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== Anime and Manga ==
* In episode 24 of ''[[Inazuma Eleven]]'', as Endou is preparing for an overnight training camp, a brief comic relief scene occurs where his mom hands him a pair of boxers with his name written in marker ("En" on the left butt cheek and "dou" on the right in ''really'' big handwriting, no less) to make sure he doesn't get his laundry mixed up with any of his teammates. Seven episodes later, Touko barges in on the boys changing, and gets an eyeful of Endou in his underwear - and he's actually wearing that very same pair of boxers.
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', [[Chew Toy|Sanji’s]] dream to meet ’the pearl of the seas’, mermaids, turns into a nightmare when he finally meets one – {{spoiler|[[Gonk|Kokoro]]}}, [[Lady Drunk|who isn’t exactly a young]] [[Gonk|or pretty mermaid.]] Later on, the crew meets another mermaid, Camie, and this meeting is [[Brain Bleach|ridiculously funny]] ''because'' of their earlier meeting with Kokoro.
** To clarify, his meeting with Camie (who is rather attractive) retroactively erases all memories he ever had of {{spoiler|Kokoro}} (who is not).
** Luffy spends a lot of the earlier episodes asserting that their next crew member needs to be a musician, over things like a doctor or a cook. Sure enough, 300+ episodes later, the 9th Straw Hat pirate is Brook, an undead musician.
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== Film ==
* The ending of ''[[Monty Python and
** The investigation is shown between scenes several times during the movie. It's why Lancelot isn't in the end scene.
** Also, the bit with King Arthur getting to cross the Bridge of Death by responding to the question about the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow with a question of his own, directly from the first scene of the film.
*** In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, Bedivere ties a coconut to a swallow and releases it in his first scene. It puts a new light on his comment after Arthur's Bridge of Death questions.
** And don't forget that upon meeting the French, they say they already have a Holy Grail, then at the end they are in the castle with the Grail in it.
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* ''[[In Bruges]]'' has this dialogue in the middle of the film:
{{quote|'''Ray:'''"This is exactly my point! People going around calling you a midget when you want to be called a dwarf. Of course you're going to blow your head off."}}
** Guess {{spoiler|whose head is blown off}} by the end of the film? {{spoiler|Jimmy, the midget actor}}, of course.
* ''[[Shaun of the Dead]]'' is chock full of them. Lines that were funny earlier on become rather morose and depressing later. For instance, the quote "You've got red on you" was said to Shaun very early in the movie as a result of him having a red pen in his pocket that had leaked onto the rest of his shirt. {{spoiler|Later, it was said about the blood that had been splattered all over him.}}
** Made into a form of art in ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'', another comedy by the same people. Everything that wasn't a joke comes back as a joke. Every joke comes back as a funnier joke.
* The one funny moment in the new ''[[Bewitched]]'' movie: An actor attributes his last film's failure to the costume department. This is presented as a spoiled actor making excuses and then forgotten about until an hour later, when he's watching TV and the film comes on, showing him in a snowstorm wearing an enormous fur hat and yelling, "TURN BAAACK!". It was worth seeing the rest of the movie for that.
* ''[[Toy Story]]'' includes the claw-game worshiping Little Green Men, who hold "the claaaaaaaw" in high regard because it will choose and deliver them to a better place. Fast forward to Toy Story 3, near the end {{spoiler|when the entire group is holding hands as they await their inevitable death in an incinerator- only to look up as see a gigantic crane claw scoop them up}}.
* ''[[Up (animation)|Up]]'': "Squirrel!"
* For a series with a lot of [[Continuity Nod|Continuity Nods]] and [[Brick Joke|Brick Jokes]], ''[[Back to The Future]]'' does not have a lot of [[Call Back|Call Backs]] that are necessarily this. However, they do have an example in the first movie with the joke about Uncle Joey not making parole in 1985. Then we see him as a baby in 1955 and his mother says that he cries whenever they take him out of his crib.
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== Literature ==
* Book #6 of the ''[[Captain Underpants]]'' series has George and Harold introducing a new joke called Squishies, which consists of putting ketchup packets under toilet seats so that they squirt onto the legs of whoever sits on the toilet. The next book has Captain Underpants use this with crates of oranges and a giant novelty toilet as a method of defeating the [[Villain of the Week|Villains of the Book]].
* ''[[Discworld]]''. ''[[Discworld/Witches Abroad|Witches Abroad]]''. "Glod".
* Happens fairly often in the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' books, understandable considering the sheer size of its [[Chekhov's Armory]]. Four plot devices in particular are first introduced as gags; {{spoiler|the Vanishing Cabinet gets this treatment twice, first trashed by Nearly Headless Nick to get Harry out of trouble with Filch in ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets|Chamber of Secrets]]'', then used as a joke by Fred and George in ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix|Order of the Phoenix]]'' when they shove Montague into it; the latter incident is mentioned directly when the Cabinet becomes a serious plot device in ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince|Half-Blood Prince]].'' Hermione signing up for every class in ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets|Chamber Of Secrets]]'' is also treated as a character joke, until it's revealed in ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban|Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' that Hermione's had to use a Time-Turner to get to all her classes, which is then used to save Sirius and Buckbeak. Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes are introduced in a humorous way in ''[[Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire|Goblet of Fire]]'', but many of them play a larger role than expected in later books, particularly those used by the trio in their attempt to infiltrate the corrupted Ministry of Magic. Finally, The Room of Requirement is indirectly mentioned in an offhand humorous way by Dumbledore in ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire|Goblet Of Fire]]''; in the final three books, it becomes the most important room in all of Hogwarts.}}
* The first book in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' series opens with a monologue describing all the troubles and widespread unhappiness on Earth, and how one London woman suddenly had an epiphany about how all of that could be solved that was tragically cut short by the destruction of Earth. It then goes on to note "This is not her story" and rambles a bit about the titular Hitchhiker's Guide. ''So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish'' opens with a word-for-word repeat of that exact same monologue, but instead ends with the line "This is her story."
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** In the episode "Quest for Fire", the [[Cold Open]] shows Tim Taylor trying to use rocket fuel to light a barbecue grill. This results in Tim [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csFmM1xsaTQ launching the grill into low orbit], in a gag that's seemingly unrelated to the rest of the episode. Later, the Taylors are on vacation at a lake, and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZOxRRYQM7E at the end of the episode], right before the ending credits, Tim and Jill are walking away from the lake when the barbecue grill splashes down.
** "'Twas the Flight Before Christmas" has several jokes early on about Tim using [[Absurdly Bright Light|Absurdly Bright Lights]] to decorate his house for Christmas, including Al saying "You could light up an airport runway with that much wattage!" Towards the end, Tim's trying to make it back home in time for Christmas, but his flight has to be diverted because visibility is too low in Detroit to land any planes. Tim comments that his kids are probably lighting up the decorations as he speaks...then suddenly a beam of light coming from his house lights everything up and makes it possible to land the plane.
* In one episode of ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', [[It Makes Sense in Context|Shawn stops Cory from giving Topanga flowers]] by snatching them from him and handing them to a jock who happens to walk by in the school hallway. It's a brief gag that isn't given much attention. Then, several scenes later, Cory and Shawn are alone in a classroom doing [[Comic Role Play]] that involves Cory saying "I love you" to Shawn. They look up and see that same jock standing in the doorway holding the flowers and watching them, who then throws the flowers on the floor and walks away in anger.
* A third season episode of [[3rd Rock from the Sun]] had Dick and Mary engaging in an ever-escalating prank war, where Dick has Mary's desk removed, sends her a fake letter from then-president [[Bill Clinton]], and gets a garage to add massive speakers and flame decals to her Volvo. In response, Mary gets Dick's hands (and face) stuck to his desk with thermal bond epoxy. While Dick is slowly, and painfully, removed, they finally come to a truce. Mere seconds afterward, they hear a loud, booming noise from outside.
{{quote|'''Judith:''' Mary, it appears your Volvo is back from the shop.}}
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* [http://www.explosm.net/comics/2661/ The 2012 New Year] comic on ''[[Cyanide and Happiness]]'' is one to their 2010 New Year strip, [http://www.explosm.net/comics/1907/ seen here]
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'': [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=020408 Emergency Pants] and [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=020417 Emergency Pants strike back].
* ''[[8-Bit Theater
** There's also [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/08/26/episode-455-self-fulfilling-stupidity/ this] strip, where Blackbelt unwittingly predicts {{spoiler|who history remembers in terms of the heroes. The fact that he was referring to the Light Warriors makes it all the more ironic.}}
* In ''[[Ménage à 3]]'', several throw-away gags come back for those who pay attention to it:
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