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The Straight Story

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Tue Apr 16, 2013, 01:57 AM Apr 2013

Family guy episode on the boston marathon from March (I believe)

Guessing it will get pulled from rotation. Back before 9/11, March of 2001, the first episode of Lone Gunmen aired:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lone_Gunmen_%28TV_series%29

September 11th parallel

The pilot episode depicted a plane being flown into the New York World Trade Center; it originally aired six months before 9/11. Foreshadowing a number of conspiracy theories which would arise in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the plot of the March 4, 2001 episode depicts a secret faction within the US government plotting to hijack a Boeing 727 and fly it into the World Trade Center by remote control. The stated motive was to increase the military defense budget by blaming the attack on foreign interests. In the episode, the plot is foiled by the protagonists, who board the doomed plane and deactivate the malicious autopilot system just seconds before the plane would have reached the World Trade Center.[3]




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