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** And now, Stewie and Brian are advertising for Wheat Thins.
* Another Family Guy example; A line by Stewie in the cold open of "A Picture is Worth 1,000 Bucks" ended with "As soon as my movie deal kicks in I am such a ghost!" Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story was released years later {{spoiler|And Stewie ends up getting killed by his past self}}.
* In "Peterotica", one of Peter's many erotic stories is, in the tradition of porn parodies, "Harry Potter and the Half-Black Chick". Three years later, the [[Harry Potter and
* The first banned episode "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" (the episode where Peter takes in a Jewish man who helps him manage the family's money, and Peter taking Chris to Vegas to get a quickie bar mitzvah) becomes funnier now that "Family Goy" revealed that {{spoiler|Lois's mom was Jewish, not Protestant, and had to hide her true religion so Carter can join a country club that doesn't allow Jewish people}}.
* "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven", despite it's hate for its [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]] about religion and atheism, becomes funnier when you realize that twelve episodes later, {{spoiler|Brian gets called out on pushing his atheism on others -- among other faults -- by Quagmire in "Jerome is the New Black"}}
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== Other Works ==
* The sketch from ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' about what Season 8 of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]]'' would've been like, with evil Cabbage Patch Dolls attacking people. What was a kind of funny take on [[What Could Have Been]] gets better when the actual ''Season Eight'' comics showcased evil little plushies called Vampy Cats.
** In one sketch, the announcer says something along the lines of "Remember that hit show ''[[The PJs]]''? [[Take That|Me neither!]]". This became funnier when ''The PJs'' started airing on [[Adult Swim]].
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** In "The Bad Sport", one throwaway gag mentions building a statue of [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] out of coleslaw, someone who would find his way back into Garfield media 23 years later with [http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=625 this] ''[[Square Root of Minus Garfield]]'' comic.
** At the beginning of "Astrocat" Garfield and Odie watch the game show "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Hit The Buzzer, Win A Cookie]]" and Garfield comments "And this is on the educational channel". Midly amusing comment then, very relevant today thanks to the [[Network Decay]] of [[The Learning Channel]].
* The looks, voice and mannerisms of Princess Eilonwy from Disney's ''[[The Black Cauldron]]'' peculiarly resemble those of [[
* In the "Paperback Writer" episode of ''[[The Beatles (animation)|The Beatles]]'', the Fab Four write various, conflicting recollections of how they first met. [[Paul McCartney]]'s story starts off as, "The day I was knighted by the Queen for discovering the cure for malaria...". Thirty years later, Paul actually was knighted, though not for curing malaria.
* During the last few years of the now-defunct [[Toon Disney]] channel's existence, a frequent source of series material came in the form of shows based on [[Marvel Comics]] superheroes (likely coinciding with the film releases of several of the characters). The humor comes in the form of Disney's recent purchase of Marvel.
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* In the cartoon short [[Gertie the Dinosaur]], a four-winged dragon briefly flies by. Many years later, a four-winged dinosaur called Microraptor was discovered in China.
* The 1993 episode ''The Inspector's Most Wanted'' from ''[[The Pink Panther]]'' series (1993-1995 [[Continuity Reboot]]) is ''particularly'' hilarious in hindsight. It features a [[Reality TV|reality TV show]] called "Cop Patrol". A year before the episode aired... ''[[Police, Camera, Action!]]'' was aired on [[ITV 1]] (despite the episode being made in 1993).
* ''[[Ice Age]]'' gives us the infamous saber-toothed squirrel Scrat. Then 9 years later some scientists discovered that a saber-toothed squirrel [https://
* An episode of ''[[My Dad the Rock Star]]'' has a [[Take That]] against a [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] version of ''[[The Osbournes]],'' with Gene Simmons-[[Expy]] Rock Zilla's attempts to get a family reality show of his own shown as being misguided and stupid. A few years later, we get ''[[Gene Simmons Family Jewels]].''
* In the year 2002, Nickelodeon aired, during the Kids Choice Awards, a commercial where some of Nicktoon's biggest stars at the time [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfFFM2bLPZY would duke it out against each other] [[Animesque|anime-style]]. Five years later, a show called ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' came along. And five more years later, [http://www.animenewsnetwork.cc//news/2010-03-11/u.s.s-nickelodeon-tv-channel-adds-dragon-ball-z-kai this happens].
* In 1970, Hanna-Barbera made an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJTC_sX5cxs anti-drug PSA]. The opening featured a guy smoking marijuana, as his form swirled around, leaving a multicolored trail behind him. A few years later, Hanna-Barbera would feature as its logo a star, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg6RzbUlv0s&feature=related swirling around with a multicolored trail behind it].
* Near the end of ''[[Der Fuehrer's Face]]'', [[Donald Duck]] gets crazy and start seeing [[Super Mario Bros.|projectiles with faces and arms]] before waking up from his nightmare.
* At the start of [[Pluto the Pup|Pluto's]] nightmare in ''[[
* At the very beginning of ''Thru the Mirror'', an [[Alice in Wonderland|''Alice]] [[Alice in Wonderland (Disney film)|in Wonderland'']] novel can be seen on [[Mickey Mouse]]'s nightstand. When Mickey climbs out of the mirror and enters the mirror world for the first time, among the objects he encounters is [[Beauty and the Beast|a footstool who acted like a dog.]]
* The [[Fleischer Studios]] cartoons used to feature an [[Inkblot Cartoon Style]] character named "Bimbo", and [[Betty Boop]] was created as his girlfriend. [[Have a Gay Old Time|This was back when the term "Bimbo" referred to a stupid male, before it referred to...well, girls like Betty Boop]].
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