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'''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. }}
'''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.
** 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.
** Chase-related example: season 1, "Damned If You Do," Chase admits to having lost his faith, and the nun the team just cured tells him he'll find his way back to the church someday. Season 6 -- Chase finally does, out of desperation, try to return to the church -- [[Heel Face Door Slam|about one month too late.]]
** Chase-related example: season 1, "Damned If You Do," Chase admits to having lost his faith, and the nun the team just cured tells him he'll find his way back to the church someday. Season 6 -- Chase finally does, out of desperation, try to return to the church -- [[Deadly Change-of-Heart|about one month too late.]]
** 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 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 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:
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* ''[[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.
* ''[[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, the number of times over the years these prepubescent kids mention how much they want to be like Michael Jackson.
* The Nickelodeon game show ''[[Double Dare 1986|Double Dare]]'' was centered around making huge messes, with tons of wet, gooey multicolored slime getting everywhere. So it's a bit unsettling to watch after the show's host Marc Summers revealed he had pretty severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, especially considering how often he got covered in muck during the show's run. Seriously; go back and watch an episode where the team completes the obstacle course and embrace him, while covered in muck, ''then'' go [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmxlC-o1q24 watch him line up the fringe on a throw rug.] Very unnerving.
* The Nickelodeon game show ''[[Double Dare (1986 TV Show)||Double Dare]]'' was centered around making huge messes, with tons of wet, gooey multicolored slime getting everywhere. So it's a bit unsettling to watch after the show's host Marc Summers revealed he had pretty severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, especially considering how often he got covered in muck during the show's run. Seriously; go back and watch an episode where the team completes the obstacle course and embrace him, while covered in muck, ''then'' go [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmxlC-o1q24 watch him line up the fringe on a throw rug.] Very unnerving.
* 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]]....
* 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.
* 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.
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* [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.
* [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.
** 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.
* In ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'', the Enterprise crew goes back in time for the episode "Assignment: Earth." Spock mentions that an unnamed important person is supposed to be assassinated on that day. Since the episode was meant as a "backdoor pilot" for another show, this was not elaborated upon. However, six days after the episode aired, Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered.
* In ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'', the Enterprise crew goes back in time for the episode "Assignment: Earth." Spock mentions that an unnamed important person is supposed to be assassinated on that day. Since the episode was meant as a "backdoor pilot" for another show, this was not elaborated upon. However, six days after the episode aired, Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered.
** This episode ended up being a lot more eerily prescient than just that. It's not that far ahead of Robert Kennedy's assassination either, and on top of that, Gary Seven was attempting to stop the launch of a nuclear weapons platform into orbit. On the same day as MLK's assassination, NASA also launched a Saturn V rocket (Not, however, carrying nuclear weapons) which suffered a malfunction and ended up going way off course, and was covered up in the [[Star Trek]] universe. Spock's prediction of an uprising in Asia is also sometimes tied to a coup in Iraq, but that was over three months later.
** This episode ended up being a lot more eerily prescient than just that. It's not that far ahead of Robert Kennedy's assassination either, and on top of that, Gary Seven was attempting to stop the launch of a nuclear weapons platform into orbit. On the same day as MLK's assassination, NASA also launched a Saturn V rocket (Not, however, carrying nuclear weapons) which suffered a malfunction and ended up going way off course, and was covered up in the [[Star Trek]] universe. Spock's prediction of an uprising in Asia is also sometimes tied to a coup in Iraq, but that was over three months later.
* An episode of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' featured David Ogden Stiers as a scientist who starts a relationship with Lwaxana Troi, but despairs that it's too late for them to truly be together as he turns sixty in a few days, which is when his species undergoes compulsory euthanasia. Stiers came out of the closet at age 66, expressing his regrets that keeping his homosexuality secret for so long had prevented him from having any kind of stable relationship, and that he hoped to finally have one in his remaining years.
* An episode of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' featured David Ogden Stiers as a scientist who starts a relationship with Lwaxana Troi, but despairs that it's too late for them to truly be together as he turns sixty in a few days, which is when his species undergoes compulsory euthanasia. Stiers came out of the closet at age 66, expressing his regrets that keeping his homosexuality secret for so long had prevented him from having any kind of stable relationship, and that he hoped to finally have one in his remaining years.
** 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.}}
** 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.]]
** ''[[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.]]
** 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.]]
* Yet another ''[[Star Trek]]'' example, this time from ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]''. The two part episode "Past Tense" sends Sisko, Bashir and Dax back to [[San Fransisco]] in the year [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|2024]] by way of a [[Teleporter Accident|transporter]] [[Negative Space Wedgie|malfunction]]. They are separated when Sisko and Bashir get taken to a Sanctuary District, a walled off part of the city where the city's homeless and destitute are left to live in squalor. The reason these places exist in the first place is because of widespread joblessness due to a [[It Got Worse|wrecked economy]], with hints of anarchy in Europe. The references to the economy are particularly [[Adult Fear|cringe]] [[Nightmare Fuel|inducing]], given the current state of our own. Fortunately for our heroes, all of these conditions force tension in the Sanctuary Districts to come to a head. Riots break out, and through a series of events the normal timeline is restored, and so is the [[Mary Suetopia|Federation]].
* Yet another ''[[Star Trek]]'' example, this time from ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''. The two part episode "Past Tense" sends Sisko, Bashir and Dax back to [[San Fransisco]] in the year [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|2024]] by way of a [[Teleporter Accident|transporter]] [[Negative Space Wedgie|malfunction]]. They are separated when Sisko and Bashir get taken to a Sanctuary District, a walled off part of the city where the city's homeless and destitute are left to live in squalor. The reason these places exist in the first place is because of widespread joblessness due to a [[It Got Worse|wrecked economy]], with hints of anarchy in Europe. The references to the economy are particularly [[Adult Fear|cringe]] [[Nightmare Fuel|inducing]], given the current state of our own. Fortunately for our heroes, all of these conditions force tension in the Sanctuary Districts to come to a head. Riots break out, and through a series of events the normal timeline is restored, and so is the [[Mary Suetopia|Federation]].
** 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.
** 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.]]
** Now about that [http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/05/18/spain.protests/index.html anarchy in Europe...][[Oh Crap|Yeah.]]
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{{quote|'''Clark:''' "I don't understand, who'd want to [[wikipedia:Disappearance of Madeleine McCann|kidnap Maddie?]]"}}
{{quote|'''Clark:''' "I don't understand, who'd want to [[wikipedia:Disappearance of Madeleine McCann|kidnap Maddie?]]"}}
* 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.
* 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.
* A strange subversion: in an episode of ''[[Home Improvement]]'', Wilson, played by the late Earl Hindman, gets hopped up on caffeine and turns into a [[Motor Mouth]], at one point remarking "Does anyone else feel like their heart's about to leap out of their chest?" After the actor's much-mourned death, this line now makes many people wince...except that he didn't actually die of a heart attack.
* A strange subversion: in an episode of ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'', Wilson, played by the late Earl Hindman, gets hopped up on caffeine and turns into a [[Motor Mouth]], at one point remarking "Does anyone else feel like their heart's about to leap out of their chest?" After the actor's much-mourned death, this line now makes many people wince...except that he didn't actually die of a heart attack.
* 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.
* 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.
** [[It Got Worse]]. Patrice passed away in late 2011 after that stroke.
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