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* Several [[Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner
** Coyote installs a large metal plate underneath the road that springs up on command, intending for Road Runner to smash into it. It [[Failure Is the Only Option|fails as usual]] and Coyote tries to figure out what went wrong, the audience expecting it to spring up and launch him into the air or something similar, only [[Subverted Trope|nothing happens]]. Later in the episode, Coyote has employed one of his numerous methods for matching Road Runner's speed and proceeds to chase him, [[Double Subversion|until]]...
** In another case, Coyote tries to blow Road Runner up using a glass of water on a box marked "free drink" which when taken would light a match setting off the Kablooie! Road Runner ignores the water, he [[Talking
* In one episode of ''[[Kevin Spencer]]'', Kevin and his dad make a scarescrow and pass it off as a disabled person so they could get into a hockey game. This thing appears in one scene at the beginning, and once at the end, where a news reporter thinks it's a lost child.
* ''[[Popeye]]'' occasionally exhibits this trope. In one episode, Bluto is a Carnival Balloon jumper (he jumps from a hot air balloon using a parachute). When Bluto sees Olive Oyl, he ties a balloon to his announcer, who floats away. At the end of the episode, Popeye and Olive are floating down using an umbrella, and the announcer floats by, still yelling about Bluto's act.
* ''[[
** In "F.U.N." SpongeBob seeks Plankton's friendship, in the hopes that he'll be a nicer person for it. He knocks on Plankton's door, and SpongeBob tells him he can help him. Plankton responds, "You know how to induce thermonuclear fusion?" SpongeBob begins, "No, but I like to go jelly-" before Plankton slams the door in his face. Plankton launches into a rant about how stupid SpongeBob is, before having a conversation with his computer, who convinces him to use SpongeBob's friendship as a means of stealing a Krabby Patty. Plankton agrees, and goes to fetch SpongeBob, but when he opens the front door, SpongeBob is standing there, and says, "-fishing with my friends in Jellyfish Fields."
** In the episode "The Two Faces of Squidward" some random fish gains the ability to fly. Because of an untied shoelace his shoe falls off. The episode continues and everyone forgets about it. At the very end, the shoe crashes through the ceiling of the Krusty Krab and hits Spongebob. A day later.
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** And then, after you've once again forgotten about the parrot, Bender shows up with X-mas dinner, which turns out to be the corpse of the parrot, which he found lying in the street. Double Brick Joke!
** Also in "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles", they start off by chasing the Professor's escaped monster, which is forgotten about. At the end of the episode, the monster turns out to have been hiding in the Planet Express ship all the time, and saves the Professor's life, thus earning his freedom.
** ''Futurama'' uses this a lot. In "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back", after being demoted, Hermes almost commits suicide ends up spending a paid vacation in a forced labor spa. While there, there's a brief scene where his bureaucratic instincts cause him to double the workload of an unnamed Australian man who's also working as a laborer. His efficiency in this task encourages him to pursue his career as a bureaucrat again. The viewer thinks it's just a gag to move the plot along, but when Hermes shows up two scenes later, his wife remarks that he got the labour camp running so well that, "All the physical labor is now done by a single Australian man."
*** In this same episode when Hermes is threatening to commit suicide, Professor Farnsworth urges him not to jump, instead asking for him to use a method that "wouldn't damage that healthy liver". Later, when Hermes shows up to save the day, Farnsworth yells at him to "quit hogging that liver".
** In "Put Your Head On My Shoulder", the episode begins with Bender having an issue with his butt such that pressure could make it explode. He gets shock absorbers installed, but asks for them removed because of the appearance. The episode then goes into a Valentine's Day plot, in which Fry's head is severed from his body and attached to Amy's. When, at last, his head is re-attached to his body, a loose nerve causes him to kick when touched - and he happens to kick Bender's butt.
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** In "420", they cut away to Peter taking great pleasure in spotting the [[Title Drop]] in various movies and TV shows. Later on in the main plot, Brian is arrested for possession of pot and the cop says "I don't want drugs in my town! I'm a family guy!" Peter goes wild!
*** Also in "420", Peter and the gang kill Quagmire's cat. Peter then wraps the body in his coat and drives off to bury it when he's stopped by a police officer, who notes that Peter is covered with blood and has a suspicious package in the back seat. The cat's death is quickly forgotten when the cop arrests Brian for possession of marijuana, then shifts to the plot of Brian starting his petition to legalize it. We don't hear about the "cat killing" plot again until the end of the episode when Quagmire asks Peter where it is and Peter nonchalantly tells him he killed it.
** In "Tales of a Third Grade Nothing", Peter [[Karma Houdini|accidentally blows up a children's hospital in order to remove a competitor's advertisement billboard]]. At the end of the episode, [[Subverted Trope|he is found guilty and serves time in jail]].
*** In the same episode when Angela mentions she recommended Peter for a promotion, Peter says that he had eaten a fortune cookie which said that an obvious lesbian would bring great news. He also mentions it said a grand piano would fall on him and then looks up to make sure he is safe. He then leaves the room as nothing falls on him, but one does a few minutes later.
** In "No Chris Left Behind" Peter interrupts a serious conversation with Lois to embark on a destructive, citywide fistfight with the Giant Chicken. Eventually he makes his way back to the house and finishes the sentence he started several hours and eight billion punching sound effects ago.
*** The giant chicken itself can count. How many people thought we'd never hear from it again after the first fight in Season One.
** Let's not forget The Surfin' Bird song in "I Dream of Jesus". The entire first act kept Peter singing this song. After the records were destroyed, the plot with Jesus began. At the end of the episode, Peter is reminded of it and starts singing again.
** At the beginning of the episode "Family Gay", Peter buys a horse that eventually dies, so he flings its body into Mort's pharmacy. At the end, Mort throws the corpse through the window of the Griffins' house, shouting, "Take back your fucking horse!"
*** Almost a literal brick joke, except the brick is a dead retarded horse.
** In "Dog Gone," a drunken Brian responds to the father from ''[[Family Circus]]'' attempting to give him advice by telling him to go "f*** your wife in the face." The father [[Insult Backfire|pleasantly agrees to do so]]. A later scene shows Peter reading the newspaper and saying, "Well, that was a very shocking ''[[Family Circus]].''"
** A chain brick in "Blind Ambition". First, Peter found Judd Hirsch in a bowling pin making a nuclear weapon. Later, Stewie crashed into a tree and found the Keebler Elves waiting for Judd Hirsch's weapon so they could attack the Rice Krispies guys. And finally, when Peter's at the bar, he sees Crackle and Pop mourning the loss of Snap in the attack.
** In "Stewie Kills Lois" Meg takes a pack of hot dogs to her room and says she is going to pretend they're the New York Knicks. Peter later says he has to go buy hotdogs because they keep running out for some reason.
* In the 1997 ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short "[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k52LT9faWOBGs9Je0q Father of the Bird]", Sylvester {{spoiler|accidentally launches an anvil. He braces for the inevitable impact, but after a while, he realises that it's not coming down}}. He forgets about it right after that, and suffers through a couple more gags before {{spoiler|the anvil finally reappears and [[Anvil
** Also, in "Blooper Bunny", during the [[Hilarious Outtakes]] portion of the cartoon, Bugs stops everything in the middle of the second take to warn about a loose floor board. Later on, Elmer Fudd makes an attempt on Bugs's life, causing Daffy to go on a rant, and just as he finishes, he steps on the same floor board and gets smacked in the face.
* Early in the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "About Last Night...", Cartman tries to sell (presumably stolen) TVs to Stan and Kyle. At the end of the episode, Randy finds his TV missing.
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*** And let's not forget Lemmiwinks!
** Early example: "The Succubus". There is a [[Running Gag]] of Chef's parents talking about various encounters with the Loch Ness Monster, with the monster wanting $3.50. Then, at the end of the episode, the eye doctor casually asks Cartman, "Say, you wouldn't happen to have $3.50, would you?"
* Used '''''a lot''''' on ''[[The Simpsons]]'':
** In "Sideshow Bob Roberts", Burch Barlow announces on the radio one of the few things the town of Springfield is never going to get rid of is the bats in the public library, a crazy woman's compost pile, and the mayor Joe Quimby. Later when Bart and Lisa go to the library, bats fly out and swarm them. This brick joke has even carried onto many other episodes that feature the library.
** "A Tale of Two Springfields" starts off with Homer trying to get a badger out of Santa's Little Helper's doghouse, before being distracted by the discovery that Springfield now has two area codes, which eventually leads to the main plot of the town being divided in two and the fight over which side will get to host a concert by [[The Who]]. ([[Halfway Plot Switch|The badger even looks through the window, only for Homer to essentially tell it its role in the story is over.]]) Once the town is reunited, we cut to the hills above it, where the badger is leading its fellows to attack.
*** If you watch the American syndicated version, it quickly becomes a [[What Happened to
** On the Treehouse of Horror story "B.I.: Bartifical Intelligence," Bart jumps out of Patty and Selma's window, aiming for the pool. He yells "COWA-" and is cut short when he hits the ground, ending up in a coma. Later, he wakes up, yelling "-BUNGA!"
** In "The Front," the opening scene features Homer getting a plunger stuck to his head. The episode moves on to feature a B-plot of Homer being revealed to have never graduated high school and studying to finally get his degree. The final scene features him getting it and declaring that at his next high school reunion he'll have nothing to be ashamed of. Flash forward to the next one, where he's somehow arrived at the reunion with a plunger on his head without either himself or Marge noticing.
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** "Itchy And Scratchy Land" has a scene where Homer and Marge go to T.G.I. McScratchy's and talk to a waiter who is getting tired of their constant New Years' celebration. Later, Marge and Lisa pass a control booth, where one viewer notices "another jumper on the roof of T.G.I. McScratchy's".
** One nickname in the credits "Treehouse of Horror XIV" is "The Repubican Party". One nickname in "Treehouse of Horror XV" is "No, Seriously, The Republican Party".
** In the "[[
* In an early episode of ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'', "Carnival Knowledge", Rocko and Heffer go to a carnival. One of the activities involves launching a frog into the air and having it land on a lilypad. After several attempts Rocko finally launches one in the air and it doesn't come down...until the very end of the episode, where the frog finally lands on a lilypad, meaning Rocko won the game.
** In "Teed Off", Heffer is working as a groundskeeper at a golf course, and is seen using his tractor to make crop circles. At the end of the episode, it shows a pair of aliens visiting the course at night, looking at Heffer's crop circle, and one of the aliens says "Who keeps writing this stuff?!"
* ''[[The Fairly
** Another example in the same episode has present day Cosmo and Wanda talking 70's Bill Gates out of naming his idea of linking every computer in the world "The Internet", getting him to call it "The Timmy" instead. At the end of the episode, Timmy's Dad mentions buying a new trophy from the Timmy, with Mom referring to Timmy as Internet.
** The heat vision comes back during "Escape from Unwish Island" in season five, when Timmy rummages through a closet of old wishes for items and remembers that he still has the ability. Whereupon [[Bag of Spilling|they all explode]].
*** In fact, Timmy never unwished Heat Vision, and he will periodically remember this whenever he needs it.
* In the beginning of one episode of ''The Inspector'' (part of the ''[[Pink Panther]]'' series), the Inspector gets Sgt. Deux-Deux to loan him money in order to capture a notorious pick-pocket, despite Deux-Deux warning him that this is not a wise idea. This is forgotten once the pick-pocket steals the money from the Inspector. In the end after he is captured we find out why the sergeant was reluctant to loan him money: it was a child's play toy, and the Inspector ended up in prison with the villain for counterfeit charges.
* ''[[The
** And then when she's [[Heel Face Turn|betrayed]] by Kronk, she uses a similar lever to get rid of him. This sets up another brick joke.
*** ''"Whoa! Who would have guessed that would lead me out here?"''
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* In the ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "Dead Reckoning", Deadman [[Grand Theft Me|hijacks Superman's body]], cutting him off just as he's telling [[Wonder Woman]] about a place with "milkshakes so thick--". Halfway through the episode, Deadman finally leaves him, and Superman picks up right where he left off: "You have to eat them with a spoon! ([[Beat]]) ...Why am I in Africa?"
** This joke was done all the more skillfully, as the first thing Deadman says immediately upon possessing Supes was "I need your help."
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** [[Word of God]] says that they were going to do one about Amazo in the last episode but forgot. Amazo said that he was going to flee several light-years away during a battle against Grundy in one episode, and did, failing to return before the end of the episode. They were going to include a gag in the finale showing Amazo sitting on an asteroid somewhere, wondering whether or not it was safe to return.
* In the movie version of ''[[Coraline (
* In ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]'', one feature of the war room is a [[Big Red Button]] that launches all the nukes in the United States... which is right next to an identical button that activates the latte machine. At the end of the film, [[The Stinger|after the first half of the credits]], the [[Our Presidents Are Different|buffoonish President]] pushes the wrong button.
* In [[Tex Avery]]'s "Symphony In Slang" (where [[Visual Pun|Webster literally interprets]] a recent arrival's [[Jive Turkey|slang-filled story]]), there's a throwaway visualization of how Mary wouldn't talk to the guy. "The cat got her tongue." [[Don't Explain the Joke|(It shows an innocent cat who immediately looks devious and holds out a tongue.)]] At the end, when asked why Webster couldn't make sense of it, the slang guy says, "What's the matter -- cat got your tongue?" We then see the same tongue-holding cat, only with a halo.
* ''[[Bounty Hamster]]'', "The Good, the Bad, and the Adorable": Some of the cute aliens accidentally go shooting off on a huge rocket engine and end up encircling the entire planet, to return just in time to run over the villain in the climax. Marion then [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|turns to face the audience]] and says: "I bet you forgot about those guys, didn't you?"
* During an episode of ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'', the girls find Mojo Jojo in a store complaining about the firmness of a loaf of french bread, which he uses to bonk the store's owner over the head. After the girls beg Mojo to help them fight evil with evil and nearly failing, the [[Monster of the Week]] pushes Mojo's [[Berserk Button]]. Mojo finishes his attack by bonking him over the head with the loaf of french bread.
* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' throws in a few of these now and then. The writers love screwing with the fans, so they deliberately dredge up details from forgettable episodes to use again later. A notably picture-perfect example is an episode in which Baron Underbheit tries to [[Sweet
** Hank mentioning how he once jumped off the roof of the Venture Compound dressed as Batman in the season three finale. It was [[Black Comedy|one of his many deaths]] shown in the first episode of season two. He then wondered if he might have just dreamed it.
** If you're scratching your head on how the Monarch is invulnerable, recall the season 3 opener, where he shares a joke on how he managed to convince one Captain Sunshine that he was.
*** Captain Sunshine himself was first mentioned in a throwaway line all the way back in the first season finale. Other characters who appeared after being alluded to early on include Sgt. Hatred, Monstroso and Truckules.
* In Disney's ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' sequel, ''The Return of Jafar'', Jafar was using thief Abiz-Mal to help in his revenge scheme against Aladdin & Company. Abiz-Mal uses up his first two wishes in rapid succession (He wishes for a sunken treasure, so Jafar brings him to the bottom of the ocean and the second wish brings him back). At one point near the end, Abiz-Mal gets stuck in a tree. After Jafar is destroyed and the credits roll, we cut back to Abiz-Mal, still in the tree, saying "Does this mean I don't get my third wish?"
* ''[[Catscratch]]'' has a particularly well done example. In the pilot, Gordon tries to convince Blik to not enter a barbecue contest by telling him an old Scottish tale that involves a seal woman deceiving some guy. Waffle's view of the Aesop is to never trust a seal woman. In the 14th episode, Gordon turns the attacking Banshee to stone using a falsetto voice (look, just roll with it), and the Banshee statue cracks open to reveal... a seal woman.
* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'', of all shows, manages it (if you can manage to forget something in one minute) in "[http://robotchicken.wikia.com/wiki/InuYasha InuYasha]". {{spoiler|It's not actually about ''[[Inuyasha]]''}}.
** In another episode, the pilot and co-pilot of an airplane get into an argument which leads to the plane losing altitude. The scene quickly changes before the plane crashes. A couple skits later, a boy on a farm asks a chicken why it crossed the road, only to watch the airplane come crashing into his farm.
* In the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Unfair Science Fair", Candace competes with a girl named Wendy for a job at Mr. Slushy Burger. At one point Wendy dismisses Candace as being "slow as molasses", to which Candace [[Lame Comeback|lamely retorts]] "Well, maybe I'll call ''you''... something slower than molasses, that's for sure!" At the end of the episode, after both girls have lost their chance at the job due to their bickering, Candace suddenly points to Wendy and shouts "Snail! I'll call you 'Snail'!"
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** Also performed literally; at the end of "Toy to the World", the toy company executives follow up Phineas and Ferb's Perry the Platypus Inaction Figure by marketing a brick as a toy. A few episodes later, Doofenshmirtz plots to destroy a billboard that's blocking his view of the skyline, a billboard that happens to be advertising the Brick toy.
** "Hip Hip Parade" has Candace under the threat of "the Pharaoh's curse" from Linda if she doesn't uphold a promise to spend the day without bringing up Phineas and Ferb. Naturally, Candace is unable to keep that promise, and in [[The Stinger]], a man in a tacky Egyptian outfit walks up to Candace, confirms her identity, and tells her "Curse you."
** There was another one in the episode "What Do It Do?", after a seemingly-abandoned joke setup.
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'''Dr. Doofenshmirtz: '''You know, Perry the Platypus, I just... a golf course! A golf course has lots of traps in it! That's what I should have said. }}
** Performed true to the original joke in "Summer Belongs to You." Near the Beggining Doofenshmirtz launches a giant water balloon into orbit from the Tokyo Tower. only for it to drop back down near the end and help the titular pair and their friends finish their [[Epic Journey]].
** For a shorter example, At the end of "Bad Hair Day," Dr. Doofenschmirtz {{spoiler|was mistaken for an endangered orangutan, shot in the butt with a tranquilizer dart and placed in a wildlife sanctuary, where he}} sings a song which includes the line "...Though I'll probably lose consciousness in seventeen seconds". Exactly seventeen seconds later, he loses consciousness and falls over, thus failing to finish his song.
* Name one episode of ''[[Johnny Test]]'' that doesn't have a Brick Joke. You can't. The series lives on Brick Jokes.
* In an episode of ''[[
* In an episode of ''[[Metalocalypse]]'', Murderface mentions a catfish that can swim up a urine stream and lay eggs in your body when they're going to the Amazon. This is quickly dismissed as Murderface being himself... until he urinates off the side of a boat and becomes "pregnant with parasites".
* In the first episode of ''[[My Life
** In another episode, Jenny tries out for Cheerleading and as part of her 'routine', throws another cheerleader into the air, presumably to catch her. The cheerleader is hurled screaming into the sky and is never heard from again... until the very end of the episode, right after the screen cuts to black, when she suddenly falls back into frame asking what she missed. Mind you that an entire high school season went by during the ep.
* In an episode of ''[[Drawn Together]]'', Ling Ling is seen trimming a plant to resemble two guys, with one pointing a gun at each other's head. Toot comes in, and Ling Ling asks the plant what he should do, with the one with the gun to his head saying "Don't leave, he'll kill me!". The scene continues on, and eventually everyone leaves the room, followed by an off-screen gunshot and leaves flying all over the place.
* In an episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'', Hank's favorite bait store is going under, and, unbeknownst to Hank, the owner is about to set fire to it so he can claim the insurance. Near the end of the episode when Hank is in court, the bait shop owner is being brought up on insurance fraud charges.
** In the episode "Hank's Unmentionable Problem", while looking at experimental remedies for Hank's constipation, Luanne describes moxibustion, to which Hank responds "If anyone tried that to me I'd kick his ass!" During a montage later in the episode, we see Hank receiving moxibustion, and when the moxibustionist turns around, Hank gets up and [[Literal Ass
** In the episode "Ser-punt" Hank says he gets more staring and whispers than that bank clerk who between genders, much later in the episode Hank goes to the bank and a large hulking woman with a manish face at the bank booth angrily glares at him.
* In an episode of ''[[Totally Spies!]]'', the girls are on a mission in Egypt, and one of the gadgets they've been given is a superpowered shovel. When Clover first attempts to use it, it spins out of control and it disappears into the horizon. Near the end of the episode, they need to find a way to split up three magical golden scarabs that are giving the villain of the episode immortality and endless power. At that point, the shovel returns, and Clover is able to grab hold of it and use it to separate the scarabs.
* In ''Claymation Comedy of Horrors'', when the carnival ride he's testing malfunctions, Vince is sent flying off in the ride's rocket. {{spoiler|In the end, Vince comes back, still flying in the rocket, and [[Laser
* In the ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]'' short "A Grand Day Out" Wallace, upon arriving on the moon, casually kicks a ball into the air and then waits for it to come down before moving on. Later at the end of the credits the ball is shown still floating in space.
* [[The Boondocks|Nigga Moment (perpetual conflict between niggas over trivial or ignorant things) + Nigga Synthesis (perpetual bond between niggas over trivial or ignorant things) =]] '''[[Tonight Someone Dies|COMPLETE DISASTER.]]'''
** "It is a beautiful day to fuck shit up! Hahahahahaaa!!"
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** In "Swarm of the Century", upon first seeing a [[Explosive Breeder|Parasprite]], Pinkie Pie says that she needs to go find a trombone. She proceeds to gather up various instruments over the course of the episode, all while the Parasprites wreak havoc on Ponyville. At the end of the episode, she saves the day by leading the Parasprites out of Ponyville using the music of the instruments she gathered, except for the trombone. Then, we see the destruction the Parasprites have caused, leading to Pinkie playing [[Losing Horns]] with her trombone as the screen irises out.
** In "Call of the Cutie", Apple Bloom tried making cupcakes. [[Lethal Chef|It doesn't end well]]. The cupcakes are seemingly forgotten, until near the end when an unfortunate background pony tries one.
** In "A Bird in the Hoof", Rainbow Dash tries to get a reaction out of the [[British Royal Guards]]-inspired guards of Princess Celestia. Predictably, she fails. Towards the end, she convinces {{spoiler|Philomena the phoenix}} to tickle their noses, causing them to break character, leading to an [["Everybody Laughs" Ending|Everypony Laughs Ending]].
** In "Party of One", all of Pinkie Pie's friends are surprised that she has scheduled a party following her pet alligator's birthday. They respond as follows:
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*** ...and are forced to make excuses why they can't attend. {{spoiler|In the end of the episode, it was revealed that they were setting up a birthday party for Pinkie.}}
* In ''[[
* In the series ''[[Arthur]]'', Arthur was able to correctly guess the ISIS mainframe password (it was [[The Password Is Always Swordfish|guest]]). In a few episodes later, two of the ISIS company girls hack into the computer, again joking about how easy it is.
* In the ''[[Two Stupid Dogs]]'' episode "Door Jam", the dogs grab a firefighter's boot to try to get into the store. Towards the end, a firefighter runs into the store with only one boot on.
* ''[[Ugly Americans]]'' has it where a preacher drops down to Hell to give Callie the Blood Oath that she is to marry Twane (despite her complete disgust at the idea). He is then brought back too near the end of the episode, finally feeling better from his fall only {{spoiler|to be crushed by Callie's sister Lilith in her demon form}}.
* In ''[[Daria]]'', Quinn asks to borrow some clothes from Daria for a "Fashion Don't Costume Gala". About 8 episodes later, Quinn is going through her closet to find something to give to charity, only to find one of Daria's jackets.
* When the explorers finally arrive at Atlantis in ''[[Atlantis:
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* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' has a literal one. At the end of "Toy to the World", the creatively bankrupt toy executives are frantically trying to think of an idea for a new toy to follow up Phineas and Ferb's "Perry the Platypus Inaction Figure". They settle on marketing a brick to children. In another episode, [[Mad Scientist|Doofensmirtz]] wants to destroy the billboard that blocks his view of the city skyline. The billboard advertizes the Brick.
* ''[[Futurama]]'': At the beginning of an episode, Fry entered the game show "Who Dares to be a Millionaire?" and the first question was about which instrument is used to hammer a nail. Option A: a hammer; Option B: a nail. Before Morbo had a chance to say what Option C was, Fry answered "nail". Near the episode's end, Fry tried to destroy an invention by hammering a nail on it... with another nail.
** In ''How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back'', we see an old man waiting in line at the Central Bureaucracy for his birth certificate. Cut to ''Lethal Inspection'', aired 10 years later, the old man finally gets to Central Bureaucracy, only to have a heart attack right there.
* [[Megas XLR]] loves this trope. It occurs almost [[Once an Episode]]. In the pilot, for example, Coop misfires a missile, which strikes a PoPTV satellite. When the bad guys [[Combining Mecha|combine their Mechs]] into a ridiculously huge final robot and is about to crush the cast said satellite crushes into it.
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'': In what is possibly a parody on the [[Trope Namer]], "The Two Faces of Squidward" has a fish gain the ability to fly out of seeing handsome Squidward, and then proceed to lose his untied shoe. Later in the episode, the shoe falls through the roof of the Krusty Krab, causing SpongeBob to push Squidward into a pole to save him from being hit on the head with it.
** The Great Snail Race has one. SpongeBob, who's training Gary, calls him a lady to "humiliate and demean him". Cut to Sandy, who says "I don't know why, but I think I'll kick SpongeBob's butt tomorrow.". The next day, at the end of the episode, Sandy comes out of nowhere, kicks SpongeBob off screen and yells "That's for yesterday SquarePants!".
** In the beginning of The Smoking Peanut, Mr. Krabs is seen abusing the concept of Free Day, taking everything he can. At the end of the episode, it's revealed that the oyster got upset because her pearl was stolen. Guess who stole it?
* In the ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' episode "Attack of the Mutant Guppies", Garfield & Nermal contend with mutant guppies, who they defeat by tricking them into stomping each other down a sewer hole. Said guppies then appear in a subsequent US Acres Quickie out of a well; after scaring that show's cast off, one guppy turns to his fellows and says "Come on, lets see if we can get a spot on the [[Muppet Babies]]" (which aired opposite the show on CBS at the time).
* [[Ruby Gloom]] loves these. An early episode starts off with a game of hide and seek that is quickly forgotten as it becomes a murder-mystery. When the victim is finally found at the episode's end, it gets tagged by the seeker.
* The first episode of ''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]'' has a scene where Jenny is playing hacky sack and accidentally kicks her sack into space. Later, she gets an alert about an asteroid about to crash into Earth. Normally it's the sort of asteroid that just burns up in the atmosphere, but this one can make it through because its mass has been [[Wafer-Thin Mint|slightly increased...by a hacky sack.]]
** Also in one episode, whilst auditioning for the cheerleader squad, Jenny accidentally throws a cheerleader up so high, she doesn't come down. At the end, after the [[Iris Out]], said cheerleader falls onto the black screen and asks "What did I miss?".
* In the ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Replaceable You", while Homer is talking to Roz, a beach ball falls out of nowhere into screen and Homer hits it off screen. A scene or two later, when they are in another room and Roz is meeting Mr. Burns, it falls back on screen in the room they're in, and [[Ironic Echo|Burns hits it off screen]].
** During "24 Minutes", Bart makes a phone call that accidentally gets crossed with that of [[24|Jack Bauer]], so he leaves him a prank call. At the end of the episode, Bauer arrives to arrest Bart for the call.
** We get a triple-whammy in "Hello, Gutter, Hello Fadder." In the opening, Moleman is seen being hassled by a pushy New Yorker, and is seen as defenseless. When he reappears later in the episode, he is revealed to be the king of the Mole People, and about to use an earthquake machine. His CMOA and [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]], "No One Escapes From The Fortress Of The Mole People", is immediately dashed, as the bungee cord both Homer and Otto were on rebounds and sends them back to the surface, to which Moleman dejectedly says "Well, except for that."
** An extreme example in the episode "Ned N Edna's Special Blend" where a billboard in the opening sequence says "Sleazy Sam's, Remember That Name". At the very end of the episode, a store owned by Sleazy Sam is opened.
* Often common in various ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' shorts, typically as the means of Brain's plan failing out of control. In the first short, "Win Big", Pinky confounds Brain with his [[The Honeymooners|Ralph Kramden]] antics, which Brain ignores. Eventually getting onto the game show to win money to fund his plan to take over the world, he gets to the final round, upon which the question involves—Ralph Kramden. Brain loses. (The episode is a [[Shout-Out]] not only to ''The Honeymooners'' episode where this happens, but a ''[[Cheers]]'' episode that was inspired by ''The Honeymooners'' one, all with the same approach to the brick joke.)
* A season 2 episode of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' involved Sokka losing his boomerang after getting ambushed. He spends the first portion of the episode depressed over it and then seemingly forgets about it until during the climax he's randomly united with it, excitedly yelling "[[Memetic Mutation|Boomerang, you do come back!]]"
** In the same show, the episode "The Cave of Two Lovers" features the nomads singing the eponymous song:
{{quote|'''Nomad:''' …'a mountain divides them apart!'…and, uh, I forget the next part, but then it goes…'SECRET TUNNEL!…'
'''The same nomad, half an episode later:''' Hey, I just remembered the rest of that song! 'AND DIED…' }}
** Made even funnier in that he remembers the part about death just as they're talking about possibly becoming lost in the cave forever.
** In the season 1 episode "The Spirit World (Winter Solstice, Part I)", Sokka is kidnapped by a spirit and taken into to the spirit world. When Aang saves him at the end of the episode, Sokka remarks that he really needs to use the bathroom. In the season 3 episode "The Avatar and the Firelord", Aang's behavior during his spirit vision of Roku prompts Katara to ask if the spirit world has bathrooms...to which Sokka responds that he knows for a fact that it does not.
* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode ''Swarm of the Century'', one of the many instruments Pinkie Pie gathers is a trombone. It was NOT part of the parade Pinkie drove the Parasprites out of Ponyville with, but at the very end, when the ponies return to Ponyville and discover it's now in ruins, Pinkie plays the stock [[Losing Horns]] on it.
** In ''Ponyville Confidential'', Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo are under the mistaken impression that the way they will use the school newspaper to get their cutie marks is by making arts and crafts out of the paper, and Scootaloo patches up a bird's nest with it. Later, when the CMCs become writers for the school newspaper, Scootaloo, desperate for a story, decides to go to the same birds nest to get a story, but falls out of the tree and ends up covered in mud.
* [[Rocko's Modern Life|Rocko the wallaby]] decides to spend a day at a carnival. Little does he know: it's full of rigged games. One game finds him trying to flip a frog onto a lilypad; pissed off by the frog's big mouth, he accidentally knocks it into the sky, forcing him to quit the game. Later, Rocko rides a roller coaster that goes so high that it leaves Earth's atmosphere. Guess who he finds up there, still calling him a loser?
** After the diastrous roller coaster ride ends, a frustrated and spent Rocko decides to head home after being fleeced at every turn. Suddenly, there's a loud WHOOSH!, and the frog sails back down to Earth, landing perfectly on one of the lilypads. Shocked that someone finally beat one of his rigged games, the carnival's owner reluctantly gives Rocko a prize.
* Early on in the ''[[Dilbert (animation)|Dilbert]]'' episode "Y2K", Wally is buying credit cards off the phone, saying that when he gets his money,[[Batman Gambit|the year 2000 problem will wipe out the history of the bank's computers, so they can never bill him.]] At the very end of the episode, Wally goes to the bank to do just that...and the cashier pranks him and gives him some exploding dye dollar packs.
{{quote|'''Cashier''': [[Oh, No, Not Again|No matter how many times I do that, it's still hilarious.]]}}
* In an episode of ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]'', Deadman possesses Superman while he's telling Wonder Woman about a restaurant ("They have milkshakes so thick...*possess* I need your help!" "That IS thick.") At the end of the episode, when Deadman finally leaves, Supes picks up right where he left off ("...You need a spoon to eat them. ''([[Beat]])'' Why are we in Africa?")
* In the teaser to one episode of ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'', [[Butt Monkey|Steve]] makes fun of [[Mad Scientist|Dr. Weird]] by posing as him and shouting "Fill me with BBQ sauce because I'm dumb as hell!" A few episodes later...
{{quote|'''Dr. Weird:''' [[No Indoor Voice|GENTLEMEN! THERE'S A CHANCE THIS WILL WORK!]]
'''Steve:''' Actually, you said there's no chance this will work.
'''Dr. Weird:''' [looks back to a contraption pumping him full of BBQ sauce] FOOL! THAT WILL NEVER WORK! }}
* In "Lois Kills Stewie", when the family is tied up in rope, they decide to pass the time by starting a celebrity rumor. Peter suggests that Rob Schneider takes illigal immigrants from Home Depot and pays them to [[Erotic Asphyxiation|choke him in the shower]]. Later, it's shown to be apparently true.
{{quote|'''Immigrant:''' Senor Rob Schnieder, you must come and see this!
'''Rob Schneider:''' I don't pay you to watch TV, now get in the damn shower! }}
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