TV Shows Predict Bad Events!

 TV Shows Are Just Predicting Bad Events!

• The Amanda Show is a lot more painful to watch now considering the circumstances... The unhinged personality of her All That "Ask Ashley" character might strike one as uncomfortable, too, given Amanda's struggles with mental illness.
• America's Next Top Model Cycle 10 contestant Whitney Thompson was a confident plus-sized model who had her main platform be that "girls need a role model" (i.e., someone who wasn't Hollywood Thin), which the judges apparently agreed with by praising her to the moon and back, portraying her as being much more assertive and competent than the previous heavier models of cycles past and declaring her the winner of that cycle. Unfortunately for Thompson, her unique body type where she was too big for your average runway fashions but not big enough for traditional plus-sized modeling allowed for limited opportunities in the fashion world to the point where she had to lose weight in order to receive more work.
• A key plot point of the episode "Seven the Hard Way" Boy Meets World was a Bad Future where the main characters' relationships were either strained or outright destroyed. While things worked out for Cory and Topanga, the Sequel Series, Girl Meets World, shows that despite what Eric tried to do, Shawn and Angela still didn't work out and Shawn is a traveling writer who's alone
• Chuck: The episode 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 a Wal-Mart store employee was trampled to death in just such a situation on Black Friday.
• In one episode of Clarissa Explains It All, Clarissa makes a joke comparing being the understudy in a school play to being Princess Diana, "A job with tons of fringe benefits and no downside." Surely, she would've seen one downside in late August 1997.
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show purported itself to be a happy show where Ellen always rewarded niceness and guests were always treated like family. Of course, the show's moral standing was called into question in August 2020 when reports surfaced Of Behind The Scenes Allegations. Even worse than that were allegations that Ellen not only knew about the incident That her staff was getting but refused to do anything about it and even participated in the investigation a few times
• The reality TV house flipping show Flip or Flopfeatured a particularly awesome and heartwarming instance - wherein a nurse spotted a lump on Tarek's throat and wrote the show telling them to urge Tarek to get it checked out. It turned out to be Thyroid cancer. Knowing this, as well as how he was pretty sick for 6 seasons It can be painful to watch earlier seasons. What's more, he later was diagnosed with Celiac disease. The poor man just can't catch a break!
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air:
  • In a season 2 episode, Jazz shows up with a life-size cardboard cutout of Bill Cosby, prompting Will to ask what happened to his Whitney Houston cutout. Jazz's response is that she fell apart in the shower. Twenty years later, "falling apart in the shower" would actually be how Whitney Houston's life would end
  • iCarly:
    • The episode "iFix a Pop Star", in which Carly and company try to stage a comeback for a washed-up performer, is a parody of all the Britney Spears' controversies that permeated the tabloids in the mid-2000s, including her head-shaving incident and her performance at the MTV Video Music Awards. The early 2020s saw a renewed interest in Spears' conservatorship, which led to a reevaluation over how Spears was treated by the public and media, making this episode pretty hard to come back to.
    • The special "iPsycho" shows a depressed Gibby saying that he has nothing better to do than to watch Diff'rent Strokes reruns. This episode aired the same week Gary Coleman Passed Away. Considering the "Awww" that came from the canned laughter, it may be possible that they added it at the last minute to pay tribute to him.
    • The entire premise of "iMeet Fred", in which Freddie becomes a worldwide pariah for saying that Fred isn't funny, becomes this because it was supposed to herald Nickelodeon's new partnership with Lucas Cruikshank. All the projects that would come out of that deal (a trilogy of Fred TV movies, Fred: The Show and Marvin Marvin), would became massive failures that the network now likes to pretend doesn't exist.
    • The episode "iRock the Vote" features a parody of American Idol's 2007-08 season in which David Archuleta beats contestant Wade Collins, who turns out to be a massive jerk who tries to gain people's sympathy with a sob story about his mother having a terrible illness, a reference to David Cook's mentions of his brother's brain cancer (and implying that's what led to his victory that season). Three months after the episode aired, Adam Cook died from his cancer, and David's loss ended up making the show's parody of him come off as far crueler and petty in hindsight.
    • The series (as well as spin-off Sam & Cat) plays on Sam's often huge appetite. Actress Jeannette McCurdy would later confess that she was suffering from an eating disorder during her time on both shows
    • I Dream of Jeannie: One of the final episodes was "Mrs. Djinn Djinn", an episode where the other characters mistakenly believe that Jeannie is pregnant and shower her with baffling gifts and praise, all while trying to coax out her (non-existent) secret. In real life, Barbara Eden was struggling with infertility
    • Kids Incorporated:
      • "NASA Space Week". During "Space Week" at the Place, 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.
      
      
      
      
      
      
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