I do not watch Anthony Bourdain things and he only killed himself. I just can’t watch him since his death.
The Transatlantic airship service crashed (please pardon the pun) right after the Hindenburg did. 
I’ve seen Lone Gunmen since 9/11 and honestly, it’s fine.
Rem Lazar, a Canadian children’s show pilot, ended its pilot by going to the top of the WTC. It gets a good laugh if you see it now, but also doesn’t really negatively impact it.
:shrug:
They had no idea!
The 1997 Simpsons episode “The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson” was pulled from syndication for a while after 9/11 because the networks felt the slapsticky use of the World Trade Center in Homer’s storyline wouldn’t go over well. (“They put all the jerks in Tower One!”)
Total aside: What a stellar cast that is.
I’ve never read it but another Dave Barry novel was called Big Trouble. It was made into a movie directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and starred Tim Allen and Rene Russo. It was schedueld for release on September 21, 2001 but a plot element involved an atomic bomb on a small commercial airliner so it was delayed until April 2002 and got almost no promotion. That’s too bad, as I really liked the movie.
It was a very funny book, Big Trouble. Never saw the movie.
The Mists of Avalon used to have a great reputation as being a feminist retelling of Arthurian myth, but people don’t really talk about it anymore ever since the revelation that Marion Zimmer Bradley and her husband were both pedophiles and she was abusing her own daughter from the age of 3.
Similarly, the Simpsons episode guest-starring Michael Jackson got pulled from syndication and is no longer available on Disney+ after since the documentary a few years back that more or less confirmed the allegations against Michael were true.
And I don’t think I’ve heard Gary Glitter on the radio in decades since he got busted in Vietnam.
I read the book, but I remember almost nothing of the plot and only a few of the jokes. Barry also wrote a followup action-comedy book in a similar vein that was set on a casino boat, which I don’t think ever got an adaptation.
True, although not exactly in the “works people watched/listened to” category. I mean, I’m sure bystanders did watch/listen to airships sometimes, but.
“Oh, the Humanity!” 
The Boondock Saints probably would have been a commercial success except that the movie would have come out in theaters shortly after the Columbine shooting. Instead it went direct to video. The Boondock Saints is about a couple of wisecracking Irish brothers who go around murdering mobsters but they are wearing black “trench” coats (pea coats actually) while they do it and this hit too close to home even through there are zero schools and zero child deaths in that movie.
Similarly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer had two problematic episodes in the third season around the same time. One was where a student was planning a shooting (of himself but they thought he was going to shoot others) and the other episode being the season 3 finale, which involved blowing up the school.
The video game Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 (circa 2000) had to change its box art so that it didn’t show New York City under attack. However, you can still blow up the Pentagon and the WTC in the Russia campaign.
Stephen King has withdrawn his 1977 novel Rage from any further publication. The novel is about a school shooting, and we’ve had far too many of those.
Partly redeemed 40 years later
MTV refused to air it at the time, but “Night Flight” on the USA Channel, on weekend nights, did.
As for 9/11, in the months before that, there was a commercial for eyeglass frames where an animated plane was flying over a city where the skyscrapers were made of this flexible material, and they bent over and sprung back up, and also a commercial for an investment company where the skyscrapers toppled like dominos, until they got to that company’s headquarters and that building stayed upright.
And there was this scene from “Airplane.”
In the case of her husband, Breen was convicted. MZB herself- allegations not proof, but at least she did nothing about her husbands actions. Still, pretty nasty allegations, very alarming.
There’s a whole thread from when Bradley’s daughter went public about her mother. There’s even a link in there somewhere to a deposition Bradley gave about her husband in which the prosecuting attorney makes it clear that he knows she’d been abusing her daughter and they’re not interested in pursuing the matter right now. I’d say the evidence is pretty damning.
Her daughter’s poem about the way Bradley abused her is painful to read.
never mind
I grew up with the Vaughn Meader album, though I do remember my parents advising me to be careful about telling others about it lest they get offended.
“Oh, you don’t have to order anything special for me, I’ll just have a bite of everybody else’s” is a family line from that album that survives to this day.
ETA: clarified reference to album
Yes, and Joey (and apparently his father) were too stupid to understand that no, that’s not how they make pants, except maybe in prison.
From The Sopranos, the intervention scene where Christopher tells Tony, “The way you fucking eat, you’re gonna have a heart attack by the time you’re 50!”
James Gandolfini died of a heart attack at 51.
It’s a brilliant and hilarious scene, one of the most memorable in the series, but real life gave it a very dark turn.