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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...]

* All Ghost stuff in ''[[Red vs. Blue]]''.

* From ''[[YouTube Poop]]'':

* 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!" }}

* [[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]''.

** [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) .

* 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''...

** 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...

* 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]]''.

** "[[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.

** 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 DiDio]].

* [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?

* ''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.

* ''[[Cuanta Vida]]'' has BLU Engineer getting [[Artificial Limbs|a new hand]]. Then the Engineer Update reveals [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Gunslinger the Gunslinger] weeks later...

* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' and {{spoiler|"I kissed a squirrel (and I liked it)"}}. Or vice versa, really.

* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20131021010723/http://www.virtualshackles.com/154 this] ''[[Virtual Shackles]]'' comic, one of the 'problems' the Kinect can't fix is the boy's ethnic friends. A month later, [http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6283514.html?tag=latestheadlines;title;2 Gamespot reported]{{Dead link}} that Kinect's facial recognition software has trouble with dark-skinned people.

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130515101645/http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_3 One issue of] ''[[Axe Cop]]'' has Axe Cop [[Portal 2|burn Telescope Gun Cop's lab down with lemon grenades.]]

* Somewhere in December, FPS Russia releases a video showing him wrecking havoc with an L85A2 rifle. A couple days later, ''[[Battlefield 3]]: [[Expansion Pack|Back to Karkand]]'' is released. Guess what is the name of the Assignment needed to unlock the L85A2?

* Depending on your opinion, this may also qualify as a [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] too: the endless promotion for a then-unknown [[Ke$ha]] on [http://www.key103.co.uk Key 103 Manchester], a British radio station's web site. Bizarrely, she was listed on the regular presenters' list too... although not now!

* [http://xkcd.com/132/ This] ''[[xkcd]]'' is pretty funny ever since the release of ''[[Guitar Hero]]: Metallica''.

* ''[[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.

* 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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