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== Other works ==
* ''[[Wayside School]]'' loved this trope:▼
** In ''[[Wayside School]] Gets A Little Stranger'', one of the students is [[Hypno Fool|hypnotized]] by the school psychologist so that any time a particular female classmate says "Pencil", he'll think her ears are candy and try to eat them. The remainder of the chapter details how, for the whole day, she comes agonizingly close to saying "Pencil" but never does. Since the chapter is titled "A Story With a Really Disappointing Ending", the reader is led to assume that this is the end of it. Several chapters later, the class does a physics experiment by throwing several school items out the window--and the same girl points out "We'll need a new pencil sharpener." Cue ear licking.
** Also thrown out the window is the principal's coffeepot. Six chapters after that, after announcing the installation of elevators, he then adds, "By the way, has anyone seen my coffeepot?"
*** Someone also suggests that they throw an elephant out of the window, cue the teacher's comment "there are no elephants in wayside school". A later chapter is entitled "an elephant in wayside school"
** Back to "A Story with a Disappointing Ending", the readers are told that Paul's father (a security guard at an art museum) feels temptation to touch the Mona Lisa painting (after all, there's a big "DO NOT TOUCH!" sign right by it). Several chapters later, when we meet Miss Nogard, she's in an art museum. Guess what painting she and her boyfriend-to-be are near? The Mona Lisa, with a security guard who makes sure they wouldn't touch it.
** When Louis gets all the cows out of the school, someone comments they can still hear a moo. 19 chapters, later, it's revealed there's a cow in Miss Zarves's class.▼
** When Benjamin reveals he's really Benhamin Nushmut, Mrs. Jewls gives him the lunch that was on her desk from the first day of class.▼
** In a story with a disappointing ending, Paul is hypnotized not only into not pulling Leslie's Pigtails, but into eating her ears whenever she says "Pencil". About ten chapters or so after this, Leslie mentions they need a new pencil sharpener.▼
* Used quite effectively in the ''Cassie Palmer'' books by Karen Chance. There are many small little plot points and references in the first book which go completely unresolved and unremarked upon. The reader than assumes that it's just sloppy writing, as there were no flashing arrows around these apparently unimportant bits and pieces. The series has a time-travel element, however, and by the time you get to the third book, it's hard to shake the feeling that the third book has retroactively affected the first.
* Lampshaded in ''The Punch and Judy Murders'': At the end, one character mentions a series of events that had nothing to do with the rest of the story. Immediately afterwards, they are tied in.
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* In Issue #41 of ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' (from 1958), the cover picture of Alfred E. Neuman is half-finished because the artist got a call from [[Time Magazine]]. Cut to the article "The Next Day's Headlines" which shows disastrous headlines based on the advice columns shown on the previous page... and one about ''Time'' firing their new artist because all their people looked like Alfred E. Neuman.
* ''[[The Onion]]'' did it with pictures. The front cover of the February 21, 2011 issue shows a picture of Blake Griffin jumping over a car with the headline "Car Blake Griffin Dunked Over Vows Revenge". Cut to the March 21, 2011 issue which has the cover showing a picture of Blake Griffin run over by a car with the headline "Car Blake Griffin Dunked Over Exacts Bloody Revenge".
▲* ''[[Wayside School]]'' loved this trope:
▲** When Louis gets all the cows out of the school, someone comments they can still hear a moo. 19 chapters, later, it's revealed there's a cow in Miss Zarves's class.
▲** When Benjamin reveals he's really Benhamin Nushmut, Mrs. Jewls gives him the lunch that was on her desk from the first day of class.
▲** In a story with a disappointing ending, Paul is hypnotized not only into not pulling Leslie's Pigtails, but into eating her ears whenever she says "Pencil". About ten chapters or so after this, Leslie mentions they need a new pencil sharpener.
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