"Revenge of the Lutefisk" premiered the same day as the Columbine High School shooting. It was not broadcast in the Denver area or rerun there for quite some time. Many other Season 3 episodes which dealt with death, grief, or suicide including "Propane Boom"/"Death of a Propane Salesman",note the arc about the Mega Lo Mart explosion and Buckley's death "Pretty Pretty Dresses",note The episode about Bill's suicidal depression and "Dog Dale Afternoon"note which contains a scene where Dale is mistaken for a sniper in a tower and is almost killed were not rerun there for a long time. Two of the four remaining episodes of that season, specifically "Death and Texas"note Peggy visits a death row inmate and "Wings of the Dope",note the Buckley's Angel episode were almost not shown at all there but were ultimately permitted to air, and at least one of them proved helpful to a young woman who had lost a friend in the shooting.
A throwaway line in "Joust Like a Woman" in which a teen boy calls the make-believe king at a Renaissance Faire "gay" was edited out of airings on [adult swim] following several high-profile suicides of teens who had been bullied for being gay in late 2010. The scene was reinstated on Adult Swim two years later.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Too Soon is no longer a trope. Does it fit into some other trope?
- Too Soon:
- "Revenge of the Lutefisk" premiered the same day as the Columbine High School shooting. It was not broadcast in the Denver area or rerun there for quite some time. Many other Season 3 episodes which dealt with death, grief, or suicide including "Propane Boom"/"Death of a Propane Salesman",note "Pretty Pretty Dresses",note and "Dog Dale Afternoon"note were not rerun there for a long time. Two of the four remaining episodes of that season, specifically "Death and Texas"note and "Wings of the Dope",note were almost not shown at all there but were ultimately permitted to air, and at least one of them proved helpful
to a young woman who had lost a friend in the shooting.
- A throwaway line in "Joust Like a Woman" in which a teen boy calls the make-believe king at a Renaissance Faire "gay" was edited out of airings on [adult swim] following several high-profile suicides of teens who had been bullied for being gay in late 2010. The scene was reinstated on Adult Swim two years later.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman