12 TV Moments Made Unintentionally Depressing By Real Life Events

12. Family Guy: Osama Bin Laden At The Airport (A Year Before 9/11)

In the original broadcast of Family Guy's Season 2 episode Road To Rhode Island, there’s a shocking gag where Stewie sings show tunes in order to get past airport security and then Osama Bin Laden does the same thing, singing "I Hope I Get it" to distract the TSA from the weapons in his bag. 

Making a joke of Bin Laden trying to orchestrate a terrorist attack at an airport wasn't just these writers being intentionally offensive, though. This episode actually aired in May 2000, long before anybody knew this would be an actual threat.

In retrospect, the scene goes from mildly amusing to extremely dark, and because of that, Fox ended up removing the joke from future broadcasts and from the DVD release. It was later restored on The Freakin' Sweet Collection. 

To make matters odder, creator and voice of Stewie Seth MacFarlane was originally supposed to be on one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center on September 11th, but he missed the flight after oversleeping. If he was on the plane, this would have been a scene where MacFarlane unknowingly makes a joke about a terrorist attack that he himself would be killed in. 

Now that's creepy.