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* [http://www.avclub.com/articles/bloom-county-to-get-republished-at-last,23496/ The upcoming treasury collections] of the legendary comic strip ''[[Bloom County]]'' will probably runneth over this trope. Since much of the humor is a product of the 1980's, the collections will include "context pages" to help explain the cultural and political references to anyone born after the Reagan administration. Because of that, it might be born out of necessity to explain the background of the Meadowcrats...
** Not wanting to have to explain the joke was a ''huge'' factor in Breathed's decision to let the collections go out of print and not release any further reprintings.
* ''[[Bloom County]]'' also had an in-universe example (although again, it makes more sense to the reader when you remember it was released in 1984). In one strip, Steve Dallas, who is representing Bill the Cat, who has been arrested for selling secrets to the Soviets, asks a guy at the FBI building just what these secrets were:
{{quote|'''FBI guy:''' Secrets? ''(looks at clipboard)'' The Secret of the Sierra Madre, the secret recipe for Coke, and the secret of George Bush's appeal.
'''Steve:''' Secret of George Bush's appeal?
'''FBI guy:''' Yep.
'''Steve:''' George Bush doesn't have any appeal.
'''FBI guy:''' (frantic) Well, that's the secret!<ref> Of course, this would prove [[Hilarious in Hindsight]], as George Bush would eventually gain enough appeal to become President.</ref>
* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20120910062345/http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=2012&addr=120426 April 26,2012], a spider about to be swatted said it was okay as long as [[Garfield]] didn't sit on it and then explained he said it because Garfield was fat.
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