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* The ''[[Lonelygirl15]]'' episode "Bree's Mom" was originally supposed to be entitled "Girl, Abducted", but was hastily retitled to avoid offending the fan community, after the
* [http://www.youtube.com/user/TheFineBros The Fine Brothers] parody this in the seventh episode of their ''[[Lost]]'' parody, where the cast refuses to kill [[The Dark Knight|the Nolanverse Joker]] because it's Too Soon. Christian Bale, however, isn't dead, so ''Batman'' is fair game...
* Subverted in [[The Nostalgia Critic]]'s review of ''[[Blank Check]]''. After making a joke about [[Michael Jackson]], he launches into a monologue where he tells the audience that it is now all right to laugh at him again because no matter how odd Jackson was, he will always be a genius and nothing can take that away from him...
** Yet played straight in the Nostalgia Critic's 200th review for Ponyo, in which he tries really hard to avoid making jokes about Japan being hit by tsunamis less than a year after it happened in real life.
* ''[[
* ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s Michael Swaim's S.W.A.I.M. series shows Homer Simpson beating up Michael Jackson in open-source fighting game "Mugen." He responds to the fight apologetically saying: "Aw, Homer. Too soon, man."
* A running gag in ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'' where Krillin constantly making jokes about something right after it happens.
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'''Gohan''': Too soon }}
* In light of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 [[Bad Movie Beatdown|Film Brain]] delayed his ''[[2012]]'' Bad Movie Beatdown review from its intended March release, removed a couple of lines which he felt were callous, and put up a disclaimer at the front of the review when it was released in May.
* In [[Clan
* In
{{quote|'''Sarge''': Probably has a few more holes in him huh? ha, heh, heh, heh.
'''Everyone else''': (Beat)
'''Sarge''': What, too soon? }}
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* ''[[The Onion]]'': [https://web.archive.org/web/20100219050714/http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/historical_archives_is_it_too Is it too soon to make fun of the Boston Massacre?]
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