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When actress Katey Sagal suffered a devastating late-term stillbirth, the Fox network faced a narrative crisis for their hit sitcom, Married... with Children. Instead of allowing their star to grieve, executives made the blood-chilling decision to erase her real-life trauma with a laugh track, forcing her to return to work and pretend her baby was just a bad dream.