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* The stop-motion animation film ''[[A Town Called Panic]]'' plays it straight when Cowboy and Indian try to order 50 bricks to build a barbecue for their friend, Horse. They accidentally order 50 million bricks, and the day wears into evening as truck after truck deliver loads of bricks, until there is a pile as large as the house. Horse returns home to a brick-free yard, except for the newly constructed barbecue. His birthday party runs well into the night, and it is not until the lights are out at bedtime that we find out where the 49,999,950 other bricks have gone. They are neatly stacked on the roof, forming a cube larger than the house.

* In the [[DreamWorks]] movie ''[[Megamind]]'', snarky [[Damsel in Distress]] Roxanne complains early on that the titular villain's gimmicks are getting old, and he needs to make things more exciting. The thing is, Megamind has a habit of [[Malaproper|mispronouncing and misinterpreting words]]. So later in the movie, she opens a door in Megamind's lair marked "EXIT" to reveal a deep pit full of alligators, some random toys on the ground, and a disco ball hanging overhead. Not an "exiting" room, but an "exciting" room, as Megamind later explains.

* In ''[[The Emperor's New Groove]]'', in the beginning of the movie, Yzma announces Kronk to "Pull the lever", and [[No OSHA Compliance|it sends her down a trap door into a moat with an alligator]] as she shouts, "WRONG LEVER!!". Then she angrily storms back in saying, "Why do we even ''HAVE'' that lever?" and smacking an alligator who was clinging to her. About 3/4ths of the way through the movie when Pacha and Kuzko walk back into the palace to enter Yzma's "Secret Lab". The first thing shown is a drenched Kuzko walking back in grumbling, "Why does she even ''HAVE'' that lever?"

 

* Although usually common for 80s action flicks to start out with a flashback where a criminal or terrorist gets away and becomes the [[Big Bad]], an unusual variation takes place in the Gary Busey movie Bulletproof, where McBain as a police officer gets stuck in a hostage situation and the bad guy shoots through the hostage which gets McBain in trouble, touching off the events of the film. You would expect him to be amongst the South American revolutionaries or the Muslim radicals helping them, but he never reappears...Until a Russian HIND is shown enroute to land some Russian tankers who are there to take the supertank back to the motherland. As with most brick jokes, the Chekhov is a throwaway radio conversation. The passage of time was very kind to him, as the common street thug is now a major in the glorious Red Army. He technically isn't the [[Big Bad]] either (some nebulous guy we never meet in Russian intelligence who set it all up) since he's just there to take the tank. Also a [[But for Me It Was Tuesday]] moment. And then a show-off that of course is a callback to the initial hostage situation.

* Throughout [[Stranger Than Fiction]], there are a few things that pop up, on screen or in mention, a number of times: the black woman, the child with his bike, and Harold's wristwatch. It isn't until the end, however, {{spoiler|that we discover that these three things are all part of Harold's fate: the small child falls off his bike, Harold saves him, is hit by a bus driven by the black woman (fresh on the job), and is saved because of his wristwatch.}} It's nothing short of poignant.

** Given that the setup for that joke happened two movies and ''fifteen years'' previously, this could be a great [[Trope Codifier]].

** Don't forget about {{spoiler|Sarge and his men parachuting out of the window near the start of the film, only for them to land in Sunnyside at the end of the film}}!