Times where media treated something really dark as a joke.

So Scrubs has this one episode where Turk has beef with this one intern he's teaching called Milós because Turk is jealous that (at least on technical skill) Milós is a better surgeon.

Thing is Milós is from a wartorn Yugoslavia and was a registered surgeon but when he came to the US, he had to start back up as an intern due to some weird bureaucracy.

Milós at one point explains that the reason he's so good is because he got used to working on people in his country under pressure (read: in an active war zone with bullets flying) and the running gag of the episode is him humble bragging this shit to a pouty Turk.

Ya'll got any other examples?