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* This ''[[Cracked.com]]'' [http://www.cracked.com/article_17209_insane-sports-stories-that-will-make-you-believe-in-curses.html article where the first item] declared that the San Francisco Giants have a curse to never win the World Series. Oops.
** Another article "[http://www.cracked.com/article_15291_the-2007-lineup-35-soon-to-be-cancelled-shows.html The 2007 Lineup: 35 Soon to Be Canceled Shows]" is this. Although most of the shows did get canceled soon after they premiered (and the joke is that ''every'' show of the 2007 season is represented), a few didn't, such as ''[[Chuck]]'' (
** One entry for the Photoplasty contest [http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_31_15-ways-they-could-get-people-to-actually-watch-tv-again/ 15 Ways They Could Get People to Actually Watch TV Again] was a new season of ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]''. [http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/news/a343448/arrested-development-new-episodes-movie-confirmed.html A few years later...]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130924025018/http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_85_if-video-games-were-realistic_p27/#25 This] entry in a
* All Ghost stuff in ''[[Red vs. Blue]]''.
* From ''[[
** In ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yacqVp39e98 The LOL King]'', one of the first jokes involves Simba falling off of Pride Rock as Rafiki holds him up. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIP1xnk2W3E&t=3m27s And then, the official blooper reel on the Diamond Edition DVD came].
** In ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfnHpF4zs48 The Ganonator]'', the titular [[Implacable Man]] tells a punk to "Give me your face. Now!" In light of a certain [[Pre
* A series of ''[[Naruto]]'' flash video parodies on [[YouTube]] called "Fun With Akatsuki" featured the masked Tobi as a hapless, good-natured [[Butt Monkey]] with the catchphrase, "But Tobi is a good boy!" The fact that Tobi {{spoiler|turns out to be the [[Big Bad]] of the series}} makes this even funnier.
** Two words... {{spoiler|Blind}} Itachi, since Kakashi mentions during the fight with the Itachi clone early in Shippuden that {{spoiler|Itachi's eyesight deteriorates every time he uses the Mangekyo Sharingan}}. This later becomes a plot point, as {{spoiler|Itachi's on the verge of losing his vision during his fight with Sasuke, and Sasuke later taxes his Mangekyo Sharingan almost to the point of blindness before using Itachi's eyes}}.
* In a similar vein to the ''Ganonator'' example, when [[
** More fun with the NC: in his ''[[Batman and Robin (
** During his review of [[The Room]], other Channel Awesome contributors warned him not to review it because of how bad it is. These cries become a lot funnier when the site was hit with a [[Frivolous Lawsuit]] from Tommy Wiseau and the video was taken down for "copyright infringement".
** During the NC review of ''[[Pokémon:
** Another, minor example from his ''Super Show'' review was his comment on Carland. [[Cars|It's a little more developed than that,]] [[Disney Theme Parks|but still...]]
** Following the removal of The Room episode, Doug did "The Tommy Wiseau Show", a sketch with Tommy Wiseau doing his own show and talking to "John from TheRoomMovie.com". One year later, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dKLfmKG0UY this was released]. Right down to the same pun used.
** In the review of [[The Pebble and
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGCXXymyxX4 This] parody of [[Transformers]] using chibi-fied versions of G1 characters actually came out before [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Robot_Heroes a toyline that did the exact same thing.]
* When ''The Liam Smith Show'' [[Flash Forward|flashed forward]] to New Years Eve 2999, Dick Clark promoted [[UPN]]: "For One Thousand Years, the Solar System's Number One Network."
* In 2006, [[
** Even better, Capcom has announced a ''Mega Man '''10'''''. And ''much'' better, said game probably gave a nod to this "coincidence", seeing as ''[[
** There's also his rant about the movie ''[[Rocky Balboa]]'' breaking the ''Rocky'' series' numbering tradition, and compares it to the then-upcoming new Rambo film being titled "John Rambo." That did indeed become the movie's working title for a while (and actual release title in some countries), causing him to comment "I feel kind of bad, like I picked on a retarded kid."
** In the ''[[Silver Surfer (
* This line in [[Bum Reviews
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* The original [[Zero Punctuation]] review of ''[[
** Listen to the start of his [https://web.archive.org/web/20130317154445/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1546-Battlefield-Bad-Company-2 Bad Company 2] review, and look how ''[[
* [[Retsupurae]]'s "Cornshaq Baby Please" had Slowbeef uttering, "Mr. O'Neil, the answer to this multiplication problem is 12, but also Mario 2 is the greatest game ever." A year later, [[Kanye West|a famous rapper]] said something in a similar fashion that caused a [[Memetic Mutation]].
** Watch [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt2uyDqbA-Q Slowbeef's Retsuparae] of a savestate-laden [[Let's Play]] of ''[[Kaizo Mario World]]'' a few times. Then try to read ''[http://www.bartleby.com/130/ On Liberty]''.
* The ''[[Gaming in The Clinton Years]]'' series is already bizarre and surreal, but it does achieve one of these at the end of their ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' review. The narrator exclaims "If Square doesn't add voice-overs to ''Final Fantasy IX'', I'm committing suicide! I hate text!" ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' was released in the USA November 2000, when [[Bill Clinton]]'s second term ended. No wonder there's no "Gaming in the Dubya Years". Though it crosses over into [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] when you learn George Wood really is dead (luckily 6 years after FFIX came out).
** Circles back around now that he's proven to be alive.
* There was a story arch in ''[[I'm a Marvel And
* [http://www.strum.co.uk/webbery/purpose.htm What is the Internet for?] That question was [[The Internet Is for Porn|answered]] two years after that essay was published.
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
** The Second Anniversary Spectacularthon had a few teasing shots at a couple VAs. I mean, no ''way'' Vic Mignogna would've watched it, recommended by a few of his Rangers, right? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nejwl0QZlFs Wrong.] Thankfully, he took it well and the two have met a few times since.
*** Another one with LK and
** Also, a good two years before the Abridged Series came out and made these types of jokes, the dub had a military captain in the Doma filler arc (who played the whole situation straight in the original) say that "as strange as it sounds, the fate of the world now depends on a card game."
**
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*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0MHPYkmfh0 Take a wild guess on what Wayne Grayson's favorite line is?]
** ''Episode 50 Joey Wheeler Ace Attorney'' had Joey up against the guy that banned the series twice already. The judge said that third time's the charm .. and a few weeks later, Little Kuriboh was temporarily suspended on [[YouTube]] for the third time.
** Episode 25 featured a short sequence of Yami and Tea singing a duet, and the end stinger said 'that's the closest you're gonna get to yu-gi-oh: the abridged musical'. Several years and a ''lot'' of [[Filk|cover songs]] later...
* From
** In Episode 4, Taka voices the
* Due to the lead times involved, the fact that there were going to be goofy twin autobots in ''[[Revenge of the Fallen]]'' was known over six months before the movie was released. However, their look and a certain level of [[Fanon]] lead to the assumption they'd be bumbling hillbilly-type characters. So, [[Internet Personality Vangelus]] put forth the idea in his review of Skids that the autobot was really a rap star (named MC Paddington) with a dark past. This, plus the voice he assigned him, eerily anticipated the [[Alien Scrappy|actual Skids]], only [[Crowning Moment of Funny|much funnier.]]
* While it was made in 2007, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXaCZe2xZkM this recut trailer] of ''Aliens'' proved to be [[Avatar (
* In an early episode, [[Ask That Guy With
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzgAjjuqZM "Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Video] features a line that says "Our Economy's based on LeBron James". Now that he's left, presumably there's no economy at all.
* [[My Immortal]] gives us [[The
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* In an episode of [[There Will Be Brawl]], Luigi sees [[
* A throw-away gag in [[Berserk Abridged]] has two [[Strawman Political]] parodies arguing, which devolves into childish taunting, including the liberal one of the two calling the conservative parody a teabagger...this was made at the end of 2007, cue a certain political movement that appeared a year later.
* Early on, [[
** Her desperation to see robots in ''[[
** A video she made in high school about STDs contains a giant stuffed bear with AIDS having an affair with a 14 year old girl. Pedobear.
* [[
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** [[Spider-Man (
* In the ending of episode 2 part 2 of Four Swords Misadventures, Green explains that the scene of his Japanese counterpart having sex (or the implication that he was having sex) with Zelda in the ending won't happen for them because "they are in the censored english version", to which Red says starkly "The censors always ruin the fun." A few months later, any attempts at doing the episode on youtube ended up blocked thanks to that scene, thus forcing Haidoukendude (or hitthefloor729, as he is known on Youtube) to do a special Youtube edition of the episode where he not only had to put a bulletin on the scene in question with big letters to explain that what the Japanese versions of what Link and Zelda were saying, despite appearances, did NOT translate to anything suggestive, but also went as far as to post a link to the actual translation, thus spoiling the joke, meaning that the joke was ruined for everyone due to censorship.
* [[Improv Everywhere]] once had fun [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKx0aek1T0w splitting pedestrian traffic into a fast lane and slow lane] on a street in Manhattan. As it turns out, some in London [http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2010/12/101201_oxford_st_wup_sl.shtml have taken that idea seriously].
* In November
* A [[YouTube]] video in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDX1m0Y2Vkg 2010] featured [[Pokémon (
* Before the second "season" of ''[[Marble Hornets]]'' started up (or was even hinted at), somebody made [http://i40.tinypic.com/o5utz4.png this poster] as a joke. {{spoiler|The tagline was ''completely accurate''.}}
* In the epic ''[[
* In honor of [[
* [[
** Twice, they decided to make videos predicting the top news of the upcoming year. [http://www.gametrailers.com/player/61093.html In the 2010 one], one of the items that [[
** They predicted Milo would become Skynet, [http://kotaku.com/5645343/rumor-project-milo-canceled and in a weird coincidence...]
** [http://www.gametrailers.com/player/709342.html For 2011], they speculated on a new Nintendo console aiming on hardcore games. [[Wii U|And whadya know]].
* In the 7th episode of ''[[Super Mario Bros Z]]'', the Seven Koopalings and Bowser Jr. appear together, the first time in any Mario related things this has happened. Almost a year later, ''[[New Super Mario Bros
* [[The Irate Gamer]] did an episode about Kool-Aid Man video games. The parody [[Third Rate Gamer]] followed up with a "review" of Cool Spot, mocking the episode. Months later, IG reviewed Cool Spot.
* In his [https://web.archive.org/web/20130925012628/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/tis/tpsr/27467-songs1987 Worst Hit Songs of 1987], [[Todd in
* In the ''Moshi Monsters'' [[Lady Gaga|Lady]] [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|Goo Goo]] song "The Moshi Dance" one of the lines is "[[Screwed
* On April Fools' of 2011, Boubouille of [[World of Warcraft]] news site MMO-Champion posted [http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/878945-World-of-Warcraft-5.0-Panda-Mania! this] joke article about the upcoming expansion pack being centered around the Pandaren race and introducing them as playable for both factions. Well... The next expansion is centered around the Pandaren race and introduces them as playable for both factions.
** Made even better when you know that the moderation team speculated and planned a few elaborate satirical jokes which were then denied for risk of causing bad press by forumgoers taking it seriously. The pandaren joke on the other hand was deemed obvious and cringeworthy enough for everyone to understand it was just a joke. Which they did. Since it was. At the time.
* This [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6-num072ME video] from 2010 is about using a laptop and stationary bike to allow Google Maps to used, before the ''Tour-De-France-Centennial'' went on the market a year later. Tour-De-France-Centennial is an exercise bike with Google Maps.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRRFO6dqUFk This YouTube] video was posted taking about VH1 awhile after the airing of ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_the_New_Millennium iLove the New Millennium]'' as a joke, according to the person behind the video. She listed 10 Things on what was missing including the infamous fight between [[Sassy Black Woman|Tiffany Pollard]] and [[Lovable Alpha Bitch|Brooke Thompson]]. Fast forward to 2014 when VH1 aired, ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_the_2000s iLove the 2000s]'', which included… what else: '''''[[Flavor of Love]]'''''.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120618181353/http://wulffmorgenthaler.com/2004/10/18/ This] ''[[Wulffmorgenthaler]]'' strip will never be the same again after [[
* ''[[Penny Arcade]]'': compare [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/06/21 this strip] and [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6295138.stm this actual news article.]
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** And this [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/11/03 infamous strip], whose mockery of the bogus release date for [[Vaporware|Duke Nukem Forever]] was funny in 1999 when the game was a year and a half late, but only grew more so as the game grew two years, four years, eight years, ''nine years'', only to loop back around to [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] when a demo of the game, now out of development hell, was released at PAX.
** [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/8/23/ This strip] became a lot funnier when a few years later Tycho actually did miss a portion of PAX due to the birth of his child.
** [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/06/03 This strip] gets funnier when you realize how the reaction was for [[Metroid: Other M|the Metroid game]] shown at [[
** [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/8/11/ This strip], considering ''[[Serious Sam]] HD'' and its Super Happy Funtime mode (also see the second [[FoxTrot]] example in [[Hilarious in Hindsight/Comic Books|Comic Books]] for more information) .
* ''[[
* The [http://www.megatokyo.com/strip/31 first] Shirt Guy Dom [[Filler]] for ''[[Megatokyo]]'' promises there will never be another one again. Compare with [http://www.megatokyo.com/search.php?q=meta:Shirt+Guy+Dom this list].
* When the characters from ''[[Real Life Comics]]'' go to the future, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130518021135/http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/011002.html Greg Dean from 2001 asks Greg Dean from 2006 what the most important thing to happen in the following five years]. Funny in 2001 because his response, that he'll hit his shin on an open drawer, [[Worst News Judgment Ever|is ridiculous]]. Gets funnier [http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/030708.html in 2003], when he ''does'' hit his shin on the drawer. Becomes hilarious [
** An additional instance of this happens [
* ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' mentions a crystal skull in an early "Cliffhangers" (an [[Indiana Jones]] spoof) strip.
** [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/82.html Another] strip parodied the "progression" from Darth Maul's double-bladed lightsaber in ''Episode I'' and Anakin's dual wielding of lightsabers in ''Episode II'' with having characters draw quadruple, quintuple and septuple lightsabers...
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* In the first ''Decline [of video gaming]'' (a flash series that theorized what video games be like in the future), one game "featured" was ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 5'', where Solid Snake was an old wheel chair bound man. In real life ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'' features an old (but not wheel chair bound) Snake.
* ''[[Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi]]'' preceded ''[[Demashita!
* ''[[Dan and
** A minor one, but the comic is currently (Oct 2010) on a Tue-Fri-Sun update schedule. Amber posted a comic with the tagline, "It's like a Friday cliffhanger, but on a Tuesday!" Then she got sick and couldn't update on Friday, so it was a Friday cliffhanger.
* ''[[Three Panel Soul]]'' gives us [http://threepanelsoul.com/2008/09/22/on-sober-analysis/ Bernanke's description of the state of the economy] circa ''September 2008'' ([http://threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2008-09-22 inspired by a New York Times article]).
** Even more hilarious is how the comic's fictional Bernanke is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ79Pt2GNJo in such contrast to his real life counterpart].
* In a 1998 ''[[User Friendly]]'' cartoon where Irwin ended up in the computer system of the space station Mir, he said at one point "I can barely believe this thing stays up." Two years later, the station was decommissioned, deorbited and burned up in the atmosphere. Now, if anybody had been onboard at the time, this would be a [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]], but as nobody was...
** In [https://web.archive.org/web/20190928001108/http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20091004&mode=classic this] 2009 Sunday strip, a [[Star Trek]] crossword has as #6 down, "Brain connection with fingers to face". The actual answer is {{spoiler|Vulcan mind meld}}, but considering what [[Face Palm|Captain Picard]] is now famous for...
* An ''[[Awkward Zombie]]'' animated short features the crew of the ''[[
** Another Awkward Zombie comic has someone using a dog whistle that only Link can hear because he has huge ears; this was made before ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
** "[[Ace Attorney|Edgeworth]] [http://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic1-121707.php is such a closet Steel Samurai Fan]". A full two years later, ''[[Ace Attorney Investigations]]'' comes out and that turns out to be ''precisely'' the case.
* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'': Haley can't remember whether Sabine, a succubus, is a demon or a devil. This was before 4th edition.
** An early [[Fourth Wall Mail Slot|viewer mail]] [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0121.html strip] in which Belkar insults a class that he would [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0132.html later take a level in].
* ''[[Cass Toons]]'' as a whole is that much more hilarious now that a DC character has actually attempted to kill [[Dan
* [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/990526 This] ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' comic is parodying ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', but it only gets funnier when you take ''[[Twilight (
** And this [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/010917 2001 strip] wherein Torg and Riff need [[Noodle Implements|leiderhosen and pliers]] to party with Charlie Sheen, but Sasha tells them he's been sober for months, so they try to find Robert Downey Jr., a belt sander, and a Portuguese man-of-war. Over the next decade, guess which got his career back on track and which became a walking punchline?
* ''[[
* ''Metroid: Third Derivative'' had a number of sequences involving hordes of Zoomers walking around with a constant shout of "HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT". Since then, a ''[[Metroid]]'' game has been codeveloped by [[Tecmo]], the company responsible for ''Tecmo Bowl''.
** An earlier comic featuring Samus playing ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Something
* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20131021010723/http://www.virtualshackles.com/154 this] ''[[
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130515101645/http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_3
* In [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/sweetbroandhellajeff/?cid=003.jpg this] ''[[Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff]]'' update, a [[Rouge Angles of Satin|typo]] renders "hot dog" as "hot god". This takes on a new meaning in ''[[
** Equius... {{spoiler|[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim|took an arrow to the knee]]}}.
* Somewhere in December, FPS Russia releases a video showing him wrecking havoc with an L85A2 rifle. A couple days later, ''[[
* Depending on your opinion, this may also qualify as a [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] too: the endless promotion for a then-unknown [[
* ''[[Sonichu]]'' mentioned that he had a dream of seeing his creator with long hair in the mirror in one issue. Needless to say, this ended up coming true. [
* [http://xkcd.com/132/ This] ''[[
* ''[[Exploitation Now]]'' [http://www.exploitationnow.com/2000-08-23/28 here]. While adressing a [[Mad Scientist]] (female and unmarried, anyway) "Little Miss Girl Genius" is perfectly legit on its own, [[Girl Genius|two years later, well]]... Giving her a strip club with fake metahuman (see the previous page) dancers for a next-door neighbour is an icing on the cake.
== [[Web Animation]] ==
* One of the most remembered gags from the flash animation ''$00pah NiN10Doh!'' is [[Pokémon|Lucas and Dawn]] (and [[Nintendo]]) realizing that after having [[Olympus Mons|Arceus the PokéGod]] in their game, they can't [[Plot Leveling|go any higher]] for the fifth generation. The official announcement of the fifth generation in late January 2010 wouldn't have been hilarious in itself... except that it happened only one week before Kirbopher, the creator of the animation, started voicing a character on ''[[Pokémon (
* In episode 4 of the series ''Beebo'', when Beebo's master goes to Heaven and sees Kobe Bryant and pleads "Please don't rape me!". Guess what trial Kobe Bryant got into less than a year later.
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