he doesn't know what kind of "alien female thing" has replaced her. {{spoiler|In season five, she is replaced by an alien female thing, and it is heartbreaking.}}

*** Similarly, Gunn's argument with Angel in "The Price" is almost word for word what Gunn himself did that contributed to Fred's death.

'''Gunn''': Is dead. Fred's not. }}

* In one episode of ''[[Hearts Afire]]'', due to a mix-up at a doctor's office, John Ritter's character thinks he may have a previously-unknown medical condition that will kill him suddenly. Death imitates art.

* While introducing his infamous Blind Black White Supremacist sketch on ''[[Chappelle's Show]]'', Dave said "I haven't been canceled yet. But I'm working on it." Not as funny when you know about all the drama surrounding the end of his show.

** The Halloween one, where the whole B plot revolves around Bill being depressed that a psychic tells him he's going to die 'so soon' (for him, although it was still far in the future) but ends when the psychic gets tired of him and tells him he'll live a ridiculously long time. Funny then, but in retrospect...

** Then there is references to Bill's crazy ex-girlfriend Linda and Bill is oblivious to her behavior as being abnormal. (Ep. 218 "Led Zeppelin"). In Ep. 410 "Look Who's Talking", the woman he was seeing tried to set fire to his hair while he was sleeping.

* ''[[Friends]]'': In one early episode, Chandler jokes about being abducted by aliens, saying, "They did experiments on me! I can't have children!" Later, Joey thinks Chandler has gotten Monica pregnant, and upon learning Monica is not pregnant, replies, "Slow swimmers?" In Season 9, Chandler learns his sperm have low motility and he and Monica are unable to conceive a child. This earns double painful points, due to Courteney Cox-Arquette's long real-life battle with infertility.

** That last part was most likely ''intentional'' - it was revealed courtesy of discovery from a discrimination lawsuit leveled against the writing room that her infertility was a regular subject of mockery by the writing staff. But we didn't know that at the time.

* Of all the sketch comedy shows out there (past and present), none have more FAMs than [[NBC]]'s ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''. Some can be interpreted as a [[Gallows Humor|darkly funny]] [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] moment; others [[Dude, Not Funny|completely kill the joke]]. Some examples:

** The infamous "Don't Look Back in Anger" short film that showed an elderly John Belushi as the last living member of the original "Not Ready for Primetime" cast who ends up dancing on his cast mates' graves. This was funny in the late 70's because John Belushi was known for his hard partying lifestyle, while (most of) the rest of the cast were not. Not so much after he became the ''first'' original cast member to die. [http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/dont-look-back-in-anger/280567/ A video clip is available here].

** A lesser known example from the "Not Ready for Prime Time" era is in a sketch known as "Least-Loved Bedtime Stories." Michael O'Donoghue narrates a story called "The Little Engine that Died," where he says "I think I can...I Think I Can...HEARTATTACK...OHMYGODTHEPAIN!" In 1994, "Mr. Mike" woke up, felt what was thought to be a severe migraine headache, and screamed "OH MY GOD" in pain and later died from cerebral hemorrhage. Michael O'Donoghue was an SNL writer known for his sadistic humor and his frequent migraines, making this death a literal "funny aneurysm moment" ''and'' a [[Karmic Death]].

** On season 5 (the 1979-1980 season), Strother Martin hosted ''SNL.'' One of the sketches he was in was about a dying man who recorded a video will. In August of 1980, Strother Martin died, not only making the episode (Martin's last acting gig, mind you) he hosted a [[Missing Episode]], but making the video will sketch a lot less funny.

** The final sketch on the season 19 finale hosted by Heather Locklear where Phil Hartman sings a lullaby to Chris Farley. It was meant to be sweet and signal the end of the season, but with both Farley and Hartman dead, it's now too depressing to watch.

** On the season 11 premiere hosted by Madonna, there was a cold opening where then-[[NBC]] executive Brandon Tartikoff announces that he's subjecting the 1985-1986 season cast to mandatory urine tests for drugs (this sketch was later [[Edited for Syndication]], as the censors in the 1980s thought that the idea of urine testing was [[Values Dissonance|too taboo for late-night TV at the time]] -- [[Hypocritical Humor|never mind that ''SNL'' is supposed to be the vanguard of edgy, late-night TV humor]]). One of the cast members during the 11th season was a 20-year-old Robert Downey, Jr., who would later spend all of the 1990s being more well-known for his drug abuse and arrests than his movies (though it was [[A Scanner Darkly|playing]] [[Iron Man (film)|addicts]] that gave Downey a [[Career Resurrection]] in the 2000s. Go figure).

*** In May of 1993, during an episode hosted by John Goodman, there was a sketch that ended with a preview for a fake COPS show taking place in Little Rock, AR. This ends up being a scene of the Clintons (played by Phil Hartman and Jan Hooks) where Bill was being abused by Hilary. This alone is cringeworthy given that it seemed as if Phil was in an abusive relationship in real life, but the kicker was when one of the cops (played by Kevin Nealon) said something along the lines of "She's gonna keep doing this. And one day, she's going to kill you" So yeah...

** In 1991, ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' aired a episode called ''Permanent Wave'' which focuses on the recent murder of a off-screen character. And guess what? The victim's name is Phil Hartman.

** Here's one that doesn't involve death, but still became controversial after the fact: On the Anne Hathaway/The Killers episode, there was a sketch about the assorted deadbeats and greedy people who would benefit from the economic bailout at the time. One of the people was a couple by the name of Herbert and Marion Sandler (played by long time cast member Darrell Hammond and 2-year feature player [[Casey Wilson]]), who screwed Wachovia Bank out of a lot of money and personally thanked the Congress for not holding them responsible for their corrupt activities. Who would have guessed that Herbert and Marion Sandler were an actual couple that actually did this (according to show creator Lorne Michaels, he and the other writers had no clue about this until after the sketch aired)? Because of this, the Internet video version of the CSPAN Bailout sketch and the NBC rerun of the Anne Hathaway episode edited out the entire part with the Sandler couple.

** When Al Gore hosted a Christmas episode in season 28 (2002-2003), the monologue showed how Al Gore picked his running mate, rejecting John Kerry (Seth Meyers) and John Edwards (Will Forte). Gore then remarks that "one of them would make a great Vice President someday." Kerry and Edwards would team up to run for President and Vice-President in 2004, only to be beaten by Bush and Cheney (who were running for re-election).

** From the Jean Doumanian era, at the end of the first episode (hosted by Elliot Gould), Gould introduces the cast again and tells the audience, "We're gonna be around forever!" Eleven episodes later, all but Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo were fired after the F-bomb debacle on the episode hosted by Charlene Tilton and most of the cast members from that season have all but disappeared from the limelight.

*** There's another way to look at the "We're gonna be around forever!" line as an Aneurysm Moment. If you're a fan of the original 1970s ''SNL'', the line comes across as a prediction/warning that ''SNL'' will never be canceled (no matter how much it's come close), but it [[Nostalgia Filter|won't be the same as the original]].

*** Then, there was a sketch where Pee-Wee Herman is thrown in jail and meets the Pathological Liar, Tommy Flanagan (played by Jon Lovitz). Pee-Wee Herman (or rather, the actor who plays him [Paul Reubens]) would actually find himself on the wrong side of the law in the 1990s and early 2000s (both for sexual offenses). The fact that Pee-Wee is screaming, "I'm innocent! I'm innocent!" lends more to the cringe factor of rewatching this sketch.

*** Speaking of Pee-Wee Herman and Funny Aneurysm Moments on ''SNL'', the SNL Digital short for the season 36 episode hosted by Gwyneth Paltrow with musical guest Cee-Lo Green had Andy Samberg and Pee-Wee Herman (as himself) going out and getting drunk one night. While walking to the next bar, they see Anderson Cooper (also playing himself) and whale on him with a chair (and appear later in the sketch with a bandaged head, complaining that Pee-Wee and Andy almost damaged his [[Blue Eyes]]). Less than a week after this episode aired, Anderson Cooper really was assaulted while covering the uprising in Egypt.

** In the Colin Firth/Norah Jones episode from season 29, Darrell Hammond as Bill Clinton remarks that John Edwards is like a "boring version" of himself, stating, "This guy might have sex in the Oval Office, but he’d probably do it in the missionary position - with his wife." Thanks to the Rielle Hunter affair and the sex tape scandal, that line rings ''very'' hollow.

** A sketch on the Topher Grace episode from season 30 (2004-2005 season) called "The Not Incredible Adventures of the Down-And-Out Dollar" parodies the fact that the U.S. dollar had reached an all-time low by having a tiny dollar bill (Amy Poehler) being mocked by currencies from other countries, one of which is a Euro (played by episode host, Topher Grace), who brags that he's doing well in every country in the European Union. That would prove to be so very false five years later with news of several European countries suffering from economic meltdown (what's worse is that the Euro mentions that Greece was doing better than America economically in 2005, which isn't all that true now).

** Back in the early 80s, there was a show hosted by [[Drew Barrymore]] - fresh from ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]]'' and ''[[Firestarter]]'', all smiles and curls, and seven years old (making Barrymore the youngest host ''SNL'' has ever had, beating out [[Jodie Foster]], who was 14 when she hosted in 1976) - who finished her monologue by asking for a drink. "After all," she declared with a broad wink, "I ''am'' a Barrymore." Her family legacy of alcoholism and self-destructive behavior ''would'' catch up with her for real, and in a big (bad) way, not long after. Subverted in that there is a happy ending to all of this: Drew Barrymore did manage to climb out of the same pit of drugs and despair as her ancestors did and has come back to host a few more times, now becoming ''SNL'''s most frequent female host as of October 2009.

** When [[Betty White]] hosted ''SNL'' on season 35, she states that [[Facebook]] is a waste of time for people her age because if she wants to talk to old friends, she wouldn't use a social network site; she'd use a Ouija board. Less than a month later, Rue McClanahan died, and White became the last living [[The Golden Girls|Golden Girl]].

** When Chris Farley hosted in 1997, both the cold opening and the monologue was about Chris Farley being unreliable, on account of his drug-problem, but Tim Meadows and Chevy Chase, who is his sponsor in this sketch, both vouch for him and Lorne reluctantly allows Farley to host the show, if Chris Rock promises to stand by, in case Farley screws up. It is not as fun, when you realise that Chris Farley died of a massive overdose a little less than two months later, and that Lorne really did have Chris Rock in the studio all week, in case something went wrong with Farley. Rock had a back-up monologue and a few sketches ready, should it become necessary.

** On the December 3rd, 2011 episode, "The Miley Cyrus Show" sketch had Maya Rudolph impersonate Whitney Houston. She is supposed to be convincing Miley Cyrus to stop smoking weed, but instead makes jokes about weed barely being a drug at all, talking about how minor is is compared to all the other drugs she's done. About two months later, she drowned in a bathtub due to the drugs present in her system, which included cocaine and marijuana. Cringe worthy indeed.

** Despite its status as THE classic ''Seinfeld'' episode, it's hard to watch "The Contest" and not wince a bit during the John F. Kennedy Jr-related parts following his fatal plane crash.

** There was an episode where Kramer had a black girlfriend, and at the end of the episode, he shows up at her apartment with a ''very'' thorough tan, prompting her father to say "I don't see no white boy, I see a damn fool!" Michael Richards (the actor famous for playing Kramer) actually would anger people with racist implications of his stand-up at the Laugh Factory in 2005.

** The ''Cliff Hangers'' pricing game also had a Funny Aneurysm Moment: On the '70s nighttime version, Dennis James jokingly called the mountain climber caricature "Fritz" on the first playing of the game. The contestant lost the game, causing the caricature to topple over the cliff with a crashing sound, and James added "There goes Fritz!" Janice Pennington, one of the show's models in the later Bob Barker version, lost her first husband Fritz Stammberger (a famed mountain climber) in 1975 in an apparent mountain-climbing accident.

*** Maybe this is why Drew Carey just calls him Yodely Guy.

** Also, in "The Hole in the Heart", Dr. Brennan enlists her intern, Vincent Nigel-Murray, in a reenactment of one of the deaths. She goes to great lengths to explain all of the skills and training their killer, Jacob Broadsky, has that make him so dangerous. Vincent flippantly comments that he has "a feeling [he'll] be dead very soon". {{spoiler|And is shot and killed by Broadsky later in the episode.}}

* ''[[CSI]]'' In season 8, Warrick Brown, who was already deep in trouble with Grissom for his lack of responsibility, gets drunk while working on a case; on that same night, it is strongly implied that the exotic dancer he slept with slipped him a few drugs to knock him out. In early May, 2008, Gary Dourdan (who plays Brown) was arrested for possession of narcotics.

* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' isn't immune. In the infamous ''[[Hobgoblins]]'' episode, Tom Servo makes a joke about a handgun saying "If found, please return to Hunter Thompson." Back then, it was just referring to the fella being a gun enthusiast, but Hunter S. Thompson committed suicide by shotgun in 2005.

** In the episode ''[[The Horror of Party Beach]]'', Mike, tormented by bad '50s beach music and white people dancing poorly, says that he agrees with the Taliban that dancing should be considered a crime. The episode was first aired in September of 1997, four years before 9/11.

** In the [[Gamera]] episode, Crow gets annoyed at Joel and says to him, "We can [[Conan O'Brien|replace you]] with [[The Tonight Show|Leno]], ya know."

** Julie Andrews' singing was occasionally mocked on [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]] years before the ability to sing was taken from her.

** The extremely popular song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZyJCV_dyug Let's Have a Patrick Swayze Christmas]" seemed slightly less funny during the 2009 holiday season, three months after Patrick Swayze died. But Swayze himself got a kick out of the sketch, which makes it okay, if a bit wistful.

** The Trickster's antics in "Tall Tales" (one of their [[Breather Episode|breather episodes]]) become a hell of a lot less funny when you learn just how cruel the Trickster can be--specifically, that he could kill Dean over and over again to stop Sam from thinking that he could save him.

** Sam pleading with the Trickster to bring back Dean, and using the reason that Dean's his brother becomes a lot more tragic when you consider {{spoiler|that the Trickster is really Gabriel, who loves his brothers but left because of the fighting.}}

** Dean's banter with Bela about her father becomes a lot less funny when we learn later that she was probably sexually abused as a child.

* Absolutely anything that Richard Hammond says in episodes of ''[[Top Gear]]'' relating to "flying through the Pearly Gates backwards in a fireball" (or similar) that was recorded before his miraculously non-fatal high-speed crash.

** Well, clearly doing it ''upside-down in a rocket car at 288 mph'' is the only way to top that.

** Similarly, there is a clip of Jeremy Clarkson saying that "no series would be complete without an earnest attempt to kill Richard Hammond"; the BBC had to remove that from its website some time after the crash.

** And Amber's first words to Wilson were "I was never here." Cute at the time because she was acting like a sneaky little CTB, but after she died? Not so much. (Events near the end of season 5 don't help either.)

** They also use the metaphor of being hit by a bus when discussing danger and unexpected deaths.

** They got two Funny Aneurysms for the price of one in "Mirror, Mirror": {{spoiler|Kutner and Amber are arguing over which one of them their patient will imitate when they notice that the patient's blood has gone solid. Kutner quips, "I'd say he's mimicking whichever one of us happens to be dying."}} That doesn't narrow it down.

** They did it again in season 5. The reason for {{spoiler|Kutner <s>to get the cat to go</s> peeing on House's chair? To quote the man himself: "Blood on my face." Technically it was cranberry juice, but he, uh, [[Driven to Suicide|fixed that inconsistency]] two episodes later.}}

*** Even more poignant in the same episode, when the cat that is said to foretell someone's death strolls around {{spoiler|Kutner's}} legs, House remarks sarcastically:

** In the episode "Painless", the patient of the week attempts suicide, and the fellows argue over his mental status. {{spoiler|When Taub attributes Kutner's position on "right to die" to Kutner's tragic childhood, Kutner argues that his past makes him less likely to commit suicide.}} Figures don't lie -- but liars figure.

** "The Itch," an episode that aired in the first half of season 5, had as one of its plots House trying to convince Wilson that he really is getting bitten by a mosquito and not imagining it. He is right in the end - he kills the mosquito. Then, in the season finale, it turns out that House hallucinated the sex with Cuddy he had in the previous episode - and was also hallucinating that he had the evidence of that encounter, a lipstick that was really a Vicodin bottle. This at best makes the resolution of that plot "The Itch" a [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]], and at worst destabilizes it altogether.

*** This was probably intentional foreshadowing.

** Some dialog from Season 3, episode 23, regarding treating the patient of the week with magic mushrooms:

'''House:''' Well, I have now. Yeah, it's definitely better that the Dean of Medicine prescribes it instead of an unhinged doctor with a history of drug use. Takes the stink off if the patient decides to put on a cape and fly off the roof. }}

** The above lines become quite the [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] when watching this episode after seeing the premiere of Season 6, in which one of House's fellow patients at Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital ''does'' jump off a parking structure, believing he is a superhero and can fly. *** And it doesn't help that House made it possible for that fellow mental patient to get into that position.

** In a season two episode of House "Forever". When House is asking why Chase is working in the NICU and Chase say's he can't deal with all the patients lying House says, "Nothing more honest then a dead baby". Not so funny when later in the episode the baby Mikey dies.

* In the first season episode "One Shot, One Kill" of ''[[NCIS]]'' aired in 2004 a marine recruiter is talking to two young men about joining the marine corp. About the possibility of being deployed to Iraq he says:

** In the second season episode "An Eye for an Eye", Tony tells Kate to "Work smarter not harder - you'll live longer." Six episodes later, Kate is killed on the job.

* In the second episode of ''[[Samantha Who]]'', Samantha goes to a prescheduled doctor's appointment, assuming he's a neurologist, only to find out halfway through that he's a plastic surgeon whom, pre-amnesia, Sam had planned to go to for breast implants. The year after this episode aired, Christina Applegate, who plays Samantha, was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a double mastectomy.

** The whole Josh storyline in "Hard Ball", in which he and his agent have to negotiate a new contract to keep him on the show. We even get Liz insisting they can't do the show without him and, when Jack says everyone is replaceable, she replies "he's not replaceable as my friend." Fast forward a few seasons and it turns out they could do the show without him and Liz apparently wasn't so attached to him after all. He spent most of the third season [[Out of Focus]] and, at the start of the next season, was almost immediately [[Put on a Bus]] after [[Hanging a Lampshade]] on the fact that he still exists. This time, no one, including Liz, seemed to care about Josh being gone. Oh, and a few episodes after being put on a bus, Josh made a cameo, his last appearance ever on ''30 Rock'', in which he fails to get his old job back and reveals he's been reduced to doing gay porn. This after "Hard Ball" featured Jack and Liz sabotaging his offer from ''[[The Daily Show]]'' to keep him on ''TGS''. Ouch.

** The episode in which Tracy has diabetes and Kenneth tries to get him to eat healthier becomes more uncomfortable in light of the kidney transplant Tracy Morgan had due to his real diabetic condition.

* The episode of ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' hosted by Zero Mostel contains a skit where he recites a poem about his fears, ending with his greatest fear: something for which he himself is only a fear that can be erased by that realization, upon which he vanishes into thin air. Mostel died suddenly before the episode aired, which must have made the scene pretty eerie.

** And then there's the scene in Peter Sellers' episode where Kermit finds him dressed in a bizarre mix of costume pieces in his dressing room. ("I was trying to do Queen Victoria, but I've forgotten what she looked like.") When Kermit responds that it's okay for him to be himself on the Muppet show Sellers replies, "That would be impossible. There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed." The scene has since been quoted many times as summing up Sellers' view of himself as doomed to be seen only as his various characters and not his true self. In fact, he contributed to the sketch in lieu of the show's usual scene of the guest star out of character backstage, due to his discomfort at being seen out of character.

* Back in season 3 of ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'', when Rodney was blasted by some weird Ancient technology and worrying about the effects it could have on him, Elizabeth jokingly asked Dr. Beckett, "What are the chances it could make him more pleasant?" Then, in season 5, Rodney contracts a brain parasite whose effects are to take away his memory, drastically reduce his intelligence, and ''make him much friendlier''.

* In ''[[Stargate SG-1]],'' one of the wacky, self-referential [[Milestone Celebration]] episodes had Martin Lloyd mention that it had been suggested that he go with a younger, hipper version of his fictionalized SG-1 for the movie he was making. We get an [[Imagine Spot]] to a hilarious soap-operatic version of Stargate, with Teal'c as [[The Pornomancer]], people stopping to randomly make out during scenes when they really shouldn't, and Vala randomly telling Daniel she's pregnant. Then all other [[Stargate Verse]] projects are flushed in favor of ''[[Stargate Universe]],'' which... seems like they used that scene as a blueprint for a new series without realizing it was supposed to be a joke. Now that SGU has failed (it lasted less than two seasons before its unceremonious cancellation), ''all'' other Stargate projects are [[Franchise Killer|on indefinite hiatus]]. Suddenly, ''200'' isn't nearly as funny as it was when it came out.

'''Book''': Oh, I'm sure you'll outlive us all. }}

** The scene in "Shindig" where Wash jokes about reading a poem at Zoe's funeral. It's a genuinely sweet and funny scene, {{spoiler|until Wash ends up dying in the Big Damn Movie. }}

*** Zoe ''is'' [[Someone to Remember Him By|pregnant]] at the end of [[The Movie]], as shown in the comic "Float Out".

** The still flying scene at the end of the (originally unaired) Pilot is slightly depressing now that the show has been canceled.

* D'Argo jokes in ''[[Farscape]]'' that he hopes his half-Sebacean son has grown to have "his mother's nose." His son is later revealed to have mutilated his own nose to look less like his father's out of shame at being a hybrid.

* ''[[The West Wing]]'', "The Birnam Wood": After President Bartlet fires Leo McGarry, Leo wanders off into the woods around Camp David and has a massive heart attack. Though he survives, it takes until the morning for security to find him. During the filming of the seventh season, John Spencer, Leo's actor, died quite suddenly of a heart attack, necessitating the killing off of his character (by the same method).

*** The clearest example, though, is in the first episode of season 7. Leo suggests that maybe he shouldn't be Santos's running mate, to which Santos replies, "I'm not gonna fire you. You wanna get out of this, you're gonna have to drum up another heart attack or something." Of course, Leo dies of another heart attack and does "get out of" being VP.

** Also in the episode that aired directly after John Spencer's death, which had been preceded by a message from Martin Sheen relaying the news, Toby Zeigler has the line "Disappointed to reach me? Somebody dead?" when Josh complains about how hard it was to reach him by phone.

** The first season finale is a twofer-- the plot both concerns reentry problems with the [[NASA|Space Shuttle Columbia]] and has the President half-seriously threaten to invade Baghdad.

* The ''[[Grey's Anatomy]]'' episode where Meredith describes the attempted suicide of her mother to her shocked therapist is dramatic, but also slightly cringe-inducing because the actress playing Meredith, Ellen Pompeo, states her earliest memory to be when she was 4 and her elder siblings were trying to wake her mother, who had accidentally overdosed on pain meds, and killed herself. Wonder if the writers knew that when they wrote it.

*** In the second season, when George and Derek are quarantined in the locker room, George begins to panic about the possibility of dying from the plague.

*** In the second season episode "17 Seconds", after a shooting at a local business, Derek remarks "Can you imagine, you're at work, just doing your job and somebody come in and shoots you.". Fast-forward to season 6 finale where {{spoiler|Derek is at work, and someone comes in and shoots him}}.

'''George''': My point is, you've lived! If you die, who cares? If I die - what, this is it?! }}

* The episode of ''[[Chuck]]'' where the Buy More employees were being prepared for the chaotic stampede that would ensue on Black Friday, complete with plans for an emergency evacuation if necessary, was a lot funnier ''before'' [http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/28/black.friday.violence/ a Wal-Mart store employee was trampled to death] in just such a situation on Black Friday.

* In an episode of ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the Tenth Doctor absorbs high levels of radiation. When companion Martha Jones asks if that's likely to kill him, he light-heartedly replies "Nah, it's only Roentgen radiation. We used to play with Roentgen bricks in the nursery". Ironic and sad seeing that {{spoiler|he ended up regenerating (dying) by absorbing radiation a few series later}}

** An episode of ''[[Power Rangers Lost Galaxy]]'' makes a [[Shout-Out]] to Doctor Who... by using the coordinates of Gallifrey for the location of a ''meteoroid field.'' Then came the new series, whose backstory is the destruction of Gallifrey in a "time war."

* In an episode of ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'', a flashback reveals Gabriel making a joke referring to shooting herself in the head and the person who would later commit suicide doing just that, sitting next to her right in the middle of the scene. They're beating a dead horse, but within the show's continuity, it still counts.

** In the episode where Carlos's mother {{spoiler|awakes from a coma but dies anyway}}, Bree remarks upon seeing the ensuing ostentation, "You have to hand it to the Catholics, they do grief better than anyone". Pope John Paul II died a day before the US airing, so the line was changed to "Gabby and Carlos" in place of "Catholics" (there was not enough time to bring Marcia Cross back into the studio to overdub the line, so the audio was pasted from another instance where she had used the phrase). The original line is used in syndication - this wasn't a [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] for long.

** An even "better" example is the episode in which Jeff, for reasons of typical Jeff-ness, has ended up pretending that his girlfriend is dead. A great episode is horribly dampened when you realise that Lou Gish, the actress playing said girlfriend, died prematurely from terminal cancer a few years ago. ''Especially'' when, all flu-ed up, she says to Jeff "don't mind me ... I'm dead."

* A while ago, there was a reality show called ''Murder in Small Town X''. The game was ultimately won by Angel Juarbe, a New York firefighter. The ''MiSTX'' finale airdate? September 4, 2001. Angel died in the attacks one week later.

** Hawkeye also reassures him at one point that he'll die an old man in his bed. [[McLeaned|Ouch.]]

** Let's not forget the superbly hilarious early episode, "Bananas, Crackers and Nuts", in which Hawkeye attempts to fake insanity to get some rest away from the camp. A few years later (in real time it was more like 13, but to Hawkeye that's probably more what it felt like), {{spoiler|Hawkeye is sent to an institution after plowing a jeep through the mess tent.}}

** Also, when he has yet another breakdown in "Hawk's Nightmare", Radar expresses surprise at his behavior because he was apparently coping with the war better than anyone. Even [[Sanity Slippage|before]] the finale, that really wasn't the case anymore.

** Another example unrelated to Hawkeye or Henry: the Season Nine episode "Blood Brothers" tells the story of a GI who can't give blood because {{spoiler|he has terminal cancer.}} The GI was played... by Patrick Swayze.

* Though it was only ever very darkly funny in the first place, the scene in early season 3 of the new ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' where Ellen sleeps with Cavil to get Tigh out of prison becomes a ''lot'' more disturbing after {{spoiler|it's revealed in season four that Ellen was the head of the team that built Cavil, thus making the scene toaster-incest. And the toaster's design was based on her father.}}

* ''[[Kids Incorporated]]'' - "Space Case". During "Space Week" at the P* lace, the kids are all writing to NASA, petitioning them to put a kid into space. Mickey mentions that NASA is "going to start taking regular people into space." This episode was filmed in 1984, and what Mickey's referring to is the then-recent announcement of the Teacher In Space project. The fruition of that project was the 1986 shuttle mission STS-51-L, which ended 73 seconds after launch with the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

** Also, the number of times over the years these prepubescent kids mention how much they want to be like Michael Jackson.

* Also, a FedEx commercial featuring Steve Irwin in which he "dies" from a snakebite because the antidote was being delivered by another company. [[Y Eah]]....

* In a confessional, Rachel from Season 2 of ''[[Hell's Kitchen|Hells Kitchen]]'' jokingly pantomimed shooting herself in the head. She died of a gunshot to the head about a year later.

** A good in-universe example of an almost immediate funny aneurysm moment:

** At one point Red fakes a heart attack to get Kitty to get off his ass about something. A few seasons later he actually has one.

* ''Battlebots'' example: During on of Surgeon General's fights, the announcer opened with "Do you believe in life after death?" Julio Roqueta, Surgeon General's driver, died a couple years later.

** Pilot Frank Lapidus successfully lands a commercial plane on a small runway on the island when the plane undergoes instrument failure as a result of jumping through time. This episode aired a few weeks after (but was clearly written and filmed many months before) Sully Sullenberger became a national hero for successfully landing a commercial jet on the Hudson River with no loss of life. Since no one died, this is thankfully a less disturbing version of a [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]].

** Unfortunately, the same can not be said for Air France Flight 447. When this passenger jet crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in June 2009, some pointed out the loose similarity with ''Lost''. However, as the days passed, more and more eerily ''Lost''-related coincidences began to appear, including the discovery of the plane's tail section (''Lost''s Flight 815 lost its tail section during the crash), the statement that the plane was found on the bottom of the ocean with bodies ({{spoiler|Charles Widmore}} hides a fake Flight 815 and bodies on the bottom of the ocean to throw off investigators), and, most disturbingly, a Spanish pilot's claim that he saw a "flash of bright light" where flight 447 disappeared (''Lost''s flight 316 disappeared in a flash of time travel-related light). Finally, conspiracy theorists began pointing out that the area where flight 447 vanished is known for heightened electromagnetism as one of the infamous "vile vortices;" flight 815 on ''Lost'' was brought down in an electromagnetic incident. Sure enough, the claim that unusual levels of electromagnetism were in the area on the day of the disappearance was backed up by imaging reports from independent researchers.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g3KD6CYfyY&feature=related This appearance] by Robert Blake on ''[[The Tonight Show]]'', on New Year's Eve 1976, includes a discussion about what happens when Blake fights with his (then) wife, Sondra Kerr: "The blood flows," he says. In 2002, Blake would be arrested and tried (though ultimately acquitted) for the murder of his ''second'' wife, Bonnie Lee Blakely.

** Don't forget Blake's appearance as a satanic figure (or embodiment of wrath and violence...or whatever...freakin' David Lynch...) in the film ''Lost Highway'', which is primarily concerned with a man who is arrested for murdering his wife.

** That's nothing compared to the episode of ''[[Frasier]]'' that David Ogden Stiers guest-starred in. He plays a research scientist called Leland Barton who was a close friend of Frasier's mother Hester, and Frasier's father Martin becomes worried that due to Leland sharing the same hobbies, tastes and mannerisms as Frasier and Niles that he might have had an affair with Hester and be Frasier and Niles' biological father. {{spoiler|Martin confronts Leland with this at the end, and Leland admits that he loved Hester - but only ''platonically'', because he's gay, and she was very supportive of him when they worked together in the 1950s and it wasn't possible to be open about homosexuality.}}

** ''[[Star Trek Generations]]'' twisted the final moment of the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|TNG]]'' episode ''Family'' from a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] into [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|this kind of moment.]] The final scene shows Picard's brother Robert and his wife Marie looking out their back window at their son Rene as he sits gazing at the stars. At the time, it implied Rene might follow in his uncle's footsteps. No he won't, since ''Generations'' reveals that [[Bus Crash|he and his father both died in a fire offscreen.]] (And that final scene in "Family" even has a ''blazing fireplace'' in the background!) Poor Marie. I wonder how she coped. I guess I shouldn't care. [[They Just Didn't Care|The writers didn't.]]

** Still on ''[[Star Trek]]'', [http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64C0L620100514 the protesters against the current regime in Thailand] [[Red Shirt|could not have chosen a less prophetic name.]]

** Not only that, but as the episode was filming, the Mayor of [[Los Angeles]] proposed moving the homeless population into walled off districts, much like in the episode. The producers were understandably freaked out.

** Now about that [http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/05/18/spain.protests/index.html anarchy in Europe...][[Oh Crap|Yeah.]]

* The final scene of the last episode of ''[[Father Ted]]'' was initially going to show the titular character, driven to despair with his life, climb out on a ledge with the implication that he was going to commit suicide. The scene was played for laughs. Not long before the final series aired Dermot Morgan, the actor who played Ted, died from a heart attack.

** The scene was changed post-production to a montage celebrating the series in tribute.

* ''[[The Soup]]'' made hay with an [[Alternative Character Interpretation]] of reality show ''Jon and Kate Plus 8'' that portrayed Jon as a henpecked husband to needlessly bossy Kate; one skit took an argument over coupons and ended it with him committing suicide. As it turns out, the marriage was indeed miserable, and while ''The Soup'' -- irreverent by nature -- kept up with the show and its stars even after they officially filed for divorce in June 2009 (the show continued for a while as ''Kate Plus 8''), one episode joked that it was "just kind of sad now".

* A mid-May 2009 [http://www.abc.net.au/tv/gruentransfer/latestshow.htm web-exclusive segment] of Australian advertising program ''The Gruen Transfer'' featured ad-man Todd Sampson quipping that in the future, Michael Jackson could be the new face of ''[[Touched By an Angel]]''. While at the time, it was a [[Refuge in Audacity|crude joke]] about his [[Memetic Molester|history]] and his inevitable death, it takes on new elements of [[Dude, Not Funny]] after his unexpected June 2009 death.

** Actually, nearly everybody dies of cardiac arrest, it's the cause of the cardiac arrest that's usually listed as "cause of death." Emergency medicine is centered around correcting the cause of the cardiac arrest before it becomes irreversible.

** Since it was done infomercial style, it hit again as it was aired a day before Billy Mays' death.

* On an early episode of ''[[Pitchmen]]'', Anthony Sullivan is looking over recorded footage of Billy Mays driving for a commercial spot. When remarking on Billy's acting (as it's obvious he's not really driving), Anthony exclaims "It looks like he's about to have a heart attack!" Two months after airing, Billy Mays died of a previously unknown heart condition.

** In a later episode, when Billy Mays was pitching for a life insurance commercial, fellow pitchman Anthony Sullivan quips before filming, "Ok, Billy. Proud father, and loving husband.... I'm reading your obituary." And then....

** Featured in a few episodes, especially during the ''Film/Theatre/TV styles'' skits, is an innocent mockery of the show ''The Crocodile Hunter''. In September 2006 The Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, was killed when a sting ray's barb-covered stinger pierced his heart.

** In several episodes, Wayne Brady would impersonate [[Gary Coleman]] in various skits. Since Coleman's recent death, the jokes just aren't as funny anymore.

 

* A lot of 1970s sitcoms, like ''[[Mork and Mindy]]'' and ''[[Taxi]]'', feature scenes where characters extol the virtues of O. J. Simpson. The ''Saturday Night Live'' episode he hosted is completely unwatchable now because of this.

* Any episode of ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' that involves a joke about philandering, or Lucy and Ricky's marriage being in trouble, or both.

* ''[[The Kids in The Hall]]'' have a sketch that [[Hangs a Lampshade]] on this (with a healthy bit of [[Gallows Humor]] thrown in): Mark McKinney (still living as of this edit) is the guy in charge of a PBS-style fundraiser and he talks about how everyone should call in and send money...

* There was a segment done about the ''Challenger'' space shuttle, that was written and filmed before it exploded, but because of the incident, the segment aired after the disaster. Eerily prescient was a line by the reporter about the fame given to Christa McAuliffe, the teacher who went into space, in which he said something like, "She was just another teacher, who became famous for being selected, but soon, ''it will all be over''."

** In an pre-flight interview, the Commander of the ''Challenger'' on that flight, Dick Scobee, said "By the time the next mission takes off, everything that happened on this flight will have been forgotten."

** Made more heartwrenching still when you know Christa McAuliffe's daughter Caroline begged her mother not to go because "something bad will happen and I'll never see you again."

* In the penultimate episode of season 2 of ''[[Veronica Mars]]'', Weevil tells Cassidy (who is helping him with algebra, long story): "If this is your idea of terms I'll understand? I'm going to kill you. Or myself. It's a toss up." One episode later, {{spoiler|Cassidy commits suicide.}}

** In another one, Roseanne gets a call from the school that D.J. had obscene materials, and Dan goes there, and since they haven't seen Mr. Connor before, he jokes that he's her oldest son and Mrs. Connor's a widow. Cue the [[Gainax Ending]]. Also, given that he died of a heart attack, any joke about Dan's weight qualifies.

* ''[[Night Court]]'': (set in New York City, albeit well over a decade before 9/11) Mac's TRS80-esque computer starts picking up air-traffic control data. Right after he announces that he fixed it by wiping the information, everyone hears the roar of a jet engine. Dan looks out the window to deliver the punchline "You should see the looks on their faces!"

* ''Bill Cosby Himself'': is one of the best stand-up comedy films ever. He covers a wide range of topics, most having to do with his role as a husband and father. Sadly, on at least two occasions he refers to his son, Ennis's, probable death by a member of his own family. The first time it was mentioned was the possible end result of a sibling rivalry with his four sisters, "He's 11 now I don't think he'll live to be 12." The second, by Bill's own hand, as instructed by his over worked, exasperated wife. "I want you to go upstairs... and kill the boy." Tragically, in 1997, Ennis died in an attempted robbery while helping a stranger change a tire. Reality took an otherwise touching scene of a loving father proudly discussing the trials and tribulations that come with raising a son, and made it very difficult to watch as the boy he's describing will be lost to violence in fifteen years time.

* ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'': In season 5, Lorelai is going through a pregnancy scare after a night of unprotected sex with Luke. Rory asks if she considered telling Luke but with the two of them realizing that it could drive Luke away. {{spoiler|Guess what caused the show to [[Jump the Shark]] in season 6?}}

** In "Big Days," Marshall and Lily argue about the fact that Marshall told his father they were trying to get pregnant. Lily suggests Marshall tell his father they aren't having a baby and Marshall replies "You want me to give the old man a stroke?" Guess which character is [[Killed Off for Real]] and how the next season.

** Throughout the first six seasons, it's made very clear on numerous occasions that {{spoiler|Robin is uncomfortable around kids and doesn't want to be a mother.}} It's a steady part of her character, and is the source of numerous jokes and part of a few humorous subplots (e.g., Not A Father's Day). Then, in {{spoiler|"Symphony of Illumination", she learns that she's actually infertile, which devastates her because her choice in the matter is abruptly taken away before she can truly consider it, not to mention the fact that she doesn't feel like she has a right to be sad, since she didn't ever want them in the first place. And to completely close off all hope, Future!Ted confirms that she never became a mother}}. Cue ''every single one'' of those earlier jokes becoming horrifically heartbreaking over the space of one half-hour.

*** And in "Glitter": Robin promising Lily that even though she doesn't like kids in general, she's gonna love Lily's kid "so much". The kid Lily's pregnant with when Robin gets her bad news. ''[[Tear Jerker|Jesus.]]''

 

* One episode of ''Wild West Tech'', hosted by David Carradine covered the topic of the Death Penelty; the section on hangings takes on a whole different feel in light of Carradine's death.

* In the first episode of 16th season of ''[[The Amazing Race]]'', the team that finished the leg first won the prize of a trip to Vancouver, including an opportunity to use the Whistler Sliding facility. The episode aired 2 days after an Olympic luge competitor was killed on the track, which was widely decried as being too dangerous.

* On the last week of ''Late Night With Conan O'Brien'' Nathan Lane sang a version of ''Your Way'' to Conan. The final verse had such lyrics as:

Don't ever stop, and if you flop, you'll do it your way! }}

** Not quite how it went down, but eerily predictive. Conan sure did leave ''The Tonight Show'' his way.

* One of Charles Barkley's running gags on Inside the NBA centered on narrating a particularly bad highlight from the game, usually featuring poor fundamental basketball, with "__________ is turning in his grave", where the blank was filled in by a former NBA player who was proficient in that fundamental and who was very much still alive. Until Barkley chose former Seattle and Boston point guard Dennis Johnson...the day before Johnson's death at the age of 52.

* In an episode of ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]'', Malcolm and Dewie are attaching Jamie's dirty diapers to balloons and releasing them over a crowd, where they then pop them. For one of the diapers, Malcolm says "This one's from when Jamie had swine flu".

** What is especially funny-turned-cringeworthy is Brian's comment that Ted is a schmuck who couldn't even get a decent addiction.

* There's an episode of ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' where the plot revolves around one of Sophia's friends being transferred into a really terrible nursing home, and the girls' efforts to find a place where she can receive proper care. At the end of the episode, they wonder what's going to happen to them as they get older, and make a promise to always take care of each other. After a pause, a worried looking Rose comments, "What happens when there's only one of us left?" This goes from simply sad to heart-breaking when viewed recently. Since Rue McClanahan's recent death, Betty White (who played Rose), is the only one of the four actresses still alive.

* Rik Mayall had just finished filming an episode of "The Comic Strip Presents..." in which his character is hit by a car, but between filming and airing, he was in a quad bike accident which caused a massive brain hemorrhage and left him in a coma for over a week. The producers were wary about airing it, but went ahead with the blessings of Rik's wife.

*** They realized this in post production, and added an AWW sound after Gibby's line.

*** In the same episode, a clown dies of aneurysm, which sets the tone for the rest of the episode. In 2012, a clown at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade meets this fate thanks to a heart attack.

** In ''[[Life On Mars]]'', there's a conversation in which Gene says he hopes he's dead before surveillance becomes a major part of police work. {{spoiler|Knowing that Gene is already dead at this point}} makes this an example, but Sam's suggestion that Gene probably will be is the icing on the cake.

* ''The Dana Carvey Show'', which aired in 1996, had several segments based on Princess Di were cringe-inducing in the wake of her death in 1997. Among these are Carvey as the Church Lady giving the Top 10 Ideas for New Titles for Princess Di (including "Queen Orgasmia," "Slut Slut Slut," and "Princess Di-ing to Get Laid") and Carvey as Prince Charles singing a song about how he wants to behead Di. This ended with Carvey chopping off the head of a dummy version of Di with an axe.

'''Avon:''' Life expectancy must be fairly short among your people. }}

** That joke gets a lot less funny during Season Three, and even ''less'' funny during Season Four. Avon even points it out.

'''Kerr Avon:''' {{spoiler|Cally was murdered. So were most of her people.}} }}

* This video, the opening to an August 1987 episode of "Late Night With David Letterman", features two ''massive'' Funny Aneurysm Moments. The first one is the camera flying through the air towards the world trade center towers, but the other one is a little more subtle, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAfNUuGkSOI see if you can find it...]

* ''[[Dexter]]''. Shortly after season five ended, actors Michael C Hall and Jennifer Carpenter, who were married in real life but play brother and sister Dexter and Debra on the show, announced their divorce. This adds a new dimension to certain parts of the season five finale, such as Dexter removing his wedding ring, or Debra saying to Dexter "You must be glad now that this is all over".

** Extra funny in light of season 6's [[Squick|ending]].

** Holy crap, when I figured that out recently I literally started crying.

** Another moment for poor Kurt. For a good part of Season 2, and especially when he and Blaine [[Relationship Upgrade|finally hooked up]], fans joked about Kurt and Blaine running for Prom King(s)--at least partially because Quinn's obsession with being Prom Queen was getting kind of creepy, and some people thought ''anyone'' would have been better than her. With Kurt's love of tiaras, the idea morphed into Kurt being Prom ''[[Just for Pun|Queen]]''. Come "Prom Queen" airing, Kurt attends the prom as a normal student and has an awesome time until Figgins announces that the Prom King is Karofsky and the Prom Queen, ''who'd won by a landslide'', is... Kurt Hummel. Seeing as Kurt wasn't even running, the only conclusion is that this was a homophobic prank. Cue every single viewer staring in horror at the screen.

* ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]'' has a minor in-universe example. Robert's eating quirk of always touching food to his chin before he eats it was seen as humorous and odd. It becomes sad later when he explains how his quirk started; whenever he got food on his face, Marie (his mother) would pause whatever she was doing with Raymond to wipe it off. Getting food on his face was the only way for Robert to get any real attention from his own mother, and he's been compulsively touching food to his chin ever since.

* A March 26, 1981 episode of ''[[Barney Miller]]'' shows an optician named Corbett who's eager to go on the space shuttle (get it? ''[[Meaningful Name|Tom Corbett, Space Cadet]]''?) and who's just been told he might qualify as a mission specialist. As he's about to leave, this happens:

Dietrich: Wear a hat. }}

* Pretty much everything said by Ryan Dunn in this clip from the ''Jackass'' Gumball Rally episode, seeing how he died in a high speed car crash. http://youtu.be/2OnhZLHSECo

* ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'': Sabrina's evil twin being named Katrina takes on a darker tone when you think about the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina (which happened two years after the show ended).

* At the end of Aerodynamics of Gender, someone says "Who's in charge of making sure Pierce doesn't OD?" Jeff doesn't call 'not it.' It originally seems like a throwaway joke, but the Valentine's Day episode makes it a FAM. Well-played as always, Dan Harmon.

* In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX0RKkUPVgY this] 1992 ''[[Sesame Street]]'' clip, Elmo pretends to be an obnoxious wind-up toy. Six years later comes Tickle Me Elmo, among other [[Merchandise-Driven|merchandise]].

* The pre-empt gag for the 1989 [[You Can't Do That on Television]] episode "Age" was "Michael Jackson Gets Old and Wrinkled"...

* In ''[[Everybody Hates Chris]]'' episode "Everybody Hates My Man," when Julius is asked if he wants another job, present-day Chris Rock narrates "That's like asking Amy Winehouse if she wants another drink!" Years after the episode aired, she died of an overdose.

* A Season 5 episode of ''[[Smallville]]'' revolves around a young girl called Maddie who can control glass with her mind. Halfway through, her biological father, missing since her childhood, shows up and kidnaps her.

* In an episode of ''Chocolate News'', during David Alan Grier's segment "Have You Lost Yo Damn Mind?!", he talks about the propensity of black stars to die sooner than white stars, saying "[[Amy Winehouse]] shoots heroin and smokes crack, but she gets to wake up every morning and live?!". Actually, not anymore, since she passed away in 2011.

* During Comedy Central's Roast of Charlie Sheen, there were numerous cracks directed towards Patrice O'Neal in regards to his weight and being a diabetic. These particular jokes are know extremely awkward in light of O'Neal's recent stroke.

** [[It Got Worse]]. Patrice passed away in late 2011 after that stroke.

* Any of Lauren Goodger's appearances on ''[[The Only Way Is Essex]]'' qualify as this now given her break-up with Mark, and the fact that she has become something of a media sensation now. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] on a few British football forums.