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* 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.
* ''[[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, ''[[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?}}
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* 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!
** In his [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19930611/REVIEWS/306110302/1023 review] of ''[[Jurassic Park]]'', he ponders how special effects advances have altered storytelling in films: "I have the uneasy feeling that if Spielberg had made ''Close Encounters [of the Third Kind]'' today, we would have seen the aliens in the first 10 minutes, and by the halfway mark they'd be attacking Manhattan with death rays." Three years later, ''[[Independence Day]]'' might not have shown us the aliens themselves that early on, but it wasn't far off the mark as far as substituting effects for substance goes.
** Then, some 10 years later, we have Spielberg's ''[[The War of the Worlds (2005 film)||The War of the Worlds]]'' remake (though aliens still show up quite late).
* ''[[Star Trek: The
* ''[[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 are a lot of moments like this in ''[[Star Trek: The
*** 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.
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**** "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 [[:File:two-towers-04.jpg| this one]] is especially hilarious now.
* 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.
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{{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.
* In ''[[Stand by Me]]'', [[Wil Wheaton]] stars as Gordie LaChance. A year later, ''[[Star Trek: The
* 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?]]".
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** 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 ''[[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.
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** 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 ''[[Bad Lieutenant]]'', Harvey Keitel, in the ''[[National Treasure]]'' films. Cage would go on to play the Lieutenant himself in ''[[
* [[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.
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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 (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.
** [[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 [[Invisible to Gaydar]] character named "Petie" in ''[[Cecil B. Demented]]'', and in the climax, we actually see a guy, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFyHTU8tg_0 well]...
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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 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".]]
* 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|Joe Mantegna's]] character moans about how the FBI are bunch of incompetent morons.
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