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** 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]]'' (which lasted five years), ''The Singing Bee'' (in its 7th season as of 2014), ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' (2 seasons and critical acclaim), and most notably ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]''.
** 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 Photoplasty contest became hilarious after [[Rock Band]] 3 introduced pro mode, which can be used with a 108-button guitar controller.
* All Ghost stuff in ''[[Red vs. Blue]]''.
* From ''[[YouTube Poop]]'':
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* This line in [[Bum Reviews|Chester A. Bum]] review of ''[[Up]]'' turns out to be more hilarious when Pixar [[Pixar Shorts|did a short]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LRaIbiCvBY closely like that] five months and 23 days later after the review.
{{quote|"That what all people should do! We should send all the old people in the sky!" }}
* The original [[Zero Punctuation]] review of ''[[Duke Nukem Forever]]''. Yahtzee's "review" was recently voted the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130402181152/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1968-Viewers-Choice-Duke-Nukem-Forever best he'd ever done] by members of ''The Escapist'' - mere days afterward, Gearbox announced that ''DNF'' was [http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/09/03/controversial-long-awaited-duke-nukem-forever-will-finally-be-released/ actually finished], and a demo was playable at PAX. Now ''that's'' timing.
** 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 ''[[Duke Nukem Forever]]'' turned out.
* [[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]''.
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** [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 [[E3]] ''after'' it was released.
** [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) .
* ''[[Ozy and Millie]]'': [https://web.archive.org/web/20130809102455/http://ozyandmillie.org/2002/11/05/ozy-and-millie-1023/ the punchline to this strip]. Now reflect on [[Aeon Flux|who else]] has [[Dark Knight Trilogy|said that.]] Let the [[Wild Mass Guessing]] begin!
* 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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130308133549/http://reallifecomics.com/archive/050320.html in 2005] when he gets ''married''...
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** 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 ''[[MythBusters]]'' attempting to build a cannon out of duct tape in order to fire a pig. While the "cannon made out of duct tape" sounds like a [[Flanderized]] "silly Mythbusters build," the Mythbusters did a "duct tape" special much later. And guess what they ''actually'' built?
** 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|Twilight Princess]]''.
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* [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 (novel)|Twilight]]'' into account.
** 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?
* ''[[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog]]'': "The hammer is my penis." It just didn't turn out so well [https://web.archive.org/web/20131208084456/http://spamusement.com/index.php/comics/view/90 the first time.]
* ''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 ''[[Tetris]]'' was made before her appearance in ''Tetris DS'' was announced.