Funny Aneurysm Moment/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

** There was an episode that involved the entire world turning British, 2 cops threaten Fry, Leela and Bender to stop running or they'll have to continue chasing them, since they don't have a gun. 2 weeks later a gun was used by a cop in London, which resulted in a riot.

** In [[The Movie|The Beast With a Billion Backs,]] Colleen, voiced by [[Brittany Murphy]], is {{spoiler|the only person in the universe to stay in heaven.}} Yeesh.

* ''[[Kappa Mikey]]'' - Being a show within a show, the crew of ''Lily Mu'' frequently lampshades the bad points of the television and outsourced animation industry. Looking back, it's amazing how close Ozu's tendency to fire his employees and close the studio reflects what happened to Animation Collective in 2008!

* A less tragic example, or an ironic [[Reverse Funny Aneurysm|reverse]] example, occurs in ''[[Freakazoid!]]!''. Roddy MacStew is teaching Freakazoid telekinesis, saying that his speed and strength will only get him so far. Freakazoid brags that it got the show a second season, prompting Roddy to shout, "You can't count on that! Networks are fickle!" The show only lasted two more episodes.

{{quote|''He's here to save the nation,''

''so stay tuned to this station!''

'''Freakazoid, Freakazoid!'' }}

** A more conventional example would be the episode "starring" Princess Diana, which looks awkward now.

* The ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'' episode "Fools Die on Friday", originally aired in 1997, is about ''a terrorist who hijacks an aircraft and almost crashes it into a tall structure in New York City''. Of course, the aircraft is a blimp, the terrorist is just a mildly insane loser, and the crash (into the Statue of Liberty) is averted. But the overall plot and dialogue still parallel 9/11 enough that it makes the episode harder to laugh at. The episode was not shown on Gametap when they began streaming the series in 2006, but it is fully present on the DVD release.

* From ''[[Family Guy]]'': the episode "Road to Rhode Island" originally had a scene that depicted Osama Bin Laden getting past airport security by singing showtunes. Amazingly enough, this episode was produced and broadcast ''before'' September 11, 2001, when few people knew who Osama Bin Laden was and even fewer knew he would orchestrate an attack using commercial airplanes. The scene was removed from future airings of the episode and even from the DVD release, although it showed up on a later "best-of" DVD. (One could also interpret this as [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]; but given the removal of the scene, it seems to belong here.) The worst part is that the show's creator, Seth MacFarlane, was supposed to ''be'' on one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center, but was lucky enough to miss it due to oversleeping from a hangover and deciding to wait for another flight (until he saw the crash on the news).

** Adult Swim aired an episode where Mayor West laughs uncontrollably for about a minute straight at the name of the character [[Embarrassing Nickname|Boner]] from [[Growing Pains]]. That's all fine and good, until you realize that they aired said episode 2 days after Andrew Koenig, the actor who played Boner hanged himself from a tree in Stanley Park.

** In "Go Stewie Go," Stewie makes a joke about a bomb going off in Times Square. Less than two months after the episode aired... [https://web.archive.org/web/20180914125334/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Times_Square_car_bombing_attempt]

** Also, "Hot-Rodding Teenagers From Dimension X" has a chase scene to the Global Trade Center, a clear World Trade Center Expy with twin towers. Later on, Traag and Granitor cause mass destruction with Dimension X weaponry. This has an absolutely chilling effect in a post-9/11 world.

* In the ''[[Rugrats]]'' episode, '''The Bank Trick''', Chuckie plays with a computer that has contacts to the stock market. Considering he's a toddler, it may sound funny for 1992 but not much any more after the Great Recession of 2008.

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