Hilarious in Hindsight/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

Due to its status as a [[Long Runner]], ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' has no shortage of moments like these:

* In one episode, Sideshow Bob said about conservatives: "''We're not all Billy No-funs, Johnny Bible-thumpers, or even — God forbid — [[George Bush|George Bushes]]!''"

* And in a very early episode, Satan informs Bart that he isn't due in Hell until the Yankees win the World Series. They've won five since that episode, so shouldn't Bart be in Hell by now?

** In the French-Canadian dub of the episode, Satan tells Bart that he's not due until the Nordiques, an NHL hockey team based in Quebec City, won the Stanley Cup. In 1994, the team was bought, moved to Denver and renamed the Colorado Avalanche. Does this mean Bart is immortal now? Or does it mean that eventually Quebec City will reacquire the Nordiques?

* 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 [[Transsexualism|Chastity Bono has become Chaz Bono]].

* The season 11 premiere episode "Beyond Blunderdome" featured [[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 plot of the episode "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy," first aired in 1994, is largely revolved around the "Simpson and Son's Revitalizing Tonic," an elixir that boosts one's sex drive. Fast-forward to 1998, and Viagra is introduced to the market.

* In the season 4 episode "The Front", an unnamed cartoon writer becoming disillusioned with his current work is heard to mutter, "To hell with cartoons. I'm gonna do what I always dreamed of doing: I'm going to go write [[Futurama|that sitcom about the sassy robot]]."

* In "The Passion of the Jew", [[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 "The Coon," while Mysterion is fighting Professor Chaos, there is a moment where he gets knocked down for a few moments, and the crowd of people watching think he's dead. Fast forward to the episode "Mysterion Rises," where we find out that {{spoiler|Mysterion is Kenny, and has been cursed with immortality.}}

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

** 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}}.

* 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"}}

== DCAU ==

* In ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|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.

** 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 (animation)|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]]''.

* ''[[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".

** From the very first episode during the confrontation with The Jokerz "[[The Dark Knight|Let's put a smile on that face]]"...

* 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.

* Batman singing "Am I Blue" in the ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "This Little Piggy" is cute and funny as it is, but it's funnier when you realise the song has appeared in the DCAU before: as a 90s dance remix playing on the radio in Barbara Gordon's dorm room, in ''[[Batman and Mister Freeze Sub Zero]]''.

* 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...]]

** In a later episode, the oil-guzzling Constructicons actually ''do'' ingest a bit of Bumblebee's motor oil after they find a trail made by his leaking tank. Apparently [[Squick|he tastes even better than their usual fare]], so it's possible that Bumblebee just settled on the first blood-analogue he could find for his dramatic statement.

** It also serves as a sort of retroactive Reverse Funny Aneurysm moment when you consider two things:

** Also from ''[[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?}}

** Another Hilarious in Hindsight moment for the ''Avatar'''s Grand Finale moment comes from a piece of fan art called "[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.

** Yet another, more in the vein of the ''Star Wars'' fandom: Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movies, plays the evil overlord father of one of the main characters. Role reversal much? He even shoots lightning!

{{quote|'''Zuko:''' That wasn't a good play.

'''Sokka:''' But the effects were decent! }}

*** Amusingly, many people found the effects to be decisively lacking.

** Way back in the early 1990s, [[Dante Basco]] played [[Peter Pan]]'s replacement Rufio in ''[[Hook]]''. In 2003, [[Jason Isaacs]] played Captain Hook in ''[[Peter Pan (film)|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.}}

** In "The Warriors of Kyoshi", Sokka has to wear the [[Amazon Brigade|Kyoshi Warriors']] usual apparel to get training from them, and Aang mocks him for it ("nice dress"). About a season later Aang himself has to wear almost the same thing as part when he's trying to channel Kyoshi's spirit.

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

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

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

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

* In the ''[[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 (Disney 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.

** Another episode was actually about Hades complaining about why they changed his name to Pluto. [[Pluto Is Expendable|Guess what happened in 2006!]]

* 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 (film)|X-Men]]'' film.

** The most infamous Sonic Sez tells kids that being touched in a way or place that makes you feel uncomfortable is no good. In the Sonic games, [[Clingy Jealous Girl|Amy Rose]] does [[The Glomp|just that]] (or at least tries) to Sonic. Makes you wonder why he doesn't take his own advice and [[Minor Injury Overreaction|tell a police officer]].

* One episode of ''[[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]] 3'', and {{spoiler|considering the same thing happened to Lotso, another teddy bear, that just made it funnier}}.

* An episode of ''[[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: The 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 (film)|Avatar]]''?

* The [[Tex Avery]] short "Outfoxed" features a very well educated, and somewhat upper-class fox. He's so educated that he reads the newspapers. And what newspaper does he read ? ''[[Fox News]]''.

* 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...

* The ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|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|bit]] occurs (minus the [[Canned Laughter]]).

* 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 ''[[Thundercats]]'', Lynx-O tells Lion-O that his voice sounds just like his father's. Fast-forward to ''[[Thundercats 2011]]'', and Larry Kenny, Lion-O's original voice actor, is now the VA for Lion-O's father.

* In one episode of ''[[Sabrina the Animated Series]]'' Sabrina [[Science Marches On|incorrectly]] mentions that there are eight Planets instead of nine, causing her class to break out in laughter. A few years later and there really are eight Planets now.

* ''[[Ice Age]]'' gives us the infamous saber-toothed squirrel Scrat. Then 9 years later some scientists discovered that a saber-toothed squirrel [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]]'' 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]].''