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* ''[[Betty Boop]]'' has one in the short ''A Language All My Own'', which has Betty coming to Japan as a goodwill ambassador. Its quite uncomfortable to watch when you know what would happen [[Nuke'Em|a decade later.]]
** The short "Be Human" features an abusive farmer whipping and beating his animals. Said farmer has since been compared to Billy Joe Gregg, a farmer who was charged with beating his cows and calves on his Ohio farm in July 2010.
* ''[[101 Dalmatians (Disney)|One Hundred and One Dalmatians]]: The Series'', which was released in 1997, had an episode "Alive N Chicken" where Spot the chicken tries various methods to fly. The episode was banned because of the 9/11 attacks, especially the part when Spot flew into the Dog Chow Tower. It's because of this that the episode was banned in reruns.
* In a late first season episode of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', [[Cool Old Guy]] Iroh declines an offer to have his fortune told, saying that, "At my age there is really only one big surprise left, and I'd just as soon leave it a mystery." Roughly a year later, just after finishing recording his lines for the second season, his voice actor (Makoto Iwamatsu, best known by his stage name "Mako") died of esophageal cancer at 72.
* Remember that awesome finale of ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]''? Where you have Batman, [[Lex Luthor]], and [[Superman]] facing [[Darkseid]]. Remember when Batman [[Doesn't Like Guns|refused to use a gun]] Lex offered him against Darkseid? Or when Batman dodged Darkseid's [[Deader Than Dead|Omega Beams]]? Not so awesome after ''[[Final Crisis]]'' where {{spoiler|Batman used a special Newgods gun to mortally wound Darkseid before being hit with the Omega Beams}} is it?
** To be fair, the JLU situation also wasn't as dire -- all we saw Darkseid and his forces do in ''JLU'' was trash some stuff including the Daily Planet building. JLU Darkseid didn't [[Grand Theft Me|bodyjack people]], kill Orion, take free will away and enslave people, or throw the Earth (and [[The Multiverse]]) out of whack by his first "death". Things in the comics universe during ''[[Final Crisis]]'' were at the [[Godzilla Threshold]] at that point.
** From the same universes and again involving Darkseid is Dan Turpin's fate. In the earlier ''[[Superman: theThe Animated Series]]'', Darkseid killed him out of spite during his retreat in "Apokolips...Now!" In ''[[Final Crisis]]'', with the death of his original body and his current body burning out, Darkseid basically [[Grand Theft Me|bodyjacks]] Turpin. Animated Turpin got off light.
* Episode of ''[[Spider-Man: theThe Animated Series]]'' had Kraven the Hunter track [[The Punisher]] and [[Spider-Man]]'s mutated Man-Spider form down to a parking garage because of the smell of gunpowder and ash and soot left in the Man-Spider's webbing residue. ...from the World Trade Center parking garage bomber. Guess which bit got cut out after 9/11.
* ''The Gary Coleman Show'' ("Seriously, this is a cartoon"), featuring Coleman as an angel, will be tough to watch now, as Coleman has passed away.
** In the 2001 Halloween special ''[[Scooby Doo|Night of the Living Doo]]'', Gary Coleman is the only one who dies for real.
* ''The Koos is Loose'' episode of ''[[DextersDexter's Laboratory]]'' is hard to watch after Dom DeLuise's death now, what with the episode ending with Dexter imagining Koos away and Koos' line "Goodbye Dee Dee, goodbye Dexter. You'll never see me again..."
* ''[[Looney Tunes]]'': in the cartoon "Often an Orphan", Charlie Dog's [[Freak-Out]] includes the line "Look! It's the towers! THEY'RE FALLING!!"
* The ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episode "The Smoking Peanut" is about a clam at a zoo going berserk after SpongeBob throws a peanut at it. Several years later, a tiger escaped from its habitat and attacked three teenage boys at the San Francisco Zoo. Some people believe the boys had taunted it. Also in that same episode, the clam throws one of the zookeepers while on a rampage. In 2010, an orca killed one of its trainers at Seaworld.
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "All Singing, All Dancing'' had Snake bothered by the family's constant singing and threatening them with a gun. To stop the end credits music he fires, as Phil Hartman's name appears. Hartman would be shot by his wife months later.
** Speaking of ''The Simpsons'', it's a little unsettling watching the musical version of ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' where they call New Orleans "The Sodom and Gomorrah of the Mississip'" after Hurricane Katrina.
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*** The scene in "Lisa's Date with Density" where Milhouse ends up getting wheeled to the hospital after Nelson beat up Milhouse over a love note that supposedly was from him stops being funny thanks to the recent rash of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual teens getting physically and emotionally abused in school (some of which have taken their own lives because of it).
** In "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)," one of the many failures at Burns' casino is that Siegfried & Roy are mauled by their own tiger while entertaining. Ten years later, it happened in real life to Roy Horn. The writers mentioned in the DVD commentary that the incident was bound to happen sooner or later and they were amazed when it did.
** From season seven's "The Day The Laughter Died" when Bart and Lisa were watching a ''[[School HouseSchoolhouse Rock]]'' parody (or as Lisa puts it, a "...campy 70s throwback that appeals to Generation X-ers"): "[[The Vietnam War|We need another Vietnam]] [[The War Onon Terror|to thin out their ranks a little.]]"
** From "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" (which is already plagued with being dated and depressing following the 9/11 attacks): "They put all the jerks in Tower One!" [[Old Shame|On the DVD commentary, the writers said they felt really bad about that line after 9/11.]]
** In the season one episode "Krusty Gets Busted," Krusty the Clown has a heart attack from grilling pork products during an episode of ''The Krusty The Clown Show'' (which is a clue in clearing Krusty of the robbery charge). In season three's "Like Father, Like Clown," Krusty is revealed to be Jewish.
** With all the concern over kids in school getting bullied (particularly ones who recognize that they are homosexual) these days, the flashback in season 12's "Bye Bye Nerdie" where Homer punches Smithers (wearing a pink shirt and shorts to school) in the stomach while singing "Kung Fu Fighting" (with Barney on the recorder providing instrumentals) would raise a lot of cries of "[[Dude, Not Funny]]".
** In a 2000 episode, Lisa became President in the future and was forced to fix the last President mess. Said president was [[Donald Trump]]. [[Sarcasm Mode|I wonder who wins the 2016 Presidential Election, 16 years later...]]
* In episode "Downtime" (aired March 4, 2011) of ''[[Young Justice (Animationanimation)|Young Justice]]'', Superman tells Aquaman that "The Justice League have a problem in Tokyo". A week later, Japan was hit by a devastating earthquake.
* ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'': the episode where the boogieman returns has Egon fall off the roof of the World Trade Center.
* ''[[The Critic]]'' has two:
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* In the [[Family Guy]] episode "Dog Gone", Brian unties a large dog left outside, only for said dog to violently attack and kill a smaller dog (before being shot to death by cops), this scene became even more uncomfortable to watch after something similar happened in real life. [http://www.popeater.com/2010/08/30/samantha-ronson-dog-attack/\]
** In "Jungle Love", Lois baits Chris to the high-school kids who want to paddle him. At first this may seem like a strange [[Out-of-Character Moment]], but due to her [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|more recent]] [[Flanderization|characterization]] this is just a walk in the park for her.
* In the ''very first episode'' of [[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]], the Eds falsely accuse Jonny of stealing everybody's stuff and as punishment is sent rolling down a hill in a tire. After it turns out he didn't, Edd asks Eddy if they should feel sorry for Jonny's predicament. Eddy nonchalantly replies "You know what they say. [[Misery Builds Character|A little childhood trauma builds character.]]" Guess Eddy really meant that, given {{spoiler|how the series finale movie revealed that Eddy's brother has physically abused him for as long as they've been together}}.
* In Disney's ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]'', the Coachman takes unsuspecting boys to [[Amusement Park of Doom|Pleasure Island]], where he turns them into donkeys and sells them to slavery. ''Then along came Kony...''
 
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