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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 ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'', he changed a setting: instead of having ''Discovery'' head to Saturn and its moon Iapetus, he moved it to Jupiter and its moon Io. He did it because he couldn't create the special effects to make Saturn. Lo and behold, in 1979, the Voyager probes discovered that the next moon out around Jupiter, Europa, is very icy, and later observations have found it likely has a tidally-heated subsurface ocean of ''liquid water''. Not only did it inspire ''[[2010: The Year We Make Contact]]'', but today Europa is considered ''more likely to harbor extraterrestrial life than Mars!''

* ''[[2010: The Year We Make Contact]]'' was made in 1984 and one of the characters is wearing an off the shoulder [[Flashdance]] style sweater. Shirts like this actually came back into fashion in 2010.

* ''[[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 ''[[The West Wing]]'' as the President of the United States.

** 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)

* ''[[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 ''[[Batman Forever]]'', [[Jim Carrey]] 's Riddler says "if knowledge is power, then [[A God Am I]]!" Several years later, he ends up playing a man endowed with all of God's powers, in ''[[Bruce Almighty]]''.

** From ''[[Last Action Hero]]'':

{{quote|'''Nick''': There's lots worse things than movies. There's politicians and wars and forest fires and... and famine and plague and... sickness, pain, warts, politicians--

'''Nick''': I know I did, they're twice as bad as anything else. }}

** Also from ''[[Last Action Hero]]'':

* The [[Femme Fatale]] of ''[[True Lies]]'' is Juno Skinner as played by Tia Carrere, an antiquities dealer who has attracted the scorn and ire of archaeologists for profiteering off priceless artifacts of great historical value. Carrere would go on to portray the [[Adventurer Archaeologist]] Sydney Fox in the TV show ''[[Relic Hunter]]''.

* ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies]]'' features Elliot Carver discuss starting a Presidential sex scandal - shortly before [[Bill Clinton]]'s own "Fornigate". Even before any scandals broke Clinton had a reputation as a womanizer, and a sex scandal was assumed to be political death for any sitting president.

* In the 1993 film on AIDS, ''[[And the Band Played On]]'', a conference leads to Ken Jenkins asking this question, sure to inspire much inappropriate laughter in those who recognize him as Dr. Kelso on ''[[Scrubs]]'':

{{quote|'''Dennis Donahue''': When the doctors start acting like businessmen, who do the people turn to for doctors?}}

** 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]].

** 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 (film)|Catwoman]]'' ([[Halle Berry]])!

** [[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.

** 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]]).

* 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 [[wikipedia:Kenneth Pinyan|Mr. Hands]]!"

** 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).

* 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 the Bandit]]'' became the second-highest-grossing film of 1977, after ''[[Star Wars]]''. If director Hal Needham had thought to incorporate [[Satan]] into the movie, maybe it would've been #1. Indeed, the same studio (Universal) also made ''The Car'' -- about a demonic coupe -- in '77, but that flopped!

* ''[[Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home]]'' is a very funny movie, but it's about twice as funny now that we know George Takei is gay. Boy, Sulu sure does ''love'' San Francisco, doesn't he?

** 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 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"...

*** ''[[Star Trek Generations]]'' contains a scene where the other crew members are surprised to learn that Sulu has a daughter.

**** "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"!

* 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.

* 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 Wolf Man]] (played by Lon Chaney, jr, the one and only Wolf Man), and the [[Frankenstein]] Monster (played by Glenn Strange, who'd played the Monster in two previous films, after Boris Karloff passed on the project), run into the Invisible Man in the film's closing gag, who is unmistakably voiced by horror film star [[Vincent Price]]. But at the time this film was made Price was not known as a horror film star (although he did play the title role in ''The Invisible Man Returns'' in 1940). It would not be for another five years before Price did his first real horror movie (''[[House of Wax]]'' in 1953), and not for another ten years that he began doing them regularly (with [[Roger Corman]]'s [[Edgar Allan Poe]] adaptations beginning in 1958). Today, that closing gag with Abbott & Costello is both a hilarious and touching passing of the torch from one generation of horror film stars to the next.

* In ''[[The View Askewniverse|Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]'' (2001), Will Ferrell plays Marshal Willenholly, whose name is a reference to the three main characters in the TV series ''[[Land of the Lost (TV series)|Land of the Lost]]''. Flash forward to 2009, where it's announced that a movie remake of ''[[Land of the Lost (film)|Land of the Lost]]'' is in production -- starring Will Ferrell as Rick Marshall.

* In the rockumentary ''Heavy Metal Parking Lot'' a metalhead chick talks about how she would "jump his bones", referring to [[Judas Priest]] singer Rob Halford. This was before Halford came out of the closet.

** 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.

* ''[[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-Out]] to [[Steven Spielberg]], who directed ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]'' and ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]]''. Then you realize that, two years later, Steven Spielberg would direct [[Jurassic Park|a movie about dinosaurs wrecking havoc on a tropical island]]. He really must have liked his father's wacky wartime stories !

** 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...

** 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.

* Pick any scene with [[Kristen Stewart]] in ''[[Zathura]]''. It's about a zillion times funnier after ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]''. Especially when she sniffs her hair, and when she says that the astronaut obviously feels very protective of her.

* And now that we are talking about ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'': In the Japanese dub of the movie, Takahiro Sakurai voiced the vampire hero Edward Cullen. This is even funnier if you already know that Sakurai voiced in the Japanese version of ''[[Castlevania]]: [[Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin|Portrait of Ruin]]'' for Nintendo DS the main hero Jonathan Morris, a '''vampire hunter'''.

* From ''The Singing Cowboy'' (1936):

{{quote|'''Gene Autry''': It's the same old story. The broadcasting companies say there's not enough color in the cowboy orchestra to appeal to the audience any more.

{{quote|Have you ever confused a dream with life? '''Or stolen something when you have the cash?''' Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the '60s. Or maybe I was just a girl... interrupted.}}

** ... which becomes rather funny after Ryder shoplifted US$5,500 of stuff on December 12, 2001.

* 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-Man]]'' movie can be summed up by the preexisting [[Memetic Mutation]] "[[How Do I Shot Web?]]".

* 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 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 in Las Vegas]]'', Doctor Gonzo (Benicio del Toro) says, "Even a fucking [[Wolf Man|werewolf]] deserves legal counsel."

* [[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]].

* In [[Frank Miller]]'s version of ''[[The Spirit (film)|The Spirit]]'', Officer Morgenstern is frequently told that she will "make detective in no time." Morgenstern was played by Stana Katic, who would later go on to play Detective Kate Beckett in ''[[Castle]]''.

* 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 on a True Story|The]] [[Oscar Bait|Soloist]]'', which featured his character befriending a man with mental problems played by Jamie Foxx (he wasn't nominated for an Oscar despite portraying a [[Real Life]] mentally challenged yet ridiculously gifted person).

** 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?".

* In ''[[Ocean's Eleven|Ocean's Thirteen]]'', the fictional owner of the Bellagio declares that he hates another casino owner, whose own hotel is called The Bank. In real life, the Bellagio has a nightclub called The Bank.

* It's hard not to laugh at a line in ''[[Red Eye (film)|Red Eye]]'' when Lisa asks Jackson Rippner if he's a psychiatrist if that's exactly what [[Cillian Murphy]] played in [[Batman Begins|the first movie you ever saw him in.]] Granted, he was already fairly recognizable as Jim from 28 Days Later for some people before he was Scarecrow, but considering most of the teenagers/early twenty-somethings that make up Cillian Murphy's fangirls were too young to see that one in theaters when it came out and Scarecrow was their first exposure to Murphy, it's still funny to them.

* 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.

* While we're talking about Elvis, there's the 2004 movie ''[[wikipedia:Elvis Has Left the Building|Elvis Has Left The Building,]]'' with the opening stating "at this rate, in 2012 one person out of four will be an Elvis impersonator". And now here we are. [[Sarcasm Mode|Um, yeah, Elvis impersonator are all over the place.]]

* One scene in ''[[Independence Day]]'' involves a kid with a King Ghidorah toy. The makers of the movie would later attempt ''[[Godzilla]]''.

** 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."

* [[Mel Gibson]]'s character in ''[[Signs]]'' has issues swearing to scare off invaders. Pretty funny the first time around, becomes absolutely hysterical after his widely publicized, coarsely worded behavior.

* 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.

** 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 (film)|X-Men]]'' film series. Rogue is unable to have prolonged physical contact with anyone as she sucks out their life-force like a vampire. In ''[[True Blood]]'', she deals with actual vampires, and it seems that [[Fan Service|all her character ever does is have prolonged physical contact]].

* 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.

* 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 ''[[Black Swan]]''. Come 2011, ''[[No Strings Attached]]'' and ''Friends With Benefits'', both about a couple trying to keep their relationship strictly physical without love getting in the way (and destined to be [[Dueling Movies]]), will hit screens. The former stars Portman and the latter Kunis.

** 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.

** 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. Edgar]]''.

* 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?]]

* [[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 ''[[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 Hallow's Eve|Halloween]] happens to fall on the day ''before'' the first Sunday of November (i.e., Saturday, October 31).

* In ''[[The Matrix]]'', Morpheus takes Neo out of the Matrix by covering him in a mercury-like substance (due to the reality-warping abilities of the hackers). Laurence Fishburne, in a different role, would later do the same thing in ''[[Fantastic Four (film)|Fantastic Four]]: Rise of the [[Silver Surfer]]''.

* 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.

* 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 (novel)|popular film series]], also based on books.

* In ''[[Big]]'', Josh pitches the idea of an "interactive comic book", which was what amounts to an e-reader that used cartridges. The e-reader itself would cost $5 and each cartridge would cost $15. The idea is shot down for obvious reasons. Due to the rise of digital comics and real, self contained e-readers, this is probably even funnier now than it was back in 1988.

** 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.

* ''[[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, ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' came out.

** 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 Who's Coming to Dinner]]'', [[Sidney Poitier|Dr. Prentice]], a black man engaged to be married to a white woman after meeting her in Hawaii, is asked by the father of his fiancee if he has "given any thought to the problems [his] children are going to have". In the ensuing conversation, he mentions that his wife thinks all their children will grow up to be President, but that he thought it was "optimistic" and would settle for Secretary of State. Six years before the movie came out, in Hawaii, [[Barack Obama|a future president]] was born of a black father and a white mother.

* Bill Paxton has a habit of dying at the hands of [[Predator 2|aliens]] in [[Alien (franchise)|sequels]]. If only he could keep his mouth shut.

* In the 2008 [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] film ''[[Quantum of Solace]]'' the bad guys deal in suitcases full of Euros rather than Dollars, stating that the "Dollar isn't what it was" (a reference to the US's financial woes) and suggesting that the Euro is now the stable, reliable universal currency. And yet, only a few years after the film came out...

** 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.]]"

* ''[[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:

{{quote|''Ra's al-Ghul:'' I once had a wife...my great love. She was...''taken'' from me. I learned there are men who must be fought without pity, without any hesitation whatsoever.}}

{{quote|'''Evil:''' It's a good question. Why have I let the Supreme Being keep me here in the Foretress of Ultimate Darkness? ... Look, SHUT UP, I'm speaking rhetorically. I let him keep me here in order to lull him into a false sense of security. When I have the Map, I will be free, and the world will be different, because I have understanding...of digital watches. And soon I shall have understanding of videocassette recorders and car telephones. And when I have understanding of them, I shall have understanding of computers. And when I have understanding of computers, I shall be the Supreme Being! God isn't interested in technology. He knows nothing of the potential of the microchip or the silicon revolution. Look how he spends his time! Forty-three species of parrot! Nipples for men! Slugs!! He created slugs. They can't hear! They can't speak! They can't operate machinery! I mean, are we not in the hands of a lunatic? If I were creating a world, I wouldn't mess about with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers, eight o'clock, day one!}}

* [[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 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!]]".

* [[Canadian Bacon]] gives us:

{{quote|Secretary of State: We were thinking, what could be a bigger threat than aliens invading from space?

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? }}

** It did inspire [http://earthboundcentral.com/2008/02/shigesato-itoi-giygas-and-boobies/ Giygas].

* The scene in ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]'' where Henry Sr., played by [[Sean Connery]], subdues a Nazi soldier by spraying his face with ink from his pen, leading Marcus to say "[[The Pen Is Mightier]] than the sword!", is funnier in light of the ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' "Celebrity Jeopardy!" sketch where Sean Connery <ref>played by Darrell Hammond</ref> [[The Problem with Pen Island|misreads "The Pen Is Mightier" as "The Penis Mightier".]]

* 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|Joe Mantegna's]] character moans about how the FBI are bunch of incompetent morons.

* In ''[[The Flintstones (film)|The Flintstones]]'', [[Halle Berry]] plays a character named [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Sharon Stone]]. In ''[[Catwoman (film)|Catwoman]]'', she stars as the titular character opposite...Sharon Stone as the villainess.

* 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.}}

* [[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".