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* In a 1995 episode, Rainier Wolfcastle was cast as the title character in the ''Radioactive Man'' movie. Two years later, [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]], the primary inspiration for Wolfcastle, played Mr. Freeze in ''[[Batman and Robin (Filmfilm)|Batman and Robin]]''. The fact that the film was awful only makes this funnier; the [http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Batman___Robin_1997.aspx?Page=2 Agony Booth recap] was even able to reference the episode.

* In a What-If storyline, Lisa has become President and comments that she's the first "straight female President of the United States"; later on, after a scandal comes up, Lenny remarks "Don't blame me, I voted for Chastity Bono!" This whole train of thought either becomes hilarious or [[Harsher in Hindsight|harsh]] now that [[TranssexualTranssexualism|Chastity Bono has become Chaz Bono]].

* The season 11 premiere episode "Beyond Blunderdome" featured [[Mel Gibson (Creator)|Mel Gibson]] being loved and adored by everyone and Gibson hating it, and Gibson creating a bloody, violent controversial movie that ruins him and alienates his fans. It's like the ''Simpsons'' writers are psychic.

* The season 7 episode "Homerpalooza" had Homer trying to explain to a Gen. X-er who Steve Jobs and Apple Computers (now Apple Inc.) were, less than a year before Jobs returned to Apple and helped bring it back on top.

{{quote| ''"So, you want a realistic, down-to-earth [[Futurama|show]] that's completely off-the-wall and swarming with magic robots?''}}

* In "Lisa the Skeptic", Mr. Burns tells Smithers to "use the amnesia ray" to make the town forget that he admitted the power plant accidentally created mutants. Smithers reveals that the amnesia ray is a handgun. Fast forward to ''[[X-Men (Filmfilm)|X-Men Origins: Wolverine]]'' and one bullet to the brain makes the titular main character forget his past (he lives because of his [[Healing Factor]] and super hard bones).

* In "The Passion of the Jew", [[Mel Gibson (Creator)|Mel Gibson]] is portrayed as an insane lunatic that loves torture. The tapes to his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva makes this exaggeration even funnier.

* A guy in the "Cartoon Wars" episode mentioned he likes ''[[Family Guy]]'' because "[[Self -Deprecation|it doesn't get all preachy and up its own ass with messages]]" (referring to ''[[South Park]]'' at the time). ''[[Family Guy]]'' fans who don't view this as a [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] will agree this statement applies to most of ''[[Family Guy]]'''s episodes as of late.

** In said episode, the main issue was Family Guy planned to show Mohammed uncensored in the face of Islamic death threats and everyone in town burying their heads in the sand rather than deal with the problem. Years after that episode, ''South Park'' gained notoriety when the episode "201" was heavily censored after its premiere airing to remove all scenes of Mohammed in a bear costume and several lines which have been censored for rather arbitrary reasons.

* The episode "Make Love, not Warcraft", wherein Butters said he prefers playing "Hello Kitty Island Adventure". [https://web.archive.org/web/20131030194625/http://www.hellokittyonline.com/ About that...]

* 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 Thethe Half -Blood Prince (film)|film version of ''Half-Blood Prince'']] featured a scene [[Adaptation Expansion|not from the book]] in which Harry flirts with a light-skinned African girl.

* "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"}}

* "Screwed The Pooch" takes a ton of [[Take That|Take Thats]]s toward Ted Turner and depicts him as being [[Too Dumb to Live]] and having sex with a dog. Guess who founded [[Cartoon Network|the network]] that saved the show from cancellation.

* Meg's interaction with the package of hot dogs in ''Stewie Kills Lois'' would be a lot different these days following [[Useful Notes/Basketball|Linsanity]].

* In ''[[Batman: theThe Animated Series (Animation)|Batman the Animated Series]],'' in the end of the episode ''The Gray Ghost,'' the [[Show Within a Show]] of the same name is given a rerelease as a result of the main plot. The cases look almost identical to modern [[Blu -Ray]] cases: a wrap around with the logo/image/etc. of the series with a bright blue bar above and a flat bottom with the same color. In the 90's. The only things missing are the rounded edges and a [[Sony]] logo.

** Alfred's "Are we developing an interest in rock and roll, sir?" from ''On Leather Wings'', after ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall (Web Video)|Atop the Fourth Wall]]'''s review of ''Batman: Fortunate Son'' began the [[Running Gag]] about Batman hating rock & roll.

** In the episode "Legends of the Dark Knight", the [[Silver Age]] style segment features a Robin voiced by Brianne Sidall, known for, among other roles, Mithos Yggdrasill. Years later, ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'' would have Robin be voiced by [[Scott Menville]], best known as Lloyd Irving. They are the respective villain and hero of ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]]''.

* ''[[Batman Beyond (Animation)|Batman Beyond]]'' had a scene in which Terry tried to remember all of the U.S. presidents. He recites them up until Clinton (the current president at the time of the show's production), and then draws a blank. All he can remember is that the president after Clinton was "the boring one". Clinton was "the fun one".

** There was also the episode where Terry took Bruce to see "Batman: The Musical". Several years later came "[[Batman: theThe Brave And The Bold (Animation)|Mayhem of the Music Meister!]]"...

* In ''[[Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker]]'', Terry is asking Bruce about the Joker's background and Bruce, irritated, tells him to "just shut up and drive". Didn't know Batman was a Rihanna fan.

* An episode of ''[[Justice League]]'' begins with Wonder Woman walking into the cosmetics section of a department store, and berating a woman for wanting to cover up her "natural beauty" with makeup. Now, MAC cosmetics has a Wonder Woman collection, complete with large promotional displays of Wonder Woman fighting "Medusa's drab rays".

* The 1946 [[Looney Tunes]] short [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc2L_7m_4mI "Hair Raising Hare"] features [[Bugs Bunny]] being lured by a mechanical rabbit. When he calls it "baby" and kisses it, it ends up falling to pieces. Gee, it might have been a possible [[Berserk Button]] reaction, considering that the short came out fifty years before ''[[Space Jam (Film)|Space Jam]]'''s Lola Bunny appeared!

* The 1949 ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short ''[[Rabbit of Seville]]'' has a sequence where Bugs gleefully forces Elmer Fudd to have a violent shave, all the while singing a cheerful tune with a rather cheerfully sadistic expression on his face. A few decades later and [[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Theatretheatre)|another psychotic barber would have his own musical on Broadway]]...

* One of the subplots in the ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' direct to video movie, "How We Spent Our Summer Vacation", involved a trip to a parody of the [[Disney Theme Parks]]. One of the rides Plucky and Hampton see during their tour is something called "The Happy Centerfuge". [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Space:Mission Space|Mission: Space]] debuted in EPCOT 12 years later...

** In the "Return of Batduck" episode, in which Plucky Duck tries to get a role in ''[[Batman (Filmfilm)|Batman Returns]]'', one gag has [[Tim Burton]] explaining to [[Dracula]] that he likes him a lot, but he's already doing movies about "a bat guy". The Count says "I'll go with Coppola" before departing, a reference to ''Bram Stoker's Dracula'' which arrived later in 1992. Coppola's Dracula was played by Gary Oldman, who found his own way into the Batman universe by playing Jim Gordon in the [[Dark Knight Trilogy]] years later.

** The "Samurai Film Critic" skit from "Weekday Afternoon Live", featuring Dizzy Devil as the aforementioned samurai, has a bit where Dizzy [[Who Writes This Crap?|gets sick of the dated references in the sketch]] and starts slashing the screen to ribbons, yelling "WHO ''CARES'' ABOUT ''KIEFER SUTHERLAND?!''" at the top of his lungs. Now that Sutherland's had a massive popularity kick thanks to ''[[Twenty Four|24]]'', the scene is that much funnier.

* In ''[[Looney Tunes: Back in Action]]'', after the water tower floods the Warner Bros. studios, Bugs is seen fishing and catches an orange fish, exclaiming [[Finding Nemo|"I found Nemo!!"]]. Guess which movie beat this one for the Annie Award for best animated feature.

* In ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' Bumblebee dressed as a vampire and said he "want[s] to drink your motor oil". Oil is later shown to be [[G -Rated Drug|the Transformer equivalent of alcohol]]. That means he's suppose to be Dracula and he said, "I want some beer".

** [[Preacher (Comic Book)|Maybe he's a vampire, but not Dracula...]]

** "Till All Are One": In ''Transformers Animated'', Elita-1 has the power to download ''every'' Cybertronian's special ability, indeed.

{{quote| 1. Before this episode, ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'' introduced Tarantulas, who at least once tried to drain the mech fluids of a Maximal in a vampiric manner.<br />

and 2. During that same time, a cartoon called [[VanpiresVan-Pires]] aired, about - you guessed it - mechanoid vampire cars that drained the motor oil from helpless vehicles. }}

** Another Transformers example comes from ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]''. During the episode "Call of the Wild", the Maximals have been taken over by the primal instinct of their beast modes, and the Predacons are hunting them down. Now look at the following quote and try to not think about Sarah Palin. (However, not all will find this as amusing, given that it involves poaching animals.)

{{quote| '''Terrorsaur:''' Hunting from the air with automatic weapons! Now that's a sport!}}

** Also from ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'', Blackarachnia once made an annoyed off-handed remark that almost seems to foreshadow a certain [[Michael Bay|infamous director]].

{{quote| '''Blackarachnia:''' What is it with guys and high explosives?}}

** Speaking of the Movie, one of the salutes said by the Decepticons is "All Hail Megatron!" (also used as the title for an IDW miniseries). Years later, Megatron in the Japanese dub of ''Animated'' is voiced by [[Norio Wakamoto]]...

* The Japanese [[Transformers Animated]] opening had original footage that [[Never Trust a Trailer|naturally never showed up in the show itself]]. Most notably characters that never even met on the show were paired off to fight. [[Designated Girl Fight|Blackarachnia was always paired off with Arcee]]. In [[Transformers Prime]], Arcee has an [[Arch Enemy]] in Airachnid who's clearly based off of Blackarachnia.

== Other Works ==

** In one sketch, the announcer says something along the lines of "Remember that hit show ''[[The P JsPJs]]''? [[Take That|Me neither!]]". This became funnier when ''The PJs'' started airing on [[Adult Swim]].

* Consider the lyrics of "The Presidents Song" from ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'', the version on the Variety Pack album:

{{quote| "Now in Washington, D.C.<br />

There's Democrats and the GOP<br />

"But the one in charge is plain to see<br />

{{quote| "Clinstones! Meet the Clinstones!<br />

They're America's First Family!<br />

From the town of Li'l Rock -<br />

* On the last episode of ''[[Clerks the Animated Series]]'', the main characters find the writers of the show; one of them is holding a book labeled "How to Write Cartoons by Seth MacFarlane" and suggesting that they do a ''[[GilligansGilligan's Island]]'' spoof [[Ho Yay|with gay jokes]]. On a later episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'', Peter and his pals get stranded on a deserted island and have a gay orgy (albeit the joke of the scene was that they were bored the whole time they did it).

** Also, in the episode where Kim Possible learns how to drive, she is recruited by several [[Animate Inanimate Object|Animate Inanimate Objects]]s (or, more accurately, normal appliances/a car modified to contain an autonomous AI) to save their master (an AI developer) from Dr. Drakken. This becomes especially hilarious when [[Christie Carlson Romano]], the voice actress who plays Kim Possible, ends up playing Belle in the Beauty and the Beast broadway stage performance, who has to do something similar for the servants (who are transformed into actual [[Animate Inanimate Object|Animate Inanimate Objects]]s).

* In ''[[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]'', at the end of an episode, a button is pressed that would blow up the planet. [[Exact Words|It ends up blowing up Pluto]], but it's okay because "[[Pluto Is Expendable|no one cares about Pluto]]."

* ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' had a [[All Just a Dream|nightmare]] where he was killed by Megavolt who, instead of going to jail, became famous and got a book deal. [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Did_It:If I Did It|Whoever heard of a killer publishing a book about his murder?]]

** It gets better! Fire Lord Ozai is voiced by Mark Hamill, [[Hey, ItsIt's That Voice!|who also voiced the Joker]] in ''[[Batman: theThe Animated Series (Animation)|Batman the Animated Series]]''.

** Another Hilarious in Hindsight moment for the ''Avatar'''s Grand Finale moment comes from a piece of fan art called "[https://web.archive.org/web/20120301163018/http://alexds1.deviantart.com/art/How-we-roll-79828584 How we roll]," Zuko [[What the Hell, Hero?|complains to the heroes for sitting around doing nothing while his evil relatives plot]]. Four months later, the Grand Finale airs, and Zuko's doing the exact same thing.

** "The Ember Island Players" features [[Who Would Want to Watch Us?|a play based on the Gaang's adventures]] which isn't exactly accurate. In light of the live-action [[The Last Airbender (Film)|film]], this exchange seems almost prophetic.

{{quote| '''Zuko:''' That wasn't a good play.<br />

** Way back in the early 1990s, [[Dante Basco]] played [[Peter Pan]]'s replacement Rufio in ''[[Hook (Film)|Hook]]''. In 2003, [[Jason Isaacs]] played Captain Hook in ''[[Peter Pan (Filmfilm)|Peter Pan]]''. Years later, Rufio and Hook became [[The Rival|rivals again]] as Prince Zuko and Admiral Zhao. {{spoiler|Although Basco's character lived this time, while Isaac's bit the dust.}}

** Go Devil Dante's flash [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dN0JUBpCXI Zuko Dance] is even funnier in the wake of the Earthbender [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLIDFfjuhUo&NR=1 Pebble Dance] in the [[Live Action Adaptation]].

** A tie-in video game featured the Gaang fighting [[Muggle Power|anti-bending revolutionaries]] with a thing for [[Steampunk]]. [[The Problem Withwith Licensed Games|Due to a number of gameplay issues, the game isn't remembered very fondly.]] Cue ''[[The Legend of Korra (Animation)|The Legend of Korra]]'', where the main antagonists are anti-bending revolutionaries with a thing for [[Steampunk]].

* A precursor cartoon short to ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' called "Kenny and the Chimp" features Kenny getting Swine Flu.

* ''[[Celebrity Deathmatch (Animation)|Celebrity Deathmatch]]'': In two separate matches, Al Gore kills "Weird Al" Yankovic, and Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale kills [[George W. Bush]]. In the 2000 presidential election, Bush defeated Gore.

* An episode of ''[[The Critic]]'' showed Victor Hugo's wholly depressing novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" being turned into an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEhKwnkanUs inappropriate musical]. Two years later, [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|Disney did it for real]].

** In that same episode, Luigi refers to the tuxes he, Mario and Toad are wearing as "these dumb [[New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Video Game)|penguin suits]]!"

** Two episodes of ''[[The Super Mario Bros Super Show]]'' were actually about the Mario Bros. attempting to save outer space from Bowser. Guess [[Super Mario Galaxy (Video Game)|which]] [[Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Video Game)|two]] games were based on this plot!

** Also in AoSMB3, when Mario is attempting to transport the White House back to America but sends it on top of the Washington Monument by accident, he says [[Hotel Mario (Video Game)|"Maybe I should have read the instructions."]]

** Another episode from the ''Super Show'' has the [[Fountain of Youth]], in which Princess Toadstool and Koopa accidentally fall. [[Super Mario World 2 Yoshis Island|Years]] [[Mario and& Luigi: Partners In Time|later]], Baby Peach and Baby Bowser actually become canon characters.

* Raiden from ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' had a [[Lawyer -Friendly Cameo]] in the ''[[Duck Dodgers]]'' [[Green Lantern (Comic Book)|Green Lantern]] episode (Daffy is among the Lanterns captured by Sinestro near the end). 'Twas just a random sighting back then but nowadays, do we have to remind you of ''[[Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe (Video Game)|Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe]]''?<ref>And, just for extra laughs, both [[Green Lantern (Comic Book)|Green Lantern]] and Raiden were announced as playable characters at the same time.</ref>

* In the first episode of ''[[Where Onon Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?]]'', Zack asks Ivy who has the most famous smile. Ivy dreamily replies, "[[Acceptable Targets|Tom Cruise]]."

* A few [[YoutubeYouTube Poop|YouTube Poopers]]ers have taken note of this line in the second ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' theme song:

{{quote| ''"I hope you bring [[Hotel Mario (Video Game)|lots of spaghetti]]".''}}

** 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 Onon 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 [[Harry Potter (Film)|Evanna Lynch]], who was born six years after the film came out.

* In the "Paperback Writer" episode of ''[[The Beatles (Animationanimation)|The Beatles]]'', the Fab Four write various, conflicting recollections of how they first met. [[Paul McCartney (Music)|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.

* In one episode of ''[[Sheep in The Big City]]'', General Specific rants, when hearing of "X Agent", that X is always the mysterious letter. He goes on to ask why he can't be some other letter like K or L. Along came ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]''.

* In [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 (Animation)|the 2003 incarnation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]], one of its spinoffs, ''Back to the Sewers'', had the Turtles fight three Shredders in the first episode. Cut to ''Turtles Forever'', {{spoiler|where three Shredders ''do'' appear}}.

{{quote| '''Utrom Shredder:''' [[Star Wars|"Only now, at the end, do you truly understand."]]}}

* In the ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'' episode "Daddy Queerest", a drunken Stan mistakes Nelson Mandela for [[Morgan Freeman]]. While it is somewhat funny due to Mandela's and Freeman's similarities in appearance, it becomes Hilarious in Hindsight thanks to the movie ''[[Invictus]]'' and Freeman's role as Nelson Mandela.

** In the pilot episode, Roger insists that "we can't all be like those anorexic aliens in [[The Abyss|the]] [[James Cameron]] [[Aliens|movies]]!" Nearly half a decade later, the then-secretive ''[[Avatar (Filmfilm)|Avatar]]'' was released, featuring a race of creatures who were both extremely thin and, unlike his previous aliens, [[Word of God|specifically designed to inspire]] [[Perverse Sexual Lust]] [[Word of God|in humans]].

* In the ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'' pilot, the suicide booth Fry uses is promoted as "America's favorite suicide booth since 2008". At first it was just a silly side comment, but now it's funny (in a dark kinda way) since 2008 was the year the suicide machine was invented, and the year the American economy tanked, which would be reason enough for anyone to be [[Driven to Suicide]].

** Season 1's "When Aliens Attack," Fry accidentally spills soda on a TV switchboard and scrambles an airing of the ''[[Ally McBeal]]'' [[Expy]] ''Single Female Lawyer''. Cut to Omicron Persei 8, where ''Single Female Lawyer'' gets cut off due to technical difficulties and an announcer says, "We now bring you eight animated shows in a row" ([[Fridge Logic|which would be impossible, if the signal from Earth's FOX station is out]]), causing an alien to get frustrated and shoot his television. Now that it's over a decade later and FOX now has a Sunday night line-up called "Animation Domination" (with consists of ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'' and three [[Seth MacfarlaneMacFarlane]] cartoons), this joke still plays quite well today.

* In the ''[[Donkey Kong (Video Game)|Donkey Kong]]'' episodes of ''[[Saturday Supercade]]'', Pauline is identified as Mario's niece. First, consider [[Super Mario Bros.|Mario's brother]]. Now picture him, [[Divergent Character Evolution|with his current portrayal]], having children.

* Speaking of ''Donkey Kong'', the first episode of ''[[Captain N: theThe Game Master]]'' had the N Team climbing a volcano to escape the big ape. Kevin remarks that he has played ''Donkey Kong'' enough to know what he's doing. Since the actual NES game had no volcano level, Simon is understandably not trusting of this. In a piece of irony, ''[[Donkey Kong 94 (Video Game)|Donkey Kong 94]]'', the [[Game Boy]] remake of ''Donkey Kong'' released five years later ''does'' have a volcano level.

{{quote| '''Dash:''' So the bad guy wants to ruin Mom and Dad's...marriage...?}}

* In the ''[[Baby Blues (Animationanimation)|Baby Blues]]'' episode "Teddy Cam", Daryl's co-worker, Kenny (voiced by Diedrich Bader), starts making Batman jokes. Six years later, [[Batman: theThe Brave And The Bold (Animation)|he is Batman]] (although he'd already been in ''[[Batman Beyond (Animation)|Batman Beyond]]'' three years before).

* ''[[The Real Ghostbusters (Animation)|The Real Ghostbusters]]'', with one of their ways to [[You Fail Nuclear Physics Forever|Fail Nuclear Physics Forever]]. Many years later, we got [[Apocalypse How|Apocalyptic]] crossing the streams resurrected in "Large Herd-on ''Collider''" campaign.

* In the ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Animation)|Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' episode "The Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past From The Future", at one point, Shake mentions, "Have you seen that the interest rates for mortgages are really low right now?" This was in 2002, years before "Credit Default Swap" became a household name.

* In Disney's ''[[Hercules (Disney1997 film)|Hercules]]'', Hades's lackeys are tasked with killing Herc as a baby, but they fail. Many years later, when Hades hears that Hercules is still alive, the lackeys try to convince him that Hercules is a really popular name nowadays, and one of them adds: "Remember how just a few years ago, all the boys were named Jason, and all the girls were called Britney?" Would have been even better had he said a [[Justin Timberlake|slightly different J name]], but nonetheless funny seeing how this movie came out just a year before Ms. Spears's big break.

** Actually, Britney did marry someone named Jason - it infamously lasted 50+ hours.

* In the 1989 animated ''[[X-Men]]'' pilot, "Pryde of the X-Men", Wolverine speaks with a very thick Australian accent despite being Canadian in the comics. Fast forward to the year 2000, and we find out that Australian actor [[Hugh Jackman]] was cast as Wolverine in the live-action ''[[X-Men (Filmfilm)|X-Men]]'' film.

* A 2002 ''[[Powerpuff Girls]]'' episode involved chalk drawings coming to life. E.G. Daily, who did the voice of Buttercup on the show, was the voice of a little boy on [[Chalk ZoneChalkZone|a 2002 Nicktoon very similar to the story]].

** Another ''[[Powerpuff Girls]]'' example: The episode "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs9PG-XAlsI Members Only]" features a [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Anime)|red transforming mecha powered by manliness.]]

* ''[[Beavis and Butthead (Animation)|Beavis and Butthead]]'' would often make fun of 1980s rock groups. On ''[[King of the Hill]]'', several of these groups mocked by the duo would end up being played on John Redcorn's car radio.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oksqkzO7YZA A Sonic Sez segment] of ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (Animation)|Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' has Coconuts knocking over chemicals, saying [[Britney Spears (Music)|"Oops, I did it again!"]]

** The episode "Grounder the Genius" has the villains launched into the air by an explosion triggered by a lightning bolt. [[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Sounds familiar]]...

** And that wasn't the only image with hindsight reference to Pokémon. In one episode, Dr. Robotnik is wearing a sweater identical to Team Rocket's uniform - [http://sophghizz.deviantart.com/art/Robotnik-s-Sweater-181857905?q look]{{Dead link}}.

* One episode of ''[[Phineas and Ferb (Animation)|Phineas and Ferb]]'' has a moment where the boys teleport Buford's teddy bear, who was tied to the grill of a truck, back to him. I saw this after I watched ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 3'', and {{spoiler|considering the same thing happened to Lotso, another teddy bear, that just made it funnier}}.

** In "Perry lays an egg", the B plot revolves around Doofenshmirtz making fun of whales because [[ItsIt's Personal]]. Perry actually left, not even bothering to thwart him, it was that stupid. [[South Park|Cue "whale whores"]], which aired several months later after that episode.

* An episode of ''[[The Backyardigans (Animation)|The Backyardigans]]'' had Uniqua as a flower seller who turned into a pink-clad superheroine with flower-themed powers. Later, ''[[Heartcatch Pretty Cure]]'' comes along with a protagonist who had those exact traits.

* ''[[Star Wars: theThe Clone Wars]]'' aired in spring 2009 an episode which consisted of african-sounding, blue humanoid aliens from the planet Pantora that wanted to remove a group of aliens that was threatening them. Anybody remember ''[[Avatar (Filmfilm)|Avatar]]''?

* In ''[[Beauty and Thethe Beast: The Enchanted Christmas]]'', The villain's sidekick, a piccolo named "Fife", pleads, "I'd do anything for a solo!" Fife was voiced by Paul Reubens, who did do anything for a...solo, and was arrested for it to boot.

* In ''[[Muppet Babies]]'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDrs3Ii2_ZU&feature=related this] [[Spider -Man]]-[[Muppets]] crossover is more funny with both trademarks' now owned by same company...

* In ''[[Re BootReBoot]]'', video games are represented by large purple cubes known as [[Game Cube|GameCubes]]. Then the Nintendo [[Game Cube]] came out a few years later, with purple as the default color. Makes you wonder if the designers watched the show.

* The ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (Animationanimation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' episode "A Chorus Crime" had a flock of penguins tap-dancing on the ice as a major plot element. Yes, 17 years before ''[[Happy Feet]]''.

** From the first episode, after Chip warns Dale about working with pirates, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSt4n5ZXbHM this] [[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|bit]] occurs (minus the [[Canned Laughter]]).

* ''[[Snow White and Thethe Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]'': [[Pinocchio (Disney film)|"Jiminy Crickets!"]] especially since [[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]] was the next film to come in the [[Disney Animated Canon]].

* The Red Lobster restaurant was actually named after [[Complete Monster|the Coachman's]] tavern from ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]''.

* In an early second season episode of ''[[Thunder CatsThundercats]]'', Lynx-O tells Lion-O that his voice sounds just like his father's. Fast-forward to ''[[Thundercats 2011 (Western Animation)|Thundercats 2011]]'', and Larry Kenny, Lion-O's original voice actor, is now the VA for Lion-O's father.

* 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://web.archive.org/web/20120110223609/http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/11/scienceshot-meet-the-saber-tooth.html?ref=hp actually existed].

* An episode of ''[[My Dad the Rock Star (Animation)|My Dad the Rock Star]]'' has a [[Take That]] against a [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] version of ''[[The Osbournes (TV)|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 (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' came along. And five more years later, [http://www.animenewsnetwork.comcc//news/2010-03-11/u.s.s-nickelodeon-tv-channel-adds-dragon-ball-z-kai this happens].

* Near the end of ''[[Der FuehrersFuehrer'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 ''[[PlutosPluto's Judgement Day]]'', a demonic cat dressed as a policeman arrests Pluto in his sleep, and takes him to Hell to be put on trial. The police cat takes Pluto out of [[Mickey Mouse|Mickey's]] house and through a volcanic landscape full of evil trees shaped like sinister cats, and the entrance to Hell resembles [[Aladdin (Disney film)|a cave shaped like a cat head.]] Before the trial starts, [[Super Mario Bros.|several chains leap out of nowhere]] and pin Pluto to the ground to prevent him from escaping. When the demon cats finally declare Pluto guilty, they start cheering as the poor dog gets dropped into a fire, causing him to wake up from his nightmare. [[Pluto Is Expendable]] indeed.

* 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 Thethe Beast (Disney)|a footstool who acted like a dog.]]

* The [[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]] episode "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otAWBwO_I24 It's Way Ed], in which the Eds try to come up with some wacky fashion trends with random everyday objects might make some think of [[Lady Gaga]]'s reputation for a similar [[Impossibly Cool Clothes|surreal fashion sense]].

* A truly epic example happened on October 9, 2010. An episode of [[The Penguins of Madagascar]] had Private be offended that Kilwolski would mock his favorite show about unicorns. It was meant to be a joke that Private was weird in the fact he liked something for girls. ONE DAY LATER, [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]] happened...and well...

* A quote from [https://web.archive.org/web/20140119013501/http://www.awn.com/mag/issue4.01/4.01pages/bevilacquaceleb.php3 this article] dating back to 1999 about celebrity voice acting:

{{quote| "If they were casting some of the classics of my youth for the first time today, they'd get Joe Pesci to play Bugs Bunny, Dan Ackroyd for Yogi Bear, and Whoopi Goldberg for Felix the Cat."}}

* On the [[MAD (Animation)|MAD]] skit ''That's What Superfriends are For'' Jason Marsden ,one of the show's regulars, provided the voice of Kid Flash (Bart Allen). Several months later, when Allen appeared on [[Young Justice]], guess who voiced him?