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* 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 ''[[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."

* 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.

* 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 [[PlayStation]] Move.

* 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 ''[[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".