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* ''Tin Cup''. Rory McIlroy, a [[Real Life]] golfer who comes out of nowhere to win Opens makes it even funnier to follow the adventures of the fictional Roy McAvoy.
* When [[Stanley Kubrick]] made the film version of ''[[
** Also: The page image. Pan Am, in 1968, was all but ubiquitous--it was ''the'' international airline for the US, and a cultural icon. Pan Am folded in 1991; its nearest rival for "official airline of the United States", TWA, was bought in all but name by American Airlines in 2001. Obviously, Kubrick had no way of knowing any of this in 1968, and so naturally extended then-current
* ''[[
* ''[[The Dead Zone]]'' features [[Martin Sheen]] as a local politician. At one point, he passionately shouts that he will be the President of the United States one day. He later starred in ''[[
** On another level, the psychic protagonist predicts he will become a [[President Evil]] if allowed to take office, while the President on ''The West Wing'' was very much a President Personable.
* In ''[[Dead Poets Society]]'', the character Neal Perry is being forced to become a doctor by his father. Neal is played by [[House (TV series)|Robert Sean Leonard aka Dr. James Wilson]].
** Also 4 years after his character is bullied by his father for wanting to be in a Shakespeare play, Robert Sean Leonard would play the lead (well sorta) in ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]''.
** Extra points for having Neal's father played by Kurtwood Smith, who would later guest star on an episode of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''... as a doctor who has a son. (Played by Dave Matthews, in case you wonder)
*** Kurtwood Smith being [[
* ''[[Death Becomes Her]]'' features [[Meryl Streep]] as an aging actress desperate to regain her youth. This movie was released in 1992; these days Meryl's career is hotter than ever, despite being in her sixties.
* In ''[[
* In ''Baby's Day Out'' Joe Pantoliano says 'Hey, Eddie, maybe [[The Matrix|he went down a rabbit hole.']]
* ''[[Wag the Dog]]'', about creating a (fictional) war with Albania to cover up a presidential sex scandal, was released less than a month before the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and subsequent attacks against Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia, which is directly to the north of Albania.
** And indeed Albania itself imploded not long after the UK release of the film - from one of the most massive [[Ponzi]] scams of all time, between [
** ''[[Wag the Dog]]'' [[Take That|was shown on Serbian state television on the night Operation Noble Anvil--the NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia--began]]
*** And before the Lewinsky scandal, it was considered to be very timely, because Clinton was being accused of demonizing Osama Bin Laden to distract attention from the Paula Jones scandal.
* Three words: ''Governor'' [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]].
** From ''[[Demolition Man]]'':
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'''John Spartan''': Stop, he was president?
'''Lenina Huxley''': Yes! Even though he was not born in this country, his popularity at the time caused the 61st Amendment, which states --
'''John Spartan''': [[The Un
*** The list of convicts in ''Demolition Man'' also included one Scott Peterson, about a decade before the real-life murder case.
** From ''[[
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'''Jack Slater''': [[Department of Redundancy Department|You already mentioned them]].
'''Nick''': I know I did, they're twice as bad as anything else. }}
** Also from ''[[
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'''Jack Slater''': [punches the Lieutenant Governor] When the Governor gets here, call me. }}
** The fight scene between Arnold Schwarzenegger and [[Jesse Ventura]] in the movie version of ''[[The Running Man (
*** Or ''[[
*** Even the T-shirts Minnesotans started wearing after Ventura's election, that claimed "My governor can beat up your governor", became ironically amusing in hindsight when Schwarzenegger won California.
** This goes all the way back to his second (uncredited) American film appearance. In the 1973 movie adaptation of ''The Long Goodbye'', [[Philip Marlowe]] yells at a cop that he'll go to Ronald Reagan, then-governor. In the very next scene, he walks into a room flanked by two mute strong guys, one of whom would later be the governor. Marlowe, it seems, was really serious about making sure that cop got reported.
* In ''[[
** In ''[[
* The [[Femme Fatale]] of ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)|The Day the Earth Stood Still]]'' (the original one) shows doctors wondering how Klaatu can heal so marvelously fast, soon coming to the conclusion that his medical science must be far more advanced than theirs. And then they all light up their cigarettes.
* In the 1993 film on AIDS, ''[[
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* [[Memetic Mutation]] courtesy of ''[[
** In particular, there's the line "Clearly, Madame, genius has turned to madness" in ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' (which featured Gerard Butler in the title role). The line is already unintentional hilarity incarnate, but the ''300'' connection adds a whole new level of hilarity.
* Most incidents of [[Bald Black Leader Guy]], especially ones used in comic settings (for example, Chris Rock's ''Head of State'') have become this after the election of almost-bald black President [[Barack Obama]].
** Even funnier is that ''Head of State'' features a smear campaign against Chris Rock's character, part of which is a newspaper article alleging that "He's Half White!"
** Or the fact that the movie featured a younger, relatively inexperienced African American vs the older war veteran for the presidency.
* The quick joke in ''[[
** As did a sight gag from ''[[Airplane!]] II: The Sequel'': a movie poster showing a 90-or-so year old man in boxing trunks and gloves, with the caption "Rocky XXXVIII".
*** Not Rocky-related, but Stallone-related: [[
* ''Ernest Rides Again'', made in 1993, has Ernest making several comedic references to ''[[
* The [[Alpha Bitch]] in ''[[Mean Girls]]'' informs her new best friend ([[Lindsay Lohan]]) that she dumped her original best friend because she couldn't afford the stigma of being seen to be friends with a lesbian (the friend was not in fact gay). Four years later and with Samantha Ronson in the picture, the line takes on new meaning.
* In [[Austin Powers]], the title character laments his opponent's poor choice of weapon with the words "Who throws a shoe?! Honestly!" Now, remember what happened to president Bush when he was giving an interview to the press...though he did dodge that shoe.
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** While Allen's character is coming to grips with being asleep 200 years, he realizes "Hey, you know, I bought Polaroid at 7; it must be up ''millions'' by now!" ...or not.
* "Son, your ego's writing checks that your body can't cash." That's said to [[Tom Cruise|Tom "Maverick" Cruise]], in the movie ''[[Top Gun]]'', ''many'' years before Cruise's ego in [[Real Life]] started writing such checks.
* Watching ''Wonder Boys'', which stars [[Robert Downey, Jr.]] and Tobey Maguire, may provoke the slightly juvenile thought of [[Spider-Man (
** Which is EVEN FUNNIER to anyone who has seen the fake movie previews at the beginning of ''[[Tropic Thunder]]'', which advertised an [[Oscar Bait]] film starring Downey's character and, you guessed it, Tobey Maguire, as two monks who fall in love.
*** ''Wolf'' teamed up [[Jack Nicholson]] and Michelle Pfeiffer (aka [[Batman (
*** [[Christopher Walken]] and Pfeiffer re-teamed for ''Hairspray! The Musical'' as a married man and the woman trying to seduce him away from his wife ([[John Travolta]]!)
*** ''[[Man
*** DeVito not only had a co-starring role in ''Hoffa'', which starred Nicholson, but he directed it too.
*** ''[[Twins]]'' and ''[[Junior]]'' both teamed up DeVito and [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] (Mr. Freeze).
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**** Isn't that one [[Harsher in Hindsight]]?
*** In ''[[Terminator|Terminator Salvation]]'', we have [[Christian Bale]] (Batman) fight a stand-in for [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] (Mr. Freeze).
*** In [[Real Life]], [[Uma Thurman]] (Poison Ivy) was married to [[Gary Oldman]] (Gordon in ''[[The Dark Knight Saga]]''); in ''[[Batman and Robin (
*** In the 2000 remake of ''[[Shaft]]'', Pat Hingle, who played Commissioner Gordon in the [[Tim Burton]] and [[Joel Schumacher]] directed Batman films appears in the same movie as [[Christian Bale]], who would go on to play Batman in [[Christopher Nolan]]'s 2005 reboot.
*** In the short-lived Amalgam universe of [[Marvel Comics]] and [[DC Comics]], [[The Joker]] and Sabertooth were combined into Hyena. In ''[[X-Men (
** And thinking of [[
** And now you've turned ''[[Hard Candy]]'' into [[X-Men (
** The film version of S.W.A.T. had [[Daredevil (
*** Don't you mean Hawkeye and Dark Hawkeye?
** Two years before ''[[Daredevil (
** Even more hilarious is when Jon Favreau played the title character ''Rocky Marciano'' in the 1999 TV movie. In one scene, Marciano's father tells him "You should feel like [[Iron Man (
** A peek at the cast of ''[[Small Soldiers]]''? [[Tommy Lee Jones]]/Two-Face battles Frank Langella/Skeletor on Mary Jane Watson's/KirstenDunst's doorstep.
** In the second film version of [[The Punisher]], Frank Castle lives next door to both X-Men's Mystique and Angel.
** ''[[
*** With Daily Bugle Reporter, and holder of Daredevil's secret identity, Ben Urich (Joe Pantoliano) helping Two-Face all the way.
*** Some prefer [[Sherlock Holmes (
** What of ''I'm Not There'', where [[Heath Ledger]] is an actor (and possibly Bob Dylan) who plays [[Christian Bale]] ([[Mind Screw|who is Bob Dylan/not Bob Dylan]]) in a biopic?
** In ''Monster's Ball'', Billy Bob Thornton has the Joker (Ledger) for a son, and embarks on an affair with an [[In Name Only]] ''[[Catwoman (
** [[Gary Oldman]] played the (apparent) [[Big Bad]] of ''[[The Fifth Element]]'', and Commissioner Gordon in ''[[The Dark Knight Saga]]''. Tom "Tiny" Lister Jr. played [[Bald Black Leader Guy|the President of Earth]], while in ''Dark Knight'' he plays a convict. And no, they never share a scene in either one.
*** Oldman playing Jim Gordon is even funnier if you consider his role in ''[[Léon: The Professional]]'', but better than that is his role in ''[[Harry Potter (
** Another ''[[Batman]]'' one! In ''The Peacemaker'', [[George Clooney]] (Batman) and [[Nicole Kidman]] (Chase Meridian) team up to catch a terrorist.
** In ''[[Paycheck]]'', Poison Ivy ([[Uma Thurman]]) faces off against Two-Face ([[Aaron Eckhart]]).
** In ''[[The Bucket List]]'', The Joker ([[Jack Nicholson]]) and Lucius Fox ([[Morgan Freeman]]) go on a road trip before they died from terminal illnesses.
* The Scottish film ''[[Shallow Grave]]'' basically culminated in [[Star Wars|Obi-Wan Kenobi]] vs [[Doctor Who
** ''[[Velvet Goldmine]]'': [[Star Wars|Obi-Wan Kenobi]] has sex with [[Batman Begins]] and [[The Tudors|Henry VIII]]. Not at the same time.
** ''One Fine Day'' has [[Batman and Robin (
* In Anthony Minghella's ''[[Breaking And Entering]]'', [[Jude Law]] and [[Martin Freeman]] play best friends. They would both go on to play Watson in different media.
* In ''[[Me Myself and Irene]]'', one of Charlie's genius sons says "Man how the hell can they call Pluto a planet? [[Did Not Do the Research|No motherfucking planet has an elliptical orbit]]. This shit don't make no sense." (''All'' planets have elliptical orbits, just not as markedly elliptical as Pluto's.) Fast forward six years to 2006; after ongoing debates stretching as far back to 1992, Pluto finally got demoted to a dwarf planet.
** ''[[Lexx]]'', among other shows, also played with [[Pluto Is Expendable|Pluto's planetary status]] before the demotion.
* One of Sil's victims in the 1995 movie ''[[Species]]'' was named John F. Carey. The 2004 Democratic presidential candidate was named John F. Kerry.
* In ''[[Spies Like Us]]'', [[Dan Aykroyd]]'s character responds to a question of his abilities by rattling off a list of things he's skilled in, concluding with "I'm [
* In ''[[
** Speaking of ''[[The Sixth Sense]],'' the film won a Best Screenplay Oscar for its originality and its twist ending. As it turns out, M. Night lifted the entire story, including his twist ending, from "The Tale of The Dream Girl," an episode of ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark?]]'' that aired years before.
* In ''[[Clueless]]'', Cher is unimpressed at the celebrity guest at a tree planting event: "Oh how fabulous. Getting Marky Mark to take time from his busy pants-dropping schedule to plant trees." Since the film came out in 1995 Mark Wahlberg has become an Oscar-nominated movie star (involving actual pants-dropping in ''[[Boogie Nights]]'') and Alicia Silverstone has gone from nothing, to being the next big thing, to being semi-forgotten. Essentially, she has gone through a ''whole career arc'' while the supposedly washed-up Wahlberg is bigger than ever (no pun intended).
** Well, she was right about Mark's music career, which wound up ending shortly after the film's release (and he later disowned his whole music career) his successful acting career was something that absolutely NOBODY saw coming-if you told anyone back then that "Marky Mark" would be an Oscar nominated actor, they'd probably laugh themselves into a coma.
** Speaking of Marky Mark and plants, there's also ''[[The Happening]]'', where Wahlberg plays a professor in a world where all plant life is trying to murder people with neurotoxins.
* ''[[
** Really most of his movies outside maybe the ''Blade'' series falls under this, since he's usually typecast as a cop or other authority figure.
* Three years after ''[[A New Hope]]'' debuts in theaters, flybys reveal [
** [[That's No Moon]], that's a... oh, wait, no. You were right, it's a moon. Sorry.
** "These blast points, too accurate for Sand People. Only Imperial stormtroopers are so precise." Fair or not, [[Popcultural Osmosis]] has given the stormtroopers [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy|the opposite reputation]], making it difficult to take Obi-Wan's declaration seriously.
*** It should be noted that precision and accuracy are entirely different things. Someone who shoots arrows consistently to the same spot to the left of the target is precise, but not accurate.
* [[Rick Moranis]]' voice as Dark Helmet in ''[[
* ''Hamlet II'' was actually predated by [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=8#comic this] ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' comic.
** Which in turn is predated by ''[[Last Action Hero]]'' doing a gag trailer.
* In ''[[
* ''[[Jurassic Park]]'': "That's not very scary. More like a six foot turkey!" Years later, fossil evidence confirmed that ''Velociraptor'' had feathers, and people complained that it was no longer scary because it looked like, well, a ''turkey''. Its image is not helped by the fact that it was actually somewhat smaller than portrayed in the films; in fact, it ''was'' about the size of a turkey.
** And several more years later, [http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/03/05/dinosaur-chicken.html this happened.] Now if only the kid had said "chicken" instead of "turkey"...
* In ''[[Saturday Night Fever]]'', [[John Travolta]]'s character, Tony, stops having sex with Annette because she doesn't have a diaphragm and he doesn't want to get her pregnant. (She might have wanted him to get her pregnant.) At the beginning of ''[[Look
** Actually, many dancing scenes of the movie may count, as they would seem ridiculous to many people now.
* ''[[Surf Ninjas]]'' was about two princes growing up as surfers. [[Real Life|Prince William]], second in line to the throne of the United Kingdom, is a surfer. That and the binoculars and eyepatch gag are probably the two truly funny things from that movie.
* In [[Barbra Streisand]]'s classic starring roles in ''[[Hello, Dolly!]]'' and ''[[Funny Girl]],'' the overbearing narcissism of her characters is played for laughs. While it's true that Streisand was developing her reputation even then, it's only gotten progressively funnier...
** From ''Hello, Dolly!'':
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Like furniture and daffodils and lives. }}
* The 1990 film ''Crazy People'' had the premise of someone in advertising being sent to a mental institution because they accidentally let print a set of really "honest" ads, such as saying Volvo's are "boxy, but they're good". Amusingly, most of the ads shown in the film are similar to the tongue-in-cheek advertising around today.
* In [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19760813/REVIEWS/608130301/1023 his 1976 review of the movie ''Cannonball''], [[Roger Ebert]] glibly remarked that "there seems to be some sort of insatiable desire among moviegoers this summer to see high-speed car chases and flaming wreckage. The only things more popular on the nation's screens are the Good Ol' Movies (extensively discussed here in recent weeks) and films of demonic possession. If we can get Burt Reynolds into a Trans-Am with the devil in the back seat, we've got a winner on our hands." One year later, the Burt-Reynolds-in-a-Trans-Am movie ''[[Smokey and
** In his [https://web.archive.org/web/20130331224051/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=
** Then, some 10 years later, we have Spielberg's ''[[The War of the Worlds (
* ''[[Star Trek:
* ''[[Star Trek IV:
** Except for the fact Takei was ''born'' there, and that was used as part of Sulu's [[Backstory]] in the first place.
** Made even better when interviewed in 2006 as to when he first met his partner Brad Altman, the time he said was "about 20 years ago", around the time that ''Star Trek IV'' was being made.
** There are a lot of moments like this in ''[[Star Trek:
*** There was one scene in "The Naked Time" ep where Sulu, under the effects of polywater, asks the male navigator to go to the gym with him in order to teach him "fencing"...
*** ''[[
**** Well, ''Kirk'' is surprised, Scotty doesn't seem to be and Chekov clearly knows. It might have been more of a jab at William Shatner, who has admitted the rest of the OS cast may have had a point about him being completely self-absorbed--Kirk is so oblivious to his crew having moved on he doesn't know Sulu has a daughter old enough to be an officer on Enterprise-B.
*** There is also that scene in ''[[Star Trek III:
**** "Don't call me 'Tiny'"......
**** In that same scene from ''Star Trek III: The Search for Spock'', a phaser packing Uhura demands the transporter beam operator to "get in the closet"!
** On a slightly different note, Sulu's canon interest in "botany" is kind of hilarious now that he's being portrayed by [[Harold
* This wiki's page for [[Translation Train Wreck]] links to a set of poorly translated subtitles for "The Two Towers." Many are very funny on their own, but [[
* One of the characters in ''[[Attack of the Killer Tomatoes|Return Of The Killer Tomatoes]]'' is trying to con women into dating him via a phoney competition offering a date with a movie star. The character is played by future movie star George Clooney.
** Similarly, one of the other actors in that film, Rick Rockwell, would later become the titular rich man in the reality show ''Who Wants To Marry a Multi-Millionaire''? -- which, as it turned out, was as much of a scam as what Clooney's character tries in the film.
* Deliberately played in ''[[Good Night and Good Luck]]'', which used stock footage of a '50s interview with Liberace where he's asked [[Elephant in
* [[Robert Altman]]'s 1975 film ''[[
* At the end of ''[[Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein]]'' (1948), [[Abbott and Costello|Bud and Lou]], having survived [[Dracula]] (played by the original screen Dracula, [[Bela Lugosi]]), [[The
* In ''[[The View
** Although the name of the character in JASBSB was because Smith and Ferrell were both [[
* In the rockumentary ''Heavy Metal Parking Lot'' a metalhead chick talks about how she would "jump his bones", referring to [[
** Around the time Priest started to break in the U.S., Cheryl Rixon (who had a [[Everybody Remembers the Stripper|memorable part]] in ''Used Cars'') was ''Penthouse'' "Pet of the Month", and mentioned them as a favorite band. Not long after, she and Halford were a couple, and promotional material was issued of the two together. Whether they were truly linked or it was just an act, the band's management certainly wasted little time taking advantage.
* ''[[Arsenic and Old Lace]]'' opens with a scene of a major league baseball game being played on Halloween, something that would have been ludicrous in 1944 but which has already happened since (and could eventually become a regular occurrence, as the sport's playoffs and World Series get pushed back ever further into the fall).
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** By the 1970's, it had become customary to play the World Series in October, which is how Reggie Jackson got his sobriquet "Mr. October".
* ''[[Godzilla]] vs. King Ghidorah'' (1991) has, as a subplot, evil foreigners from the future changing history and creating King Ghidorah to prevent [[Japan Takes Over the World|Japan from economically taking over the world]]. At around the time the movie came out, the Japanese economy collapsed; almost twenty years later, it has yet to completely recover.
** Another fun one : when the Futurians go back on a tropical island in 1945, the day before a dinosaur which would later become Godzilla destroyed an american platoon, their arrival is witnessed by two soldiers. The officer, mistaking them for aliens, say to the private next to him, called Spielberg, that it would make something to tell to his son. This is an obvious [[Shout
* ''[[
** An even better O.J. example: Simpson was once considered for the role of the Terminator, but the director changed his mind, on the basis that he wouldn't be convincing enough as a determined killer. Though this might be more [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]], depending on one's interpretation...
*** Probably still holds true, the key word being "determined": [[Ax Crazy]] yes, but "determined" requires a certain amount of mental focus that
* Overlaps with [[Totally Radical]] in ''[[The Wizard (
** It's even more hilarious now that the [[Wii]] has come out and been everything the Power Glove is ''not''.
* In ''[[Happy Gilmore]]'', [[Adam Sandler]] is making fun of golfers wearing plaid shorts, remarking "if I were wearing stuff like that, I'd have to kick my OWN ass." Fast forward to 2009, where a close approximation of that look can be seen adorning 20-something hipsters and included in LL Cool J's clothing line.
* In ''[[Altered States]]'', in a scene at an airport, the "background noise" voice at the scene's start (56:45) announces "Paging [[James Bond|Daniel Craig]]..."
* According to ''[[The X-Files]]'' ''[[The Movie]]'', one of the [[Government Conspiracy]]'s most powerful weapons is [
** Now that the latest laughable [[Conspiracy Theory]] involves [http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4145 FEMA-run prison camps], it's even funnier.
** The video game ''[[
* The two major [[Complete Monster]] villains of the neorealism classic ''Open City'' are named Major Bergman and Ingrid. The film's director Roberto Rosselini later married actress Ingrid Bergman. Did she know about this?
* In ''[[Walk Hard]]'', there's a scene where Dewey Cox's song of the same name (which is a spoof of Johnny Cash's "I Walk The Line", to go with the early portions of the film spoofing the Cash biopic ''Walk The Line'') gets sampled in a hit rap song in a very clumsy, incongruous way. A couple of years later, Snoop Dogg would do a remix of "I Walk The Line" itself, which amounted to a Snoop Dogg song with very awkwardly incorporated Johnny Cash samples.
* Watching ''[[Ferris
* In the 1982 action movie ''The Soldier'', a war game is mentioned involving a simulated attack on Iraqi oil fields by US troops, which predicts that the Iraqis would kick the ass of the attacking US forces. The movie was made after the failed attempt to rescue the Iranian hostages, when faith in US military strength was at an all time low.
** It was also made before much of the modern US arsenal that went to war in 1991 came into service or was present in significant numbers. Betting that a large, prepared force could take conventional US forces in a ground war at the time was a decent bet.
*** It was also before the Iran-Iraq war had ground the Iraqi military into a bloody pulp. Certainly the US military of 1991 would have been likely to prevail against the Iraqi military at its peak, but the cost in American lives would have been exponentially higher.
* More of an in-film thing, but one of Zoe Saldana's early roles was as a TSA agent in ''The Terminal''. Who happened to be a die-hard Trekkie. Five years later, she lands the role of Lt. Uhura.
* In ''[[The 40-Year-Old Virgin]]'', Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks' characters are the [[Pair the Spares|spares paired]]. They would later play the leads of ''[[Zack and Miri Make
* In the new ''[[Get Smart (
* The two ''[[Major League]]'' movies certainly qualify. In them, the crappy Cleveland Indians went from worst to first. Not long after the second one came out, the Indians had gone from perennial doormats to perennial contenders.
** More to the point, in the first ''Major League'' movie, the bitchy owner of the Indians plots to put together a team that's so bad, that she could justify moving them to Miami (which didn't have a Major League Baseball team in real life in 1989). Eight years after ''Major League'' was released, the real life Cleveland Indians lost the World Series in seven games to the Florida Marlins.
** In ''Major League 2'', cash strapped owner Roger Dorn covers the outfield wall in advertisements to try to squeeze every last penny he could out of his team. It was only a couple years later when all Major League Stadiums had advertisements all over the walls. Some even more obtrusive than even Roger Dorn could ever have imagined. Coincidence? Or did the movie give the real life owners the idea? Up until that point, only the NHL had ads around their playing area, having started the practice in the late 80s.
* The 2009 ''[[Star Trek (
** In the ''[[Doom]]'' movie Karl Urban playing a marine said the line "They're Marines, Sam, not poets." which almost sounds like a [[I'm a Doctor, Not
** In the British TV show ''Spaced'', Simon Pegg's character remarks that every odd numbered ''[[Star Trek (
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* Pick any scene with [[Kristen Stewart]] in ''[[Zathura]]''. It's about a zillion times funnier after ''[[Twilight (
* And now that we are talking about ''[[Twilight (
** How about
* From ''The Singing Cowboy'' (1936):
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'''Smiley Burnette''' (sidekick): Well, if it's color they want, we can all put on [[Red Shirt|red shirts]]. }}
* In ''Harsh Times'', [[Christian Bale]] snaps when learning his LAPD job offer was refused, snapping at a driver next to him. Since the incident when Bale snapped at a Director of Photography, that incident has become funnier than first intended.
** Likewise, any scene on the movie where the rant was recorded (''[[Terminator|Salvation]]'') where Bale yells at someone turns somewhat funny.
** Really, this works for any time he ever yells in a movie. ''[[The Machinist]]'' is full of examples.
* In ''[[Gold Diggers of 1933]]'' ([[Exactly What It Says
* Hey, isn't that [[Leslie Nielsen]] captaining the ''[[The Poseidon Adventure|S.S. Poseidon'']]?
** In fact, most of Leslie Nielsen's pre-''[[
** The whole point of casting people like Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, etc. in ''Airplane'' was to give them a chance to send up their earlier performances in "straight" disaster films.
** A better example would probably be his role as Ted Danson's killer (because Ted Danson was a lot like Sam Malone and slept with Nielsen's wife) in Creepshow because Creepshow came out well after Airplane! and just a few months after Police Squad! It was Nielsen's last serious role in a well known movie. The only one after his comedy career began.
** Try going through the original ''Prom Night'' without riffing "don't call me Shirley" during Nielsen's scenes. Just try it.
* The '90s ''[[X-Men (
** And now James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender have notably ''embraced'' the [[Ho Yay]] in ''X-Men First Class''.
* The werewolf almost killing one of the kids in the direct-to-tv adaptation of [[Stephen King]]'s ''IT'' is not as scary when you realize said kid is played by [[Seth Green]]...famous for [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|playing a werewolf years later]]. And Seth joins up with other kids to stop the horrible monster.
** Yeah, and you know who one of the other kids was? Brigitte from ''[[Ginger Snaps]]''!
* In ''[[Girl, Interrupted]]'', [[Winona Ryder]]'s opening monologue is ...
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** ... which becomes rather funny after Ryder shoplifted US$5,500 of stuff on December 12, 2001.
* In ''[[Stand
* Watch ''[[Equilibrium]]'', then watch ''[[Warriors of Virtue]]'' and you'll wonder whether Angus MacFadyen finally decided to take some Prozium, but accidentally took Ecstasy instead.
* The plot of the 2nd ''[[Spider
** On the subject of ''Spider-Man'', in [[Spider-Man (
* [[The Bible
* ''[[Batman:
** Batman's line about how "Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb" brings to mind [[Never Live It Down|all the fuss]] surrounding [[Batman and Robin (
* In ''[[Undercover Brother]]'' (2002), Lance ([[Neil Patrick Harris]]) has his [[Berserk Button]] pressed when a guard calls him a sissy, leading him to say "I am not a SISSY!" In November 2006, Neil Patrick Harris publicly came out as gay. [[Captain Obvious|For those not in the know, "sissy" was originally a slur against gay people.]]
* Zavulon in ''[[Night Watch]]'' was seen playing a video game with his cellphone. Whatever he did with his phone, his in-game character did with his sword. Looked cool back in 2004. Then came the Wii...
* The [[
* The 1946 drama ''Dragonwyck'' has [[Vincent Price]] as the sinister Nicholas Van Ryn. At one point he sardonically asks the heroine if she expected to find in his room velvet drapes, pagan idols, and altars to human sacrifice. The movies he appeared in afterwards tended to have elements like those in them regularly. It was like Price had looked into his future...
* In [[The Movie]] of ''[[Fear and Loathing
* ''[[
** Also, [[Drew Barrymore]] was later in ''[[Fever Pitch]]'', which ends in a scene of her celebrating the Red Sox winning the World Series.
* Mako, who was in the movie ''[[Sidekicks]]'', said "And then, the Turtles will dance." Mako would later go on to voice Splinter in the 2007 TMNT movie. This can also be turned into [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]], as Splinter was Mako's last role before he died.
* In ''[[
** His comment: "The door, did you see that? It was kind of sticky. I'll get some of my guys down here with some WD-40 later."
** There's also how its shown how the [[Show Within a Show]] ''[[
** That's not too surprising: On the commentary the director states that "we all agree that our favorite ''Star Trek'' film was ''[[
* The [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Engulf and Devour]] logo from [[Mel Brooks]]' ''[[Silent Movie (
* ''Romulus, My Father'' stars Eric Bana (as Romulus). Few years later, Mr Bana is cast in the 2009 ''[[Star Trek (
** In the 2009 ''[[Star Trek (
*** Technically he did the latter film ''before'' ''Star Trek''. The reason ''Star Trek'' was released first was because they needed to re-shoot a scene, and Bana ''had to shave his head to play Nero'', so they needed to wait for his hair to grow back.
* The ''[[Flash Gordon (
* [http://www.sphere.com/article/sex-scandal-captivates-northern-ireland/19310116 This real-life scandal] involves a [[Mrs. Robinson]] [[The Graduate|having an affair with a 19-year-old boy]]. And yes, they're aware of the irony.
* In the [[
** Similarly, in the Rifftrax for ''[[Avatar (
* In ''[[Shakespeare in Love]]'', producer Philip Henslowe (played by Geoffrey Rush) becomes increasingly confused as Shakespeare's comedy ''Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter'' becomes the tragedy ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' over the course of the movie (without anyone telling Henslowe). His shouts of "Where are the pirates?!" are [[Pirates of the Caribbean|even funnier now]]. [[Memetic Mutation|Bloody pirates.]]
* The entire scene in ''[[Scanners]]'' where one of the titular psychics is hooked up to a computer. "Nobody's ever shut down a scanner before."
* [[Small Reference Pools|Everyone]] knows that [[James Cameron]] had been writing ''[[Avatar (
** Or, indeed, another [[Monsters, Inc.|blue CGI hero called Sully...]]
** Jack says "I see you" to Rose early on in their relationship.
* [[Lucy Liu]] played O-Ren Ishii in ''[[Kill Bill]]'', an assassin who is incredibly talented in kung fu and is codenamed "Cottonmouth" after the snake. "Cottonmouth" is translated into Chinese as ''Hundred-Step-Snake'' or ''Bai-Bu-She'', which is the term used for "viper". Four years later, that becomes the ''name'' of the character she voices in ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]''.
* One of the most remembered aspects of ''[[Spy Kids]] 3D'' was Elijah Wood's appearance as "The Guy", the [[Ultimate Gamer 386]] of the video game who ends up [[Negated Moment of Awesome|getting killed less than a minute after he appears]]. Everyone say it with me: [[I Wanna Be the Guy|GAME OVER - PRESS R TO TRY AGAIN]].
** ''Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams'' has a running gag about a "[[Shoe Phone|watch]]" gadget that can do nearly anything ''except'' tell time since the creators ran out of space. This was funny in 2002 when small electronics having clocks on them was a novelty, but now that ''everything'' has a clock and ''atomic'' clocks the size of a gain of rice exist, the ''in''ability to fit a clock into something is so absurd it works in gag's favor.
* In [[Frank Miller]]'s version of ''[[The Spirit (
* In ''[[Tropic Thunder]]'', Robert Downey Jr.'s character cautions against "going full-retard": playing a mentally challenged character who doesn't have special abilities because of it, and so turns off the [[Oscar Bait|Oscar voters]] you're trying to win over (he was nominated for an Oscar for his role). Robert Downey Jr.'s next film was ''[[Based
** While we are on the subject of ''[[Tropic Thunder]]'', there are some people in France who should have paid more attention to it. Less than two years after it was released they hired the very white Gerad Depardieu to play the lead role in a biopic on [[Alexandre Dumas]] (whose grandfather was African, and who, when he was alive, was known as ''Le Negre'') in makeup and a curly wig. [[Unfortunate Implications|Outrage ensued]].
** Also in ''Tropic Thunder'' Downey Jr. plays a character who seems to be a parody of [[Heath Ledger]]. The following year he was nominated for an Oscar and lost. Guess who won.
* The 1992 ''A Stranger Among Us'' has a scene where Melanie Griffith's character sees the male lead, a Hasidic Jew and Kabbala student, listening to headphones and asks "Madonna?".
* Almost anyone who's seen the original version of ''[[The Blob]]'' after about 1990 will find some humor in the film's final line, "We're safe as long as [[Hollywood Global Warming|the Arctic stays cold]]."
* In ''[[
* It's hard not to laugh at a line in ''[[Red Eye (
* ''[[
** That depends on how you look at it. Considering it took a new mission at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars to fix it, one could still call it a disaster.
* It is rather hard to think of ''Remember Me'' without laughing if one recalls the meme ''[[Metroid: Other M]]'' spawned with those two words.
* In ''[[Fritz the Cat (
* [[Wes Craven]]'s ''[[Cursed (2005
* ''The President's Analyst'', from 1967, has the title character (James Coburn) excitedly talking about his first session with his girlfriend: "You'd think he'd spend all his time worrying about China, or Russia? ...hasn't slept in ''eight'' nights worrying about ''Libya!''"
* You are now playing [[The Game (
* In ''[[Casino Royale 1967]]'', it was mentioned that the Secret Service keeps installing new instances of James Bond 007 ever so often since the original James Bond 007 ([[David Niven]]) quit by renaming and renumbering other agents. [[On Her Majesty's Secret Service
* In ''[[The Blind Side]]'', [[Sandra Bullock]] plays a woman who adopts a very underprivileged black boy in [[The Deep South]]. In [[Real Life]], Sandra adopted a black (infant) boy from [[New Orleans]]. Made less hilarious now that she's divorcing her husband.
* In ''[[Love Actually]]'', Hugh Grant, the actor known for his boyish face, plays the British Prime Minister. Several years later, [[David Cameron]] is PM, with the help of Nick Clegg.
* In ''[[Role Models]]'', upon seeing Augy (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) in his [[LARP|LAIRE]] cape for the first time, Ronnie remarks, "What are you supposed to be, a superhero or something?" Mintz-Plasse would go on to play a super in ''[[Kick
* In ''[[Lethal Weapon]] 4'', a rabbi presided over [[
* In another [[
* In yet another Mel Gibson example his gangster film "Payback" was marketed with the tagline "No More Mr Nice Guy"
* In 1992, [[Nicolas Cage]] stars in ''Honeymoon in Vegas'', a sily Romantic Comedy with one iconic scene: Cage skydiving with the Flying Elvises to save his marriage, and then re-marrying with them in the audience. Ten years later, he actually married Elvis' daughter.
** [[Face Off]], the movie in which he and [[John Travolta]] exchange identities thanks to plastic surgery, becomes freaking ''hilarious'' once you read about [https://web.archive.org/web/20120807054912/http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44721179/ns/today-today_people/t/could-nicolas-cage-john-travolta-be-centuries-old/ more than a century old photos] of [[Identical Stranger|two dudes who look JUST like them]].
* While we're talking about Elvis, there's the 2004 movie ''[
* One scene in ''[[
* The main character in the original ''[[Troll (
* Tim Matheson appeared in ''Judas'' as Pontius Pilate. And he's wearing a [[Animal House|toga]]...
* In the original 1941 film ''[[
* The 1999 [[The Moral Substitute|Christian film]] ''[[The Omega Code]]'' contains a couple of instances within the first 10 minutes:
** First, Dr. Gillen Lane (the main protagonist) arrives on a talk show to hawk a book on the supposed Bible code. He makes his entrance doing a "raise the roof" gesture and jumps over the couch. Just fast-forward to 2005 and [[Tom Cruise]] infamously jumping on a couch during an interview on ''[[The Oprah Winfrey Show]]''.
** Later he breaks from the interview to get the crowd to briefly chant "change". [[Barack Obama|Sound familiar]]?
* A 1991 draft of the script for the ''[[Super Mario Bros. (
* A classic example in the [[Cary Grant]] movie ''Only Angels Have Wings''. One of the characters says "I hate to [[Have a Gay Old Time|pull a boner]] on you" (it's supposed to mean "I hate to burst your bubble").
* In the musical-cum-film [[
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'''Lewis Morris''': I'm sorry Mr. President, but the simple fact is that our legislature has never sent us explicit instructions on anything!
'''John Hancock''': Never? That's impossible!
'''Lewis Morris''': Mr. President, have you ever ''been present'' at a meeting of the New York legislature? }}
** This may not actually qualify, as the New York Legislature has been incredibly dysfunctional since Day One, and [[The Seventies]] (when the script was written), by all accounts, were no exception.
* In ''[[Mallrats]]'', [[Stan Lee]] has a scene where he's advising Brody to get back together with his girlfriend, doing so by saying there was this one girl who got away from him when he was younger and his success as a comic writer has done little to ease the pain of losing her. There's something funny about the guy who created Spider-Man saying, [[Cosmic Retcon|"I'd give it all up, just for]] [[One More Day]] with her."
* [[Nicolas Cage]] co-starred with the original ''[[
* [[
* The film ''The Kid Stays In the Picture'' features the anti-drug "Get High on Yourself" show, which Evans hilariously labels "the Woodstock of the 80's", resembling a cheap "We Are the World" vanilla hamfest. [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|Even funnier]] ([[Harsher in Hindsight|or sadder]]), one of the actresses singing this anti-drug message is Dana Plato.
* In ''[[In Like Flint]]'' (1967), an evil organization replaces the president with a look-alike, leading Derek Flint (James Coburn) to say in disbelief, "[[Ronald Reagan|An actor ... as president]]?!"(Possibly deliberate, and not especially prescient--Governor Reagan was a serious contender in1968.)
* In ''[[Die Hard With a Vengeance]]'', [[Samuel L. Jackson]] plays someone who is suspicious of White people on the whole, and it's played for laughs. Over a decade later, in [[Lakeview Terrace]], Jackson plays [[Noble Bigot
* Also related to the third ''[[
* In ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000|Mystery Science Theater 3000:]] [[The Movie]]'', they riff on the movie [[This Island Earth]]. During a scene where Brack communicates via interocitor, Tom sings a fictional theme song that goes, "It's the Brack show, starring me - and Brack! It's the Brack show, and I've got lots of good guests..." Four years later, [[The Brak Show]] would come into existence (which was preceded by two specials, both entitled [[Department of Redundancy Department|Brak Presents the Brak Show Starring Brak]], the second of which was a variety show that - indeed - had guests).
* The Disney movie ''Smart House'' had a computer system in the house that wanted to become a mother to the children of the widowed owner. She had programmed herself to be the perfect mother, loving, caring, wanting to do what she thought was best for her 'children'. When she finally showed up in holographic form, she was played by Katey Sagal, who played [[Married...
** This is funnier when you realize there actually ''was'' a ''Married With Children'' episode in which Peg becomes a competent housewife (albeit it was because she suffered from amnesia and Al brainwashes her).
** [[Space Cases]] had a similar gag, with Katey Sagal providing the voice of "Ma", a space entity who reduces everyone who comes into contact with her to a childlike mental state and then spoils them rotten.
* In Disney's ''[[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]]'', one of the heroine's evil stepsisters is named "Anastasia". Fast-forward about fifty years, and ''[[Anastasia]]'' becomes something of an evil stepsister to the Disney canon princesses, considering she was [[Don Bluth]]'s answer to them, and Don Bluth used to work for Disney before leaving and establishing himself as a competitor.
** Even better, both Anastasias are/eventually become [[Redheaded Hero|Red Headed Heroines]] with love interests with humble backgrounds. And both men are named ''Dimitri''.
* [[Anna Paquin]] rose to fame as Rogue in the ''[[X-Men (
* Towards the end of ''[[Help
* In ''[[Nine]]'' it's revealed that the "stitchpunk dolls" are actually {{spoiler|homunculi based on different aspects of their creator's personality. [[Fullmetal Alchemist|Now where have I heard that before?]]}}
* The Farelly Brothers comedy ''Stuck On You'', starring Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear as a pair on conjoined twins, becomes even funnier after ''[[Green Zone]]'', where Damon plays a soldier who is pitted against Kinnear's unethical bureaucrat.
* [[Johnny Depp]]'s first movie role was in ''[[A Nightmare
** Except [[Jackie Earle Haley]] himself has said the "auditioning with Johnny Depp" thing isn't true and has no idea how that rumor got started.
* In ''[[Runaway Bride]]'', Ike says " You want a man who will lead you down the beach with his hand over your eyes just so you can discover the feel of the sand under your feet." to Maggie, Julia Roberts' character. Fast forward 11 years to Julia Roberts in [[Eat Pray Love]] and what happens? Her character is led down to a beach with him covering her eyes.
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* In ''[[The Muppet Movie]]'', Kermit and Fozzie pick up Gonzo and Camilla. Gonzo states that he's always wanted to move to Bombay, India, to become a movie star. Fozzie retorts "You don't go to Bombay to become a movie star. You go where we're going: Hollywood!". Thirty years later, when the [[Bollywood]] film industry is outputting more movies than Hollywood is, Gonzo doesn't look so crazy.
** Bollywood was well-known as a global movie capital even then, so Gonzo really wasn't all that prophetic.
** Speaking of The Muppets, in ''[[The Muppets Take Manhattan]]'', Rizzo the Rat and friends are working at a [[Greasy Spoon]], decades before ''[[
* In ''[[
* ''[[Rambo III]]'' features "noble" Afghan freedom fighters helping Rambo fight off Russian enemies, which is obviously an allegory for America funding the early Taliban lead by [[Osama Bin Laden]] to better fight off Russia's communist ventures in the Middle East. [[Sylvester Stallone|Stallone]] even dedicated the movie to Bin Laden's cause at the end of the movie, naturally since 9/11 it is no wonder why the third Rambo movie is never aired in America.
** Similarly, [[James Bond (
* "Comedy = tragedy plus time": When Ashley Judd's character rents an apartment in ''[[Someone Like You]]'', she's told it has a great view of the Twin Towers.
* Chloe Moretz biting someone in the neck in ''[[Kick-Ass (
* In ''[[
** Between ''[[The Social Network]]'' and [[Continuity Reboot]] ''[[Spider-Man (
* In 1982's ''[[The Thing (
* At the end of ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]'', Sam Neill's character lies dying and says he would have liked to have seen Montana. Come ''[[Jurassic Park]]'', he is granted his wish - the first scene with Neill's character is of him at a dinosaur excavation site in Montana.
* In ''[[
* Arnold Vosloo played [[Darkman]] in the two sequels that followed the original starring Liam Neeson. Darkman was a master of disguise, and later Vosloo would play another famous master of disguise, Zartan in ''[[G.I. Joe:
** Vosloo played the title villain in ''[[
* In ''[[Lean
* In [[Steven Spielberg]]'s ''[[
** Not only that, but the T-Rex's only human victim in that film was... a lawyer.
* In ''[[Coming to America]],'' [[Eddie Murphy]]'s character asks his boss if he saw the New York Giants defeat the Green Bay Packers with a last second field goal on tv the previous night. This ended up being the exact finish to the 2007-08 NFC Championship game played 20 years after the film's release. It's also a [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] if you're a Green Bay fan.
** When King Jaffe Joffer, played by [[James Earl Jones]], arrives in New York City, he's seen wearing a lion skin over his suit. Jones would go on to star as Mufasa in ''[[The Lion King]]'', and Madge Sinclair, who plays Queen Aoleon, would again play Jones' queen, Sarabi.
* In ''[[Spawn]]'', Martin Sheen plays the evil and corrupt CIA Director Jason Wynn. It has just been announced that Sheen has been cast in another comic book film: the new [[Spider-Man]] reboot as...Uncle Ben, quite possibly the nicest and kindest comic book character ever.
* [[Mila Kunis]] and [[Natalie Portman]] starred as rival ballerinas in the psychological thriller ''[[
** Even better, ''No Strings Attached'' pairs Natalie Portman with Ashton Kutcher, who was Mila Kunis' onscreen boyfriend in ''[[That
** Another ''Black Swan'' example, but this one doesn't deal with the Mila-Natalie "rivalry." In the movie, the director asks Nina's (Portman) partner (IRL ballet dancer and the film's choreographer Benjamin Millepied, Portman's boyfriend of about a year when the movie came out) if he would fuck her. The partner laughs and says no. On December 27, 2010, three and a half weeks after ''Black Swan'' was released, Portman's representatives revealed she was pregnant by and engaged to Millepied.
* The scene from ''[[Back to The Future]] II'' where Marty shows two future kids how to play ''Wild Gunman'', and they deride it because "you have to use your hands". This is funnier given [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys|some fanboys']] reaction to motion-control systems like the Wii, the Kinect, and the [[
** Oh, there's more. By 2015, Statler Toyota has become Statler Pontiac. Guess which brand GM announced it was cutting in 2009?
** In 2015, Marty notices the Cubs winning the series against Miami [depicted an alligator mascot].
** Lea Thompson has this line in ''Back To The Future Part III'': "Sure'n I hope you're considerin' the future, Mr. Eastwood". 22 years later, she has a cameo in ''[[J
* The PSA, ''The Finishing Line'', is in the same vein as ''Apaches'' with informing kids that playing in dangerous locations, like in this case, train tracks, is not a good idea. The way they present it though, is that it's an [[Imagine Spot]] from a kid, showing children, or better yet, students, killing each other for entertainment value. [[Battle Royale|Sound Familiar?]]
** In fact, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130913073533/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/bt/guruandwez/fycw/28509-the-finishing-line a review for this] even lampshades it by having the title card for the review have the same logo as Battle Royale except for FL replacing BR.
* [[Harrison Ford]] and [[Mark Hamill]] did an interview promoting ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]'' on the morning show ''Today'' back in 1980. At the end of the interview, the host asks if they know which one of them will end up with Princess Leia. Hamill says that they want to keep as many surprises as possible, otherwise it would be like "your sister telling you what you're getting for Christmas". It's not clear if Hamill knew that Luke and Leia were twin siblings at that point, but it's very funny to watch that today nonetheless.
* In ''No Holds Barred,'' the climax features [[Hulk Hogan]]'s character fighting in a six-sided ring similar to what would be used by [[TNA]] over a decade later... that is until Hogan became part owner of TNA and promptly eschewed the six-sided ring in favor of the standard four-sided variety.
* In ''[[The
* In the first ''[[Shrek]]'' movie, after Fiona realizes Shrek is an ogre, he remarks "You were expecting maybe Prince Charming?" We learn in the second movie that she really ''was'' expecting Prince Charming, and her not being rescued by said Prince Charming drives part of the plot.
** And a part in the second movie when a poster of "Sir Justin" is seen in Fiona's room who looks like [[Justin Timberlake]]. Timberlake played the role of Arthur in the third movie.
* In the musical ''[[Miss Saigon]]'', Jonathan Pryce played the Engineer, a sleazy bar-owner who sings a number called "The American Dream" about all the things he would do once he makes in big in America. In ''[[G.I. Joe:
* The movie, ''[[Scrooged]]'', had the main character talking to his boss who wanted to have a show that appeals to the pet demographic. Cross repeated dumbfounded about "A show surrounding animals." Now we have a [[Animal Planet|network surrounding animals.]]
* It's a well-known fact that Snake Plissken from ''[[Escape
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'''Snake:''' 24 hours, huh? }}
* The end of ''[[Mars Attacks!]]'' had the president's daughter being played by [[Natalie Portman]] inheriting the role since the US's government was destroyed. A few years later, she ended up playing a [[Star Wars|queen who was voted into office.]]
* For ''[[
** Actually, at first glance it looks like Prussia, the uniform is dead on, but Germany is more realistic. Look at that hair.
* In the 2001 movie ''[[Black Hawk Down]]'', a US military officer says that "This isn't Iraq. It's a bit more complicated."
* Twice in ''[[
** Also a [[Shout
** One could also argue that Forrest's remark how "He [Lt. Dan] got me invested in some kinda [http://www.apple.com/ fruit company]" is even more hilarious today.
* In ''[[Hocus Pocus]]'', [[Sarah Jessica Parker]] plays a witch who was hung in Salem, Massachusetts. In 2010, Sarah Jessica Parker found out that an ancestor of hers was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. (Said ancestor was freed after the trials were ordered to end.)
** Also, when Max rescues Dani from certain death by the Sanderson Sisters, he says, "I know one kind of power that you don't have!" (or something like that), and Winnie asks, "And what is that, ''dude?''" before he replies with, "It's [[International Date Line|Daylight Savings Time]]," followed by the turned-on car lights pretending to be the sun that harms them. Considering that it was a joke back in 1993 (when DST ended on the last Sunday of October in the U.S.), the new U.S. Daylight Saving Time rules weren't around until 14 years later, when DST now ends on the first Sunday of November from 2007 onward. The joke now still works ''only'' if [[All
* In ''[[The Blues Brothers]]'', the brothers' agent tells them they really ought to quit playing blues music, because it's a [[Dead Horse Music Genre]]. They should really get into disco. That's where it's at!
* In ''[[
* In ''[[The Dark Knight Saga|The Dark Knight Rises]]'', Josh Pence will play young Ra's Al Ghul. Pence was the stand-in and one half of the Winklevoss twins in ''[[The Social Network]]'' - and the other half, Armie Hammer, was previously cast as Batman in the now-cancelled [[Justice League]] feature film.
** Also in the film, Anne Hathaway plays [[Catwoman]]. According to the Chinese Zodiac, Hathaway was born in the year of the ''dog''.
* From the 1990 [[Clint Eastwood]] directed/Produced ''White Hunter, Black Heart'': (The clip was actually used in full for the montage that was made for his "Lifetime Achiements Awards")
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* In ''[[Water for Elephants]]'', [[Robert Pattinson]] plays a character named "Jacob". This also happens to be the name of the romantic rival to Pattinson's character in a [[Twilight (
* In ''[[
** [[Tom Hanks]]' character works at a toy company, and years later, would star in [[Toy Story (franchise)||another movie involving toys]].
** While looking through the classifieds, Josh's friend Billy is annoyed at Josh's insistence at looking at the MacMillan toy company's ad, because it asks for computer skills, saying "would you quit with your stupid computers?!". Thanks to [[Technology Marches On]], computer skills are ''very'' helpful to have in the job market.
* The actor who'll be playing General Zod in the next ''[[Superman]]'' movie plays a [[
* ''[[Horror of Dracula|Dracula: Prince of Darkness]]'': The visiting English couple are named Charles and Diana.
* The 1975 film ''Hearts of the West'' has [[Jeff Bridges]]' character (an aspiring writer of Westerns) suggest that a character with a whip would make an interesting hero, however no one shows any interest in the idea. Six years later, ''[[
* In the 90's, Rainbow Studios were working on a project, with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHlwzVqFNCA this trailer], blaring White Zombie's "More Human Than Human" and parodying [[Pixar]] film, as the only existing evidence of the soon-to-be-cancelled project. More than a decade later, the reveal trailer for Pixar's film ''[[
* In the 1992 [[Eddie Murphy]] film ''The Distinguished Gentleman'', Murphy plays a con man who gets elected to Congress. In [http://youtu.be/C5nu5GRDzog his victory speech], he says "We campaigned on the issue. [[Barack Obama|The issue is change. Change for the future!]]".
** This is not exactly a shocking prediction. Obama certainly was not the first politician to run on the platform of "change." He was not even the 276th one to do so. Plus, Woody Boyd on Cheers also runs on the platform of Change, though he mis-words it by saying if elected he will make change, leading Frasier to point out that that would mean giving 4 quarters for a dollar bill to a customer who wanted to play pool.
*** It's HIH because it's an African-American politician doing so.
* [[Ellen
* The 1954 Bing Crosby film ''White Christmas'' has a line about it being "impossible to find a Democrat in Vermont''. Back in the 40's-late 50's, Vermont was very Republican, to the point where it was one of the only states FDR never took in his 4 presidential elections. 60 years later, it's the only state George W. Bush never visited as president, probably out of fear for his life.
* ''Big Fan'' is about a die-hard football fan who gets beat up by his favorite player, Quantrell "QB" Bishop, after hassling him at a strip club. Around eight months after it was released, Tennessee Titans QB Vince Young got into a fight under nearly identical circumstances.
* An [[Empire Magazine]] article from 2006 on the film that would become ''[[Avatar (
* In ''[[X-Men (
** Also from ''X-Men First Class'': Michael Fassbender who played Azazeal on [[Hex]] fought and then joined a mutant team that included the demonic Azazel.
* In the 1967 movie ''[[Guess
* ''[[In Bruges]]'' has Ralph Fiennes shooting at Brendan Gleeson. Voldemort kills Mad-Eye Moody off-screen in ''[[
* Bill Paxton has a habit of dying at the hands of [[Predator 2|aliens]] in [[Alien (
* In the 2008 [[James Bond (
** YMMV since in terms of the actual value and exchange rate, the Euro did in fact remain stable, especially in comparison to the dollar, which saw large drops in value due to quantitative easing.
* [[Charlie Sheen]]'s old movie ''[[The Chase]]'' has a throwaway line where Sheen's character remarks, "Yeah, the public will adore me. [[Two and A Half Men|Maybe I'll get my own sitcom.]]"
** From another angle, the overhyped media coverage of the high-speed chase is how most high-profile real-life chases are covered by the media today. As an added bonus, the film came out just three months before [[O.J. Simpson]]'s famous white Bronco chase.
* ''[[Taken]]''. [[Liam Neeson]] is a retired black ops superninja-type chap whose daughter is ''taken'' from him. He proceeds to hand the city of Paris (and a few gangsters) their collective asshole in the course of getting her back. Now, then. In ''[[Batman Begins]]'', [[Liam Neeson]] plays Ra's al-Ghul, a ninja master who is apparently killed at the end of the film, who canonically has a daughter named Talia, and one of whose lines in the Batman film includes:
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* The movie ''[[Alaska (
* In ''[[Time Bandits]]'', [[David Warner]]'s character rants about how he would've made the universe if God hadn't beaten him to the proverbial punch. Said rant includes a couple sentences which are quite hilarious in light of both ''[[Tron]]'' and the advancements in computers over the 30 years since the film's release in 1981:
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* [[Pineapple Express]] features a scene when Amber Heard's character gets upset about being called a lesbian. Years later, she's with a girl but still doesn't like being called a lesbian.
* In one scene in Disney's ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', Jessica Rabbit tells Eddie Valiant, "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way." Imagine that after 23 years, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110929215415/http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-world-europe/20110926/EU.Italy.Knox/ one defense lawyer said the same thing about Amanda Knox when comparing her with Jessica during the appeals trial] in that she was no [[Femme Fatale]]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20111017000730/http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-world-europe/20111002/EU.Italy.Knox/?cid=hero_media Amazingly, it was the same "Jessica Rabbit" defense that got Knox and her co-defendant cleared of murder.]
* In the [[Eddie Murphy]] remake of ''[[The Nutty Professor]]'', Professor Sherman Klump adopts a [[Survival Mantra|reassuring motto]] from [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|weight-loss guru Lance Perkins]]: "[[Barack Obama|Yes, I can!]]".
* The third act of [[John Waters]]' ''[[Serial Mom]]'' deals with the media hoopla surrounding the title character's trial. The film came out a full year before the [[O.J. Simpson]] trial.
* [[Canadian Bacon]] gives us:
{{quote|
General Panzer: Ooh boy! Scare the shit out of everyone. Even me, sir!
U.S. President: Jesus, is this the best you could come up with? What about, ya know, international terrorism?
General Panzer: Well, sir, we're not going to re-open missile factories just to fight some creeps running around in exploding rental cars, are we, sir? }}
* In one scene of the classic Japanese 1957 film ''The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty'', one perpetrator [[Shameful Strip|takes off a woman's clothing]], all the while he says, "I feel... good..." and "I'm h-a-p-p-y!" and the woman shouts out, "''It hurts, it hurts!!''", ''right before he kills her!'' Seriously, how could you watch this scene [[
** It did inspire [http://earthboundcentral.com/2008/02/shigesato-itoi-giygas-and-boobies/ Giygas].
* The scene in ''[[Indiana Jones and
* At the end of ''[[
* Many movies from the 70s or before that have a scene from the future of the 21st Century depict people still using typewriters.
* In the 1991 film ''Homicide'', [[Criminal Minds
* While obviously meant to be a satire of news media, Billy Wilder's 1974 remake of ''[[
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'''Mollie Malloy''': Is what true?
'''Earl Williams''': That you were going to marry me on the gallows.
'''Mollie Malloy''': Well, if it's in the papers, it must be true. They wouldn't print a lie. }}
* In ''[[
* [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Rear Window]]'' was released in 1954, and featured the character of Stella questioning how the suspected murderer, Thorwald, would've killed his wife. "Of course, the bathtub! It's the only place he could've washed the blood!" Six years later, Hitchcock released his most famous film: ''[[
* The opening scene of ''[[New York I Love You]]'' features [[The Hangover|Phil and Doug]] getting into the same taxi.
* This one could be either hilarious or [[Harsher in Hindsight]], in 'The Kid' Spencer Breslin utters the line "Let me get this straight, I grow up to be a loser!". Now that Spencer is grown up, no one's heard from him in a while and his career has been eclipsed by his little sister's.
* ''[[The Hunger Games]]'' has often been compared to ''[[Battle Royale]]''. The ''Battle Royale'' movie was filmed in an island that was formerly a coal mine. District 12, where Katniss and Peeta come from in ''The Hunger Games'', is a coal-mining district.
* In ''[[
* Near the end of ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]'', C-3PO remarks as he pilots Padme's ship "that [he] may be getting the hang of this flying." It's a reference to ''[[A New Hope]]'', when Threepio said "Oh my, I've forgotten how much I hate space travel!". But then, Disney's ''[[Disney Theme Parks|Star Tours]]'' ride was revamped, and look who now pilots your Starspeeder 1000?
* In the forgotten skiing film ''Aspen Extreme'', one of the main characters mentions that the Detroit Red Wings never win and aren't worth watching. Four years later, the Red Wings won the Stanley Cup and began their (still going) era of being one of the NHL's more dominating teams.
* In ''[[Dark Shadows (
* In ''[[
* [[Amy Adams]] played a cannibal in an episode of ''[[Smallville]]''. In the film reboot ''[[The Man of Steel]]'', she's playing Lois Lane. Wow.
* In ''[[The Flintstones (
* In ''[[Meet the Robinsons]]'', at the science fair, Wilbur knocks over a box of frogs and their owner makes him pick it up. He isn't pleased and calls their owner "an annoying little girl" and she warns him that she knows karate. It becomes hilarious when {{spoiler|you realize that the little girl was a young Fanny in the past. Wilbur was calling ''his own Mom'' an annoying little girl and yes, she does know karate.}}
* Nestor Carbonell played "Batmanuel" in the live-action ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'' TV series. Later, he would play the mayor of Gotham City in [[The Dark Knight Saga]].
* Documentary production company Prometheus Entertainment (established in 1999) is behind the series ''[[Ancient Aliens]]'' and also a behind-the-scenes documentary about the ''[[Alien]]'' films. Now, the ''Alien'' prequel is named...''[[Prometheus]]''.
* [[Keanu Reeves]] spends most of ''[[Johnny Mnemonic]]'' running around in a suit, playing a character named "John Smith". In ''[[The Matrix]]'', his character's nemesis is a computer program in the guise of a guy in a suit, named "Agent Smith".
* The US ''[[World War II]]'' training film TF1-3325 opens with a pilot, played by [[Ronald Reagan]], being reassigned to training asking "What would they want with me in Washington?"
* ''[[Ghost (film)|Ghost]]'' has Oda Mae Brown complaining to her spectral friend "I know you don't think I'm giving this $4 million to a bunch of nuns!" Two years later, [[Whoopi Goldberg]] [[Sister Act|joined a bunch of nuns.]]
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